2015-2016 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) Award Announcement

The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2015-2016 Dissertation Research Award (DRA) proposals – and congratulate the following doctoral students on their successful DRA proposals:

Serena Alexander
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$5,500.00

Evaluation of State Level Climate Action Plans


Ghaith Altawallbeh
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$2,000.00

Enzyme-Membrane Interaction: Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase On Nanoscale Phospholipid-Lipoprotein Discs


Irina Bransteter
CASAL
College of Education and Human Services
$2,937.00

Bosnian Refugees' Understanding of Their Health and Well-Being in a U.S. Context


Candice Clouse
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$3,216.00

The Role of Place Image in Business Location Decisions in Legacy Cities


Anvesh Dasari
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Using modified and non-natural nucleotides to define the pro-mutagenic replication of 8-oxo-guanine


Jayeeta Dhar
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$3,000.00

Mechanism of suppression of host interferon response by pneumonia virus of mice


Leanna Ergin
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Reduction of Hyperspectral Image Data for Rapid Chemical Domain Detection


Qianyang Huang
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Development of LC/MS/MS methods for quantification of gangliosides in biomedical studies


Sara Incera
Department of Psychology
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Bilingualism across the lifespan: Age and language proficiency are continuous variables


Sheronica James
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Washkewicz College of Engineering
$4,999.00

A Transcranial Device and Method for Detecting Cerebellar Brian Motion


Subhra Nag
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Effect of Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1a  on Functional Phenotype of Renal Epithelial Cells


Aritree Samanta
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$4,650.00

Policy is what we make of it: An interpretive study of governance within the Cuyahoga River Watershed


Rima Sandhu
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Analysis of a new pathway that controls chromosome  break repair during meiosis


Celalettin Topbas
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$4,200.00

Investigation of ApoA-1 dimerization in solution by hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry


Nikkhil Velingkaar
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,500.00

Interaction of internal clocks to regulate rhythms in metabolic activity


Dan Wang
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Investigation of Enzymatic Desialylation of Immune Cells and Their Cell Surface Sialylation Features


Hao Wang
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Roles of N-glycans in Human Corin Biosynthesis and Phenotypic Analysis of Gorin-Deficient Mice in Pregnancy


Qiaoyun Zheng
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$3,000.00

Investigation  of the Role of LRG-1 in Cell Migration and Cancer Metastasis

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