Mini Grant Program

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

2009 Awardees

Christopher Allport, PhD
Accounting/Finance Department
“The Impact of Personality Goals and Incentives on Motivation”

Angela Bala, PhD
English
“Religious Poetry and Toleration in Early Modern England”

Jose Betancourt, PhD
Art/Art History
“Cyanotype Collaboration with Susan Weil”

Louis Cruz-Vera, PhD
Biological Science
“Isolation and functional characterization of enzymes containing the essential peptidyl-tRNA hydrolas”

Lingze Duan, PhD
Physics
“Pilot Study of Family Caregiver's Coping with Feasability analysis of using fiber Fabry-Perot cavities for ultrahigh precision laser”

Jeff Evans, PhD
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
"Early Stage Oxidation Behavior of Ni-Base Alloys"

Junpeng Guo, PhD
Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Plasmonic Nanostructure Sensors for Enhanced Biochemical Detection"

Nicholas Jones, PhD
Philosophy
“Idealizations in Scientific Explaination”

Leslie Kaiura, PhD
Foreign Language and Literature
“Literature Written by Men Between 1850 and 1925”

Dengpan Lui, PhD
MIS
“Strategic Interruption Between Security and IT-Capacity Investments”

Robert McFeeters, PhD
LSB
“Structural Engineering of Scytovirin for Improved antiHIV Activity”

Sandra Mendiola, PhD
History
"Mexico's Dirty War on Street Vendors, 1973-1986"

Wafa Orman, PhD
Economics
"Survival of the Strictest? An Experimental Examination of Club Goods"

Seyed Sadeghi, PhD
Physics
"Plasmonic Quantum Templates for Generation of Energy Flow In Nanostructure Assemblies"

Babak Shotorban, PhD
BAE
"A Robust Two-Fluid Approach for Direct Simulation of Particle-laden Flows"

Samuel Thomas, PhD
History
"Midwifery, Medicine and Society in Early Modern England"

Fong Zhu, PhD
Computer Science
"A Game Theoretical Approach to Optimize Identity Exposure in Pervasive Computing"