Office of the VP for Research announces new INTRA seed funding recipients

By Jaclyn Shaw
Assistant Director of Faculty Development, Office of the VP for Research

(May 18, 2015) -- UTSA is investing $100,000 in fiscal year 2016 to kick-start 20 new research projects through its INTernal Research Awards (INTRA) program.

The INTRA program supports top-tier research by offering UTSA faculty members with seed funding to launch new research projects. The seed funding will allow the researchers to obtain preliminary data that can be cited in applications for extramural funding and will enhance the breadth of scholarly and creative activity taking place across the university.

Funding recipients will include:

College of Architecture, Construction and Planning

Rahman Azari, Ph.D., Department of Architecture Benchmarking of Environmental Impacts of Buildings

Rui Liu, Ph.D., Department of Construction Science and Management Development of Ontology for Facility Management Domain Knowledge

Rebecca Walter, Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning Program San Antonio a Century Later: Changing Relationships in Urban Morphology and Inequality

College of Business

Karan Bhanot, Ph.D., Department of Finance Social Finance

Victor De Oliveira, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics A Non-stationary Non-Gaussian Hedonic Spatial Model for House Selling Prices

Edgar Ghossoub, Ph.D., Department of Economics Commercial Banks, Credit Unions, and Monetary Policy

David Han, Ph.D., Department of Management Science and Statistics Development of the cost efficient dynamic load sharing policy by managing the residual life of a multi-core system based on complex stochastic degradation processes

Dina Krasikova, Ph.D., Department of Management Identifying potentially destructive leaders using fake-resistant implicit measures of personality

Matthew McCarter, Ph.D., Department of Management Navigating holdouts without eminent domain: An experimental approach

Pamela Smith, Ph.D., Department of Accounting An Exploration of Nonprofit Hospital Executive Compensation

College of Education and Human Development

Donovan Fogt, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition Early frailty and cardiovascular disease risk factors in young adults

Erica Sosa, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition Learning from Positive Deviants for Childhood Obesity Prevention

College of Liberal and Fine Arts

Matthew Brogdon, Ph.D., Department of Political Science and Geography The Judges' Bill, Discretionary Jurisdiction, and Incorporation of the Bill of Rights: An Institutional and Historical Analysis

Eve Browning, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Classics Ethics of Torture

Catherine Kasper, Ph.D., Department of English Aesthetics in Bio Technologies: Literary Science

Crystal Colombini, Ph.D., Department of English Constructing the Market: Risk, Rhetoric, and American Homeownership

Laura Eichelberger, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology Climate Change, the Built Environment, and Health in Alaska Native Villages

Daniel Engster, Ph.D., Department of Political Science and Geography A Philosopher's Guide to Parenting in the 21st Century

James McDonald, Ph.D., Department of Communication The Experiences of International Faculty in U.S. Academia

Ethan Wickman, DMA, Department of Music Composing a Cantata for San Antonio

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