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
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
Les Lamon, History (March 1999) Freedom Summer: A Study Tour of the Civil Rights Movement
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
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 

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
J.R. Shrader, Philosophy (Summer 2006) Investigation and Defense of Options for Theories of Emergence
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
Isaac Walters, Arts (Summer 2004) The Space Between
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