The NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science is happy to announce the recipients of the Spring 2026 Seedling Grants. Seedling grants support pilot research to catalyze a longer-term research project. These grants have funded research assistantships, data sets needed for research, access to tools and software, and travel costs for meetings that initiate, or further, a research project.
The recipients of the Spring 2026 NULab Seedling, Travel, and Community Collaboration Grants are as follows:
- Mohit Singhal, Khoury College of Computer Science, “Digital narratives of therapy abuse: detecting trends and assessing impact via Reddit discussions on r/therapyabuse”
- Juan J. Colomina-Alminana, Mills College, Arts & Humanities, “Closing the Archival Gender Gap: Eliminating Biases in Analytic Philosophy Databases”
- Rong Bao, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, “Mapping Implementation Networks: A Computational Approach to Wetland Governance under the Ramsar Convention in China”
- Martha Johnson, Mills College Social Sciences and Business Unit, “Virtual Soft Power: Can VR Experiences Shift Attitudes Toward China?”
If you are interested in the NULab grants program, see the grant application process page and submit your proposal for the fall call for proposals. See our full set of supported projects.
