The Research Foundation’s spring 2010 Faculty Large Grants were announced recently. The goal of these awards is to help faculty in all disciplines to better position themselves to apply for and receive extramural funding for their research and scholarly activities.
For the spring 2010 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council made 35 awards totaling more than $673,000. The proposals were peer reviewed by members of a review panel.
The award recipients are:
Shayne Anderson, Human Development & Family Studies, Engagement of High Conflict Couples in Therapy, $15,284
Philip Balma, Modern & Classical Languages, Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives, $5,350
Keith Bellizzi, Human Development & Family Studies, A Pilot Study to Examine the Impact of Colorectal Cancer on Family Adjustment and Quality of Life, $28,849
David R. Benson, Molecular & Cell Biology, Complete Transcriptome of Frankia Symbionts in Free-Living and Host-Associated Cells, $21,370
Heather Bortfeld, Psychology, Evidence for Perceptual Integration in Early Language Processing: A Neurophysiological Approach, $24,619
Joanne Conover, Physiology & Neurobiology, Chemotherapeutic Drugs Used in the Treatment of Breast Cancer and their Effect on Adult Neurogenesis and Brain Repair, $25,000
Michael Dennis Coyne, Educational Psychology, Bilingual Reading Intervention for Early Readers, $24,131
Lindsay Distefano, Kinesiology, Factors Mitigating Injury Risk in the Military, $24,852
Monty Escabi, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Neural Discrimination of Temporal Sound Cues in the Auditory Midbrain, $28,375
Alain Frogley, Music, The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams, $5,874
Jean Givens, Art & Art History, Building Modern Sweden: Ribershus and the “People’s Home”, $3,175
Bernard Goffinet, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Assembling Chloroplast Genomes and Screening Microsatellite Loci from Total Genomic Liverwort 454 Sequences, $23,373
Rajeswari Kasi, Chemistry, Multi-Responsive Assemblies from Amphiphilic Polymers and Hybrid Materials, $26,753
Jeong-Ho Kim, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Novel Damage Progression Models for Fiber Metal Laminates, $10,818
Jeffrey Ladewig, Political Science, Income Inequality and the Ideological Polarization in the U.S. Congress, $20,275
Dong Jin Lee, Economics, A Study for Robust Tests for Structural Break when the Regressors and the Error Process are Unstable, $3,485
Thomas H. Levine, Curriculum & Instruction, Project Prepare-ELLs (Preparing Responsive Educators Who Promote Access and Realize Excellence with Their ELLs), $24,975
Jessica Lubell, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture, Effect of Nutrient Supply on Production of Mixed Species Green Roof Systems, $22,551
Micki Mcelya, History, Grave Affairs: Arlington National Cemetery in American Memory and Political Culture, $8,076
Stuart S. Miller, Modern & Classical Languages, From Texts to Reality: The Rabbis and Their Neighbors in Roman Palestine, $4,170
Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, History, Out of the Fires: Migration in Post 9/11 Chile and the United States, $5,618
Sung Yeul Park, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Intelligent Power Conditioning System for Constant Power Distributed Generation, $25,655
Crystal Park, Psychology, Preliminary Test of a Psychospiritual Intervention for Improving Health-Related Quality of Life in Congestive Heart Failure Patients, $26,104
Richard Parnas, Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, Preparation for DOE Biofuels Grant Through Enhanced Biofuels Testing Capability, $16,957
Andrew Pask, Molecular & Cell Biology, A Pilot Study to Create New Ways to Induce Mucosal Immunity; Increasing the Skin’s Keratin Barrier to Reduce the Risk of Male HIV Infection, $25,436
Linda Pescatello, Kinesiology, A Pilot Study of the Comparison of the Immediate After-Effects of Aerobic and Ischemic Handgrip Exercise on Blood Pressure and Vascular Function Among Adults with High Blood Pressure, $25,655
Pradeep Ramanathan, Communication Sciences, Implicit Memory Effects on Metamemory in TBI Survivors, $20,000
Nalini Ravishanker, Statistics, Stochastic Models for Multivariate Time Series of Counts with Environmental and Marketing Applications, $19,135
Jay Rueckl, Psychology, Phoneme Transposition Effects in Spoken Word Perception, $22,800
Leon Shaw, Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, Synthesis and Fabrication of Nanorod-Enhanced Beta”-Alumina Electrolytes for Advanced Sodium-Beta Batteries, $26,623
William Stwalley, Physics, Qubits Based on Ultracold Polar Molecular Ions, $19,441
Whitney Tabor, Psychology, Analysis and Testing of Dynamical Language Models, $29,523
Paulo Verardi, Pathobiology & Veterinary Science, A Novel Repressible Expression System to Enhance the Safety of Vaccinia Virus Vectors for Vaccine and Cancer Therapy Development, $24,293
Ruth Washington, Molecular & Cell Biology, Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Regulation of Microvascular Pericytes Differentiation into Osteoblast and Adipocyte, $24,910
Steven Zinn, Animal Science, Influence of Maternal Investment on Metabolic Hormones in Northern Elephant Seal Pups, $9,800
