2013-14 Junior/Senior Faculty Grant Recipients
COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Rebecca Sheehan (junior), Radio-TV-Film
Film as Philosophy: American Avant-Garde Film and the Ethics of the Inbetween
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
David Naish (junior), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Experimental Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structures Built with Recycled Aggregate
Phoolendra MIshra (junior), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Experimental Setup to Understand Groundwater Flow System
Haowei Wang (junior), Mechanical Engineering
Effects of Biodiesel and Ethanol on the Performance and Emissions of a Diesel Engine
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Jennifer Ponder (junior), Elementary and Bilingual
Co-Teaching: Exploring A New Model for Student Teaching in Teacher Education
Catherine Maderazo (junior), Reading
21st Century Learners, Common Core State Standards, and Mobile Devices: Literacy Learning through Technology-Rich Interactions
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Rebekah Smart (junior), Counseling
Participants’ Experiences Receiving Mindful Eating Training: A Pilot study
Yuying Tsong (junior), Human Services
Risk and protective factors of parachute kids and astronaut families: An exploratory study
Scott Lynn (junior), Kinesiology
Predicting Injuries in NCAA Athletes Using the Functional Movement Screen (FMS)
Rebecca Bodan (junior), Nursing
Managing Depressive Symptoms in Homeless Women
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
John Ibson (senior), American Studies
The Mourning After: Putting Space between Males in 1950s America
Nga Nguyen (junior), Anthropology
Parasitic swellings in wild geladas at Guassa, Ethiopia: Impacts on survivorship and reproduction
Allison Varzally (senior), History
Children of Atonement: Vietnamese Adoptees, Wartime Memories and the Politics of Interracial Families
Jeeloo Liu (senior), Philosophy
Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality
Angela-MinhTu Nguyen (junior), Psychology
Managing Identities to Manage Women's Success in STEM Fields
Nancy Panza (junior), Psychology
Normative Data for the Static-99R in a Federal Sex Offender Sample
Randol Contreas (junior), Sociology
I’m Black, You’re Brown: A Qualitative Examination of Ethnoracial Tensions between Latino and African American Males in South Los Angeles
MIHAYLO BUSINESS OF COLLEGE AND ECONOMICS
Mohammad Bhuiyan (junior), Economics
Macroeconomic Variables and Exchange Rate Behavior: A Multi-country No-arbitrage Model
Ajay Bhootra (junior), Finance
Recency Bias and Stock Return Momentum: Evidence from the Timing of 52-Week High Price
Zhenguo Lin (senior), Finance
True Market Conditions during Housing Crisis
Lorenzo Bizzi (junior), Management
Hollywood Alliances: Studying How Networks Affect Performance through Strategic Change
Susan Cadwallader (junior), Marketing
The Center for 50-plus Consumer Studies Change
COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Adam Woods (senior), Geological Sciences
Reconstruction of environmental conditions along the western margin of North America during the Late Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction
Matthew Kirby (senior), Geological Sciences
How wet was Southern California 125,000 years ago?
Cherie Ichinose (junior), Mathematics
Learning mathematics in the 21st: A study of pre-service elementary school teachers taking mathematics online
Gulhan Bourget (senior), Mathematics
Improvement of Hotelling's T2 statistic to discover disease-causing genes
Sean Yee (junior), Mathematics
Improving How Mathematics Teachers Listen Using Conceptual Metaphors
Geoffrey Lovelace (junior), Physics
Simulating merging black holes on a computer cluster
Jocelyn Read (junior), Physics
High-energy flares from merging neutron stars
