Student and Postdoctoral Small Grants Program
The Student Small Grants competition is held two times a year to support UC graduate students and UC postdoctoral researcher activities in all disciplines as related to academic exchange, research training, and scholarly development in areas consistent to UC MEXUS goals. Listed here are the grant recipients, departments, home campuses, UC faculty sponsors and project titles.
By Year
2009
Seth M. Bybee, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: Adriana Briscoe)
Visual systems evolution of the most primitive true butterflies (Papilionidae: Papilionoidea): Insights towards reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye
Elizabeth Derse, Earth and Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Adina Paytan)
Long-term response of coral reef ecosystems to ocean acidification: A study from naturally occurring, low pH springs in Mexico
Michael Harris, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Viola Miglio)
Speech rhythms of Hispanic bilinguals study
Gisela Lanzas, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Juan-Vicente Palerm)
Development in the tropics: The case of Plan Chontalpa and its impacts on a rural community in Tabasco, Mexico
Julie M. Portillo, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Viola Miglio)
Sociolinguistic study of Chicano/Mexican attitudes towards different dialectal varieties of Mexican Spanish
José L. Reynoso, World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Susan L. Foster)
Dancing modernisms, choreographing politics: Constructions of bodies and subjects crisscrossing the U.S.-Mexican Border
Miranda L. Ritterman, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Lia Fernald)
Mexican adolescent perceived social position
Stevie Ruiz, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Natalia Molina)
Race, kinship and the making of sexual difference: A case study of court trials and press coverage in Imperial Valley
Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., Philosophy, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: Erich Reck)
A new direction for North American philosophy: Toward Mexico
Pamela G. Thompson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Victoria Sork)
Impact of landscape change on bat pollination in a tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico