Twenty-four new Eastern Michigan University faculty have
been awarded a total of $92,126 for research and creative
projects under the Provost's Research Award for New Faculty
program for 2007.
Competitive awards up to $5,000 are available to faculty
in their first or second year of employment to carry out
research or creative projects. The program is designed
to help new faculty establish a research agenda that will
make them more competitive for external funding.
The awards may be used
for release/assigned time, travel, student help, supplies
or equipment, or other legitimate expenses. Awards must
be expended during the 2007 calendar year.
The awardees, their proposed projects and cash awards
for 2007 are:
Kunal Banerji (management), "Supply Chain Linkages and
Firm Competitiveness: A Look at the U.S. Auto Ancillary
Industry," $5,000.
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Barr |
Mark Barr (English language and literature), "Romantic
Justice: A Legal Genealogy of the Imagination," $2,500.
Brigid Beaubien (teacher education), "Resilient Teaching:
How Urban Early Childhood Teachers Remain and Thrive in
the Classroom," $3,300.
Sally Burton-Hoyle (special education), "Coping Skills
of Families of Children with ASD," $2,275.
Bruce Carroll (political science), "Tenure
Deprived: United States Magistrate Judges in the American
Legal System," $4,917.
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Fries |
Derrick Fries (special education), "The Impact of Michigan
Merit Curriculum Reform and Graduation Expectation for
Special Education and At-Risk Students," $4,700.
Xiaoxu Han (mathematics), "Cancer Molecular Pattern Discovery
by Projected Gradient Non-negative Matrix Factorization
based Subspace Kernal Clustering," $5,000.
Amy Johnson (chemistry), "Out of the
Blue It Just Pops Into My Mind! Making Connections and
Transferring Knowledge in General Chemistry Courses," $5,000.
Tsui-Sui Annie Kao (nursing), "Acculturation and Maternal
Influences on AAPI Adolescents' Sexual Behaviors," $5,000.
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Koh |
Donna Killingbeck (sociology, anthropology and criminology), "Punishment
for Sale: How Big Business Bought the American Correctional
System," $1,000.
Patrick Koehn (physics and astronomy), "The
EARTHS Project — Educational Astronomy with Radio Telescopes
in High Schools," $5,000.
Myung-sook Koh (special education), "Phenomena of Culturally
and Linguistically Diverse Parents on Educating their Children
in the United States: A Quantitative Study," $4,170.
Natasa Kovacevic (English language and literature), "Civilization's
Wild West: Narrating Eastern Europe's Communism and Post-Communism," $2,500.
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Lajiness-O'Neill |
Thomas Kovacs (geography and geology), "Imaging
the Interaction of Saharan Aerosol with Tropical Cyclones
using the CALIPSO Satellite," $3,000.
Renee Lajiness-O'Neill (psychology), "Examining Brain
Regions that Underlie Joint Attention with Magnetoencephalography
(MEG): Substrates for Social Cognition," $3,300.
Aaron Liepman (biology), "Examining the Functions of Mannan
Polysaccharides in the Model Plant Species Arabidopsis
Thaliana," $5,000.
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Mucher |
Stephen Mucher (history and philosophy), "Research Support
for Archival Investigation When Subject Matter Mattered:
The Changing Role of Content Knowledge in Teacher Preparation,
1871-1921," $3,926.
Amy Sacksteder (art), "Capturing Time: From Painting to
Projection," $4,970.
Christine Tracy (English language and
literature), "News
as an Ecosystem" Shifting Perspectives for Citizen Journalists," $2,500.
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Walsh |
Pamela Walsh (health sciences), "What do Health Care Managers
Need?" $2,968.
William Welsh (geography and geology), "Preliminary Feasibility
Study of a Closed-Loop Biofuel Industry in Detroit," $5,000.
Gregg Wilmes (chemistry), "Synthesis
and Control of Self-Assembling Block Co-polymers in Solution:
Examining the Stability and Dynamics of Micelle Formation
by NMR Relaxation," $5,000.
Lisa Wiswell (nursing), "Retaining Minority Nursing Students:
Perceptions of Faculty Support," $4,800.
Melissa Witkow (psychology), "Daily Experiences Among
Pairs of Best Friends During Their First Year of College," $3,500.
