OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

2020

Rachel Wellhausen

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Weaponizing Waste: How Developing Countries Use Garbage Imports for Political Advantage

2020

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

2020

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

2020

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

2019

Samy Ayoub

College/School: School of Law
Department: School of Law
Project Title: Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955

2019

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Conductive Hydrogels with Rapid In Situ Cure for Cardiac Pacing

2019

Benjamin Gregg

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Evaluating Bioethical Regulation in a Non-Democratic State

2019

Hongjoo Lee

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Reducing Alcohol-Seeking Behavior with Retrieval+Extinction

2019

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

2019

Erin Lentz

College/School: LBJ School of Public Affairs
Department: LBJ School of Public Affairs
Project Title: The Social Life of Famine

2019

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

2019

Fred Valdez Jr.

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: The Rancho Archaeology Project (RAP) – Archaic and Preclassic Maya Transitions

2019

Rabun Taylor

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: Rome, Water, and Climate Change: An Environmental History of the Aqua Traiana

2019

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

2019

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

2018

Sarah Brayne

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: Policing Data: Surveillance and Prediction in the Digital Age

2018

Charles O. Anderson

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Theater and Dance
Project Title: (Re)current Unrest

2018

Paola Passalacqua

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Quantifying Sediment Connectivity to Inform Coastal Restoration

2018

Sarah K. Bearman

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Psychology
Project Title: Promoting Positive Parenting for High-Risk Families in Primary Care Settings

2018

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

2018

Michael Drew

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: Hippocampal Mechanisms of Fear Extinction and Relapse

2018

David G. Quinto-Pozos

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Linguistics
Project Title: Pilot Study of Bilingual Vocabulary & Reading Development in Deaf Children

2018

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

2018

Harold Zakon

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: Evolution of a Temperature-sensitive Ion Channel in Antarctic “Icefish”

2018