Seed Fund Outcomes

The partnership with Penn state is broad, spanning a number of faculties at Monash. In 2018/19, awarded collaborations range from an ‘International Institute for Biosensing’ to a ‘Graduate Curricular Initiative in Gender and Peace Science’. The joint selection panel was impressed by the quality of applications and describe some as “cutting edge research with human, economic and societal impact” and a “great use of the complementary strengths of the universities”.

The list of 2018 successful projects can be found here.

In 2019, Penn State and Monash University committed seed funds around the Intersection of Health and the Environment and awarded 11 grants. Projects support spanned the impact of farm management practices on antibiotic presence and antimicrobial resistance in waterways, to developing ethical, policy, and legal frameworks to address health effects of digital influence; assessing the air quality co-benefits of climate mitigation strategies in the US and China to using mobile apps to explore the role of social networks in the recovery of substance-dependent individuals.

The list of 2019 successful projects can be found here.