Research & Creative Grant Recipients
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
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
Mourad Krifa
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanocomposite Threads for Wearable Electronics
Sofian Merabet
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Anthropology Project Title: Carlton Hotel Beirut Archives Project
Richard John Meyer
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Project Title: Low specificity relaxases as agents of genomic change
Edward Mills
College/School: College of Pharmacy Department: College of Pharmacy Project Title: Prevention of Skin Cancer through Uncoupling-Induced Metabolic Shift
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
Pablo Munguia
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Preliminary assessment of fiddler crab-bacterial interactions in estuarine ecosystems
Alison R. Preston
College/School: College of Liberal Arts Department: Psychology Project Title: Neurobiological development of memory and reasoning
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
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: Steve Hicks 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