OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

J. Brent Crosson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Religious Studies
Project Title: The Other Anthropocene: Race, Climate, and the Cosmopolitics of Energy in the Southern Caribbean

2021

Molly Cummings

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Coping Styles and the Brain

2021

Hugh Daigle

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Project Title: Predicting Microbial Gas Abundance on the U.S. East Coast

2021

Andrew Garrison

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Radio-Television-Film
Project Title: Because I’m Here: Post Production

2021

Xiaobo Lu

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Mobilized Compliance: The Origins of Authoritarian Party Resilience

2021

Sandro Sessarego

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Afro-Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis

2021

James Tunnell

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Multimodal Confocal Microscope for Surgical Guidance

2021

Zong-Liang Yang

College/School: Jackson School of Geosciences
Department: Geological Sciences
Project Title: Development of Machine Learning-based Transient Datasets of Wind and Solar Farms for Use in Earth System Modeling

2021

Su Yeong Kim

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: COVID-19 Stress Profiles, Stress Responses, and Health in Mexican American Emerging Adults

2020

Alan Kuperman

College/School: LBJ School of Public Affairs
Department: LBJ School of Public Affairs
Project Title: Preventing Violent Conflict: Lessons for Bureaucrats

2020

Cristine Legare

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Examining Variation in Beliefs about COVID-19 within Texas

2020

Beili Liu

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Project Title: The Tie That Binds: Sculptural Exploration of Migrant Experiences

2020

Julie Maslowsky

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Development of the Brief Assessment of Adolescent Contraceptive Preferences (BRAC-P)

2020

Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Lina Bo Bardi: Lessons from Displacement

2020

Michael Parent

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Psychology
Project Title: Anabolic Steroid Use and Intimate Relationship Violence Among Sexual Minority Men

2020

Rajka Smiljanic

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Linguistics
Project Title: Effect of Protective Face Masks on Audio-Visual Word Recognition and Memory for Native and Non-Native Speakers

2020

Jessica Toste

College/School: College of Education
Department: Special Education
Project Title: Understanding Pathways to Resilience and Self-Determination for Secondary Students with Disabilities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020

Rachel Wellhausen

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Weaponizing Waste: How Developing Countries Use Garbage Imports for Political Advantage

2020

Julie Zuniga

College/School: School of Nursing
Department: School of Nursing
Project Title: Updating the Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire for English- and Spanish- Speaking People with Diabetes

2020

Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Lung Organoids for Cancer Drug Screening

2020

Paola Bonifazio

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: French and Italian
Project Title: Italian Producers Go to Hollywood: Cinema Cultures in Contact from Neorealism to the Spaghetti Western

2019

Samy Ayoub

College/School: School of Law
Department: School of Law
Project Title: Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955

2019

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Conductive Hydrogels with Rapid In Situ Cure for Cardiac Pacing

2019

Benjamin Gregg

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Evaluating Bioethical Regulation in a Non-Democratic State

2019

Hongjoo Lee

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Reducing Alcohol-Seeking Behavior with Retrieval+Extinction

2019