OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

Molly Cummings

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Is Sexual Selection Driving Color Pattern Diversification among Poison Frogs?

2006

Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Roman Spaces: Conversations on the Eternal City and Contemporary Architecture

2006

Timothy J. Loving

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Understanding the Stress of Passionate Love: Causes, Consequences, and Coping

2006

Michael S. Mackert

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Advertising
Project Title: Evaluating Websites for Low Literate and Low Health Literate Populations

2006

Dawna I. Ballard

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Communication Studies
Project Title: Temporality Over Time: A Longitudinal Test of the Entrainment Perspective

2006

Daniel I. Bolnick

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Using Ancient DNA to Directly Document the Speed of Adaptation

2006

Henry P. Ciolino

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Inhibition of Renal Cancer Cell Growth by Dietary Isothiocyanates

2006

Eugenia Costa-Giomi

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Music
Project Title: Infants' Categorization of Melody

2006

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

2006