OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Andrew A. Brownell

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
Project Title: Recording the Keyboard Sonatas of Johann Samuel Schroeter

2025

Rosemary Candelario

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Theater & Dance
Project Title: Butoh Ecologies: Dancing with Nature as Embodied Ecological Praxis

2025

James E. Gardner

College/School: Jackson School of Geosciences
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Project Title: Pyromorphite-Hosted Rare Earth Element Enrichment at Bunker Hill Mine, Idaho

2025

Benjamin Gregg

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Between Science-Based Medicine and Traditional Healing: Bioethical Analysis of Competing Health Paradigms in the Maluku Archipelago of Indonesia

2025

Qixing Huang

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Joint Pose and Representation Optimization for 3D Generative Modeling

2025

Hyeon-Ah Kang

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Psychology
Project Title: Dynamic Latent Modeling of Student Interaction Data from AI Learning Platforms

2025

John C. Lassiter

College/School: Jackson School of Geosciences
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Project Title: Constraining the Growth of Continental Crust using the K-Ca Radiogenic Isotope System

2025

Navid Saleh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Empathic Design of Novel Non-Potable Water Treatment

2025

Liang Wang

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: Architecture
Project Title: Superblock: A Typological Atlas

2025

Daniel Breecker

College/School: Jackson School of Geosciences
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Project Title: The Effect of Roots on the Stability of Carbon in Soils

2024

Minou Arjomand

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: English
Project Title: Motherhood on the Political Stage

2024

Zachary Elkins

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Nationality Laws and Migrant Integration: Proposal for a Survey of Venezuelan Migrants in Three Settings

2024

Wendy Hunter

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Twin Transformations: The Expansion of the Welfare State and Religiosity in Contemporary Brazil

2024

Jiabao Li

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: School of Design and Creative Technologies
Project Title: CryoScapes

2024

Gesel Mason

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Theater & Dance
Project Title: "Yes, And" at Bates Dance Festival

2024

Esther Melamed

College/School: Dell Medical School
Department: Neurology
Project Title: Unraveling the Mechanisms of Neuropathy in Long COVID

2024

Steve Phelps

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Neurobiology of Climate Change

2024

PJ Raval

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Radio-Television-Film
Project Title: Untitled Philippines Project

2024

Craig Campbell

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Mapping Indigenous Texas

2023

Manuela Angelucci

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Economics
Project Title: Improving Parental Mental Health and Children's Outcomes in High-Poverty Areas through a Low-Cost Scalable Program

2023

Lauren Gulbas

College/School: Steve Hicks School of Social Work
Department: Social Work
Project Title: Shifting Resiliency in the College Classroom

2023

David Heymann

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Towards Local Wood Use for Environmentally Sustainable Architecture in the Galapagos

2023

Yan Leng

College/School: McCombs School of Business
Department: Information, Risk, & Operations Management
Project Title: Can LLM complement agent-based modeling and multi-agent lab experiments?

2023

Rosemary Anne Lester-Smith

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: Efficacy of Voice Therapy for Essential Vocal Tremor

2023

Ryosuke Okuno

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
Project Title: Surface Active Amine for CO2 Capture as Bicarbonate

2023