OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

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

2018

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

2018

David Vanden Bout

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Molecules to Materials: Emergent Properties from Molecular Aggregation

2017

David Heymann

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Design of an Improved Attwater's Prairie Chicken Release Pen

2017

Javier Auyero

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: A Collective Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Poor Conservative Texas

2017

Amy Brock

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomechanical Engineering
Project Title: Lineage Isolation in Primary Colorectal Cancers with a Functionalized Barcode Tool

2017

Kenneth Greene

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: Is Vote Buying Effective? Challenges of Machine Politics in Modern Emerging Democracies

2017

Geraldine Heng

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: English
Project Title: Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE

2017

Hans Hofmann

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Repeatability of Social Evolution

2017

Hiroshi Nishiyama

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neurobiology
Project Title: Cerebellar Contribution to Neocortical Development in Autism

2017

Adam Rabinowitz

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Classics
Project Title: The University of Texas Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (UT-HMAP)

2017

PJ Raval

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Radio-Television-Film
Project Title: Untitled Jennifer Laude Documentary

2017

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Project Title: Harnessing the Power of Microwave to Inactivate Pathogens

2017

Jeff Williams

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Art & Art History
Project Title: MRF Edit

2017

Beili Liu

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Art and Art History 
Project Title: Equilibrium Series: Sculptural Exploration of Cultural Boundaries

2016

Andrew Garrison

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Radio-Television-Film
Project Title: Sandro and Kemo: Immigration in Italy by Europeans and Non-Europeans and the Rise of the Right

2016