Past Funded Projects
Faculty Research Fund (FRF)
FRF Project Grants ($1500)
FRF Research Grants ($3000)
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2010-2011
Yu Bin, Political Science: Lessons of Russian COIN Wars for China and Western PLA Watching
Shih-Ming Li Chang, Theater/Dance: Dancing in the Vast Land and Beyond: A Journey through Chinese Dance
Kristin Cline, Chemistry: Spontaneous and solid phase reactions of diazonium salts with electrode surfaces
Keith Doubt, Sociology: Elopements and Affines: A Study of Ethnic Identity in Bosnia
Chris Durrenberger, Music: Regional Chamber Music Collaborative Performance
Marcia Frost, Economics: Educating Girls: An Indian Case Study, 1969-2011
Kevin Gribbins, Biology: The ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and the mature spermatozoon of the Mexican Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus variablis
Ed Hasecke, Political Science: How the Minority Party Views Legislative Success
Terumi Imai, Languages & EAS: Japanese vowels under change
Brandon Jones, Music: Wittenberg Chamber Players Performance at OMEA State Conference
Dan Kazez, Music: Historical Performance Practice as Suggested, Described, or Dictated by Historical Cello Tutors
Roberta Linder, Education: Formative Assessment in the Development of Middle School Students' Writing Skills: Written & Verbal Feedback from Teachers and Peers
Amy Livingstone, History: Writing Medieval Women's Lives
Jessica McCormack, Music: World Premiere and Subsequent recitals on Cantata
Nancy McHugh, Philosophy: Lead Poisoning and Intersectionality: The intertwined roles of race, class, and location in lead poisoning
Dan McInnis, Art: Continued Work on “Presence”
Olga Medvedkov, Geography: Socio-Geographical analysis of IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) clusters in the country of Georgia
Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Religion: Ritualized Writing & Attention & Memory Patterns in College Students
Gina Post, Education: Study teacher development and change while implementing new curriculum
Kathy Reinsel, Biology: Fiddler crab larval behavior: do they react to odors of habitat or other fiddler crabs?
Matt Smith, Communication: Geoff Johns, Auteur
Jim Welch, Biology: Swimming orientation of fiddler crab megalopae: is there no place like home?
Molly Wood, History: Lucille Atcherson: First American female Diplomat
Mike Zaleha, Geology: Processes and Deposits Associated with the Evolution of Gravel Bars, Mad River, Ohio: Acquisition of Aerial Imagery
2009-2010
Yu Bin, Political Science: Dualities in US - Russian Relations
Ty Buckman, English: Serial Conversation and the Redefinition of Holiness in Book I of Spenser's Faerie Queene
Shih-Ming Chang, Theater/Dance: Chinese Dance Presentation and Performance Outreach
Kristin Cline, Chemistry: Using diazonium ion chemistry to produce novel solid phase microextraction fibers for the analysis of water contaminants
Matthew Collier, Biology: Determination of upper thermal limitations in the fiddle crabs, Uca panacea and Uca puglator
Scott Dooley, Art: Digital Camera and Continuing Studio Research & Exhibitions
Alejandra Gimenez-Berger, Art: Continuing Research on Visual Identity in Early Modern European Courts
Margaret Goodman, Biology: Microsatellite Identification of Genetic-relatedness among Co-roosting American Crows
Horton Hobbs, Biology: Continuation of a Long-term Investigation to Aid in the Management and Protection of Karst Features in Carter Caves State Resort Park, Carter County, Kentucky
Jessica McCormack, Music: Recitals based on the life and compositions of Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
Nancy McHugh, Philosophy: Evidence-Based Medicine and Feminist Analyses of Science
Dan McInnis, Art: Continuing work on photographic project “Presence”
Cathy Pederson, Biology: Relationship between Female Sexuality and the Volume of the Hypothalamus and Corpus Callosum
Richard Phillips, Biology: Small mammal population dynamics, habitat associations, and short-term response to disturbance in a farmland habitat in Central Ohio
Tammy Proctor, History: Technically German: The Ambiguities of Nationality in WWI Internment Experiences
John Ritter, Geology: Calibrating a hydraulic Flow Model Using Recreational Wiers
Scott Rosenberg, History: For travel to Lesotho Spring 2010 to research Motsoene Molapo
Andy Scholl, Geography: Landscape scale analysis of vegetation change over 60 years of fire Suppression in old-growth mixed conifer forests.
Jim Welch, Biology: Do fiddler crab larvae use odor cues to select settlement sites?
Jeremiah Williams, Physics: Publication of "Observation of the coupling of the driven dust acoustic wave" in Physics of Plasmas
Jo Wilson, Psychology: Cooperation in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Paradigm among Children Ages 8-11
Dave Wishart, Economics: Cooperation in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Paradigm among Members of Different Religious Groups
2008-2009
Melissa Barrett, English: to Continue research on the assassin Charles Guiteau
Yu Bin, Political Science: Analyze the Georgian-Russian conflict in August 2008
Shih-Ming Li Chang, Theatre and Dance: Multi-media resource Chinese Dance
Ed Charney, Art: regional landscape views and cloudscapes (Paintings)
Kristin Cline, Chemistry: Studies in electrografting of carbon materials: an extension to unique modifying groups and different carbon materials
Lauren Crane, Psychology: Conceptualizing Human Nature and The Divine: A Comparison of Christians and Buddhists in Two Cultures
Kent Dixon, English: Travel in Greece/research for Screenplay
Scott Dooley, Art: Continuing Ceramic Research and Exhibitions
Keith Doubt, Sociology: Endogamous and Exogamous Marriage Patterns in Rural Bosnia among Muslims before and after Ethnic Cleansing
Dave Finster, Chemistry: Textbook (Laboratory Safety- A Four-Year Approach)
Alejandra Gimenez-Berger, Art: Development of visual identity in Early Modern European courts
Kevin Gribbons, Biology: An Ultrastructural Study of Spermiogenesis and Mature Spermatozoa Morphology within the snakes of the genus Agkistrodon
Horton Hobbs, Biology: Long term investigation to aid in the management and protection of karst features in Carter Caves State Resort Park, Carter County, Kentucky
Charles Kwit, Biology: Seed predation of an ant-dispersed forest herb: addressing the importance of different services ants provide
Amy Livingston, History: Preparation of manuscript for publication
Jack Mann, Art: Non-Toxic Printmaking
Michelle McWhorter, Biology: The Effects of pesticides on nervous system development in Zebra fish
Jerry Pankhurst, Sociology: Religion and Politics in Russia
Ligia Pinheiro, Theatre and Dance: Dancing Isadora Duncan Dances
Tammy Proctor, History: American Generosity and the Expectation of Gratitude
Kathy Reinsel, Biology: Do fiddler crab larvae recognize chemical cues from their adult habitat
Fitz Smith, English: Raiding Revolations: The Apocalyptic Dreamscape of Finnegans Wake
Tom Taylor, History: Oswald Ryan and the Evolution of the Regulatory State
Cathy Waggoner, Communication: White Femininity and Patriarchal Logics, Phase 2
Jeremiah Williams, Physics: Application of the SVD technique to measurements of the dispersion relation of the dustacoustic wave in a weakly-coupled dusty plasma system
Jo Wilson, Psychology: Autonomic Responses in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Paradigm with an Unspecified Number of Trials
2010-2011
Mac McClelland, English: The Magnitude of Her Fury
Tammy Proctor, History: U.S. Generosity and the Expectation of Gratitude
2009-2010
Katie Warber, Communication: Gossip as a stress relieving behavior: Salivary cortisol and α-amylase as indicators of the cathartic effects of gossiping
Kathy Reinsel, Biology: Seasonal and annual variation in fiddler crab larval availability
Chris Durrenberger, Music: International Chamber Music Collaborative Performance and Masterclass Presentations
Brandon Jones, Music: Wind Chamber Music Performance
2008-2009
Daniel McInnis, Art: Equipment for Continued Photographic Project
Jim Welch, Biology: Do fiddler crab larvae select their adult habitat? Using a molecular technique to answer an ecological question
