Research Gazette - June 2014
Drs. Charles Baylis and Robert Marks, electrical and computer engineering; $1,000 (additional funding); Evaluation of Airport Wireless Interference Assessment and Comparison with University Campus Wireless Coexistence Challenges; TEM Consulting LP
Dr. John Dunbar, geology; $72,965 (second-year funding); Timelapse Electrical Resistivity Investigation of Hydrate System Dynamics Beneath Seafloor Mounds, Northern Gulf of Mexico; University of Mississippi, Department of Energy
Drs. Patrick Farmer, Bryan Shaw, Caleb Martin and Kevin Pinney; chemistry and biochemistry; $241,582; MRI: Acquisition of Bruker EMXplus Series EPR Spectrometer; National Science Foundation
Dr. Peter Grandjean, HHPR; $9,417; St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School Graduate Assistantship (Master’s Level); St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School; $5,082; St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School Graduate Assistantship (Master’s Level); St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School
Dr. William Hockaday, geology; $10,000; Controls on Organic Matter Burial and Preservation in the Eagle Ford Basin; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
Dr. David Jack, mechanical engineering; $37,889 (additional funding); 3D Hi-Resolution NDT for Composites Phase 4; L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P.
Dr. Johnny Jones and Jeremy Everett, School of Social Work; $50,000; Increasing Childhood Food Security through Texas Hunger Initiative Food Planning Associations; Pepsico Foundation
Dr. Ryan King, biology, Dr. Bryan Brooks, environmental science, and Dr. Kevin Chambliss, chemistry and biochemistry; $150,000 (additional funding); Effects of Pulsed Atrazine Exposures on Aquatic Plant Communities Using Field-Based Simulated Streams; Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
Dr. Daniel Peppe, geology; $56,226 (additional funding); Collaborative Research: Testing the link between climate and mammalian faunal dynamics in the early Paleocene record of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico; National Science Foundation
Dr. Kevin Pinney, chemistry and biochemistry; $225,000; Enhanced Synthetic Chemistry to Support Cathepsin L Drug Discovery and Tumor-Selected Delivery Strategies for Highly Potent Anticancer Agents; Oxigene Inc.
Dr. David Pooler, School of Social Work; $20,000; Congregational and Denominational Responses to Clergy Sexual Misconduct: Making Safe Places; The Hope of Survivors
Dr. Keith Schubert, engineering; $92,697 (additional funding); Translating Proton CT from the Physics Laboratory to Clinical Application; Loma Linda University, National Institutes for Health
Dr. Stephen Trumble, biology; Dr. Sascha Usenko, environmental science; $101,408; Determining Baseline Stress-Related Hormone Values in Large Cetaceans; Office of Naval Research
Dr. Lesley Wright, mechanical engineering; $2,500; Channel Design for Investigation of Advanced Internal Cooling Technology; L-Garde, Inc.