Research & Creative Grant Recipients
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: Geological 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”
Yan Zhang
College/School: School of Information Department: School of Information Project Title: Promoting Quality Evaluation of Health Information in Online Searches through Nudging: Design and Evaluation of PageGraph Interface
Michael J. Ryan
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: The Creative Role of Dopamine in the Evolution of Sexual Beauty
David Vanden Bout
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry Project Title: Molecules to Materials: Emergent Properties from Molecular Aggregation
David Heymann
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: Design of an Improved Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Release Pen
Javier Auyero
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Project Title: A Collective Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Poor Conservative Texas
Amy Brock
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomechanical Engineering Project Title: Lineage Isolation in Primary Colorectal Cancers with a Functionalized Barcode Tool
Kenneth Greene
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Government Project Title: Is Vote Buying Effective? Challenges of Machine Politics in Modern Emerging Democracies
Geraldine Heng
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: English Project Title: Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE
Hans Hofmann
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Repeatability of Social Evolution