Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Jessica Toste
College/School: College of Education Department: Special Education Project Title: Understanding Pathways to Resilience and Self-Determination for Secondary Students with Disabilities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rachel Wellhausen
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Weaponizing Waste: How Developing Countries Use Garbage Imports for Political Advantage
Julie Zuniga
College/School: School of Nursing Department: School of Nursing Project Title: Updating the Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire for English- and Spanish- Speaking People with Diabetes
Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Lung Organoids for Cancer Drug Screening
Paola Bonifazio
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: French and Italian Project Title: Italian Producers Go to Hollywood: Cinema Cultures in Contact from Neorealism to the Spaghetti Western
Samy Ayoub
College/School: School of Law Department: School of Law Project Title: Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Conductive Hydrogels with Rapid In Situ Cure for Cardiac Pacing
Benjamin Gregg
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Evaluating Bioethical Regulation in a Non-Democratic State
Hongjoo Lee
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Reducing Alcohol-Seeking Behavior with Retrieval+Extinction
Seongmin Lee
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Project Title: Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of Cisplatin and its Modulation of Acquired Chemoresistance in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
Erin Lentz
College/School: LBJ School of Public Affairs Department: LBJ School of Public Affairs Project Title: The Social Life of Famine
Zhanfei Liu
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Multi-dimensional Structural Elucidation of Oceanic Dissolved Organic Matter Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Fred Valdez Jr.
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: The Rancho Archaeology Project (RAP) – Archaic and Preclassic Maya Transitions
Rabun Taylor
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Classics Project Title: Rome, Water, and Climate Change: An Environmental History of the Aqua Traiana
Bo Xie
College/School: School of Nursing Department: School of Nursing Project Title: Improving eHealth Literacy and Cognitive Function in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
John R. Clarke
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Art and Art History Project Title: Web Publication of 3-D Model and Database of an Ancient Roman Villa
Sarah Brayne
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Project Title: Policing Data: Surveillance and Prediction in the Digital Age
Charles O. Anderson
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Theater and Dance Project Title: (Re)current Unrest
Paola Passalacqua
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Quantifying Sediment Connectivity to Inform Coastal Restoration
Sarah K. Bearman
College/School: College of Education Department: Educational Psychology Project Title: Promoting Positive Parenting for High-Risk Families in Primary Care Settings
Daniel Breecker
College/School: Jackson School of Geosciences Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences Project Title: Preliminary Assessment of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels During an Ancient Global Warming Event
Michael Drew
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: Hippocampal Mechanisms of Fear Extinction and Relapse
David G. Quinto-Pozos
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Linguistics Project Title: Pilot Study of Bilingual Vocabulary & Reading Development in Deaf Children
Marissa Nichole Rylander
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Development and Utilization of a Vascularized In Vitro Skin Platform for Dynamic Characterization of Bacteria and Immune Cell Migration to Recapitulate Acute Wound Contamination
Harold Zakon
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: Evolution of a Temperature-sensitive Ion Channel in Antarctic “Icefish”