On behalf of the Office of Research Services, I am excited to welcome you into 2025! DePaul’s faculty, staff, and students continuously push the boundaries of innovation, working collaboratively to solve complex problems and generate meaningful societal impact. ORS is committed to supporting your research and fostering innovation across disciplines, across neighborhood boundaries, across the city of Chicago and beyond. We encourage you to explore and invite other faculty, staff, and students to contribute to DePaul’s dynamic landscape of community-based research and creative activities.
We know that many of you are concerned about impact of the recent Executive Orders on the landscape for funded activities. Rest assured we are working with DePaul’s Office of General Counsel and other partners to ensure that your exciting work will continue to make a positive difference in Chicago and the world We encourage you to visit the Policy & Guideline Update page on our website to keep up to date on recent developments
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions or to discuss how we can support your work in both research and creative activities as well as entrepreneurial pursuits
Jyrell Keys Director of Award Management
“HittheEasyButton”withORS
The Office of Research Services is excited to support innovation, creative activities, and community engagement projects, but we know that grant submissions can be intimidating Our team of research administrators are here to make grant submissions easy for DePaul PIs
While you focus on the science and creative engagements, our team can serve as a bridge to funding agencies, handling much of the logistical, regulatory, and technical work involved in grant submissions to ensure a smooth and successful process. The ORS team can support your grant submission with:
Proposal Development
Budget Preparation
Compliance and Regulations
Internal Approvals
Submission Process
Tracking and Reporting
When your grant is funded, ORS support continues throughout the life of your project; including issuing subawards, compliance monitoring, reporting requirements, and financial oversight of the grant
We are excited to meet you, learn about your work, and help get your research funded! To get started, all you have to do is “hit the easy button” by submitting a proposal request form to be connected with an ORS research administrator.
AGENCYUPDATES
Executive Orders
Guidance from federal agencies in response to new Executive Orders from the Trump administration has been evolving. Please visit and bookmark the ORS Policy and Guidelines Updates page for upto-date policies, guidelines, and relevant announcements from agencies with regards to the interpretation of new Executive Orders.
Other Agency Updates
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Government Use License and Rights (NOT-OD-25-049)
NIH Implementation of Uniform Administrative Requirements for Federal Financial Assistance (NOTOD-25-059)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Data Management and Sharing Policy (NOT-HS-25010)
AHRQ Policy for Public Access to AHRQ-Funded Scientific Publications (NOT-HS-25-011)
Kirsten brings over twenty years of experience in research administration and development to DePaul, working in partnership with research teams to build strategic partnerships and disseminate research to impact policy and practice She is particularly interested in team and implementation science frameworks, connecting experts in multidisciplinary teams to create impact She is excited to connect with the DePaul community and help create synergies across disciplines Kirsten has masters degrees in both Library and Information Science and Predictive Analytics
Kirsten is driven by a natural curiosity In her free time, she loves exploring the outdoors; climbing mountains with her two grown sons, sailing Lake Michigan with friends, and long bike rides in Chicago summers. If you have research ideas or you’re looking for funding opportunities (or just want to talk about the great outdoors!), please reach out anytime at: kyehl@depaul.edu.
BrintonAhlin
Grant&ContractSpecialist, AwardManagement
Before coming to DePaul, Brinton was a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. He completed his PhD in Cultural Anthropology at New York University in 2018 and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2020 His scholarly research investigated how socialism transformed Islamic rites and beliefs in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia and was supported by grants from NSF, the Carnegie Foundation, and others.
He is excited to use his extensive experience as an academic researcher to help faculty and staff at DePaul effectively manage and administer their sponsored research agendas He currently lives in Hyde Park with his wife and two sons. He loves Chicago, including the cold winter weather, and still makes regular trips to Tajikistan to visit the many close families and friends with whom he has lived and worked since his first visit to the country in 2008 Contact Brinton at bahlin@depauledu
On Friday, January 31st, over 200 faculty and staff came together for the sixth annual, Innovation Day This year’s event, Connecting Ideas, Igniting Excellence, focused on bringing the DePaul community together to reimagine, refresh, and revitalize their research and creative activities, teaching, and/or department DePaul community members presented research, discussed perspectives on innovation, and made connections across disciplines The event featured keynote speaker Andrea Sáenz, President & CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, along with panels on Campus and Community in Dialogue, Creative Frontiers, and Entrepreneurial Thinking Across the Disciplines.
The Innovation Showcase provided an opportunity to explore innovative and creative products, services, and solutions developed by DePaul faculty, staff, and students that meet industry and societal needs Click here to learn more about this year’s over thirty Showcase participants.
Click to watch our Innovation Day 2025 Intro Video
Since joining DePaul in 2019, and working with teams of researchers in Boston, Lille, Antwerp, Bochum, Haifa, Sherbrooke, Warsaw, and Marseille, Prof Cadilhac has published 8 conference papers in high-end venues and 5 journal papers His most recent contribution will appear in the 31st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems in May 2025 Prof Cadilhac's research agenda for the next 5 years entails bridging theoretical computer science which is at times arcane with practice, hence returning these mathematical results to their rightful place, at the heart of systems engineering
Prof Cadilhac, with the help of ORS, secured funds from the NSF over the past few years to help students travel to flagship conferences in theoretical computer science In the near future, supporting his goals of turning theory into practice, he will be applying for an NSF EAGER grant with the Computer Systems program
Sanjukta Mukherjee, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies She is also affiliated with the Departments of Geography and International Studies, and Global Asian Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies and Sustainable Urban Development Programs She earned her doctoral degree in Geography from Syracuse University After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Toronto, she joined DePaul in 2010. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of transnational feminisms, postcolonial and decolonial theory, critical international development, and urban geographies As a feminist geographer, Prof Mukherjee is deeply influenced by the complex relationships between culture and economy and has a long-term commitment to anti-racist, anti-imperialist and decolonial feminist pedagogies and methodologies
Her co-authored book Low Wage in High Tech: An Ethnography of Service Workers in Global India (Oxford University Press, 2020), combines rich ethnographic narratives with institutional and policy analyses to assess theimpactofthegrowthofmultinationaltechnologyfirmsonlow-wageserviceworkersinthecityofPune, India Thebookpresentstheseworkers'storiesofimmobilityandexclusionbutalsooftheirresilience,hope andstrugglesforsurvival
Prof Mukherjeeiscurrentlyworkingontwonewresearchprojects Thefirstexplorestherelationship betweentransnationalmigrationandexperiencesofage,agingandcareinthecityofKolkata,India This interdisciplinaryprojectdocumentshowtheelderlypracticeandbuilddynamicintergenerationalcarebasedrelationshipswiththeircommunities(nearandfar)thatmutuallysustainandnourishthem The secondisatransnationalcollaborationwithsixuniversitiesandorganizationsacrosstheUnitedStates, CanadaandtheUnitedKingdomanalyzingadvocacyeffortsbydiversecoalitionsofstudents,staff,faculty, alumandcampusworkersondecentwagesandworkingconditionsforserviceworkers Prof Mukherjee’s researchhasbeenfundedbynumerousinternalandexternalorganizationslikeUniversityResearchCouncil (URC),DePaulHumanitiesCenter,SocialTransformationResearchCollaborative(aMellonFoundationGrant inLAS)andSocialScienceandHumanitiesResearchCouncil(SSHRC),Canada
DePaul is excited to participate in the fourth annual Big East Student Research Poster Symposium on March 15, 2025 at Madison Square Garden in New York city The event highlights the outstanding work of undergraduate students in faculty-mentored research projects from each of the 11 universities in the Big East conference. Through a rigorous application process, DePaul selected 5 students to represent DePaul and present their research at this event The event will culminate with the presentation of the winners at the Big East Championship game
Dr. Lauren Miller from ORS and Dr. Jessica Jerome (CSH) will be travelling with the students and will serve as judges at the competition It will be an incredible experience for the students as they will be able to present on their research, network with students from other universities, and experience the sites of a great city, all while showcasing the intersections of academics and athletics
Participants
Sara Johnson (CSH)
Nursing Home Quality Measures
Faculty Mentor: Jessica Jerome
Alice Müller Pereira (CSH)
Examining How Extreme Anti-Immigration
Attitudes Are Perpetuated: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Faculty Mentor: Christine Reyna
Huy Nguyen (JCDM)
Neurobazaar
Faculty Mentor: Alexandru Orhean
Chidinma Nwoye (CSH)
Cities Project
Faculty Mentor: Kathy Grant
George Tzimas (JCDM)
ASPREE
Faculty Mentor: Roselyne Tchoua
ISTCResearcherstoKnow
Each year, the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC) creates a list of distinguished researchers The 2024 Researchers to Know represent 10 institutions of higher education leading innovation in Illinois This year’s group of researchers includes those working to advance biotechnology, improve sustainability practices through design and engineering; explore mental health challenges and improve solution equity; use advanced data, AI, and quantum computing to pioneer analytics; and push the boundaries of physics and material science Three DePaul faculty were recognized in 2024
Michelle Stuhlmacher Assistant Professor of Geography and GIS (LAS)
Jacob
Furst Professor of Visual Computing and Computer Security (JCDM)
Heather Snyder Quinn Assistant
Professor of Design (JCDM)
UPCOMING
IRB eProtocol Workshop
For anyone engaged in human subjects research
Friday, March 7, 11am-12pm
Subawards Workshop
Learn about incoming and outgoing subawards
Monday, March 10, 2-3pm
Sip & Social
Connect with colleagues across disciplines. Thursday, March 13, 4-5pm Loop Campus
