Congratulations to the 16 faculty who received funding to support spring 2017 undergraduate research assistants. The faculty awardees and their projects are listed below.
Faculty Member Name (First) | Faculty Member Name (Last) | College | Home Department | Project Title |
Sue | Hamilton | College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | Plant Sciences | Development of ‘Best Practices’ for University Garden Plant Collection Database Designs |
William | Klingeman | College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | Plant Sciences | “Potential of Two Predatory Beetle Species as a Monitoring Tool for Walnut Twig Beetle Detection” |
Denita | Hadziabdic Guerry | College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | Entomology and Plant Pathology | “Pathogenicity and Co-Infection Potential of Two Plant Pathogenic Fungi that May Contribute to Severity of Thousand Cankers Disease in Walnut” |
Brian | Ambroziak | College of Architecture & Design | School of Architecture | “Disembodied Circle: A Twelve-Step Field Manual” |
Thomas K. | Davis | College of Architecture & Design | School of Architecture | NASHVILLE’S CHARLOTTE AVENUE HEALTHY CORRIDOR URBAN DESIGN STUDY |
Francisco | Barrera Olivares | College of Arts & Sciences | Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology | Pleiomorphic membrane peptides |
Stephen | Blackwell | College of Arts & Sciences | Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures | A Swing Through Vladimir Nabokov’s Trees (A Comprehensive Study) |
Jessica | Grieser | College of Arts & Sciences | English | Talking Place, Speaking Race: African Americans, English, and the Language of a Changing Local Identity. |
Paul | Harrill | College of Arts & Sciences | School of Art | Untitled Film Project |
Kandace | Hollenbach | College of Arts & Sciences | Anthropology | Analysis of Plant Remains from Late Precontact Contexts at the Topper Site, Aiken County, South Carolina |
Keerthi | Krishnan | College of Arts & Sciences | Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology | Discovering brain circuitry underlying a fine motor behavior in a female mouse model of Rett Syndrome |
Robert | Washington-Allen | College of Arts & Sciences | Geography | Cross-scale Analysis of Historical Patterns of Land Cover Change as a Driver for the Observed Decline in Bobwhite Quail Abundance |
Lars | Dzikus | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies | An Exploratory Study About the Experiences of Female Interscholastic Head Coaches in East Tennessee |
Katie | Kavanagh | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Nutrition | Online survey to assess maternal accuracy of infant spit-up quantification |
Kelley | Strohacker | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies | Towards Adapting Flexible Nonlinear Periodization for Untrained Adults: Exploring perceptions of aerobic exercise readiness and workload demand |
Ondrej | Chvala | College of Engineering | Nuclear Engineering | A Safe and Economical Nuclear Plant to Remediate the Woes of Weapons-grade Plutonium |