2012-13 Junior/Senior Faculty Grant Recipients
COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Jim Volz (senior), Theatre and Dance
World Shakespeare in Production: book completion for timely publication
COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Minjung Kim (junior), Human Communication Studies
The developmental patterns of speech sounds in bilingual children with speech delay
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Pratanu Ghosh (junior), Civil and Environmental Engineering
High Performance Concrete: enhances durability, sustainability and service life of nation’s infrastructure
Kiran Gorge (junior), Computer Engineering
Neural Signal Based Assistive Technology for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
John Hoffman (junior), Educational Leadership
Integrating Assessment and Program Review in Student Affairs Practice
Sharon Chappell (junior), Elementary and Bilingual Education
Multi-generation Bilingual Families Tell their Stories of Schooling: Utilizing Oral History as a Critical Pedagogy in Teacher Education
Terri Patchen (senior), Elementary and Bilingual Education
Qualifying Good Teaching By Developing Candidate Capacity
Julian Jefferies (junior), Reading
Pre-service teacher's cross-cultural competency and its implications for teacher effectiveness in diverse settings
Miguel Zavala (junior), Secondary Education
A Case Study of Community Organizing in Three South Los Angeles High Schools: How Teachers and Students Bridge Relationships Between School and Community in the Context of School Restructuring
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Jason Baker (junior), Child and Adolescent Studies
Multi-method examination of stress regulation in children with autism spectrum disorders
Joshua Yang (junior), Health Science
Fostering collective action to combat non-communicable diseases: Building from the lessons of the AIDS movement
Michele Wood (junior), Health Science
The Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill: Lessons in Personal and Organizational Preparedness
Melanie Horn Mallers (junior), Human Services
Redefining measurement approaches to daily alcohol usage and examining comprehensive predictors of drinking patterns among older adults
Kathleen Wilson (junior), Kinesiology and Health Science
Parent’s promoting physical activity among preschoolers: A diary study
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Carrie Lane (junior), American Studies
An Organized Life: The Buying and Selling of Simple Living in American Culture
Elizabeth Pillsworth (junior), Anthropology
Testosterone changes in men as a result of perceptions of reproductive threats and female partner’s ovulatory status
Peter Fashing (junior), Anthropology
Life in the slow lane: Gelada monkeys as models for reconstructing the lives of an extinct human ancestor
Brian Norton (junior), English, Comparative
Laurence Sterne, the Essay, and the Value of Trivial Things
David Kelman (junior), English, Comparative
The Political Corpus: Legacies of the Corpse in the Americas
J. Westgate (junior), English, Comparative
Touring the Red Lights District
Jindong Wu (junior), Geography
Integration of High Resolution Satellite Imagery with Airborne RADAR Data for Mapping Urban Land Use and Land Cover
Jonathan Taylor (senior), Geography
The Geography of Illegal Drugs
Lei Xu (junior), Geography
Residential Preferences and Segregation of Hispanic Americans in Orange County
Robert Voeks (senior), Geography
Green Gold: Ethnobotanical Narratives in the Colonial Realm
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi (junior), History
Educating Modern Iranian Women: Gender and Girls' Schools, 1850-1941
April Bullock (senior), Liberal Studies
Women, Social Networks, and Cookery in Nineteenth-Century England
Margaret Garber (senior), Liberal Studies
Women, Social Networks, and Cookery in Nineteenth-Century England
Brady Heiner (junior), Philosophy
American Prison Abolition: Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery
Barbara Cherry (junior), Psychology
Longitudinal Physical and Cognitive Function in Adults Age 50 years and Older
Jessie Peissig (junior), Psychology
The Eyes Have It: What Role Do Eyes and Eyebrows Play in Face Recognition?
Nancy Segal (senior), Psychology
Adopted Twins and Virtual Twins: Within-Pair Similarity and Parental Favoritism
Russ Espinoza (senior), Psychology
Perception of Immigrants in the Legal System When Victim and Perpetrator Ethnicity Are Varied
MIHAYLO COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Adrian Fleissig (senior), Economics
Estimating the Impact of Reduced Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Denise Stanley (senior), Economics
“The Dark Side of Remittances? Honduran Migrant Household Labor Supply Trends and Perspectives”
Feng Xiao (senior), Economics
Is there a Link between Governance and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China
Dawit Serom (senior), ISDS
Asymmetric Persistence and Predictability of U.S. Inflation
Sinjini MItra (junior), ISDS
Devising performance evaluation techniques for Biometric Authentication systems based on statistical models
Eun Kyoo Kim (junior), Management
How Does Language Barrier Influence ESL Customers’ Service Experience?
Gerard Beenen (junior), Management
Social Identity and Student Project Teams
Shaun Picher (junior), Management
Expatriate Reactions to Performance Appraisals: The Role of Relationship Quality and Procedural Justice Climate
Chiranjeev Kohli (senior), Marketing
Essays on Slogans
COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Danielle Zacherl (senior), Biological Science
The impact of an oyster bed on eelgrass productivity and community diversity in Alamitos Bay, CA
Hope Johnson (junior), Biological Science
Identification of factors affecting cyanobacterial coniform morphology
Jennifer Burnaford (junior), Biological Science
Marecelo Tolmasky (senior), Biological Science
Development of a new class of antibiotics
Michael Horn (senior), Biological Science
Visual predators and unseen prey: testing the hypothesis that pipefish, cryptic species, are major participants in a seabird food web in southern California waters
Nikolas Nikolaidis (junior), Biological Science
Characterization of the Effects of Lipid-binding on the Chaperone Activities of Hsp70s
John Haan (junior), Chemistry and Biochemistry
Development and Characterization of Inexpensive Base Metal Catalysts for Use in the Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell
Nicholas Salzameda (junior), Chemistry and Biochemistry
The Study and Optimization of Botulinum Neurotoxin Inhibitors
Brady Rhodes (senior), Geological Science
Could it Happen Here? Searching for a Paleotsunami Record in the Wetlands of Southern California
Nicole Bonuso (junior), Geological Science
Using mollusc isotope records to reconstruction recent marine paleoclimate in Southern California.
Kamal Hamidieh (junior), Mathematics
Options Based Risk Neutral Density Estimation of Asset Prices Using R
Sam Behseta (senior), Mathematics
Bayesian Classification of Neuronal Intensity Rates