Grants & Awards
Grants
Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS), awarded by the National Science Foundation, Project: LEAPS-MPS: Computational Modeling of the Interaction between the Eye and a Contact Lens, September 1st 2023 - Ausgut 31st 2025, PI: Lucia Carichino, Award number 2316951. link
AdvanceRIT Connect Award, awarded by AdvanceRIT, Project: Pre-tenure Female Peer-support Group in Mathematics, May 1st 2021 - April 30th 2023, PI: Lucia Carichino - Co-PIs: Blessing Emerenini, Shahla Nasserasr.
Grant Writer’s Bootcamp Seed Funding Award, awarded by the RIT Sponsored Research Services, Project: Operator Splitting Methods for Sperm Motility, May 1st 2021 - August 31st 2022, PI: Lucia Carichino.
Dean’s Cross-disciplinary Research Cluster Grants, awarded by the RIT College of Science, Project: Mathematical modeling of jasmonic acid biosynthesis during plant stress responses, November 18th 2020 - December 1st 2022. PIs: Lucia Carichino, Eli Borrego.
Dean’s Research Initiation Seed Funding Grants, awarded by the RIT College of Science, Project: Modeling the Effect of Eye Deformations on Contact Lenses Comfort, December 1st 2019 - January 31st 2021. PI: Lucia Carichino
AMS-Simons Travel Grant, awarded by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2018, to be used for research-related travels in the following two years. link
WIN Impact Grant, WPI Women’s Impact Network (WIN), to co-organize the the Advancing Women’s Impact in Mathematics Symposium, New England (AWIMS), WPI April 7 2018. AWIMS website - Find here the WPI Daily Herd article on the event PIs: F. Patricia Medina, Lucia Carichino, Xiaodan Zhou
AWM-NSF Travel Grant, awarded by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), to attend the VII International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2017.
Fellowships and Awards
2019 MMB Best Paper Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Medicine and Biology (MMB) Editorial Board to the paper: Emergent three-dimensional sperm motility: coupling calcium dynamics and preferred curvature in a Kirchhoff rod model. (link, preprint)
Poster Award - 1st Place, Post-doctoral scholar poster competition at the 2018 and 2019 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange at WPI. link
Elite 50 Graduate and Professional Students Award, academic year 2014-2015, awarded by the IUPUI Graduate and Professional Student Government over 8,100 graduate and professional students at IUPUI. link
Yuri Abramovich Memorial Scholarship, academic year 2014-2015, awarded by the IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences to undergraduate or graduate students who shows promise for a career in mathematics.
2014-2015 STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship Recipient, awarded by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States to conduct research at the Université de Strasbourg for 5 months in 2015. link
Outstanding Advanced (post-Qualifying Exams) Graduate Student Award in Mathematics, academic year 2013-2014, awarded by the Department of Mathematical Sciences IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
Outstanding IUPUI SIAM Chapter Officer Award, academic year 2013-2014.
Poster Award - 1st Place, The Fourth Annual Eugene & Marilyn Glick Eye Institute Vision Research Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, Oct 25 2013.