The proposals seeded by BBI in FY19 feature researchers from seven colleges and schools (AGNR, ARHU, BSOS, CMNS, EDUC, ENGR, and MAPP) as well as three UMD institutes or centers (ARLIS, ISR, and UMIACS).
Some of the challenges that this year’s project teams aim to treat are: aphasics’ struggles with word-finding, social disinclinations toward agricultural water reuse, difficulties in language comprehension among non-native speakers, the intransigence of bystanders during cases of bullying in middle school and high school, the deleterious effects of building design on mental health and well-being, and the gap in knowledge about how the brain’s molecular and genetic structures affect human beings upon loss-of-function (e.g. in cases such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s diseases). Please read more about each of these individual projects below.