The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2017-2018 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) proposals – and congratulate the following doctoral students on their successful DRA proposals:

Michele Heath
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Department of Information Systems
$5,000.00

The Impact of Organization Learning on Routinization of Electronic Health Records: An Empirical Study

Dorcia Bolton
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Department of Marketing
$4,950.00

The Impact of Customized Price Promotion on Instant Gratification and Functional Impulsivity

Amol Chaudhari
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
$4,980.00

Role of circadian clock protein CRYPTOCHROME in IGF1 production and calorie restriction mediated mechanism for healthy aging

Danting Liu
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

RNase L Mediates Glucose Homeostasis through Regulating the AKT and mTOR Pathways

Norah Alghamdi
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

Role of RNase L in Kidney

Mallorie Boron
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

Cell Surface Re-Engineering of Macrophages

Lakshmi Balaraman
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

Coordination Chemistryof N,N'-azodioxides

Ravali Alagandula
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

Development of a sensitive LC-MS/MS Quantification Method for LRG-1: A potential Urinary Biomarker for HCC

Erica Fatica
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

Metabolic flux analysis of induced pluripotent stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes to investigate metabolic alterations in inherited dilated cardiomyopathy

Shashank Gorityala
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Chemistry
$5,000.00

Unlock the Secret of Higher Incidence Rate of Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) in HIV Patients

Samantha Tuft
College of Sciences and Health Professions
Department of Psychology
$5,000.00

Attention bias of emotional words across the adult lifespan: The effects of valence and arousal

Sneha Pitre
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Urban Education: Counseling Psychology
$3,100.00

International students' career development: Role of acculturative stress, job search self-efficacy, career adaptability, and career aspirations

Richard Jason Lawrence
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Urban Education: Counseling Psychology
$2,625.00

Military-Civilian Transition and Veterans' Well-Being

Jyotsna Joshi
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
$4,904.18

Engineering the Micro-environment Niche of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Enhanced Cardiomyogenesis

Alexander Roth
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
$5,000.00

Simulating Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) Using Hepatic Cell Microarrays

Pranav Joshi
Washkewicz College of Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
$5,000.00

Three-Dimensional Human Neural Stem Cell Microarrays for High-Throughput Assessment of Developmental Neurotoxicity