2025 Peder Sather Grant Program Awards

BI Norwegian Business School (BI)  

Forecasting with Signatures: From Theory to Applications (FORESIG)

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Fabian Nost Harang
Berkeley: Xin Guo

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Reporting in Practice: Lessons from 350 RCTs and Interventions to Increase Results Reporting in Economics

Social Sciences– $23,000
Norway: Eric Sørensen
Berkeley: Edward Miguel

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Insight into brown algal embryo development, biomass enhancement, and evolution of multicellularity through comparative transcriptome studies

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Hilde-Gunn Sorteberg
Berkeley: John D. Coates

Why do males and females shuffle their chromosomes differently during meiosis

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Cathrine Brekke
Berkeley: Abby Dernburg

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Molten Salt Reactivity: A Cross-Sector Study of Nuclear Energy, Hydrogen Production, and Metallurgical Innovation

Arts and Humanities – $25,000
Norway: Ragnhild Aune
Berkeley: Raluca Scarlat

Framework and Tools to Manage Abusive Generative AI Risks in AI-Component-Based Systems (AntiGAIAbuse)

Engineering & Design – $25,000
Norway: Jingyue Li
Berkeley: AnnaLee Saxenian

Demonstration of advanced reactors for commercial marine nuclear propulsion

Engineering & Design – $25,000
Norway: Jan Emblemsvåg
Berkeley: Per Peterson

3rd Workshop and Research Visit for the Exchange of Ideas Regarding Recent Developments on Air Lubrication Technologies for Shipping Emission Reduction

Engineering & Design – $25,000
Norway: Lars Erik Holmedahl
Berkeley: Simo Makiharju

Sky View and Sustainable Cities: Insights from San Francisco and Trondheim

Engineering & Design – $25,000
Norway: Hongchao Fan
Berkeley: Lu Liang

Multi-Agent Coordination for Ocean Monitoring

Engineering & Design – $25,000
Norway: Tor Arne Johansen
Berkeley: Murat Arcak

University of Agder (UiA)

Digital Twinning of Floating Modular Solar Photovoltaic Arrays under Offshore Conditions

Engineering & Design – $25,000
Norway: Zhiyu Jiang
Berkeley: Ziqi Wang

University of Bergen (UiB)

Strengthening local news for long-term sustainability

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Carl-Gustav Linden
Berkeley: David Barstow

NarrAItion: Bridging Humanities and AI

Arts & Humanities – $25,000
Norway: Jill Walker Rettberg
Berkeley: Nina Begus

Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses

Mathematics and Physical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Kerim Nisancioglu
Berkeley: Lucas Vargas Zeppetello

University of Oslo (UiO)

Supporting Students’ Need through Boundary Work: Introducing Change Laboratories for Professional Learning Innovation

Education – $25,000
Norway: Guri Skedsmo
Berkeley: Michelle Young

Deep language learning: from fiwGAN to LLMs

Arts & Humanities – $25,000
Norway: Dag Haug
Berkeley: Gasper Begus

Prison Education in Dialogue:  A Norway-California Cross-Case Comparison of Education in Carceral Settings

Education – $25,000
Norway: Johan Fredrik Rye
Berkeley: Glynda Hull

The Third Nuclear Age in the Arctic: Deterrence, Escalation Risks, and Nuclear Conflict

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
Berkeley: Bethany Goldblum

Proton-Induced Measurements and Training the Next Generation for Medical Isotope Production

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Sunniva Siem
Berkeley: Lee Bernstein

Veridical Artificial Intelligence

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Arnoldo Frigessi
Berkeley: Bin Yu

Where You Grow Up Matters: Unpacking How Neighborhoods Shape Opportunities with Causal Machine Learning

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Tarjei Widding-Havneraas
Berkeley: David J. Harding

The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

Stability, Hyperbolicity, and the geometry of zeros of polynomials

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Cordian Riener
Berkeley: Nikhil Srivastava

Rule of Law in the Context of Culture

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $17,000
Norway: Cassandra Falke
Berkeley: Bryan Wagner

University of Stavanger (UiS)

Angel Island Voices: Asian-American Stories from an Overlooked Gateway

Social Sciences – $17,459
Norway: Linn Normand
Berkeley: Catherine Choy

Rubix: Efficient Historical Queries for Ethereum

Engineering & Design – $18,000
Norway: Hein Meling
Berkeley: Natacha Crooks

Informing and Empowering: Evaluating the Impact of a Scalable Information Intervention on Youth Sports Engagement in Norway

Social Sciences – $17,460
Norway: Cornel Nesseler
Berkeley: Lia Fernald