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Internal Grant Recipients Announced
April 28, 2015
SHSU Media Contact: Julia May, Andrew Devey
Award winners of the Sam Houston State University’s Internal Grant Program have been selected for fiscal year 2015. The award recipients, listed below, consist of 20 faculty members who have shown the beginnings of excellence in innovative research projects. The program, designed to support and encourage research activities among faculty without having to use departmental funds, is overseen by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
“The internal grants program continues to be a success,” said Jerry Cook, associate vice president for Research and Sponsored Programs. “There were many quality projects submitted, which made selection difficult, but it also demonstrates the quality of research prowess at SHSU.”
Since 2009, more than 125 faculty have received Internal Grant awards to help spearhead research efforts and scholarly pursuits. For more than a decade, this program has been key to helping university administration forward SHSU’s research endeavors.
Recipients who received an Enhancement Research Grant are awarded $15,000, given one year to complete their research proposal, and are required to submit a final report outlining their accomplishments. Additionally, recipients are required to submit at least one external grant proposal related to their Enhancement Research Grant in hopes that awardees will be able to continue their research project with additional external funding.
Ten faculty members were awarded the Faculty Research Grant, which gives $5,000 to the recipient to fund their proposal. This award is to be used during the summer months to complete a scholarly project that gives enhanced value to their specialized field and focused discipline. Submission of a final report to ORSP is required at the end of the recipient’s project as well.
Faculty Research Grants - $5,000
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PI |
Department |
Proposal Topic |
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An, Min Kyung |
Computer Science |
Efficient Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks |
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Choi, Jin |
Sociology |
Migration and Healthcare of Marshallese in the US |
|
Cox, Thomas |
History |
Warren Delano's Role in the Old China Trade |
|
Grant, Darren |
Economics & International Business |
The Ballot Order Effect: Evidence from Texas |
|
Lane, John |
School of Music |
The Speaking Percussionist: A New Music Commissioning Project |
|
Leatherwood, Jessica |
Agricultural Sciences & Engineering Technology |
Non-invasive Evaluation of Equine Lean Tissue Development |
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Lopez, Maria Montserrat Feu |
Foreign Languages |
The Confederadas' Journalism |
|
Neill, C. Denise |
School of Nursing |
Faculty Perceptions of Workload: Instrument Development |
|
Vargo, Kristina |
Language, Literacy & Special Populations |
Evaluation of a Motor-Based Social Skills Program |
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Zinn, Kelly |
School of Nursing |
Personality Correlates of Diabetes Management among College Students |
Enhancement Research Grants - $15,000
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PI/co-PI |
Department |
Proposal Topic |
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Adu-Prah, Samuel |
Geography & Geology |
Spatiotemporal and Environmental Modeling of Malaria in Ghana |
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Barker, Maria Julie Frye |
Foreign Languages |
Language and Interaction in Bilingual Libraries |
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Choudhary, Madhusudan |
Biological Sciences |
Molecular Analysis of recA gene in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides |
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Drake, Jasmine |
Forensic Sciences |
Chemical Profiling of Street-Seized Cannabis sativa L. Samples Using GC-MS Analysis |
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Liu, Qinzhong Hyuk Cho |
Computer Science |
Novel Smartphone Authentication, Data Protection, and Source Identification |
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Nair, Shyam |
Agricultural Sciences & Engineering Technology |
Optimal Water Allocation: Simulating Preliminary Data with DSSAT |
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Scarbrough, Amanda Steven Brown |
Health Sciences & Promotion |
Culturally Appropriate Interventions to Recruit URM into STEM |
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Shashidhar, Narasimha Cihan Varol |
Computer Science |
iBaTs: Interactive Bash Shell Adaptive Tutoring System |
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Tasca, Melinda |
Criminal Justice & Criminology |
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Solitary Confinement Placements |
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Wang, Jianzhong |
Mathematics & Statistics |
Autodidactic Iteration Schemes for Image Classification |
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