OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

Bradley J. Holliday

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Design and Synthesis of New Materials for Solid-State Lighting Applications

2008

Chang Liu

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Project Title: Speech Intelligibility of Non-Native and Native Speakers in Quiet and Noisy Listening Conditions

2008

Johann A. Hofmann

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Genomics of Female Mate Choice: The Molecular Basis of Social Decision Making and Its Evolution

2008

Elliott Antokoletz

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Music
Project Title: Polish translation "Twentieth-Century Music

2008

Douglas Biow

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: French and Italian
Project Title: Research on Leonardo Fioravanti's Rare Sixteenth-Century Books

2008

Shawn Biow

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Project Title: Mechanistic Insights Into Apoptosome-Dependent Activation of Caspase-9

2008

Margaret Briley

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Increasing Fruits, Vegetables and Whole Grains in Preschool Sack Lunches

2008

Bruce II Buchanan

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: How Americans Judge Presidents

2008

Renita Coleman

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Journalism
Project Title: Second-Level Agenda-Setting in the 2008 Presidential Election

2008