Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Scholars Directory

Biology

$8.2 million in 21 active grants and sponsored programs

Project Title	Amount
Preparation & Refinement of Postdocs in STEM	$1,249,445
Advancing the Culture of Teaching in STEM (ACT-STEM)	$1,199,915
Improving Undergraduate Biology Students’ Ability to Communicate with Non-Scientists	$1,044,794
CAREER: Fungal pathogen induced dysbiosis alters microbiome assembly along host resource gradients	$1,000,000
Gut-Inhabiting Fungi Influence Structure and Function of Herptile Microbiomes	$870,000
Modulation of Macrophage Polarization by a Facultative Intracellular Pathogen	$389,747
Critical elements of muscle contractile machinery	$382,436
Postdoctoral Fellowship – Erin Rowland-Schaefer	$305,378
A Delphi Study to Develop a Department Self-Assessment Tool	$272,956
Testing for the Stages of Vertebrate Radiation using Freshwater Fishes of the Family Percidae	$263,712
The MYC-SWI/SNF Connection in Rhabdoid Tumors	$191,571
The age of cichlids	$179,700
Discovery of fused heterocyclic pyrazine based novel anti-mitotic agents for metastatic melanoma	$177,058
Exposing the role of MYC in small cell carcinoma of the ovary hypercalcemic type	$131,300
Learning Microbiology Open Education Resource Science Literacy	$131,173
In vitro culture of freshwater mussels	$94,508
Case-based Active Science Education (CASE) Mentoring Network	$82,062
A DBER network to stabilize and grow science communication education research	$74,950
The development of science identity for first-generation students through the Learning Assistant Program	$49,991
Race, Religion, and STEM: Examining the Intersections for Black Students	$39,000
Coordinating the Tennessee Amphibian Monitoring Program (TAMP)	$36,658

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