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Greg Niemeyer Awarded Peder 2022 Sather Grant

18 Apr, 2022

Greg Niemeyer Awarded Peder 2022 Sather Grant

Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 Peder Sather Grant! Greg Niemeyer's project's topic is "Optimizing Affective and Cognitive Impact of Network Visualizations" in the Engineering and Design field. Greg will be working with Roger Antonsen from the University of Oslo.

The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from eight Norwegian universities. The Center offers grants of between $10K and $25K. Funds are made available for two academic years. Grants can support activities such as workshops, mini-conferences, virtual intellectual exchanges, the undertaking of exploratory and pilot studies, activities such as PhD student exchanges, longer-term stays for Principal Investigators, the collection and analysis of data, and other core research activities.

To learn more about this award, please check it out here!