Faculty Research Support Fund

Recent Recipients of the Faculty Research Support Fund

2016 Frances Yates “Faith In Their Own Voices: Using Primary Sources to Teach Interfaith Literacy”

$7,820

Parul Khurana “Live Cell Imaging of Amyloplsts and the Actin Cytoskeleton in Gravity-Sensing Cells of Arabidopsis thaliana”

$6,000

Steven Petersheim “Utopia and Dystopia in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature”

$1,440

Beth Trammell “Purposeful Parenting Research” $5,730

Hitesh Kathuria “Revealing Cellular Mechanisms Affected by Environmental Toxins and Novel Chemicals in Fruit Flies”

$7,000

Wazir Mohamed Field research in Guyana $1,200

2015 Alisa Clapp-Itnyre & Jessica Raposo

“Children’s Hymn-Choir Website Project” $3,500

Young You “On Sharp Holder Estimates on Pseudoconvex Domains in Cn and Its Related Problems”

$4,883

Steven Petersheim “Rethinking Hawthorne’s Nature: Ecocriticism and American Romance”

$5,160.50

Carrie Longley “Ceramic Informatics” $9,759

Jean Harper “Assembling Nancy” $1,000

2014 Alisa Clapp-Itnyre “Reclaiming Children’s Voices: British Children’s Nineteenth-Century Diaries”

$6,600

Fredricka Joyner “The Identification, Development, and Demonstration of T-Shaped Characteristics and Capabilities”

$5,500

Paul Kriese “Between the Neighborhoods and the Statehouse: African American Female Political Leaders in Indiana”

$5,000

Daron Olson “Norse in Exile: Defending Norway’s Nationalism Abroad during World War II”

$9,700

Steven Petersheim “Rethinking Hawthorne’s Nature: Ecocriticism and American Romance”

$8,000

2013 Jean Harper “Off the Track: The Second Careers of Thoroughbred Racehorses”

$2400

April Savoy Susan Shapiro

“IUE Online 3.0” $10,000

2012 Oi Lin Cheung/Anita Morgan/Matt Wills

“Teaching in the Millennial Era Using Chickering and Gamson’s Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education—Relative Effectiveness as Perceived by Students”

$8000

Jean Harper “Off the Track: The Second Careers of Thoroughbred Racehorses”

$4185

Joanne Passet “Out of the Closet and on to the Page: The Life and Times of Barbara Grier”

$10,000

Julien Simon

“The Emergence of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Literature: A Diachronic Analysis of Human Intentionality and the Portrayal of Literary Characters in Three Spanish Golden Age Masterpieces”

$4500

2011 James Barbre High Definition Praxis $9978.75

Jean Harper Book-length creative nonfiction narrative exploring the connection between horses and women

$4650

Duane Lundy Research project “Investigating Statistical Markers of Music Evaluator Refinement”

$7310

Elliott McKinley Fund the recording of recently composed orchestral work, Three Symphonic Moods

$9655

Elvinet Wilson Research project “Caribbean Queens: Feminine Condensation Symbols and the Future of Feminist Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean”

$5025

2010 Oi Lin Cheung/Anita Morgan

Management Forecasts $10,000

Kim Greer Pug Dog Encephalitis Research $10,000

Wazir Mohamed Field Research in Guyana $9,470

Elvinet Wilson Diversity Project $5,935

2009 Alisa Clapp-Itnyre Hymnology $5,200

Hitesh Kathuria Start-up funding for Biology/Chemistry research $9,885

Elliott McKinley Funding to record an original composition $9,300

2008 Dale Beach Start-up funding for Biotechnology research $10,000

Jean Harper Book, "1:47" $8,400

2007 Jean Harper Book, "1:47" $7,400

Julien Simon Neural Correlates of Literary Discourse (Prose & Poetry) $7,520

2004 Kris Dhawale Gas Chromatograph $12,000

2002 Mike Foos Redefining the Genus Pilobolus $11,700