Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Luis Sentis
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Testbed Development for Dynamic Bipedal Robot
Ciaran Trace
College/School: School of Information Department: School of Information Project Title: Improving the Workflow of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Digital Arrangement at the File-Level
Marianne Wheeldon
College/School: College of Fine Arts Department: Music Project Title: Debussy’s Legacy and the Construction of Reputation
Christian P. Whitman
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: College of Pharmacy Project Title: Acetylene Probes of Enzymes in the Bacterial Catabolism of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Catherine Cubbin
College/School: School of Social Work Department: School of Social Work Project Title: Vegetables on Wheels (VOW): A pilot program to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables in a rural Texas community
Rajka Smiljanic
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Linguistics Project Title: Speech Recognition in Noise for Children with Cochlear Implants
Javier Auyero
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Project Title: In Harm’s Way: Violences in Chain at the Urban Margins in Argentina
Wenhong Chen
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Radio-Television-Film Project Title: Searching For the Mechanisms: A Pilot Study of Study of Social Media Use and Psychological Wellbeing
Brenda Lee Berkelaar
College/School: Moody College of Communication Department: Communication Studies Project Title: Evaluating Digital Careers: Developing a Scale to Measure the Perceived Quality of Job Applicants Based on Online Information
David Cannatella
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Next Generation DNA Technology meets the “Lost World”: Using NextGen sequencing for Evolutionary Studies of Endangered Frogs
Darla Castelli
College/School: College of Education Department: Kinesiology and Health Education Project Title: Kinetic Kidz: Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Cognitive Performance in Children
Christine Leilani Duvauchelle
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: College of Pharmacy Project Title: Neural Substrates of Cocaine Craving
Catherine Harrison Echols
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Non-Linguistic Social Cues in Language Input to Low-SES Children
Deana L. Erdner
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Effects of Freshwater Inflows on Plankton
Francisco Gonzalez-Lima
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Neurogenetic Basis of Bipolar Depression
Michael S. Mackert
College/School: College of Communication Department: Advertising Project Title: Eve Tracking and Health Literacy: Exploring Difference in he Intake of Information
W. Todd Maddox
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: The Effects of Pressure on Dual Processing Models of Decision Making
Mona C. Mehdy
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Project Title: Studies of a Cell Wall Protein Mutant in Arabidopsis may Identify a Novel Drought Resistance Mechanism and Developmental Pathway
Jennifer Miller
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Geography and the Environment Project Title: Developing a spatially explicit framework to analyze animal movement and interaction: a case study using brown hyena in Northern Botswana
Erika Patall
College/School: College of Education Department: Educational Psychology Project Title: Choice and Cheating
Sharmila Rudrappa
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Sociology Project Title: Outsourcing Labor: Explaining India’s Dominance in Transnational Surrogacy
Benjamin Dwaine Walther
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Validating the use of geochemical signals in fish scales to reconstruct migration patterns
Katherine A. Willets
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Development of functionalized atomic force microscopy probes for scanning surface enhanced Raman microscopy
Zhanfei Liu
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Microbial Degradation of the Deepwater Horizon Oil in Coastal Waters
Yan Zhang
College/School: School of Information Department: School of Information Project Title: Contextualizing consumer health information searching