State Special Fund Summer Stipend

The following 13 faculty members received State Special Fund Summer Stipends for the 2011-12 year:

Katherine Bono, Child and Adolescent Studies
   The Associations Among Verbal Ability, Private Speech and Self-Regulation in Preschool-Aged Children
Christine Burrough, Communications
   Mechanical Games
Mira Farka, Economics
   What Should the Fed Communicate? “Optimal” Communication Strategies After the Financial Crisis
Adrian Fleissig, Economics
   Estimating the Impact of Tighter Lending Standards of House Prices and Sales
Janna Kim, Child and Adolescent Studies
   “Sex Can Ruin a Girl’s Life”: Exploring Intersections of Culture, Gender and Sexuality Among East Asian American
    Women
Scott Lynn, Kinesiology
   Spinal Rotation and Low Back Pain in Golfers
Elisa Mandell, Art
   The Birth of Angels: Ann Examination of the Origins, History and Meaning of Posthumous Portraits of Infants and
   Children in Mexican Art
Raymond Rast, History
   A Class Action: The Grassroots Struggle for School Desegregation in California
Joanna Roche, Art
   Digital Camera and Copy Stand Equipment for the Visual resources Image Collection in the Visual Arts Department
Chris Street, Secondary Education
   Enhancing Confidence and Competence: A Longitudinal Examination of the Writing Attitudes and Skills of Teachers
   in a University Writing Course
Lisa Tran, History
   Marriage and the Nation: The Public Discourse on the Tongyangxi in Early Twentieth-Century China
Jindong Wu, Geography
   Detection and Removal of Shadows in High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery
Lei Xu, Geography
   Locational Choices and Residential Segregation of Chinese Americans in the San Gabriel Valley