Summer Research Stipends
Summer Stipend Information (here in PDF format)Updated 08/06/2010
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Updated 08/06/2010
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| 2009 Summer Stipends | ||
| Name | Dept | Title |
| Carlos Ardavin | Modern Languages & Literatures | The Literary Enterprise of Xuan Bello |
| Peter Balbert | English | Fractured Marriage and the Spirit of Place: Topography and Symbology in Lawrence's St. Mawr |
| Eduardo Balreira | Mathematics | Connectedness of Algebraic Rational Hypersurfaces |
| Angela Florschuetz | English | The Mother's Mark: Imagining Mothers in Middle English Romance |
| Kyle Gillette | Speech & Drama | Upholstered Realism versus The Great Futurist Railroad |
| Jessica Halonen | Art & Art History | Rx Garden |
| John Hermann | Political Science | United States v. Lopez (1995): The Anatomy of a Landmark Case |
| Amer Kaissi | Health Care Administration | Hospital-Affiliated Convenient Care Clinics |
| Peter Kelly-Zion | Engineering Science | Experimental Studies of Film Evaporation |
| Kenneth Loiselle | History | Friendship Under Fire: Freemasonry in the French Revolution, 1789-1794 |
| Brian Miceli | Mathematics | The Theory of Mixed Rook Placements |
| Randall Nadeau | Religion | The Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions |
| Peter O'Brien | Political Science | Generous Postmodernism: A case against Nihilism and for Multiple Rationalities |
| Timothy O'Sullivan | Classical Studies | Romans Walking: Identity in Motion |
| Andrew Porter | English | Departures: A Novel in Progress |
| David Rando | English | Surfing Modernism |
| Richard Salvucci | Economics | The Lizardi Family and the Atlantic Economy, 1700-1870 |
| Sussan Siavoshi | Political Science | The Voices of Reform: Islam and Politics in 21st Centruy Iran |
| Patricia Simonite | Art & Art History | The Akrotiri Project |
| David Spener | Sociology & Anthropology | Documenting the Clandestine Border-Crossing Experiences of Mexican Migrants in the Era of Intensified Immigration Control |
| Chad Spigel | Religion | Synagogue Workship in Khirbet Wadi Hamam |
| Matthew Stroud | Modern Languages & Literatures | Strong Women, Righteous Women: Mira de Amescua's El Clavo de Jael |
| Benjamin Surpless | Geosciences | Structural Evolution of the Black Gap Syncline, West Texas |
| Rita Urquijo-Ruiz | Modern Languages & Literatures | Wild Tongues: Adelina Anthony's Performance Art |
| Yu Zhang | Computer Science | Diffusions in Social Networks |
| 2008 Summer Stipends | ||
| NAME | DEPARTMENT | PROJECT TITLE |
| Laura Agoston | Art & Art History | The Ends of Mourning: Michelangelo's Funeral in San Lorenzo, 1564 |
| Jarrod Atchison | Speech and Drama | The Mystic Chords of Separation: Decorum and Jefferson Davis's Resignation from the Senate |
| Jenny Browne | English | The Deceased Hope the Farm Remains in the Family for Generations to Come |
| Michelle Bushey | Chemistry | Short Wavelength UV induced changes in the flavonoid content of dicotyledonous plants: Mass Spectrometry Identification |
| David Crockett | Politcal Science | The Perils of Restoration Politics: George W. Bush in Political Time |
| Saber Elaydi | Mathematics | Time-Variant Population Models |
| Mark Garrison | Art & Art History | Recording of the Persepolis Fortification Archive:Tablets, Texts, and Seals |
| Frank Healy | Biology | Elucidation of the Role of Bacterial Signaling Molecules in the Production of Antibiotic Compunds and Toxins |
| David Hough | Physics and Astronomy | Modeling and Evolution of Magnetic Structures in Quasars |
| Robert Huesca | Communication | Youth Radio and Its Impacts |
| Andrew Kania | Philosophy | Philosophers on "Memento": A collection of new essays by leading scholars exploring the philosophical issues raised by the recent film "Memento". |
| Patrick Keating | Communication | Rudolf Arnheim and the Shape of the Accidental |
| Nanette LeCoat | Modern Languages and Literatures | The Politics of Sociability: The Abbe Morellet and the French Academy |
| Kevin Livingstone | Biology | Development of a graph-based comparative genomics software package |
| Jennifer Mathews | Sociology and Anthropology | Spaces of Contention: Conflict and Rebellion in the Mesoamerican Plaza |
| Susanna Morrow | Speech and Drama | Improvising the Body: Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater |
| Kevin Nickels | Engineering Science | Quantitative Modeling of a Schlieren Optics System |
| Sofia Paredes | Modern Languages and Literatures | Spanish Language curriculum enhancement: Articulating language, content, and textual genres in the transition from Intermediate to Advanced Language Instruction |
| Chris Pursell | Chemistry | Laboratory Studies of the Evaporation of Fuel Films |
| Roger Spencer | Economics | Fiscal Policy Crowding Out |
| Jennifer Steele | Physics and Astronomy | Optical trapping and sorting of microparticles using surface plasmon electromagnetic near fields |
| Wilson Terrell | Engineering Science | Experimental Analysis of Heat Transfer Fluids |
| Betsy Tontiplaphol | English | In Embalmed Darkness: The Luscious Poem in the Nineteenth Century |
| Harry Wallace | Psychology | Do Narcissists Quit or Persevere in the Face of Failure? |
| Elizabeth Ward | Art and Art History | The Production of a Series of Images in Lithography |
2007 SUMMER STIPENDS
| NAME | DEPARTMENT | PROJECT TITLE |
| Peter Balbert | English | D. H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix: Intertextual Essays on Courtship, Conflict, and Transcendence |
| Rosana Blanco-Cano | ML&L | Zapotec Visions of Gender and Art: The Works of Natividad Amador and Martha Toledo |
| Eduardo Cabral Balreira | Mathematics | Topological Methods in Global Invertibility and its Applications |
| Jane Childers | Psychology | Children's Research Lab: How do Children Use Extralinguistic Information During Verb Learning |
| Rocio Delgado | Education | Exploring Multicultural Curricula in Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs |
| Christine Drennon | Soc. & Anthrop. | Testing Political Identity Theory with Multi-Agent Systems Simulation |
| Ruben Depertuis | Religion | Trial and Conflict Scenes in Acts and the Philosopher's Bold Speech |
| Beate Gersch | Communication | Working Mother-A media profile of the American working mother during the transition of feminist politics |
| Jennifer Henderson | Communication | The Role of Nonprofit Organizations as Participants in First Amendment Supreme Court Cases |
| Nicolle Hirschfeld | Classical Studies | The Cypriot ceramic cargo of the Uluburun shipwreck |
| Amer Kaissi | Health Care Admin. | Strategic Planning and Hospital Performance |
| Larry Kutchen | English | The Haitian Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the Rise of Circumatlantic Romanticism |
| David Lesch | History | The History of the Unted States in the Middle East |
| Steven Luper | Philosophy | Well-being and Harm |
| Kelly Lyons | Biology | Use of Plant Species Functional Traits to Design Invasion Resistant Grassland Communities |
| Brian Miceli | Mathematics | Rook Theory & Poly-Stirling Numbers |
| Luis E. Murillo | Religion | Mexican Catholics, US Citizens: Transnational Catholic Practice and Identity in the parish of Coeneo, Michoacan and in the United States: 1945-2004 |
| Peter O'Brien | Political Science | Clashes withn Civilization: The Headscarf Debate in Europe |
| Andrew Porter | English | The Elson House: A Novel in Progress |
| David Rando | English | Make It News! : Representing Experience in Twentieth-Century News and Literature |
| Kate Ritson | Art & Art Hist. | Investigation and creation of sculptural works integrating the Mokume Gane process of fabricating patterned metal |
| Bladimir Ruiz | ML&L | Juvenile Identities and Adult-centrism in Camino a casa. Un dia en la vida de un joven mexicano by Naiev Yehya |
| Richard Salvucci | Economics | Lizardi and Company: The Rise and Decline of a Transnational Mexican Trading Firm, 1770-1870 |
| Kathleen Surpless | Geosciences | Reconstructing Cretaceous paleogeography of the western United States through provenance analysis of the Hornbrook Formation, Oregon and California |
| Rita Urquijo-Ruiz | ML&L | Chicano Nationalism and Queer Identity: What's a Cuban-American Singer got to do with it? |
| 2006 SUMMER STIPENDS | ||
| Name | Dept. | Project Title |
| Michelle Bushey | Chemistry | The Suitability of Porous Polymer Monoliths for Capillary Electrochromatography and Liquid Chromatography for the separation of Analytes of Biological Interest |
| Donald Clark | History | Seoul: A Cultural and Literary History |
| Stacey Connelly | Speech & Drama | A Career in Ruins: Erwin Piscator's Post-War Journal |
| David Crockett | Political Science | The Perils of Restoration Politics: George W. Bush in Political Time |
| Kristin Crouch | Speech & Drama | Expressions of Rage and Desire: Shared Experience Theatre's Production of Jane Eyre and Mill on the Floss |
| Julie DeCourcy | Economics | The Gap between Old Navy and Banana Republic: The Impact of Income Distribution on Vertical Product Differentiation within Firms |
| Aaron Delwiche | Communication | Overcoming Barriers to the Formation of Transnational Identities in Virtual Worlds |
| Roberto Hasfura | Mathematics | Higher Order Mixing in Kakutani Equivalence Classes |
| Laura Hunsicker-Wang | Chemistry | Copper Chaperones from Thermus thermophilus: is Sco1 a true copper chaperone? |
| Thomas Jenkins | Classical Studies | Nix on the Fluffy Stuff: Franklin P. Adams and American Love Elegy |
| Andrew Kania | Philosophy | Pieces of Music: A comparative Ontological Study of Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music |
| Carey Latimore | History | All that is needed now is the Auction Block as it used to be: Restoration and Reconstruction in Richmond, Virginia |
| Kevin Livingstone | Biology | Evolutionary dynamics of a duplicated lycopene B-cyclase |
| Scott Macpherson | Music | Rudolph Mauersberger: Wie Liegt die Stadt so wust and Dresdner Requiem - Critical Analysis of Two Major Works Dating from the Fire-bombing of Dresden |
| Glenn Meyer | Psychology | Altruism and the Ability to Help |
| Judith Norman | Philosophy | The Fate of the Subject in Post-Kantian Thought |
| Timothy O'Sullivan | Classical Studies | Death ane ora parentum in Virgil's Aeneid |
| Sarah Pinnock | Religion | Embodied Mysticism of the Annihilated Self |
| Denise Pope | Biology | Individual Variation in fiddler crab mating and communication behavior: one size does not fit all |
| Daniel Speigel | Physics & Astronomy | Patterns in Liquid Crystals Induced with Laser Light |
| Jennifer Steele | Physics & Astronomy | Effects of Chemical Functionalization on the Plasmonic Properties of Metallodielectric Nano-Gratings |
| Claudia Stokes | English | In Defense of Genius: Resisting Professionalism in the American Nineteenth Century |
| Betsy Winakur Tontiplapho | English | In Embalmed Darkness: The Luscious Poem in the Nineteenth Century |
| Dennis Ugolini | Physics & Astronomy | Measuring Surface Charge on Ligo Optics |
| Harry Wallace | Psychology | A Model of Choking Under Pressure |
| 2005 SUMMER STIPENDS | ||
| Name | Dept. | Project Title |
| Laura Allen | Education | Investigating the effects of curricular change on beginning teachers' attitudes and practices regarding parent involvement |
| Duane Coltharp | English | The Pleasures of the Popular: The British Literary Ballad, 1640-1755. |
| Christine Drennon | Soc. & Anthro. | Poor People in Poor Places? |
| Diana D.Glawe | Engineering Science | Structural control of peptide-mediated silica formation |
| Frank Healy | Biology | Mutagenesis of y-Butyrolactone Autoregulator and Binding Protein Transcriptional Regulator Genes in Secondary Metabolite-Producing Streptomyces |
| Jennifer J. Henderson | Communication | The First Amendment Database Project |
| John R. Hermann | Political Science | Tearing Open The Lid of Pandora's Box: The Supreme Court, Commerce Clause, and National Police Powers |
| Nicolle Hirschfeld | Classical Studies | Final Preparations for Publication of the Potmarks of Hala Sultan Tekke (Cyprus) |
| Bruce Holl | Modern Lang. & Lit. | Nabokov as Chess Author |
| David Hough | Physics & Astronomy | Magnetic Fields in the Cores of Lobe-dominated Quasars |
| Robert Huesca | Communication | Youth on the Air: A Study of Youth Radio Programs and Their Impacts |
| Jongwon Lee | Art & Art History | Hand-Made Paper for Digital Printing -An investigation of surface treatments to enable the use of traditional hand-made paper in digital printing. |
| David W. Lesch | History | The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict |
| Kelly Lyons | Biology | Uncoupling Biotic and Abiotic Determinants of Non-Indigenous Species Success at the Local and Landscape Scale. |
| Patricia Norman | Education | Coaching the Coaches: Challenges and Possibilities for Critical Friends Groups |
| Diane Persellin | Music | First Steps to Vocal Accuracy: A Study of Intervals that Young Children Sing Most Successfully. |
| Andrew Porter | English | The completion of A Light from the East, a novel in progress. |
| Kate Ritson | Art & Art History | Investigation and creation of sculptural works and digital prints employing light as an aesthetic and technical focus. |
| Bladimir Ruiz | Modern Lang. & Lit. | Gay and Lesbian Subjectivities in Mexican Narrative: Utopia and Transgression. |
| Luis Schettino | Psychology | Evoked Response Potentials to Subconscious Visual Stimulation and Subsequent Motor Behavior. |
| Michael Soto | English | The Harlem Renaissance: Geography, Demography, and Social Identity in 1920's African American Life. |
| Kathleen Surpless | Geosciences | A New View of the Early History of the Great Valley Basin (California) from Detrital Zircon Provenance Analysis |
| Adam R. Urbach | Chemistry | The Design, Synthesis, and Thermodynamic Characterization of Highly Stable Complexes in Water |
| Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz | Modern Lang. & Lit. | The Music of the Pachucada: A Binational Study of the Sounds that "Moved" Mexican and Chicana/o Zoot Suitors During the 1940's and 1950's. |
| Wen Xing | Modern Lang. & Lit. | Principles and Procedures for Transcribing Excavated Chinese Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts: An Update of The Study of Chinese Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts in Light of the Shanghai Museum Bamboo Slip Manuscripts |