Teaming for Interdisciplinary 最大资源采集网 Pre-Seed Program

The Office of 最大资源采集网, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, provides 鈥減re-seed鈥� funding to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics. The goal is to stimulate large-scale research team formation and position UGA faculty groups to be more competitive in attracting resources for collaborative research, including internal UGA seed grants and ultimately, external grant support.

2025 Call for Proposals

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2025 Cohort

Citizen Science for Holistic Health in Georgia
This project establishes the groundwork for a statewide, interdisciplinary initiative to expand therapeutic horticulture for dementia care. By convening key stakeholders and synthesizing existing efforts, we aim to build a scalable model that enhances quality of life for ADRD patients and care partners, while positioning UGA as a leader in innovative, community-based therapeutic approaches.
Developing a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach to manage emerging viral diseases in Georgia agricultural systems.
Developing the One Georgia Climate and Health Extension Center
DRIVE (Data-dRiven ICU Volume intErvention): An Interdisciplinary approach for evidence-based staffing and workload optimization in the critical care setting
Earth System Model analysis supports industrial applications and commercial applications. Hexagonal images highlight crops, a mine, a city, forests, wind turbines, and an airplane to showcase diverse sectors benefiting from this innovative approach.
Image illustrating research area and potential impact of planned efforts.
From Prediction to Protection: Advanced Forecasting for Georgia's Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Emergency Response
Innovative Strategies for Advancing Health and Healthcare in Rural Georgia.
A silhouette of a head with red and green dots inside and around it, illustrating changes in thoughts or feelings due to mindfulness, student well-being, and interprofessional approach practices.
The GRAIL stands for Governance, Readiness, Alignment, Integrity, Legitimacy.
One-Two Punch Therapy for Refractory Cancer in Humans and Dogs
Three people of different ages and ethnicities are running outdoors, with text boxes discussing a team proposal aimed at studying and improving athlete health and recovery for enhanced longevity and overall Performance-Health benefits.
ReCoDe VR for Policing: Recognize, Communicate, and De-Escalate.
A robotic arm is attached to the paretic side of a stroke patient. The robotic arm is worn by the patient. while the patient is standing on the soil, the robotic arm is picking a strawberry and the patient does not need to bend the back or squat. Please show the stroke patient's hand and arm. Attached the robotic arm to a backpack worn by the patient, make the robotic arm very long and still able to pick the strawberry at the ankle level. Add an additional exoskeleton device to the person鈥檚 pelvis and lower legs to assist with balance.
Tidal Flow: Building Experien4al Data Visualiza4on through Arts, Science, and Systems Thinking.
Trade and the Future of Transnational Work.

2024 Cohort

Art in a Marsh: Using art to promote education and participatory monitoring of natural infrastructure
Data-Core
Mountain top
Dashboard with scientific data displayed,
Developing an Agricultural Circularity Assessment Protocol (A-CAP) for Nutrient Cycling in the Georgia Poultry Industry
Establishing the 最大资源采集网 and Education Programs on Convergent Safety Science and Engineering at UGA
Examining STEM graduate teaching assistants鈥� experiences and motivations using photovoice
Interdisciplinary-research
Leveraging AI for 21st Century Biodiversity Conservation
Materials- Manufacturing-Machine Learning Nexus
Large Scale Solar Development
A blue 3D cube with labeled sections representing components of the Cryoelectron Microscopy program at UGA, highlighting equipment, resources, and research areas for transformative integration in scientific discovery.

2023 Integrative Precision Agriculture Targeted Pre-Seed Cohort

A 3D printer creates an innovative sensor, shown in use across a crop field with irrigation equipment. Text reads: 3D printing for agricultural sensors.
A small robot with a camera and laptop scans a field, highlighting irregular red areas on the ground for precision crop pest management.
Interior of a greenhouse with leafy crops, overlaid text about precision agriculture and controlled environment agriculture, enhanced by related icons and inset images.
Hexagonal diagram showcasing autonomous machinery in agricultural applications鈥攕praying, mowing, scouting, weeding, harvest, and planting鈥攁ll illustrated with relevant photos used on Georgia agricultural crops.
Farmer Safety Figure
Diagram showing how Mobile Sensing enables Precision Poultry by analyzing chicken feces images via a smartphone app, which sends data to a computer server running a deep learning model through a router for disease management.
Image of blueberries surrounded by icons representing digital twin technology, data analysis, smart devices, and temperature, with the text Digital Twins for Food Quality Control in food supply chains.

2023 Cohort

Adaptive Smallholder Agriculture in a Changing Climate
Biomimetic coatings for safer medical devices
Bridging Centers in Life Sciences logo
Creative Community 最大资源采集网 Partnerships
Data-driven approach chart
Dawg-omics: A translational approach to discover new diagnostics and therapeutics to benefit man and man鈥檚 best friend
Chart - Development of an Artistic Performance and Prediction Lab
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease Prevention
Photo of pigs in the forest
Rainbow-Inspired Soft Robotic with Embedded Light Actuators and Nerve System
Satellite Remote Sensing Applications for Global Water Resources
Tracking Mercury Pollution Sources graphic

2022 Cohort

artificial intelligence illustration of robot head between human hands
icon of person standing at desk with a brain floating above.
Mount Etna
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Mount Chimborazo
diagram of community partners in farmer suicide prevention project
organoid diagram
Polyfluoroalkyl Substances diagram
word cloud in the shape of a tree
fMRI scan of brain
a collage of space scenes
vaccine efficacy graphic

2021 Cohort

aerial of flooded houses
aerial photo of stream and fields
woman working with robot arm
satellite image of hurricane with virus illustrations overlaid
illustration of animals and microbes
Georgia health ranking map
hands with pen at scientific workbench
lettuce grown using aquaponics
informational diagram
figure about type 2 diabetes prevention
HOST 最大资源采集网 Initiative collage
light bulb illustration

2020 Cohort

Addiction Prevention 最大资源采集网 Team
Cezanne, Dish of Apples, 1876-77
AI driven innovations in agriculture and food systems
Bridging the high-throughput in vitro and in vivo data for risk assessment of bisphenol analogs in diabetes
Catastrophic Wind Disturbances in Natural and Urban Forests 鈥� Patterns, Processes, Impacts, and Management
Center of Excellence for Influenza 最大资源采集网 and Response (CEIRR)
Chicken CRISPR
Drug Development in the Epigenetics Domain
Economic Implications of Climate Change
Global Recipes, Locally Grown
Gut Microbial Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury
Harvard-UGA Collaborations on Foundations of Data Science
Mechanisms and Drivers of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Native Plants and Beneficial Insects (NPBI) working group
Quantum Science and Engineering Program (QSEP) focused on quantum materials and quantum sensing
The Integration of PDE Modeling, Machine Learning and Topology Analysis in MRIs Analysis
Transdisciplinary Earth System Science for Global Solutions and Public Engagement (ENGAGE)
Tumor-specific neoantigen prediction
UGA Opioid Initiative
Workgroup on families, communities, and health