President's Research Award
2008
Title: “Integrated Water Quantity and Quality Simulation Model for the Las Vegas Valley”
Sajjad Ahmad and Jaci Batista, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Dale Devitt, School of Life Sciences
Title: “Investigation of Nano-Modified Concrete Properties”
Aly Said and Ying Tian, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Shizhi Qian, Mechanical Engineering
Title: “Integrating Comparative Ecological Niche Modeling (CENM) and Phylogeography: An Emerging Approach to Assessing Responses of Species Assemblages to Historical Climatic Change”
Brett Riddle and Tereza Jezkova, School of Life Sciences; Jef Jaeger, Public Lands Institute/School of Life Sciences
Title: “Investigation of Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Alloys, Thin Films for High Figure of Merit and Device Applications”
Andrew Cornelius and Ravhi Kumar, Physics and Astronomy; Robert Schill and Rama Venkat, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: “The Investigation of Oral Health Indices and Correlation to Bodymass Index in Students Attending School in Clark County”
Marcia Ditmyer, Katherine Howard, Georgia Dounis and Mildred McClain, School of Dental Medicine; Susan VanBeuge, School of Nursing
Title: “The Economic Impact of Nevada's Clean Indoor Air Law in Clark County”
Nancy York, School of Nursing; Chris Cochran and Jay Shen, Health Care Administration and Policy; Keith Schwer, Center for Business and Economic Research; Deborah Williams (non-UNLV); Maria Azzarelli (non-UNLV)
Title: “Dysfunctions of Auditory Scene Analysis in Schizophrenia: Perceptual, Electrophysiological, and Neuroanatomical Evidence”
Joel Snyder and Daniel Allen, Psychology; Michael Gach (Adjunct) Health Physics
Title: “Promoting Positive Preschools: Implementing Program-Wide Behavior Support in Early Childhood”
Kristin Sayeski, Deborah Carter, Renee Van Norman and Shannon Crozier, Special Education; Claire Tredwell, University Preschool
Title: “Las Vegas Metropolitan Area Social Survey (LVMASS): Assessing Spatial Variation in Neighborhood Attributes on Measures of Urban Sustainability”
Robert Futrell, Christie Batson, Barbara Brents and David Dickens, Sociology