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    Faculty Small Grant Awards for Fiscal Year 2008

    July 2007

    Dipak K. Dey, Statistics, Forecasting for Streaming Data Under Storage Constraints, $1,000.00

    Sarah Glaz, Mathematics, An Anthology of Mathematical Poetry, $1,000.00

    Peter M. Kaminsky, Music, Translation from German to English of one book chapter for edited volume of essays on the music of French composer Maurice Rouel, $700.00

    Vicki J. Magley, Psychology, Responding assertively to workplace incivility: An examination of person and gender-role congruency, $700.00

    Sandra A. Rigazio-Digilio, Human Dev/Family Stds Instr & Res, Application of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory (PARTheory) and Measure in Relational Therapy, $328.00

    Joann Robinson, Human Dev/Family Studies, Maternal reflective functioning and attitudes toward parenting, $1,000.00

    Gregory M.C. Semenza, English, Special payroll assistance for book project: Fictional Milton: Embodying the Author, 1650-2000, $1,000.00

    Glenn Stanley, Music, Beethovens Fidelio: Die Rezeption im Schrifftum und der Inszenierung (Beethoven’s Fidelio: The Literary and Performance Reception), $500.00

    August 2007

    Serena Marie Parekh Mcgushin, Philosophy, Funds to copy-edit a manuscript entitles (provisionally) “Hannah Arendt and the Phenomenology of Human Rights”, $500.00

    Gary Storhoff, English, Series on Buddhism and American Culture for State University of New York Press, three volumes, $500.00

    September 2007

    Mary Bernstein, Sociology, Social Citizenship in Australia and the United States: A Comparative Analysis of Family Policies, $950

    Anne Berthelot, Modern & Classical Languages, Publication of the 2006 Rencesvals Congress Proceedings, with a few color pages (stained glass window picture, film stills), $500

    Patricia Cramer, English, Virginia Woolf: The Lesbian Years — The Sexual Politics of Sapphic Modernism $600

    Constance J, Rock Music, Afternoon of French Song, $500.

    Megan Staples, Curriculum & Instruction, UConn Math Learning Discourse Project, $995

    Mary Truxaw, Curriculum & Instruction, UConn Math Learning Discourse Project, $995

    Steven Wilf, Law Sch Instr & Res, Comparative Law: Israeli Copyright as a Case Study, $750

    October 2007

    Maria Chrysochoou, Civil & Environ Engineering, Investigations of Cr(VI)speciation via micro-XANES, micro-XRF and micro-XRD analyses, $1,000

    Rae B. Gordon, Modern & Classical Languages, Index and Photographic Reproductions for my book, “Dances with Darwin”, $500

    Kenneth V. Gouwens, History, Manuscripts of Works of Paolo Giovio: Preparation of a New Book Proposal and Final Research for a Book-in-Progress 1,000

    Jeffrey O. Green Ogbar, History, Hip-Hop Revolution: The culture of Politics of Rap Indexer Fee, $500

    Kerry L. Marsh, Psychology, Computerized Communication as a Means of Making and Breaking Social Bonds, $985.92

    Mark W. Peczuh, Chemistry, The Politicization of Science: Consequences and Prescriptions, $750

    November 2007

    Joel Blatt, History, The Assassination of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, $1,000

    Anke K. Finger, Modern & Classical Languages, The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork: On Borders and Fragments (co-edited with Daniel Follett). To be published by the Johns Hopkins University in 2008 (Sabbatical), $500

    Samuel F. Pickering, English, Letters from Australia (Sabbatical), $1,000

    Vladimir I. Pozdnyakov, Statistics, Occurrence of Patterns in Stochastic Sequences (Sabbatical), $800

    Jeremy Pressman, Political Science, Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Polities, $500

    January 2008

    Fakhreddin Azimi, History, Index for book “The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle Against Authoritarian Rule”, $500

    Robin A. Coulter, Marketing, The Effects of Implicit Color Preference and Implicit Racial Preference on Attitude toward the Ad, $500

    Glen G. Macleod, English, Authenticity in American Art and Literature: From Casts to Copies to the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, $500

    Patricia J. Neafsey, Nursing Instruction, Reducing Adverse Self-Medication Behaviors in Workers with Hypertension – Testing of the Next Generation Personal Education Program (PEP-NG) in Adults Aged 45-60, $1,000

    Richard S. Peterson, English, London Research for Donne Monument Study, $1,000

    Charles Venator, Political Science, Funds to subsidize visit to the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. Book Manuscript “Constitutional Exceptions”, $1,000

    February 2008

    Robin H. Bogner, Pharmaceutical Science, Feeding Tube Occlusions: A Preliminary In Vitro Study, $1,000

    Thomas F. Shea, English, Ireland’s Blasket Island Literature: Folklore, Fiction and Memoirs, $600

    March 2008

    Mary J. Fischer, Sociology, Supplemental Training for Ingroup Contact Project, $900.00

    Jeffrey A. Lefebvre, Political Science, Strategic Disruption, the Balance of Risk and the Transformation of U.S. Security Policy in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, $1,000.00

    Sarah C. Rice, Accounting, A Study of Seller Reputation and Buyer Type in On-line Auction Markets, $1,000.00

    Lisa Sanetti, Educational Psychology, Review of Treatment Integrity Data in the School Psychology Literature: 1995-2005, $980.00

    Cathy Schlund-Vials, English/General, Resistive Memory: Cambodia, Cambodian America, and Genocidal Remembrance, $1,500.00

    April 2008

    Jeffrey W Ladewig, Political Science, Party Polarization and International Trade: The Political Effects of a Rise in Factor Mobility, $1479.33

    Alanson Minkler, Economics, Indexer for: Integrity and Agreement, $750.00

    May 2008

    Claudio Benzecry, Sociology, Junior Faculty Research Funds for book manuscript in progress: the Opera Fanatic, Sociology of an Obsession, $1341.00

    Gerald V Dunne, Physics, Effective Actions in Quantum Field Theory, $1300.00

    Emma L Gilligan, History, War Crimes in Chechnya, $750.00

    Robin S Grenier, Educational Leadership, Supporting Student Learning at History Museums: The Practices of Teachers and Museum Professionals”, $1090.00

    Alan S Marcus, Curriculum & Instruction, Supporting Student Learning at History Museums: The Practices of Teachers and Museum Professionals, $1500.00

    Nalini Ravishanker, Statistics, Testing Statistical Similarity of Spatio-Temporal Weather Data (such as Road Surface Temperatures), $700.00

    June 2008

    Oksan Bayulgen, Political Science, Book indexing costs for “Foreign Investment and Political Regimes: The Oil Sector in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Norway”, $750.00

    Ana Maria Diaz-Marcos, Modern & Class Languages, Representations of Women, Class, and Material Culture in 18th Century Spanish Saints, $1200.00

    Deborah McDonald, Nursing Instruction, Pain Communication and Coaching Intervention Pilot Study, $1500.00

    Alexia Smith, Anthropology, An Archaeobotanical Study of Bird’s Cave, Armenia, $1500.00

    Katharina Von Hammerstein, Modern & Classical Languages, Archival research to facilitate completing my edition of Frieda von Buelow’s 1889 Reisescizzen and Tagebunchblaetter aus Deutsch-ostafrika (Travelogues and Diaries from German East-Africa), $1499.00

    Friedemann J Weidauer, Modern & Classical Languages, Gestus – Music – Test: Vol. 33 of the Brecht Yearbook (International Brecht Society/The University of Wisconsin Press): Typesetting and layout, $750.00

    Ping Zhang, Molecular & Cell Biology, Functional Studies of the Drosophila sHsp 23 gene in thermotolerance, $1500.00