Internal UMBC Funding Opportunities

FY 2010 SRAIS Award Winners and Abstracts

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Laura Lewis, Geography & Environmental Systems
Title:  Evaluation of Africian rice (Oryza glaberrima):  adoption of inmpoved germplasm and maintenance of genetic diversity in Benin, West Africa

$20,000

Linda Dusman, Music
Title:  I Resound Press

$20,000

Gul Seckin, Sociology & Anthropology
Title:  Development and Testing Efficacy of Patient Centered and Health Information and communication Technology (PC-HICT) Integrated Medical Care Model:  A longitudinal Randomized clinical Trail          

$20, 000

Wendy Salkind, Theatre
Title: Interpreting and Recording the Works of Gertrude Stein

$4,500

Calla Thompson, Visual Arts
Title:  Questioning Reality:  Power and the Hyper Real in Photography

$4,800

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Timothy Vadas, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Title:  The effects of DOC and biological activity on metal retention and mobility in bioretention systems

$20,000

Vandana Janeia, Information Systems
Title:  Discovery of Spatio-Temporal and Semantic windows across Multiple Domains

$20,000

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Michelle Starz Gaiano, Biological Sciences
Title:  Characterization of changes in cell adhesion during exit from an epithelium

$19,364

Philip Farabaugh, Biological Sciences
Title:  Sense Codon Termination to maintain accuracy in protein synthesis

$20,000

Elsa Garcin, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Title:  Structural Biochemistry of soluble guanylate cyclase

$20,000

Xiao Wang, Mathematics & Statistics
Title:  Nonparametric Analysis of combination Studies of Drugs

$20,000

Social Work

Shelly Wiechelt, Social Work
Title:  Effectiveness and Usefulness of the Seeking Safety program with Urban Native Americans
$20,000.00