OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

Miguel Pinedo

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: The long-term implications of parental deportations on U.S.-born Latino adults

2023

David Stein

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences
Project Title: Elucidation of a Mechanism for Spatially-Restricted Activation of a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase during Embryonic Development

2023

Kamran Aghaie

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Title: Pious Nationalisms: An Approach to Studying Islamic Nationalism, and Religious Nationalisms Around the World

2022

Jaime Barnes

College/School: Jackson School of Geosciences
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Project Title: Insights into the Sulfur Cycle and Volcanic Eruptive Behavior via the Sulfur Isotope Composition of Volcanic Gases

2022

Linda DeGraffenried

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Project Title: Flotillin-1 and Breast Cancer

2022

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: "This is my native land": Black Education and the Classics in Texas

2022

Blair Johnson

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Mixing Processes in Stratified Turbulence

2022

Tia Madkins

College/School: College of Education
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Project Title: Racialized Mathematics Learning Environments Phase Two: Understanding Teachers' Racialized Beliefs

2022

Nassos Papalexandrou

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Project Title: Greek Antiquities as Diplomatic Gifts in Greek-US Political Relationships after WWII

2022