The Research Mini-Grant Program encourages growth and development of the faculty's research talents. Priority is given to new full-time tenure earning faculty with less than three years at UAH. The program supports basic and applied research activities which are motivated by an effort to probe toward and discover new ideas, information or applications. The Program is intended to enhance a faculty member’s talents, scholarship, and ability to pursue research activities in his/her respective field of study. Click here for more information

2007 Awardees

Christopher Allport, PhD
Accounting/Finance Department
“The interaction between power and strategy in auditor-client negotiations”  
 
Ramazan Aygun, PhD
Computer Science Department
“Solving image puzzles from pictures taken by robots”  
 
Lior Burko, PhD
Physics Department
“Time-domain generation of EMRI Waveforms” 
 
Eric Fong, PhD
Management/Marketing Department
“CEO conpensation as a predictor of stakeholder management”  
 
Brandon Gardner, PhD
Art/Art History Department
“Continuing research at Frogman's”  
 
Cynthia Hudson, PhD
Nursing Department
"A pilot study of the prevalence of overweight pre-school children"  
 
David Johnson, PhD
Foreign Languages Department
"Research trip to Berlin, Germany: 'Modernizing Leisure: Consumption, Class, and Gender in Imperial Berlin' "  
 
Anthony Morris, PhD
Psychology Department
“Driver response delays in day and night lighting conditions”  
 
Eric Seeman, PhD
Psychology Department
“Improving diagnostic accuracy: Which tests are best for use with children?”  
 
Katherine Taconi, PhD
Chemical and Materials Engineering Department
“Biological conversion of glycerol into value-added products”  
 
Brian Ward, PhD
Chemistry Department
“Lanthanide metal-organic framework chromophore nanoparticles”

Russel White, PhD
Physics Department
"A test of brown dwarf formation theories"

Hauming Zhang, PhD
Computer Science Department
"Mining algorithms for graph databases"