In response to a very strong application pool, Academic Affairs and the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs have awarded 21 stipends to faculty to promote grant proposal submission. This is the first time this competition has been held. Award recipients are:
| Principal Investigator | Title of Proposal |
|---|---|
Bita Ghafoori (CED) |
Development on Brief Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for Urban, Low Income Trauma Survivors |
May Ling Halim (CLA) Carol Martin (Arizona State Univ) |
Emphasizing girls' appearances and its impact on development and adjustment |
| Grace Reynolds (CHHS) | An investigation in the attraction to sexual aggression in women |
Stephen Mezyk (CNSM) Julie Peller (Indiana Univ) Tatiana Kostrominova |
Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from wastewaters: Preliminary data for Bisphernol A and dibutylphthalate |
| Paul Weers (CNSM) | Apolipoprotein A-I binding to bacterial membrae components |
| Sepideh Faraji (COE) | Health and Environmental Concerns of Nanotechnology Application in Treatment of Grey Water |
Clorinda Donato (CLA) Claire Martin (CLA) |
Beyond the Monolingual Paradigm: Teaching Humanities Content in the Romance Languages through Multingualism |
| Judy Brusslan (CNSM) | Histone Modifications Associated with Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis |
| Jin-Lee Kim (COE) | A National Model to Assess Light Pollution using Georgraphic Information System |
| Gregory Holk (CNSM) | The Fluid Evolution of the Steelhead Lake Shear Zone: A Ductile-to-Brittle Strike-Slip Fault in the Central Sierra Nevada, California |
| Deborah Fraser (CNSM) | Complement and Programmed Macrophage Responses in Atherosclerosis |
| Xiaolong Wu (COE) | A Novel Energy-Efficient Memory Management for the Exascale Computing |
| Bei Lu (COE) | Reduced-order Linear Parameter-Varying Controller Design with Application to Launch Vehicle Flight Control |
| Christine Whitcraft (CNSM) | Wetland ecosystem community change in the face of sea level rise |
| Heather Rae-Espinoza (CHHS) | Answering the Call of Duty: NIH FOAs on Children in Military Families |
| Fei Wang (COE) | Investigation of Marginal Rigidity in Chalcogenide Glasses and Its Device Applications |
| Michael Peterson (CNSM) | Numerically Seraching for Non-Abelian Anyons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
| Paul Laris (CLA) |
Understanding Fire Regime Change in a Frequently Burned African Savanna |
| Dennis Fisher (CLA) | PDE5 Inhibitors, Methamphetamine & Event-Level Data to Understand Risky Sex" |
| Young-Seok Shon (CNSM) | Developing Unsupported Thiolate-Capped Metal Nanoparticles as Nanocatalysts with High Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereo-selectivity |
| Eric Haas-Stapleton (CNSM) | Antiviral defense mechanisms in Lepidoptera mediated by gloverin |
This year we received 18 high quality proposals in response to this announcement. Four awards, requesting a total of $44,348, were selected for funding based upon their level of interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, student involvement, and overall merit.
Academic Affairs and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs are pleased to announce the recipients of this highly competitive and prestigious award:
| Principal Investigators | Title of Proposal |
|---|---|
| Matthew Becker (CNSM) Stephen Mezyk (CNSM) | Direct Push Fiber Optic Distribute Temperature Sensing for Monitoring Fine Scale Flow and in Situ Chemical Oxidation Treatment in Shallow Impacted Groundwater |
Panadda Marayong (COE) Thomas Strybel (CLA) |
Improving the Efficacy of Force-Feedback Display in Integrated Multimodal CSD Piloting Tasks |
Sepideh Faraji (COE) Antonella Sciortino (COE) |
The Fate and Transport of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Soil and Groundwater and Impact on Human Health and Vegetation |
Sergio Mendez (COE) Yu-Fu Ko (COE) |
Sustainable Green Building Materials: Fabrication of Biofoam/Hemp Boards from Waste Sources |
We would like to thank all of the applicants for their submissions to these two award competitions. The quality, creativity and diversity of these award applications were impressive. However, due to the limited budget availability, we are unable to sponsor all projects with innovative ideas.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the review panel for its reviews and recommendations for these two awards. The review panel included the following College representatives:
