Research Allocations Committee Small Grant Awards 2013‐2014
Spring2014
TotalAwardedProposals:13
Name
Rank
Amount
Funded
Department
College/School ResearchTitle
DorothyBaca Professor
TheatreandDance
FineArts
RecoveringtheOriginalCostume
ConstructionandEngineeringofthe
CostumeDesignsofMarthaGraham
$9,981
LuisCampos
History
Artsand
Sciences
LifebyDesign:AHistoryofSynthetic
Biology
$9,840
Assistant
Professor
Elizabeth
Assistant
HedbergDirk Professor
Chemicaland
Engineering
NuclearEngineering
IdentifyingCell‐MaterialInteractionsin $10,000
AorticHeartValveHealthandDisease
JoseLuis
Hurtado
Assistant
Professor
Music
FineArts
recordingofTransmutante:analways‐
changingmusicalidea
$8,815
RyanKelly
Assistant
Professor
Individual,Family,
andCommunity
Education
Education
DatingAggressionandSleepProblems
inEmergingAdulthood:TheRolesof
EthnicityandSocioeconomicContext
$7,495
AgustinLeon‐ Assistant
Moreta
Professor
Public
Administration
Public
LocalGovernmentReorganization:A
Administration StudyofNewU.S.Municipalities,2000‐
2010
$1,295
Christine
Mermier
Assistant
Professor
Health,Exerciseand Education
SportsSciences
Theeffectofheatacclimationon
exercisecapacityduringacutealtitude
exposure
$3,356
Robert
Montgomery
Assistant
Professor
ArtandArtHistory
FineArts
ConstellationsoftheCities,multi‐city
residency
$8,487
JasonMoore
Assistant
Professor
HonorsCollege
University
College
Palaeoecologyandpalaeoenvironments
throughtheLateCretaceousand
PaleogeneofUruguay
$8,606
ToddRuecker Assistant
Professor
English
Artsand
Sciences
LinguisticMinorityStudentsand
LiteracyEducationinRuralandSmall
TownHighSchools
$5,437
RyanSwanson Assistant
Professor
HonorsCollege
University
College
AdvancinganAthleticDoctrine:
TheodoreRooseveltandthe
DevelopmentofAmericanSportCulture
$4,496
SamuelTruett Associate
Professor
History
Artsand
Sciences
AdventurersandNomadicRegimesin
theGreaterChinaSeas
$9,993
Vanessa
Valentin
CivilEngineering
Engineering
AssessmentofWildfireRiskto
StructuresinWildlandUrbanInterface
inNewMexico
$7,878
Assistant
Professor
TotalAmountFunded:$95,679
Research Allocations Committee Small Grant Awards 2013‐2014
Fall 2013
Total Awards: 15
Name
Rank
College
Department
Research Title
Cathy Binger
Associate Professor
Arts and Sciences
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Christopher Buckholz
Fine Arts
Music
Maya Elrick
Assistant Professor
Professor
Implementing a State‐of‐the‐Art Telehealth Model in the Schools for Children who need Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Versatility
Arts and Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Tobias Fischer
Professor
Arts and Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Chad Kerksick
Assistant Professor
Education
Zayd Leseman
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Engineering
Timothy Ross
Amount Funded
$10,000
$9,000
Understanding the causes of the Late Ordovician (440 million years ago) mass extinction event using geochemical proxies in marine limestones
$5,600
$7,660
Arts and Sciences
Improvements and testing of Volcano Mass Spectrometer prototype for continuous monitoring of volcanic and hydrothermal gas emissions
Health, Exercise and Dose‐Response Impact of Sports Sciences
Branched‐Chain Amino Acid Supplementation and Muscle Health
Mechanical Engineering Low Temperature Testing of Nanostructured Materials
Speech & Hearing Treatment of Swallow Disorders in Science
patients with OPMD
Professor
Engineering
Civil Engineering
Testing of New Joint Connectors in Bamboo Construction
$9,830
Gregory Rowangould
Assistant Professor
Engineering
Civil Engineering
$7,585
Irene Salinas
Assistant Professor
Arts and Sciences
Biology
Albuquerque Bicycle Path Congestion Management and Air Quality (CMAQ) Study
The role of the microbiota in the skin health of rainbow trout
Rebecca Schreiber
Associate Professor
Arts and Sciences
American Studies
Refusing Disposability: Collaboration and Representational Strategies in 'Tijuana Projection' and Maquilapolis: City of Factories
$1,710
Phyllis Palmer
$8,085
$10,000
$6,850
$7,200
Research Allocations Committee Small Grant Awards 2013‐2014
Yoshiko Shimano
Associate Professor
Fine Arts
Art & Art History
Mistreated Islands, solo exhibition at Doris Ulmann Galleries in Berea College, Kentucky
$4,782
Beverly Singer
Associate Professor
Arts and Sciences
Anthropology
Patchwork Identities: Business Over Charity in Morocco
$9,000
Trish Steinbrecher
Assistant Professor
Education
Educational Specialties
Osman Umurhan
Assistant Professor
Arts and Sciences
Total Amount Funded:
Building Capacity: Supporting Large‐Scale Restricted‐Use Data Analyssi
Foreign Languages and Corporeal Spaces of Empire: Literatures/Classics
Responses to Globalization in Juvenal's Satires
$6,650
$3,390
$107,342