The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2013-2014 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) proposals – and congratulate the following doctoral students on their successful DRA proposals:

Venkat Bobba
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor John Turner
$5,000.00

High Fidelty Raman Imaging of Biomaterials Using an Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter

Hua Chai
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Wenbing Zhao
$3,000.00

Application-Aware Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Snigdha Chennamaneni
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Bin Su
$5,000.00

Synthesis and anti-cancer mechanism investigation of Indomethacin analogs

Jonathan Damsel
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor John Turner
$5,000.00

Development of a Brillouin-Raman Microscope for Nondestructive Imaging of the Elastic Properties and Chrystalline Character in Polymer Implants

Dawei Du
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Dan Simon
$4,970.00

Biogeography-Based Optimization of Complex Systems

Kurt Farrell
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Chandra Kothapalli
$4,944.00

Design and development of 3D ECM scaffolds for targeted differentiation of embryonic stem cells into neural and glial lineages

Sujata Jha
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Anton Komar
$5,000.00

Understanding the impact of synonymous codon usage on protein folding and disease origin

Maura Krestar
Department of Psychology
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Conor McLennan
$5,000.00

Examining the effects of processing time, age, valence, and variation in emotional intonation on spoken word recognition

Brian Krupp
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Wenbing Zhao
$3,000.00

Enhanced Security and Privacy for Mobile Computing Systems

Rati Lama
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Bin Su
$5,000.00

Three-dimensional multicellular spheroid models: A reliable tool for selection of promising anti-cancer drug candidates

Robert Laverne
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Wendy Kellogg
$5,000.00

Loss of Urban Forest Canopy and the Effect on Soundscape with Implications for Human Directed Attention

Ryan Madden
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Jerzy Sawicki
$5,000.00

Development of Robust Control Oriented Model Validation for Estimation of Uncertainty and Disturbance Bounds in Actively Controlled Systems

Teresa Markis
Department of Psychology
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Conor McLennan
$4,968.00

Attentional bias to body-related stimuli in young and middle age females: The role of eating disorders and thin ideal priming

Darshana Poddar
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Barsanjit Mazumder
$10,000.00

Elucidation of the extra-ribosomal function of ribosomal protein L13a in resolving inflammation in the body

William Samsa
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Roman Kondratov
$5,000.00

The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Osteoporosis

Ranjodh Sandhu
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Bibo Li
$5,000.00

Telomere maintenance in Trypanosome brucei

Jing Wang
Department of Finance
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Doctoral Advisor: Professor Haigang Zhou
$5,000.00

Three Essays on Pricing and Volume Distributions of Cross-listed stocks