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
Blair Johnson
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Mixing Processes in Stratified Turbulence
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
James Tunnell
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Multimodal Confocal Microscope for Surgical Guidance
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
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Conductive Hydrogels with Rapid In Situ Cure for Cardiac Pacing
Paola Passalacqua
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Quantifying Sediment Connectivity to Inform Coastal Restoration
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
Amy Brock
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomechanical Engineering Project Title: Lineage Isolation in Primary Colorectal Cancers with a Functionalized Barcode Tool
Navid Saleh
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering Project Title: Harnessing the Power of Microwave to Inactivate Pathogens
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
Loukas Kallivokas
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Inverse metamaterial design for seismic shielding
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)
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
Hyun Jung Kim
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Human Gut Inflammation-on-a-Chip: A Microengineered Disease Model
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
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
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
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
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
Nicholas A. Peppas
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Overcoming Multidrug Resistance in Cancer With Multifunctional Nanoparticles
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
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
Nanshu Lu
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Project Title: Flexoelectricity of Nanomaterials on Deformable Substrates
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