Thirteen Eastern Michigan University faculty have been
awarded Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellowships
for spring-summer 2009, fall 2009 and winter 2010 terms.
Faculty award winners are released from their normal teaching
schedule in order to apply themselves to a carefully planned
research or creative project. Up to $3,000 also is available
to each awardee for specific needs associated with his
or her project.
Spring-Summer
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellows, their home departments and project
titles are:
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Barak |
Gregg Barak (sociology, anthropology and criminology), "Class,
Race, Gender and Crime."
Steven K. Huprich (psychology), "Negative Affect, Emotional
Dysregulation, Impulsivity and Object Relations: Evaluating
the Differential Contributions of Four Predictors of Borderline
Personality Disorder."
Jennifer L. Rice (economics), "The Impact of Economic
Conditions and Market Structure on Employer-Sponsored Health
Insurance."
Willard Zirk (music and dance), "A Requiem for a World
War II Musical WASP."
Fall Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellows, their
home departments and project titles are:
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Jones |
Joan Cohen Jones (mathematics), "Visualizing Elementary
Math Methods."
Bradley E. Ensor (sociology, anthropology and criminology), "Kinship
and Political Economy in Archaeology."
Diane Porretta Fox (nursing), "A New Paradigm to Examine
Nursing Education Needs: Registered Nurses' Perspective
of Stressors and Coping Strategies Among Recent Nursing
Graduates."
Mansoor Moaddel (sociology, anthropology and criminology), "Ethnicity,
Sectarianism and People's Values: Lebanon after the Cedar
Revolution."
Valerie Polakow (teacher education), "Children's Rights/Children's
Voices."
Tsu-Yin Wu (nursing), "A New Paradigm to Examine Nursing
Education Needs: Registered Nurses' Perspectives of Stressors
and Coping Strategies Among Recent Nursing Graduates."
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Koh |
Myung-sook Koh (special education), "A
Pilot Study of a Comprehensive Cognitive Therapy for Autism." Koh
will use 50 percent of her award in the fall and the
remaining 50 percent during the winter.
Winter Faculty Research and Creative Activity Fellows,
their home departments and project titles are:
Sam Fullerton (marketing), "An Assessment
of the Sentiment Regarding Perceived Breaches of Ethical
Standards of Conduct on the Part of Consumers as Mediated
by the Size of the Aggrieved Firm and the Size of the Financial
Consequences Emanating from the Consumers' Behavior."
Lois S. Mahoney (accounting and finance), "An Examination
of Voluntary Corporate Social Reporting and Firm Profitability:
A Canadian Investigation."
Jennifer L. Rice (economics), "The Impact of Economic
Conditions and Market Structure on Employer-Sponsored Health
Insurance."
