URC Announces Winners for Spring Round of Interdisciplinary Grants

The University Research Council (URC) has awarded six grants—each totaling approximately $25,000—through its spring interdisciplinary grant competition. The intent of this granting program is to bring faculty together from across the university to work on an interdisciplinary research project that will result in applications to federal granting agencies.

Forty-one proposals were submitted from a total of 150 faculty representing 10 of UC’s 16 colleges, including allied health sciences; applied science; arts and sciences; Clermont College; design, architecture, art, and planning (DAAP); education, criminal justice, and human services (CECH); engineering; medicine; pharmacy; and Raymond Walters. Pediatric faculty working through Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation were also represented.

The following faculty and projects were approved for funding:

"November 9, 1989''—The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Twenty Years After

• Katharina Gerstenberger, PhD, Germanic languages, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
• Jana Braziel, PhD, English, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences

Synthesizing Mathematical Cryptanalysis and Side Channel

• Jintai Ding, PhD, mathematical science, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
• Ranga Vemuri, PhD, electrical and computer engineering and computer science, College of Engineering

Genetic Engineering for Delivering Large-Molecules Across the Blood-Brain Barrier

• Dao Pan, PhD, pediatrics, College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation
• Keith Crutcher, PhD, neurosurgery, College of Medicine
• David Hui, PhD, pathology and laboratory medicine, College of Medicine
• Chia-Yu Kuan, MD, PhD, pediatrics, College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation

Socio-Cultural Influences on the Initiation and Duration of Breastfeeding

• Tiffiny Diers, MD, internal medicine, College of Medicine
• Lisa Vaughn, PhD, pediatrics, College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation
• Sheela Geraghty, MD, pediatrics, College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation
• Ligia Gomez-Botero, romance languages, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
• Grace Falciglia, PhD, nutritional sciences, Allied Health Sciences
• Candace Ireton, MD, family medicine, College of Medicine
• Rahda Reddy, MD, obstetrics and gynecology, College of Medicine

Measuring ETT Forces on the Excised Canine Larynx: New Pathways to Reducing Injury and Improving Safety in Human Airway Procedures

• Steven Lisco, MD, anesthesia, College of Medicine
• Sid Khosla, MD, otolaryngology, College of Medicine
• Shanmugam Murugappan, PhD, otolaryngology, College of Medicine

Structural and Functional Consequences of Perforin Missense Mutations Identified in Patients with Immune Dysregulation: Aberrant Calcium Binding Precludes Function

• Kimberly Risma, MD, pediatrics, College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation
• Andrew Herr, MD, molecular genetics, College of Medicine