FY12 TIER 1 Award Recipients
28 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY12 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different research projects.
- Probing the Intersection of Pleasure and Pain: An Electrophysiology and fMRI Analysis of the Prefrontal Cortex Circuitry
Craig Ferris (Psych), Robert Sikes (PT/SUNY Med), Barbara Waszczak (Pharm Sci) - Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Heterostructures for Advanced Photodetection and Photovoltaics
Swastik Kar (Phys), Yung J. Jung (MIE) - Assessment of Effects of Central Fatigue on Cognitive, Motor, and Sensory Function
Dagmar Sternad (Bio & ECE), Therese O’Neil-Pirozzi (Speech), Ying-Yee Kong (Speech), Deniz Erdogmus (ECE) - Self-assembly of a Biological Clock
Fred Davis (Bio), Ferdi Hellweger (CEE) - Visualizing Speech Melody to Improve Second Language Expressive Fluency in Adolescents
Rupal Patel (Speech), Isabel Meirelles (Communication Design), Sheelah Sweeny (Educ ) - Fluorescent Sensors for Visualizing Dynamics in Dendritic Spines
Heather Clark (Pharm Sci) - Shortfall – A Computer Game to Teach Sustainability in Engineering and Business
Jackie Isaacs (MIE), Tom Cullinane (STE), Brian Sullivan (Art) - Exploiting Innate Mucosal Immunity for Acute, Safe and Facile Response to Biowarfare
Rebecca Carrier (CE), Jeff Ruberti (MIE), Dave Budil (Chem) - Interdisciplinary Studies to Explore the Viability of Pulmonary Surfactant as a Drug Delivery System for the Lung
Andrew Gouldstone (MIE), Rebecca Carrier (CE) - Solid-Mechanics Approach to Micro-organism Adhesion-Aggregation-Transportation
Kai-tak Wan (MIE), April Gu (CEE), Sinan Muftu (MIE) - Water Quality Improvement: Self-powered Hydrogen Production, Donor Delivery and Monitoring System for Bio-remediation
April Gu (CEE), Sanjeev Mukerjee (Chem), Akram Alshawabkeh (CEE), Edgar Goluch (CE), Kim Lewis (Bio) - Theoretical Study of the Vibration of Inclined Stays in Cable Stayed Bridges
Luca Caracoglia (CEE), Bernardo Barbiellini (Phys) - Exploiting Regenerative Capacity of Amphibian Matrix for Retinal Regeneration
Rebecca Carrier (CE), Marina Hincapi (BARN) - Forming an Interdisciplinary Team to Investigate Science of Cold Spray
Sinan Muftu (MIE), Andrew Gouldstone (MIE), Dave Kaeli (ECE) - Next Generation Capture and Release Coatings for Microfluidic Separation of Stem Cell
Shashi Murthy (CE), Sunny Zhou (Chem) - Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Polymerase Management
Mark Williams (Phys), Penny Beuning (Chem) - Using Computer Games to Diffuse Suitable Innovations
Ann McDonald (Art), Rosanna Garcia (CBA), Mark Sivak (MIE) - Improving Risk Prediction for Sudden Cardiac Death through Multiscale Computational Modeling of Microvolt T-Wave Alternans
Dana Brooks (ECE), Alain Karma (Phys)