Fall 2012 ‘Faculty Large Grant’ Awards

The Research Foundation’s fall 2012 Faculty Large Grants were announced recently. The goal of these awards is to help faculty in all disciplines to better position themselves to apply for and receive extramural funding for their research and scholarly activities. For the fall 2012 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council received 51 proposals, […]

The Research Foundation’s fall 2012 Faculty Large Grants were announced recently. The goal of these awards is to help faculty in all disciplines to better position themselves to apply for and receive extramural funding for their research and scholarly activities.

For the fall 2012 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council received 51 proposals, and made 24 awards totaling more than $332,000. The proposals were peer reviewed by members of a panel.

The award recipients are:

Brian Aneskievich, Pharmaceutical Sciences, A Candidate Novel Regulator of HSP Expression, $17,000

Alexis Boylan, Art & Art History, Man on the Street: Masculinity, Urbanism, and Ashcan Art, $4,950

Daniel Burkey, Chemical, Materials, & Biomolecular Engineering, Development of a Pilot-Scale Osmotic Heat Engine for Education, Research, and Industrial Collaboration, $19,310

Laura Crow, Dramatic Arts, Animating Images for the Virtual Costume Museum, $5,092

Omega Gerrard, Psychology, Factors Affecting HPV Vaccination Uptake among Native American Women in Southern New England, $13,498

George Gibson, Physics, Optimization of Third Harmonic Generation in the Semi-Infinite Limit, $8,000

Karl Guillard, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture, Carbon Cycling in Urban/Suburban Grasslands Pilot Study, $9,500

Mark Healey, History, Waterscapes of Power in the Drylands of Argentina, 1880-1980, $6,700

Michael Hren, Integrative Geoscience, Climate Change and Carbon Cycle Dynamics During the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum: An Analogue for Future Change? $14,000

Mohammad Maifi Khan, Computer Science & Engineering, Leveraging Cloud for Real-Time Integration and Analysis of Sensor Data for Clinical and Research Applications, $19,310

Allison Lombardi, Educational Psychology, Integrating College and Career Readiness Evaluation into Transition Services for Students with Disabilities, $16,293

Veronica Makowsky, English, Archival Research for a Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, $1,250

Emily Myers, Communication Sciences, Neural Systems Underlying Adaptation to a Novel Speech Pattern: Evidence from Aphasia and ERP, $11,779

Nejat Olgac, Mechanical Engineering, Prediction of Thermo-Acoustic Instability (TAI) in Combustion in a Paradigm Shift, $19,310

Natalie Olinghouse, Educational Psychology, Examining the Validity of Single-Genre, Holistically-Scored Writing Benchmark Assessments, $22,488

Nishith Prakash, Economics, Affirmative Action, Public Service Delivery, and Well-Being in India: A Regression Discontinuity Approach, $18,000

Heather L. Read, Psychology, Early Behavioral Training Effects on Learned Discrimination of Temporally Modulated Sounds Including Speech, $20,000

Sarah Reed, Animal Science, Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells During Cancer-Induced Cachexia, $19,000

Zhuyin Ren, Mechanical Engineering, Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed Chemistry, $19,310

Tracy Rittenhouse, Natural Resources & the Environment, Effects of Temperature Variability on Larval Wood Frog Growth and Development, $12,000

Christine Simon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Bridging Funds for Phylogeny and Biogeography of World Cicadas and Seed Data for New Bacterial Endosymbiont Co-Phylogeny NSF Submission, $17,448

Xiaojing Wang, Statistics, A Bayesian Analysis of Dynamic Item Response Models with Application to Adaptive Measurement Testing, $14,000

Jing Zhao, Chemistry, Plasmonic Waveguiding and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in Nanoparticle Assemblies, $14,000

Yu Zheng, Political Science, Myths of Chinese State Capitalism: How State-Owned Enterprises Affect Political Dynamics? $9,418