OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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?

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

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

2006

Lawrence E. Gilbert

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Evolution and Genetics of Mimicry in Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies

2006

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

2006

Hope H. Hasbrouck

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Defining a Modern Context for an Ancient Cultural Landscape

2006

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

2006

Gyeong S. Hwang

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Rational Design of Oxide Supported Bimetallic Nanocatalysts

2006

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

2006

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

2006

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

2006

Desiderio Kovar

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Microscale Cellular Materials with Non-uniform Structures

2006

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

2006

Corrine McConnaughy

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Research on the Effects of Gendered Identity Cues in Political Communication

2006

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

2006

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

2006

Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

College/School: McCombs School of Business
Department: Information, Risk, and Management
Project Title: Active Information Acquisition for Compliance Management

2006

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

2006