Selected Faculty Summer Research Grants (2011-2012):

Kyle  Bennett, Biology
Comparing sex-linked mitochondrial genomes of species within the Brachidontes exustus complex

Jennifer Boyle, Political Science
Public Attitudes and Elite Responses to the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Krista Diedrich, Kinesiology
Maintaining Sanity through Effective Discipline

Gurram Gopal, Business
Challenges for Supply Chain Management Programs: Gaps between academic training and the needs of Industry

Ami Johanson, Chemistry
Study of Mushroom Tyrosinase Isoform Activity

Eve Mellgren, Biology
Pseudomonas syringae recognition and adaptation to the plant leaf environment using the PhoP/PhoQ system

Venkatesh Gopal, Physics
Follow that Smell! Schlieren Imaging of Airborne Odor Plume Tracking by Drosophila Larvae

Merrilee Guenther, Biology
Paleohistology of Dinosaurian Postcranial Bones An investigation of the bone microstructure of sauropod dinosaurs


Selected Faculty Student Collaborative Research Grants (2011-2012):

Kyle  Bennett, Biology                       
Students:  Jessica Wadleigh and Elizabeth Ferhati
Comparing sex-linked mitochondrial genomes of species within the Brachidontes exustus complex

Venkatesh Gopal, Physics                       
Students: Anthony Paparo and Robert Morton
Follow that Smell! Schlieren Imaging of Airborne Odor Plume Tracking by Drosophila Larvae

Merrilee Guenther, Biology             
Student: Matthew Geyer
Paleohistology of Dinosaurian Postcranial Bones An investigation of the Bone Microstructure of Sauropod Dinosaurs

Diana Brannon, Education       
Student: Liz Kawa
Designing a PARTNERS Dialogic Reading Preschool Program for Children and Families Deemed At Risk

Jon Johnson, Mathematics                       
Students:  Marissa Clougher, Jennifer Jeffrey, and Sarah Wesley
Explorations in Number Theory

Sara Finley, Psychology                                     
Student: Elizabeth Wiemers
Artificial Grammar Learning and the Critical Period

Bruce Fischer,  Business
Student: Matthew Rohde
An Investigation into the Motivation in Organizations to Submit Ideas for Innovation

Brian Wilhite, Physics 
Student: Adam Perski
Examining the Effect of Redshift on the Quasar Variability-Black Hole Mass Relationship


Interdisciplinary Research or Course Development Grants (2011-2012):

Merrilee Guenther, Biology and Rich Schultz, Geography and Geosciences
BIO 352/GEO 352 Special Topics: Geosciences and Vertebrate Paleontology Field Experience (Course Development)

Therese Wehman, Education and Mick Savage, Kinesiology
The Influence of International Study-Away and Service-Learning on the Personal and Professional Lives of College Students

Russel Ford, Philosophy and Tina Ranalli, World Languages and Literatures
Baudelaire's Lesbians: Sexuality, Modernity, and the Poet

Katrina Sifferd, Philosophy
Neuroscience Boot Camp

Kathy Scanlon,  Dieke Center for Nursing
Development of a Course: Quality and Safety in Healthcare


Native American Studies Research Grant (2011-2012):

Nancy Lee,  Religious Studies
The Cherokee Language Surviving King James: Sequoyah and the Cherokee Bible Translations, a Post-Colonial Examination


LGBT Studies Curriculum Development Grants (2011-2012):

Tina S. Kazan, English Department
Development of the new course “Queer and Unruly Rhetoric:  Social Activism, Popular Culture and LGBT Studies”

Linda Dauskas, Education
Revision of the existing course “ECE 413 Child, Family, Community Relationships”

Deatra Sullivan-Morgan,  Communication Arts and Sciences
Development of the new course “Language, Identity and The Rainbow”

Michael Lindberg, Geography & Geosciences
Development of the new course “Geographies of Sexual and Gender Identities”

Mary Walsh, Political Science
Revision of the existing course "Feminist Political Theory" to include an enhanced section on lesbian feminism. 

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