Recently Funded Awards at TIMES

Congratulations to the following Investigators for these grant awards:

  • FY 2019

Improving the Measurement of VA Facilty Performance to Foster a Learning Healthcare System
PI: Paras Mehta – Sponsor: Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs – Amount: $34,355

Novel Strategies for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Anti-Fentanyl Vaccine and Buprenorphine Combination Therapy
PI: Colin Haile – Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense/Research Triangle Institute – Amount: $344,130

READ Act Assessment Review
PI: Jeremy Miciak – Sponsor: Colorado Department of Education – Amount: $30,000

Texas Center for Learning Disabilities Intervention Project
PI: Jack Fletcher – Sponsor: Texas Education Agency – Amount: $400,000

Evaluating Rice: STEM Professional Development
PI: Christopher Barr – Sponsor: Rice University – Amount: $20,000

  • FY 2018

Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy in Students (COLLT)
PI: Christopher Barr – Sponsor: American Institutes for Research – Amount: $18,609

Machine Learning: Data Analytics, Deep Learning for Oil & Gas
PI: Pablo Guillen Rondon – Sponsor: Repsol Services Company – Amount: $4,000

Development of Math and Science Tests of the School Readiness Curriculum Based Measurement System
PI: Coleen Carlson – Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences/University of South Florida – Amount: $377,621

Math Learning Disabilities in Among Young Adults in College: Structure, Identification, and Validation
PI: Paul Cirino – Sponsor: National Science Foundation – Amount: $2,473,793

Progression of Reading and Writing Disabilities from Late Elementary to Middle Grades
PI: Yusra Ahmed – Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – Amount: $1,147,500

Alcohol Exercise & the Female Brain
PI: Leigh Leasure – Sponsor: National Institutes of Health – Amount: $1,377,000

Interactive Effects of Short-term Estrogen Replacement and Long-term Exercise on The Aging Brain and Cognition in a Rodent Model of Menopause
PI: Shaefali Rodgers – Sponsor: National Institute on Aging – Amount: $407,500

Risk and Resilience Post-hurricane Harvey: a Longitudinal Examination of Pre-disaster Sleep in Youth
PI: Cara Palmer – Sponsor: National Science Foundation – Amount: $179,640

Improving the Measurement of Va Facilty Performance to Foster a Learning Healthcare System
PI: Paras Mehta – Sponsor: Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston – Amount: $32,301

STTR – Methamphetamine Vaccine:  FDA Human Phase 0 & Phase 1 Studies
PI: Colin Haile – Sponsor: Kadvax Texhnologies – Amount: $26,226

Impact Evaluation of Academic Language Interventions
PI: Christopher Barr – Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education/ABT Associates Inc – Amount: $189,725

Mitigating the Effects of Prenatal Stress from Hurricane Harvey on Preterm Birth and Associated Neurodevelopmental Delay
PI: Johanna Bick – Sponsor: Canadian Institutes of Health Research/University of Alberta – Amount: $7,840

Salary Reimbursement Agreement: Mitigating the Effects of Prenatal Stress from Hurricane Harvey on Preterm Birth and Associated Neurodevelopmental Delay
PI: Johanna Bick – Sponsor: Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Douglas Hospital Research Center – Amount: $19,700

Thermal Response Metrics for Insider Threat Detection
PI: Ioannis Pavlidis – Sponsor: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects/University of Central Florida – Amount: $66,445

SETRPC: Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack Grant
PI: Kevin Clement – Sponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security/South East Texas Regional Planning Commission (SETRPC) – Amount: $587,278

Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
PI: Jack Fletcher – Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – Amount: $8,486,877

Texas Center for Learning Disabilities Intervention Project
PI: Jack Fletcher – Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education/Texas Education Agency – Amount: $400,000

  • FY 2017

NSF-Stress: CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Managing Stress in the Workplace: Unobtrusive Monitoring and Adaptive Interventions
PI: Ioannis Pavlidis – Sponsor: National Science Foundation – Amount: $380,000

From Genomics to Brain Science: What Makes Researchers Tick in Transdisciplinary Initiatives
PI: Ioannis Pavlidis – Sponsor: National Science Foundation – Amount: $60,408

The Language of Written Argumentation and Explanation: Individual Developmental Trajectories from 4th to 8th Grade
PI: Christopher Barr – Sponsor: Institute of Education Science/Harvard – Amount: $101,479

Application of Explanatory Item Response Models to Understand Influence of Reader-text Interactions on Reading Comprehension and Reading Intervention Effects
PI: David Francis – Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences – Amount: $600,000

Improving the Accuracy of Academic Vocabulary Assessment for English Language Learners
PI: David Francis – Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences – Amount: $1,399,999

Cognitive and Linguistic Mediators of Response to Intensive Interventions in Reading for English Learners At-Risk for Learning Disabilities
PI: Jeremy Richard Miciak – Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences – Amount: $391,047

Introduction to Machine Learning and Applications
PI: Pablo Ronden – Sponsor: Landmark (Halliburton) – Amount: $2,000

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Consortium Award
PI: Colin Haile – Sponsor: (Research Triangle Institute) DOD – Amount: $194,283

Residual Data Curation and Analytics for the Toyota Datasets
PI: Ioannis Pavlidis – Sponsor: Texas A&M Transportation Institute – Amount: $50,000

Online Adaptive Learning Systems
PI: Ricardo Vilalta – Sponsor: Arundo Analytics, Inc.- Amount: $13,800

Severe LD in Juvenile Delinquents: Presentation, Course, and Remediation
PI: Oxana Naumova – Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – Amount: $1,132,954

Collecting Facial Images from Multiples in Texas
PI: Ioannis Kakadiaris – Sponsor: U. S. Department of Justice – Amount: $202,997

The Global Learner Project
PI: Christopher Barr – Sponsor: Signum International AG – Amount: $125,000

Peer Facilities VISN Contract FY 16-17
PI: Paras Mehta – Sponsor: Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs – Amount: $27,809

Small Steps External Evaluation
PI: Coleen Carlson – Sponsor: Small Steps Nurturing Center – Amount: $77,410

Differentiating First Language Loss from Language Impairment in Bilingual Children
PI: Anny Castilla-Earls – Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders – Amount: $830,111

Uno, Dos, Tres, Listos! Monitoring Kindergarten Readiness Billingually
PI: Elena Grigorenko – Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences – Amount: $1,399,991

Reconstructive Surgery Resident Stress While Learning Novel Microsurgical Task
PI: Ioannis Kakadiaris – Sponsor: Houston Methodist Research Institute – Amount: $8,686

  • FY 2016

A Community-Based Evaluation of Interventions for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
PI: Elena Grigorenko – Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – Amount: $2,589,410

The Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center
PI: Elena Grigorenko – Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/Florida State University – Amount: $329,362