For the spring 2004 competition, the Campus Research Board and the OVCR
Art, Architecture, and Humanities subcommittee received 64 applications
and funded 22 projects. Awards will be used to generate pilot data for
proposals to external sponsors such as the National Science Foundation
and National Institutes of Health. Congratulations to the researchers
on these projects!
Principal Investigator
|
Department
|
Project Title
|
Basic Life Sciences |
Graziano Pinna,
Research Asst. Professor
|
Psychiatry |
Neurosteroids and Gender-related Aggression in Isolated
Mice |
Zuzana Strakova,
Research Asst. Professor
|
Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Maternal and Embryo Cross-talk During Initiation of
Decidualization |
Toshihiko Hanada,
Research Asst. Professor
|
Pharmacology |
Intracellular Trafficking of ErbB Receptors |
Weiqing Zhang,
Research Asst. Professor
|
Dentistry, CMBOD |
Determination of Molecular Mechanism Underlying Antithrombin
Antiangiogenic Activity |
| Clinical Sciences |
Gwendolen Reilly,
Research Asst. Professor
|
Orthodontics |
Cell Signaling in Mechanical Stimulation of Cartilage
Tissue Engineering |
John Hetling,
Assistant Professor |
Bioengineering |
Effects of Light Exposre and plaquenil on ERG Response
in a Rate Model of Retinal Degeneration |
Glenn Hedman,
Clinical Assistant Professor
|
Disability and Human Development |
The Development of a Manual Wheelchair Evaluation
Tool Using a Force and Moment Sensing Handrim |
| Social Sciences |
Carrie Klima,
Clinical Assistant Professor
|
Maternal Child Nursing |
Refinement of Maternal Outcome Measures to Evaluate
a Group Model of Prenatal Care |
Janet L. Smith,
Assistant Professor
|
Urban Planning and Policy |
A Pilot Study to Understand the Relationship Between
Housing, Community Access, and Integration to Health Outcomes Among
Persons with Disabilities |
Janet Beissinger,
Research Asst. Professor
|
Institute for Math and Science Education |
Cryptography for Middle Grades: Web and Computer Software |
| Natural Sciences & Engineering |
Torbjorn Tornqvist,
Assistant Professor
|
Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Sediment Flux Form Continents to Deep Oceans During
Sea-level Llowstand: Developing New Tools for a Global Analysis |
Yoshitaka Ishii,
Assistant Professor |
Chemistry |
Sensitivity-enhanced 13C Solid-State NMR of Paramagnetic Complex |
Siddhartha Ghosh,
Assistant Professor
|
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Development of Multiferroic Perovskites by Molecular
Beam Epitaxy |
Yi Zhao,
Assistant Professor
|
MSCS |
The Regularity Lemma and Tree Embedding |
| Arts, Architecture, And Humanities |
Thomas Bestful,
Professor
|
English |
Reexamining the Chaucer Life Records |
Stephen Engelmann,
Associate Professor |
Political Science |
Selected Writings of Jeremy Bentham |
Sharon Harr,
Associate Professor, and
Elva Rubio,
Assistant Professor
|
Architecture |
Halsted: History of a Street and Culture |
Laura Hostetier,
Associate Professor
|
History |
Sino-European Connections in Cartography and Cultural Mapping |
Dough Ischar,
Associate Professor
|
Art and Design |
Audio/Visual Installation |
Richard John,
Associate Professor
|
History |
Research on the Early History of American Telecommunications |
Luigi Salerni,
Professor
|
Performing Arts |
Specialty Equipment Funding for Premiere Performance
of Commissioned Translation of Asi Que Pasen Cinco Anos by Frederico
Garcia Lorca |
Robert Williams,
Professor |
German
|
Final Editing and Revision of Translation of Hegel’s
Lectures on Philosophy of the Spirit |