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
