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CSU AAUP University Research
Grants |
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Submitted 2/1/08 Awarded 3/20/08 |
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NAME |
DEPT |
TITLE |
AWARD |
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Meyer Alewitz |
Art |
Research for the Mural Painting Handbook |
5,000.00 |
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James Arena |
Chemistry |
Determination of Electrode Kinetic Parameters for Phenol
Electrooxidation |
5,000.00 |
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Aram Ayalon |
Teacher Education |
Case Studies of Advisory Programs in Schools for Minority and Poor
Students |
1,880.00 |
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Marsha Bednarski Kristine Larsen |
Physics and Earth Sciences |
Assessing Immersive Full-dome Planetarium Technology in the Teaching
of the Sun-Earth-Moon System to Elementary Students |
7,563.00 |
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Richard Benfield |
Geography |
Saving the Cedars of Lebanon: Toward Sustainability and
Profitability for a Biblical Heritage |
2,065.00 |
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David Blitz |
Philosophy |
Bertrand Russell Audio-Visual Material and Web 2.0 Delivery |
3,500.00 |
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Mary Collins |
English |
Book Project: American Idle: A Road Trip Through Our Sedentary
Culture |
4,540.00 |
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Stephen Costanza |
Criminology and Criminal Justice |
Examining potential effects of Weed and Seed Zoning on resident
attitudes in New Britain, CT through a combination of Mail-out
Survey and Mapping Techniques |
3,983.00 |
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Guy Crundwell |
Chemistry |
Reactivity of the Stable Thienyl-containing Palladium Organometallic
Intermediates |
3,735.00 |
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Daniel D'Addio |
Music |
Toward a Modern Edition of the Brass Chamber Music of Floriano
Canale |
5,000.00 |
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Michael Davis |
Biomolecular Sciences |
Investigation of Developing Antibiotic Resistance in the Human
Bacterial Pathogen Propionibacterium acnes |
3,500.00 |
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Tiffany Doan |
Biology |
Genetic Variation in Lizard Populations Throughout the Central Andes |
2,500.00 |
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Betsy Dobbs-McAuliffe Kathy Martin-Troy |
Biomolecular Sciences |
Coordination of Cell Cycle Exit and Differentiation in Slow Muscle |
9,670.00 |
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Parker English |
Philosophy |
Performative Speech Acts as Social Performance |
1,250.00 |
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Mark Evans |
Physics and Earth Sciences |
Climate Change and Vegetation History in Northern Connecticut
Recorded by Pollen Deposition at Lake Louise |
5,000.00 |
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Marianne Fallon |
Psychology |
Statistical Learning in Young and Older Adults |
1,885.00 |
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Beth Frankel Merenstein |
Sociology |
Explaining Local Immigration Policy: Case Histories form Connecticut |
1,600.00 |
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Neil Glagovich |
Chemistry |
Synthesis of x-Helin Mimics to serve as potential Anti-Cancer agents |
4,998.00 |
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Ivan Gotchev |
Mathematical Sciences |
On a Weaker Form of Locke's Conjecture |
1,250.00 |
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Sylvia Halkin |
Biology |
Theft Deterrence by Food-Caching Eastern Gray Squirrels |
3,500.00 |
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Heidi Hartwig |
English |
Engaging Performances: Modernism, Theatricality, Poetry |
1,493.00 |
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Tom Hazuka |
English |
Exile in Gringolandia |
3,500.00 |
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Ze He |
Chemistry |
Cloning, Expression, Purification, and Mechanistic Analysis of PhzE,
a Novel Chorismate-Utilizing Enzyme |
5,000.00 |
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Barry Hoopengardner |
Biomolecular Sciences |
RNA editing in Cnidarians and Molluscs |
5,000.00 |
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A. Pablo Iannone |
Philosophy |
Between Reality and Fantasy: Essays on Philosophy and Literature |
1,500.00 |
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Mark Jackson |
Biology |
Computational Modeling and Neurophysiology of Neural Oscillations |
2,813.00 |
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Jeremiah Jarrett |
Biology |
Geographic Variation in Induced Defense of a California Barnacle |
1,980.00 |
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Carol Jones |
Chemistry |
Environmental Endocrine Disruptors: Metabolism and Mechanisms of
Action in Mammalian Cells |
4,000.00 |
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Martin Kapper |
Biomolecular Sciences |
Changes in the Subcellular Localization of Aquaporin Water Channels
During Salinity Adaptation in an Esturarine Bivalve |
3,080.00 |
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Julia Kara-Soteriou |
Reading and Language Arts |
New Literacies in the Elementary Classrooms in Connecticut |
3,750.00 |
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Thomas King |
Biomolecular Sciences |
Determining the Molecular Basis of the Mouse Frizzy Mutation by a
Positional-Candidate Approach |
3,500.00 |
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Peter Kyem |
Geography |
Public Conflicts, Resolution and GIS |
4,400.00 |
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Paloma Lapuerta |
Modern Languages |
Barcelona in its Literature: Between Tradition and Modernity |
2,400.00 |
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Penelope Lisi |
Educational Leadership |
Implementation of Accountability Mandates in Iceland Schools:
Dimensions of Leadership that Contribute to Teacher Empowerment |
4,950.00 |
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Mary Ann Mahony |
History |
Color, Class, and Cacao: Social Mobility in a Brazilian
Agricultural Region, 1850-1920 |
3,500.00 |
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Cora Marshall |
Art |
Going, Going, Gone: Running from Slavery towards Freedom. A Painting
Series Inspired by Advertisements for the Capture of Runaways |
4,850.00 |
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Gustavo Mejia |
Modern Languages |
Heritage Language Learners of Spanish and Their Communities:
Approaches to Teaching |
4,000.00 |
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Charles Menoche |
Music |
100% Pre-fabricated Music: Using Pre-existing Electro-acoustic Music
to Create a New Musical Work |
4,344.00 |
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Norton Mezvinsky |
History |
The War on Terrorism: Where Do We Stand? |
5,000.00 |
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Margaret Mitchell |
Management and Organization |
Voluntary Participation in employer-provided health insurance
programs: Benefit or Problem? |
3,743.00 |
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John Mitrano |
Sociology |
Collective Identity in Isolation?: The Case of Route 66, "Rock
Graffiti", and the Mojave Desert |
1,154.00 |
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Daniel Mulcahy |
Teacher Education |
Exploring New Possibilities in Liberal Education |
2,000.00 |
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James Mulrooney |
Biomolecular Sciences |
B3 Integrin and Nectins-New Roles in Cell-Cell Adhesions |
3,750.00 |
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Ki-Tai Pae |
Economics |
Climate Change Mitigation through Transfer of Environmentally Sound
Technologies |
2,500.00 |
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Clayton Penniman |
Biology |
A Decadal Reassessment of Water Quality in the Lieutenant
River/Rogers Lake Watershed in Lyme and Old Lyme, CT |
3,750.00 |
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Oscar Perdomo Nelson Castaneda |
Mathematical Sciences |
Algebraic Minimal Hypersurfaces of Spheres |
1,500.00 |
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Cynthia Pope |
Geography |
Gender and Political Transition in Havana: Perceptions of and
Responses to Systematic Changes in Cuba |
3,750.00 |
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Aimee Pozorski |
English |
"The Soldier Dreams of Home": James Baldwin's Letters to David
Moses, 1971-1983 |
1,616.00 |
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Heather Prescott |
History |
History of Emergency Contraception |
2,000.00 |
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Ellen Retelle |
Educational Leadership |
Social Justice and School Leadership in Connecticut Public Schools |
5,000.00 |
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Karen Ritzenhoff |
Communication |
The Frozen Family: Emotional Dysfunction and Consumer Society in
Michael Haneke's Own Re-make "Funny Games" (2007) |
4,950.00 |
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Ruth Rollin |
Biology |
Kidney function in mutant hairless rats and normal Sprague Dawley
rats |
1,815.00 |
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Krishna Saha |
Mathematical Sciences |
Testing the Homogeneity of the Means of Several Groups of Count Data
in the Presence of Unequal Dispersions |
2,500.00 |
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Rae Schipke |
English |
The New Britain Police Academy Literacy Project |
3,141.00 |
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Tatiana Serebriakova |
Geography |
Mapping Demographic and Health Problems in Population in Tyumen
Region, Russia |
1,440.00 |
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Ravi Shankar David Capella |
English |
Producing DrunkenBoat.com, International Online Journal of the Arts |
10,000.00 |
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Nimmi Sharma |
Physics and Earth Sciences |
Design and Development of Tools for Analysis of Remote Sensing Data |
2,000.00 |
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Xiaoping Shen |
Geography |
The Rise and Spatial Clustering of Cultural Industries in China |
5,000.00 |
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Barry Sponder Farough Abed |
Educational Leadership |
The Development of a Model for Using Constructivist Technologies in
the Classroom |
1,500.00 |
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Katherine Sugg |
English |
Archives and Affects: Framing Comparative Studies in the Hemisphere |
2,600.00 |
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David Truly |
Geography |
International Retirement Migration to Mexico and Panama |
1,290.00 |
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Linda Wagner |
Nursing |
Transition of Chronic Illness: A Metasynthesis |
1,800.00 |
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Bradley Waite |
Psychology |
The Impact of Fantasy and Cartoon Violence, Blood and Gore in Video
Games: Does Realism Matter? |
