March 12, 2012
RGI Awards Announced for 2012-2013
Thirty-nine proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2012-2013 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.
Fifteen awards went to assistant professors, 13 to associate professors, and 11 to full professors.
- Theory of the Electron Gas at Oxide Interfaces
- Daniel Agterberg, Professor, Physics
- Metapopulation Genetics of Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera in Southern California Bight
- Filipe Alberto, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
- Wastewater Management Using Sewage Aerator and Separator Cyclones
- Ryoichi Amano, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Vitamin D Receptor-Coregulator Interactions As Anticancer Targets
- Alexander Arnold, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- The Sweet Grass Project: Preservation of African Movement Traditions Present in Gullah Culture of the Carolinas and Georgia Coast
- Ferne Bronson, Professor, Dance
- The Plasma Physics and Cosmological Impact of TeV Blazars
- Philip Chang, Assistant Professor, Physics
- Transparent Conductive Ceramic-Graphene Nanolaminates
- Jian Chen, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Exploration of Graphene Array Electrodes for Energy Storage
- Junhong Chen, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Optogenetic Silencing of Hippocampal Inputs During Spatial Learning
- Kamran Diba, Assistant Professor, Psychology
- Roles of Specific Estrogen Receptors in Mediating the Beneficial Effects of Estrogens On Memory in Middle-Aged Females
- Karyn Frick, Associate Professor, Psychology
- Measurement of Electric Fields at Protein Active Sites: Towards Probing Electrostatic Structure-Function Relationships
- Peter Geissinger, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Development of Novel Osmotic Microbial Desalination Cells for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Desalination
- Zhen He, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
- Occurrence and Significance of Northern High Paleo-Latitude Deposits of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Northeastern Asia (Siberia)
- John Isbell, Professor, Geosciences
- Isolated Neutron Stars: the Impact of Magnetic Field Decay
- David Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Physics
- Isolating the Mechanisms of Impaired Attentional Control in Social Anxiety: Implications for Attention Modification Training
- Christine Larson, Associate Professor, Psychology
- A New Decision Support Tool for Warranting Detour Operations During Freeway Corridor Incident Management
- Yue Liu, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
- Processing Differences By Gender: Investigating Persistent Differential Item Functioning General Chemistry Items
- Kristen Murphy, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Understanding the Electricity-Water-Climate Change Nexus: a Multi-Agent Simulation Framework and Efficient Reinforcement Learning Solution Techniques
- Vishnuteja Nanduri, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Advanced Wind Turbine Topology and Controls to Improve Transient Power Stability and Provide Short-Term Support
- Adel Nasiri, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
- Ultra-Durable Wear-Resistant 3D Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Concretes
- Michael Nosonovsky, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Determining the Structure and Conformations of Macromolecular Complexes
- Abbas Ourmazd, Professor, Physics
- Interrogation of Large-Scale Neural Circuits With Optogenetic-fMRI
- Ramin Pashaie, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
- Achieving Turnover in DNA-Templated Fluorogenic "Click" Ligation for Sequence-Specific DNA Mutation Detection
- Xiaohua Peng, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Establishing a Modeling Framework for the Investigation of Nano-Scale Drivers of Biogeochemical Cycling in Freshwater Ecosystems
- Gabriella Pinter, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
- Investigation of ITSN-1 Function in Axon Guidance.
- Christopher Quinn, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
- Optical Redox Imaging and NMR Metabolomics As Multi-Modal Tools to Monitor Metabolic Dysfunction in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- Mahsa Ranji, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
- Reconstructing the Structure of Viruses Using an X-Ray Laser
- Dilano Saldin, Professor, Physics
- Structure and Function of MtrC: an Electricity Generating Protein
- Marius Schmidt, Associate Professor, Physics
- Do Lianas Redirect Successional Trajectories in Regenerating Tropical Forests?
- Stefan Schnitzer, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
- Intertwined Geographies of Transcultural Contact: Cultural Landscapes of Muslim Immigrants in Milwaukee and Chicago
- Arijit Sen, Associate Professor, Architecture
- In Situ Technology to Enhance Chemical, Physical and Biological Monitoring in Lake Michigan
- Matthew Smith, Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences
- Body Language: a Suite of Four Interactive Installations
- Nathaniel Stern, Associate Professor, Art & Design
- Microfluidics and Form and Function in Cyclopoid Copepods
- J. Rudi Strickler, Professor, Biological Sciences
- Guiding Warfarin Clinical Trial Design Using Pharmacogenetic Simulations
- Peter Tonellato, Professor, Public Health
- Knowledge Discovery in Climate
- Anastasios Tsonis, Professor, Mathematical Sciences
- Corral Trapping of Single Molecules in Solution: Theory and Applications
- Jorg Woehl, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Urban Impervious Surface Estimation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Simulation Approach
- Changshan Wu, Associate Professor, Geography
- A Lifestyle Choice for Ecological Success and Pathogenicity: Cell Aggregates and Bimodal Expression of T3SS
- Ching-Hong Yang, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
- 3D CT Image Segmentation for Security Applications
- Jun Zhang, Professor, Electrical Engineering