Research & Creative Grant Recipients
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: College 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
Molly Cummings
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Is Sexual Selection Driving Color Pattern Diversification among Poison Frogs?
Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: Roman Spaces: Conversations on the Eternal City and Contemporary Architecture
Timothy J. Loving
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: Understanding the Stress of Passionate Love: Causes, Consequences, and Coping
Michael S. Mackert
College/School: College of Communication Department: Advertising Project Title: Evaluating Websites for Low Literate and Low Health Literate Populations
Dawna I. Ballard
College/School: College of Communication Department: Communication Studies Project Title: Temporality Over Time: A Longitudinal Test of the Entrainment Perspective
Daniel I. Bolnick
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Using Ancient DNA to Directly Document the Speed of Adaptation
Henry P. Ciolino
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: Inhibition of Renal Cancer Cell Growth by Dietary Isothiocyanates
Eugenia Costa-Giomi
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Music Project Title: Infants' Categorization of Melody
Diana K. Davis
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Geography and the Environment Project Title: Scorched Earth: The Problematic Environmental History that Defines the Middle East
Leszek Demkowicz
College/School: College of Engineering Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Project Title: Fully Automatic hp-Adaptive Finite Elements for Coupled Elasticity/Acoustics
Lawrence E. Gilbert
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Evolution and Genetics of Mimicry in Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies
David B. Goldstein
College/School: College of Engineering Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Project Title: The Use of Arbitrary Post-Collision Velocities in a Discrete Velocity Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation to Solve Micro-scale Flow Problems
Hope H. Hasbrouck
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: Defining a Modern Context for an Ancient Cultural Landscape
Enamul Huq
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Project Title: Regulation of Gene Expression by the HLH Family of Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis
Gyeong S. Hwang
College/School: College of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Rational Design of Oxide Supported Bimetallic Nanocatalysts
John Kappelman
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Kernet: Excavation of a Middle Pleistocene Acheulean Archaeological Site on Ethiopia's Northwestern Plateau
Izhar A. Khan
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: G Protein-coupled Receptor 54 and its Interactions with Three Gonadatropin-releasing Hormones in Fish
Kerry A. Kinney
College/School: College of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Biodiesel Production from Microalgae on the Texas Gulf Coast