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Funding Opportunities
Graduate Student Research and Travel Awards
November–December 2011 Awards
Research Grants
(up to $1,000)
Student |
Department/Program |
Project Title |
Ramon Barthelemy |
Physics/Science Education |
“Improving Physics: Women's Choice of Research Subfield in Academic Physics” |
Zachary Boyt |
Music |
“The Future of Music Performance Through Sensor Bow Technology” |
Allison Buller |
Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology |
“Excellent Teaching in Counselor Education” |
Steven Conrad |
Biological Sciences |
“The Tanapox Virus as a Therapy for Human Breast Cancer” |
Stacy Engebretson |
Psychology |
“Effect of Exercise in a Corticosterone Model of Depression” |
Alexandra Haase |
Biological Sciences |
“Engineering a Catalytic Site in Bacterial Flagellin Using Rational Design” |
Keli Herr |
Psychology |
“Conditioned Place Preference Procedures in Rats” |
Alia Hinz |
Chemistry |
“Probing the Interaction Between Specific Domains of Wilson Disease Causing Protein” |
Akhil Moorthi |
Electrical/Computer Engineering |
“Development of a Flexible Strain Gauge Sensor Using Screen Printing” |
*Jane Okwako |
Political Science |
“Innovative Governance and Natural Resource Management in Kenya: Modeling Procedural and Substantive Outcomes of Civil Society” |
Phillip Sawatzki |
Biological Sciences |
“Identity, Life-cycles, and Phylogeny of Microsporidia in Benthic Stream Copepods” |
*Benjamin Slager |
Biological Sciences |
“Modeling Monarch Migration” |
Stephanie Stilling |
Psychology |
“Social Behavior in Situations of Uncertainty and Risk” |
Travel Grants
(up to $700)
Student |
Department/Program |
Project Title |
Sean Butler |
Comparative Religion |
1) “Monistic Interpretations of Tawheed in the Sufi Notion of Wahdat al-wujud”; 2) “God, the Devil, and Berkeley: Satan's Berkeleian Justification for the Usurpation of the Position of God” |
Ehab Elhoussieny |
Physics |
“Time Dependent Photoionization of Gas Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)” |
*Nishant Gupta |
Computer Science |
“On Cloud Computing Performance Evaluating Tools” |
Christine Haskill |
English |
“Late Victorian Horrors: Teaching the Fin de Siècle Through the Monstrous” |
Casey Jelsema |
Statistics |
“Self Assessment Model for Obesity-Related Chronic Diseases” |
Jancie Philippus |
Music |
“Music and the Earth: Four Elements for Horn and Piano” |
Daniel Rubio |
Philosophy |
“Are There True Libertarian Action Counterfactuals?” |
Sudesh Woodiga |
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering |
“Effects of Yaw and Roll Angles on Skin Friction Topology on Delta Wings” |
* also awarded a supplemental international travel grant of up to $600 funded by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee