2019-2020 President's Faculty Grant Winners
African social actors, moral power and the mobilization for peace
The proposed scholarly research project is the completion of a book manuscript on examining African social actors’ nonviolent resistance to internal political conflict in the...
Factors structuring parasite communities: testing alternatives to distance decay
Parasites are ubiquitous components of all major ecosystems, but the biogeographical factors that determine parasite species richness and community composition remain poorly studied. Previous...
Formidable: Separating the effects of power from size, strength, and sex
Most people would not be surprised to learn that the social order of our closest non-human primates is determined by size and strength. The biggest and the strongest are the ones who hold the most...
Heavy Metal Contamination in Port Everglades ‐ Preparing for Ecological Impacts
Ports are complex environments due to their geometry (quays, channels, and piers), the presence of human activities (vessel traffic, yards, industries, and discharges), and natural forces...
How the molecular vibrations of water may prevent skin cancer
Skin cancer is by far the most common cancer worldwide. It has been well established that exposure to ultraviolet light (usually from the sun or tanning beds) significantly increases the...
HTS assay for modulators of expression of RBM3 in drug-resistant prostate cancer
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men in the US [1]. There are multiple drugs including hormonal therapies used to...
Mathematical Models of Vector‐Borne Diseases in Florida
Vector-borne diseases (VBD), including dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have recently emerged and spread throughout the Americas, Asia, and elsewhere....
Megadroughts and the last glacial dust, White River Badlands, Great Plains, USA
Histories of dune field activity provide important information on regional and global climate change. While dune fields are complex systems, generally they are active during periods of...
Metabolic and Molecular Axes in Neuronal Differentiation
What are the specific effects of cellular metabolism that define neuronal cell fate and what are the underlying signaling cascades. These are some of the questions that will be investigated during...