Promoting Excellence:

Graduate School Fellowships and Awards

General Research Board Semester Awards (2009-2010)
General Research Board Summer Awards (Summer 2009)
General Research Board Research Support Awards (2009-2010)
Creative and Performing Arts Awards (Summer 2009)
Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize (2009-2010)

 

Graduate Student Awards

University of Maryland Flagship Fellowships (2009-2010)

Megan May Bailey, Department of Anthropology (from Bryn Mawr College)

Maia Chisholm, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (from University of Maryland, College Park)

Rebecca Ann Fischer, Department of Geology (from Northwestern University)

Alexander J. Forde, Graduate Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (from Carleton College (undergraduate) and Florida State University (graduate))

Crosby Hipes, Department of Sociology (from University of Arkansas)

Ernest Osburn, Graduate Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (from University of Georgia)

Carolyn Ureña, Comparative Literature Program (from Princeton University)

Garrett Alan Warnell, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (from Michigan State University)

Anna Lane Windham, Department of History (from Duke University)

Dror Yuravlivker, Department of Government and Politics (from McGill University (undergraduate) and Georgetown University (graduate)

Juliet Aiken, Department of Psychology

Zeynep Atalay, Department of Sociology

Matthew C. Bates, Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Jonathan N. Brown, Department of Government and Politics

Aaron Bryant, Department of American Studies

Sabine Chai, Department of Communication

Vidyu Challa, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jianhong Chang, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Byeong-Young Cho, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Michelle Costanzo, Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Karalee Dawn, Department of Theatre

Katherine Ehrlich, Department of Psychology

Amanda Field, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Bridget Kay Fredstrom, Department of Human Development

Paul Gibson, Department of History

Robert B. Henderson, Department of History

Daniel Hernaiz, Department of Economics

James Hodapp, Department of English

Warren Huelsnitz, Department of Physics

Hyejin Huh, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

HyoSil Hwang, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Terence Johnson, Department of Economics

Lenisa Joseph, Department of Special Education

Bettina Judd, Department of Women’s Studies

Irene Kiburu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Elise Larsen, Department of Biology

Jasmine Lellock, Department of English

Jeff Lemberg, Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Qinwen Liu, Department of Biology

Li-Chuan Lo, Department of Kinesiology

Marilyn Matar, Department of French Language and Literature

Brittany S. McGill, Department of Sociology

Angel Love Miles, Department of Women’s Studies

Andrew Nelson, Department of American Studies

Yi Niu, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Design

Cameron Richardson, Department of Human Development

Raluca Romaniuc, Department of French Language and Literature

Katharina Rudolf, Department of Germanic Studies

Alyssa A. Samek, Department of Communication

Ashwini Sebastian, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Jennifer Smith, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Pavan Kumar Soma, Department of Nutrition and Food Science

Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, Department of Chemical Physics

Avinash L. Varna, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rachel Wadsworth, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Hui Wang, Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Huan Wang, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Xiaodong Xia, Department of Nutrition and Food Science

Yufu Zhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships (2009-2010)

Patricia Acerbi
Department of History
Slave Legacies, Ambivalent Modernity: Street Commerce and the Transition to Free Labor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1850-1920

Moshe Adrian
Department of Mathematics
Revisiting Local Langlands for GL(a,F)

Ricardo Arevalo
Department of Geology
Quantitative Modeling of Mantle Heterogeneity and Structure

Deborah Bailin
Department of English
From the Prehistoric to the Post-Human: Animality, Inheritance, and Identity in American Literary Naturalism

Moble Benedict
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Investigation of the Cycloidal Rotor Concept for a Micro Air Vehicle

Trent J. Bradberry
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Non-invasive Neural Decoding of Overt and Covert Hand Movement

Vidyu Challa
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Reliability of Stamped Metal Land Grid Array Sockets

Seth Freedman
Department of Economics
The Effects of Neonatal Intensive Care Deregionalization on Treatment and Infant Health

Sorelle Friedler
Department of Computer Science
Algorithms for Calculating Statistical Properties of Moving Points

Angela Susan George
Department of Art History and Archaeology
The Old New World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893

Jordan Horowitz
Department of Physics
Theoretical Framework for the Operation and Manipulation of Stochastic Pumps

Shu-Ling Huang
Philip Merrill School of Journalism
Fluidity and Identity in the Era of Globalization: Media Construction and Self-Consciousness of the "Taiwanese in China"

Timothy Hunter
Department of Linguistics
Computational Mechanisms for Syntax and Semantics

Kerem Ozan Kalkan
Department of Government and Politics
Bands of Others? Ethnocentrism, Tolerance, and Attitudes toward Muslims in America

Katarina Keane
Department of History
Second-wave Feminism in the American South, 1965-1980

Sarah Kendig
Department of Sociology
Pathways to Early Pregnancy by Race/Ethnic and Class Locations: Adolescent Girls' Self-Concepts, Relationships, and Ambivalence

Christina M. Kennedy
Graduate Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Responses of Birds to Forest Fragmentation in Jamaica: Differential Mechanisms of Matrix Response

Sohee Kim
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Jacques Le Moyne De Morgues (c. 1533-1588) and the Origins of 17th-Century Netherlandish Flower Still Lifes

Caroline Li
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Insulin Signaling in Drosophila melanogaster

Koranan Limpaphayom
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ear Type System and Circuit and Noninvasive Auditory Disorder correction Appplication

Edra London
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
High-Sucrose & Fructose Diets and Glucocorticoid Dysregulation in Rats

Holly M. Martinson
Graduate Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Critical Patch Size and the Food Web Structure of Salt Marsh Arthropods

Kevin McGoff
Department of Mathematics
Orders of Accumulation of Symbolic Extension Entropy and Random Shifts of Finite Type

Patrick McTamney
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mechanism of Iodine Salvage by the Thyroid Enzyme Iodotyrosine Deiodinase

Jessica L. Miller
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of the Inhibition of Apoptosis by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Teresa Moyer
Department of American Studies
A Study of African Descendant History at Georgia Plantation in Baltimore, Maryland, 1720-1840

Quynh T. Nguyen
Department of Economics
Access to Information and Micronutrients: Ways to Build Human Capital

Leonardo Oliveira
Department of Biology
Ecological and Demographic Parameters and Genetic Structure of Golden-headed Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) in Cabruca Agroforest in Southern Bahia State, Brazil

Akira Omaki
Department of Linguistics
Development of Grammatical Processing and Process of Grammatical Development

Kiran Panchamgam
Department of Decision and Information Technologies
Essays in Retail Operations and Humanitarian Logistics

Jaebum Park
Department of Kinesiology
Effect of Mechanical Constraints in Multi-Digit Human Prehension

Meghan Parkinson
Department of Human Development
Adult Readers' Calibration of Word Learning

Melissa Resto
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kinetic and Structural Characterization Glutamine-dependent NAD* Synthetase

Margaret Rice
Department of English
The Ethics of Allegory in Paradise Lost

Nicholas C. Rosenfeld
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Structural Stability and Design of Flapping Wings for Micro Air Vehicles

Jean-François Savard
Department of Biology
The Spatial Dynamics and Modulation of Courtship in the Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

Kathleen D. Scheiderich
Department of Geology
Molybdenum Isotope Systematics in Sedimentary Systems

Danial Shahmirzadi
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Experimental Characterization of Vascular Tissue Viscoelasticity with Emphasis on Elastin's Role

Denise Shupiko
Department of Women’s Studies
Transnational Counter-Trafficking Activism: A Case Study of the Angel Coalition

Jing Song
Department of Women’s Studies
Global Assimilartion and Global Alienation: Lives of Professional Women in Contemporary China

Shin-Lai Tien
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Optimization Models and Methodologies to Support Advanced Airspace Design and Management Concepts

Brandi A. Weiss
Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation
A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Interactions between Latent Variables in Structural Equation Models

Mary Cobb Wittrock
Department of French Language and Literature
Chaotic Topography in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

Sunmin Yoon
Department of Ethnomusicology
The Transition of Mongolian Long-song (Urtiin Duu) in Post-Socialist Ulaanbaatar

Chenjie Yu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cross-Layer Customizable Platform for Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Multiprocssors

Endowed Awards and Prizes (2009-2010)

Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement
Genevieve Martinez Garcia, Department of Public and Community Health
Preventing Unintended Pregnancies among Latino Youth

Dr. Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study
Adam R. Greenhalgh, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Risky Business: Chance and Contingency in American Art, 1876-1907

Rebecca U. Thorpe, Department of Government and Politics
The Welfare-Warfare State: Perpetuating the U.S. Military Economy

Dr. James W. Longest Award for Social Science Research
Kirsten Crase, Department of American Studies
Practicing Place: Heading "Home" and Expanding "the Environment" in Contemporary Appalachia and Anacostia, A Relational Ethnographic Study

Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship
Kirsten Crase, Department of American Studies
Practicing Place: Heading "Home" and Expanding "the Environment" in Contemporary Appalachia and Anacostia, A Relational Ethnographic Study

Vidyu Challa, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Reliability of Stamped Metal Land Grid Array Sockets

 

Graduate Faculty Awards

John Auchard, English
The "Late" Graham Greene

Peter M. Carruthers, Philosophy
Know Thyself: The Cognitive Science of Self-Awareness

Janet M. Chernela, Anthropology
Towards an Ecology of Reconciliation: Convergences and Divergences in Indigenous Rights and Forest Preservation

Tita Chico, English.
Minute Particulars: Experimental Philosophy and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century

Daniel M. Corstange, Government and Politics
Sectarian Constituencies in the Middle East: Lebanon and Yemen in Comparative Perspective

Michael David-Fox, History
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

Sonalde Desai, Sociology
Caste in 21st-Century India

Caroline Eades, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
French Comic Files: From Resistance to Resilience

Mathias F. Frisch, Philosophy
"The Most Sacred Tenet"? Causal Reasoning in Physics

Marshall S. Grossman, English
Reason's Martyrs: Poetry and Belief in Paradise Regained, to which is added, Samson Agonistes

Shannen L. Hill, Art History and Archaeology
Biko and Black Consciousness in South African Visual Culture

Nathan E. Hultman, Public Policy
Creating Carbon Markets in Brazil and India : A Comparative Study of Firm Environmental Investment Decision under the Clean Development Mechanism

Sheila E. Jelen, Jewish Studies
The Shtetl: An Ethnopoetics

Scott L. Kastner, Government and Politics
Purchasing Power? China's Economic Rise and its Global Political Implications

Sunmin Lee, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Model Minority at Risk: Immigration-related Factors and Mental Health Disparities in Asian American Youth

Mark P. Leone, Anthropology
The Archaeology of Wye House Plantation and Frederick Douglass

Charles H. Manekin, Philosophy
Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Proof in the Hebrew Logical Tradition

Sonya A. Michel, History
Old-Age Insecurity: Instabilities and Inequities in U.S. Retirement Provision, 1945 to the Present

William Pressly Art History and Archaeology
Writing the Vision for a New Public Art: James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts, London

Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Listening Travels: Poetics and Politics in the Caribbean Archipelago

Brian E. Richardson, English
Postmodern/Nonmimetic Narrative Theory

Joshua A. Shannon, Art History and Archaeology
Archives of the Present: Photographic Realism and the Postmodern Landscape

Andris Skuja, Physics
Search for Stopping Long-lived (Stable) Charged Particles

Gregory A. Staley, Classics
Classical Myth and the American Experience

Thomas Zeller, History
Consuming Landscapes: The View from the Road in the United States and Germany, 1910-1995

 

General Research Board Summer Awards (2009)

Doron Avramov, Finance
Understanding Counter-Intuitive Relations in the Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns: An Economic Theory Perspective

Stephen A. Brighton, Anthropology
Community Engagement and Applied Archaeology in Texas, Maryland

Wen-Hsing Cheng, Nutrition and Food Science
Antioxidant Nutrients Linked to DNA Damage and Mammalian Aging

Eva R. Chin, Kinesiology
The Role of pCREB in Fast Muscle Fiber-Type Gene Expression

Andres de los Reyes, Psychology
What Are Parents and Teenagers Thinking During Assessments of Whether Parents Monitor Their Teenagers' Whereabouts? A Qualitative Focus Group Analysis

Julie M. Greene, History
The Difference an Empire Makes: Rethinking United States History in the Era of the New Empire, 1890-1925

Sherick A. Hughes, Curriculum and Instruction
Assessing Preservice Teachers' Cultural Competence and Racialized Political Correctness

Melanie A. Killen, Human Development
Exclusion, Morality, and Group Identity: Developmental Origins of Social Cognition

Anton Korinek, Economics
Systemic Risk? How to Avert Future Financial Crises

Teng Li, Mechanical Engineering
En Route to Graphene Electronics: Tailoring Morphology of Graphene on Substrates

Erika L. Milam, History
Barely Human: The American Search for Human Nature in the Long 1960s

Wendy W. Moe, Marketing
Influencing the Tone and Content of User-Generated Content Environments

Xiaoli Nan, Communication
Assessing the Impact of Perceived Risk and Perceived Efficacy on Cancer Information Seeking: A Cross-Sectional and Experimental Investigation

Heather Nathans, Theatre
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage

Erkut Y. Ozbay, Economics
Multi-Unit Auctions with Resale: Theory and Experiment

Leslie Pick, Entomology
A Drosophila Model for Type II Diabetes

Ana Patricia Rodriguez, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
"Same Story, Different Endings": War, Trauma, and Cultural Memory in the Salvadoran Diaspora

Jason R. Rudy, English
National Identity and British Poetry en route: 1824-1868

Andre A. Rupp, Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation
Robustness of Diagnostic Classification Models due to Model Misspecification: Toward a Consumer Report for Multidimensional Measurement Models

Sameer B. Shah, Bioengineering
Influence of Oxidative Stress on Cargo Transport in Neurons

Wei Tian, Hearing and Speech Sciences
Structural and Dynamic MRI Assessment of Children with Cleft Palate

Vessela Valiavitcharska, English
Rhetoric and Poetics in Byzantine and Old Slavonic Homilies

Alicia Volk, Art History and Archaeology
Democratizing Japanese Art: 1945-1960

Yu-Huang Wang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
f-DWNTs: Towards a Better Alternative to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ian M. White, Bioengineering
On-chip Ciruclating Tumor Cell Assay for Cancer Metastasis Studies

Psyche A. Williams-Forson, American Studies
Home, Sweet Home: African American Performances of Class and Citizenship Using Domestic Material Culture

Tong Tong Wu, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
A Fast Algorithm for Multicategory Cancer Subtype Classification Based on Gene Expression Profiling

Lei Zhang, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Modeling Transit Network Evolution: How Transit Networks Grow Now and How They Can Grow Optimally

Yunfeng Zhang, Civil and Environmnetal Engineering
Bio-inspired Infrasound Sensor with High Sensitivity for Early Detection of Geohazardous Events

Yue M. Zhou, Logistics, Business, and Public Policy
Organization Structure: Integration, Modularity and Hierarchy

 
General Research Board Research Support Awards (2009-2010)

Larissa Dedova, Music
The Complete Piano Music by Claude Debussy

Connie E. North, Curriculum and Instruction
Reading and Writing the World: A Study of an Inquiry-to-Action Teacher Group

Tracy Riggins, Psychology
Neurobehavioral Investigation of Memory Development

Joshua A. Shannon
The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City

Creative and Performing Arts Awards (Summer 2009)

Maud I Casey, English
The Wanderer (novel)

Michael R. Collier, English
An Individual History (collection of poems)

Evelyn L. Elsing, Music
The Parallel Voices of Rachmaninov and Ginastera (recording project)

Sharon Mansur, Dance
Semblance

Gregory E. Miller, Music
Brass Trio Works by American Composers

Howard Norman, English
Child Ignored, Parent Ignored (nonfiction); What is Left the Daughter (novel)

Foon Sham, Art
Scottish Hard Wood, residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire

Leigh Wilson Smiley, Theatre
Audio/Video Accent Archive

Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize (2008-2009)

Sankar Das Sarma, Physics
Establishment of the Field of Topological Quantum Computing (in collaboration with Michael Freedman and Chetan Nayak)