Academic Leaves
Academic Leave Information (here in PDF format) Updated 08/06/2010
Academic Leave /Cover Sheet form (Word) Updated 08/06/2010
| Academic Leaves 2009-10 | |||
| Name | Dept | Leave Date | Project Title |
| Laura Allen | Education | Spring 2010 | Evaluating the Impact of an Induction Support Program on Teacher Retention and Attrition |
| Farzan Aminian | Engineering | Spring 2010 | An Exploration of the Field of Reinforcement Learning |
| Michelle Bushey | Chemistry | Spring 2010 | Developing and Adapting Analytical Tools for the Analysis of Biological Samples of Interest |
| Don Clark | History | Spring 2010 | The Northern Presbyterian Mission in Korea |
| Jennifer Henderson | Communication | Spring 2010 | Furries, Firewalls, and Foment: The Boundaries of free expression in the real and virtual worlds |
| Sammye Johnson | Communication | Fall 2009 | The Magazine from Page to Page: Form, Function, and Audience |
| Steven Luper | Philosophy | Spring 2010 | Two Essays on Death: Why dying can be bad, but taking our lives is permissible |
| Gordon MacAlpine | Physics & Astronomy | Spring 2010 | Investigating How a Star Exploded and Made Elements |
| John McGrath | Speech & Drama | Spring 2010 | The Diffusion of New Technology in Healthcare: Physicians' and Patients' Perspectives on the Introduction of Electronic Medical Records |
| Terry Robertson | Education | Fall 2009 | Implementing a Parent Training Program |
| Dante Suarez | Business Administration | AY 2009-10 | Regulating Microfinance in Mexico |
| Mary Ann Tetrault | Political Science | AY 2009-10 | Education and culture: Foreign transplant universities in the Arab Gulf states |
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Academic Leaves 2008-9 |
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| Name | Dept | Leave Date | Project Title |
| Richard Butler | Economics | Spring 09 | Airline Service to Small Communities Thirty Years After Deregulation |
| Bert Chandler | Chemistry | AY 08-09 | Tailored Nanoparticles for Biomass Conversion |
| Jane Childers | Psychology | Fall 08 | The Structural Alignment and Comparison of Events During Verb Acquisition |
| Erwin Cook | Classical Studies | Fall 08 | A Reading of the Homeric Odyssey |
| Judith Fisher | English | Spring 09 | The Empire of the Tea-table: A Literary History of Tea in British Literature, 1660-1900 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Classical Studies | Spring 09 | Antiquity Now: The Classics in America After Vietnam |
| Ruquayya Khan | Religion | AY 08-09 | European Muslims in the 21st Century: Identity, Religion & Education of Bosnian Youth |
| Lawrence Kimmel | Philosophy | Fall 08 | Music and the Philosophical Art of Tragic Drama |
| Jonathan King | Biology | Spring 09 | Dynamics of Tight Junction Remodeling in Living Cells |
| Alan Kownslar | History | Fall 08 | A Biographical Project with Special Emphasis on an Examination of the Publications, Speeches, Correspondence, and other Writings of Jane Legette Yelvington McCallum, an Early Twentieth-Century Texas Progressive Reformer |
| Timothy Kramer | Music | Spring 09 | A New Work for the Cactus Pear Music Festival |
| David Lesch | History | Fall 08 | The United States in the Middle East: An Interpretive History |
| Mark Lewis | Computer Science | Fall 08 | Large-scale Numerical Investigations of Planetary Ring Dynamics |
| Natasa Macura | Mathematics | AY 08-09 | Exploring geometric group theory: Aspects of non-positive curvature in Coxeter and Artin groups |
| Pablo Martinez | Modern Languages and Literatures | Spring 09 | Intertextuality in the poetry of Ivan Carvajal, 1980-2004 |
| Nancy Mills | Chemistry | AY 08-09 | Looking at the Practical Aspect of Antiaromaticity: Molecular Switches and Nonlinear Optical Materials |
| Kimberlyn Montford | Music | AY 08-09 | The Seventeenth-Century Roman Motet |
| Judith Norman | Philosophy | Spring 09 | Schopenhaur's Critique of Kant |
| Diane Persellin | Music | Spring 09 | Long-term effects of an Annual Video-Microteaching Workshop on Professional Development of University Professors |
| Guy Poitras | Political Science | Spring 09 | International Labor and State Policy |
| Kate Ritson | Art and Art History | Fall 08 | The Creation of an installation that explores the ideas of multiplicity and repetitive pattern as sculptural elements |
| Bladimir Ruiz | Modern Languages and Literatures | Fall 08 | The Other at the Center:Transgressive Desires in Latin American Literture |
| Dan Spiegel | Physics and Astronomy | Fall 08 | Experimental Study of Diffusion in Bacterial Bioconvection Patterns |
| Claudia Stokes | English | Spring 09 | The Illiberal Tradition: American Literary Conservatism in the Age of Realism |
| Sussan Siavoshi | Political Science | Fall 08 | The Teacher and The Pupil: Two Generations of Religious Reformers |
| Terry Smart | History | Spring 09 | San Antonio's German Legacy, 1845-1900 |
Academic Leaves 2007-8
| Name | Dept. | Leave Date | Project Title |
| William Christ | Communication | Fall 07 | Assessment's Dirty Little Secrets |
| Stacey Connelly | Speech & Drama | Fall 07 | Exile and Return: Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre from 1939-1966 |
| Maurice L. Eggen | Computer Science | Fall 07 | Middleware Efficiency in Distributed and Parallel Processing |
| Nina Ekstein | Mod. Lang. and Lit. | SP 08 | The Representation of Sexuality in Pre-Classical Seventeenth-Century French Theater |
| Steve Gilliam | Speech & Drama | SP 08 | A Study of the Art and Craft of Producing Theatre |
| Diana D. Glawe | Engineering Science | AY 07/08 | Optimization of a Microbial Fuel Cell to Generate Electricity from Cellulose Waste |
| Coleen Grissom | English | Fall 07 | A Sampling of Coleen Grissom's Collected Speeches |
| John R. Hermann | Political Science | SP 08 | Opening Pandora's Box: The Supreme Court, the Commerce Clause, and National Police Powers |
| John Hutton | Art & Art History | Fall 07 | Fauves and Fascists: The Social Evolution of an Avante-Garde Art Movement |
| Michael C. Kearl | Soc. & Anth. | Fall 07 | The Times of Our Lives |
| Thomas L. Koppenheffer | Biology | Fall 07 | The Role of the Chicken Bursa in the Production of Naturally Occurring Antibodies |
| Arturo Madrid | ML&L | Fall 07 | Diversity and its Discontents: Latinos, Identity, Opportunity, and Quality |
| Meredith B. McGuire | Soc. & Anth. | AY 07/08 | Culturally Sustainable Eco-Tourism |
| Glenn E. Meyer | Psychology | SP 08 | Psychology Factors in the Evaluation of Altruism |
| Patricia Norman | Education | SP 08 | Learning to Analyze Children's Writing: Developing Teacher Candidates' Assessment Skills |
| Sarah K. Pinnock | Religion | AY 07/08 | Feminism, Selfhood, and the Divine |
| Linda K. Salvucci | History | AY 07/08 | Ironies of Empire: The United States - Cuba Trade under Spanish Rule, 1760-1898 |
| Edward J. Schumacher | Health Care Admin. | SP 08 | Foreign-Born Nurses in the US Labor Market |
| James R. Shinkle | Biology | AY 07/08 | Using natural variation in solar ultraviolet radiation in New Zealand to investigate plant responses to short wavelength ultraviolet light |
| Matthew D. Stroud | Mod. Lang. and Lit. | SP 08 | Exemplary Women of the Hebrew Bible and their Representation in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater |
| Heather I. Sullivan | Mod. Lang. and Lit. | SP 08 | Revising the Revolution: Goethe's Conversations of German Refugees as a Call to Overthrow Newton's Optics |
| Wen Xing | Mod. Lang. and Lit. | Fall 07 | The Book of Changes: A Philosophical Translation Featuring the Recently Excavated Texts |
| Carol Yoder | Psychology | Fall 07 | Reasoning about Hot-Button Topics |
2006-07
| 2006-07 ACADEMIC LEAVES | |||
| Name | Dept. | Leave Date | Project Title |
| Paula Hertel | Psychology | Fall 06 | Depression-Related Deficits in Intentional Forgetting |
| Carolyn Becker | Psychology | Spring 07 | Prevention of Eating Disorders in Social Systems |
| Alida Metcalf | History | Fall 06 | Mapping Brazil |
| David Crockett | Political Science | Spring 07 | The Perils of Restoration Politics: George W. Bush in Political Time |
| Mark Brodl | Biology | Fall 06 | Rice Transformation and Genomic Tools Development |
| Robert Huesca | Communication | Fall 06 | Youth Radio Projects and Their Impacts |
| Mackenzie Brown | Religion | Fall 06 | Hindu Responses to Modern Science |
| Joan Burton | Classical Studies | Spring 07 | Brigandage & Piracy in the Byzantine Novels |
| Duane Coltharp | English | Spring 07 | Public and Promiscous: Miscellany Ballads as Popular Culture |
| Michael Soto | English | Fall 06 | The Harlem Renaissance: Contexts and Controversies |
| Norman Sherry | English | Full AY 06/07 | The Art in Biography |
| John J. McCusker | History | Full AY 06/07 | Sugar & Economic Integration of the Early Modern Atlantic World |
| Peter Kelly-Zion | Engineering Science | Full AY 06/07 | Experimental Study of Transport Phenomena of Evaporating Multi-Component Liquid Films |
| Berna Massingill | Computer Science | Spring 07 | Evaluating and Refining PLPP (Pattern Language for Parallel Programming) |
| David Hans Hough | Physics & Astronomy | Spring 07 | All Quasar Jets, Great and Small |
| Allen Holder | Mathematics | Spring 07 | Optimally Designing Radiotherapy Treatments |
| Liz Ward | Art & Art History | Fall 06 | Rivers and Waves, I-IV: A Series of Oil Paintings on Panel |
| Trish Simonite | Art & Art History | Spring 07 | The Traces Series |
| Mark Garrison | Art & Art History | Full AY 06/07 | The Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Project - Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Vol III Oriental Institute Publications, Chicago |
| Barry Hirsch | Economics | Fall 06 | Wage Determination in the Airline Industry |
| Roger W. Spencer | Economics | Spring 07 | Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy: the Federal Reserve Linkage |
| Alan Astro | ML&L | Spring 07 | Yiddish in French Letters; Yiddish Letters in France |
| Richard Reed | Soc & Anthrop | Spring 07 | Private Herds on public lands: Mongolian Pastoralists in a post-Soviet Landscape |
| Jennifer Mathews | Soc & Anthrop | Fall 06 | Chicle in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico from Prehistory - Present |
2005-06
| 2005-06 ACADEMIC LEAVES | |||
| Name | Dept. | Leave Date | Project Title |
| Laura Agoston | Art & Art History | AY 05-06 | The Origins of the Michelangelo Culture Industry |
| Carlos Ardavin | Modern Lang. & Lit. | Spring 06 | Francisco Umbral: The Invention of a Writer, 1965-1975 |
| Angela Breidenstein | Education | Fall 05 | Promoting Teacher Learning Leadership, and High School Reform |
| John Donahue | Soc. & Anthro. | Fall 05 | Rethinking the "Tragedy of the Commons" Argument: The Role of Public Property in Natural Resource Management |
| Saber N. Elaydi | Mathematics | AY 05-06 | Non-autonomous difference equations |
| Lawrence L. Espey | Biology | Spring 06 | Deciphering the Pathway(s) of Ovulation-Related Gene Expression" |
| Frank Harrison | Speech & Drama | Fall 05 | "freedom of speech…(and)… of the press". A Casebook for Undergraduates. |
| John Huston | Economics | Spring 06 | Cyber Lemons: The Economics of Internet Auto Auctions |
| Paul Kelleher | Education | Fall 05 | Struggles for Efficacy: The Personal and Professional Lives of Superintendents |
| Steven Luper | Philosophy | Spring 05 | Closure Puzzles |
| Gordon MacAlpine | Physics & Astronomy | Spring 06 | Development of a More Complete Paradigm for the Crab Nebula |
| Linda McNeil | Music | Fall 05 | Songs, Duets, and Cycles by Contemporary American Woman Composers" |
| Richard Newhauser | English | AY 05-06 | Greed, Capital, and the Poor |
| Kevin M. Nickels | Engineering Science | AY 05-06 | Assembly Teams of Mobile Robots |
| Peter O'Brien | Political Science | AY 05-06 | Three Approaches to Immigration: Nationalism, Liberalism & Postmodernism |
| Chris Pursell | Chemistry | AY 05-06 | Study of the Gas-Liquid Interface |
| David Ribble | Biology | Fall 05 | Male Care in the Volcano Mouse |
| Willis Salomon | English | Fall 05 | Suspect Possession': Bright, Jorden, and the Elizabethen Reading of Symptoms |
| Thomas Sebastian | Modern Lang. & Lit. | Spring 06 | Satirical Exposure of Affect in Heinrich Mann's The Loyal Subject and Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities |
| Darryl Waldron | Business Admin. | Fall 05 | Market Entry Stratgies (Greenfield, Acquisition, or Indirect) of U.S. Multinational Companies: Towards a General Model," |
2004-05
| Steven Bachrach | Computational Organic Chemistry | SP 05 |
| Robert Blystone | Mammalian Tissue Response to Millimeter Wave Exposure (MMW) | FL 04 |
| Curtis Brown | Computation and Cognition | FL 04 |
| Michelle Bushey | Porous Polymer Monoliths for Use in Capillary Electrochromatography | FL 04 |
| Donald Clark | Seeking Better Terms: The United States and Korea in the Twenty-First Century | SP 05 |
| Bruce Frazee | Study of Early Childhood Education | SP 05 |
| Thomas Gardner | Fluvial Response to Active Tectonism: Murray River in Southern Australia | SP 05 |
| David Heller | Then and Now: 100 Years of Organ Literature | SP 05 |
| Robert Jensen | Is Macro Hedge Accounting Feasible? | FL 04 |
| Nanette Le Coat | Literature for a New Age: Literary Debates in Early Nineteenth-Century France (1795-1815) | SP 05 |
| Richard Salvucci | La Devda Eterna: A Financial History of Mexico's "London Debt," 1823-1887 | SP 05 |
| Thomas Sergiovanni | Avoiding the Type IV Error in Leadership | SP 05 |
| David Spener | Migrant-Smuggling on the Tex-Mex Border: Slave Trade or New Underground Railroad | AY 04-05 |
| Mary Ann Tétreault | The Three Gulf Wars | FL 04 |
| Karen Waldron | Common Concerns, Joint Solutions: Collaborative Research into Best Practices for Students with Vision and Hearing Impairments in San Antonio and Sydney | FL 04 |
| Colin Wells | The Hellenistic World (book); Report on excavations at Carthage | FL 04 |
2003-04
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