Research & Creative Grant Recipients
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: Moody College of Communication Department: Advertising Project Title: Evaluating Websites for Low Literate and Low Health Literate Populations
Dawna I. Ballard
College/School: Moody 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: Cockrell School 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: Cockrell School 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: Cockrell School 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: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Biodiesel Production from Microalgae on the Texas Gulf Coast
Desiderio Kovar
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Microscale Cellular Materials with Non-uniform Structures
Hung-wen Liu
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: Medicinal Chemistry Project Title: Study of Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of Human Proteins by Proteome Array Screening
Corrine McConnaughy
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Research on the Effects of Gendered Identity Cues in Political Communication
Jason T. McConville
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: Pharmaceutics Project Title: Investigation of Lung Dissolution Properties of Drugs and Macromolecules using a Novel Pulmonary Dissolution Testing Apparatus
Stanley J. Roux
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Project Title: Labeling Approach to Identify Novel Receptor Regulating Plant Cell Growth
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
College/School: McCombs School of Business Department: Information, Risk, and Management Project Title: Active Information Acquisition for Compliance Management
Bartholomew Sparrow
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Making Public Opinion: The Politics of Polling and Media Reporting in the Decision to Attack Iraq