OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Hongjoo Joanne Lee

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Novel treatment for attentional deficits in Parkinson’s disease

2013

Nanshu Lu

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: Flexoelectricity of Nanomaterials on Deformable Substrates

2013

Leslie Ann Mutchler

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Project Title: Printshop/ Backdrop

2013

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

2013

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

2013

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

2013

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?

2013

Robert Fredrick Young

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: From Growth Machine to Living City

2013

Harold Hirsch Zakon

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: A putative novel ion channel in Plasmodium, the malaria parasite

2013

Linda DeGraffenried

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Project Title: Obesity and Reprogramming of Prostate Cancer

2012

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

2012

Aprile Dawn Benner

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
Project Title: Discrimination, Peer Relations, and Adolescents’ Develpment

2012

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

2012

Guangbin Dong

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Natural Product-Based Small-Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery

2012

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

2012

Walter Fast

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: College of Pharmacy
Project Title: Developing Antibiotics That Target Iron Acquisition

2012

Luis Francisco-Revilla

College/School: School of Information
Department: School of Information
Project Title: Improving the Workflow of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Digital Arrangement at the File-Level

2012

Mourad Krifa

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanocomposite Threads for Wearable Electronics

2012

Sofian Merabet

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Carlton Hotel Beirut Archives Project

2012

Richard John Meyer

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Project Title: Low specificity relaxases as agents of genomic change

2012

Edward Mills

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: College of Pharmacy
Project Title: Prevention of Skin Cancer through Uncoupling-Induced Metabolic Shift

2012

Robert G. Moser

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Government
Project Title: The Political Geography of Russian Elections: Ethnicity, Economics, and the Contours of Electoral Manipulation and Competition

2012

Pablo Munguia

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Preliminary assessment of fiddler crab-bacterial interactions in estuarine ecosystems

2012

Alison R. Preston

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Neurobiological development of memory and reasoning

2012

David Mark Schnyer

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: The contribution of sleep-wake cycles to behavioral and neural changes associated with memory performance in elderly adults

2012