OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Ryosuke Okuno

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
Project Title: Surface Active Amine for CO2 Capture as Bicarbonate

2023

Blair Johnson

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Mixing Processes in Stratified Turbulence

2022

Hugh Daigle

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Project Title: Predicting Microbial Gas Abundance on the U.S. East Coast

2021

James Tunnell

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Multimodal Confocal Microscope for Surgical Guidance

2021

Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Lung Organoids for Cancer Drug Screening

2020

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Conductive Hydrogels with Rapid In Situ Cure for Cardiac Pacing

2019

Paola Passalacqua

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Quantifying Sediment Connectivity to Inform Coastal Restoration

2018

Marissa Nichole Rylander

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Development and Utilization of a Vascularized In Vitro Skin Platform for Dynamic Characterization of Bacteria and Immune Cell Migration to Recapitulate Acute Wound Contamination

2018

Amy Brock

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomechanical Engineering
Project Title: Lineage Isolation in Primary Colorectal Cancers with a Functionalized Barcode Tool

2017

Navid Saleh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Harnessing the Power of Microwave to Inactivate Pathogens

2017

Vaibhav Bahadur

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Mapping the potential of landfill gas-based atmospheric water harvesting for oilfield operations

2016

Loukas Kallivokas

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Inverse metamaterial design for seismic shielding

2016

Nathaniel Lynd

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: A New Paradigm for the Synthesis of Degradable Biomedical Poly (ethylene oxide)

2016

Yuebing Zheng

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: A Novel Device for Detection and Collection of Intact Circulating Tumor Cells

2015

Hyun Jung Kim

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Human Gut Inflammation-on-a-Chip: A Microengineered Disease Model

2015

Salvatore Salamone

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: An Integrated Monitoring System for Corrosion Damage Assessment of Pipelines

2015

Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Probe molecular interactions along the 3D molecular trajectories in live cells

2015

Guihua Yu

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Rational Synthesis and Characterization of Facet-Controlled Two-Dimensional Crystals with Non-Layered Structures

2014

Hugh Daigle

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Project Title: Improving formation evaluation of mudrocks with NMR and X-ray mapping

2014

Chadi El Mohtar

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Feasibility Study on Implementing Measured Earthquake Ground Motions in Laboratory Testing for Post-Liquefaction Damage Evaluation

2014

Nicholas A. Peppas

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Overcoming Multidrug Resistance in Cancer With Multifunctional Nanoparticles

2013

Paola Passalacqua

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: A field investigation on the transport of environmental fluxes through deltas

2013

Donglei (Emma) Fan

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Nanomotors for Biosubstance Delivery and Detection with Subcellular Resolution

2013

Nanshu Lu

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: Flexoelectricity of Nanomaterials on Deformable Substrates

2013

Navid B. Saleh

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Effects of Doping on Fate and Transport of Hybrid Indium Tin Oxide Nanoparticles in Aquatic Environment

2013