Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Dustin Harp
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Journalism Project Title: Understanding and Empowering Marginalized Voices in the Mediated Public Sphere
Rasika Harshey
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Project Title: How Salmonella typhimurium Senses Host Cell Contact through its Virulence Appendage
Sharon Jarvis
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Communication Studies Project Title: Casting the Ballot: How the Media Cover Voting and Why it Matters
Edward Kirk
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Habitat Acoustics of Malagasy Forests: A Comparative Study of Excess Attenuation, Background Noise, and Lemur Vocal Adaptations
Michael Krezmien
College/School: College of Education Department: Special Education Project Title: Reading Instruction for Struggling Incarcerated Adolescent Readers
Huaiyin Li
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: History Project Title: Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro History, 1950-2005
Brad Love
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Advertising Project Title: Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements, Educational Content, and Literacy: A Prescription for Improved Health Outcomes
Jennifer Morgan
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Project Title: Identifying Molecular Mechanisms that Drive Synapse Formation during Spinal Cord Regeneration
Luisa Nardini
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Music Project Title: Music from the South: Edition and Study of the Non-standard Mass Proper Items of Beneventan Manuscripts
Jemima Pierre
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: African Immigrants in the U.S.: The Making of Contemporary Diasporas
Michele Rountree
College/School: Steve Hicks School of Social Work Department: School of Social Work Project Title: A Trend Analysis: HIV Testing Rates and Testing Locations among Whites, African-Americans, Hispanics, Data from the Behavioral Risk Surveillance System 2000-2006
Krishnendu Roy
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Microfabrication of Complex, Spatially Patterned Tissue-engineering Scaffolds
Jason Sowell
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: counterMEASURES
Raji Srinivasan
College/School: McCombs School of Business Department: Marketing Project Title: Is Beautiful Good? Market Rewards to Superior Product Designs
Keri Stephens
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Communication Studies Project Title: Combinatorial Information and Communication Technology Use at Work
Yongjun Sung
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Advertising Project Title: Hel-mart.com: Antecedents and Motivations of Consumer Participation in Online Anti-brand Communities
Dan Wheat
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Piezoelectric Response Near Growth Defects in Wood
Jerome Williams
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Advertising Project Title: Racial Profiling of Small Entrepreneurial Business Bank Customer
Zhiwen Zhang
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: Medicinal Chemistry Project Title: Decipher the In Vivo Mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A
Department: Project Title: Purification and Molecular Analysis of Contractile Vacuoles from Dictyostelium
Department: Project Title: Microarray Analysis of Zebrafish Eye Development
Department: Project Title: Neural Mechanisms of Memory during Decision Making: Simultaneous Neurophysiological Recordings and Behavioral Testing
Alan H. Cowley
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: A New Breed of Lanthanide Reagents and Catalysts
Nicholas A. Peppas
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Novel Nanodevices for Biomolecular Sensing
Mark Kirkpatrick
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: A Genetic Analysis of Sexual Selection and Male Variation in the Platyfish