Research and Scholarship Excellence Awards 2026

Advanced Career Faculty – Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Professor Maling Ebrahimpour
Supply Chain Management Area, College of Business

Advanced Career Faculty – Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
Professor William E. Van Nostrand
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy

Early Career Faculty – Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Assistant Professor Laura Hamman-Ortiz
Department of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Bilingual Dual Language Immersion, Feinstein College of Education

Early Career Faculty – Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
Assistant Professor Ryan Poling-Skutvik
Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering

Graduate Student – Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Michelle A. Stage
Department of Psychology, College of Health Science

Graduate Student – Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
Dalton L. Stein
Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering

Undergraduate Student – Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Francesca Fontaine
Department of Nutrition, College of Health Science

Undergraduate Student – Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering
Terran Albergo-McGovern
Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Science

Translational Impact Award
Associate Professor Brennan T. Phillips
Ocean Engineering, College of Engineering

Intellectual Property
United States Issued Patents

Photoswitchable Binary Nanopore Capable of Detecting Single Molecules
Associate Dean Jason R. Dwyer, James Hagan
Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island
Grace G. D. Han, Alejandra Gonzalez, Brandeis University

Apparatus and Methods for Preparation and Introduction of Trace Samples Into an Ionizing Detection System
Professor Jimmie C. Oxley, Professor James L. Smith, Alexander Yevdokimov
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island  

Polymer Immobilization Matrix for Containment of Hazardous Materials and Methods of Using the Same
Professor Jimmie C. Oxley, Professor James L. Smith, Gerald Kagan, Robert Ichiyama
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island  

Fragmentation Resilience Energy Mass Spectrometry (FREMS)
Professor Jimmie C. Oxley, Professor James L. Smith, Alexander Yevdokimov, Kevin Colizza
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island  

pH-Triggered Membrane Peptide-Mediated Epitope Tethering at Cell Surfaces
Professor Yana K. Reshetnyak, Professor Oleg A. Andreev, Assistant Professor Research Anna Moshnikova
Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island
Donald M. Engelman, Yale University

pHLIP®-Mediated Intracellular Delivery of Immuno-Stimulatory Compounds
Professor Yana K. Reshetnyak, Professor Oleg A. Andreev, Assistant Professor Research Anna Moshnikova
Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island
Donald M. Engelman, John C. Deacon, Yale University

Fluorescent Compound Comprising a Fluorophore Conjugated to a pH-Triggered Polypeptide
Professor Yana K. Reshetnyak, Professor Oleg A. Andreev, Assistant Professor Research Anna Moshnikova
Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island
Donald M. Engelman, Yale University

Radiolabeled Ligands for Targeted PET/SPECT Imaging and Methods of Their Use
Professor Yana K. Reshetnyak, Professor Oleg A. Andreev, Assistant Professor Research Anna Moshnikova
Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island
Jason S. Lewis, Dustin Wayne Demoin, Nerissa Viola-Villegas, Sloan-Kettering

PNictogen-Containing Heterocyclic Compounds and Their Use
Assistant Professor Fang Wang, Bradley M. Lipka, Daniel S. Honeycutt
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island;
Jacob M, Goldberg, Colgate University

Polymeric Compositions and Corrosion Resistant Systems
Associate Professor Sumanta Das, Sumeru Nayak
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island

Glass-Ceramic Thermal Paint System and Method Using Uv:vis Spectroscopy
Professor Otto J. Gregory, Noah Alexander Burke, Panagiotis Panoutsopoulos, Zachary Ahlquist
Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island

High Temperature Heat Flux Sensors
Professor Otto J. Gregory, Noah Alexander Burke, Panagiotis Panoutsopoulos, Zachary Ahlquist
Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island

Wearable Optical Microfibrous Material with Encapsulated Nanosensors for Wireless Monitoring of Chemical Analytes
Associate Professor Daniel E. Roxbury, Mohammad Moein Safaee, Mitchell Gravely
Department of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island

BUS Authentication and Anti-Probing Architecture
Professor Qing Q. Yang, Professor Tao Wei, Zhenyu Xu
Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island

Method and Apparatus for Runtime Detection of BUS Probing/Tampering in Computer Systems
Professor Qing Q. Yang, Professor Tao Wei, Zhenyu Xu
Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island

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