R&D
Committee
Final Reports Internal Grants
Regional Research Grant
Grant Black, Business & Economics (July 2006) Benchmarking Local Economic Development Policies
Curriculum Development
Gretchen Anderson, Chemistry (Summer 2004) Conversion
to Higher Technology Classroom Presentation in Biochemistry
Gretchen Anderson, Chemistry (Summer 2006) Development
of Capstone Biochemistry Laboratory Course
Elizabeth Bennion, Political Science (Summer 2008) Local government and public policy course
Joseph Chaney, English (Summer 2004) London and
Paris Overseas Program: Becoming Modern: 1666-1870: The Paris Summer Course
Tammy Fong-Morgan, World Languages (May 2005) Spanish
S116 Elementary Spanish 2 with Review
Lee Kahan, English (Summer 2008) Living History: A
Study Abroad Experience in London and Edinburgh
Les Lamon, History (March 1999) Freedom Summer: A Study
Tour of the Civil Rights Movement
Jeremy Linton, Education (Summer 2007) Certificate Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling
Monika Lynker, Physics (Summer 2004) Reform and
Revitalization of the Calculus-Based Introductory Physics Sequence
Susan Moore, Arts (Summer 2005) Digital Photography
Micheline Nilsen, Arts (Summer 2007) Exploring the
City with GIS Documentation of Architectural Structures
Michael Scheessele, Computer Science (Summer 2004) C490/B657
Computer Vision
Rolf Schimmirik, Physics (Summer 2007) Coherence
and Synergy in the Upper Level Physics Curriculum
Henry Scott, Physics (Summer 2008) The Nature of
Evidence: A Central Theme for Two New Courses
Doug Singh, SPEA (Summer 2007) Crisis in Long-Term Care
Administration
Mary Truex, Biology, (April 2002) Developing a Lab
Curriculum for T100
Michelle Verges, Psychology (November 2006) Conserve
Plastic Bags: A Service-Learning Initiative
Dana Vrajitoru, Computer & Information Science (April 2002) B424 Parallel and Distributed Programming
Lesley Walker, Foreign Languages (April 2000) The
Art of Looking: Women and French Cinema (French 361)
Lesley Walker, Foreign Languages (Summer 2004) London
and Paris Overseas Program: Becoming Modern: 1666-1870: The Paris Summer
Course
Liqiang Zhang, Computer and Information Sciences (Summer 2008) C490/P545: Embedded and Real-Time Systems C490/P545: Embedded and Real-Time Systems
Faculty Research Grants
Gretchen Anderson, Chemistry (Summer 2001) Bacterial
Use of Arsenite as an Energy Source
Oscar Barrau, World Languages (Summer 2005) Jacob
Cromberger of Seville and the Origins of Spanish American Narrative
Oscar Barrau, World Languages (Summer 2006) The Case
of Caribbean Island Isabella off the Coast of Japan
Elizabeth Bennion, Political Science (March 2003) Getting
Out the Vote in a Competitive Election: A Field Experiment for Publication
Elizabeth Bennion, Political Science (Summer 2005) Getting
Out the Vote in a Local Election: A Randomized Field Experiment
Elizabeth Bennion, Political Science (Summer 2007) Voter
Registration Field Experiments: Analysis and Publication
Cathy Borshuk, Psychology (November 2001) Common
Humanity and Outgroup Threat as Determinants of Intergroup Advocacy
Rebecca Brittenham, English (April 2002) The 1960s University in the Public Imagination
Cheri Brown, Foreign Languages (April 2002) The
Criticism and Reception of Paul Rebhun’s Susanna
Paul Brunner, Arts (Summer 2004) Computer Controlled
Scenery: Industrial Networking Applications for Scenery Automation
Jill Bryant, Education (Summer 2008) The Effects of an
Initial CACREP Accreditation Process on Students in Program: A Qualitative
Study
Peter Bushnell, Biology (April 2002) Shark
Metabolism and Tuna Tracking- Sabbatical Leave Research
Peter Bushnell, Biology (Summer 2004) Biochemical
Fitness of Overwintering Sea Bass
Peter Bushnell, Biology (Summer 2006) Oxygen Binding
Properties of Sandbar Shark Blood
Ni Chang, Education (Summer 2007) Purposeful Dialogues
between Parent and Child about A Child’s Drawing in the Promotion of Language
and Literacy
Murali Chari, B&E (Summer 2007) Minority
Acquisitions as a Strategy to Mitigate International Acquisition Risks
Shanqin Chen, Mathematical Sciences (Summer 2008) Fast
Sweeping Method for Steady-State Solution of Conservations Laws
Thomas Clark, Biology (Summer 2004) The role of
serotonin in pH regulation by larval mosquitoes
Lane David, B&E (Summer 2006) Can We Capture the
Multidimensional Nature of Trade Policy With a Summary Measure?
Melchor DeGuzman, SPEA (November 2002) Citizen
Review Boards in the US: The State of Citizens’ Participation in the Control of
the Police
Reza Espahbodi, B&E (April 2002) Value
Relevance of Recognition versus Disclosure in Financial Reporting
Mark Fox, B&E (Summer 2004) Developing an Online
Introduction to Business Administration Course
Hayley Froysland, History (Summer 2006) For
the Common Good: Charity, Health, and Moral Order in Bogotá, Colombia,
1850-1936
Zhong Guan, Math (Summer 2005) Semiparametric Models and
Empirical Likelihood with Application to Change-Point Analysis
Julio Hernando, World Languages (Summer 2007) Crown,
Violence, Chivalry
Julio Hernando, World Languates (Summer 2008) Crown, Violence, Chivalry
Lee Kahan, English (Summer 2007) Fictions of
Intelligence: Eighteenth-Century English Novels and the Commerce of Information
Neovi Karakatsanis, Political Science (April 2002) Political Learning as a Catalyst for Moderation:
The Case of Greek Elites
Mike Keen, Sociology (Summer 2004) Witnessing
Sociological Lives in Central and Eastern Europe: Autobiographies of Transformation
Robert Kolt, Arts (Summer 2007) The Life, and Works of
Robert Ward: An American Musical Philosopher
Kevin Ladd, Psychology (November 2002) Improving
Retirement for Roman Catholic Diocesan Priests: Scale Development
Kevin Ladd, Psychology (Summer 2005) Intrapersonal,
Visual, & Auditory Aspects of Prayer
Alan Larkin, Arts (November 1998) Models Fees for Fall
Painting and Drawing Projects
Lynette Lashley, Arts (November 2002) An Analysis of
the Political Advertisements in Trinidad and Tobago Newspapers: National
Elections 2002
Lynette Lashley, Arts (November 2003) The Status of
Blacks in the Media of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Ilan Levine, Physics (March 2004) Development of an ultrasonic
sensor array for the PICASSO dark matter experiment
Ilan Levine, Physics (Summer 2005) Superheated Droplet
Detector
Ilan Levine, Physics (Summer 2006) Moderately
superheated fluid detectors
April Lidinsky (Summer 2005) Fin de Siecle Figures
of Self in Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces
Monika Lynker, Physics (March 2003) Alignment and
Calibration of the Forward Preshower (FPS) Detector at D0
Matthew Marmorino, Chemistry (Summer 2006) Practical
lower bounds to chemical energies
Deborah Marr, Biology (April 2002) The role of insects and fungal
pathogens in the genetics and ecology of seed production in Hydrophyllum
appendiculatum
Deborah Marr, Biology (Summer 2007) Using Molecular
Tools to Identify Fungal Pathogens that Cause Wilt Disease in Hydrophyllum
Jake Mattox, English (Summer 2008) Occupying American Space: U.S. Travelers in Panama and Nicaragua, 1820–1860
Gail McGuire, Sociology (Summer 2004) Understanding
Gender Race Differences in Networks
Gail McGuire, Sociology (Summer 2006) Social
Similarity and the Provision of Help in Developmental Relationships
Paul-Brian McInerney, Informatics (Summer 2006) How
Organizations Cope with Competing Values from Disparate Stakeholders
Gwynn Mettetal, Education (Summer 2007) Mentoring
Among Professors: An Examination of how Mentoring is Conducted and Perceived at
IUSB
Susan Moore, Arts (Summer 2006) Commonalities:
Photographs of the Vernacular landscape
Susan Moore, Arts (Summer 2008) Nature and Beauty Photographs of an Altered Landscape
Jorge Muniz, Arts (Summer 2007) Composition of Two
Electronic Music Sequences for “Germinal,” Opera in Three Acts
Raman Muralidharan, B&E (April 2000) Environmental
Scanning and Strategic Decisions at the Headquarters Foreign Subsidiary: An
Empirical Study
Raman Muralidharan, B&E (Summer 2004) Option
Value of International Diversification: Evidence from East Asian Firms and the
East Asian Crisis
Fred Naffziger, B&E (November 2003) Not-for-Profits:
Their Corporate Structure, Bankruptcy, and Constitutional Issues -- The Case of
the Catholic Church
Fred Naffziger, B&E (Summer 2006) Have Recent
Corporate Scandals Created a New Legal Mileu for Corporate Directors?
Murli Nair, Informatics (Summer 2006) Statistical
analysis of splicing microarray data
Jonathan Nashel, History (Summer 1999) The Masks of
Power: Edward Lansdale and the American Attempt
to Remake Southeast Asia, 1945-1965
Jonathan Nashel, History (Summer 2001) The CIA and
American Popular Culture
Dora Natella (Summer 2005) Presenze Femminili
(Feminine Presence)
Michelene Nilsen (Summer 2005) The “Other Side of the
Tracks”: Railway Implantation in European Capitals
Yosuke Nirei, History (Summer 2006) Ex-Samurai
Intellectuals and the Knowledge of Empire Building in Japan, 1868-1912
Yuri Obata (Summer 2009) An Examination of the Pre-1945 Japanese Supreme Court Obscenity Decisions and the Legacy in Postwar Sexual Ideologies
Isabel O'Connor, History (Summer 2004) From Muslim
to Mudejar Women: Gender and Social Change in Thirteenth Century-Spain
Isabel O'Connor, History (Summer 2007) Crossing
Economic, Cultural and Religious Boundaries: Muslim Men Operating in Christian
Markets in Thirteenth-Century Cocentaina
Kwanda Okrah, Education (February 2001) Toward Global
Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the Akan Chieftaincy and Judicial Systems
Dan Olson, Sociology (November 2002) New Measures of
Religious Competition/Similarity among U.S. Denominations
David Parker, Political Science (Summer 2006) BRAC
Attack: Delegation, Politics, and the Closing of Military Bases 1989-2005
Kelcey Parker, English (Summer 2007) Three Hundred
Crowns: A Novel
Robert Pope, Biology (March 2003) What Makes a Cell
Crawl
Gabriel Popescu (Summer 2007) Bordering and Ordering
the New Millennium: Boundaries and the Social Construction of Places
Yilei Qian, Biology (Summer 2005) The Study of
Carbohydrate Utilization in Bifidobacterium
Theo Randall, Sociology (Summer 2008) MALARIA ASSOCIATED HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN THE GAMBIA
Jeff Rhyne, English (Summer 2004) Ventriloquizing the
Feminine: Catharine Beecher’s Public Speeches and Ideal Womanhood
Gabrielle Robinson, International Programs (November 2001) Germany in US
Elaine Roth, English (November 2002) An Investigation of
Steven Soderbergh's Films
Elaine Roth, English (Summer 2008) After the Film is Before the Film: The Cinema of Tom Tykwer
Vasile Rus, Computer Science (Summer 2004) An Evaluation
System for the Login Form Identification
Andrea Rusnock, Arts (Summer 2006) Soviet Socialist
Realism: Fact or Fiction? Paintings of Collectivization, 1934-41
Sara Sage, Education (February 2001) The Learning and
Teaching Experiences in Problem-Based Learning
Sara Sage, Education (April 2004) Problem-Based Learning
and Psychological Type
Rolf Schimmrigk, Physics (Summer 2006) The
emergence of space and time from string theory
Rolf Schimmrigk, Physics (Summer 2007) The
emergence of space and time in string theory in higher dimensions
Rolf Schimmrigk, Phsics (Summer 2008) A spacetime
interpretation of L-functions via D-branes for families of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Carolyn Schult, Psychology (Summer 2002) Children’s
Cognitive Development
Henry Scott, Physics (November 2003) A High-Pressure
Experimental Laboratory at IUSB
Henry Scott, Physics (Summer 2005) Mantle Generation of
Heavy Hydrocarbons
Michael Scheessele, Computer Science (April 2002) A
Computational Model of the Perception of Partially Occluded and Fragmented
Figures
Michael Scheessele, Computer Science (Summer 2006) Role
of non-target in perception of a target in visual search
Scott Sernau, Sociology (November 2002) Global Issues
Feng Shan, Library (Summer 2004) Electronic Resource
Management at Chinese Academic Libraries
Dmitry Shlapentokh, History (March 2003) Eurasianism:
Past and Present
Matthew Shockey, Philosophy (Summer 2008) Heidegger’s Descartes and Heidegger’s Cartesianism
J.R. Shrader, Philosophy (Summer 2006) Investigation
and Defense of Options for Theories of Emergence
Yu Song, Mathematics (Summer 2004) The Robustness of the Three-Way Chart to Non-normality
Lisa Swartout, History (Summer 2005) Burschenschaft and
German Political Culture: 1900-1914
Rebecca Torstrick, Sociology (November 2001) Culture
and Customs of Israel: A Writing Project
Jay VanderVeen, Anthropology (Summer 2007) Creating
the First Global Cuisine: Subsistence Patterns of Taino and European
Populations
Michelle Verges, Psychology (Summer 2006) The Role of
Expert Knowledge in Artifactual Categorization
Dana Vrajitoru (Summer 2004) Consistent Graph
Layouts by Hybrid Genetic Algorithms
Lesley Walker, Foreign Languages (November 2000) Enlightened
Labor and Artful Maternity: Women in the Arts and Letters in France
Lesley Walker, World Languages (Summer 2005) Words of
Women: A History of Literary Biographies
Lesley Walker, World Languages (Summer 2008) A Mother's Love
Isaac Walters, Arts (Summer 2004) The Space Between
Qiang Xu, Criminal Justice (Summer 2008) Crime in South Bend: A Geographic Analysis of Patterns and Trends
Liquo Yu, Computer Science (Summer 2007) Applying
Data-Mining on Open-Source Software Repositories
Liqiang Zhang, Computer Science (Summer 2006) Adaptive
MAC Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks Using Directional Antennas
Lisa Zwicker, History (Summer 2007) The Unpolitical
German? Students and the Last Elections of the German Empire
Seed Grants
Gretchen Anderson, Chemistry (September 2001) Redox
Potentials and Arsenite Binding of Arsenite Oxidase
Peter Bushnell, Biology (December 2002) Sublethal
Effect of Polychlrorinated Biphenols (PCB) Acculumation on Stress Responses in
Juvenile Bluefish
Kevin Ladd (July 2006) Prayer Psychometrics &
Neuropsychological Investigations of Religion
Ilan Levine, Physics (August 2004) Superheated
Droplet Detector
Jeremy Linton, Education (October 2005) Center for
Substance Abuse Services
Sara Sage, Education (February 2002) Futures in
Education: Minority Teacher Recruitment at IUSB
Michelle Verges, Psychology (May 2006) Role of
Expert Knowledge in Semantic Categorization
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