Research and Scholarship Program Initiation Grant - Previous Awardees
Year | Award Recipient | Description |
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2022 | Ann-Marie Conrado | Wisdom Traditions and the Practice of Design |
2022 | CJ Jones & Fr. Innocent Smith, OP (Saint Mary’s Seminary and University) | The Medieval Liturgy of the Dominican Order: A New Edition of the Rubrics |
2022 | Matthew Kloser | Exploring the Relationship Between Classroom Factors and Teacher Value-added Measures in High School Biology Classrooms |
2022 | Nuno Moniz & Don Brower | The 20W Experiment: Machine Ability and Human Intelligence |
2022 | Samuel Rund & Yaw Afrane (University of Ghana) | Demonstrating the feasibility of smart (digital) mosquito traps to replace human landing catches in experiments to understand mosquito bednet-avoiding circadian behaviors |
2022 | Clemens Sedmak, Maurizio Albahari, Eileen Hunt, Mary Keys, Karrie Koesel, Paul Perrin & Marek Babic (Catholic University in Ružomberok [Slovakia]) | The Contribution of ‘Peripheries Research’ to European Studies |
2022 | Sophie White | His Master’s Grace: Extrajudicial Violence, Punishment, and Mercy, A Digital Humanities Comparative Study of Britain and France’s Slave Societies |
2021 | John Betz & outside collaborators | F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophy of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Original Lectures |
2021 | Kraig Beyerlein, Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt & Matthew Sisk | The Promise of Finding Faith in Urban Areas: Novel Methods for Locating Chicago Congregations to Study Their Effects on Community Outcomes and Dynamics |
2021 | Katie Bugyis & Margot Fassler | Women’s Rites: A Website for the Study of Christian Women’s Religious Communities in Medieval Europe, 900–1500 |
2021 | Meredith S. Chesson, William Donaruma, Ian Kujit & outside collaborators | Traditional Rural Lifeways, Sustainable Rural Futures: Historic and Contemporary Communities in the Bova region of southern Calabria, Italy, 1800 – 2021 |
2021 | John Blacklow | State-of-the-art audio equipment for national and international recordings |
2021 | Christopher Chowrimootoo | Sacred Secularism: Music and religion in the 20th-century public sphere |
2021 | Korey Garibaldi & Emily Wang | Reconsidering Race in the Age of Pushkin |
2021 | Brittany Solomon (Hall) | Political Ideology and Ideological Bias in the Workplace: Unexplored Connections to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
2021 | Matthew E.K. Hall | Civil Discourse in the Workplace: Good for politics, good for business |
2021 | Robert Hughes | Single-crystal gold films on glass as a novel platform for biosensors |
2021 | Victoria Tin-bor Hui | Hong Kong voices in American politics |
2021 | Emmanuel Katongole | Sowing Hope: Peace, ecology, and integral human development |
2021 | Julia Kowalski | Relational representation? Retheorizing gender and democracy in north India |
2021 | Paul McGinn | Master sintering curves for binder jet printing |
2021 | Kerry Meyers | Engineering Education Summer Research Deep Dive: Women in Engineering |
2021 | Dana Moss | When the ‘Means of Violence’ Rebel: Explaining dissent in the US military during the Vietnam War (1965–75) |
2021 | Olukola Owolabi | Audio visual installation in the Reyes Organ and Choral Hall |
2021 | Xinxue (Shawn) Qu | Digital privacy issues on mobile platforms |
2021 | Thien-Toan Tran | Intelligent biosensor system to detect interstitial cystitis biomarkers |
2021 | Abigail Weaver | Beyond micro: Real-time imaging of entire polymicrobial microbiomes to understand infection |
2020 | Seth Berry | Measuring aversive racism through client-side paradata |
2020 | Jaimie Bleck | Mapping Civil Society Organization in Mali: State counterweights or collaborators? |
2020 | La Donna L. Forsgren | Mama, I Want to Sing!’: Queering the black musical theatre canon |
2020 | Therese Cory | History of philosophy forum |
2020 | Chloe Gibbs | Improving high school students’ post-secondary pathways |
2020 | Robert E. Norton | The School of Wisdom: Hermann von Keyserling and the philosophy of life |
2020 | Ian Newman | Song Stories: The ballad and its narrators |
2020 | Alexander Jech | A Kierkegaard glossary |
2020 | Manuela Lahne | Neurotransmitter-mediated signaling in Müller glia and neuronal progenitor cells in the adult regenerating zebrafish retina |
2020 | John Lalor | Towards automatic generation of electronic health record note comprehension questions |
2020 | Ross Jacobucci | Dynamic Multimodal Assessment of Suicide Risk: An initial application |
2020 | Kati Macaluso & Christine Trinter | Exploring the influence of Catholic school teacher leaders in under-resourced schools |
2020 | Phillip Stepanian | A real-time prediction system for forecasting insect emergence, dispersal, and swarming events on the Great Lakes. |
2020 | Wanpeng Tan | Understanding the mirror sector of the universe |
2019 | Michael J. Cramer | Role of ultrasonic vocalizations in communication in wild populations of deer mice |
2019 | Nan Z. Da | Where have the Chinese literary critics gone? |
2019 | Karen Graubart | Fugitive Blackness: Finding African diasporic self-governance in the early circum-Caribbean |
2019 | Thomas Mustillo | The volatility of political attachments: A panel study of Mexicans |
2019 | John Onyango | The impacts of choice of energy code compliance path on whole-building energy performance for residential buildings in St. Joseph County, Indiana |
2019 | Susan Ostermann | Conservatives against imperialism? The causes and consequences of conservative nationalism in the post-colonial world |
2019 | Christine Venter | Dissenting from the bench: Performative jurisprudence as a necessary part of a thriving democracy |
2019 | Qiping Xu | Do higher taxes lead to brain drain? Evidence from state-level tax changes |
2018 | Yunjuan Bao | Toward Discovery of Early Diagnostic Biomarkers for Skin and Nasal Diseases Caused by the Flesh-Eating Bacterium Streptococcus Pyogenes |
2018 | Alexander Beihammer | “Medieval Smyrna/Izmir: The Transformations of a City and its Hinterland from Byzantine to Ottoman Times (twelfth-fifteenth centuries) |
2018 | Yong Cheng | Defining the Mechanism of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria-Host Interaction in Cystic Fibrosis |
2018 | Kenneth Garcia | Mining the Invisible |
2018 | Brian Krostenko | Cataloguing the Medieval Latin Manuscripts of Poland |
2018 | Michael Macaluso | Studying the Practices and Effects of Secondary English Teachers |
2018 | Tim Machan | From Vinland to the Americas |
2018 | Sara L. Maurer | Printed Communities: Religious Tracts and Readerly Connection in the Age Mass Literacy, 1785 –1875 |
2018 | Prakash D. Nallathamby | Inducing Tumor Self-Destruction Using Targeted Nanoparticles as an On-Off Switch |
2018 | Michael (Tzvi) Novick | The Legal Arithmetic of Rabbinic Judaism |
2018 | Sergei Rouvimov | In situ TEM of Phase Transformation in Nanostructured Materials |
2018 | Satyajyoti Senapati | A Validation Study with CNT Based Platform for Selective and Sensitive Detection of Protein Biomarkers |
2018 | Brian Smith & Elizabeth Kerr | Parameterizing Major Discernment for First and Second-Year Engineering Students |
2017 | Susan Blum | Assessing Authentic Nonformal Learning in Project-, Problem-, and Placed-Based Internships |
2017 | James R. Brockmole & Abigail Wozniak | The Effect of Handgun Access on Social Decision-making |
2017 | Giles E Duffield | Circadian Control of Blood Feeding Behavior in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles farauti |
2017 | David Flagel | Generation of Anti-Predator Behaviors in White-tailed Deer using Gray Wolf Olfactory and Vocal Cues |
2017 | Paul Gao | Study of Resolution of Municipal Bankruptcies under the Chapter 9 of U.S. Bankruptcy Code |
2017 | Daniel Hobbins | In the Shadow of Scribes: The Pursuit of Authorship in Medieval Europe, 1100-1500 |
2017 | Michael Hoffman | Political Religion and Sectarianism in the Arab World |
2017 | Tamara Kay | Innovating and Diffusing a Healthcare Model: The Case of Project ECHO |
2017 | Sergey Leonov | Phase Transformation in Nanostructured High Energy Density Materials under Impact of a Controlled Converging Shock Wave |
2017 | Mark McKenna | Investigating Design |
2017 | Thomas V. Merluzzi | Lost in Transition: A Pilot Study of Cancer Patients in the Process of Transitioning from Active Treatment to Survivorship |
2017 | Alessandro Pierattini | Origins of the Greek Temple: 8th-7th Century B.C. |
2017 | Rory Rapple | Defining and Illuminating English Political Thought and Thinking, 1547-1603 |
2017 | Nathan Rose & G.A. Radvansky | Using Interactive Virtual Environments to Explore Memory and Cognition |
2017 | Tiffanie Stewart | The Use of Magnetoelectric Nanoparticles (MENs) as Carrier Vehicles to Enable Pervasive Drug Infiltration into Ovarian Cancer Multicellular Aggregates (MCAs) |
2016 | Timothy Beers & Vinicius Placco | Identification of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars from S-PLUS Photometry using Artificial Neural Networks |
2016 | Gary Bernstein & Marya Lieberman | Rapid Thermal Processing of DNA Nanostructures on Silicon for Formation of Self-Aligning p-n Junctions |
2016 | Manuel Couder & Matt Smylie | Cross-disciplinary Investigation of Increased Superconducting Current via Particle Irradiation |
2016 | Donald Crafton | Digital Reanimation of a Legendary Film Performance: Phase I |
2016 | Sarah Daly | Civilian Support for Political Actors with Coercive Legacies |
2016 | Hana Kang | Language Learners’ Cognitive Processing and Production in Chinese and Korean Writings: The Analysis of Eye-Movement and Handwriting Tracking Data |
2016 | John Liberatore | Extended Techniques, Interactive Electronics, and Musical Composition for Benjamin Franklin’s Glass Harmonica |
2016 | Jun Li | Developing Statistical Methods for Cancer Research based on RNA-Seq and Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data |
2016 | Cheng Liu | Hierarchical Deep Learning Modeling for Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment |
2016 | Karel Matous, Alexander Mukasyan & Alberto Salvadori | BatterieX: Experiments, Modeling, Simulations towards the Design of Batteries under Extreme Conditions |
2016 | Miguel Morales | Drug Resistance in Leishmania Clinical Isolates from India |
2016 | Amy Mulligan | A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and Spatial Poetics of the North Atlantic Archipelago from 700-1300 |
2016 | Susanne Wengle | Setting The Table, Market Regulations and Food Systems in Russia and the US: The Case of California |
2015 | Corey Angst | Responsible IT Leadership in a Data-Driven World: A Proposal for a Cross-cultural New Research Initiative |
2015 | Neil Arner | A Critical, Constructive, and Christian Response to Recent Evolutionary Accounts of Morality |
2015 | Christopher Ball | Language and Landscape in Indigenous Amazonia: Mapping Cosmological and Political Dimensions |
2015 | Catherine Bolten | Bushmeat, Disease, and Value: Chimpanzee as food, medicine and threat in Sierra Leone |
2015 | Liang Cai | Reviving the Muted Bureaucrats and the Formation of China’s Early Imperial Bureaucracy |
2015 | Daniel Hungerman | Constructing a Dataset of Catholic Parish Bulletins |
2015 | Fang Liu | Integration of Differential Privacy and Data Synthesis to Protect Data Privacy |
2015 | Nicole McNeil | Comparison of Three Early Math Interventions |
2015 | Alexei Orlov | Power Clock Resonators for Reversible Computing |
2015 | Michael E. Pfrender | Epigenetic Variation and the Response to Stressful Environments |
2015 | Julia Adeney Thomas | Hope in the Hinterland: Alternative Economics and the Anthropocene |
2015 | Jada Benn Torres | Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Disease Disparity: A Preliminary Study of Uterine Fibroids among American Women |
2015 | Kevin Vaughan | StARD9 as a Novel Human Gene Responsible for Intracellular Cholesterol Transport |
2015 | Jerry Cheyung Wei | Innovative Services through Manufacturing and Finance Integration: A Study of the 3‐tiered Relationship between Buyer, Intermediary, and Supplier |
2014 | Christopher Baron | The Herodotus Encyclopedia |
2014 | Thomas Gresik & Vijay Gupta | Designing distributed sensor networks to address malicious attacks: Integrating engineering and mechanism design methodologies |
2014 | Kaifeng Jiang | Does Leadership Make a Difference: The Moderating Effect of Service Leadership on the Relationship between High-Performance Work Practices and Retail Store Performance |
2014 | Danielle Joyner | Landscapes and Medieval Arts |
2014 | Alexander G. Lappin | Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 |
2014 | W. Matthew Leevy | Patient-specific anatomical replicas for sinus surgery practice |
2014 | Mei Li | A Cross Culture Comparison of Online Consumer Reviews: Patterns and Impact |
2014 | Erin McDonnell | Fairness and Pricing: Historical Shifts and Demographic Differences in the Evaluation of Moral Behavior in the Market |
2014 | Kinoshi Nishikawa | Race Matter: Book Design and the Textual Condition of African American Literature |
2014 | Sylwia Ptasinska | Dosimtery of Cold Atmospheric Plasmas for Medical Applications |
2014 | Kimberly Rollings | Assessing Effects of the Built Environment: Converging Efforts to Improve Health and Sustainable Design |
2014 | Jai Verma | GaN/AIN Quantum Dot deep-UV LEDs |
2013 | Susanta Behura | Role of MicroRNAs in Vector Competence of Aedes aegypti |
2013 | Ying Cheng | Variable-Length Cognitive Diagnostics Adaptive Testing Module for AP Statistics |
2013 | William Kremer | 3D Printing of Ceramics for the Arts |
2013 | Steven Lugauer | Quantifying the Age Distribution’s Effect on Employment by Age Group |
2013 | Alexander Mintairov | Nano-optics of Wigner Molecules: Proof of their existence |
2013 | Ryan Roeder | Exploration of Nanoparticle Contrast Agents for Spectral Computed Tomography |
2013 | Steven Ruggiero | Optical Cancer Diagnostic Instrument |
2013 | Thanuka Wickramarathne | Toward the Development of Novel Modeling and Data Fusion Methods for Complex Networks Embedding Dynamic Processes with External Influence |
2013 | Erliang Zeng | The Initiative of Bioinformatic Development for Mining Genomic Patterns Corresponding for Ecological Adapting through Massive Microbial Whole Genome Sequences |
2012 | Dawn Gondoli | Helping Adolescents with ADHD to Flourish: Enhancing Cognitive Functioning and Improving Family Relationships |
2012 | Mary Ellen Konieczny | Serving God and Country: Religion and Citizenship at the United States Air Force Academy |
2012 | Lei Liu | The Initiative of A Microfluidic Approach of Terahertz Chemical and Biological Sensing |
2012 | Emilia Justyna Powell | Islamic Law and States’ Foreign Policy Behavior |
2012 | Gregory Ragland | Testing for Mechanistic and Evolutionary Links between Changing Climates and Biological Responses: The Effects of Warming Winters on Insect Overwintering Physiology |
2012 | Satyajyoti Senapati | Rapid, Quantifiable RNA Sensing Platform for Dengue Virus Identification |
2012 | James Sullivan | Seed Grant for the Laboratory for Economic Opportunity |
2012 | Timothy Wright | PrivacyRanger: A System for Visualizing and Managing Mobile Device Privacy |
2011 | Aimee Buccellato | The Green Scale Research Project: Quantifying Truly Sustainable Design |
2011 | Matt Cain | Proposal for Funding of Research on Private Equity Investments |
2011 | Gilberto Cárdenas | The Gilberto Cárdenas Photographic Archives Project |
2011 | Christian Davenport | Illustrative Information Interface |
2011 | Scott Egan | Simultaneous Study of Directional and Stabilizing Selection in Replicated Populations: Variable Contributions of Individual Populations to Landscape Wide Patterns |
2011 | Jeffrey Feder | Does Diversity beget Diversity? Sequential Speciation in a Tritrophic Community |
2011 | Luis Fernandez-Torres | Reactions of 1-Adamantanethiolate and 1-Adamantaneselenolate with Transition Metals: Novel Pathway to Semiconductor Nanostructure Synthesis |
2011 | Hong Guo | Would Carrier Competition Maintain the Neutrality of Mobile Net? |
2011 | David Hernandez | Excavations in the Roman Forum at Butrint: The Archaeology of a Hellenistic and Roman Port in Epirus |
2011 | Yih-Fang Huang | Forecast-Aided State Estimation for Smarter Grid |
2011 | Carlos Jerez-Farrán | Sexual Violence and the Ethics of Subjective Desire in the Works of Dalí, García Lorca and Luis Buñuel |
2011 | Amanda McKendree | Responding to Conflict: The Hope for Leadership and Learning |
2011 | Luc Reydams | Between Heaven and Earth: The Human Rights Movement in the 21st Century |
2011 | Deb Rotman | Historical Archaeology of Irish-American Identity and Ethnogenesis |
2011 | Ernesto Verdeja, Christian Davenport | Mass Murder Incorporated: Understanding Security Forces and State Repression |