McMicken Faculty Make Strong URC Grant Showing

Thirteen faculty from McMicken College of Arts and Sciences are among awardees in the University Research Council's fall Interdisciplinary Grant competition.

Seven grants, each for $25,000, bring faculty together universitywide to work on interdisciplinary research projects and pursue applications to federal granting agencies. McMicken faculty are involved in three of those projects.

The first includes participants from the Departments of Biology, Geology, Geography and Environmental Studies. Their project is titled "The Nature of Urban Sustainability: Understanding the Effects of Urbanization on Natural Ecosystem Function." The team: Richard Beck, Geography; Guy Cameron, Biological Sciences; Theresa Culley, Biological Sciences; Robert Frohn, Geography; Ken Hinkel, Geography; David Lentz, Biological Sciences; Lin Liu, Geography; Eric Maurer, Environmental Studies; Arnold Miller, Geology;  Susan Tong, Geography; and George Uetz, Biological Sciences.

Other McMicken faculty named for this round of grants:
• Kristina Lisdahl Medina, Psychology. She will join two representatives from the College of Medicine on the project "Imaging Genetics in Recovering Alcoholic Women and Men."
• Theresa Reineke, Chemistry, joining representatives from the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine on "The Development of MRI Contrast Agents for Imaging Dopamine Transporters."

Read more about the Interdisciplinary Grant competition.