Early Career Scholarly Impact Awardees
2025 Awardees
Area of Scholarship
The intersection of alcohol use and intimate personal violence
Highlights
- 56 articles in peer-reviewed journals
- 4 combined book chapters and encyclopedia entries
- 100 conference presentations
- 23 undergraduate students mentored
In the Nominator’s Words
“Dr. Brem exemplifies the best of the best in her role as an assistant professor, through her grant strategies, impactful and well targeted lines of inquiry, community outreach, and mentoring success…[she] is helping the field to move toward evidence-based solutions that recognize the nuanced intervention models needed to best prevent IPV in young adults.” -- Jamie Edgin, chair of the Department of Psychology
Area of Scholarship
Machine learning, security, privacy, and cyber-physical systems, with the focus on interdisciplinary problems in data-centric artificial intelligence and trustworthy machine learning
Highlights
- 88 papers published
- 19 publications authored in 2024 alone
- 17 significant research grants, including the prestigious NSF CAREER Award and an NSF Medium Award
- 13 grants, accruing a total of over 3.7 million dollars in research funding.
In the Nominator’s Words
“She revealed new privacy risks and security vulnerabilities and then developed effective defense to protect privacy and secure machine learning systems while retaining data utility. Her strategic data sourcing techniques have been adopted by Amazon Alexa, currently assisting their internal data selection processes…Her trailblazing approach of leveraging cooperative game theory for data valuation has produced global impacts in financial institutions and have been adopted by major banks. Her research has also shaped national policy discussions, being incorporated into the National Institute of Standards and Technology AI [artificial intelligence] Risk Management Framework and cited in their guideline for managing misuse risks in foundation models. Additionally, her work has driven concrete changes in industry practices, with OpenAI implementing additional safety measures based on her findings. The widespread adoption and recognition of her research demonstrates its significant real-world impact.” – Rose Hu, head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Area of Scholarship
Digital and cultural history of information in the early modern period, including the continuities and ruptures of information technologies, professions, and ethics
Highlights
- Solo author of four peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
- Co-authored a peer-reviewed article and encyclopedia entry
- Taught eight different courses
- Led a series of workshops on new data-driven approaches to the history of travel
In the Nominator’s Words
“Dr. Midura received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for this work, which ranks among the most prestigious grants for digital humanities work. She has mentored student research assistants from both the history department and the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics program, for which she routinely leads a capstone project….In addition to updating existing courses to be in line with pedagogical and methodological best practices, Dr. Midura also has an impressive track record of creating new, innovative courses…Each of these courses integrate various digital methodologies to facilitate skill-building, from project-based learning producing podcasts, museum exhibits, and infographics, to historical simulations of trials or papal conclaves. -- Jennifer Hart, professor and chair of the Department of History
About the Award
The Early Career Scholarly Impact Award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated early leadership as scholars, as evidenced by a promising record of scholarly/creative achievement and increasing impact.
Up to three faculty will be selected per year and will receive $2,000 each.