OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Fernando Luiz Lara

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Favela Buildings: Understanding the Construction Process of a Significant Hidden Portion of the World's Built Environment

2009

Ming-Chun Lee

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: The Community-technology Convergence Framework for Community Action

2009

Wei-Na Lee

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Advertising
Project Title: Understanding Consumer Ethnocentrism in Times of Economic Crisis

2009

Amanda Lea Little

College/School: College of Education
Department: Special Education
Project Title: Parent Implemented Functional Assessment and Behavior Intervention across Problematic Family Routines

2009

Alan M. Lloyd

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: A Whole Genome Scan for Targets of An Arabidopsis Developmental Regulator

2009

Mikhail V. Matz

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Population Genomics of Coral Adaptation to Climate Change

2009

Jennifer Anne Maynard

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Engineering Cellular Immunity through Manipulation of T Cell Receptor-peptice-MHC Interactions

2009

Dong-Ha Min

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Is Marine Plankton Responsible in Removing Dissolved Carbon Tetrachloride in the Ocean

2009

Elizabeth J. Mueller

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Mapping the Relocation of Low-income Households: A Social and Ecological Assessment

2009

Keryn Elizabeth Pasch

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Understanding How Youth Perceive and Process Food and Beverage Advertising

2009

Kimberly Raab-Graham

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Center for Learning and Memory
Project Title: Posttranscriptional Regulation, A Novel Mechanism for Ion Channel Regulation and Dentritic Excitability

2009

Richard Jason Reddick

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Administration
Project Title: A Hole in Austin's Soul: African American Faculty Perceptions of the Austin Community

2009

Rebecca Rossen

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Theatre and Dance
Project Title: Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance

2009

Rick Russell

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Chaperone-mediated Folding of a Group I Intron RNA Monitored by Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)

2009

Michael Joseph Ryan

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Rapid Evolutionary Responses to an Emerging Infectious Pathogen

2009

Igor P. Siddiqui

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Spatial Tessellations: Interior Design, Digital Fabrication, and Geometric Patterns

2009

Dionicio Rhodes Siegel

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Synthesis and Biological Optimization of the Natural Product Cyclopamine, A Promising Anticancer Agent

2009

Steven Alexander Vokes

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Identification of Long-range Limb Enhancers Driving Limb Development

2009

Bugao Xu

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: A Dual-Camera System for Pavement Complementary Imaging

2009

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Project Title: Approaching Irreducible Formations: Case Studies in Systemic Organization within the Context of 1950's Space-Time

2008

Molly Cummings

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Sensory and Signal Divergence in Poison Frogs: Do sensory biases drive color pattern evolution?

2008

Fred Valdez Jr.

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Culture Contact and Culture Change: The Emergence of Maya Civilization

2008

Hiroshi Nishiyama

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neurobiology
Project Title: How the Precision of Neuronal Circuitry Emerges? Imaging of Developmental Competition in the Intact

2008

Charlotte Canning

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Theatre and Dance
Project Title: On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism

2008

Makkuni Jayaram

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Project Title: Analysis of DNA Rearrangements by Difference Topology

2008