2014-2015 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 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

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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

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Aslihan Cicek
Department of Finance
Monte Ahuja College of Business
$5,000.00

Corporate Goverance and Seasoned Equity Offerings

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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

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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

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Joseph Gabra
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
$5,000.00

Three-dimensional Stiffness of the Carpal Arch

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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

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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

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Kelly Kinahan
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$5,000.00

Neighborhood Change and Historic Preservation in Shrinking Cities

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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