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
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”
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
Hiroshi Nishiyama
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neurobiology Project Title: Cerebellar Contribution to Neocortical Development in Autism
Adam Rabinowitz
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Classics Project Title: The University of Texas Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (UT-HMAP)
PJ Raval
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Radio-Television-Film Project Title: Untitled Jennifer Laude Documentary
Department: Project Title: Harnessing the Power of Microwave to Inactivate Pathogens
Jeff Williams
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Art & Art History Project Title: MRF Edit
Beili Liu
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Art and Art History Project Title: Equilibrium Series: Sculptural Exploration of Cultural Boundaries
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