OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

2014

Robert Brothers

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Microvascular Dysfunction in Young African Americans

2014

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

2014

North Cooc

College/School: College of Education
Department: Special Education
Project Title: Changes in the Early Academic Trajectories of Students in Special Education

2014

Jaimie Davis

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Project Title: Type 1 Diabetes Pilot Study: Understanding Barriers to Blood Glucose Control

2014

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

2014

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?

2014

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

2014

Amber Hardison

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Nitrogen Cycling in Arctic Coastal Sediments

2014

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

2014

Chang Liu

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Project Title: Speech enhancement: better speech perception in noise

2014

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

2014

Erin Rodriguez

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Psychology
Project Title: Coping and Marital Adjustment in Pediatric Cancer

2014

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

2014

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)

2014

Nicholas A. Peppas

College/School: College of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Overcoming Multidrug Resistance in Cancer With Multifunctional Nanoparticles

2013

Keji Lai

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Physics
Project Title: Probing Vortices in Ferroelectrics: A Table-top Playground for Topological Sciences

2013

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

2013

David Ellis Adelman

College/School: School of Law
Department: School of Law
Project Title: Empirical Study of Litigation Under the National Environmental Policy Act

2013

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

2013

Bharath Chandrasekaran

College/School: Moody College of Communication
Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Project Title: Individual differences in audiovisual speech processing

2013

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

2013

Darrell Glenn Creel

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Neutron Activation Analysis of Whole Mimbres Pottery Vessels

2013

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

2013

Johann A. Hofmann

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Neural and Genomic Basis of Social Cognition

2013