Research Gazette

March 2017 Grant Awards

TOTAL AWARDS: $1,028,232
Dr. Candi Cann; Baylor Interdisciplinary
Core; $24,816; Saving and Selling Black Bodies:
Examining the Role of Christian Identity in the
African-American Funeral Home conducted by
Candi K. Cann; The Louisville Institute
Dr. Liang Dong; electrical engineering;
$90,000 (additional funding); On Board Wireless
High-Definition Content Delivery System; L-3
Communications Integrated Systems
Dr. Kenichi Hatakeyama; physics; $270,000
(additional funding); Elementary Particle Physics at
Baylor; US Department of Energy
Dr. David Jack; mechanical engineering;
$80,624 (additional funding); 3D Hi Resolution
NDT for Composites, Calendar Year 2017; L-3
Communications Integrated Systems
Dr. David Jack; mechanical engineering;
$39,995; Investigation and
Analysis of Large-Volume
Manufacturing Processes
for Fiber Reinforced
Composite Structural
Members Fabricated from
Recycled Polymers –
Phase 1; Axion Structural Innovations
Dr. Scott James; geosciences; $10,000;
Sandia MHK Model Development; Sandia
National Laboratories
Dr. Byron Johnson; Baylor Institute for Studies
of Religion; $217,400; Assessing Religion’s Impact
on the Global Common Good; John Templeton
Foundation
Dr. Seung Kim; electrical engineering;
$64,292 (additional funding); CAREER: A Low Cost,
Label-Free, Multiplexable optical cavity biosensor
with high sensitivity, high selectivity, and a
large dynamic range using chained differential
detection; National Science Foundation
Dr. Renee Umstattd Meyer; HHPR; $72,022;
Creating Safe Places to Play in the Summer:
Implementing Play Streets in Diverse Rural
Communities; Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Keith Schubert; electrical engineering;
$50,000 (additional funding); Analysis and
Preprocessing of Single Proton/Ion Tracks for
Clinical Imaging; UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Todd Still; Truett Seminary; $10,000;
Kern Planning Grant - Five-Year Pastoral Degree
Program; The Kern Family Foundation
Dr. Darryn Willoughby; HHPR; $71,450;
Effects of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone (PQQ)
Supplementation on Mitochondrial Function and
Aerobic Exercise Performance in Untrained Men;
Nascent Health Sciences
Dr. Joe Yelderman; geosciences; $27,633;
Phase 3: Assessing Groundwater Recharge
in Salado Creek Basin with WSR 88-D and
Datalogger Data; Clearwater Underground Water
Conservation District

April 2017 Grant Awards

TOTAL AWARDS: $327,631
Dr. Erich Baker; computer science; $46,474;
Gene Weaver, Web-Based System for Integrative
Functional Genomics; The Jackson Laboratory
Dr. Peter Campbell; political science;
$4,654 (additional funding); Beyond the “Cult
of the Irrelevant” Next Steps for Reconnecting
Academic Political Science and National Security
Policymaking; University of Notre Dame
Dr. Mack Grady; electrical engineering;
$130,106 (additional funding); Where is the
Greatest Threat of MHD-E3 - On the High Voltage
Power Grid, or on the Medium Voltage Power
Distribution System and Customers?; Office of
Naval Research
Dr. David Jack; mechanical engineering;
$80,624 (additional funding); 3D Hi Resolution
NDT for Composites, Calendar Year 2017; L-3
Communications Integrated Systems
Dr. Sascha Usenko; environmental science;
$63,003; Additional Mobile Laboratory Monitoring
in San Antonio during the Air Quality Research
Program Field Study in 2017; University of Houston
Dr. Darryn Willoughby; HHPR; $2,770
(additional funding); Effects of Pyrroloquinoline
Quinone (PQQ) Supplementation on
Mitochondrial Function and Aerobic Exercise
Performance in Untrained Men; Nascent
Health Services

May 2017 Grant Awards

TOTAL AWARDS: $1,264,985
Dr. Bryan Brooks; environmental science;
$32,000; TRWD Stormwater; Tarrant Regional
Water District
Dr. Timothy Burns; political science; $28,300;
Montesquieuean Commerce and the Atrophy of
Religion in Europe and America; Charles Koch
Foundation
Dr. Tonya Davis; educational psychology;
$47,520 (additional funding); Baylor University
Applied Behavior Analysis Graduate Program
Partnership; Focus Behavioral Associates
Dr. Tonya Davis; educational psychology;
$38,016 (additional funding); Graduate Assistant
Behavior Therapy Providers at The Heart of Texas
Region Mental Health MHMR; Heart of Texas
Region Mental Health Mental Retardation Center
Dr. Jay Dittmann; physics; $182,453
(additional funding); US CMS-Baylor University
Activities Related to the LHC CMS Detector
Upgrade HCAL Subsystem 2015; Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory
Dr. Eva Doyle; HHPR; $30,521 (additional
funding); Smart Babies Initiative Project;
Waco Foundation
Dr. Robert Doyle; biology; $15,500 (additional
funding); Comal River - Applied Research Studies
and Ecological Modeling; BIO-WEST, Inc.
Dr. Steven Forman; geosciences; $85,777;
Land Surface Processes and Dust Sources For
Cultivated and Uncultivated Surfaces During
the 1930s Dust Bowl Drought, USA; National
Geographic Society
Dr. Truell Hyde; Office of the Vice Provost
for Research; $310,000; PK-4; Self-ordering
of Interacting Complex Plasma Particles in
Microgravity; National Science Foundation
Dr. Joe Kuehl; mechanical engineering;
$1,062 (additional funding); Open-Coastal Ocean
Connectivity through Bottom Boundary Layer
Observations and LES Simulation; University of
Texas at Dallas
Dr. Caleb Martin; chemistry; $240,000
(additional funding); New Powerful Lewis Acids
as Metal-Free Catalysts - Heavy Element-Boron
Systems: From Unusual Bonding to New Synthetic
Tools; The Welch Foundation
Dr. Carey Newman; academic publications;
$10,000; Wheeler, Disruption and Hope; Henry
Luce Foundation
Dr. Thad Scott; biology; $30,000;
Experimental demonstration of pond nutrient and
sediment retention for watershed management:
Phase 1- Background concentrations and loads;
Beaver Watershed Alliance
Dr. Bryan Shaw; chemistry; $195,000
(additional funding); Asparagine Deamidation in
Motor Neurons: A Molecular Clock or A Ticking
Time Bomb?; The Dark Side of “Wild Type” Cu, Zn
SOD1 in Motor Neuron Disease: Metal Snatcher or
Prion Template?; The Welch Foundation
Dr. Zhenrong Zhang; physics; $18,836
(additional funding); OP: Surface- and
Coherence-Enhanced Raman Sensing on
MoS2 Heterogeneous Catalysts; National
Science Foundation