CLEVELAND – 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s Office of Research is pleased to announce the 2013-2014 winners of the Dissertation Research Awards, the Faculty Research and Development Awards and the Faculty Scholarship Initiative Awards. These awards will support research by doctoral students and faculty members across a broad range of disciplines, encompassing the arts, sciences, humanities and professions.

Click here to view the full list of Dissertation Research Award winners.

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Click here to view the full list of Faculty Scholarship Initiative Award winners.

"The breadth of the research proposals submitted by the winners reflects 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s ongoing commitment to a wide variety of local, regional, national and global research priorities,"said Dr. Jerzy Sawicki, vice president for research at 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·. "The selection process was very competitive. Congratulations to all of the doctoral students and faculty members whose proposals were chosen."

Proposals were reviewed by the University Research Council. All told, 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s Office of Research awarded nearly $290,000 to fund 35 research projects.

With $55 million in annual research and development expenditures, 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ· ranks among the top 20 percent of universities in the United States for R&D, according to the National Science Foundation. 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has nearly quadrupled its R&D spending in recent years.

91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s Office of Research announces Dissertation Research Award winners

CLEVELAND – 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2013-2014 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) proposals – and congratulate the following doctoral students on their successful DRA proposals:

Venkat Bobba, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor John Turner, High Fidelty Raman Imaging of Biomaterials Using an Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter, $5,000.00.

Hua Chai, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fenn College of Engineering, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Wenbing Zhao, Application-Aware Byzantine Fault Tolerance, $3,000.00.

Snigdha Chennamaneni, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Bin Su, Synthesis and anti-cancer mechanism investigation of Indomethacin analogs, $5,000.00.

Jonathan Damsel, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor John Turner, Development of a Brillouin-Raman Microscope for Nondestructive Imaging of the Elastic Properties and Chrystalline Character in Polymer Implants, $5,000.00.

Dawei Du, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fenn College of Engineering, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Dan Simon, Biogeography-Based Optimization of Complex Systems, $4,970.00.

Kurt Farrell, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Fenn College of Engineering, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Chandra Kothapalli, Design and development of 3D ECM scaffolds for targeted differentiation of embryonic stem cells into neural and glial lineages, $4,944.00.

Sujata Jha, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Anton Komar, Understanding the impact of synonymous codon usage on protein folding and disease origin, $5,000.00.

Maura Krestar, Department of Psychology, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Conor McLennan, Examining the effects of processing time, age, valence, and variation in emotional intonation on spoken word recognition, $5,000.00.

Brian Krupp, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fenn College of Engineering, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Wenbing Zhao, Enhanced Security and Privacy for Mobile Computing Systems, $3,000.00.

Rati Lama, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Bin Su, Three-dimensional multicellular spheroid models: A reliable tool for selection of promising anti-cancer drug candidates, $5,000.00.

Robert Laverne, Department of Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Wendy Kellogg, Loss of Urban Forest Canopy and the Effect on Soundscape with Implications for Human Directed Attention, $5,000.00.

Ryan Madden, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fenn College of Engineering, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Jerzy Sawicki, Development of Robust Control Oriented Model Validation for Estimation of Uncertainty and Disturbance Bounds in Actively Controlled Systems, $5,000.00.

Teresa Markis, Department of Psychology, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Conor McLennan, Attentional bias to body-related stimuli in young and middle age females: The role of eating disorders and thin ideal priming, $4,968.00.

Darshana Poddar, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Barsanjit Mazumder, Elucidation of the extra-ribosomal function of ribosomal protein L13a in resolving inflammation in the body, $10,000.00.

William Samsa, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Roman Kondratov, The Role of the Circadian Clock in the Regulation of Osteoporosis, $5,000.00.

Ranjodh Sandhu, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Bibo Li, Telomere maintenance in Trypanosome brucei, $5,000.00.

Jing Wang, Department of Finance, Monte Ahuja College of Business, Doctoral Advisor: Professor Haigang Zhou, Three Essays on Pricing and Volume Distributions of Cross-listed stocks, $5,000.00.

The Office of Research wishes all of these doctoral students the best of luck with their research.

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91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s Office of Research announces Faculty Research and Development Award Winners

CLEVELAND – 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2013-2014 Faculty Research and Development (FRD) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FRD proposals:

David Anderson, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions, LC-MS/MS Profiling of Gangliosides in Retina: Application to Glaucoma, $24,870.

Anthony Berdis, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Studies Toward Developing Personalized Medicines Against Leukemia, $25,000.

Benjamin Clark, Department of Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Identifying Health Disparities Using Individual Electronic Medical Records (EMR), $23,343.

Nolan Holland, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Fenn College of Engineering, Characterization of Drug Loading and Stability in Theranostic Nanoparticles, $25,000.

Anton Komar, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, A mouse model to study alternative initiation pathways, $25,000.

Girish Shukla, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions, Targeting Androgen Receptor Gene Function by MiRNAs in Prostate Cancer, $25,000.

Rongjun Sun, Department of Sociology and Criminology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Re-examining the Role of Social Engagement in an Era of Global Aging, $5,380.

The Office of Research wishes all of these faculty members the best of luck with their research.

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91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s Office of Research announces Faculty Scholarship Initiative Award winners

CLEVELAND – 91¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2013-2014 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Cheryl Bracken, School of Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Examining the influence of age on attention, usability, enjoyment, and sensations of telepresence in mobile media contexts, $4,608.00.

Kathy Curnow, Department of Art, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, At Home in Africa: Pleasing Irregularity in Non-Industrial Design; funding for research and existing photos for a 200-page exhibition catalogue in print and interactive iBook formats, $4,635.00.

Heba El Attar, Department of Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The Rising Eye: The Christian Palestinian Diaspora in Latin America, $4,635.00.

Karla Hamlen, Department of Curriculum and Foundations, College of Education and Human Services, Learning from Problem-Solving Styles in Video Games and in Academics, $4,635.00.

Raymond Henry, Department of Computer and Information Science, Monte Ahuja College of Business, The Role of Cognitive Effort in Technology Use, $4,250.00.

Jennifer Jeffers, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Samuel Beckett and the Archival Event: Rewriting the Beckett Canon, $4,537.40.

Wendy Kellogg, Department of Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Transforming Sustainability: Social Ecology of a Blue-Collar City and Its Region, $4,635.00.

James Marino, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Hamlet Unzipped: Role-based Revision in Shakespeare’s Playhouse, $4,635.00.

Haifeng Qian, Department of Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Labor Market Knowledge, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy, $4,635.00.

Stephanie Ryberg Webster, Department of Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and Urban Development: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Cities, $4,635.00.

Robert Shelton, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Cotton, Fruit, and the Reconfiguration of Space and Citizenship In Galveston, Texas, 1865-1900, $4,622.70.

The Office of Research wishes all of these faculty members the best of luck on their scholarship projects.

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