Awards
Support for Faculty Scholar Awards (SFSA)
The Support for Faculty Scholars Award exists to advance the research mission of the University. The program supports creative activities and research that may not lead to external funding but which enhance and sustain the scholarly reputation of WMU and the faculty principal investigator.
September - 2010
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Ari-Gur, Pnina | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | International Research of Titania |
| Dr. Auer, Blain | Comparative Religion | Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam |
| Dr. Berkow, Jay | Theatre | Orpheus in the Underworld |
| Dr.Ellis, Anthony | English | Another Side of Senescence |
| Dr. Golhar, Damodar | Management | Automotive Parts Manufacturing in India |
| Dr. Ohanna, Natalio | Spanish | Back From Beyond the Frontier |
| Dr. Ro, Kapseong | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Design, Test and Evaluation of Refueling Drogue |
| Dr. Haden, Sally | History | An English Lawyer in Colonial American |
January - 2010
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Durham, Lofton | Theatre | Rewriting the History of Medieval Theatre: Destruction de troie and Fifteenth Century Performance Culture |
| Dr. Jones, Stephen | Music, School of | Western Brass Quintet Scores Research Project |
| Dr. Mezei, Gellert | Chemistry | Metal-organic rotaxane frameworks: Towards organized solid-state molecular machinery assemblies |
| Dr. Saito, Rika | Foreign Languages | To a New Woman from a New Man: Letters Overseas by the Japanese Feministic Couple in the 1920s |
| Dr. Veeck, Ann | Marketing | Pig Feasts in Rural China: Creating an Informal Economy through a Ritual Celebration |
September - 2009
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Berto, Luigi | History | Writing History in Carolingian Italy (774-875) |
| Dr. Bischof, Gary | Counseling Education, Counseling Psychology | Transgender Persons & Partners: Couple and Sexual Relationships |
| Dr. Bondarchuk, Karen | Frostic School of Art | Corvus Catalogue |
| Dr. Brown, Lori | Aviation | The Efficacy of Flight Attendant/Pilot Communication and Training Requirements in China |
| Dr. Browning, Christine | Mathematics | Understanding children's thinking of angle and angle measure |
| Dr. Frias, Larissa | Family and Consumer Science | Acculturation and Family Experiences of Filipino Immigrants in the U.S. |
| Dr. Kohler, Steve | Biological Sciences | Distribution and Population Structure of a Keystone Parasite |
| Dr. Shrestha, Bade | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Journal Page Fee Charges |
| Dr. Straight, Bilinda | Anthropology | Preparing publications from current NSF and planning an NIH proposal with collaborators at University of Arizona and Grinnell College |
January - 2009
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Ackerson, Kelly | Nursing | Trauma History and Cervical Cancer Screening |
| Dr. Code, David | Music, School of | Creating a Laptop Orchestra |
| Dr. Ellis, Anthony | English | Shakespeare all italina: Dramatic Adaptation and Cultural Exchange |
| Dr. Eng, Jacqueline | Anthropology | Ancient Health in the Nomadic Pastoralists of Mongolia |
| Dr. Ghantasala, Mural | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticle based composite colloids (gels) |
| Dr. Ho, Birong | Library | Vocabulary Control for the Web 2.0 Catalog |
| Dr. Joslin, Katherine | English | Edith Wharton and the making of Fashion |
| Dr. Lagerwey, Mary | Nursing | Nursing Coverage of the 3rd Reich |
| Dr. Mirzeler, Mustafa | English | African Stories and Storytellers |
| Dr. Nassaney, Michael | Anthropology | Archaeology and Community Service Learning: Preparing a Professional Index |
| Dr. Torano, Vince | Frostic School of Art | Ideal Beauty in Classical Painting |
September - 2008
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Biener, Zvi | Philosophy | Newtonian Mechanics and British Empiricism: Physics and Philosophy at the Edge of Enlightment |
| Dr. Bliznyuk, Valery | Paper Coating & Imaging | Collaborative Research in the Field of Nanoelectric Properties of Materials |
| Dr. Curwen, David | Dance | My Name is David Lang |
| Dr. Gore, Caroline | Frostic School of Art | Tangential Memories |
| Dr. Hallett, Lucius | Geography | It's too far to walk! I cannot get to my supermarket. The Geographies of Location in Lawrence, Kansas |
| Dr. Lawoti, Mahendra | Political Science | Democracy, Insurgency, Autocracy and Political Reforms: The Exclusion/Inclusion Dimension in Nepal |
| Dr. Rao, Shalia | Special Education & Literacy Studies | From Isolation to combination: A multilevel, multicomponent approach to developing literacy skills of students with cognitive impairments |
| Dr. Ro, Kapseong | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Prototype Development and Flight Test of a Free-wing Tilt-body Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| Dr. Slayter, Megan | Dance | The Lily |
| Dr. Susan Steuer | Library | Recreating a Cistercian Library: The Obrecht Collection at Western Michigan University |