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Jürgen Osterhammel
Through FRIAS fellowships and workshops at FRIAS and an edited volume, Osterhammel’s project will “rethink” the situation of global history, which remains ambiguous an academic subdiscipline after the past 30 years of expansion.
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Johannes (Hans) Oerlemans
The project will employ two postdocs to study ice cores from ice caps near the Arctic Ocean to retrieve proxy records of past ice and climatic conditions. Younger researchers will also engage in workshops and excursions to assess existing data, test glacier models, and formulate a modeling strategy.
Langer’s research project envisions fellowships for four graduate students from Hong Kong, the USA, and the Middle East to do research in biomaterials for nanomedicine and tissue engineering and organize travel symposia to present results.
Martha C. Nussbaum
Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach is the framework for a philosophical and practical exploration of animal rights. Selected scholars in global philosophy and law will contribute articles, present papers at a 2024-25 conference, and produce a final volume.
Philip V. Bohlman
In a project on sonic encounters in areas of global migration and conflict, young scholars’ research ranging from archival studies to fieldwork with migrant communities will create an interactive digital archive, Musical Topographies of the Borderland.
Thibault Damour
Damour’s project will involve a group of international young scientists and high-level senior scientists in frontier research on some of the key theoretical challenges currently left open in the field of gravitation.
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Gordon’s project aims to finance research projects for young scientists, fostering career development and training programs for icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh) scientists at Washington University.
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon provides a panoramic synthesis of current human microbiome research and gives an account of how his lab’s work research on gut microbiome development and childhood undernutrition has evolved.
Alessandra Buonanno
Buonanno’s project is on the history of the two-body problem in General Relativity (approx. analytical solutions, interface with numerical relativity, analytical/numerical relativity methods in LIGO’s and Virgo’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves).
Marilyn Kelly and Giorgio Buccellati
The Buccellatis’ Balzan Research Project Cybernetica Mesopotamica will use “digital discourse” to create model websites on their Urkesh excavations that will serve as a new epistemic system in parallel with printed publications.
Marilyn Kelly and Giorgio Buccellati
The Buccellatis’ finds from the excavation of Urkesh (4000 BCE) reveal the intricate relationship between artifacts, the dirt they are found in, and the digital tools employed to decipher their meaning.
Saul Friedländer
Friedländer’s Balzan Research Project, extends his work on the Holocaust, seeking to transform how scholars approach bystanders in genocide by analyzing egodocuments for a nuanced understanding.
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