SOCKS Pilot Awardees


 

2026 Pilot Awards for Faculty

ApplicantCompany/InstitutionProject Title
Jonathan BakerLandmark CollegeQuantifying Struggle: A Pilot Study for Narratives of Students with Learning Differences in American Higher Education
Sara BenhamUniversity of VermontThe Temporal Properties of Emergent Word Stories: Object Handling, Vocal Productions, and Object Labeling in Toddlers with Typical and Atypical Language Development
Laura Biester Middlebury CollegeValidating and Improving Topic Models with Large Language Models: Evidence from Two Centuries of Political Discourse
Helina JollyUniversity of VermontBuilding a Multimodal Corpora of Human-Wildlife Interactions in Vermont
Jennifer KarsonUniversity of VermontThe Damaged Leaf Herbarium and Designing ‘Fabulous’ Digital Herbaria
Isabelle LangrockMiddlebury CollegeLocal news from Silicon Valley: Vermonter’s Use of Generative AI for Community Information

 

2025 Pilot Awards for Faculty

ApplicantCompany/InstitutionProject Title
Emily CoderreUniversity of VermontThe Comic Difficulty Rating (CoDiR) Scale: Developing a Ranking System of Comic Complexity
Mikaela FudoligUniversity of VermontUnderstanding the Trajectory from Awareness to Action in Intimate Partner Violence Using Large-Scale Data from Online Spaces
Alex GarlickUniversity of VermontBehind Closed Doors: Tracking American Lobbyists and their Effects
Ellen KozelkaUniversity of VermontReimagining Recovery: Examining Mental Illness Storytelling on Social Media
Joseph NearUniversity of VermontCommunicating Uncertainty in Privacy-Preserving Data Releases
Safwan WshahUniversity of VermontAI-Driven Road Quality and Safety Assessment using Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
Jean-Gabriel YoungUniversity of VermontFrom Crowd to Clarity: A Data-Driven Framework for Prediction Market Aggregation
Sam ZhangUniversity of VermontParsing University Course Catalogs to Map Temporal Changes in American Higher Education

 
VT EPSCoR 2026 Pilot Award Information
VT EPSCoR 2026 Pilot Award Information