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)”