March 18, 2016
Congratulations to the the recipients of this year’s Dean’s Research Council grants. The Dean’s Research Council provides competitively awarded seed funding for faculty research and allows them to compete for larger grants and fellowships outside SMU.
Sciences
Peng Tao
Department of Chemistry
Extending the Protein Evolution Paradigm to Combat Antibiotic Drug Resistance
Karen Lupo
Department of Anthropology
Exposing the Myth of the Pristine Rain Forest: Building the Case for the Cultural Landscapes in the Tropical Forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Jingbo Ye
Department of Physics
Developing an Integrated Circuit that Drives Arrays with Ultra Low Power
Humanities
Phillipe Chuard
Department of Philosophy
Time Consciousness: The Lockean View