OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

2007

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

2007

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

2007

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

2007

Michael Krezmien

College/School: College of Education
Department: Special Education
Project Title: Reading Instruction for Struggling Incarcerated Adolescent Readers

2007

Huaiyin Li

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: History
Project Title: Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro History, 1950-2005

2007

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

2007

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

2007

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

2007

Jemima Pierre

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: African Immigrants in the U.S.: The Making of Contemporary Diasporas

2007

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

2007

Krishnendu Roy

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Microfabrication of Complex, Spatially Patterned Tissue-engineering Scaffolds

2007

Jason Sowell

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: counterMEASURES

2007

Raji Srinivasan

College/School: McCombs School of Business
Department: Marketing
Project Title: Is Beautiful Good? Market Rewards to Superior Product Designs

2007

Keri Stephens

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Communication Studies
Project Title: Combinatorial Information and Communication Technology Use at Work

2007

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

2007

Dan Wheat

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Piezoelectric Response Near Growth Defects in Wood

2007

Jerome Williams

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Advertising
Project Title: Racial Profiling of Small Entrepreneurial Business Bank Customer

2007

Zhiwen Zhang

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: Medicinal Chemistry
Project Title: Decipher the In Vivo Mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A

2007

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Project Title: Purification and Molecular Analysis of Contractile Vacuoles from Dictyostelium

2006

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Project Title: Microarray Analysis of Zebrafish Eye Development

2006

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Project Title: Neural Mechanisms of Memory during Decision Making: Simultaneous Neurophysiological Recordings and Behavioral Testing

2006

Alan H. Cowley

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: A New Breed of Lanthanide Reagents and Catalysts

2006

Nicholas A. Peppas

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Novel Nanodevices for Biomolecular Sensing

2006

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

2006