Research & Creative Grant Recipients
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?
Robert Fredrick Young
College/School: School of Architecture Department: School of Architecture Project Title: From Growth Machine to Living City
Harold Hirsch Zakon
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: A putative novel ion channel in Plasmodium, the malaria parasite
Linda DeGraffenried
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Nutritional Sciences Project Title: Obesity and Reprogramming of Prostate Cancer
Kentya C. Ford
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: College of Pharmacy Project Title: Exploring the Impact of Social Media Advertising and Beliefs on Little Cigar Tobacco Use among African Americans, ages 18-25: A pilot study
Aprile Dawn Benner
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Development and Family Sciences Project Title: Discrimination, Peer Relations, and Adolescents' Development
Jonathan Bates Dingwell
College/School: College of Education Department: Kinesiology and Health Education Project Title: Determining How Healthy Humans Control Step-To-Step Variability During Walking and Running
Guangbin Dong
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Natural Product-Based Small-Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery
Susan B. Empson
College/School: College of Education Department: Curriculum and Instruction Project Title: Learning to Make Instructional Decisions Based On Children's Thinking about Fractions: Design and Pilot of a Tablet-Based Interactive Decision Making Tool
Walter Fast
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: College of Pharmacy Project Title: Developing Antibiotics That Target Iron Acquisition