Research Gazette

Total Awards: $2,171,709.98

Dr. Tonya Davis; Educational Psychology; $348,967; BEAR (Be Emotionally Aware and Responsive) Project; Waco ISD

Dr. Joe Yelderman; Geosciences; $24,000; Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer Initiative: Groundwater Assessment; Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District

Dr. Zhenrong Zhang; Physics; $195,000; OP: Surface and Coherence Enhanced Raman Sensing on MoS2 Heterogeneous Catalysts; National Science Foundation

Dr. Dwayne Simmons; Biology; $79,550.98; Hearing Loss and Calcium Regulation; National Institutes of Health

Dr. Jeffrey Petersen; Educational Leadership; $11,778; Baylor Sport Management & Savor Graduate Assistant Program Position 2 – 2016-17; Savor…

Dr. Marlan Scully; Office of Vice Provost for Research; $300,000; Proposal to Study the Effects of Quantum Noise and Coherence in Statistical and Bio-Physics; Office of Naval Research

Dr. David Corey; Honors Program; $43,015; Political Philosophy Against Ideology; Charles Koch Foundation

Dr. Scott James; Geosciences; $2,000 (additional funds); Liquid Metal Battery Research; MFB Concepts, Inc.

Dr. Rob Kirby; Mathematics; $90,000; Collaborative Research: Multiphysics Modeling and Analysis of Thermo-Visco-Acoustic Equations with Applications to the Design of Trace Gas Sensors; National Science Foundation

Dr. Jon Singletary; Social Work; $21,000; Waco ISD – Indian Springs TTIPS Cycle 2; Waco ISD

Dr. Erich Baker; Computer Science; $168,693 (additional funds); Monkey Alcohol and Tissue Research Resource; National Institutes of Health

Dr. Bessie Kebaara; Biology; $412,906; Investigation of Copper Homeostasis mRNAs regulated by the Nonsense-mediate mRNA decay pathway; National Institutes of Health

Dr. Jay Pulliam; Geosciences; $410,903; Development of a novel, near real-time approach to geothermal seismic exploration and monitoring via ambient seismic noise interferometry; Department of Energy

Dr. David Kahle; Statistical Science; $63,897; Collaborative Research: Applied Algebraic Statistics through R; National Science Foundation

October 2016 Grant Awards

Total Awards: $980,822

Dr. Robert Doyle; Biology; $35,000 (additional funding); Baylor & City of Waco Agreement-CRASR; City of Waco

Dr. Randall Jean; Electrical Engineering; $70,000(additional funds); Development of a Void Fraction and Steam Quality Sensor; Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Stephen McClain; Mechanical Engineering; $268,960; Ice Accretion Roughness Evolution and Enhanced Convection for N+2 and N+3 Vehicle Concepts and Technologies; NASA

Dr. Darryn Willoughby; HHPR; $4,725; The Effects of Hypohydration on Muscular Strength, Endurance, Power, and Markers of Catabolism in Females; National Strength & Conditioning Association

Dr. Mack Grady; Electrical Engineering; $389,657; Where is the Greatest Threat of MHD-E3 - On the High Voltage Power Grid, or on the Medium Voltage Power Distribution System and Customers?; Office of Naval Research

Dr. Mandy Hering; Statistical Science; $48,731; PFI: BIC - Smart Water Reclamation Systems for Tailored Water Reuse at Decentralized Facilities; Colorado School of Mines

Dr. Jameson Graber; Mathematics; $56,597; New Problems in Mean Field Control Theory; University of Texas at Dallas-NSF

Dr. Sung Joon Kim; Chemistry; $107,152 (additional funds); Glycopeptide Complexes with Bacterial Cell Walls by REDOR; Washington University/National Institute of Health

November 2016 Grant Awards

Total Awards: $3,505,349.87

Dr. Jon Singletary, Social Work; $7,179; Travis County Healthy Texas Babies Initiative and Baylor GSSW; Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services

Dr. George Gawrych, History; $134,432.87; West Point Charles Boal Ewing Chair in Military History; U.S. Department of the Army

Dr. Scott James, Geosciences; $5,540 (additional funds); Liquid Metal Battery Research; MFB Concepts, Inc.

Dr. Todd Still, Truett Seminary; $125,000; Truett’s Financial Wellness Program Sustaining ECFFM; Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Dr. Kathy Krey, Texas Hunger Initiative; $3,000,000; Walmart Foundation Grant Research; Walmart Foundation

Dr. Caleb Martin, Chemistry; $110,000; Transition Metal-Boryl Complexes for Catalytic Olefin Functionalization; American Chemical Society

Dr. Charles Baylis, Electrical Engineering; $10,000; Investigation of Wideband Low-Noise Amplifier Linearity in Receiver Interference Scenarios; Raytheon

Dr. David Jack, Mechanical Engineering; $60,000 (additional funds); Developing Ultrasonic Signal Analysis Tools for Composite/Metal Bonded Joints and High Attenuation and Dispersive Materials; Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Joe Kuehl, Mechanical Engineering; $52,598; Open-Coastal Ocean Connectivity through Bottom Boundary Layer Observations and LES Simulation; University of Texas at Dallas/Texas General Land Office

Dr. Peter Campbell, Political Science; $600 (additional funds); To Help Bridge the Gap Between Scholarship and Policy Related to International Peace and Security; University of Notre Dame