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Reports for Faculty Research Grants Awarded in 2008-09

These faculty members, who received Faculty Research grants for the 2008 -- 2009 fiscal year, submitted the final reports that are hyperlinked to the project title. The deadline for submitting final reports is September 15, 2009. 

 

Robert R. Barr, Political Science and International Affairs, “Understanding Populism”

Yuan-Jen Chiang, Mathematics, “Bi-Yang-Mill Fields and Their Applications”

Jeffrey L. Edmunds, Mathematics, “Mathematical Modeling of Competition Between Semelparous Species”

Mindy J. Erchull, Psychology, Development of a Seminar on Social Influence

Paul D. Fallon, English, Linguistics, and Speech, “Diachronic Phonology in Typological Perspective”

Stephen G. Gallik, Biological Sciences, “Species-Specific Differences in the Amount of Aquaporin Protein in Mammalian Red Blood Cell Plasma Membranes”

James E. Goehring, Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, “Impact of the White Monastery’s Scribal Culture on the History of Pachomian Monasticism”

W. Shawn Humphrey, Economics, Develop a new course:  ECON SHH -  Doing Development

Debra L. Hydorn, Mathematics, “Estimates for the Eigenvalues of a Covariance Martix Based on Confidence Interval Estimates for the Characteristic Polynomial”

Michael D. Killian, and Jay D. McGhee, Biological Sciences, “A Survey of Salamander Diversity in the Rappahannock River Drainage”

Janusz Konieczny, Mathematics, “Finding New Sets of Axioms for Classes of Semigroups”

Jeremy G. Larochelle, Modern Foreign Languages, “Anthology of Amazonian Poetry/Antología de poesía amazónica,” to be published by the Instituto de Cultura de Iquitos, Perú

Miriam N. Liss, Psychology, “Sensory Processing Sensitivity, Anxiety, and Depression in Individuals with Panic Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder”

Jessica C. Locke, Modern Foreign Languages, "Eugenio de Salazar’s Literary Enigma: Manuscript 22658 of the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid"

Eric G. Lorentzen, English, Linguistics, and Speech, Developing a Student-Centered Cultural Studies Pedagogy for the University Literature Classroom

Maya Mathur, English, Linguistics, and Speech, “Turning all to a Merriment”:  Genre Trouble on the Renaissance Stage"

Susan C. Matts, Physics, “In-Depth Examination of Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope Capabilities for Studies in Novel Transistor and Biosensor Development”

Christine A. McBride, Psychology, “An Inquiry into the Etiology of Postpartum Depression and the Development of an Intervention for At-Risk Women”

Keith E. Mellinger, Mathematics, “Cycles in Geometrically Defined Graphs”

Scott M. Powers, Modern Foreign Languages, “The Secularization of Evil and the Return of the Religious in Modern French Literature: Chapter Three”

David A. Rettinger, Psychology, “Moral Values and the Decision Process”

Maria C. Riegger, Modern Foreign Languages, "Developing a course on Latin American Science Fiction:  Strange Happenings"

Jose Angel Sainz, Modern Foreign Languages, “Basque Youth: Voices of the Spanish Exile, 1936-1939”

E. Kim Stone, English, Linguistics, and Speech, “Divorcing Urban Colonialism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes:  A Love Story”

Deborah L. Zies, Biological Sciences, “Characterization of the Human RA11 Gene Promoter”