Dickinson Non-Travel Awards 2009-2010
Dana Research Assistants -- Academic Year 2009-2010
Grant Braught, Computer Science/Russell Toris - to support his project, 鈥淚nterfacing dLife to layer/Stage/Gazebo Open-Source Robot Simulators.鈥�James Ciarrocca, Academic Technology/Casey Michalski - to support his project, "Development of Spatial LIteracy within the Dickinson Community."
Elizabeth Lewis, Education/Lauren Amoros - to support her project, 鈥淪tudying Adolescent English Language Learners鈥� Literacy Development through a Summer Writing Program.鈥�
Matt Pinsker/John Osborne, History/Shane Harding/Morgan Mintz - to support their project, 鈥淗ouse Divided Project.鈥�
Dana Research Assistants -- Spring 2010:
Stephanie Gilmore, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies/Chelsea Allen 鈥� to support her project, 鈥淕roundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America.鈥�
Stephanie Gilmore, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies/Paula Lima, Diversity Initiatives/ Megan Yost/ Psychology/Jennifer Chmielewski 鈥� to support their project, 鈥淟GBT Campus Climate Focus Groups.鈥�
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy, Africana Studies/Quinnelle Gomez 鈥� to support her project, 鈥淐aribbean Media Representations.鈥�
Simona Perry, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education/Tomas Sanguinetti 鈥� to support her project, 鈥淧laying for Keeps Along the Susquehanna: A Community-Integrated GIS of Land and Water Uses and Rights in Rural Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Play.鈥�
Matteo Salvadore, History/Shannon Givens 鈥� to support his project, 鈥淴IX Century Discourses on the Nature of Ethiopians.鈥�Cotten Seiler, American Studies/Wuji Zeng鈥� to support his project, 鈥淐hinese Automobility and U.S. Rhetorics of Identicality.鈥�
Sarah C. Sherwood, Anthropology/Amy Oechsner 鈥� to support her project, 鈥淕eoarchaeology at Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site, North Carolina.鈥�
Amy Steinbugler, Sociology/Margaret O'Brien 鈥� to support her project, 鈥淚ntimate Racework: The Daily Lives of Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Couples.鈥�
2009 Fall Projects
Scholarly/Creative:
Suman Ambwani, Psychology - for her project, 鈥淭emporal Sequencing of Affect, Interpersonal Stress, and Maladaptive Eating Behaviors.鈥�
Jeremy Ball, History - for his project, 鈥淔rom the Colonial Period to Civil War; Disruption in the Agro-Industrial Sector鈥攁 Two Case Study.鈥�
Grace Jarvis, Spanish & Portuguese - (in conjunction with a sabbatical budget grant) for her project, Melting Pot or Pressure Cooker, Educational Factors in Assimilation in First Generation Immigrants.鈥�
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance - for her project, 鈥淥rson Welle鈥檚 鈥楳oby Dick Rehearsed鈥� at the Pendragon Theater.鈥�
Dave Kushner, Biology - for his project, 鈥淎nalysis of the Phosphorylation Levels of the Ism1 Protein in WT or Mutant Yeast Stains Expressing Replicating Brome Mosaic Virus.鈥�
Professional Development:
Marie Helweg -for her project, 鈥淚ntroduction to AMOS [SPSS statistical software].鈥�
Teaching:
Marie Helweg Larsen, Jim Hoefler and Jon Page - for their project, 鈥淚ntracellular trafficking of neurotransmitter receptors
2010 Winter/Spring Projects
Professional Development:
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance - to assist with expenses associated with her Professional Development project, 鈥淎ttendance at USITT Professional Development Workshop on Creating a Digital Portfolio.鈥�
Sharon Kingston/Suman Ambwani, Psychology - to assist with expenses associated with their Professional Development project, 鈥淧rofessional Development and Training in Hierarchical Linear Modeling for Professors Ambwani and Kingston.鈥�
Jessica Westin/Sarah Sherwood, Anthropology - to assist with expenses associated with their Professional Development project, 鈥淎dditions to the Anthropology Department Skeletal Cast Collection.鈥�
Scholarly/Creative:
Todd Arsenault, Art & Art History - to assist with expenses associated with his Creative project, 鈥�2010 Painting Series.鈥�
Patricia Moonsammy, Africana Studies - to assist with expenses associated with her Scholarly project, 鈥淩apso Warriors Book Manuscript Research.鈥�
Sharon O鈥橞rien, American Studies - to assist with expenses associated with her Scholarly project, 鈥�"Dear William Styron": Readers' Challenge to the Stigma of Depression.鈥�
Publications/Dissertations 2009-10
John Henson, Biology - toward, "Cost of color figure reproduction in a peer-reviewed publication."
Carol Ann Johnston, English - toward her project, 鈥淭heorizing Typography: Printing, Page Design, and the Study of Free Verse.鈥�
Elizabeth Lee, Art & Art History- toward her project, 鈥淲hen Sailors Kiss: Picturing Homosexuality in Post-World War II America.鈥�
Karen Lewis, Physics & Astronomy - toward her project, 鈥淟ong-Term Profile Variability of AGN with Double-Peaked Balmer Emission Lines.鈥�
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, French & Italian - toward her project, 鈥淒ramatic Interactions: Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theater - Theoretical Approaches and Classroom Practices (title to be finalized).鈥�
Wendy Moffat, English - toward costs or fees, royalties and scans for her project, 鈥淎 Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster.鈥�
Jeff Niemitz, Geology - toward color photo costs for publication of his project, 鈥淟ong-Term Field Based Studies in Geoscience Education.鈥�
Sean Parr, Music - toward his PhD dissertation 鈥淢elismatic Madness: Coloratura and Female Vocality in Mid Nineteenth-Century French and Italian Opera.鈥�
Alberto Rodriguez, Spanish & Portuguese - toward his project, 鈥淐ervantes y Cuba: aspectos de una tradici贸n literaria.鈥�
Jorge R. G. Sagastume, Spanish & Portuguese - toward publication costs for his projects, 鈥淓l viejor鈥� and 鈥淒istorsiones.鈥�
Andrew Wolff, Political Science & International Studies - toward his project, 鈥淓xplaining NATO Expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, 1989-2004: An Analysis of Geopolitical Interest.鈥�
Sabbatical Expenses Support 2010-11
Grant Braught - in support his 2010-11 sabbatical project, 鈥渄Life Development and Evolutionary Robotics.鈥�
Lynn Helding 鈥� in support of her 2010-11 sabbatical project, 鈥淰oice Science and Neuroscience of Music.鈥�
Pam Nesselrodt, Education - in support of her 2010-11 sabbatical project, 鈥淐urriculum Design Textbook for Pre-Service Secondary Teachers.鈥�
Dave Richeson 鈥� in support of his 2010-11 sabbatical project, 鈥淭ravel to India to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians and speak at a satellite conference.鈥�
Blake Wilson 鈥� in support of his 2010-11 sabbatical project, 鈥淥rpheus in Florence: the
Fall 2010
Kim Lacy Rogers - in support of her fall 2010 sabbatical project, 鈥淪ikh Dharma: Convets & Narratives in New Mexico.鈥�
Adrienne Su 鈥� in support of her fall 2010 sabbatical project, 鈥淩eturning Residency, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.鈥�
Stephen Weinberger - in support of his fall 2010 sabbatical project, 鈥淏osley Crowther Reconsidered.鈥�
Spring 2011
Jeffrey Niemitz - in support of his spring 2011 sabbatical project, 鈥淣utrient and Trace Element Fluxes from Legacy Sediment Re-mobilization: Modeling the Yellow Breeches Creek Watershed.鈥�
Susan Rose - in support of her spring 2011 sabbatical project, 鈥淕lobal Clothesline Project: Gender Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective.鈥�
Todd Wronski - in support his spring 2011 sabbatical project, 鈥淢ark Twain Abroad.鈥�
Summer 2010 Study Groups
Cotten Seiler/American Studies - toward books to support a summer study group: Advanced Cultural Theory Course Reading Group.
Student-Faculty Research - Summer 2010
Scott Boback, Biology/Kevin Wood 鈥�11- supports research on the topic of Population Ecology of Central Pennsylvania Snake Communities for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Grant Braught, Math & Computer Science/Russell Toris 鈥�11- supports research on the topic of Studying Self-Adaptive Mutation Rates in a Competitive Co-Evolutionary Game of Robot Tag, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
John Henson, Biology/Anastasia Gianakas 鈥�12- supports research on the topic of Mechanisms of Cell Process Formation in Sea Urchin Embryos, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Kristi Humphreys, Chemistry/Tianju Zhou 鈥�12- supports research on the topic of Linking Antimetastatic Acitivity to Reduction Potential and Rate of Hydrolysis in a Series of N-alkyl substituted NAMI-A derivatives, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Elizabeth C. Lewis, Education/Eliza Cutler 鈥�11- supports research on the topic of Young Writers Program for English Language Learner (ELLs) - Summer 2010, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Mary (Missy) Niblock, Biology & Neuroscience/Marianne Hutt 鈥�11- supports research on the topic of Immunohistochemical Characterization of Sexually Dimorphic Cells in the Retrotrapezoid Nucleus of the Mouse Brainstem for the period of five (5) weeks.
Jonathan Page, Psychology and Neuroscience & Teresa Barber, Psychology and Neuroscience/Marlini Milla 鈥�11 & Gina Norato 鈥�12- supports research on the topic of Developing a Methodology to Electronically Measure Pain, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Brett Pearson, Physics & Astronomy/Matthew Murray 鈥�11 - supports research on the topic of Pulse Shaping for Enhanced Discrimination in Multiphoton Microscopy, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
David Richeson, Math & Computer Science/Fabio Drucker 鈥�11- supports research on the topic of Symbolic Dynamics for Overlapping Partitions, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Sarah St. Angelo, Chemistry/Erica Hartz 鈥�11- supports research on the topic of Synthesis via Green Chemistry and Characterization of Metal and Mixed Metal Anisotropic Nanoparticles for Assembly into SERS Substrates, for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Dana Research Assistants 鈥� Summer 2010
William Bellinger, Economics/Jue Wang 鈥�12- supports research, (1) Causes of the retail gap in Smaller Central Cities, with emphasis on Pennsylvania Cities; (2) The economic impact of Dickinson Summer Programs, by providing wages and room for a student research assistant for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Christine Bombaro, LIS/W. John Monopoli 鈥�11- supports research on the topic, Finding History (book project), by providing wages and room for a student research assistant for the period of six (6) weeks.
Ben Edwards, Geology/Katherine Anderson 鈥�11- supports research on the topic, Curation of the Ellis mineral collection with emphasis on related to African resource extraction, by providing wages and room for a student research assistant for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance/Andrew Takoch 鈥�11 - supports research on the topic, Design and construction of costumes for 3 productions, by providing wages for a student research assistant for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Ann Hill, Anthropology/Wuji Zeng 鈥�12- supports research on the topic, Translating and Interpreting China鈥檚 Southwestern Frontier, by providing wages and room for a student research assistant for the period of six (6) weeks.
Kristi Humphreys, Chemistry/Alice Duchon 鈥�11- supports research on the topic, Synthesis of a Copper-Distamycin Conjugate and its Reactivity with DNA, by providing wages and room for a student research assistant for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance/Kristin Bodall 鈥�11- supports research on the topic, Stage Manager/Dramaturg for "Eurydice" at Pendragon Theater, by providing wages and off-campus housing for a student research assistant for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Matt Pinsker, History and John Osborne, History/Rebecca Solnit 鈥�12, Brenna McKelvey 鈥�12, Jake Rainwater 鈥�11- supports research on the topic, House Divided Project, by providing wages and room for two student research assistants for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Jorge Sagastume, Spanish & Portuguese/Eric Seymour 鈥�12- supports research on the topic, Semana Po茅tica 9, by providing wages and room for a student research assistant for the period of eight (8) weeks.
Amy Steinbugler, Sociology/Maggie O'Brien 鈥�11 - supports research on the topic, Intimate Racework: The Daily Lives of Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Couples, by providing wages for eight (8) weeks and room for six (6) weeks for a student research.