College Faculty Obtain Significant Funding in 2012

January 2, 2013
Categories: College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, College of Science, Research

Knowledge lives in research. As scholars pursue answers to big questions and researchers push the boundaries of what we already know, knowledge shifts, grows, and expands.

The vitality of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is linked to the vitality of its faculty’s research. In fiscal year 2012, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty obtained over one-fourth of the university’s total external funding dollars, resulting in funding for a wide array of research projects. An asterisk (*) in this list means the college member is a co-Principal Investigator, and the Principal Investigator is from outside the college.

  • Dena Shenk. Anthropology. Funding for a Graduate Assistant with Cabarrus County Department on Aging. Cabarrus County Department of Aging.
  • Kenneth Bost (with Daniel Nelson and Pinku Mukherjee.) Biology. A Viral Infection that Exacerbates Breast Cancer Metastasis. Mary Kay Foundation.
  • Mark Clemens. Biology. PhD Fellowship. Carolinas Healthcare System.
  • Mark Clemens, Biology. Graduate Research Assistantship at Carolinas Medical Center for a Project Entitled Development of Bioceramics for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Carolinas Medical Center.
  • Mark Clemens, Biology. Recovery of Viable Zone-Specific Hepatocytes from Cardiac Death Donor Livers. North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
  • Valery Grdzelishvili (with Pinku Mukherjee.) Biology. Role of MUC1 in Resistance of Cancer Cells to Oncolytic Virotherapy. NIH National Cancer Institute.
  • Martin Klotz. Biology. Collaborative Research: Do Diverse Members of the Epsilonproteobacteria Employ a Novel Nitrate Reduction Pathway? National Science Foundation.
  • Ian Marriott. Biology. Development of Ladder Frame Polyethers as Drug Escortins. University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
  • James Oliver. Biology. Improving Oyster Quality by Enhancing Natural Immunity. USDA.
  • James Oliver. Biology. Research into the Resistance of Bacterial Cells in the VBNC State. Baxter Healthcare.
  • Matthew Parrow. Biology. Integrating Ethanol Production with Municipal Waste Management in Catawba County. Biofuels Center of North Carolina.
  • Christine Richardson. Biology. Etiology of Translocations in Hematopoietic Cells. DHHS/NIH/NCI.
  • Stanley Schneider. Biology. Plant Derived Antioxidants as Inhibitors of Alcohol- Dependent Changes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression. Carolinas Medical Center.
  • Stanley Schneider. Biology. Polymer-mediated Gene and Oligonucleotide Delivery for Muscular Dystrophy. Carolinas Medical Center.
  • Todd Steck. Biology. Microbiome Changes in an Adult CF Patient in Response to Antibiotic Therapy. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
  • Jennifer Warner (with Tonya Bates.) Biology. Microbial Magic Workshop for Middle School Teachers. North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
  • Jennifer Warner (with Tonya Bates.) Biology. Biotechnology Basics Workshop for High School Teachers. North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
  • Shan Yan. Biology. Role of TopBP1 Partner WDR18 in DNA Damage Checkpoint and DNA Replication. DHHS/NIH/NIGMS.
  • John Risley. Chemistry. Studies of Proteolytic Enzymes in Wheat Flour. Snyder’s-Lance, Inc.
  • Thomas Schmedake (with Daniel Rabinovich, Jordan Poler, Marcus Jones and Michael Walter.) ACS Project Seed 2012. American Chemical Society (ACS.)
  • Jerry Troutman. Chemistry. Biosynthesis of the Immunomodulatory Molecule Capsular Polysaccharide A. DHHS/NIH/NIGMS.
  • Alan Freitag. Communication Studies. Media Richness Theory in the Context of Employee Communication in Poland. Fulbright Scholar Program.
  • Paul Friday (with Charisse Coston.) Criminal Justice & Criminology. Assessment of Need: Homeless Arrestees, Mecklenburg County Jail. Charlotte Mecklenburg County.
  • Joseph Kuhns. Criminal Justice & Criminology. Understanding Decisions to Burglarize from the
  • Offender’s Perspective. Alarm Industry Research and Education Foundation.
  • Vivian Lord. Criminal Justice & Criminology. Comparative Lectures for Victimology and Women and Crime and Comparative Research of the Recruitment and Training of Female Police Officers in All Women Police Stations and Female Police Officers in General Police Stations in Tamil Nadu, India. Fulbright Scholar Program.
  • Bill Hill. Dean’s Office, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Lewis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Phase IV. NC Agricultural Technical State University.
  • Lilian Brannon. English. Digital Is Dissemination. National Writing Project.
  • Lilian Brannon. English. UNC Charlotte Writing Project SEED Grant. National Writing Project.
  • Boyd Davis. English. Communication Intervention for Adolescent Immunizations: Cluster Randomized Trial. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
  • Jeffrey Leak. Without Sanctuary: A Conference on Lynching and the American South. North Carolina Humanities Council.
  • Daniel Shealy. English. The Making of Louisa May Alcott: Publishing and Marketing an American Author. National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Craig Allan (with John Diemer.) Geography & Earth Science. Beaverdam Creek Watershed Monitoring. Charlotte (City of) Storm Water Services.
  • John Bender. Geography & Earth Science. Southern States Energy Board Graduate Internship. Southern States Energy Board.
  • Sandra Clinton*. Geography & Earth Science. I/UCRC for Sustainably Integrated Buildings and Sites. National Science Foundation.
  • Sandra Clinton*; Anne Jefferson*. Geography & Earth Science. Influence of Stormwater Management Structures on Ecological Function in Urban Steams. National Science Foundation.
  • Martha Eppes. Geography & Earth Science. An Investigation of Physical Weathering on Mars Using New Web-Based, User-Friendly 3-D MER Data-Mining Software. NASA.
  • Gerald Ingalls. Geography & Earth Science. Town of Huntersville Planning Internships. Town of Huntersville.
  • Ross Meentemeyer. Geography & Earth Science. Adaptive Management of Phytophthora Ramorum in the Big Sur Ecoregion: Links Between Sudden Oak Death and Fire. Continued Measurements. USDA.
  • Ross Meentemeyer. Geography & Earth Science. Collaborative Research: Interacting Disturbances: Leaf to Landscape Dynamics of Emerging Disease, Fire, and Drought in California Coastal Forests. National Science Foundation.
  • Ross Meentemeyer. Geography & Earth Science. Park Mapping for the Town of Cornelius, NC, PARC Department. Town of Cornelius.
  • Heather Smith. Geography & Earth Science. A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Improving Hispanic Health. Carolinas Medical Center.
  • Janni Sorenson*. Geography & Earth Science. UNC Charlotte Civic Minor in Urban Education. American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
  • Janni Sorenson*; Heather Smith*. Geography & Earth Science. NCMHD Advances in Health Disparities Research on Social Determinants of Health. Carolinas Medical Center.
  • Wenwu Tang (with Douglas Shoemaker and Ross Meentemeyer.) Geography & Earth Science. Development and Operation of a Web GIS-enabled Data Management System for the Santee Experimental Forest. USDA.
  • Jean-Claude Thill. Geography & Earth Science. Business and Socio-Economic Data in Mecklenburg and Union Counties for Transportation Modeling Update City of Charlotte Department of Transportation.
  • Qingfang Wang. Geography & Earth Science. A Comparative Study of Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the U. S. Immigration Gateways. National Science Foundation.
  • Jurgen Buchenau. History. Legacies of the African Diaspora in Brazil and the United States: Persistent Inequalities. Department of Education.
  • Mark Wilson, History. Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II. National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Animikh Biswas. Collaborative Proposal: Study of Turbulence in Physical Systems Through Complex Singularities and Determining Modes. Mathematics & Statistics. National Science Foundation.
  • Wei Cai. Mathematics & Statistics. Multi-scale and Multi-physics Numerical Methods for Modeling Transport in Mesoscopic Systems. DOD/Army.
  • Jiancheng Jiang*. Mathematics & Statistics. Development of IRI Limits and Targets for Network Management and Construction Approval Purposes. North Carolina Department of Transportation.
  • Michael Klibanov. Mathematics & Statistics. Transrectal Imaging of Prostate Cancer Using a Globally Convergent Reconstruction Method. University of Texas at Arlington.
  • Michael Klibanov. Mathematics & Statistics. Globally Convergent Numerical Methods for Inverse Problems of Imaging of Buried Targets. DOD/Army/Army Research Office.
  • Michael Klibanov. Mathematics & Statistics. (with Michael Fiddy, Physics and Optical Science.) Experiments to Advance a New, Globally Convergent, Quantitative Imaging Method by Measuring the Time History of Backscattered Fields. DOD/Army/Army Research Office.
  • Yanqing Sun. Mathematics & Statistics. Statistical Methods in HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trials. DHHS/NIH/NIAID.
  • Yanqing Sun. Mathematics & Statistics. Generalized Semiparametric Regression with Longitudinal Data. National Science Foundation.
  • Michael Kelly. Philosophy. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Second Edition). American Society for Aesthetics.
  • Rosemarie Tong (with Lisa Rasmussen.) Philosophy. Bioethics Resource Network (BRN). North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
  • Vasily Astratov. Physics & Optical Science. Photonic Devices Based on Circuits of Supermonodispersive Spherical Cavities. DOD/Army/Army Research Office.
  • Vasily Astratov. Physics & Optical Science. Tunable Light Source for Observation of Novel Effects of Resonant Light Pressure and Development of Microsphere Resonator Circuits. DOD/Army/Army Research Office.
  • Glenn Boreman. Physics & Optical Science. 3D Meta-Optics for High Energy Lasers. DOD/Air Force/Office of Scientific Research
  • Glenn Boreman. Physics & Optical Science. Design of impedance matched infrared antennas using optical vector near-field mapping. National Science Foundation.
  • Michael Fiddy. Physics & Optical Science. IUCRC for Metamaterials. National Science Foundation.
  • Michael Fiddy. Physics & Optical Science. Student Research Support Activities for NSF I/UCRC CfM Project 6.1. Western Carolina University.
  • Michel Fiddy*. Physics & Optical Science. MRI: Development of a High-Pressure MOCVD for III-Nitride Semiconductor Devices. National Science Foundation.
  • Michael Fiddy*. Physics & Optical Science. Single Pixel Camera. ITN Energy Systems Inc.
  • Nathaniel Fried. Physics & Optical Science. Noninvasive Approaches to Male Sterilization. Family Health International.
  • Nathaniel Fried. Physics & Optical Science. Optical Based Sealing/Cutting of Tissue: Phase II. Covidien.
  • Nathaniel Fried. Physics & Optical Science. Medical Laser Efficacy Testing. Lockheed Martin Aculight Corporation.
  • Gregory Gbur. Physics & Optical Science. Design of Partially Coherent and Vortex Free-Space Optical Communications Systems. DOD/Air Force/Office of Scientific Research.
  • Donald Jacobs*. Physics & Optical Science. Antibody Fragment Stability: A Focus on Domain-Domain Interactions. MedImmune, Inc.
  • Patrick Moyer. Physics & Optical Science. Novel Optical Waveguide Devices for Passive and Active MID-IR Devices. Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.
  • Oleg Smolski*. Physics & Optical Science. MRI: Development of a High-Pressure MOCVD for III-Nitride Semiconductor Devices. National Science Foundation.
  • Oleg Smolski (with Menelaos Poutous.) Physics & Optical Science. Vertical stacked Short-range Wide-field-of-view Extremely-agile Electronically-steered Photonic EmitteR (V-SWEEPER). Sarnoff Corp.
  • Thomas Suleski. Physics & Optical Science. Freeform Infrared Optics in Chalcogenide Glass. FiveFocal LLC.
  • Thomas Suleski. Physics & Optical Science. High Speed Micro-Milling of Optical Devices for Infrared Beam Shaping and Imaging (Yr 3). II-VI Foundation.
  • Thomas Suleski. Physics & Optical Science. LCTI-M: Low Cost Thermal Imager Manufacturing. FiveFocal LLC.
  • Thomas Suleski. Physics & Optical Science. Hybrid Processes for Biologically Inspired Optical Devices. II-VI Foundation.
  • James Douglas. Political Science & Public Administration. Public Service Fellowship for the Arts and Science Council. Arts and Science Council.
  • Suzanne Leland. Political Science & Public Administration. Contracting in State Budgets. The Partnership for Working Families.
  • David Swindell. Political Science & Public Administration. Board of Elections Fellowship. Mecklenburg County Board of Elections.
  • James Walsh. Political Science & Public Administration. The Effectiveness of Drone Strikes in Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Campaigns. DOD DA Army War College.
  • James Walsh*. Political Science & Public Administration. An Analytical Framework for Rapid End-to-End Support for Effective Civil-Military Operations Planning. Engineer Research and Development Center.
  • Kimberly Buch*. Psychology. UNC Charlotte Civic Minor in Urban Education. American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
  • Kimberly Buch*. Psychology. BPC-AE – Scaling the STARS Alliance: A National Community for Broadening Participation through Regional Partnerships. National Science Foundation.
  • James Cook (with Ryan Kilmer.) Psychology. Support for Graduate Assistant. Institute for Child Success, Inc.
  • James Cook (with Ryan Kilmer.) Psychology. Proposed Pilot Evaluation for Charlotte Housing Authority and Genesis Project 1. Charlotte Housing Authority.
  • Mark Faust. Psychology. Cognitive Training Effects in Adults Using Brain- Plasticity-Based Computer Games. Davidson College.
  • Mason Haber. Psychology. North Carolina Families United – RENEW Evaluation, FY ‘10 – 11’. North Carolina Families United.
  • Mason Haber. Psychology. Evaluation of the On Ramp Youth in Transition Project of MeckCARES, FY 2011 – 2012. Mecklenburg County Area Mental Health.
  • Ryan Kilmer (with James Cook.) Psychology. Evaluation of MeckCARES: Year 7. Mecklenburg County Area Mental Health.
  • Kent Brintnall. Religious Studies. Sacrificing Ethics: Georges Bataille and Queer Theory. Wabash College.
  • Joanne Robinson. Religious Studies. Ordering the World. National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Roslyn Mickelson. Sociology. A Proposal for PRRAC Funding to Support Continued Development of the Spivack Archive. Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)
  • Elizabeth Stearns (with Roslyn Mickelson and Stephanie Moller.) Sociology. Finding the Roots: Interactive Influences of Individual, Secondary School, and College Institutional Factors on the Success of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Majors. National Science Foundation.
  • Murray Webster. Sociology. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Do Racial Double Standards Affect Team Selection? Can their Effects be Reduced? Sociology. National Science Foundation.
  • Joseph Whitmeyer*. Sociology. An Analytical Framework for Rapid End-to-End Support for Effective Civil-Military Operations Planning. Engineer Research and Development Center.