2017 Faculty Research Grant Awards

Humanities SRS Proposals

• Sharon Stanley* U.S. Post-Racialism and Brazilian Racial Democracy in Comparative Perspective POLI
• Ivan Ortega-Santos An Assessment of Data Collection Methods in Syntactic Theory: The View from Spanish FLL
• Carey Mickalites Allegories of the Twentieth Century: History and Politics in Contemporary British Fiction ENGL

Natural Sciences EFS Proposals

• Nicholas W Simon Modeling Addiction Vulnerability with a Rat Risky Decision-making Task PSYC
• Nathan DeYonker Rigorous, Rational, and Reproducible Computational Enzyme Models CHEM
• Thang Ba Hoang Plasmon-assisted Förster resonance energy transfer in hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials PHYS

Social Sciences SRS Proposals

• Rebecca Adams Language learning across modalities of CMC ENGL
• Stephen Watts Examining Predictors of Non-Fatal Gun Victimization CJUS

Social Sciences EFS Proposals

• Michael Sances American City Elections Study POLI
• Laura Saija The Simeto River Agreement (SRA) and the Quest for Democratizing Development PLAN
• Idia Thurston The Impact of Stress and Resilience on Obesity-Related Metabolic Complications in Adolescents PSYC
• Micah Trapp School Lunch: Assessing the Nourishing Impact of Food Entitlement Programs ANTH