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