Congratulations to the research grant recipients and faculty fellows of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation’s 2025-26 awards, which help faculty engage in sustainability research at Pitt.
The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation has announced its 2025-26 Research Seed Grants and Faculty Fellow Awardees, all focused on finding sustainable solutions to the world’s complex challenges. These projects cover three broad areas, including climate impacts and health, environmental justice, and circular economy.
Research Seed Grants in Sustainability
- Electrical Engineering Skills to Support Electrification Innovation: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, SPIA, Law, Economics
- Morgan Frank, School of Computing and Information
- Brandon Grainger, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Fabrication of Low-Cost High-Capacity Ceramic Filters via Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing from Clay Feedstock and Sustainable Binders
- Markus Chmielus, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Ian Nettleship, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Using LoRa Technology for Long-Term Real-Time Monitoring of Ecological Systems
- Cori Richards-Zawacki, Biological Sciences
- Justin Kitzes, Biological Sciences
- Daniel Mosse, Computer Science
John C. Mascaro Faculty Fellows
- Guided Regional Anesthesia Education – A Collaboration Between the University of Pittsburgh and Lao Friends Nurse Anesthesia Hospital for Children
- Richard Henker, School of Nursing
- Misson Driven Innovation Lab to Engage Sustainability Challenges for Public Impact
- Liz Caruso, Swanson School of Engineering, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Software Toolkit of Estimating and Optimizing Energy Sustainability for Quantum Computers Advancing Sustainability in a Low-Resource Setting
- Junyu Liu, School of Computing and Information
- Sustainable Utilization of Waste Materials for Green Fuels and Bio-Chemicals
- Cynthia Ofori-Boateng, Chemical Engineering, Pitt Johnstown
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