Total grants awarded: $727,969

Dr. Michael D. Beaty, philosophy; $50,000; Values and Virtues; Nagel Institute of Calvin College

Dr. Mary C. Brucker, nursing; $31,005; Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship; Health Resources and Services Administration

Dr. Benjamin S. Kelley, School of Engineering and Computer Science; $18,000; Engineering Summer Program for Renaissance Scholars; Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Dr. Ryan S. King, biology; $16,904 (third year funding); EPA Fellowship Award; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Dr. Sang-Chul Nam, biology; $40,000; Role of Spastin in Drosophila Photoreceptor Morphogenesis; Knights Templar Eye Foundation

Dr. Mary P. Nichols, political science; $60,000; Postdoctoral Position in America's Founding Principles and Core Texts of Western Civilization; Center for American University, Manhattan Institute

Dr. Kevin G. Pinney, chemistry and biochemistry; $300,870; Chemotherapeutic Agents with Enhanced Selectivity for the Tumor Microenvironment; National Institutes of Health

Dr. Kevin G. Pinney, chemistry and biochemistry; $200,000; Investigation of Highly Potent Benzosuberene Analogs as Novel Anticancer Agents; Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

Dr. Joseph D. White, biology; $10,000; Interaction of Fire and Woodland Succession for Carbon Sequestration; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Dr. Randy M. Wood, curriculum and instruction; $2,000; Marlin Hot Tamale Report; Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas