Awards
Support for Faculty Scholar Awards (SFSA)
The Support for Faculty Scholars Award exists to advance the research mission of the University. The program supports creative activities and research that may not lead to external funding but which enhance and sustain the scholarly reputation of WMU and the faculty principal investigator.
January 2013
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Julie Apker | Communication | Qualitative study of handoff communication between emergency physicians and hospitalist in academic and community hospitals |
| Dr. Luigi Andrea Berto | History | Between dangerous enemies and ineffective christian lords: "The History of the Beneventan Lombards" and the crisis of ninth-century southern Lombardy |
| Dr. Alexander Cannon | Music | Time and transformation in Southern Vietnamese traditional music |
| Professor Cat Crotchett | Frostic School of Art | Encaustic Painting and Silkscreen |
| Dr. Lin Foulk | Music | Developing classical music improvisation |
| Dr. Sharon Garber | Dance | Ballet pedagogy techniques of the 21st century: Paris opera and royal balet |
| Dr. Marion Gray | History | Identities, borders and ecologies: change over time in rural Brandenburg and metropolitan Berlin |
| Dr. Andrew Hennlich | Frostic School of Art | Scattered histories: diaspora, nation and memory in the work of William Kentridge |
| Dr. Mary Lagerway | School of Nursing | Professional women and popularization of eugenics in the United States |
| Dr. Mahendra Lawoti | Political Science | Inclusive institutional reforms: multiple actors and complex processes in Nepal |
| Dr. William Sauck | Geosciences | Geophysics to aid and archeological investigation' Gotland, Sweden |
| Dr. Joyashish Thakurta | Geosciences | Examination and sampling of exploratory drill cores from the upper peninsula area of Michigan |
| Dr. Kristina Wirtz | Anthropology | Learning to be bilingual in a dual language elementary school |
September 2012
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Carla Adkinson-Bradley | Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology | Perceived severity of parent discipline practices: a study of professional counselors |
| Dr. Steve Bertman | Chemistry | MPAN and atmospheric aerosols |
| Dr. Jennifer Foster | Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology | The world of sexually abused boys: a thematic analysis of trauma narratives |
| Professor Caroline Gore | Frostic School of Art | Technical and material explorations: stone & precious metal alloys |
| Professor Jim Hopfensperger | Frostic School of Art | The significance of making by hand |
| Dr. Mark Hurwitz | Political Science | Judicial diversity: courting olitical minorities in America's federal and state courts |
| Dr. Ramona Lewis | Educational Leadership, Research and Technology | Experiences of African Americal older adult learners |
| Dr. Gellert Mezei | Chemistry | Anion-encapsulating nanojars for selective anion extraction and environmental remediation |
| Dr. Michael nassaney | Anthropology | The archaeology of the North American Ffur trade |
| Professor Giner Owen | Frostic School of Art | Modernizing uses for collodion wet plate as a means of displacint the digital void |
| Dr. Eli Rubin | History | Arc of destruction: urban space, memory and war in Germany, 1937-1945 |
| Dr. Benjamin Torres | Spanish | "Iconografia: lo visual en la obra de Edgardo Rodrigues Julia" |
| Dr. Ruth Zielinski | Nursing | Living and working at Oasis Hospital: recollections of missionary nurses |
January 2012
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Robert Anemone | Anthropology | Field testing a predictive model for locating productive fossil localities |
| Dr. Andrzej Dudek | Mathematics | Hamiltonicity of random hypergraphs |
| Dr. Dan Farrell | Management | Learning from whistleblowing |
| Dr. Stacey Fitzsimmons | Management | Roles that multicultural employees play in organizations: individual and contextual antecedents |
| Professor Kirsten Harvey | Dance | Dancing faces: teaching the technique of emotion |
| Dr. Sarah Hill | Anthropology | Rent and recycling in cuba: how not owning leads to not using things up |
| Dr. Yvette Hyter | Speech Pathology and Audiology | Assessment of pragmatic language |
| Dr. John Jellies | Biological Sciences | Peptide disruption of a peripheral neural oscillator |
| Dr. Mariam Konate | Gender and Women's Studies | Fatherlessness and African American female college students: a phenomenological study of their dating experiences |
| Dr. Joyce Kubiski | Frostic School of Art | Pisanello and John Palaeologus VIII: Details of dress and the eastern other |
| Dr. Kelley O'Reilly | Marketing | How young consumers assess online word-of-mouth (WOM) credibility |
| Dr. Ann Veeck | Marketing | Food safety, trust and responsibility in urban China |
| Dr. Maarten Vonhof | Biological Sciences | Patters of population connectivity and gene flow in a neotripical bat |
September 2011
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Kevin Corder | Political Science | Bank regulation after the financial crisis |
| Dr. Jessica Frieder | Psychology | Effects of Varied response methods in class activity and reviews on student performance and preference |
| Dr. Chien-Juh Gu | Sociology | Middle-class immigrant housewives: An exploratory study of self-concepts in life transitions |
| Dr. Peter Gustafson | Mechanical Engineering | Prototype surgical screwdriver |
| Dr Yan Lu | Biological Sciences | Novel transcriptional regulation of biosynthesis of aspartate-derived amino acids |
| Dr. Edwin Martini | History | Napalm: More than a weapon |
| Dr. Lewis Pyenson | History | Natural history ilustration in 19th century Argentina |
| Dr. Eve Salisbury | English | Disseminating Gower: Newberry MS33.5 and the Gower Project |
| Dr. Thomas Scannell | Management | Sucessful small business growth supported by supply chain management best practices |
| Dr. Susan Steuer | Special Collections and Rare Books | Traveling Libraries for prisoners in World War I work detachments |
| Professor Yuanliang Sun | Frostic School of Art | The Bridge |
| Dr. Gwen Tarbox | English | Gender and identification in Franco-Belgian YA graphic narratices |
| Dr. Marc Weeden | Special Education | The effects of TeachLive on the Acquistion of basic teaching skills in first year special education students: a preliminary investigation |
January 2011
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Massood Atashbar | Electrical and Computer engineering | Experiments to demonstrate the Principles of Printed Accelerometer using sacrificial layer technology by employing inkjet and screen printing techniques |
| Dr. Jody Brylinsky | Health Performance and Health Education | Identifying Key Competencies in elite coaches |
| Dr. Christine Bryd-Jacobs | Bilogogical Sciences | Western Blot Analysis of changes in brain protein expression with damage to sensory input |
| Dr. Martha Councell-Vargas | Music | LaFlauto Cubana: Defining the tradition and style of flute playing |
| Professor Cat Crotchette | Frostic School of Art | Encaustic-Batik paintings |
| Professor David Curwen | Dance | Ballet pedagogy exchange in the People's Republic of China |
| Dr. Jon Davis | Mathematics | Reasoning and proof within cirricular resources |
| Dr. Diane Dirette | Occupational Therapy | The effectiveness of self generated vs. taught compensatory strategies for memory and the role of learning styles |
| Dr. Liang Dong | Electrical and Comptuter Engineering | Radio frequency energy harvesting for Mirroelectronics |
| Dr. Claudia Fajardo-Hansford | Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering | Design of an optical engine with combustion capability |
| Professor Sharon Garber | Dance | Ballet Pedagogy exchange in the Peoples' Republic of China |
| Dr. Sandra Glista | Speech Pathology and Audiology | Supported and safe computer and internet use in individuals with Aphasia |
| Dr. Pavel Ikonomov | Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | Virtual reality simulation system for nonomanufacturing |
| Dr. Cynthia Klekar | English | Gener, benevolence, and legal discourse in Eighteenth-Century London's criminal courts |
| Professor Tom Knific | Music | Dissemination and distribution of The Muse: A CD of original music |
| Dr. Mahendra Lawoti | Political Science | Democracy in divided societies: exclusion/inclusion in South Asia |
| Dr. Irma Lopez | Spanish | Confluencias y demarcaciones: Generaciones literarias y expresiones esteticas en la novela mexicana, 1998-2008 |
| Professor Nichole Maury | Frostic School of Art | International artist residency and exhibitions |
| Dr. Timothy McGrew | Philosophy | Studies in the history and philosophy of religions |
| Dr. Matthew Mingus | School of Public Affairs and Administration | The Bridge to Somewhere: Why Now? |
| Professor Judy Moonert | Music | Coalescence Percussion Duo CD Recording Project |
| Dr. James Palmitessa | History | Making the New Europe: Historical writing in the Czech lands from the 15th to 17th centuries |
| Dr. Doris Ravotas | Interdisciplinary Health Services | Patients' experience of an informed consent process for hospital procedures |
| Dr. Elke Schoffers | Chemistry | Novel sensors based on 1, 10 Phenanthroline |
| Professor Megan Slayter | Dance | La Mer, a reconstruction of Loie Fuller's The Sea |
September - 2010
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Ari-Gur, Pnina | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | International Research of Titania |
| Dr. Auer, Blain | Comparative Religion | Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam |
| Professor Berkow, Jay | Theatre | Orpheus in the Underworld |
| Dr.Ellis, Anthony | English | Another Side of Senescence |
| Dr. Golhar, Damodar | Management | Automotive Parts Manufacturing in India |
| Dr. Ohanna, Natalio | Spanish | Back From Beyond the Frontier |
| Dr. Ro, Kapseong | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Design, Test and Evaluation of Refueling Drogue |
| Dr. Haden, Sally | History | An English Lawyer in Colonial American |
January - 2010
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Durham, Lofton | Theatre | Rewriting the History of Medieval Theatre: Destruction de troie and Fifteenth Century Performance Culture |
| Dr. Jones, Stephen | Music, School of | Western Brass Quintet Scores Research Project |
| Dr. Mezei, Gellert | Chemistry | Metal-organic rotaxane frameworks: Towards organized solid-state molecular machinery assemblies |
| Dr. Saito, Rika | Foreign Languages | To a New Woman from a New Man: Letters Overseas by the Japanese Feministic Couple in the 1920s |
| Dr. Veeck, Ann | Marketing | Pig Feasts in Rural China: Creating an Informal Economy through a Ritual Celebration |
September - 2009
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Berto, Luigi | History | Writing History in Carolingian Italy (774-875) |
| Dr. Bischof, Gary | Counseling Education, Counseling Psychology | Transgender Persons & Partners: Couple and Sexual Relationships |
| Professor Bondarchuk, Karen | Frostic School of Art | Corvus Catalogue |
| Professor Brown, Lori | Aviation | The Efficacy of Flight Attendant/Pilot Communication and Training Requirements in China |
| Dr. Browning, Christine | Mathematics | Understanding children's thinking of angle and angle measure |
| Dr. Frias, Larissa | Family and Consumer Science | Acculturation and Family Experiences of Filipino Immigrants in the U.S. |
| Dr. Kohler, Steve | Biological Sciences | Distribution and Population Structure of a Keystone Parasite |
| Dr. Shrestha, Bade | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Journal Page Fee Charges |
| Dr. Straight, Bilinda | Anthropology | Preparing publications from current NSF and planning an NIH proposal with collaborators at University of Arizona and Grinnell College |
January - 2009
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Ackerson, Kelly | Nursing | Trauma History and Cervical Cancer Screening |
| Dr. Code, David | Music, School of | Creating a Laptop Orchestra |
| Dr. Ellis, Anthony | English | Shakespeare all italina: Dramatic Adaptation and Cultural Exchange |
| Dr. Eng, Jacqueline | Anthropology | Ancient Health in the Nomadic Pastoralists of Mongolia |
| Dr. Ghantasala, Mural | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticle based composite colloids (gels) |
| Dr. Ho, Birong | Library | Vocabulary Control for the Web 2.0 Catalog |
| Dr. Joslin, Katherine | English | Edith Wharton and the making of Fashion |
| Dr. Lagerwey, Mary | Nursing | Nursing Coverage of the 3rd Reich |
| Dr. Mirzeler, Mustafa | English | African Stories and Storytellers |
| Dr. Nassaney, Michael | Anthropology | Archaeology and Community Service Learning: Preparing a Professional Index |
| Dr. Torano, Vince | Frostic School of Art | Ideal Beauty in Classical Painting |
September - 2008
Name |
Department |
Area of Interest |
| Dr. Biener, Zvi | Philosophy | Newtonian Mechanics and British Empiricism: Physics and Philosophy at the Edge of Enlightment |
| Dr. Bliznyuk, Valery | Paper Coating & Imaging | Collaborative Research in the Field of Nanoelectric Properties of Materials |
| Professor Curwen, David | Dance | My Name is David Lang |
| Professor Gore, Caroline | Frostic School of Art | Tangential Memories |
| Dr. Hallett, Lucius | Geography | It's too far to walk! I cannot get to my supermarket. The Geographies of Location in Lawrence, Kansas |
| Dr. Lawoti, Mahendra | Political Science | Democracy, Insurgency, Autocracy and Political Reforms: The Exclusion/Inclusion Dimension in Nepal |
| Dr. Rao, Shalia | Special Education & Literacy Studies | From Isolation to combination: A multilevel, multicomponent approach to developing literacy skills of students with cognitive impairments |
| Dr. Ro, Kapseong | Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering | Prototype Development and Flight Test of a Free-wing Tilt-body Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| Professor Slayter, Megan | Dance | The Lily |
| Dr. Susan Steuer | Library | Recreating a Cistercian Library: The Obrecht Collection at Western Michigan University |