#  Seven novel research projects awarded grants by Star-Friedman Challenge 

 





September 15, 2025

 

 

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*Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer*Congratulations to HEB professor Chris Kuzawa, who was awarded the [Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research](https://research.fas.harvard.edu/star-friedman-challenge-promising-scientific-research)! The program provides seed funding for Harvard faculty to conduct research in the life, physical, and social sciences. Star-Friedman supports promising research that might not be funded by traditional sources and encourages investigators to explore new directions branching off their previous work.

Read about Chris's project, "Validating child-friendly measures of global brain energetics to address new questions in the study of obesity, diabetes, and the role of nutrition in healthy brain/cognitive development" in the [Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/chance-to-branch-off-in-new-directions/).



 

 

 



 

 

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