UC Riverside Academic Senate

Recipients of the Regents Faculty Fellowships

2018-2019

Dawn H Nagel, Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences - $2,000.00
Contribution of time of day to heat stress tolerance in plants

Ruoyao Shi, Assistant Professor, Economics - $5,000.00
Averaging Estimators in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Economic Models

Sean E O'leary, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry - $6,000.00
Molecular determinants of mRNA recognition for eukaryotic translation.

John M. Franchak, Assistant Professor, Psychology - $5,000.00
Characterizing everyday opportunities for learning in the second year of life

Konstantinos Karydis, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering - $5,000.00
Design, Modeling, and Control of Compliant and Soft Legged Robots

Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia, Associate Professor, Botany and Plant Sciences - $3,500.00
Prediction of prostate cancer outcomes using the multi-omics data

Crystal Baik, Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies - $3,500.00
Beyond War: Korean/American Feminist and Queer Activisms

Rachel Wu, Assistant Professor, Psychology - $3,500.00
Inducing cognitive growth via discussions on learning and successful aging in older adults

Yanran Li, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering - $5,000.00
Harnessing Synthetic Biology to Establish a Mammalian DNA Methylation Readout System in Yeast

Wesley A. Sims, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education - $3,500.00
Examining Teacher Self-Report of Classroom Management Behavior with the Direct Behavior Rating-Classroom Management (DBR-CM)¬

Cesunica Ivey, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering - $2,000.00
Dynamic Real-time Emissions Assessment and Management for Exposure Reduction

Erica Heinrich, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences - $6,000.00
Inflammation in Chronic Mountain Sickness

Weitao Chen, Assistant Professor, Mathematics - $1,500.00
Data-driven Multiscale Modeling to Understand the Maintenance of Transcription Factor Distribution in Stem Cell Homeostasis

Roby Douilly, Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences - $6,000.00
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Microseismicity and Repeating Earthquakes in Haiti

Evangelos Papalexakis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering - $3,500.00
Fake News: A Data Science Approach

Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen, Assistant Professor, Anthropology - $3,500.00
Dangerous Love: Sex work, drug use, and the pursuit of intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico

Sydney Irene Glassman, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Plant Pathology - $2,000.00
Do fungal-bacterial interactions and microbial complexity predict litter decomposition responses to drought and the persistence of soil organic C?

Adler Dillman, Assistant Professor, Nematology - $3,500.00
Characterizing Immunomodulatory Proteins Released by Parasitic Nematodes

Fedor Karginov, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology - $6,000.00
Biochemical and structural characterization of a calcium-dependent endonuclease

Sika Zheng, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences - $5,000.00
A new mouse model to study the genetic control of neuronal longevity

Kevin Kou, Assistant Professor, Chemistry - $3,500.00
New Strategies to Synthesize Organoborons for Drug Discovery

Sihem Cheloufi, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry - $2,000.00
Investigating the Mechanisms of Skeletal Regeneration

Anna Betbeze, Assistant Professor, Art - $5,000.00
Stages and Scenes (Kinetic Painting)

Maria Firmino-Castillo, Assistant Professor, Dance - $2,000.00
Choreographies of Catastrophe: Embodied Ontogenesis in the Post-Anthropocene

Allison K. Hansen, Associate Professor, Entomology - $5,000.00
New Liberibacter genomes will reveal the evolutionary history of the worst emerging pathogens to date in agriculture

Megan Asaka, Assistant Professor, History - $6,000.00
Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle's Urban Landscape

Robert Jinkerson, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering - $5,000.00
Using algal functional genomics to shed light on plant gene function and increase lipid production in cotton

Giulia Palermo, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering - $1,500.00
Understanding the Allosteric Signaling in CRISPR-Cas9 by Integrating Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Solution NMR Experiments

Emma W Gachomo, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Plant Pathology - $2,000.00
MODULATION OF PLANT RESPONSE TO MULTIPLE STRESSES BY BENEFICIAL BACTERIA

John Perry, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry - $2,000.00
Early-stage drug discovery against RNF4 Protein, a Novel c-MYC Cancer Target.

Chen Li, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering - $2,000.00
Study of Material Chirality by Circular Polarized Inelastic X-ray Scattering at Synchrotron Source

Patricia Manosalva, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Plant Pathology - $2,000.00
Elucidating the molecular basis of Phytophthora cinnamomi resistance using model plants and crops to develop avocado resistant rootstocks

James Frederick Davies, Assistant Professor, Chemistry - $3,500.00
MEASURING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOL WITH MIE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

Ran Wei, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy - $2,000.00
Spatial Analytics for Reducing Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

Jody A. Benjamin, Assistant Professor, History - $5,000.00
Archiving West Africa: a view from Guinea

Elizabeth Przybylski, Assistant Professor, Music - $3,500.00
Local Sounds, Global Flows: Hip Hop, Sonic Sovereignty, and the Shifting Mainstream

John Paul Barton, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy - $6,000.00
Inference of natural selection in evolving populations

Jose L. Reynoso, Assistant Professor, Dance - $5,000.00
Transnational Studies of Dance and Politics: A Research Stay in Mexico City

Padma Rangarajan, Assistant Professor, English - $2,000.00
Thug Life: The British Empire and the Birth of Terrorism