The Research Foundation’s spring 2013 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 spring 2013 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council received 62 proposals, and made 30 awards totaling more than $481,000. The proposals were peer reviewed by members of a panel.
The award recipients are:
Alfredo Angeles-Boza, Chemistry, Mechanistic Studies of C02 Binding and Activation, $25,000
Michael Bradford, Dramatic Arts, The Lorca Triptych: Love, Death, and Duende, $9,246
Timothy Byrne, Marine Sciences, Imaging a Breakup Lithospheric Plate during an Arc-Continent Collision in Taiwan (Sabbatical), $3,781
James Chrobak, Psychology, Consequences of Chronic Ketamine (NMDA Antagonist) On Memory, Proactive Interference, and Neuroanatomy at Different Developmental Ages in the Rat, $14,000
James Cole, Molecular & Cell Biology, Mechanism for Activation of Rig-I by Viral RNA, $14,000
Christopher Cornelius, Chemical, Materials, & Biomolecular Engineering, Designing Nanomaterials, $24,999
Kimberly Cuevas, Psychology, A Systematic Analysis of the Infant EEG Mu Rhythm, $25,000
Martha Cutter, English, The Illustrated Slave: Graphic Narrative and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1820-1852, $3,030
Gerald Dunne, Physics, Quantum Control in Intense Laser-Particle Physics (Sabbatical), $10,805
Monty Escabi, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Optimizing Electrical Stimulation Algorithms for Auditory Implants, $28,217
Roslyn Holly Fitch, Psychology, Language Deficits in Autism and Assessment of the Cntnap2 Mouse, $14,000
Amy Gorin, Psychology, Development and Testing of a Behaviorally Based, Ecologically Grounded Weight Management Intervention for Active Duty Submariners, $24,918
Idethia Harvey, Human Development & Family Studies, Social Relationships and Diabetes Self-Management Practices among Caribbean Women Residing in Connecticut, $19,774
John Ivan, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Statistical Modeling of Highway Crash Severity: A Multi-State Hierarchical Bayesian Multiple-Response Framework, $27,182
Prakash Kashwan, Political Science, The Socio-Economic, Ecological, and Political Drivers of Forest Land Rights in India, $15,000
David Knecht, Molecular & Cell Biology, Why do Silica Particles Kill Cells: The Role of Phagosomal Maturation and ROS Generation, $14,000
Hassanaly Ladha, Literature, Culture, & Languages, The Idea of Arica: Hegel, Architecture, and the Political Subject, $5,410
Yizao Liu, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Evaluating Consumer Demand, Consumer Learning, and the Health Effects of Bottled Water Consumption in the U.S., $24,009
Robert Mason, Marine Sciences, Examination of the Factors Controlling the Net Input of Mercury to the Ocean (Sabbatical), $4,294
Eric May, Molecular & Cell Biology, Computational Study into the Structure and Dynamics of the Lassa Virus Ribonucleoprotein Complex, $20,000
Barbara Mellone, Molecular & Cell Biology, A Novel Approach to Study Neocentromere Formation and Inactivation, $20,000
Kenneth Noll, Molecular & Cell Biology, Thermus thermophilus: Biofuel Generation through Design and Analysis of a Genetically Tractable Extreme Thermophile, $5,500
Margaret Rubega, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Thermal Imaging for Ecological Research, $14,000
Mary Rumpho-Kennedy, Molecular & Cell Biology, Shifting Our Approach Towards Identify Mechanisms of Establishment and Maintenance of a Unique Host-Symbiont Association, $20,000
Elizabeth Schifano, Statistics, Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional Genomic Data, $19,470
Juliette Shellman, Nursing, A Peer Reminiscence Intervention to Decrease Depression in Minority Elders, $17,238
Luis Van Isschot, History, Understanding the Impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Latin America’s Conflict Zones, $7,764
John Volin, Natural Resources & the Environment, Phenological Responses to Climate Warming, and their Implications for Exotic Invasive Plants in Temperate Forest Understories: A Pilot Study, $20,000
Sarah Willen, Anthropology, Renegade Moralities: “Illegality,” Exclusion, and Existential Struggle among African and Filipino Migrants in Israel, $3,610
Pinar Zorlutuna, Mechanical Engineering, Cell-Based Logical Gates Using Microfabricated Substrates, $26,837
