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Twenty-two Faculty Receive Faculty Research Assistants Funding for Fall 2020

The Office of Undergraduate Research is pleased to announce the recipients of the fall semester Faculty Research Assistants funding.  Awarded in the fall and spring semesters, Faculty Research Assistants funding provides $1,750 to each recipient, to cover compensation and supplies for an undergraduate research assistant. We are pleased to have awarded 22 faculty for the fall 2020 semester.  We congratulate these faculty recipients and commend them for their support of undergraduate research.

Frank Loeffler

College of Arts & Sciences, Microbiology

International Research Coordination Network for Creating Transdisciplinary Nodes of Food-Energy-Water to Support Sustainable Urban Systems (FEWSUS)”

Michael Blum

College of Arts & Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Determining the evolutionary implications of climate change”

Andreas Nebenfuehr

College of Arts & Sciences, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology

Fluorescent markers to study cell polarity in pollen grains”

Joseph Williams

College of Arts & Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Comparing breeding system traits of Micronesian island plants with mainland relatives”

Vasileios Maroulas

College of Arts & Sciences, Mathematics

Machine Learning in Chemistry”

Edward Schilling

College of Arts & Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Analysis of Rare Plant Species Using Molecular Barcoding Approaches”

Vitaly Ganusov

College of Arts & Sciences, Microbiology

Mathematical modeling of virus spread in plants: from local infection site systemically”

Shayla Nunnally

College of Arts & Sciences, Political Science

Recognizing the Under-Recognized Historical Achievements and Talent in Black High Schools in the Jim Crow Southern and Border States”

Leah Christiani

College of Arts & Sciences, Political Science

Identity Appeals in Congressional Advertising”

Barbara Murphy

College of Arts & Sciences, School of Music, School of Music

Expanding the Diversity of Musical Examples Used in Music Theory Classes”

Karen Boyd

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

 “In Their Words – An Activist’s Walking Tour of Montgomery 1960”

Frances Harper

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Theory & Practice in Education

Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics”

James Martinez

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

School Administrator Self-Efficacy During School Re-Opening during COVID-19 Pandemic”

Richard Gerhold

College of Veterinary Medicine, Parasitology

Investigating Prevalence in P. tenuis in Intermediate Host in East Tennessee”

Wendy Tate

Haslam College of Business, Supply Chain Management

International Research Coordination Network for Creating Transdisciplinary Nodes of Food-Energy-Water to Support Sustainable Urban Systems (FEWSUS)”

Yazhen Xiao

Haslam College of Business, Marketing Department

How will Alexa make your home smarter?”

Margaret Staton

Herbert College of Agriculture, Entomology and Plant Pathology

Alternative splicing as a key transcriptional regulatory mechanism in dormant buds and flowers from apricot and peach”

Jie Zhuang

Herbert College of Agriculture, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science

International Research Coordination Network for Creating Transdisciplinary Nodes of Food-Energy-Water to Support Sustainable Urban Systems (FEWSUS)”

Denita Hadziabdic-Guerry

Herbert College of Agriculture, Entomology and Plant Pathology

Conservation and Diversity Study of Endemic Tree, Mountain Stewartia (Stewartia ovata)”

Doris D’Souza

Herbert College of Agriculture, Food Science

Oil and Vinegar to Enhance Green Salad Safety”

Vermont Dia

Herbert College of Agriculture, Food Science

Exploring the co-products from hempseed oil processing”

Mingzhou Jin

Tickle College of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee

International Research Coordination Network for Creating Transdisciplinary Nodes of Food-Energy-Water to Support Sustainable Urban Systems (FEWSUS)”