Research & Creative Grant Recipients
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: Steve Hicks 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: Cockrell School 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
Hongjoo Joanne Lee
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Novel treatment for attentional deficits in Parkinson's disease
Nanshu Lu
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Project Title: Flexoelectricity of Nanomaterials on Deformable Substrates
Leslie Ann Mutchler
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Art and Art History Project Title: Printshop/ Backdrop
Michael John Rose
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry Project Title: Atomic Layer Deposition of Catalytic Materials on a Hybrid Molecular/ Materials Substrate: a Solar Fuels Device
Navid B. Saleh
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Effects of Doping on Fate and Transport of Hybrid Indium Tin Oxide Nanoparticles in Aquatic Environment
Christen Anne Smith
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento: Rethinking the Concept of Quilombo, Blackness, Gender and Belonging in Brazil and the Americas
Jessica Rose Toste
College/School: College of Education Department: Special Education Project Title: Multisyllabic Word Reading Intervention in the Upper-Elementary Grades: Can Attribution Retraining Improve Performance of Struggling Readers?