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
Molly Cummings
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Coping Styles and the Brain
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
Andrew Garrison
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Radio-Television-Film Project Title: Because I’m Here: Post Production
Xiaobo Lu
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Mobilized Compliance: The Origins of Authoritarian Party Resilience
Sandro Sessarego
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Spanish and Portuguese Project Title: Afro-Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis
James Tunnell
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Multimodal Confocal Microscope for Surgical Guidance
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
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
Alan Kuperman
College/School: LBJ School of Public Affairs Department: LBJ School of Public Affairs Project Title: Preventing Violent Conflict: Lessons for Bureaucrats
Cristine Legare
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Examining Variation in Beliefs about COVID-19 within Texas
Beili Liu
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Art and Art History Project Title: The Tie That Binds: Sculptural Exploration of Migrant Experiences
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)
Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: Lina Bo Bardi: Lessons from Displacement
Michael Parent
College/School: College of Education Department: Educational Psychology Project Title: Anabolic Steroid Use and Intimate Relationship Violence Among Sexual Minority Men
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
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
Rachel Wellhausen
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Weaponizing Waste: How Developing Countries Use Garbage Imports for Political Advantage
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
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
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
Samy Ayoub
College/School: School of Law Department: School of Law Project Title: Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Conductive Hydrogels with Rapid In Situ Cure for Cardiac Pacing
Benjamin Gregg
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Evaluating Bioethical Regulation in a Non-Democratic State
Hongjoo Lee
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Reducing Alcohol-Seeking Behavior with Retrieval+Extinction