Applied Research & Innovation Initiative
The Applied Research & Innovation Initiative (ARII) is an externally funded program that aims to seed and scale applied research across the university. In this pilot version of the program, which we hope to expand over time, ARII supports multidisciplinary (3+ disciplines) teams of researchers, including faculty, staff and students, to work on applied projects that address societally-important issues that also align with goals of Vision 2026 and intersect with the missions of any of the current host units: