Research and Innovation

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Dr. Wissam Aboualaiwi - Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor 3 in the pathogenesis of polycystic kidney disease PKD.
• Dr. Malathi Krishnamurthy - Crosstalk between nucleic acid sensing and integrated stress response pathways in innate immunity.
• Dr. Ipe Ninan - Effect of Candida albicans on hippocampal synapses.
• Dr. Wei Niu - Identifying developmental pathways underlying autism impacted by loss of POGZ.
• Dr. Travis Taylor - Therapeutic insight from modeling reservoir host resistance to tick-borne flaviviruses

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Dr. Snejana Slantcheva-Durst - Pioneering Medical Education for Women.

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio - Specters of Hispaniola: Ephemera, Race, and Print.
• Dr. Minxuan Lan - A Spatial Analytical Approach to Assess the Impact of Toledo's Hollywood Casino on Local Crime.
• Dr. Dustin Pearson - Platonic Love: A Letterpress Artist Book.
• Dr. Iryna Pentina - Persuasion in the Context of Conversational Agents: Systematic Literature Review and Research Directions.
• Dr. Brandon Wood - A Preliminary Investigation of Ohio's Armed Teacher School Districts. 
• Eric Zeigler - EAT: Questioning the photography of our food.
• Dr. Qin Shao - Innovative Imputation Strategies for Time Series Data from Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications.

Research Innovation Program

• Dr. Srinivas Vinod Saladi - Targeting oncogenic driver mechanism defined by ACTL6A in squamous cancers.
• Dr. Ivana De La Serna - The Role of RAD21 in Uveal Melanoma Tumorigenesis.
• Dr. Zahoor Shah - Use of Novel Cofilin Inhibitor for Age-related neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Dr. Heather Conti - The immunological properties of newly discovered oral megakaryocytes.
• Dr. Terry Bigioni - Molecular Silver Clusters as Penetrating Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobials.
• Dr. Song-Tao Liu - Phenotypic Plasticity of Breast Cancer Cells in response to MCL1 inhibitors.
• Dr. Mahasin Osman - Probing the Molecular Determinants of Chemotherapy-induced Kidney Damage.

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Dr. Robert Smith - Kinome Arry Screening of Novel Hybrid PI3Ka/CDK7 Leads.
• Dr. David Bazett-Jones - Role of explicit and implicit expectations in the efficacy of musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Dr. Cin Cin Tan - The Role of Repetitive Exposure in Modifying Food Acceptance among Emerging Adults: A Study of Picky Eaters.
• Dr. Jennifer Stevens - The New Wave of Service Workers: An Investigation of Gig Worker Benefits.
• Dr. Jami Taylor - Public Opinion on Transgender Rights 2015-2024.
• Dr. Joey Kim - The Racialized Woman in Romanticism.
• Dr. Deborah Orloff - Elusive Memory: Lost Histories.
• Dr. Ala Qattawi - Material-By-Design Enabled by Additive Manufacturing: LPBF Sandwich Structure for Nickel Super Alloys and Refractory Metal for High Temperature and Strength Applications

Research Innovation Program

• Dr. Mohammad Elahinia - 3D Printing of Self-Expanding Stents: Model-Informed Design, Hemodynamics, and Fabrication.
• Dr. Guofa Liu - MiR-219a functions as a molecular switch to control spinal cord commissural axon guidance.
• Dr. Robert Blumenthal - Identifying Ortholog-Specific Inhibitors of Adenosylmethionine Synthetase.

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Dr. Shahnawaz Imam - Generation of human CAR-Treg cells for inducing immunological tolerance against diabetogenic T cells in the pancreatic islets of recent onset LADA patients.
• Dr. William Messer - Enhancing M1 muscarinic receptor activity for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
• Dr. Jennifer Peterson - Defining mechanisms of improved phenotype with miR146a overexpression in dystrophic mice.
• Dr. Lirim Shemshedini - Androgen down-regulation of BARD1/BRCA1 in prostate cancer cells.

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Dr. Bruce Bamber - Whole- network comoputational analysiss off sensory-driven behavior.
• Dr. Rammohan Shukla - The role of ribosomal heterogeneity in chronic stress.

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio - Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems (1855-1901).
• Dr. Daniel Compora - Talking Baseball: The Changing Role of Oral Traditions in America’s Pastime.
• Dr. Erica Czaja - Racial Reckoning Through Empathy? Mapping Emotions and Beliefs about Racial Inequality in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Crisis and 2020 Protests.
• Dr. Joseph Gamble - Trans philologies.
• Dr. Dae-Wook Kang - Discovering microbial biomarkers to strengthen wastewater SARS-CoV-2 surveillance.
• Dr. Clarissa Ong - Examining Individual Networks in Context: How Does Responding Change Across Contexts?
• Dr. Iryna Pentina - Artificial Intelligence Companions in Personal Consumer Services: Exploring Relationship Development and Addiction Potential.
• Dr. Mounika Polavarapu - Health technology as a ‘safety net’ in delivering perinatal healthcare: a qualitative study.
• Dr. Jeanine Refsnider-Streby - The gut microbiome as a biomarker of host and ecosystem health in high-salinity environments.
• Dr. Parma Sarkar - Empire State of Mind: Colonial nostalgia, Orientalist fantasy, and the Crisis of National Identity in British cultural production (2000-2020).
• Dr. Courtney Williams - Shocks and Turnover Intentions: An Affective and Temporal Investigation.

Research Innovation Program

• Dr. Qian Chen - The essential role of polycystins in kidney cell cytokinesis.
• Dr. Laura Mike - The determinants of klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infections.
• Dr. Isaac Schiefer - The synthesis and evaluation of novel dual mechanism EZH2/AR inhibitors for prostate cancer.

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• David Bazett-Jones & Grant Norte - Corticospinal Excitability adn Muscle Volumes of the Quadriceps and Gluteal Musclature Among Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain
• Dong-Shik Kim & Yuan Tang - Microfluidic Molecular Bio-Regonition Sensor for Virus Detection Using DNA Origami
• Rammohan Shukla & Robert Smith - Age-associated Changes in Kinome-transcriptome Coordination
• Kuo-Hui Su - Role of Heat Shock Factor 1 in Pancreatic Tumor Autophagy

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Kathryn Eisenmann
  Jason Schroeder, Andrea Kalinoski,
  Amit Tiwari, Robert Smith - Role of Formins in Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma Patient Cell Lines

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Heba Abdel-Rahim
  Kun Huo, Akram Khattab - Do Biometric-Based Incentives (Paying Employees Based on Biometric Captured by AI During Task Performance) Outperform Outcome-Based Incentives? Experimental Examination Using Eye-Tracking
• Sarah Crookston - "I'm Not Trying to Sell Abortion": The Staff and Volunteers Who Protect Abortion Access
• Renee Heberle - Feminism: The Basics forcoming from Routledge Publishers
• Liangbo Hu - Vulnerability of Post-Wildfire Soils to Landslide and Debris-flow Hazards: Examining Critical Soil Properties Associated with Erosion, Water Infiltration and Shear Failure
• Joey Kim - Romaticism and the Poetics of Orientation
• Mark R. Mason - Cationic Complexes of Aluminum for Activation of Small Molecules and Asymmetric Catalysis
• Rebecca Monteleone - Creating Accessible Journalism with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Michael Stauch - The Age of Community Policing: Governing Austerity in Detroit, 1967-2000
• Yuan Tang - A High Throughput Biomimetic Microfluidic Platform for Recapitulating Breast Cancer Metastasis
• Viranga Tillekeratne & William Taylor - Expansion of the SAR Profile of Ferroptosis-HDAC Inhibitor Hybrid Anticancer Agents
• Brandon Wood - School Administrators' Perspectives on Arming Educators in K-12 Schools: A National Investigation

Research Innovation Program

• James Burkett - A New Selective Breeding Line of Seizure-Susceptible Praire Voles
• Ritu Chakravarti & Beata Lecka-Czernick -Understanding Anti-Inflammatory Role of 14-3-3zeta in Inflammatory Artritis
• Rafael Garcia-Mata - Development New Imaging Tools to Study Invadopodia Formation in Live Metastic Cancer Cells
• Robert Smith - Kinomic Analysis of PBMCs in Renal Transplant Patients
• Amit K. Tiwari & F. Scott Hall - ABC Transporters as Targets for Drugs of Abuse

Publication Subvention Program

• Tyler S. Branson - Policy Regimes of Writing

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Wissam AbouAlaiwi 
• James Burkett - The Effects of Developmental Pyrethroid Pesticide Exposure on Mouse Brain Using Integrative Multiomics
• Lirim Shemshedini, Xiche Hu, Isaac Schiefer, Ronald Viola - Peptides Inhibiting EZH2 and AR in Prostate Cancer Cells

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Tomer Avidor-Reiss, Robert McCullum-Smith, Barbara Saltzman, Rammohan Shuckle, Puneet Sindhwani - Bicarbonate Induced Sperm Centriole Change

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Ann Carrellas - Making Friends: The Experiences of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Friendships
• Ann Chung Cheng - Sensitivity to Spanish Verbal Inflections in Second Language Processing: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
• An Dinh - Understanding the Current Assessment and Treatment Approaches to Lexical Tone Impairment Post-Stroke by Speech-Language Pathologist
• Joseph Gamble - Sex Lives of the Early Moderns
• Meysam Haghshenas - Very High Cycle Fatigue of Cast and Additively Manufacturing High-Performance A205 Aluminum Alloy
• Natasha Johnson - The Infusion of Chemistry Instruction and Metacognitive Learning Strategies into an Existing Summer Bridge Program: A Case Study
• Karie Peralta - Dominican Immigrant Experiences in the Midwest
• Joseph Schmidt - New Lanthanum-Centered Catalysts for Atom-Efficient Syntheses
• Jennifer Stevens - I'll Have What She's Having: The Influence of Social Scarcity Cues Online
• Jue Wang - Gender and Racial Diversity Among Investors and Stock Returns
• Courtney Williams - The Role of Discrete Emotions in Job Satisfaction: A Meta-Analytic Review
• Michael C. Young - Activation and Fixation of Carbon Dioxide Using Infrared Irradiation

Research Innovation Program

• Jason Huntley - Understanding How Tick Microbiomes Impact Infections by Bacterial Pathogens
• Frank Pizza - Myonuclear Positioning and Transcription During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
• Isaac Schiefer - Development of a Zebrafish Screen to Identify Agents Which Revers the Effects of Opioids

Publication Subvention Program

• Allyson Lesley Day - The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine and Crip Positionalities

Biomedical Research Innovation Program

• Matam Vijay-Kumar - Dissecting Hypocholesterolemia as a Novel Risk Factor Underlying the Predisposition Toward Diet-Induced Liver Cancer

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Bruce Bamber - How Does Serotonin Potentiate Nociception at the Whole-Brain Level? 
• Ritu Chakravarti - 14-3-3zeta- A Novel Suppressor of Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Erin Prestwich - Studies of Cellular Differentiation in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms
• Dayanidhi Raman - Targeting of elF4A1 in Drug-Resistant Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Allison Dey, Holly Hey, Sara Mouch, Joan Duggan -  HIV in the Rustbelt
• Song Qian, Qin Shao, Scott Heckathorn, Emanuela Gionfriddo - A Bayesian and Mixed Modeling Approach for Chemical Measurements Based on Calibration Curves

Research Awards & Fellowships

• John Bellizzi - Identification and Characterization of Novel Halogenating Biocatalysts
• James Bland - Statistical techniques for quantal response equilibrium
• Tyler Branson - Programmatic Approaches to Antiracist Policy   
• Erica Czaja - How Empathy and Sympathy motivate Changes in Behavior, Opinions, & Policy Support
• Wei Li  -Accelerated Pharmaceutical Synthesis via Regio- and Enantioselective Alkene
• Jyl Matson - Characterization of Environmental Vibrio Cholerae Strains from the Toledo Area
• Kim Nielsen - Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity
• Henry Streby - Drone-Based Telemetry for Tracking Free-Living Radio-Marked Birds
• Yanqing Xu - Spatial Analysis of Firearm & Non-firearm Use at Micro Places in Detroit, Michigan

Phase 0 SBIR/STTR Program

• Dong-Shik Kim- Anti-Fouling Surface Modification with Poly-Phenolic Compounds

Publication Subvention Program

• Kimberly Mack - Fade to Black: Blues Music and the Art of Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White

Visiting Faculty Researchers Program

• Bhuiyan Alam - Impacts of Climate Change on Travel Behavior: Comparisons Between Toledo, Ohio and Dhaka, Bangladesh

Archaeological Research Endowment Fund

• Melissa Baltus-Zych - Native American Floodplain Occupation During the Late Woodland Period: Geophysical Prospection at a Newly Recorded Archaeological Site Along the Maumee River

Biomedical Research Innovation Program

• Viviana Ferreira - Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms by Which Factor H Protects Trypanosoma Cruzi from Killing by the Complement System
• Song-Tau Liu - Understanding and Targeting MELK Overexpression in Breast Cancer Cells
• Frank Pizza - Skeletal Muscle Cell Expression of ICAM-1 in the Resolution of a Muscle Injury
• Jiang Tian - Dynamic Regulation of Collagen Synthesis, a Novel Strategy in Treatment of Cardiac Fibrosis

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Neal Glaviano - Hip Muscular Function in Females with Patellofemoral Pain Before and After a Rehabilitation Program
• Grant Norte - Adaptation in Quadriceps Motor Unit Characteristics after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
• Youssef Sari - Neuropharmacology of Opioids Role of Glutamate and Nitric Oxide
• Eda Yildirim-Ayan - Mechanically Dynamic Environment Mediated Immune Response for Enhanced Tendon Tissue Regeneration

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Andrea Kalinoski - A Rat Model of Arterial Stiffness
• Youngwoo Seo, et al - Harnessing Convergence to Find Solutions for Problems Associated with Harmful Algal Blooms (Nexus of Water, Food, Energy and Public Health)

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Aisling Coughlan - Osteoconductive 3D Printed Load Bearing Bioactive Glass Scaffolds
• Allyson Day - Gestational Ableism: Disability, Pregnancy, and Radical Futures
• Emanuela Gionfriddo - Development of Alternative Microextractive Sampling Strategies to Capture Elusive Plant Emissions Linked to Chemical Signaling Mechanisms in Response to Insect Attack
• Friederike Emonds - Memories of World War I: Re-Discovering the Lost Voices of German Women Writers
• Matthew Foss -  All Quiet on the Western Front Professional Production and Premier
• Serhan Guner - Rapid Prediction of Hurricane-Load Capacities of Anchor Bolts Using Artificial Neural Network Modeling
• Jason Levine & Kevin Xu - Machine Learning Approaches for Assessment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Using Commercial Wearables
• Kimberly Mack - We, Too, Write Rock and Roll: The Untold History of Early Rock Criticism
• Peter Mezo - The Conceptual Relationship Between Self-Management and Mindfulness
• Peter Teterin - What Do Option Markets Tell Us About the Information Content of Insider Trades?

Publication Subvention Program

• Manuel Montes - La Creacion Literaria Como Busqueda de Identidad el la Novela en Lengua Espanola
  (Creative Writing as an Aesthetic Identity Persuit in the Spanish Language Novel)
• Sujata Shetty - Urban Shrinkage, Industrial Renewal and Automotive Plants

Visiting Faculty Researchers Program

• Defne Apul - Development of a Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Assessment of Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystem Nexus for the Western Lake Erie Basin
• Mohammad Elahinia - Numerical Investigation on the Production of a Liquid Droplet Due to the Growth and Collapse of a Vapor Bubble Generated By a Local Energy Input 
• Matthew Tull - Collaboration Between The University of Toledo and the Karolinska Institute to Develop and Evaluate an Internet-Based Emotion Regulation Intervention for Preventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Frederick Williams - Impact of Bisphenol A and Heavy Metal Exposure: Link Between Type II Diabetes and Alzheimer's

Biomedical Research Innovation Program

• Ivana de la Serna - Inhibiting BRD9 in Melanoma
• Kathryn Eisenmann - Anti-Invasion Therapeutic Interventions with Small Molecules in Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Spheroids
• Rafael Garcia-Mata - Identification of Novel Regulators of Invadopodia Formation
• Kam Yeung - Characterization of miRNA as Negative Regulator of the Metastasis Suppressor Gene RKIP and Target for Anti-Metastasis Therapy in RKIP-Deficient Breast Cancer

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• William Crawley - Apical Assembly of Specialized 
• Erin Prestwich - Discovery of New Antibiotic Targets for Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infections Through Investigation of DNA Modifications
• Steve Sucheck - Probes for Chemical Proteomics in M. Tuberculosis and M. Abscessus
• Amit Tiwari - Inducing Methuophagy as a Novel Approach to Overcome Apoptosis Resistance in Colon Cancer

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Karen Green, et al - Big Data, Big Risk? The Consequences of Corporate Data Breaches
• Deborah Vestal, et al

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Tyler S. Branson - Policy Regimes of Writing
• Hao-Wei Chen - Improving Accessing to the Healthcare System Through Physicians' Panel Design
• Alimjon Eshmatov - KNOT INVARIANTS
• Collin Gilstrap - Examining the Capture Ratio
• David N. Jex - Music Composition of the Ballet "The Ugly Duckling"
• Bryan Lammon - Class Action Appeals
• Daryl Moorhead - Balancing Substrate Enzyme and Biomass Dynamics in an Analytical Model of Energy and Nutrient Interactions During Plant Litter Decay
• Reza Rizvi - Development and Characterization of Two-Way Dynamically Porous Polymers
• Xinghao Yan - The Analysis of the Strategies Adopted to Handle Customer Returns

STEM Research Innovation Program

• Jon Kirchhoff & Dragan Isailovic - New Materials for the Detection, Analysis, and Removal of Cyanotoxins

Publication Subvention Program

• Andrew Mattison - Solitude and Speechlessness: Obscure Ambitions in Renaissance Literature

Visiting Faculty Researchers Program

• Mohammad Elahinia - Fatigue Behavior of NITI Shape Memory Alloys: Experimental and Modeling Aspects
• Timothy Fisher - Volumetric Index of the Plankton (VIP) - Rapid Bioassessment of Plankton in teh Western Basin of Lake Erie

Biomedical Research Innovation Program

• Boyd Koffman - Autoimmune Induced Metabolic Bone Disease
• Donald Ronning - Screening Essential Mycobacterial Enzymes Using TB Active Compounds and Fragments

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Qian Chen - ADPKD Protein PC2 Interacts with the Hippo Pathway Kinase LATSI in Regulating Cell Proliferation
• Heather Requel Conti - Regulation of Innate Immune Cells by Compliment Factors During Fungal Infection
• Frank Hall - Evaluation of Attentional Deficits in Dopamine Transporter Knockout Mice
• Jyl S Matson - Development of a Screen for Novel Inhibitors of Colistin Resistance in Klebsiella Pneumoniae
• Timothy Mueser - Development of a High-Throughput Assay for Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibition

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Patricia F. Case, et al - Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Women and URM in STEM Disciplines
• Steven T. Haller, et al - Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutics Strategies for Microcystin Hepatotoxicity in Vulnerable Populations 

Phase 0 SBIR/STTR Program

• Dong Shik Kim - Detection of Reactive Oxygen Free Radicals (Ascense LLC)

STEM Research Innovation Program

• John Gray - Elucidation of Maize Cell Specific Gene Regulatory Network in Vivo

Summer Research Awards and Fellowships  

• Heba Yousef Mohamed Abdel-Rahim - The Effort of Incentives and Informal Controls Over the Reporting of Lower-Level Managers on the Reporting of Higher-Level Managers
• James R Bland - Quantifying the Cost of Behavioral Bias and Optimization Error in Risky Decision-Making
• Jeffrey Daniel Broxmeyer - Political Capitalism: The Party System in New York's Gilded Age
• Jason Matthew Cox - Selling Pre-K: Media, Politics and Policy in the Case of Universal Pre-Kindergarten in New York City
• Margaret Hopkins - Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Leadership
• Wei Li - Conversion of Feedstock Chemicals to Medicinally Relevant Structures 
• Ami Rebecca Pflugrad-Jackisch - The World of Westover: Mary Willing Byrd, Gender, and Slavery in West Virginia
• Saatvika Rai - Unpacking the Collaboration 'Black Box"- Analysis of 14 State Climate Adaption Plans in the United States
• Joseph Schmidt - The First Nickel Catalysts for Enantioselective Allene Hydroamination
• Hossein Sojoudi - A Micro-Nano Scale Approach for Enabling Flow Assurance Inside Oil and Gas Pipelines
• Brian Trease - Design and Characterization of Deployable Multifunctional Systems for Aerospace, Smallsats, & Aeronautics
• Yanqing Xu - GIS-based Analysis of Streetlights and Neighborhood Crime in Detroit, Michigan
• Kasumi Yamazaki - Towards integrative ICALL: Applicability of an intelligent system in JFL classrooms
• Evan C Zoldan - State Enforcement of Legislative Generality

Publication Subvention Program

• Matt Andrew Yockey - Publication Subvention request for Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe

Visiting Faculty Researchers Program

• Sai Hanuman Sagar Boddu - Development and Characterization of Tanshinone IIA Microparticles for Sustained Therapy in Age Related Macular Degeneration
• Thomas B Bridgeman - Basic and Applied Research on Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms (cHABS) in the Maumee River and Lake Eire  

Biomedical Research Innovation Program

• Kenneth Hensley - Proof-of-Concept that CRMP2 is a Target for Treating ALS
• Jennifer E. W. Hill - Investigating the Role of the MC4R Oxytocin Signaling in Regulating Female Sexual Behaviors

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Wissam AbouAlaiwi - Primary Endothelial Cilia as Therapeutic Targets for Hypertension in Polycystic Kidney Disease
• Terry Hinds - Glucocorticoid Receptor Beta and Prostate Cancer in African American Men
• Sophie Lalande - Effect of Intermittent Hypoxia on Aerobic Capacity in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
• Joshua Park - A Novel Neurotrophic Polysaccharide, Midi-GAGR

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• David J. Kennedy, Bruce S. Levison, Jianglong Zhu
  Steven T. Haller, Jiang Tian - Counter Regulatory Mechanisms of Cardio-Renal Disease

Phase 0 SBIR/STTR Program

• Paul Erhardt - Scientific Nature of the Opportunity That Can Be Developed into a Marketable Technology

STEM Research Innovation Program

• Constance Schall - Platform Chemicals for Advanced Materials from Renewable Feedstocks.

Summer Research Awards and Fellowships  

Arts and Humanities

• Holly Hey - The Garden Project:  The Shifting Politics of Contemporary Kitchen Gardening
• Kimberly Mack - Fade to Black:  Blues Music and the Art of Narrative Self-Invention from Robert Johnson to Jack White
• Pamela Stover - Music in African American One-Room Schools
• Melissa Valiska-Gregory - Maternal Elegy and Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry

Social Sciences

• Gregory Gilchrist - The Potential Targeting Individuals for Corporate Crime
• Shelley Cavalieri - Land Banking:  Land Reform in America's Legacy Cities
• Richard Johnson - Does a Nuisance Abatement Law Reduce Crime and Calls for Service
• Elizabeth McCuskey - Social Media Spoliation and Preservation
• Karie Jo Peralta - Understanding Non-Profit Leaders' Experiences of Engaging in Community Development with Migrants of Haitian Descent in the Dominican Republic
• M. Joel Voss - Norm Contestation at the United Nations Human Rights Council
• Kainan Wang - Investigating in Mutual Funds:  With or Without institutional Investors?

Science, Math & Engineering

• Serhan Guner - Development of a Numerical Simulation for Buildings Under Extreme Loads
• Trieu Le - Commuting Toeplitz Operators in Several Variables
• Jeanine Refsnider - How Many Moments in the Sun? Using Lizards to Challenge the Paradigm on Predicting Species' Response to Climate Change
• Akaki Tikaradze - Differential Equations and Prime Numbers

Visiting Faculty Researchers Program

• David Giovannucci

Archaological Research Endowment Fund

• Melissa Baltus Zych - Social Movement: The Timing and Origin of Transformed Material Identities During the Decline of Cahokia

Biomedical Research Innovation Program

• Lirim Shemshedini - A Novel Pro-Survival Complex in Prostate Cancer Cells Targeting p53 and sGCa

DeArce-Koch Memorial Endowment Fund in Support of Medical Research & Development

• Sai HS. Boddu - Electrospun Ophthalmic Inserts for Extended Delivery of Bimatroprost in Glaucoma Therapy
• Luke Donovan - Development of the Biomechanical Ankle Assessment Tool
• Welivitya Karunarathne - Optical Interrogation of G Protein Subunit Function in Cancer Cell Migration
• Travis Taylor - Control of Dengue Virus Pathogenesis by TRIM2
• Kam Yeung- Defining Mechanisms of Metastasis Suppressor RKIP in Breast Cancer Metastasis

Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award

• Kathryn Eisenmann, William Maltese, Frederick Williams &
  Andrea Kalinowski - Establishing a Zebrafish Xenotransplantation Model for Screening Anti-Cancer Compounds at The University of Toledo
• Frank Scott Hall, Youssef Sari, Bryan Yamamoto & Kenneth Hensley - Mechanisms of Toxicity in Cathinone Derivatives ("bath salts")

Phase 0 SBIR/STTR Program

• Sarit Bhaduri - Calcium Phosphate Bone Growth Substitutes

Summer Research Awards and Fellowships  

Arts and Humanities

• Ammon Allred - How to Not do Things With Words: Derrida, Celan and Ideal Performity
• Allyson Day - Developing a Disability Bioethics: Exploring HIV Narrative Production, Circulation and Reception Among AIDS Service Workers
• Dan Hernandez - Genesis: Breaking the Rules
• Gaby Semaan - Understanding the Cultural Identify of French Arabs
• Ben Stroud - Inherited Horrors: A New Untitled Novel

Social Sciences

• Kara Bruce - Closing Consumer Bankruptcy's Enforcement Gap
• Jetsabe Caceres - Turning the tide: Twitter and Puerto Rico's 2012 Political Status Referendum
• Jami Taylor - Public Opinion on Transgender Rights