Faculty and Graduate Students in LMC are highly active in research and scholarship. For many of their projects, they garner highly competitive grants from government and industry. Here are some recent examples:
- Alexandra Mazalek (2013): Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (University of Georgia: $7,389)
- Ali Mazalek (2013): Getting a Grip on the Numerical World: Kinesthetic Interaction with Simulations to Support Collaborative Discovery in Systems Biology (National Science Foundation: 3 years; $500,537)
- Anne Pollock (2013): Making Scientists for a Democratic South Africa: Postcolonial Contexts and Global Networks of South African Drug Discovery (National Science Foundation: $170,618)
- Brian Magerko (2013): Social Agents and Robots for Open-ended Domains (National Science Foundation: 3 years; $497,790)
- Brian Magerko (with Jason Freeman, 2012): Engaging African Americans in Computing trhough the Collaborative Creation of Musical Remixe (National Science Foundation: $1,009,881)
- Carl DiSalvo, Ian Bogost, and Christopher Le Dantec (2012): Creativity and Collectivity (Intel: $1.625 million)
- Christopher Le Dantec (2012): Cycle Atlanta Crowd-Sourced Bike Route Desirability (Atlanta Beltline: $15,000)
- John Thornton, with the support of Samuel Williams, Larry Smith, Tucker Elliott, Brian Bashark, Lorin Young, Syneva Runyan, Alex Williams, Khalen Morehead, Erin Hennessy, and Kavya Nimmagadda (2013): Lens of Loyalty (Hyundai: $10,000)
- Lauren Klein (2013): TOME: Interactive TOpic Model and MEtadata Visualization (National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-up Grant: $59,999)
- Nettrice Gaskins and Celia Pearce (2013): Advancing STEM Through Culturally Situated Arts-Based Learning (National Science Foundation: $49,385)
- Nihad Farooq (2012): William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellowship (Vanderbilt University: $50,000)
- Rebecca Burnett, Karen Head, with the support of Andy Frazee, James Gregory, Amanda Madden, Christine Hoffman, Rebecca Weaver, Noah Mass, Katy Hanggi, Joshua Jones, Sarah Bleakney, Christopher Ritter, Steve Hodges, Robin Wharton, Richard Utz (2012): MOOC Composition 2.0 (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: $50,000)
- Thomas Lux (2012): Georgia Council for the Arts Operating Support Grant ($2,700)
- Tom Jenkins and Sara Fox (2012): Graduate Student Nokia Lecture Series (Nokia: €1,800)
- Ute Fischer (2013): Crew Research Management Issues Surrounding Single Pilot Operations (NASA Ames Research Center: $74,370)