OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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: 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: Geological 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

Marina Peterson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Weathering Uncertainty: Rainmaking in the American West

2022

Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Asian Studies
Project Title: Devotional Religion and Hindi Literature in the Making of Marwar

2022

James Slotta

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: The Analogue Life of Digital Misinformation: Communicating Health Expertise in Papua New Guinea

2022

Denton Walthall

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: The Swenson Digitization Project: Creating an Open Access Resource for UT’s Swenson Collection of Ancient Coins

2022

Y. Jessie Zhang

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences
Project Title: CRISPR screening to target REST transcription factor as a novel treatment for Glioblastoma

2022

Jacob Wegmann

College/School: Architecture
Department: Architecture
Project Title: New Houses on the Old Block: An Assessment of Emergent Recent Housing Forms in Intensifying Urban Neighborhoods

2021

Jakki Bailey

College/School: School of Information
Department: Information
Project Title: Examining Children’s Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Responses to Virtual Reality

2021

Joshua Childs

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Policy
Project Title: Broadening Participation in CS Education: How School Leaders’ Support Equity-Focused CS Teaching and Learning

2021

Ronald Covey

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Building a Comprehensive Archaeological Database for the Inca Heartland

2021