Research Fall 2025 Newsletter OSP External Grant Awards Report

Fordham Lead Investigator Dept or School Agency/Sponsor Title Fiscal or First Year Total 
Avishai, Orit

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Louisville Institute What Christianity Loses When Conservative Christians Win in Court: Religious Freedom as a Cautionary Tale $ 54,998
Batisti, Anita CEP US Department of Justice Stop School Violence Program - New York City $ 271,159
Chen, Eric GED Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Clinical Mental Health Services in the Bronx Community $ 272,308
Chen, Eric GED US Dept of Education Educating for School-Based Mental Health Professionals for Justice: A Developmental-Contextual Approach $ 808,454
De Silva, Nushelle ARTHIST American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Conveying Culture: The Control and Care of Art in Transit $ 60,000
Demacopoulos, George ORTHODOX Leadership 100 Affirming an Orthodox Christian Theology of Human Rights $ 50,000
Farmer, Lawrence GSS The New York State Office of Mental Health (NYSOMH) Dean's Consortium of Schools of Social Work Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health $ 12,200
Finnemann, Silvia BIOSCI NIH through Yale University Inflammation in MERTK-dependent retinitis pigmentosa $ 228,141
Finnemann, Silvia BIOSCI Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc A novel, rationally designed pharmacological approach to countering vision loss in a preclinical model of MERTK-associated Retinitis Pigmentosa $ 539,142
Fisher, Celia ETHICS National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Drug Abuse HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute $ 333,996
Fountain, Christine

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University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School through National Institutes of Health MAP for Child Health: Using Social Networks to Improve child health and oral health $ 28,416
Frank, Craig BIOSCI Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station The role of insect nutritional composition in the recovery of 3 Northeastern bat species from White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) $ 1,100
Gallo, Eduardo BIOSCI National Institutes of Health Cholinergic Interneuron D2 Receptor Function in Impulsive Behavior: Implications for Addiction $ 413,623
Grimm, Stephen PHIL Teagle Foundation Visions of the Good in the Bronx $ 78,146
Hayajneh, Thaier CIS Northeastern University CIC Implementation - Bridge to Cybersecurity Curriculum $ 60,000

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