UIW Announces Faculty Research Awards

Dr. John Hooker wins Faculty Development Award

Dr. John Hooker, assistant professor of Environmental Science, was awarded the 1881 Commemorative Award for Faculty Development by the Faculty Research Award Committee. The 1881 Commemorative Award for Faculty Development Fund was established to celebrate 1881, the founding year of UIW, and to encourage faculty development. The goal is to foster professional development for faculty and to recognize the leadership of a faculty member in relation to the University’s Mission. Hooker will study the accelerating mineral CO2 sequestration at UIW

Recipients of the Faculty Endowment Research Award

The Faculty Endowment Research Award provides limited support for new and ongoing faculty research projects. The award is considered “seed money” for research. Honorees use the funds to begin projects and seek further funding from external sources if continued support is needed and normally available in their chosen area of research.

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

• Dr. David Armstrong: Dress Your Groundhog Like the Lone Ranger
• Dr. Teresa Partridge: Parent Shaming and Social Media

Dreeben School of Education

• Dr. Chunling Niu: Innovations for Evaluating the Mentoring Processes implemented at UIW'S Federally Funded FLIGHT (Financial Literacy, Integrated Guidance and Health Career Tracks) Grant Program

Feik School of Pharmacy

• Dr. Paulo Carvalho: Synthesis of 2,4-Diamino Derivatives with Antileshmanial Activity

School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering

• Dr. Rafael Adrian: Copper Complexes with N-Donor Ancillary Ligands As An Alternative to Platinum-Based Chemotherapy
• Dr. Michael Frye: Collaborative Teaming of Human and Robotic Systems
• Dr. Veronica Martinez-Acosta: Developing a Genetic Toolbox for the Study of Photoreception in a Successful Regenerating Model System
• Dr. Christopher Pierce: Efficacy of Novel HSP90 Inhibitors in the Galleria Mellonella Larvae Model of Disseminated Candidiasis

School of Osteopathic Medicine

• Dr. Roberto Fajardo: Addressing Inequities in Osteoarthritis Treatment

School of Physical Therapy

• Dr. Sara Luna: Comparing Burnout and Grit Levels in Doctor of Physical Therapy Students Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions

• Dr. Brittanie Lockard: Athlete Whey Protein Sensitivity: Prevalence and Performance

Recipients of the Faculty Workload Reassignment Award

The Faculty Workload Reassignment Award provides full-time faculty the opportunity to seek reassignment of workload responsibilities (25% time) in support of individual research and scholarship objectives relevant to their personal growth or to pursue special projects relevant to their departments or college/schools. Awards are granted for either the fall or spring semester.

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

• Dr. David Armstrong: Dress Your Groundhog Like the Lone Ranger
• Dr. Stefanie Boswell: Syllabus Teaching Philosophies' Effect on Academic Entitlement and Evaluations
• Dr. Luella D'Amico: Editing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Children's Writing for Oxford University Press's The Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dr. Benjamin Miele: Environmental Justice and Social Justice from Vergil to Shakespeare
• Dr. Horacio Vela: Las Casas and the Body of Christ

School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering

• Dr. Rafael Adrian: Copper Complexes with N-Donor Ancillary Ligands As An Alternative to Platinum-Based Chemotherapy
• Dr. Lale Asik: The Effects of Excess Food-Nutrient Content on the Coexistence of Competing Consumer Species
• Dr. Marieke Burleson: Solasonine as a Novel Treatment for MED12 Altered Breast Cancer

Recipients of the Faculty Graduate Research Award

The Faculty Graduate Research Assistantship Award provides faculty with research assistance for their scholarly endeavors leading to publication and to provide institutional financial support to graduate students within the context of a mentored research experience. The award is made for the fall and spring semesters.

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

• Dr. LuElla D'Amico*: Editing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Children's Writing for Oxford University Press's The Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dreeben School of Education

• Dr. Ann David: Twain and the Drs. David: A Literary Recovery Project
• Dr. Sandra Guzman-Foster: Paying It Forward: Mentoring Doctoral Students in the Research Process
• Dr. Chunling Niu: Innovations for Evaluating the Mentoring Processes Implemented at UIW's Federally Funded FLIGHT (Financial Literacy, Integrated Guidance and Health Career Tracks) Grant Program

Feik School of Pharmacy

• Dr. Paulo Carvalho: Synthesis of 2,4-Diamino Derivatives with Antileshmanial Activity

H-E-B School of Business and Administration

• Dr. Adesegun Oyedele: Building Local Capacity Through International Entrepreneurship: A Sustainable Cross Border Partnership

School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering

• Dr. Gonzalo De La Torre Parre: An Interpretable IDS Based on Shadowed Network Data Analysis for Detecting APT Attacks

Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions

• Dr. Brittanie Lockard: Athlete Whey Protein Sensitivity: Prevalence and Performance