May 14, 2024
During the 2023-24 academic year, the University of Missouri awarded 44 Research Council Grants — investments that led to book contracts, juried performances, art exhibits, peer-reviewed articles and the generation of pilot data for grant proposals.
These internal grants of up to $15,000 each support research, scholarship and creative endeavors that contribute to how competitive the university’s grant proposals are for external funding. Since 2019, MU has supported 195 projects with over $2 million in investments.
Funded projects, 2023-24 academic year
Arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences
- Claire Altman - Climates of Exclusion and Immigrants' Occupational Health
- Katina Bitsicas - Glyphosate Dreams
- Tasha Childs - Exploring Teacher Motivators and Detractors to Participation in PK-12 Teacher Racial Bias Interventions
- David Crespy - Edward Albee Archival Research
- Julia Gaines – Completion of Method Book and Video Series for Four-Mallet Marimba
- Aileen Garcia - Applying the Job Demands-Resources Theory in Examining the Job Satisfaction of Home-Based Child Care Providers in Missouri
- Noah Heringman – The Letters of Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Bill Horner - Tim Miller and the Politics of Performance
- Jennie Ikuta - White Losses: Moral Psychology and the Demands of Racial Justice
- Stephen Karian - English Digital Images for Oxford Pope Poems Edition
- Antoinette Landor - Understanding Skin Lightening and the Range of Colorism Experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Trudy Lewis - FestZero: A Novel-in-Progress, Travel to Monteagle/Sewanee, Tennessee
- Brian MacNeel - Angel Hair
- Michael Marlo – Linguistic Description of the Meru Dialect Cluster in Kenya
- Laura Morett - Illuminating the Neural Substrates of Abnormal Gesture-Speech Integration and Social Communication in ASD: An fNIRS Pilot Study
- Moshe Naveh-Benjamin - Temporal Dynamics in Young and Older Adults’ Encoding and Retrieving of Different Memory Representations
- Hannah Paul - Does Intergroup Empathy Bias Influence How Race Affects Support for Resettled Refugees?
- Yerina Ranjit – Mobile Health and Access to HIV/STI Prevention Among LGBTQ+ Migrants in Italy: An Exploratory Study
- Nancy West - Moviemade Girl
- Andrea Wycoff - Effects of Cannabis Use on Alcohol Processes in Adults Seeking Alcohol Treatment
- Minseok Yang - Demystifying Pathways to Principalships: Certification Acquisition, Job Application and Hiring Results of Principal Applicants
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Lesa Beamer - Obtaining Preliminary Data on Enzyme Structure for CryoEM Studies
- Wesley Bernskoetter - Catalysts for Sustainable Acrylate Chemicals
- Anand Chandrasekhar - To Eat or Not? Modulation of Motor Behavior in a Vertebrate Neural Circuit
- Libby Cowgill - Ancestral Effects on Human Thermoregulation
- Mark Daniels – The Role of the Scaffold Molecule POSH in B Cells
- Richard Ferrieri - Validating a New Grafting Approach for Maize Using Radiotracer Imaging and Nuclear Counting Techniques at MURR
- Diana Gil Pagés - Development and Characterization of a Novel Murine Model of Canine Osteosarcoma to Study Performance of T Cell-Targeted Immuno-Therapeutics
- Samniqueka Halsey - Identifying Tick-Borne Pathogen Prevalence Among Prairies in Central Missouri
- Xiao Heng - Development of a Critical Module of a Self-Tunable mRNA Circuit to Control Cellular Protein Levels
- Kun-Eek Kil - Collaborative Research for the Development of Carbon-11 PET Radiotracers for Mu-Opioid Receptors
- Kimberly Laffey – Differential Gene Expression Programs Activated by Early αβ TCR Signaling in Development and Leukemia
- Jacqueline Limberg - Impact of Menopause on the Vascular Response to Hypoxia and the Role of β-Adrenergic Receptors
- Jian Lin - 4D Printing of Personalized Left Atrial Appendage Occluders for Atrial Embolism Patients
- Hyeong Suk Na - Optimal Deployment of Capacitated Fast-Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles on a Directed Highway Network
- Kylee Rucinski - Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery Pain Management Program
- Shramik Sengupta - Microfluidic Platform for On-Demand High Throughput Capture and Release of Circulating Tumor Cells
- Neekun Sharma - The Role of Endothelial Cell Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Patrick Shiu - Identification of Silencing-Deficient Mutants in Neurospora
- Emma Teixeiro-Pernas - Identifying Novel Factors That Control Long-Term Immunity Against Respiratory Infections
- Steven Van Doren - Enzyme Controlling Synthesis of Oils and Biofuel in Crops: Validation of Structural Models
- Carissa White - ScanBright: A Transformative Mobile App for Radiology Education
- Yao Zhai - Exploration of Optical Metamaterials for Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Nexus
- Zipei Zhang - Development of Novel Biofilm Inactivation Adjuvants to Enhance Food Safety
