2014-15 Junior/Senior Faculty Grant Recipients
COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Linda Kroff (Senior), Visual Arts
Lockbox: A Photogenic Installation and Public Art Proposal
David Nevell (Senior), Theatre and Dance
Dialects of Central America
Pamela Madsen (Senior), Music
Luminous Etudes for solo piano and projected images: “Twenty Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat”
COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Christine Burrough (Junior), Communications
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Guohua Wu (Junior), Communications
When does culture matter? A Reexamination of the effects of Personal Knowledge on the Correction of Culture-based Judgments
Summer Martin (Junior), Human Communication Studies
The Experience and Communication of Uncertainty Regarding Genetic Testing for the BRCA Mutation
Ying-Chiao Tsao (Senior), Human Communication Studies
A culturally and linguistically sensitive translation of the Mandarin OASES
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Hakob Avetisyan (Junior), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Construction Equipment Fleet Management for Sustainability and Clean Environment in California
Garrett Struckhoff (Junior), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Algal Treatment of Brewery Waste
Binod Tiwari (Junior), Civil and Environmental Engineering
Study on Combined Effect of Earthquake and Rainfall to Trigger Landslides
Kiranraj George (Junior), Computer Engineering
Real-Time Self-Learning Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Intervention System
Ning Chen (Senior), Computer Science
A Home-Based Wireless Fall Risk Assessment System for Elderly
Mikhail Gofman (Junior), Computer Science
Strengthening Mobile Authentication Through Biometric Fusion
Mohinder Grewal (Senior), Electrical Engineering
Mitigation of GPS Data Errors to Improve User Safety
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Maria Zarate (Junior), Educational Leadership
Embedding College Information in Mathematics and Language Arts Curriculum
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Rachel Baker (Junior), Child and Adolescent Studies
Family process and children with borderline intellectual functioning
Guadalupe Ezpinoza (Junior), Child and Adolescent Studies
Daily Cyberbullying Experiences Among Latino Adolescents: Examining the Protective Role of Friend and Family Factors
John Breskey (Junior), Health Science
Nail Salon Ventilation Needs Assessment Survey: A Precursor for the Development of an Educational Intervention
Anthony DiStefano (Junior), Health Science
Intersections of HIV and Violence in Japan, Phase II: Data Processing, Analysis, and Dissemination
Maria Koleilat (Junior), Health Science
Evaluating the impacts of the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food packages on weight gain during pregnancy, breastfeeding practices, and childhood obesity in low-income families.
Jennifer Piazza (Junior), Health Science
Understanding "Fibrofog": Examining the link between neuroendocrine activity and cognitive impairment among people with Fibromyalgia
Gary Germo (Junior), Human Services
Making Connections
Lilia Espinoza (Junior), Kinesiology and Health Science
Evaluation of barriers and facilitators to HIV care among recently incarcerated, HIV-infected individuals
Andrew Galpin (Junior), Kinesiology
Development of A Method to Estimate Human Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type Composition
Maryanne Garon (Senior), Nursing
The role of ethnic nursing organizations in developing future nurse leaders
Sean Hogan (Senior), Social Work
Foster Youth in Higher Education: The Role of Social Capital in Successfully Transitioning to Adulthood
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Erica Ball (Junior), American Studies
Reconsidering Roots: Observations on the 40th Anniversary of a TV Mini-Series that Changed the Way We Understood American Slavery
Susie Woo (Junior), American Studies
New Americans Come “Home”: Korean War Adoptees, Military Brides, and Cold War Sentiments of Race and Nation
Siobhan King (Junior), African American Studies
Black lesbians and Identity Management in Inner-City Los Angeles
Peter Fashing (Junior), Anthropology
The conservation status of gelada monkeys across the Ethiopian Highlands: Determining the distribution, abundance, and phylogenetic relationships of the world’s remaining Theropithecus gelada populations
Edward Knell (Junior), Anthropology
Mojave Desert Archaeology Project: Terminal-Pleistocene/ Early HoloceneLand Use and Lithic Technological Organization around Lake Mojave, CA
Brian Norton (Junior), English, Comparative literature, and Linguistics
Satisfactions of Being: Richard Steele and the Aesthetics of Happiness
Martha Webber (Junior), English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics
English Studies and Engagement
Gayle Brunelle (Senior), History
Tropical Chimeras - France in Guiana 1604-1763
Jochen Burgtorf (Senior), History
Charters from the Crusader States of the Eastern Mediterranean (1099-1291)
Benjamin Cawthra (Junior), History
The Redemptive Lens: Margaret Bourke-White's Photographs of the Italian Campaign
Kristine Dennehy (Senior), History
“Post-Occupation Japan through American Eyes”
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi (Junior), History
The United States Peace Corps in Iran, 1962-1976
Lisa Tran (Senior), History
Family History as World History
Robert Voeks (Senior), Geography
Using Participatory Geographic Information Systems to Assess the Conservation Status of a Threatened Medicinal Plant Species in Southern Mozambique
Kevin Lambert (Senior), Liberal Studies
Completion of chapter for my book, "Symbols and Things: Making British Physics 1800-1860
Nancy Segal (Senior), Psychology
Genetic and Environmental Influence on Behavior: Research With Identical, Fraternal and Virtual Twin Pairs
Laura Watson (Senior), Psychology
Profiling Health-Related Technology Use among Older Adults
Devon Thacker Thomas (Junior), Sociology
All of the Punishments, and None of the Privileges? Examining Legal and Criminal Justice Responses to Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence
MIHAYLO BUSINESS OF COLLEGE AND ECONOMICS
Adrian Fleissig (Senior), Economics
Local Workforce Investment Boards and Long Term Employment
Carolyn Chang (Senior), Finance
Quantitative Easing, Low Interest Rates Policy and the New Normal in the Catastrophe Market: Implications for California earthquake risk management program
Sinjini Mitra (Junior), ISDS
Improving student performance in bottleneck Business courses via statistical models of early detection and intervention
Ofir Turel (Senior),ISDS
Does the Use of Facebook Change Your Brain?
Yuna Kim (Junior), Marketing
Monitoring Online Consumer Conversation for New Product Development Insights
Gerard Beenen (Junior), Management
Career Exploration Scale Research Study
COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Jennifer Burnaford (Junior), Biological Science
Understanding the effects of environmental conditions on susceptibility to herbivory for intertidal kelps
Merri Casem (Senior), Biological Science
Black Widow Spider Embryogenesis
William Hoese (Senior), Biological Science
They eyes have it: using eye tracking to determine how students interpret evolutionary trees
Marcelo Tolmasky (Senior), Biological Science
Toward a solution of the drug resistance problem: prolonging the life span of currently available antibiotics
Christopher Tracy (Junior), Biological Science
Effects of climate change on water loss and population survival of a Mojave Desert lizard
Danielle Zacherl (Senior), Biological Science
Factors influencing intertidal distributions of native and non-native oysters
Madeline Rasche (Senior), Chemistry and Biochemistry
Discovering the Function of New Proteins Needed for Microbial Methane Production
Diane Knott (Senior), Geological Sciences
Shooting lasers at sand grains: Developing an exciting student research experience aimed at reconstructing California's tectonic history
Sean Loyd (Junior), Geological Sciences
Exploring carbon sources for carbonate concretion formation in the Cretaceous Holz Shale
James Parham (Junior), Geological Sciences
Defining the distribution and conservation status of newly discovered species of legless lizards in California
Adam Glesser (Junior), Mathematics
Abstract Algebra Videos
Angel PIneda (Junior), Mathematics
Task-Based Optimization of Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Anael Verdugo (Junior), Mathematics
Mathematical Modeling of Iron Metabolism