2013-2014 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) Award Announcement

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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