Research Gazette - January 2015
Dr. James Curry, political science; $35,000; Texas Legislative Internship Program; Beaumont Foundation
Dr. Robert Doyle, biology; $46,660 (additional funding); Comal River Restoration; BIO-WEST, INC.
Dr. Robert Doyle, biology; $46,521 (additional funding); Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Plan; BIO-WEST, INC.
Dr. Peter Grandjean, health, human performance and recreation; $7,848; St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School and Baylor HHPR Graduate Assistantship; St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School
Dr. Jane Harvill, statistical science; $45,984 (additional funding); Using Vector Nonlinear Time Series to Develop and Advance Methods for Solar Resource Characterization; Sandia National Libraries
Dr. Ken Hatakeyama, physics; $48,421; CMS LPC Junior Fellowship for Dr. Hongxuan Liu; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dr. Jonathan Hu, electrical engineering; $4,863 (modification); Phase II: Fiber Delivery Systems for Ultra short Pulse Lasers; IRflex Corporation
Dr. David Jack, mechanical engineering; $99,919 (modification); 3D Hi Resolution NDT for Composites-Phase 6; L3 Communications
Dr. Susan Johnsen, educational psychology; $36,934; Project Promise 40th Year; Project Promise
Dr. Young-Il Kim and Dr. Sung Joon Jang, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion; $100,000; Evaluation of the RIDGE Project; Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN)
Dr. Kathy Krey, social work; $66,317; Share our Strength: No Kid Hungry Campaign; The Texas Hunger Initiative
Dr. Beth Lanning, health, human performance and recreation; $50,000; Examination of the effects of equine-assisted activities on PTSD symptoms, quality of life and participation in combat veterans; Horses and Humans Research Foundation
Dr. Karon LeCompte, curriculum and instruction; $45,000; iEngage Summer Civics Institute; The Hatton W. Sumners Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Conni Liaw, mathematics; $16,078; Completeness Problems, Carleson Measures, and Spaces of Analytic Functions; National Science Foundation
Dr. Kevin Pinney, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; $50,575; Huckabee-Classroom of the Future Evaluation; Huckabee Inc.
Dr. Kevin Pinney, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; $100,000; Small-Molecule Anticancer Agents: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation; OXiGENE INC.
Dr. Lea Steele, institute for biomedical studies; $57,794 (modification); Brain-Immune Interactions as the Basis for Gulf War Illness; Department of Defense
Dr. Michael Trakselis, chemistry; $123,394; Mechanism of DNA Polymerase Switching During Replication to Bypass Lesions; American Cancer Society
Dr. Dennis Tucker, Truett Seminary; $500,000; Improving Homiletical Performance through Peer Coaching and Peer Learning Models Program; Lilly Endowment Inc.
Dr. Lesley Wright, mechanical engineering; $50,000 (additional funding); Film Cooling Performance of Shaped Film Cooling Holes on a Flat Plate; Honeywell Inc.
Dr. Joe Yelderman, geology; $22,726 (additional funding); Internship-STGCD; Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District