OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

Navid Saleh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
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

Vaibhav Bahadur

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Mapping the potential of landfill gas-based atmospheric water harvesting for oilfield operations

2016

Charlotte Canning

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Theatre and Dance
Project Title: Turn Back Time

2016

Edward F Coyle

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Effects of Prolonged Sitting and Exercise on Lipid Metabolism

2016

Maria A Croyle

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: College of Pharmacy
Project Title: Evaluation of Immune Response to Emerging Pathogens in the Reproductive Tract

2016

Juliet A Hooker

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: African and African Diaspora Studies
Project Title: Global Black Protest and Democratic Futures

2016

Makkuni Jayaram

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Project Title: Targeted Therapy for DNA repair-defective Breast/Ovarian Cancers: an AAV-based Delivery System for Inducing Site-specific Chromosome Damage

2016

Loukas Kallivokas

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Inverse metamaterial design for seismic shielding

2016

Su Yeong Kim

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Language Brokering and Health in Mexican American Adolecents

2016

John G Kuhn

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: Pharmacotherapy Education and Research Center
Project Title: Repurposing Propranolol for Adult and Pediatric Brain Tumors

2016