June 1, 2026

Proposals: $10,914,077

Awards: $1,002,798

 

2025–26 funded research projects involving UCF College of Arts and Humanities personnel include:

Projects by Name

· A Study on Students’ Knowledge of Socioculturally-Informed

· Student Learning Outcomes in First-Year Composition at a Hispanic-Serving

· Institution (Council of Writing Program Administrators)

· American Indian Heritage at Fort Marion (US Dept. of Interior/National Park Service)

· Building a Digital Humanities Generative AI Learning Community (National Endowment for the Humanities)

· Conservation Hallway Augmented Reality Enhancements (Orlando Science Center)

· Enhanced Supervisory Control of Robotic Weapons (ESCRoW) (Lockheed Martin Corporation)

· Florida Prison Education Project 25-27 @UCF (Laughing Gull Foundation)

· French Beyond the Classroom: Immersive Engagement for Student Recruitment and Retention (Albertine Foundation)

· Mobilizing CAHSI Institutions to Infuse Ethical Reasoning in CS Curricula through Contextualized AI Scenarios (National Science Foundation)

· Project English-Learner Infused Training and Experience (ELITE) (US Dept. of Education)

· Reaching for the Stars Lecture Series Year 4 (Eurasia Foundation)

· Travel Grant NCHEP 2026 (Laughing Gull Foundation)

· UCF Summer 2026 Research Collaboration (HKS Architects, Inc.)

· UCF Veterans Legacy Grant Program 2025 (US Dept. of Veterans Affairs/National Cemetery Administration)

· Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) (National Science Foundation)

 

Faculty and Staff PIs receiving awards:

· Beever, Jonathan (2)

· Dukes, Demetrius*

· Fiore, Stephen*

· Giroux, Amy* (2)

· Kuang, Lanlan*

· Lyons, Amelia*

· Mihai, Florin

· Miller, Brook

· Pomerleau, Julie*

· Salter, Anastasia*

· Shier, Mike

· Stanfill, Mel

· Treadway, Joshua*

· Watson, Keri* (2)

· Wood, Shane*

 

*Principal Investigator

 

Before a research grant is awarded, considerable time and effort go into preparing the proposal. We recognize and thank CAH faculty and staff involved in research grant proposals in 2024-25:

 

Faculty and Staff involved in proposal submissions:

· Beever, Jonathan

· Cicchino, Amy

· Dukes, Demetrius*

· Fiore, Stephen* (2)

· Flanagan-Feddon, Christy* (3)

· Johnson, Emily* (3)

· Kamrath, Mark (3)

· Kennedy, Vee*

· Kourova, Alla*

· Kuang, Lanlan*

· Lyons, Amelia* (20

· Mahroug, Sanaa*

· Miller, Brook (5)

· Oury, Marie

· Pegoraro, Evelin

· Pomerleau, Julie

· Redmon, Maria

· Robertson, Sherry

· Robkin, Jessica (2)

· Salter, Anastasia

· Sousa, Sandra

· Stanfill, Mel

· Taczak, Kara*

· Treadway, Joshua*

· Velez, Meghan

· Vitanova, Gergana (2)

· Wainstein, Michael*

· Watson, Keri* (3)

· Wood, Shane*

· Young, Beth* (3)

· Zargar, Cyrus (3)

 

*Principal Investigator