OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Luis Sentis

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Testbed Development for Dynamic Bipedal Robot

2012

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

2012

Marianne Wheeldon

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Music
Project Title: Debussy’s Legacy and the Construction of Reputation

2012

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

2012

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

2011

Rajka Smiljanic

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Linguistics
Project Title: Speech Recognition in Noise for Children with Cochlear Implants

2011

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

2011

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

2011

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

2011

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

2011

Darla Castelli

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Kinetic Kidz: Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Cognitive Performance in Children

2011

Christine Leilani Duvauchelle

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: College of Pharmacy
Project Title: Neural Substrates of Cocaine Craving

2011

Catherine Harrison Echols

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Non-Linguistic Social Cues in Language Input to Low-SES Children

2011

Deana L. Erdner

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Effects of Freshwater Inflows on Plankton

2011

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Neurogenetic Basis of Bipolar Depression

2011

Michael S. Mackert

College/School: College of Communication
Department: Advertising
Project Title: Eve Tracking and Health Literacy: Exploring Difference in he Intake of Information

2011

W. Todd Maddox

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: The Effects of Pressure on Dual Processing Models of Decision Making

2011

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

2011

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

2011

Erika Patall

College/School: College of Education
Department: Educational Psychology
Project Title: Choice and Cheating

2011

Sharmila Rudrappa

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
Project Title: Outsourcing Labor: Explaining India’s Dominance in Transnational Surrogacy

2011

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

2011

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

2011

Zhanfei Liu

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Microbial Degradation of the Deepwater Horizon Oil in Coastal Waters

2010

Yan Zhang

College/School: School of Information
Department: School of Information
Project Title: Contextualizing consumer health information searching

2010