Research and Scholarship Program Initiation Grant - Previous Awardees

Year	Award Recipient	Description
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