University Research Awards 2007-2008
College Department Faculty Title Amount
College of Fine Arts and Communication
  Art Reinoldo Morales, Jr. The Angelim  Style in Northeast Brazil:  2008 Survey of Distribution and Relative Chronology $11,745.00
College of  Health and Behavioral Sciences
  Psychology Kenith Sobel Does an intuitive sense of physics underlie our perception of the world? $6,996.97
Physical Therapy Wen Wang Exploration of the Role of Ginkgo biloba extract in prevention of Prostate Cancer in an animal model $12,000.00
Nursing Donna Bridgeman & Steve McDonald Creating a SLICK Tool to Standardize the Assessment and Description of Pressure Ulcers $2,126.82
Psychology Julie Meaux, Kim Dielman, Erin Casey Animated Computer Education (ACE) for Adolescents with ADHD:  A Pilot Study $11,000.00
Psychology William Lammers, David Skotko, Elena Savina Faculty and Student Perceptions of Outstanding University Teachers in the United States and Russia $623.00
College of Liberal Arts
  Political Science Clay Arnold Culture, Community, & the Politics of Water:  The Frying pan-Arkansas Reclamation Project $5,277.00
History Roger Pauly Lilies  of the Jungle:  An Exploration of the British Church Missionary Society in the Age of Imperialsim $3,858.12
English Raymond-Jean Frontain Donne, Tagore and Narayan $1,700.00
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Physics/Astronomy Debra Burris Broadening Our Horizon:  New Zr and Y Abundances $2,620.00
Mathematics Clarence Burg Interactive Computational Science Website - Prototype Development $4,200.00
Chemistry Melissa Kelley & Lance Bridges Effect of Retinoids on Lymphocyte Metallprotease Mediated Shedding $6,500.00
Computer Science Yu Sun Joint Source-MIMO-Channel Rate Control for Wireless Videos $3,780.00
Biology Steve Dinkelaker Population dynamics of American Alligators in the Petiti Jean River System $4,549.00
Chemistry Micah Abrams Modeling Chiral Compounds in Solution $10,300.00
Physics/Astronomy Balraj Menon A symmetry analysis approach to gravitational waves $4,914.00
Biology David Starkey Genetics of Python Reproduction:  Should zoos be concerned about their futures? $9,429.00  
Biology Laurie Warren Comparative Toxicityof Atazine and Nitrate to Surface and Cave Amphipod Science $7,456.00
Physics/Astronomy William Slaton Using Remote Data Acquisition of High-Altitude Balloon Flights to Measure the Properties of the Atmosphere $1,089.00
Biology Katherine Larson Genetic basic of morphologic plastidity and its relationship to invasiveness in Lonicera vines $3,250.86
Total Awarded to Date 04/07 $113,414.77