Grantees 2022

2022 Peder Sather Grant Program Awards

BI Norwegian Business School (BI)  

Exploring corporate governance differences between the US and Norway

Business & Economics – $25,000
Norway: Knut Sogner
Berkeley: David Teece

Freedom of expression for workers-academics and artists

Business & Economics – $15,000
Norway: Irina Eidsvold-Tøien
Berkeley: Catherine Fisk

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Collaborative Research: Recovering (and Linking) Personal and Social Preferences – Theory and Experiments

Business & Economics – $20,000
Norway: Bertil Tungodden
Berkeley: Shachar Kariv

Lying Like There’s No Tomorrow? Time and Honesty in Social Life

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Hallgeir Sjåstad
Berkeley: Juliana Schroeder

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Comparative Understandings of Community-Oriented Policing

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Ingrid Nyborg
Berkeley: Aila Matanock

Developing and operationalizing an approach for understanding personal-political climate change vulnerability

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Siri Eriksen
Berkeley: Meg Mills-Novoa

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North-NTNU Ocean Week 2023 Symposium and Workshop

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Arthur Mason
Berkeley: Daniel Kammen

Exploring peatmoss community composition in carbon-storing peatland ecosystems over time using ancient DNA

Life and Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Olena Meleshko
Berkeley: Benjamin K. Blackman

Maneuvering and Control of Autonomous Ships under Uncertainty in Changing Environments

Engineering and Design – $20,000
Norway: Astrid Brodtkorb
Berkeley: Murat Arcak

Remote operations and future operating models

Engineering and Design – $20,000
Norway: Mary Ann Lundteigen
Berkeley: Kameeshwar Poolla

Interrogating Durable Inequalities in Schools and associated Welfare Systems

Social Sciences – $12,500
Norway: Håkon Leiulfsrud, Ann Christin Edlund Nilsen (UiA)
Berkeley: David Harding

University of Agder (UiA)

Interrogating Durable Inequalities in Schools and Associated Welfare Systems

Social Sciences – $12,500
Norway: Håkon Leiulfsrud, Ann Christin Edlund Nilsen (UiA)
Berkeley: David Harding

Robust Governance in Times of Crisis (RobustGov)

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Jarle Trondal
Berkeley: Chris Ansell

University of Bergen (UiB)

Neurobehavioral Affective Control Training (N-ACT): Novel Cognitive Remediation for Emotion Dysregulation and Related Psychopathologies

Social Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Åsa Karin Hammar
Berkeley: Sheri Johnson

Reproducible and Collaborative Machine Learning for Next Generation Glaciology

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Benjamin Aubrey Robson
Berkeley: Fernando Perez

The dwarfs that crossed the Ocean: evolution and biogeography of Hawaiian linyphiids

Life and Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Dimitar Dimitrov
Berkeley: Rosemary Gillespie

Utilizing Open and Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Effective Feedback (IntelliFeedback)

Education – $21,000
Norway: Mohammad Khalil
Berkeley: Zachary Pardos

University of Oslo (UiO)

Cellular Function and Mechanism of Single Membrane ATG8ylation

Life and Medical Sciences – $25,000
Norway: Harald Stenmark
Berkeley: James Hurley

Christian and Pagan Philologia in Late Antiquity

Arts & Humanities – $15,000
Norway: Boris Rodin Maslov
Berkeley: Susanna Elm

Crisis – the New Normal

Arts & Humanities – $25,000
Norway: Helge Jordheim
Berkeley: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Cumulative response to climate change and pollution in a seasonal environment

Life and Medical Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Katrine Borgå
Berkeley: Caroline Williams

David and Goliath Urbanize: City Size and Public Service Delivery in India

Social Sciences – $20,000
Norway: Francesca Jensenius
Berkeley: Alison Post

Developing tasks aimed at measuring collaborative problem solving within the computational thinking context: From Construct Definitions to Task Designs

Education – $20,000
Norway: Ronny Scherer
Berkeley: Mark Wilson

Integrating NLP into MultiLingual Education

Arts & Humanities – $15,000
Norway: Andrea Gasparini
Berkeley: Sam Mchombo

New Histories from Old Fragments: Shared Narratives of the Berkeley and Oslo Papyri from Tebtunis

Arts & Humanities – $25,000
Norway: Anastasia Maravela
Berkeley: Todd Hickey

University of Tromsø (UiT)

Exploring the Edges of the Solar System: Space Observations and Modeling on Dust in the Heliosphere)

Mathematical and Physical Sciences – $22,500
Norway: Ingrid Mann
Berkeley: Stuart Bale