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2009 Awardees for Research Enhancement Grant

PIDepartmentProject Title Amount Funded
Dr. Mark StaffordCriminal JusticeDistinguishing Child Sexual Abusers From Non-Abusers: A comparison of 100 Known Abusers and 100 College Students $6,246.79
Dr. BJ FriedmanFamily & Consumer ScienceA Comprehensive Weight Management Program for Texas State Military Science ROTC Cadets $6,246.79
Dr. Michelle LaneFamily & Consumer ScienceRole of Human Gut Microflora in Colon Cancer Metastasis $16,000.00
Dr. Jean-Marc GandonouAgricultureEvaluating The Economic Feasibility of Growing Novelty Pepper Varieties For Use in Speciality Markets in Central Texas $16,000.00
Dr. Li FengFinance & EconomicsDo Provisions in Collective Bargaining Agreements Perpetuate a Teacher Quaility Gap among Florida's Schools? $7,417.68
Dr. Ravi JillapalliMarketingImpact of Self-Determination Factors and Relationship Drivers on Distal Salesperson-Supervisor Relationships $16,000.00
Dr. Laurie KloseEdu Admin & Psych ServicesExploratory Analysis of Factors Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders $16,000.00
Dr. Lyn LitchkeHealth PE & RecreationConcurrent Respiratory Resistance Training and Changes in Respiratory Muscle Strength, Sleep Quality and Quality of Life in Persons wih Spinal Cord Injury $15,481.67
Dr. Benjamin KramerEdu Admin & Psych ServicesUsing iPod Technology to Bridge ELLs' Transition to Mainstream English Classrooms $7,999.00
Dr. David WileyHealth PE & RecreationEvaluating the Adoption and Use of an $5,405.30
Dr. John WalkerHealth, PE & RecreationThe effect of single-leg strength training on lower body $16,000.00
Dr. Jason ReedArt & DesignBorderland: Photographs of the Texas/Mexico Border $8,000.00
Dr. Keith WinkingSchool of MusicReverend George Wiskirchen: Jazz Education Pioneer $7,800.00
Dr. Cassandra LeClair-UnderbergCommunication StudiesCouples communicating about infertility Exploring the impact of fertility treatments $8,000.00
Dr. Jinbong Choi School of JournalismFraming National Images of Asian Countries Analysis of News Coverage of South Korea, Japan, and China in American Newspapers $984.75
Dr. Maureen KeeleyCommunication StudiesFinal Conservations II: The Children's Voice $8,000.00
Dr. Christine NortonSchool of Social WorkThe Wilderness Experience: A Bridge Between Identity Complexity and Youth Purpose $7,494.62
Dr. Valarie FlemingCommunication DisordersUnderlying Mechanisms of Change in Spoken Discourse: Close Linguistic Inspection $7,999.93
Dr. Anne DeepakSchool of Social WorkSocial Capital and Civic Engagement of Marginalized Youth of Myspace $16,000.00
Dr. Angela AusbrooksSchool of Social WorkMaintaining Sibling Connections $4,999.04
Dr. Adam JacksCommunication DisordersAcoustic markers of speech errors in neurological disorders $8,000.00
Dr. Joaquin Rivaya-MartinezHistoryCaptivity, Slavery, and Adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1706-1875: Archival Research in Oklahoma and Mexico $7,891.66
Dr. Elizabeth BishopHistoryRule of Law over Labor in Iraq and Syria: Can New Archival Sources Yield a Different Kind of History? $7,963.00
Dr. Laura StroupGeographyChange, Complexity, and Central Texas Water Utilities: Strategies for Resilient Water Management in the 21st Century $10,100.22
Dr. Elvin HoltEnglishPreserving the History of Black Theatre in Texas $6,247.55
Dr. Martha SpradleyAnthropologyIncreasing positive identification rates for Hispanic individuals $8,000.00
Dr. Elizabeth ErhartAnthropologyHabitat disturbance and population density of the primate species of southeastern Mexico $8,000.00
Dr. Michelle HamiltonAnthropologyEstimating the Postmortem Interval via Observations of Bone Weathering $8,000.00
Dr. Ju GaoComputer ScienceCager: Cross-page Web Search $8,000.00
Dr. Soon-Jae LeeTechnologyEvaluation of Eco-Friendly Polymer Modified Asphalts in Rheology $8,000.00
Dr. Yijuan LuComputer ScienceA Large Scale Pattern Recognition Application-Biometrics $8,000.00
Dr. Caitlin GaborBiologyHormonal basis to mate choice behavior in a unisexual-bisexual mating system $8,000.00
Dr. Jian ShenMathematicsThe Chudnovsky-Seymour-Sullivan Conjecture $8,000.00
Dr. Jiong HuTechnologySelf-compacting concrete using recycled-contrete aggregate $8,000.00
Dr. Jennifer IrvinChemistry & BiochemistryIon Mobility in Electroactive Polymers Utilizing Ionic Liquid Dopants $8,000.00
Dr. Mark McKenneyComputer ScienceMapstore: An Efficient and Scalable Spatial Data Indexing Mechanism $8,000.00
Dr. Benjamin SchwartzBiologyNew Records of Karstic Landscape Evolution, Fossil Plant Assemblages, and Paleo-Hydrology as Preserved in an Ancient Appalachian Sinkhole-Lakedbed $1,014.33
Dr. Apan QasemComputer ScienceInvestigating the Challenges of Mapping or Algorithms on Multi-core Systems $10,707.00
Dr. Nikoleta TheodoropoulouPhysicsThe role of the Oersted field in vortex dynamics in magnetic nanopillars $8,000.00
Dr. Byounghak LeePhysicsDetermination of Band Offsets in Oxide/Semiconductor Heterostructures $16,000.00
Dr. Nihal DharmasiriBiologyCharacterization of two new picoram resistant mutants from plants $8,000.00