Grants & Faculty Scholarship
Current Faculty Grants
Faculty Research Grants During 2012-13
Kristen Anderson, psychology
National Institutes of Health
Facilitating
Adolescent Self-Change for Alcohol Problems
Steve Black, biology
National Institutes of Health
Developing a New Model of Spider Gastrulation
Kate Bredeson, theater
American Philosophical Society (Franklin Research Grant)
Occupying the
Stage: Performances of May '68 in the Context of 1950s–1970s France
Kimberly Clausing,
economics
Smith Richardson
Foundation
Lessons for International Corporate Tax Reform from OECD and
U.S. State Experience
Paul Currie, psychology
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Anxiogenic Effects of Ghrelin: Interaction with Urocortin,
Cannabinoid, and Serontonergic Mechanisms
David Dalton, biology
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Engineering of Enhanced Antioxidants in Poplar
Margret Geselbracht, chemistry
NSF-TUES
IONiC: Transforming Education Through Collaborative
Development of Materials at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, religion
Guggenheim Fellowship
The Mosque in Islamic History
Tim Hackenberg, psychology
National Institutes of Health
Behavioral Economics in a Laboratory-Based Token Economy
Christopher Koski, political science
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research:
Critical Infrastructure Policy
Hannah Kosstrin, dance
National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities
Start-Up
Enhancing Dance Literacy: Dance Notation Through Touch
Technology
Laura Leibman
CIES Fulbright Scholar Award
Senior Professorship in American Culture, University of
Utrecht
Jay Mellies, biology
National Institutes of Health
Effect of Zinc in
Attaching-and-Effacing E. coli Infection
David Perkinson, mathematics
NSF UTMOST
Collaborative
Research: UTMOST: Undergraduate Teaching in Mathematics with Open Software and
Textbooks
James Pommersheim, mathematics
Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
James Pommersheim, mathematics
AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
Applications of Quantum Computing in Aerospace, Science, and
Engineering
Darius Rejali, political science
United States Institute of Peace
Torture in War: Preventing Torture in Military Conflicts
Susan Renn, biology
MJ Murdock Charitable Trust
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Feeding Phenotypes in a New
Cichlid Model for Metabolic Research
Susan Renn, biology
National Institutes of Health
Mechanisms for Environmental and Genetic Reversal of Gender
Biased Behavior
Susan Renn, biology
National Science Foundation
RUI: Genomic architecture of adaptive radiation: a role for
gene duplication among African cichlid radiations
Susan Renn, biology
National Science Foundation
RUI: Molecular Modules of Aggression; Maternal Behavior in
the African Cichlid Astatotilapia Burtoni
Sarah Schaack, biology
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Upon Which Selection Can Act: Quantifying How
Mutation and Environment Generate Genotypic & Phenotypic Variation in an
Emerging Ecological & Evolutionary Genomic Model
Sarah Schaack, biology
MJ Murdock Charitable Trust
Phenotypic and Genotypic Effects of Spontaneous Mutation in Daphnia spp
Kjersten Whittington, sociology
National Science Foundation
RUI: The Influence of Network Structure on Sex Disparities
in Scientific Collaboration: Commercial Innovation in the Life Sciences