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Research and Creative Activity Award Recipients

The Research and Creative Activity Awards Program involves Assigned Time up to a maximum of twelve units per academic year, Monetary Grants of up to $2,500 and/or a Summer Fellowship of one month for for tenured faculty and one or two months for non-tenured faculty. An annual competition is held to recommend recipients of these awards. Applications are peer reviewed by a panel of six faculty.

Discoveries and Directions
Research and Creative Activity Awards
Subcommittee (RCAS)
Faculty Senate
Celebration of Research

Contact Information
Administrative Contact:
Adrienne Thompson
(916) 278-3667

Subcommittee Chair:
Hakan Ozcelik
(916) 278-7130

2011-2012 Research and Creative Activity Award P:rogram Awardees

College of Arts and Letters

Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Art   
“Exhibition ‘Lost Kingdoms of Early Southeast Asia: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture’ (6th-10th Centuries) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
Awarded Assigned Time.

Erika Gasser, History
“Manhood, Witchcraft, and Possession in Old and New England”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Mona Siegel, History
“Feminism, Pacifism, and Anti-Imperialism in the Early International Women's Movement”
Awarded Summer Fellowship and Assigned Time.

Nancy Sweet, English
“Nathaniel Hawthorne's Veiled Ladies and the Antebellum Convent Narrative”
Awarded Assigned Time.

College of Business Administration

Anne Fuller, Management
“The Geometry of Alliances:  Make, Buy, or Ally Decisions on Technological Needs”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Laura Riolli, Organizational Behavior & Environment
“Can Work Stress Lead to Employee Creativity and Job Satisfaction?: Exploring the Role of Positive and Negative Task Feedbacks from the Supervisor”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

College of Education

Hui-Ju Huang, Teacher Education
“Analysis of Students' Argumentation in Science Learning”
Awarded Summer Fellowship and Monetary Grant.

David Jelinek, Teacher Education
“Inter-rater Reliability of CSUS Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT)”
Awarded Summer Fellowship and Monetary Grant.

Jana Noel, Teacher Education
“Factors in Faculty Incorporation of Service Learning into their Courses:  A Comparative Study”
Awarded Summer Fellowship, Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Ying Jin, Computer Science
“Intrusion Detection for SQL Injection”
Awarded Summer Fellowship, Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Matthew Salveson, Civil Engineering
“A Nonconforming Embedded Mesh Algorithm Using Tensorial Constraints”
Awarded Assigned Time.

Kevan Shafizadeh, Civil Engineering
“An Evaluation of the Traffic Safety Impacts of Electronic Billboards on California Freeways and Highways”
Awarded Summer Fellowship and Monetary Grant.

College of Health and Human Services

Claire Lewis, Physical Therapy
“Further Development of a Protocol Tool for Mobilization on the Spine”
Awarded Monetary Grant.

Maureen Smith, Kinesiology & Health Science

“Reimagining the ‘Revolt of the Black Athlete:’ 21st Century Readings of Material Culture and New Narratives of the 1960s”
Awarded Summer Fellowship.

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

James Baxter, Biological Sciences
“The California Environmental Legacy Project:  Enhancing Public Understanding of Environmental Change”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Susan Crawford, Chemistry
“Utilizing Si-29 O-17 Solid State NMR Spectroscopy as a Kinetic and Mechanistic Probe of Cation Diffusion in Porous Zeolite Materials”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Nick Ewing, Biological Sciences
“Dissection of the Role of Plasma Membrane Proton Pumps in the Control of Plant Growth and Development”
Awarded Summer Fellowship, Monetary Grant, and Assigned Time.

Benjamin Gherman, Chemistry
“Computational Study of the Cyclization Reactions of Arenediynes: A Guide Towards the Use of Arenediynes as Potential Anti-Cancer Drugs”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Jamie Kneitel, Biological Sciences
“Assessing Climate Change Effects on California Vernal Pools”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

Katherine McReynolds, Chemistry
“Exploring Glycodendrimers as Anti-Viral Microbicide Agents”
Awarded Monetary Grant and Assigned Time.

M. Hossein Partovi, Physics
“Detecting Light-Light Interaction by Colliding Laser Beam Interferometry”
Awarded Assigned Time.

John Spence, Chemistry
“Shedding Light on Enediyne Reactivity”
Awarded Summer Fellowship and Assigned Time.

College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies

Kathryn Hadley, Sociology
“Deconstructing the Model Minority Experience in an Urban High School”
Awarded Summer Fellowship, Monetary Grant, and Assigned Time.

Jennifer Murphy, Sociology
“How do Individual and Structural Factors Influence a Physician's Fear of Malpractice?”Awarded Summer Fellowship and Monetary Grant.

2009-2010 Research and Creative Activity Award Recipients
Assigned Time and/or Monetary Grants

Martin Biskowski, Anthropology, “Source Characterization of Portezuelo Artifacts”

Brad Buchanan, English, “British Modernist Book Project”

Mimi Coughlin, Teacher Education, “The Impact of Teacher Professional Development on Student Achievement in American History”

Joel DuBois, Humanities and Religious Studies, “Developing a New Approach for Study of the Hindu Puranas”

Shelly Duff, Design, “Social and Economic Sustainability: Creating New Models of Cohabitation in the Existing Urban Home”

Benjamin Fell, Civil Engineering, “Parametric Simulation of Pipe and Wide-Flanged Bracing Members”

Bruce Gervais, Geography, “Hydrologic History of the Klamath Mountains, Northern California”

Benjamin Gherman, Chemistry, “Computational Determination of the Electrochemistry of Metal-Salens: A Guide Toward Their Use in Organic Synthesis”

Peter Grandbois, English, “Wait Your Turn: A Collection of Short Stories”

Cynthia Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry, “Mechanistic Studies on the Synthesis of Dihydroquinoxalinones”

Rebecca Kluchin, History, “From Home to Hospital and Back Home Again: The Homebirth Movement in the United States, 1965-1985”

Winston C. Lancaster, Biological Sciences, “Embryonic Genital Development in the Ghost-faced and Mustached Bats (Family Mormoopidae)”

Susanne Lindgren, Biological Sciences, “Isolation and Characterization of Shiga toxin producing E. coli from Cattle and Humans”

Tien-I Liu, Mechanical Engineering, “On-Line Monitoring of Turning Tool Conditions Using Neural Networks and Soft Computing”

David Madden, English, “Conversations with Paul West”

Afshin Marashi, History, “"Rethinking Iranian Nationalism" Edited Book Project”

Timothy Marbach, Mechanical Engineering, “Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuel Pathways in the California Central Valley”

Elaine O'Brien, Art, Global Modernisms: Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America”

Hakan Ozcelik, Business Administration, “"Where Emotions Speak Louder Than Words": Exploring the Emotional Antecedents and Outcomes of Leader-Member Exchange Quality in Organizations”

M. Hossein Partovi, Physics and Astronomy, “The Vacuum/Dark Energy Problem in Cosmology”

Thomas R. Peavy, Biological Sciences, “Are Sperm-binding Genes in Xenopus Frog Eggs Equally Expressed?”

Jennifer Rayman, Special Education, Rehabilitation, School Psychology and Deaf Studies, “Talking Culture/Talking Power: Language Choices in Deaf Studies          Classrooms”

Douglas Rice, English, “Enchanted Memories: The Disappearance of Tiem and Memories”

Linda Roberts, Chemistry, “Mechanism of Amyloid Formation in Apolipoprotein A-I IOWA”

Thomas Savage, Chemistry, “Elucidation of the Biochemical Pathway to the Marine Neurotoxin Domoic Acid”

Richard Shek, Humanities and Religious Studies, “Publication of book entitled Confucianism as a Religious Tradition”

Michelle Stevens, Environmental Studies, “Historic Ecology of the Sacramento San Joaquin Bay Delta: Integrating Physical Processes with Cultural Practices to Inform Ecological Restoration and Conservation”

Roger Sullivan, Anthropology, “Wason Selection Task Performance in Schizophrenia and Autism”

Denver Travis, Business Administration, “Do Long Maturity Real Interest Rates Ever Fall?”

William Vicars, Special Education, Rehabilitation, School Psychology and Deaf Studies, “Deaflympics Lexicography”

Summer Fellowship Awards

Lisa Hammersley, Geology, “Source Characterization of Portezuelo Artifacts”

Beom-Jin Choi, Business Administration, “Understanding the Impact of Website Quality and Brand Knowledge on the Use and Customer Satisfaction of C2C E-Commerce Websites”

Kelly Cotter, Psychology, “Social and Personal Precursors to Physical Activity across the Lifespan”

Shelly Duff, Design, “Social and Economic Sustainability: Creating New Models of Cohabitation in the Existing Urban Home”

Jeffrey Dym, History, “Kamishibai (Japanese Paper Plays) Research Trip to Japan”

Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy, “Knee Biomechanics During One-and-Two-leg Squatting on Stable and Unstable Surfaces”

Rebecca Kluchin, History, “From Home to Hospital and Back Home Again: The Homebirth Movement in the United States, 1965-1985”

Timothy Marbach, Mechanical Engineering, “Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuel Pathways in the California Central Valley”

Douglas Rice, English, “Enchanted Memories, The Disappearance of Tiem and Memories”

Linda Roberts, Chemistry, “Mechanism of Amyloid Formation in Apolipoprotein A-I IOWA”

Thomas Savage, Chemistry, “Elucidation of the Biochemical Pathway to the Marine Neurotoxin Domoic Acid”

Michelle Stevens, Environmental Studies, “Historic Ecology of the Sacramento San Joaquin Bay Delta: Integrating Physical Processes with Cultural Practices to Inform Ecological Restoration and Conservation”

Brad Stockert, Physical Therapy, “An Examination of the Frequency and Use of Human Patient Simulators in Physical Therapy Education Programs in the United States”

Roger Sullivan, Anthropology, “Wason Selection Task Performance in Schizophrenia and Autism”

Denver Travis, Business Administration, “Do Long Maturity Real Interest Rates Ever Fall?”

Pei-Lin Yu, Anthropology, “Ancient Salmon Fishing on the Upper Columbia River: Archaeological Experimentation and Tribal Heritage Collaboration”

2008-2009 Research and Creative Activity Award Recipients
Assigned Time and/or Monetary Grants

Jessica Bagger, Business Administration, “Family-Supportive Organizations: Do Formal Human Resource Policies ("Family-friendly" policies) or Supervisors Matter More?”

Susan Baker, Bilingual Multicultural Education, “Teaching Writing to English Learners: A Functional Approach”

Laura Basini, Music, “Patriot Games: Music and Musicians in Post-Unification Italy”

Martin Biskowski, Anthropology, and Lisa Hammersley, Geology, “Source Characterization of Portezuelo Artifacts”

Coskun Cetin, Mathematics and Statistics, “A Numerical Algorithm for Perturbed Stochastic LQR Problems”

Beom-Jin Choi, Business Administration, “Understanding the Impact of Website Quality and Brand Knowledge on the Use and Customer Satisfaction of C2C E-Commerce Websites”

Kelly Cotter, Psychology, “Social and Personal Precursors to Physical Activity across the Lifespan”

Shelly Duff, Design, “Social and Economic Sustainability: Creating New Models of Cohabitation in the Existing Urban Home”

Jeff Dym, History, “Kamishibai (Japanese Paper Plays) Research Trip to Japan”

Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy, “Knee Biomechanics during One-and-Two-Leg Squatting”

Bruce Gervais, Geography, “Long-Term Climate from Foxtail Pine, Klamath Mountains, Northern California”

Benjamin Gherman, Chemistry, and James Miranda, Chemistry, “Prediction of Reduction Potentials from Electron Affinities for Metal-Salens: A Dual Experimental Computational Approach”

Summer Fellowship Awards

Peter Grandbois, English, “The True Life Story of Chief Hole-in-the-Day, a Novel”

Katy Hadley, Sociology, “Are you Chinese? Understanding Adolescents' Ethnic Identities In and Outside Chinese School”

Lisa Hammersley, Geology, and Martin Biskowski, Anthropology, “Source Characterization of Portezuelo Artifacts”

Samantha Hens, Anthropology, “Fluctuating Asymmetry as an Indicator of Health and Stress in the Transition from Imperial Rome to the Early Middle Ages”

Brett Holland, Biological Sciences, “Does Sexual Selection Improve Population Fitness?”

Rebecca Kluchin, History, “From Home to Hospital and Back Home Again: The Homebirth Movement in the United States, 1965-1985”

Jamie Kneitel, Biological Sciences, “Keystone Predation in Sub-Alpine Meadow Communities? Indirect Effects of a Specialist Herbivore on Plant Biodiversity”

Preetham Kumar, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, “Pilot Project on Application of Low-Cost Microwave

Hyperthermia System for Treatment of Recurrent Head and Neck Carcinoma”

Winston C. Lancaster, Biological Sciences, “Ambiguous Genitalia in the Antillean Ghost-faced Bat”

Clare Lewis, Physical Therapy, “Developing a Prototype Tool for Performing Joint Mobilization on the Spine”

Hao Lin, Business Administration, “Does Institutional Trading Improve Liquidity?”

David Madden, English, “The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Fiction”

Timothy Marbach, Mechanical Engineering, “Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuel Pathways in the California Central Valley”

Virginia Matzek, Environmental Studies, “Carbon Sequestration in California Woodland Restoration Projects”

Kimberly Nalder, Government, “Local Television News and Civic Responsibility: A Study of the 2008 Election Cycle”

M. Hossein Partovi, Physics and Astronomy, “Disappearance of the Thermodynamic Arrow in a High-Correlation Environment”

Janusz Prajs, Mathematics and Statistics, “Classifying Homogeneous Continua”

Juliana Raskauskas, Child Development, “Bullying and Academic Performance across School Transitions”

Douglas Rice, English, “Enchanted Memories: The Disappearance of Time and Memories

Linda Roberts, Child Development, “Mechanism of Amyloid Formation in Apolipoprotein A-I IOWA”

Thomas Savage, Chemistry, “Elucidation of the Biochemical Pathway to the Marine Neurotoxin Domoic Acid”

Kevan Shafizadeh, Civil Engineering, “Enhancing Regional 511 Traffic Information using Incident Management Databases”

Mona Siegel, History, “Disarming Hatred: History, Education, and Franco-German Reconciliation from World War I to the Cold War”

John D. Spence, Chemistry, “Thermal and Visible-Light Activation of Enediyne Pro-Drugs”

Michelle Stevens, Environmental Studies, “Historic Ecology of the Sacramento San Joaquin Bay Delta: Integrating Physical Processes with Cultural Practices to Inform Ecological Restoration and Conservation”                                    

Yong S. Suh, Mechanical Engineering, “Sketch-Based Modeling using Templates Generated by a Shape Retrieval System

Michelle Stevens, Environmental Studies, “Historic Ecology of the Sacramento San Joaquin Bay Delta: Integrating Physical Processes with Cultural Practices to Inform Ecological Restoration and Conservation”

Brad Stockert, Physical Therapy, “An Examination of the Frequency and Use of Human Patient Simulators in Physical Therapy Education Programs in the United States”

Yoh Suh, Mechanical Engineering, “Sketch-Based Modeling Using Templates Generated By a Shape Retrieval System”

Roger Sullivan, Anthropology, “Book Manuscript: “An Evolutionary Ecology of Human Drug Use”

Nancy Sweet, English, “Sacred Vows and Renegade Nuns:  The American Convent Narrative, 1830-1860”

Denver Travis, Business Administration, “Do Long Maturity Real Interest Rates Ever Fall?”

Anna V. Vygodina, Business Administration, “Affects of Central Banks' Interference on Speculative Build-Up in Foreign Exchange Markets”

Pei-Lin Yu, Anthropology, “Ancient Salmon Fishing on the Upper Columbia River: Archaeological Experimentation and Tribal Heritage Collaboration”

Yan Zhou, Economics, “Network Economies and the Digital Divide in Rural South Asia”