FY21 UHD ORCA Awardees
Below is a list of professors who have been awarded funding for their proposed research projects. If you are interested in opportunities to collaborate or work on undergraduate research on a specific project, please reach out to them to express your interest.
Faculty Name: Dr. Ayden Adler (adlera@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Arts and Communication
Project Title: Orchestrating Whiteness: Arthur Fiedler, Serge Koussevitzky, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Faculty Name: Dr. Kristin Anderson (andersonk@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Last Stages of a Book Project
Faculty Name: Dr. Stephanie Babb (babbs@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences.
Project Title: An Examination of the Relationships between COVID-19 and Mental Health in Students and College Professors
Faculty Name: Dr. Qing (Ray) Cao (caoq@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of General Business, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management
Project Title: The Impact of Green Information Systems on Environmental Sustainability
Faculty Name: Dr. Jason Caro (caroj@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: Improving Prospects for a Virtue in Crisis
Faculty Name: Dr. Theresa Case (caset@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of History, Humanities, & Languages
Project Title: Unionism in Defeat: The 1922 Railroad Shopmen's Strike in Texas
Faculty Name: Dr. Anita Chadha (chadhaa@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: Collaboration Online Education
Faculty Name: Dr. Jonathan Chism (chismj@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of History, Humanities, & Languages
Project Title: Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines: Resisting Racism through Scholactivism
Faculty Name: Dr. Kit Cho (chok@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: The Dark Side of Exposure to Peer Excellence: Mechanisms and Remedies
Faculty Name: Dinah Cohen (cohend@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of General Business, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management
Project Title: Analytical Analysis of Customization Range Decisions in Competitive Setting
Faculty Name: Dr. Ivan Gan (gani@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Arts and Communication
Project Title: Ho Do Emotions Affect How Nurses Support One Another?
Faculty Name: Dr. Sarah Heinlein (heinleins@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Natural Sciences
Project Title: 3D Structural Geologic Mapping in Wild Rose Canyon, Death Valley CA., USA
Faculty Name: Dr. Kenneth Johnson (johnsonk@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Natural Sciences
Project Title: Eocene-Age Intrusions in Northeastern Oregon: Separate Intrusions or Part of a Tilted Magmatic System?
Faculty Name: Dr. Hong Lin (linh@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technology
Project Title: Contemplative Practices to Enhance Learning Effectiveness
Faculty Name: Dr. Natalia Matveeva (matveevan@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Arts and Communication
Project Title: Clear Information as Every Citizen's Right: The Plain Writing Act of 2010 and the Government's Compliance with the New Legislation
Faculty Name: Dr. Mohsen Mobasher (mobasherm@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: Iranians in Texas: Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
Faculty Name: Dr. Laura Parker (parkerl@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: Social Surrogacy and Belonging in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faculty Name: Dr. Rupak Rauniar (rauniarr@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of General Business, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management
Project Title: A Process-Based Approach of Diffusion of Innovative Technologies in US Oil & Gas Industry: An Empirical Study
Faculty Name: Dr. Danya Serrano (corkind@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: Exploring the Role of Epistemic Beliefs in Science on COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs and Prevention Among College Students
Faculty Name: Dr. Arpita Shroff (shroffa@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Accounting & International Business
Project Title: Is Tax Risk Priced in CEO Compensation?
Faculty Name: Dr. Rahul Verma (vermar@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Finance and Management Information Systems
Project Title: Relative Impact of Rational Factors and Irrational Heuristics on Retail Investors' Speculative Activities: Pre and Post COVID-19 Analysis
Faculty Name: Dr. Joseph Westfall (westfallj@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of History, Humanities, & Languages
Project Title: The Musical Kierkegaard
Faculty Name: Dr. Antoinette Wilson (wilsonan@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of Social Sciences
Project Title: The Role of Racial Identity in Perceptions and Responses to Racial Microaggressions Among Targets and Witnesses
Faculty Name: Dr. Steve Zhou (zhoub@uhd.edu)
Department: Department of General Business, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management
Project Title: Optimization of Procurement Decisions with Simulation
