This grant supports research by Philip Guo, cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego who is exploring questions around the cultural and communications gaps which occur between domain researchers and the computational staff in their employ. Questions Guo is investigating include how interpersonal power dynamics affect collaboration on research projects and how might these dynamics be addressed in order to better build and maintain open source software. Grant funds will allow Guo’s lab to employ a graduate student to assist with these research efforts.