For the Spring 2005 competition, the Campus Research Board and the OVCR
Art, Architecture, and Humanities subcommittee received 80 applications
and funded 27 projects. Congratulations to the researchers on these projects!
Principal Investigator
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Department
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Project Title
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Basic Life Sciences |
Dejan Nikolic
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Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
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Natural Modulators of DNA Repair
|
Toru Nakamura
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Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
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Roles of Histone modifications in DNA damage recognition
and DNA repair |
Stephan Otte
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Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
|
Cargo Spectrum of ER-to-Golgi Transport Receptors |
Irina V. Balyasnikova
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Anesthesiology
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Small antibody fragments for pulmonary vascular targeting
in mice models of vascular diseases |
Jane Huiru Wang
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Medicine/Hepatology
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Phenotypes and evolution of T-cell responses in early
HCV infection |
| Clinical Sciences |
David Vaillancourt
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Movement Sciences |
Effects of Aging on Sensory-Motor Integration and
Force Steadiness |
| Charlotte Joslin |
Ophthalmology |
Acanthamoeba Keratitis |
| Olga Bazhenova |
Psychiatry |
Measuring interactive behaviors in 3-5 year old children
with problems in social interaction: Social interaction coding scales |
| Kuei-Fang (Kelly)Hsieh
|
Disability and Human Development |
Validation of balance measurements for adults with
intellectual disabilities |
| Social Sciences |
| Lydia Falconnier |
Social Work |
Economic Stress and Dysfunctional Attitudes in the
Treatment of Depression |
| Julie Goldberg
|
Medical Education |
The role of experience in dynamic medical decision
making: Testing and extending Decision-Field Theory |
Xiaoqing Hu
|
Finance |
Shutting out new investors in mutual funds |
| Natural Sciences & Engineering |
| Carmen Lilley |
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering |
Mechanical testing of MEMS for reliability modeling |
| Danilo Erricolo |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Exploratory research in ultra wideband propagation
prediction models |
| Miquel Gonzalez-Meier |
Biological Sciences |
The effect of varying concentrations of CO2 and O3
on carbon fixation, respiration, and allocation in an experimental
agricultural crop system |
| Milos Zefran |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Medical applications of haptics |
| Wei-Dong Ruan
|
Math, Statistics, and Computer Science |
Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein Manifods |
| Arts,
Architecture, and Humanities |
| Ellen T. Baird |
Art History |
The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico - exhibition
at Newberry Library, Chicago |
| Ellen Dineen Grimes |
School of Architecture |
Building Green: Sustainable Design and Construction
in Chicago |
Silvia Malagrino
|
School of Art and Design - Photo /Film/ Video |
Travel to Florence with new digital video production
for its Exhibition at the Biennale of Contemporary Art |
Stephanie Munson
|
Industrial Design |
Designing with Interactive Technologies: Rapid Prototyping
and Expanded Manufacturing Possibilities |
Pietro Bortone
|
Classics and Mediterranean studies |
Language and Society on the Black Sea: The Case of
the Muslim-Greek Speakers of Turkey |
Jennifer Brier
|
GWS and History |
Infectious Ideas: Aids and US Politics, 1980-2000 |
Sara Hall |
Germanic studies |
Cinema and the Police: Producing Law and Order in
Weimar Germany |
| Gayatri Reddy |
GWS and Anthropology
|
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra identity in
South India |
| Daniel Sutherland |
Philosophy |
The Foundation of Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics |