Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Junfeng Jiao
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Identify Food Deserts in Large Texas Cities, a Case Study of Austin, TX
Robert Brothers
College/School: College of Education Department: Kinesiology and Health Education Project Title: Microvascular Dysfunction in Young African Americans
Esther Calzada
College/School: School of Social Work Department: School of Social Work Project Title: Test of Multi-Generational Model of Mexican American Parenting and Early Childhood Development
North Cooc
College/School: College of Education Department: Special Education Project Title: Changes in the Early Academic Trajectories of Students in Special Education
Jaimie Davis
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Nutritional Sciences Project Title: Type 1 Diabetes Pilot Study: Understanding Barriers to Blood Glucose Control
Chadi El Mohtar
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Feasibility Study on Implementing Measured Earthquake Ground Motions in Laboratory Testing for Post-Liquefaction Damage Evaluation
Kentya C. Ford
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: College of Pharmacy Project Title: Science and Religion: What we can do together to reduce the burden of chronic disease risk factors in our society?
Andreana Haley
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Exploring the neural mechanisms of cognitive enhancement related to acute bouts of exercise
Amber Hardison
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Nitrogen Cycling in Arctic Coastal Sediments
Christine V. Hawkes
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Exploring the benefits of symbiotic fungal endophytes for plant drought tolerance
Chang Liu
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders Project Title: Speech enhancement: better speech perception in noise
Angela Nonaka
College/School: School of Social Work Department: School of Social Work Project Title: Investigating Politeness in Asian Sign Languages: A Collaborative Pilot Study with the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology
Erin Rodriguez
College/School: College of Education Department: Educational Psychology Project Title: Coping and Marital Adjustment in Pediatric Cancer
Rebecca Torres
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Geography and the Environment Project Title: Immigration Policy, National Security and Children’s Rights: Impacts of Repatriation of Unaccompanied Migrant Children from Mexico and Central America
Casey Wright
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: Pharmacy Project Title: Physiological Significance of the novel inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) binding motif (IBM) within the NF-κB-inducing Kinase (NIK)
Nicholas A. Peppas
College/School: College of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Overcoming Multidrug Resistance in Cancer With Multifunctional Nanoparticles
Keji Lai
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Physics Project Title: Probing Vortices in Ferroelectrics: A Table-top Playground for Topological Sciences
Paola Passalacqua
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: A field investigation on the transport of environmental fluxes through deltas
David Ellis Adelman
College/School: School of Law Department: School of Law Project Title: Empirical Study of Litigation Under the National Environmental Policy Act
Jeffrey Evan Barrick
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Biosciences Project Title: Probing the molecular specificity of natural competence in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1
Bharath Chandrasekaran
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders Project Title: Individual differences in audiovisual speech processing
Laura Lee Colgin
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: Distinct mnemonic functions of fast and slow gamma rhythms in the hippocampus
Darrell Glenn Creel
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Neutron Activation Analysis of Whole Mimbres Pottery Vessels
Donglei (Emma) Fan
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Nanomotors for Biosubstance Delivery and Detection with Subcellular Resolution
Johann A. Hofmann
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Neural and Genomic Basis of Social Cognition