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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.

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Administrative Contact:
Terry Manns
(916) 278-7565

Subcommittee Chair:
Charlotte Xanders
(916) 278-5451

  • Research and Creative Activity Award Recipients
    RECIPIENTS (2008-2009) ^TOP

    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”

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

    Shannon Datwyler, Biological Sciences: “Pollination of Penstemon Azureus: The Importance of Pollen Wasps and other Pollinators throughout California”

    Joel DuBois, Humanities & Religious Studies: “Archiving the Layered History of Hindu Temple Town”

    Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy: “Knee Biomechanics during Forward and Backward Lunging Exercises”

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

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

    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”

    Hui-Ju Hang, Teacher Education: “A Study of Undergraduate Students' Attitude toward Biodiversity”

    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?”

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

    Ying Jin, Computer Science: “Active Rules for Constraint Management on Biological Databases”

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

    Preetham Kumar, Electrical & 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”

    Richard Marens, Business Administration: “Globalization and Business Ethics: Constructing a New Synthesis”

    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 & Astronomy: “Disappearance of the Thermodynamic Arrow in a High-Correlation Environment”

    Janusz Prajs, Mathematics & Statistics: “Classifying Homogeneous Continua”

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

    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”

    Yong S. 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”

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

    Martha Wilson, Business Administration: “Traffic Congestion and the Impact on the Food Supply Chain in the Greater Sacramento Region”

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

    Summer Fellowship Awards (2008-2009)

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

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

    Shannon Datwyler, Biological Sciences: “Pollination of Penstemon Azureus: The Importance of Pollen Wasps and other Pollinators throughout California”

    Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy: “Knee Biomechanics during Forward and Backward Lunging Exercises”

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

    Hui-Ju Hang, Teacher Education: “A Study of Undergraduate Students' Attitude toward Biodiversity”

    Ying Jin, Computer Science: “Active Rules for Constraint Management on Biological Databases”

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

    Preetham Kumar, Electrical & Electronic Engineering: “Pilot Project on Application of Low-Cost Microwave Hyperthermia System for Treatment of Recurrent Head and Neck Carcinoma”

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

    Richard Marens, Business Administration: “Globalization and Business Ethics: Constructing a New Synthesis”

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

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

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

    Martha Wilson, Business Administration: “Traffic Congestion and the Impact on the Food Supply Chain in the Greater Sacramento Region”

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

    RECIPIENTS (2007-2008) ^TOP

    Assigned Time and/or Monetary Grants

    Rachel August, Psychology: “Longitudinal Investigation of Retirement Adjustment”

    Margarita Berta-Avila, Bilingual Multicultural Education: “A Survey to Assess Teacher Candidates' Preparation and Preference to Work with English Learners”

    Brad Baker, Chemistry: “Tethered Balloon Sampling to Understand Regional Atmospheric Chemistry”

    Martin Biskowski, Anthropology: “Source Characterization of the Teotihuacán Grinding Tools”

    Chloe Burke, History: “Visual Rhetoric of Anti-Radicalism in American Political Cartooning”

    Ronald Coleman, Biological Sciences:  “A Test of Non-shareable Parental Investment Theory using a Mouthbrooding Cichlid Fish”

    Daniel Deocampo, Geology:  “Soil Lead in Sacramento: Geochemistry and Child Lead Poisoning”

    Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy: “Knee Biomechanics during Common Weight Bearing Knee Rehabilitation Exercises”

    Dana Ferris, English:  “Including Three Student Populations in Writing Instruction”

    Sarah Jane Flohr, Art:  “Exhibition: National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia”

    Katy Hadley, Sociology: “Are You Chinese? Exploring Ethnic Identities and Creating Peer Cultures in a Chinese School”

    Lisa Hammersley, Geology: “Source Characterization of the Teotihuacán Grinding Tools”

    Jessica Howell, Economics: “An Evaluation of the Early Assessment Program and its Effect on Students' Postsecondary Application, Enrollment, and Academic Preparation at California State University”

    Cynthia Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry: “An Improved, Two-Step Microwave Synthesis of 3-Arylpyrroles”

    Rebecca Kluchin, History: “Fit to be Tied? Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984”

    Albert Lozano, Bilingual Multicultural Education: “A Survey to Assess Teacher Candidates' Preparation and Preference to Work with English Learners”

    Tien-I Liu, Mechanical Engineering: “On-Line Monitoring and Diagnosis of Tapping Process Using Neural Networks and Soft Computing”

    Timothy Marbach, Mechanical Engineering: “Clean Combustion of Biofuels”

    Wendy Matlock, English: “Law and Violence in the Owl and the Nightingale”

    Caio Miguel, Psychology: “The effects of language training on the development of categorization skills in children with autism”

    Jana Noel, Teacher Education: “The "Colored School" of Stockton in the 1860s: Community Efforts to Create Public Education for African American Children”

    Karen Davis-O'Hara, Child Development: “Frontal Asymmetry, Maternal Depression, and Parent Attachment: Novel vs. Familiar Emotional Stimuli”

    Daniel Orey, Teacher Education: “Ethnomathematics & Mathematical modeling from Brazil”

    Hakan Ozcelik, Business Administration: “Not Alone but Lonely”: An Empirical Analysis of Antecedents and Outcomes of Loneliness in Organizations”

    Thomas Peavy, Biological Sciences: “How Rapidly are Sperm-binding Genes Evolving?”

    Nigel Poor, Design: “The Relative Value of Things”

    Linda Roberts, Chemistry: “Requirement for Beta-strand structure in Human Apo A-I Auyloidosis”

    Dong Shen, Family & Consumer Science:  “Who has more power? An investigation of relationship between China's exporters and the US importers from Chinese perspectives”

    John Spence, Chemistry: “Improved Light Activation of Enediyne Pro-Drugs”

    Erin Stiles, Humanities & Religious Studies: “In a Kadhir & Court: Marriage, Divorce & Islam in Zanzibar”

    Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Anthropology: “Centered on an Edge: Kansai Women's Linguistic Practices"

    Yong Suh, Mechanical Engineering: “Reconstructing 3D Models from 2D Single-View Drawings to Support Conceptual Project Design”

    Roger Sullivan, Anthropology: “Schizophrenia in Palau: Analysis & Publication of Results from a Longitudinal Data Set”

    Christopher Taylor, Physics & Astronomy: “The "Genetics" of Dwarf Galaxies: Exploring the Evolutionary Links between Dwarf Ellipticals and Dwarf Irregulars”

    Michael Vann, History:  “Whiteness on the Red River: Race, Power, and Culture in French Colonial Hanoi, 1882-1954”

    Arthur Williamson, History: “Andrew Melville: Patriotism, Poetry, and the British Future”

    J. Kathy Zhong, Mathematics & Statistics: “A Multiplication Problem in Knots”

    Dongmei Zhou, Mechanical Engineering: “Modeling and Simulation of a Self-Hydrating PEM Fuel Cell Using CFD”

    Summer Fellowship Awards (2007-2008)

    Martin Biskowski, Anthropology: “Source Characterization of the Teotihuacán Grinding Tools”

    Ronald Coleman, Biological Sciences:  “A Test of Non-shareable Parental Investment Theory using a Mouthbrooding Cichlid Fish”

    Daniel Deocampo, Geology:  “Soil Lead in Sacramento: Geochemistry and Child Lead Poisoning”

    Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy: “Knee Biomechanics During Common Weight Bearing Knee Rehabilitation Exercises”

    Sarah Jane Flohr, Art:  “Exhibition: National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia”

    Katy Hadley, Sociology: “Are You Chinese? Exploring Ethnic Identities and Creating Peer Cultures in a Chinese School”

    Lisa Hammersley, Geology: “Source Characterization of the Teotihuacán Grinding Tools”

    Jessica Howell, Economics: “An Evaluation of the Early Assessment Program and its Effect on Students' Postsecondary Application, Enrollment, and Academic Preparation at California State University”

    Timothy Marbach, Mechanical Engineering: “Clean Combustion of Biofuels”

    Wendy Matlock, English: “Law and Violence in the Owl and the Nightingale”

    Caio Miguel, Psychology: “The effects of language training on the development of categorization skills in children with autism”

    Jana Noel, Teacher Education: “The "Colored School" of Stockton in the 1860s: Community Efforts to Create Public Education for African American Children"

    Linda Roberts, Chemistry: “Requirement for Beta-strand structure in Human Apo A-I Auyloidosis”

    Dong Shen, Family & Consumer Science:  “Who has more power? An investigation of relationship between China's exporters and the US importers from Chinese perspectives”

    John Spence, Chemistry: “Improved Light Activation of Enediyne Pro-Drugs”

    Erin Stiles, Humanities & Religious Studies: “In a Kadhir & Court: Marriage, Divorce & Islam in Zanzibar”

    Roger Sullivan, Anthropology: “Schizophrenia in Palau: Analysis & Publication of Results from a Longitudinal Data Set”

    Christopher Taylor, Physics & Astronomy: “The "Genetics" of Dwarf Galaxies: Exploring the Evolutionary Links between Dwarf Ellipticals and Dwarf Irregulars”

    RECIPIENTS (2006-2007) ^TOP

    Assigned Time and/or Monetary Grants

    Brad Baker, Chemistry:"Analysis of Leaf Volatiles by Solid-Phase Microextraction"

    Bradley Buchanan, English: "Hanif  Kureishi New British Fiction Series Book Project"

    Jeffrey Calton, Psychology: "The Role of Memory in Head Direction Cell Stability"

    Daniel Deocampo, Geology: "Soil Lead in Sacramento: Links to Child Lead Poisoning"

    Roy Dixon, Chemistry: "Measurement of Monosaccharide Anhydrides in Aerosols Influenced by Forest Fire Smoke"

    Joel Dubois, Humanities and Religious Studies: "Bringing to Light Neglected Sources From the Hindu Vedanta Tradition"

    Bruce Gervais, Geography: "Tree Rings and Winter Climate From Northern Nevada"

    Katy Hadley, Sociology: "Creating Peer Cultures in a Chinese School: Chinese American Children's Contributions to Ethnic Socialization"

    Lisa Harrison, Psychology: "Seeking Cinderella and Prince Charming: Cross-group Comparisons of Gender Construction in Romance Novels"

    Samantha Hens, Anthropology: "Age Estimation of the Human Pelvic Bone: A Test on an Italian Collection"

    Brett Holland, Biological Science: "Do Courtship Traits Signal the Displayer's Genetic Quality?"

    Alan Hreljac, Kinesiology and Health Science: "Determinants of the Run-walk Gait Transition During Human Locomotion: Kinetic Factors"

    Rodney Imamura, Kinesiology and Health Science:"Determinants of the Run-walk Gait Transition During Human Locomotion: Kinetic Factors"

    Cynthia Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry:"An Improved Green Synthesis of 1,2,3-Triazoles"

    Rebecca Kluchin, History:"Fit to be Tied?: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984"

    Katerina Lagos, History: "In the Shadow of the Sultan: Balkan Educational Policies and the Nation-State"

    Monica Lam, MIS: "Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools for Web Application Development"

    Tien-I Liu, Mechanical Engineering:"On-Line Detection of Ball Bearing Conditions Using Neural Networks and Soft Computing"

    Afshin Marashi, History: "Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1941"

    Milica Markovic, Electrical and Electronic Engineering: "Comparative Analysis of Distortion in Wireless Communication Transmitters"

    Amy Mickel, Business Administration: "How Does Anger Relate to the Decision-Making Processes of Working Professionals?"

    Hakan Ozclik, Business Administration: "How Does Anger Relate to the Decision-Making Processes of Working Professionals?"

    Hakan Ozclik, Business Administration: "Is Anger a Double-Edged Sword? Exploring Self-Regulation Style as a Moderator of Relationship Between Trait Anger and Organizational Outcomes"

    Thomas Peavy, Biological Sciences:"Evolution of Sperm-Binding Genes"

    Randy Phelps, Physics and Astronomy: "Mergers and Acquisitions in the Milky Way's Disk: A Study of Star Clusters Associated with the Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure"

    Linda Roberts, Chemistry:"Pro Tease Sensitivity of Two Amyloidogenic Human Apo A-I Mutants"

    Laura Riolli, Business Administration: "Is Anger a Double-Edged Sword? Exploring Self-Regulation Style as a Moderator of Relationship Between Trait Anger and Organizational Outcomes"

    Thomas Savage, Chemistry: "Elucidation of the Biochemical Pathway to the Marine Neurotoxin Domoic Acid"

    Brian Schoen, History: "Secession as Process: Cotton, Class and Modernity in the Lower South"

    John Spence, History: "Syntheses and Light Activation of Designed Pro-Drugs"

    Kenneth Sprott, Mechanical Engineering: "New Paths in Medical Robotics"

    Brad Stockert, Physical Therapy: "Validity of the Star Excursion Balance Test in the Elderly"

    Seunghee Wie, Family and Consumer Sciences:"Food Rescue Programs: Identifying Current Practices and Issues for Food Donors and Food Banks in Sacramento County"

    Arthur Williamson, History: "The 'Nation Epidemicall': Modern Anti-Semitism and the Scots in England, Germany, and Poland, 1550-1650"

    Dongmei Zhou, Mechanical Engineering: "Modeling and Simulation for a Micro-Fluidic Membrane-less Fuel Cell"

    Summer Fellowship Awards (2006-2007) ^TOP

    Laura Basini, Music: "Two Chapters of the Book Hearing the Nation: Music and Civic Identity in Italy, 1870-1900"

    Jeffrey Calton, Psychology: "The Role of Memory in Head Direction Cell Stability"

    Daniel Deocampo, Geology: "Soil Lead in Sacramento: Links to Child Lead Poisoning"

    Roy Dixon, Chemistry: "Measurement of Monosaccharide Anhydrides in Aerosols Influenced by Forest Fire Smoke"

    Ian Harvey, Arts: "Genius Logi"

    Katy Hadley, Sociology: "Creating Peer Cultures in a Chinese School: Chinese American Children's Contributions to Ethnic Socialization"

    Lisa Harrison, Psychology: "Seeking Cinderella and Prince Charming: Cross-group Comparisons of Gender Construction in Romance Novels"

    Samantha Hens, Anthropology: "Age Estimation of the Human Pelvic Bone: A Test on an Italian Collection"

    Brett Holland, Biological Science: "Do Courtship Traits Signal the Displayer's Genetic Quality?"

    Serge Karalli, Business Administration: "The Joint Replenishment Problem with Fill-Rate Safety Shocks"

    Rebecca Kluchin, History: "Fit to be Tied?: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984"

    Monica Lam, MIS: "Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools for Web Application Development"

    Milica Markovic, Electrical and Electronic Engineering: "Comparative Analysis of Distortion in Wireless Communication Transmitters"

    Linda Roberts, Chemistry: "Pro Tease Sensitivity of Two Amyloidogenic Human Apo A-I Mutants"

    Thomas Savage, Chemistry: "Elucidation of the Biochemical Pathway to the Marine Neurotoxin Domoic Acid"

    Brian Schoen, History:"Secession as Process: Cotton, Class and Modernity in the Lower South"

    Maureen Smith, Kinesiology and Health Science:"Running Against the Odds: The Life and Times of Wilma Rudolph"

    Kenneth Sprott, Mechanical Engineering: "New Paths in Medical Robotics"

    Brad Stockert, Physical Therapy: "Validity of the Star Excursion Balance Test in the Elderly"


    RECIPIENTS (2005-2006) ^TOP

    Assigned Time and/or Monetary Grants

    Ellen Berg, Sociology: "The Impact of Professional Football Participation on Women's' Lives and Sport"

    Bradly Baker, Chemistry: "Evaluation of Auditory Temporal Processing as a Predictor of Reading Performance"

    Rupa Balachandran, Speech Pathology and Audiology: "Real-Time Gas-Phase Methanol Detector"

    Edward Baranowski, Foreign Languages: "Documents From the 1602-3 Vizcaino Exploration of the California Coast"

    James Baxter, Biological Sciences: "Comparison of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities of Gray Pine on and off Serpentine Soils"

    Martin Biskowski, Anthropology: "Source Characterization of Central Mexican Grinding Tools"

    Lois Boulgarides, Kinesiology and Health Science: "Analysis of Five Balance and Fall Risk Screening Tests for Community-Dwelling Older Adults"

    Daniel Deocampo, Geology: "Cache Creek Mercury Geochemistry: Role of Soil and Stream-carried Minerals in the Origin and Fate of Mercury in the Sacramento Watershed"

    Bruce Gervais, Geography:"Dendrochronological Investigation of Prehistoric Drought for the Central Great Basin Desert, Nevada"

    Edward Gibson, Physics and Astronomy: "Spectroscopic Study of Lamda Hypernuclei"

    Brian Hausback, Geology: "Field and Lab Tests of the Sutter Buttes Meteor Impact Hypothesis"

    Perry Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering: "Enhanced Flash Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Using Active Resistor Averaging"

    Alan Hreljac, Kinesiology and Health Science: "Kinetic and Training Factors Associated with Overuse Running Injuries of the Knee"

    Rodney Imamura, Kinesiology and Health Science: "Kinetic and Training Factors Associated with Overuse Running Injuries of the Knee"

    Ju-Yeon Jo, Computer Science: "In Pursuit of Cyber Justice: Tracing back the Cyber Criminals in the Internet"

    Cynthia Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry: "The Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Aronmatic Pyrroles Which Are Potential Anti-cancer Agents"

    Barbara Keys, History: "Globalization as the New Imperialism? Culture and Politics at the 1956 Olympic Games"

    Katherine McReynolds, Chemistry: "Exploring New Dendrimer Architectures as Multivalent Scaffolds for Anti-HIV Carbohydrates"

    Robert Metcalf, Biological Sciences: "Pilot Projects to Pasteurize Contaminated Water in Kenya"

    Todd Migliaccio, Sociology: "The Impact of Professional Football Participation on Women's' Lives and Sport"

    Hakan Ozcelik, Organizational Behavior and Environment: "Does Emotional Fit Come First? An Assessment of Emotional Fit as an Antecedent of Value Fit and Goal Fit in Organizations"

    Ali Porbaha, Civil Engineering: "Accelerating Construction of Highway Slopes Using IBO Technology"

    Charles Postel, History:"Power and Progress: Populist Visions of America"

    Douglas Rice, English: "Thunder Comes From This My House: A Lyrical Memoir Against Forgetting"

    Charlotte Xanders, Management:"Death and Dying in America: How Hospices Could Be More Effective in End-of Life Care"

    Laura Riolli, Organizational Behavior and Environment:"Military Personnel' Psychological Adjustment to Acute Stress During Military Operations in Iraq"

    Ahmed Salem, Computer Science: "Improving Software Quality Through a Fault Simulation Tool"

    Brian Schoen, History: "Broadening Perspectives on the Antebellum South, Slavery, and the Civil War"

    Erin Stiles, Humanities and Religious Studies: "From Mufti to Kadhi: Islam, Politics and Family Law in Zanzibar"

    Lynda Stone, Child Development: "Fostering Think Alouds as a Reading Comprehension Strategy"

    Thomas Strasser, Humanities and Religious Studies: "The Cretan Celt Project"

    Christopher Taylor, Physics and Astronomy: "A Hubble Space Telescope Study of the Nearby Dwarf Starburst Galaxy IC10; Stars and Gas as Galactic Legos-Building a Galaxy One Piece at a Time"

    Raghuraman Trichur, Anthropology: "Serving Tourist/Contesting History"

    Summer Fellowship Awards (2005-2005)

    Rupa Balachandran, Speech Pathology and Audiology: "Real-Time Gas-Phase Methanol Detector"

    Ellen Berg, Sociology: "The Impact of Professional Football Participation on Women's' Lives and Sport"

    Martin Biskowski, Anthropology: "Source Characterization of Central Mexican Grinding Tools"

    Terri Castaneda, Anthropology: "The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federated Indians of California"

    Rafael Escamilla, Physical Therapy: "Muscle Activation Patterns in Abdominal Exercises with Rehabilitation and Training Implications"

    Bruce Gervais, Geography: "Dendrochronological Investigation of Prehistoric Drought for the Central Great Basin Desert, Nevada"

    Brian Hausback, Geology: "Field and Lab Tests of the Sutter Buttes Meteor Impact Hypothesis"

    Perry Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering: "Enhanced Flash Analog-to-Digital Converter Performance Using Active Resistor Averaging"

    Ju-Yeon Jo, Computer Science: "In Pursuit of Cyber Justice: Tracing back the Cyber Criminals in the Internet"

    Cynthia Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry: "The Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Aronmatic Pyrroles Which Are Potential Anti-cancer Agents"

    Barbara Keys, History: "Globalization as the New Imperialism? Culture and Politics at the 1956 Olympic Games"

    Katherine McReynolds, Chemistry: "Exploring New Dendrimer Architectures as Multivalent Scaffolds for Anti-HIV Carbohydrates"

    Robert Metcalf, Biological Sciences: "Pilot Projects to Pasteurize Contaminated Water in Kenya"

    Todd Migliaccio, Sociology: "The Impact of Professional Football Participation on Women's' Lives and Sport"

    Charles Postel, History:"Power and Progress: Populist Visions of America"

    Charlotte Xanders, Management: "Death and Dying in America: How Hospices Could Be More Effective in End-of Life Care"

    Laura Riolli, Organizational Behavior and Environment: "Military Personnel' Psychological Adjustment to Acute Stress During Military Operations in Iraq"

    Richard Savino, Music: "The Symphonia From IL Sacrifizio di Abramo by Camilla de Rossi"

    Brian Schoen, History:"Broadening Perspectives on the Antebellum South, Slavery, and the Civil War"

    Erin Stiles, Humanities and Religious Studies: "From Mufti to Kadhi: Islam, Politics and Family Law in Zanzibar"

    Lynda Stone, Child Development: "Fostering Think Alouds as a Reading Comprehension Strategy"

    Gail Tom, Management:"The Role of Overt Head Movement and Attention in Persuasion"

    Raghuraman Trichur, Anthropology: "Serving Tourist/Contesting History"