Gardiner,Kelsey
Community & Public Health Exercise Sciences Health Sciences Nutrition
Interested in a variety of research topics within the public health, community health, nutrition, physical activity, and health behavior change sectors. My most recent research area has been focused on food insecurity, social determinants of health, health food access, food as medicine, and community health planning. I am interesting in the intersections between access to healthy food and health outcomes as well as the growing realm of food insecurity in higher education. Open to exploring new topics as they relate to my general research interests.
First-generation college graduate
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Graettinger,Alison
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Geology: volcanology, planetary geology (Mars), experimental approaches to geological problems, remote sensing, GIS, stratigraphy, mapping
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Granade,Andrew
Composition, Music Theory & Musicology
Most of my work centers on modern American music, particularly that of the so-called Maverick composers and music for film and television. My book, Harry Partch, Hobo Composer, explores the composer and instrument builder in the 1930s and 1940s. I'm currently working on several projects concerning music for science-fiction television and film, including Firefly and Battlestar Galatica, and am beginning a project on the film music of Philip Glass.
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Greer,Jane
English Language & Literature Race, Ethnic & Gender Studies (REGS)
My primary research interests center on feminist rhetoric and the history of women's and girl's opportunities for literacy education. I'm also interested in the teaching of writing in high schools and colleges and how educational institutions can work together to provide more learning opportunities for individuals throughout their lives. Most recently, I've been involved with museums and the ways in which they serve as educational institutions that construct public memory.
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Grieco,Viviana
Economics History Race, Ethnic & Gender Studies (REGS) World Languages & Cultures (WLC)
I am a historian who studies de the political culture and political economy of the Spanish Empire c. 1500-1800 although I teach Latin American history from pre-colonial times to the present. I collaborate with scholars in the economics department and I have served in many dissertation committees contending with economic development in many regions of the world.
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Grimes,Amanda
Community & Public Health Health Sciences
As a health sciences scholar, my research focuses on physical activity, particularly active transport, and the associated health and social influences across demographic groups. I have been working in this area of research for nearly 10 years. The ecological model that posits multiple levels of influence on physical activity guides my work. Much of my work has focused on active transport in youth and adults, and I was formerly board chair for the local bicycle and pedestrian policy advocacy organization BikeWalkKC. My work has also focused on community-based interventions to address obesity and other chronic diseases, particularly through physical activity and nutrition interventions. As the physical activity field progresses, it is important to capture objective measures of physical activity; my work has captured physical activity using consumer and research-grade accelerometry. My research has included collaborations to evaluate Kansas City, MO’s novel free bus transit system on health impacts (e.g., bus ridership and body mass index, physical activity, access to health provider appointments) in underserved urban communities. I also led another grant tied to this project that is supported by the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency. In other work I've implement and evaluate community-based built environment projects that modify streetscapes to increase pedestrian safety and in turn, increase physical activity. My research also engages diverse populations including minority and low-income populations, children, older adults, and people experiencing homelessness, using a multiplicity of methods and research designs. Additionally, in alignment with the current proposal, my research has included leveraging school partnership to address physical inactivity, such as through after-school programming with adolescents from underserved urban communities. This multi-level program implements a school-based, sport-sampling intervention using community-based coaches and consumer wearables to track individual-level behavior change.
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Gutheil,William
Pharmaceutical Sciences
My research is generally focused on bacterial cell wall biosynthesis, the effects of antibiotics on this process, mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics targeting this process, and the development of new agents targeting this process. Our research falls into the general areas of Biological Chemistry, Bio-Analytical Chemistry, and Bio-Organic Chemistry. We make heavy use of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry using AB Sciex QTrap instruments. This is amazingly powerful technology, which is now foundational to pharmaceutical and life-sciences research. We are also using chemical library screening to identify new antibacterial agents using high throughput technology. Finally, we make novel bioactive molecules using chemical synthesis methods, and use computationally aided drug discovery program which are run on the University of Missouri's Lewis4 cluster, which is a 5000 cpu cluster.
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