OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

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

Carla Lynn Van Den Berg

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: College of Pharmacy
Project Title: JNK2 mediates immune surveillance of micro-metastatic breast cancer

2010

Donglei (Emma) Fan

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Arrays of Rotary NEMS Devices Assembled on Nano-Magnets

2010

Leslie Ann Mutchler

College/School: College of Fine Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Project Title: Modular Growth: Buenos Aires

2010

Robert Matthew Brothers

College/School: College of Education
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Mechanisms of altered blood pressure control in individuals with type II diabetes

2010

Christopher John Ellison

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Melanin Inspired Polymers and Nanocomposities

2010

Nina Marie Fredland

College/School: School of Nursing
Department: School of Nursing
Project Title: Using an Interactive Theater Program to Promote Healthy Relationship Building Among Young Adolescents

2010

Robert K. Jansen

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Plant Diversification

2010

Mathew A. Leibold

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Spanning levels of organization from genes to ecosystems: Gene regulatory networks of ecologically-important traits in the waterflea

2010

Paul Marshall Macdonald

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Regulation of mRNA translation in trans

2010

John H. Richburg

College/School: College of Pharmacy
Department: College of Pharmacy
Project Title: Deciphering the underlying mechanisms that account for cisplatin-induced male infertility

2010

Sahotra Sarkar

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Invasive Fish Species Models for Texas

2010

Timothy Schallert

College/School: College of Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology
Project Title: Rat 50-kHz ultrasonic reward-related vocalization in response to first-time amphetamine exposure predicts the development of conditioned anticipatory vocalization with repeated treatment

2010

Gerald Christopher Shank

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Environmental factors controlling dissolution of organic carbon from salt marsh sediments

2010

Cherie Elizabeth Simpson

College/School: School of Nursing
Department: School of Nursing
Project Title: Objective Assessment of Sleep in Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia

2010

Bjorn Sletto

College/School: School of Architecture
Department: School of Architecture
Project Title: Social Dimensions of Integrated Watershed Management in the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela

2010

Nina I. Zuna

College/School: College of Education
Department: Special Education
Project Title: Understanding Family Quality of Life and Family Support Issues in Families of Children with Autism and other Developmental Disabilities

2010