Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants —
March–April 2012 Awards
Research Grants
(up to $1,000)
* also awarded a supplemental international travel grant of up to $600 funded by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee

Student	Department/Program	Project Title
* Talal Alharbi	Geosciences	“Integrated Studies (Hydrology, Remote Sensing, GIS, Field) on Landslides in Jizan, Saudi Arabia”
Teresa Clark	Biological Sciences	“Identification of Novel Regulatory Factors in the Biosynthesis of Aspartate-Derived Amino Acids”
Veerendra Dasari	Electrical and Computer Engineering	“Wireless EEG Acquisition and Brain Activity Detection”
Sean Derrick	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering	“Rapid Functional Injection Mold Tooling Using Polymer Additive Models”
* Sokhna Diop	Geography	“GIS-based Flood Analysis for Adequate Mitigation Plan in Unplanned Urban Area, the Case of Pikine Dagoudane Suburbs in Dakar-County”
Kristin Hampel	Chemistry	“The Sugar Content in Algae Biomass for Bio-ethanol Production”
Masashi Izumi	Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology	“Teachers' Perception for New Introduction of an Alternative School Into Japan: Through a Survey for Japanese Middle School English Teachers”
Derrick Lingle	Geosciences	“Source and Fate of High Levels of Ammonium in Groundwater, Ottawa County, Michigan”
Allister Malcolm	Biological Sciences	“The Influence of Anthropogenic Noise on Acoustic Mating Signal Effectiveness in Hylid Frogs”
* Abdel Mawgoud Mohammed	Geosciences	“Hydrochemical Characteristics and Potential Tectonic Influences on Groundwater Quality of the Continental-Scale Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS)”
Dana Jo Nichol	Human Performance and Health Education	“The Effects of a Moisture-Wicking Fabric Shirt on the Physiological Responses During Acute Exercise in the Cold”
Wanda Rodriguez Rivera	Chemistry	“Design and Development of Innovative Drugs That Inhibit COX-2 Enzyme”
Kate Rowbotham	Science Education	“Eutrophication-Related Conceptions and Engagement Levels in an Environmental Field Geochemistry Course”
* Ariana Toth	Geography	“Economic Autonomy of the Miskitu Women of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, Nicaragua: Do Current Development Policies Apply to Matrifocal Societies?”
Muthanna Yaqoob	Geosciences	“Detection of Bedrock Fractures and Joints Beneath Cover: Geophysical Approaches to an Engineering Geology Problem”
Emily Zerndt	Political Science	“The Patenting of American-Style Democracy: Freedom House and Numerical Knowledge”

Travel Grants
(up to $700)
* also awarded a supplemental international travel grant of up to $600 funded by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee

Student	Department/Program	Project Title
Talal Alharbi	Geosciences	“A Web-based GIS Approach for the Assessment of Landslides in the Jazan Area, Saudi Arabia”
Catherine Bailey	English	“Beauties and Beasts: Feminism and Animalistic Transformation in Osamu Tezuka's Princess Knight”
James Burns	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering	“Investigating Vertical Displacement Within the Aesthesiometric Threshold of the Thigh”
Sean Derrick	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering	“An Evaluation Into the Cause of Corrosive Failure in Autophoretic Coated Material”
Kevin Douglass	Chemistry	“Desorption Is Not Responsible for Mass Dependent Detection Deficiency During Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MIS) of Proteins”
Angela Garrison	Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology	“Emotional Avoidance and Rumination Mediate the Relation Between Adult Attachment and Disclosure”
* Christina Gentile	Communication	“It's Complicated: The Effect of Facebook on Relationship Maintenance and Satisfaction in Long-Distance Romantic Relationships”
* Ann Gilchrist	Geosciences	“Studies and Modeling of Cr(VI) Adsorption on Mixed Mineral Assemblages”
Christopher Hawley	History	“Sharing Tea: American-Afghan Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Ford Administration”
Krystal Howard	English	“Female Subjectivity and Power as Transformative Agents in the YA Verse Novels of Francesca Lia Block and Ellen Hopkins”
* David Jeng	Biological Sciences	“Studies Related to Tanapox Virus 15L Open Reading Frame”
Andrew Jones	Philosophy	“Morality, Reason, and Theism”
Jianwei Lin	Mathematics	“The Domination Number of Kao Kao Ka”
Monica Lininger	Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology	“Examining the Research Designs and Analytical Techniques in Athletic Training From 2005–2010”
Daniel Maitland	Psychology	“Comparing Sessions of Functional Analytical Psychotherapy to Nondirective Support in the Treatment of Interpersonal Distress”
William Mamudi	Science Education	“Physics Faculty Use of Example Solutions in Teaching Introductory Physics”
John Martin	Comparative Religion	“The Characteristics of Guidance and the Secrets of the Guided: A 13th-century Treatise on the Divine Names in Islamic Theurgic Rites”
Lloyd Mataka	Science Education	“The Effect of Using an Explicit General Problem Solving Approach on Pre-Service Elementary Teachers' Ability to Solve Heat Transfer Problems”
Amanda McKenna	Biological Sciences	“Mapping the Microglial/Immune Response to Two Methods of Olfactory Bulb Deafferentation in Zebrafish”
Stephanie Means	Interdisciplinary Evaluation	“Relationship Between Nurse Personality Traits and Work Assignments”
Brandon Pearce	Medieval Institute	“He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear: Owen Barfield and the Aurality of Medieval Thought”
Adrienne Redding	English	“’Pray to the Devils, the Gods Have Given Us Over’: Satire and the Iconography of Eden in Titus Andronicus”
Daniel Rubio	Philosophy	“Libertarian Free Will and Circumstantial Moral Luck”
Krystal Seibert	Biological Sciences	“Development of Tanapox Virus for Oncolytic Therapy”
Glenn Shaheen	English	“Flash Points: Publishing Flash Fiction in an Evolving Landscape”
Jae Young Shin	Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging	“Rheological Properties of Starch Latex Dispersions and Starch Latex-Containing Coating Colors”
Maran Subramain	Interdisciplinary Evaluation	“Adding Value to Writing Center Evaluations Through Evaluation Theory”
* Benjamin Wright	Medieval Institute	“The World as Cloister: Cambron Abbey and the Reconfiguration of Sacred Space 1322–1330”
Mikela Zhezha	Spanish	“Where Lexical Aspect and Negation Meet Gricean Theory: Towards Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistic Analysis of Affirmative Inceptive hasta in Spanish”

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