The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2014-2015 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) proposals – and congratulate the following doctoral students on their successful DRA proposals:
Satya Avula
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
Mass Spectrometry in Early Screening and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
Natale Badillo
Department of Urban Education
College of Education
$4,942.00
Identification of Gifted and Talented Learners in an Urban Elementary School: Comparing the Value of Dynamic and Static Intellectual Assessment
Aslihan Cicek
Department of Finance
Monte Ahuja College of Business
$5,000.00
Corporate Goverance and Seasoned Equity Offerings
Nicole Dawson
Department of Psychology
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
Using Moderate-Intensity Functional Exercise to Maximize Success with Individuals with Dementia: a Home-Based Exercise Intervention
Kurt Farrell
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
$4,946.00
Role of matrix microenvironment on neural stem cell (NSC) phenotype and differentiation under healthy and inflammatory conditions
Joseph Gabra
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
$5,000.00
Three-dimensional Stiffness of the Carpal Arch
Ashta Gobburi
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
LC-MS/MS Profiling of Gangliosides in Retina: Application to Glaucoma
Valentinas Gruzdys
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
Cell Membrane Mimetic System for Studying the Lipid Effects on Cell Surface Biomolecule Functions
Kelly Kinahan
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$5,000.00
Neighborhood Change and Historic Preservation in Shrinking Cities
Sonal Patel
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
Circadian clock mechanisms of calorie restriction in cardiovascular system
Kishore Rollakanti
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
$5,000.00
Evaluating the Effect of Vitamin D Pretreatment in Enhancing the Therapeutic Efficacy of Aminolevulinate Based Photodynamic Therapy in Murine Basal Cell Carcinoma
Jasvinder Singh
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
Control of meiotic recombination and synaptonemal complex assembly by the Proteasome and central element protein ZIP1
Michael Wachter
Department of Marketing
Monte Ahuja College of Business
$5,000.00
The Effects of Preannouncement Messages on Word of Mouth and New Product Performance: The Case of the Motion Picture Industry
Piyush Walia
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
$4,990.00
The Effects of Combined Bony Defects on the Anterior Stability of the Shoulder and Surgical Implications
Lin Wang
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
Synthesis and Evaluation of Non-covalent and Covalent Recombinant Thrombomodulin/Human Serum Albumin Conjugates
Ajaykumar Zalavadia
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00
A Surface Plasmon Imaged Phased Array for Raman Imaging of Biomaterials