Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship Program (GIA)

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Exemplary Proposals

All selected proposals are posted with the kind consent of their authors. We also acknowledge the dedicated staff members in these PI's departments who played a major role in readying the proposals for submission. 

• Overcoming P-glycoprotein-Mediated Drug Resistance in Epilepsy
  Bjoern Bauer, Pharmacy, UMD

• Using Stat5b to Suppress Autoimmune Disease
  Bryce A. Binstadt, Pediatrics, UMTC
• American Novels in the Conglomerate Age: An Institutional Account
  Evan Brier, English, UMD
• Neolithic/Chalcolithic Landscape Use, Vale de Pedreirinha, Portugal
  Rebecca Dean, Social Sciences, UMM
• Romancing the Self: A Study of Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing
  Julie Eckerle, Humanities, UMM
• We are in the dark: behavioral effects of short day or melatonin in the dinural Nile rat
  Haim Einat, Pharmacy, UMD
• Recognition of Visual Objects in Cluttered Scenes
  Yuhong V. Jiang, Psychology, UMTC

• Population Genetic Structure and Ecophysiological Divergence in Montane Salamanders
  Kenneth Kozak, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, UMTC

• Triggers for SARS coronavirus entry into host cells
  Fang Li, Pharmacology, UMTC
• Urban Environment Health: Air Pollution in Bangalore, India
  Julian Marshall, Civil Engineering, UMTC
• Inscribing the Real: Chinese Cinema from the Silent Era to the Twenty-first Century
  Jason McGrath, Asian Languages and Literatures, UMTC
• A Poetics of Emergence: Imagining Creativity Beyond “Nature” and “Culture”
  Stuart McLean, Anthropology/Institute for Global Studies, UMTC
• Developing a Time-Inverted Lagrangian Modeling Tool for Quantifying Regional Emissions of Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds
  Dylan B. Millet, Soil, Water & Climate, UMTC
• Investigating Neanderthal Stone Tool Functions by Residue Analysis using SEM-EDS
  Gilliane Monnier, Anthropology, UMTC
• The Vistas of Gender Utopia: Combining Digital and Manual Applications in Printmaking
  Jenny R. Schmid, Department of Art, UMTC
• Highly Scalable Particle Simulation for Multiscale Gas Flows
  Thomas Schwartzentruber, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, UMTC
• Development of a 3-D integrated fluorescent and holographic tracking microscope for micro-/nano-scale trophic interactions of Harmful Algal Bloom
  Jian Sheng, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, UMTC
• Measuring Judicial Performance in the Former Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
  Joseph L. Staats, Political Science, UMD