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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