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Faculty Investment Program (FIP) - Previous Awardees

FY2023

Principal InvestigatorAcademic UnitProject TitleAmount Funded
Daniel SimonEnglishWorld Literature: From High Modernism to the Presnt Day, 1925-2025 $                15,000.00 
Shuozhi XuAerospace and Mechanical EngineeringHigh-fidelity prediction of nickel agglomeration in nickel-yttria stabalized zirconia anode in solid oxide fuel cells $                14,997.51 
Shanteri SinghChemistry & BiochemistryFacile synthesis of S-adenosyl-L-methionine analogs $                15,000.00 
Manata HashemiInternational & Area StudiesTarnished: Dignity and Work in Iran $                15,000.00 
Garret OlberdingHistoryLying to the Emperor: Political Misinformation in Early China $                12,221.00 
Sandra TarabochiaEnglishResearch si the Poetry: Petic Inquiry for Writing Studies Researchers $                11,393.07 
Michael GivelPolitical ScienceBhutan and Sikkim 17th to 20th Century Diplomatic Digital Archives $                10,000.00 
Kianoosh HatamiCivil Engineering and Environmental ScienceMSE Walls for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure and Urban Development $                15,000.00 
Tomasz PrzebindaMathematicsResearch in Representation Theory of Reductive Groups $                  2,800.00 
Rakhi RajanChemistry and BiochemistrySingle particle cryo-Electron Microscopy structures of Cas protein-nucleic acid complexes $                15,000.00 
Asa RandallAnthropologyMaking an account of settler colonial impacts to Native American cultural heritage on the St. Johns River, Florida $                15,000.00 
Elyse Ona SingerAnthropologyRemaking Mexican Death: Searching for Dignity at the Ends of Life $                15,000.00 
Waleed MahdiModern Languages, Literature, & LinguisticsRe-Creating Yemen in Egypt and Malaysia $                15,000.00 
Michael WengerCenter for Applied Social ResearchUsing perceptual learning to attenuate the other race effect in recognition memory  $                15,000.00 
Joe AlbertiDramaMy Dearest Friend (Play) and Reconstructing a Historic Dialect (Book) $                11,390.50 
Kelly FeilleInstructional Leadership and Academic CurriculumDeveloping the ECSOP: Observing Evidence of Science Learning in Early Childhood $                13,802.60 
Igor LipinskiSchool of MusicPiano Illusions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland $                15,000.00 
Michelle Velasqueuz-PottsWomen's and Gender StudiesSuspended Animation: The Rise of Force-Feedng in Carceral Times $                  9,901.00 
Chrstina BourneChemistry and BiochemistryStructure-function studies of gryase and oxysterol binding proteins $                14,930.00 
Yeji YiInterior DesignDevelopment of Interactive Virtual Reality Multi-Sensory Environments: Participatory Research  $           15,000.00 
Tiziana ProiettiInterior Design & ArchitecturePsychophysics of Arcitectural Proportion. An Interdisciplinary Program of Research$13,800.00
Lee KrumholzMicrobiology and Plant BiologyMicribial Interactions in Methane Oxidizing Microbial Communities $14,940.00
Natalie Wenzell LetsaInternational and Area StudiesBook Workshop for: "The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship"$4,270.00
Adam GreenPhilosophyEmpirical Perspectives on Religious Experience and Disappointment$15,000.00
William EndresEnglishRecovering Lost Content in Cultural Heritage: Building a Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging System$11,105.00
Amy OlberdingEconomicsAn Undertaking of Confusions: Philosophical Reflections on Bereavement$15,000.00
Alison KoenkaEducational PsychologyMathematics Tracking, Feedback Experiences, and Motivation in Black and Latino Students: A Community-Engaged Investigation$14,558.86
Piers HaleHistory of Science, Technology, and MedicineEvolution in Victorian Britain. Routledge Primary Sources Collection.$8,660.00
Yitong DongChemistry and BiochemistryPolariton assisted hole transfer on a single quantum dot/organic interface$15,000.00
Tiziana ProiettiInterior Design & ArchitecturePsychophysics of Arcitectural Proportion. An Interdisciplinary Program of Research$13,026.35
Lee KrumholzMicrobiology and Plant BiologyMicribial Interactions in Methane Oxidizing Microbial Communities $13,135.31
Natalie Wenzell LetsaInternational and Area StudiesBook Workshop for: "The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship"$13,244.27
Adam GreenPhilosophyEmpirical Perspectives on Religious Experience and Disappointment$13,353.24
William EndresEnglishRecovering Lost Content in Cultural Heritage: Building a Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging System$13,462.20
Amy OlberdingEconomicsAn Undertaking of Confusions: Philosophical Reflections on Bereavement$13,571.16
Alison KoenkaEducational PsychologyMathematics Tracking, Feedback Experiences, and Motivation in Black and Latino Students: A Community-Engaged Investigation$13,680.12
Piers HaleHistory of Science, Technology, and MedicineEvolution in Victorian Britain. Routledge Primary Sources Collection.$13,789.08
Yitong DongChemistry and BiochemistryPolariton assisted hole transfer on a single quantum dot/organic interface$13,898.05
Tiziana ProiettiInterior Design & ArchitecturePsychophysics of Arcitectural Proportion. An Interdisciplinary Program of Research$14,007.01
Lee KrumholzMicrobiology and Plant BiologyMicribial Interactions in Methane Oxidizing Microbial Communities $14,115.97
Natalie Wenzell LetsaInternational and Area StudiesBook Workshop for: "The Autocratic Voter: Partisanship and Political Socialization under Dictatorship"$14,224.93
Adam GreenPhilosophyEmpirical Perspectives on Religious Experience and Disappointment$14,333.89

FY2022

Principal InvestigatorAcademic UnitProject TitleAmount Funded
Julie GerlingerSociologyNeighborhood Sergregation, School Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School$14,596.07
Kianoosh HatamiCivil Engineering and Environmental ScienceFeasibility Study on the Use of Recycle Polymer Fibers for FRS$15,000.00
Michelle Morias de Sa e SilvaInternational and Area StudiesHuman Rights Bureaucrats: state agents as bearers of human rights values. The case of Brazil$13,700.00
Jill Hicks-KeetonReligious StudiesGood Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves$14,676.34
John LeversoSociologyExploring Gang Interactions on the Digital and Geographic Street: A Study of Chicago Latinx Gangs$14,973.00
Negar MatinInterior Design - ArchitectureComprehensive Daylight Optimization for Responsive Facades$14,980.00
Lauren EthridgePsychologyEmontional Attention Bias Biomarkers as Mediators of Parenting Effectiveness on Child Behavior$14,072.00
Jiqun LiuLibrary and Information StudiesToward Expectation-based Effectiveness Metrics for Adaptive Whole Session Information Retrieval Evaluation$15,000.00
Shanti SimonMusicOU Wind Symphony Recording Session$15,000.00
Deonnie MoodieReligious StudiesB-School Religion$15,000.00
Corey PeltierEducationalData Presentation and the Impact on Ethical Treatment$8,000.00
Ping ZhuModern Languages, Literatures & LinguisticsThe Discourse of Labor in Modern China, 1893-1976$11,952.00
Song FangComputer ScienceEnabling Non- invasive Mouth Breathing During Sleep Using Ubiquitous Sensors$15,000.00
Sarah HinesHistoryGrassroots Utopias: Dictatorship and Dissent in Cold War Bolivia$11,582.00
Tiantian YangCivil Engineering and Environmental ScienceA Nonstationary Model Averaging Tool for Improving Ensemble Precipitaiton Forescasts over Oklahoma$15,000.00
Eric DayPsychologyPiloting the Viability of EEG Measurement towards a Dynamic Theory of Self-Regulation in the Acquisition, Retention, and Adaptive Transfer of Complex Performance$15,000.00
Carol Rose LittleModern Languages, Literatures & LinguisticsMeasuring Impact in Community-Based research with Ch'ol, a Mayan Language$13,600.00
Rakhi RajanChemistry and BiochemistryAtomic-Resolution Structures of Cas Protein Complexes by Cryo-Electron Microscopy$15,000.00
Tiziana ProiettiInterior Design and Architecture
Psychophysics of Arcitectural Proportion. An Interdisciplinary Program of Research$13,800.00
Matthias NollertChemical EngineeringSense of Belonging is increased by an Immersive summer Bridge Program$13,500.00
David AndersonClassics and LettersShakespeare at the Still Point$5,106.00

FY2021

Principal InvestigatorAcademic UnitProject TitleAmount Funded
Handan AcarBiomedical EngineeringIdentification of Ovarian Cancer Specific Promoters for Salmonella$15,000.00
Wenwen ChengArchitectureClimate Resilent and Thermal Equity Schoolyards$14,923.00
Lloyd CracknellDramaMason Vintage Costume Collection Preservation$14,464.75
Kato DeeGeosciencesDistribution and Molecular Characterization of Groundwater Dissolved Organic Matter in the Central Oklahoma Aquifer: Relations to Arsenic Fate and Transport.$15,000.00
Fabio de Sa e SilvaInternational and Area StudiesAutocratic Legalism in Brazil and beyond: a Transdisciplinary, Transnational Research Endeavor$10,550.00
Michele GaliziaChemical, Biological and Materials EngineeringNext Generation Polymer Membranes for Isomers Separation via Organic Solvent Reverse Osmosis$11,800.00
Elaine HsiehCommunicationsRethinking Culture in Health Communication$1,253.00
Amel KhalfaouiModern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
International and Area Studies
A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of the Two Tunisian Arabic Vocative Particles Yaa and Haa.$15,000.00
Waleed MahdiModern Languages, Literatures and LinguisticsBetween Urgency and Emergence: Contemporary Modes of Yemeni American Activism$15,000.00
Aparna NairHistory of ScienceCommemorating COVID-19: An Arts Based Approach to the Pandemic.$14,022.25
Angela PersonArchitectureAffective Heritage: Measuring Real-Time Biosensory Responses at the USHMM$12,639.20
Rakhi RajanChemistry and BiochemistryDeriving Molecular Mechanisms of CRISPR-Adaptation for Biotechnolgy Application$15,000.00
Charles RiceChemistry and BiochemistryNeutralizing Molecules that Cause Inflammation$14,924.00
Ingo SchluppBiologyWelfare in the Amazon molly, Poecillia formosa: using a Clonal Fish to Investigate the Effects of Enrichment and Social Isolation.$7,800.70
Indrajeet SharmaChemistry and BiochemistryCatalytic Functionalization of Hydrocarbons to Valuable Chemicals using Nitrous Oxide$12,706.00
Qinggong TangBiomedical EngineeringMulti-contrast Optical Coherent Tomography (OCT) for Diabetic Retinopathy: Equipment Fund$15,000.00
Mirelsie VelazquezEducational Leadership and Policy StudiesDe Isla a Chicago: Stories of Puerto Rican Teachers, 1970-1990.$11,000.00
Stefan WilhelmBiomedical EngineeringProbing the interactions between nanoparticles and tumor associated endothelial cells in cancer nanomedicine.$15,000.00
Kendra Williams-DiehmEducational PsychologyACT on Behalf of Teachers: A Single Case Investigation into Teacher Burnout Prevention Amid the Pandemic$14,326.00
Zhibo YangChemistry & BiochemistryIntegrated Mass Spectrometry Metabolomcs and RNA-sequencing of the Same Single Cell: Method Development and Proof-of-concept Studies.$15,000.00