RGI Awards Announced for 2009-2010
Thirty-eight proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2009-2010 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
The winners were chosen from the original pool of 136 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.
The projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to architecture, film, and dance.
Unless noted, co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:
- Adherence to Pharmaceutical Treatment: A Clinical Ethnography of Mental Health Services in Wisconsin
- Kalman Applbaum, Anthropology
- Co-PI: Paul Brodwin
- Carbon Dynamics in a Large, Tropical Lake
- Harvey Bootsma, WATER Institute
- Frontiers of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
- Patrick Brady, Physics
- Co-PIs: Luis Anchordoqui, Jean Creighton, Jolien Creighton, John Friedman, Xavier Siemens, Alan Wiseman
- Energy-Efficient Nanoscale Corona Discharge for Ozone Reduction
- Junhong Chen, Mechanical Engineering
- Advanced Carbon Nanotube-Elastomer Composite Infrared Sensors
- Jian Chen, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Micromechanical Enhancement of Sensing — Lessons from Copepods
- Thomas Consi, WATER Institute
- Co-PI: Rudi Strickler, Biological Sciences
- New Gabaergic Drugs to Treat Epilepsy Devoid of Sedative, Ataxic and Amnesic Side Effects Which Do Not Develop Tolerance
- James Cook, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Quantifying Fabrics in Shear Zones
- Dyanna Czeck, Geosciences
- Sensory Evolution During the Cambrian Radiation
- Stephen Dornbos, Geosciences
- Multifunctional Polymeric Drug Nanocarriers for Targeted Cancer Therapy
- Shaoqin Gong, Mechanical Engineering
- Co-PI: Douglas Steeber, Biological Sciences
- HIV Transmission Risk, Access to Treatment, and Self Management of Illness Over Time: An In-Depth Longitudinal Study of HIV-Infected Women in Kenya
- Peninnah Kako, Nursing
- Co-PIs: Loren Galvao, Patricia Stevens
- Cortico-Muscular Control of Hand Function in Older Adults
- Kevin Keenan, Human Movement Sciences
- Co-PI: Jerome Smith
- Application of New Methodology for Determining Benthic Metabolism in the Great Lakes
- J. Val Klump, WATER Institute
- Mesoscale Ocean Eddies and Climate Change Over the Southern Ocean
- Sergey Kravtsov, Mathematical Sciences
- A Unified Parameterization for Clouds, Turbulence, the Surface Layer, and the Planetary Boundary Layer
- Vincent Larson, Mathematical Sciences
- The Influence of Rumination on Sustained Experience of Negative Affect: Bridging the Gap from Prolonged Brief Emotional Experiences to Depression
- Christine Larson, Psychology
- Magnetic Graphene
- Lian Li, Physics
- Co-PI: Michael Weinert
- Bumba-Meu-Boi: The Integration of Contemporary and Folk Dance as a Vehicle of Social and Historical Activism
- Simone Linhares Ferro, Dance
- Elemental Bodies: A Suite of Four Immersive Installations with Sensor Control
- Colleen Ludwig, Film
- GroupBank Archival and Retrieval System
- Renee Meyers, Communication
- Co-PI: Elizabeth Buchanan, Information Studies
- Prefrontal Regulation of Drug Seeking After Extinction
- Devin Mueller, Psychology
- Co-PI: James Moyer
- Rapid Knowledge Assessment: The Development and Validation of a New Assessment Instrument in Chemistry
- Kristen Murphy, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Direct Determination of Structure by Scattering
- Abbas Ourmazd, Physics
- Co-PI: Peter Schwander
- Protein-NO Interactions by Time-Resolved Protein X-Ray Crystallography
- Arsenio Pacheco, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Co-PI: Marius Schmidt, Physics
- Zinc Trafficking in Proliferative Cells: Metallothionein and Other Sites
- David Petering, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Functional and Ecological Genomics of Sulfonate Utilization by Soybean Nodulating Bradyrhizobium Japonicum
- Gyaneshwar Prasad, Biological Sciences
- Applied Research Opportunities for Students
- Paul Roebber, Mathematical Sciences
- Biomolecular Structure from Ultrashort X-ray Pulses: Exploiting the Symmtery of Random Orientations
- Dilano Saldin, Physics
- Co-PI: Valentin Shneerson
- Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease: Impact of Caregiver Communication Strategies on Communication Breakdown, Problem Behaviors, and Stress
- Marie Savundranayagam, Social Work
- Do Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens Explain Plant Species Coexistence and Diversity in Tropical Forests? An Experimental Test
- Stefan Schnitzer, Biological Sciences
- Development of Ultra High Performance Concrete for Service Life of 120 Years
- Konstantin Sobolev, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
- Co-PIs: Habib Tabatabai, Jian Zhao
- New Research Initiative in Distributed Robotic Systems
- Ichiro Suzuki, Computer Science
- Energy Efficiency and Historic Preservation: Using Digital Simulation and Empirical Testing to Quantify Passive Systems of Environmental Control in National Register Eligible Buildings of the Early Modern Era
- Gregory Thomson, Architecture
- Investigation of Oxidation Catalytic Reaction Pathways on Model Gold-Palladium Alloy Catalysts
- Wilfred Tysoe, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Margarita Archaeological Project: Investigating the Social Structure of A Classic Maya Urban Community
- Laura Villamil, Anthropology
- Genetics of Disease Resistance and Female Mate Choice
- Linda Whittingham, Biological Sciences
- Co-PI: Peter Dunn
- Development of Type III Secretion System Inhibitors
- Ching-Hong Yang, Biological Sciences
- Functional Photoacoustic Imaging of Retinal Microvessels
- Hao Zhang, Electrical Engineering