Promoting Excellence: Graduate School Awards
Graduate Student Awards
Erin Hoerl Leone
Animal Sciences
Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement
Emily S. Mann
Sociology
Dr. James W. Longest Memorial Award
Bu Zhong
Journalism
Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study
Michael C. Evans
Government and Politics
Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
Disha Pant
Animal Sciences
Identification of Pathways that Regulate Self-Renewal and Differentiation of Ruminant Embryonic Cell Lines
Sanem Argin
Nutrition and Food Science
Microencapsulation of Probiotic Bacteria in Xanthan-Chitosan PEC Gels
John Parry
Nutrition and Food Science
Value-Adding Factors in Cold-Pressed Edible Fruit Seed Oils and Flours
Isabell Cserno
American Studies
The Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Nationhood in Advertising: Aunt Jemima Pancakes, Sarotti Chocolate, & other Consumer Products
Guy Jordan
Art History and Archaeology
The Aesthetics of Intoxication in Amerian Art and Culture
Margaret Morse
Art History and Archaeology
The Arts of Domestic Devotion in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Venice
Robin Smiles
English Language and Literature
Romance, Race and Resistance in Contemporary African-American Narrative
Pritha Chandra
Linguistics
On Agree
Victor Vicente
Music
Songs of the Kinetic Soul: Motion as an Aesthetic in Musics for the Mevlana (in and around Konya, Turkey)
Cerue Diggs
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
National Fantasies and Triangular Thinking: Representations of Brazil after Alexander von Humboldt in 19th-Century German Travel Narratives
Esteban Ponce-Ortiz
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Imagery of Evil on 19th Century Latin America Literature
Emily Owens
Economics
Flypaper COPS: Determinants and effects of Government Expenditure for Police
Sungmoon Kim
Government and Politics
Affective Civil Society: Familial Sentiments and Participatory Politics in Democritized Korea
Amber Sprenger
Psychology
The Effect of the sequential Presentation of Information on Hypothesis Generation
Sara Raley
Sociology
Transmitting Advantage: What Parential Resources Matter as Children Transition to Adolescence?
Sarah Christianson
Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Sex Chromosome Meiotic Drive and the Evolution of Male Hybrid Sterility in Stalk-Eyed Flies
Holly Menninger
Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Terrestial-Aquatic Linkages in Human-Altered Landscapes
Samuel Bish
Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics
The Interaction of Neissereia gonorrhoeae with Cervical Epithelial Cells Promotes Bacterial Persistence and Evasion of Innate Immune Responses in the Female Reproductive Tract
Michael Pomfret
Chemistry
An Investigation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Chemistry: A Spectroscopic Approach
Isaac Winkler
Entomology
Phylogeny, Host Use Evolution, and Diversification in Phytomtza Leaf-Mining Flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
Janet Nye
Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Studies
Bioenergetic and Ecological Consequences of Variability in the Diet in Altantic Croaker
Chensong Zhang
Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation
Pricing American Options by Adaptive Finite Element Method
Kevin Walsh
Astronomy
Steady-State Population of Binary Near-Earth Asteriods
Ke Zhang
Astronomy
Orbital Interactives in Satellite Systems and in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Julian Mestre
Computer Science
Combinatorial Optimization with Outliers
David Johnston
Geology
Multiple Sulfur Isotope Study of Biological Systems and Early Earth Environments
Elizabeth Tsakiris
Education: Counseling and Personnel
Treatment Effectiveness of Preschool Autism
Stefanie Sinno
Education: Human Development
Children's and Adolescents' Evaluations of Parential Competence in Domestic and Career Roles
Andrew Dick
Mechanical Engineering
Piezoelectric Micro-Resonators and Micro-Resonator Arrays: Parameter Identification and Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena
Anubha Goel
Civil and Enrvironmental Engineering
Persistant Organic Pollutants in the Atmosphere of the Delmarva Peninsula: Impact of Local Activities and Long-Range Transport
Soumya Krishnamoorthy
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Design and Development of ZnO/SiO2/Si-based Love Mode Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Biosensing Applications
Li-Chiou Chen
Kinesiology
The Development of Adaptive Sensorimotor Control in Infact Upright Posture
Graduate Faculty Awards
Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize
Eugenia Kalnay
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
General Research Board Research Support Award
Amy Burk
Animal Sciences
Enhancement of Data Collection by Use of Total Collection Harness Bags for Horses
Y. Martin Lo
Nutrition
Characterization of Acrylamide Damage Mechanism by Stress Fingerprinting
Merle A. Collins
Comparative Literature
Africa to the Caribbean: A Study of Village Festivals in Granada
Mark D. Hill
Music
Completion of CD recording of 20th American Works for Oboe and English Horn
Richard G. King
Music
Handel Studies: A Gedenkschrift fur Howard Serwer
Francille Rusan Wilson
African American Studies
Race and Gender in Labor Studies and Legal Activism, 1890-1950: Publication Subsidies and Work in Progress
Doris L. MacKenzie
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Follow-up Reentry Interviews with Experimental Boot Camp Participants
Wei Tian
Hearing and Speech Science
Muscle Architecture of the Human Tongue
Susan R. Komives
Education: Counseling and Personnel
Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
Natasha J. Cabrera
Education: Human Development
Fathers in the Healthy Attachment Promotion for Parents and Infants (HAPPI) Project
General Research Board Semester Awards
John Caughey
American Studies
Life History and the Cultural Defense
June Hargrove
Art History and Archaeology
Paul Gauguin: Calling the Earth to Witness
Kandice Chuh
English Language and Literature
Incomparable Beauties: The Incommensurate Subjects of American Literatures
Laura Rosenthal
English Language and Literature
Citizens of the World: Performing Cosmopolitanism in 18th-Century British Culture
Martha Nell Smith
English Language and Literature
The Lives of Susan Dickinson: Ad Feminam Reception and Literary Legacy
David Wyatt
English Language and Literature
Secret History: Listening to 20th-Century American Literature
Elke Frederiksen
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Travel-Colonialism-Cultural Conflicts: GermanVisions of Africa in the Early and Late 20th Century
Barbara Weinstein
History
Race, Region, Nation: Sao Paulo and the Formation of Brazilian National Identities
Maxine Grossman
Jewish Studies
Making Meaning: Religious Expressions in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Barbara Haggh-Huglo
Music
Between the Carolingians and the Vikings: The Date and Origin of 'Musica disciplina'
Patricia Greenspan
Philosophy
Practical Reasons and Moral 'Ought'
Herve Campangne
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
A Critical and Annotated Edition of Belleforest's Cinquiesme tome des Histoires Tragiques
Geoffrey Layman
Government and Politics
Party Polarization and Party Activism in American Politics
Vladimir Tismaneanu
Government and Politics
Two Sisters: Communism, Anti-Fascism and Jewish Identity in 20th Century Europe
Melissa Milkie
Sociology
Children's Mental Health: The School Context as a Source of Problem Behavior and the School's Role in Responding to Children's Problems
Avis Cohen
Biology
Role of the Immune System in Shaping Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury in Lampreys
Neil Blough
Chemistry
Trace Determination of Peroxy Radical in Biological and Environmental Systems Using Fluorescence Detection
Steven Rokita
Chemistry
Excess Electron Transfer in DNA
Christopher Reynolds
Astronomy
Computer Simulations of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Black Hole Systems
Karsten Grove
Mathematics
Positive Curvature in the Presence of Symmetries
Bei-Lok Hu
Physics
Noise of the Vacuum: From Early Universe to Quantum Computers
Kevin Roy
Family Studies
Transitory Fathering: Patterns of Father Involvement for Low-Income Men on the Margins of Families and Workplaces
General Research Board Summer Award
Kenneth L. Leonard
Agriculture and Resource Economics
Social Learning, Medical Quality and the Choice of Doctor
Lucy Yu
Nutrition
Assessing the Safety of Wheat Antioxidant Consumption
Renee D. Ater
Art History and Archaeology
Modeling a New Nation: The Public Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller
Joshua A. Shannon
Art History and Archaeology
The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City
Tita Chico
English Language and Literature
Magnification and Insight: Domestic Novels and Popular Microscopy in 18th-Century England
Zita Nunes
English Language and Literature
Looking for Jose Clarana: Rethinking What We Know in American Studies
James Stern
Music
Representations of the Supernatural in the Music of Franz Schubert: A Performance and Publication Project
Allen E. Stairs
Philosophy
Gleason's Theorem, Hidden Variables and POVMs
Jianmei Liu
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Politics of Hermit Literature in Modern China
Gabrielle L. Strauch
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
The Social and Cultural Construction of 'Old Age' as Depicted in German Medieval Literary Texts
Harold F. Burgess II
Theatre
Broadway Lighting and Projection Master Class / Virtual Lighting Software Study
Gordon Gao
Business and Management
A Study of Mobile Worker Productivity
Manu Goyal
Business and Management
Flexibility Deployment and the Impact of New Product Launch on Assembly Line Productivity: An Empirical Analysis of North American Automotive Assembly Plants
Chris B. Bingham
Business and Management
How Firms Learn from Heterogeneous Experience
Violina P. Rindova
Business and Management
Enacting Market Value: Strategic Choices and Inventory Valuations of New Firms in Emerging Industries
Rosellina Ferraro
Business and Management
Socially Responsible Consumption Behavior: Making Up for the Sins of Others
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
African American Studies
Cooperative Ownership and the Struggle for African American Economic Empowerment
Brian D. Johnson
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Criminal Prosecutions: Examining Prosecutorial Discretion in U.S. District Courts
Nuno Limao
Economics
Preferential Trade Agreements as a Source of Non-Tariff Protection against Non-Members
Tracy S. Fitzgerald
Hearing and Speech Science
Wideband Reflectance Measures in Adults
Jens Herberholz
Psychology
Micro-Imaging of Brain Activity in Socially Experienced Crayfish
Wenxia Song
Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics
Antigen Valency and Antigen Immunogenicity
Daniel Kosov
Chemistry
Electron Transport and Photoexcitation Interfaces
David J. Hawthorne
Entomology
Host Plant-based Divergence and Phylogeography of Host Races of the Holly Leafminer (Phytomyza gabricola)
Jian Wang
Entomology
Dissecting the Signaling Pathways of Drosophila Dscam
Jae Kun Shim
Kinesiology
Multi-Digit Grasping Control in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)
Ping Wang
Information Management
The Organizational Impact of Fashionable Information Technologies
Adam A. Porter
Computer Science
Around-the-World, Around-the-Clock Software Performance Testing
Jennifer D. Turner
Education: Curriculum and Instruction
Finding a Better Way: Examining Effective Teachers' Beliefs and Practices for African American Elementary Readers
Elisa L. Klein
Education: Human Development
Science for early Education through the Development and Learning of Elementary Teachers (SEEDLET)
Amy B. Hendrickson
Education: Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation
Effect of Base Year on IRT Vertical Scaling from Scaling-Test and Common-Item Designs
Jeanine M. Staples
Education: Special Education
Reading the World and the Word After School: The Literacy Practices of "Disengaged" African American Urban Adolescents
Creative and Performing Arts Awards
Foon Sham
Studio Art
Houses in Flood
Maud Casey
English Language and Literature
Draft of a collection of short stories using historical figures--related to the history of the diagnoses of mental illness and the treatment of the mentally ill--as springboards into fictive narratives.
Richard K. Cross
English Language and Literature
Good Europeans: A Personal Narrative
Paul C Gekker
Music
Recording, for Albany Records, of solo trumpet literature
Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Libro del sigiloso
Leslie Felbain
Theatre
Chez Moi: An Ensemble Exploration of An Interrupted Life (A Holocaust Diary)
Leigh Smiley
Theatre
The Mourner's Voice: A Performance Exploration of Grief and Lamentation
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