OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Janet Davis

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: American Studies
Project Title: The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America, 1866-1940

2008

Eric Drott

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Music
Project Title: Music and Politics in France, 1968-1982

2008

Matthew Eastin

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Advertising
Project Title: In-game Advertising: Frequency, Position, and Competition

2008

Johann Eberhart

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Characterization of Genetic Modifiers Regulating Craniofacial Disease Severity

2008

Rueben Gonzales

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Project Title: Endocannabinoid Involvement in Ethanol Self-Administration

2008

Frank Guridy

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: From Students to Subjects: Afro-Puerto Ricans at Tuskegee I the Age of Empire

2008

Christopher Jolly

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Role of Lipid Metabolism in Immunity to Cancer

2008

Tracie M. Matysik

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality: European Women's Intellectual and Activist Writings

2008

Cindy Menches

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Facilitating the Transfer of Knowledge About Building Damage by Understanding the Cognitive Aspects of Severity Judgments

2008

Julia Mickenberg

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: American Studies
Project Title: The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination, 1917-1945

2008

Mary Neuburger

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Inhaling Modernity: Tobacco Production, Commerce, and Consumption in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Bulgaria

2008

Theresa O'Halloran

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Testing the Role of Clathrin Associated Proteins during Endocytosis

2008

Li Sheng

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Project Title: Semantic Representation in Bilinguals

2008

David Shields

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Project Title: Cataloging Kelly: Studies on history, form and production from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

2008

Faegheh Shirazi

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Title: The Commodification of Islam: Do Dolls Have to Wear the Hijab (Veil)?

2008

Jayant Sirohi

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: Development of an Electronic Flight Control System for a Micro-Helicopter

2008

John Sisson

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Growing a New System for the Study of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein and Translational Regulation in the Control of Cellular Morphogenesis in Drosophila Embryos

2008

Patricia Stout

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Advertising
Project Title: The Effects of Corporate Credibility, Endorser Credibility, and Brand Credibility on Consumer Responses to DTC Pharmaceutical Advertising

2008

Wendy Wagner

College/School: School of Law
Department: School of Law
Project Title: Stakeholder Influence on EPA Nonsalient Rulemakings

2008

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Project Title: A Comparative Study of Race-based Genomic Research

2007

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Project Title: The Bacterial and Fungal Communities of Ear Infections

2007

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Project Title: The Collective Action Problem in Chimpanzees: A Model for the Evolution of Human Cooperation

2007

Xiaoqin Li

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Physics
Project Title: Development of a Novel Spectroscopy Tool for Studies of Electronic Coupling in Semiconductors

2007

Su Yeong Kim

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: The Mediating Role of Parenting in the Linkage between Parent-Child Acculturation Discrepancy and Adolescent Adjustment

2007

Luis Francisco-Revilla

College/School: School of Information
Department: School of Information
Project Title: Interpreting Visual Layouts of Web Pages

2007