2016-17 Junior/Senior Faculty Grant Recipients
College of The Arts
Lisa Draskovich-Long, Theater and Dance
Y Tu Tango? A Collaborative Performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show
John Koegel, School of Music
Mexican-American Music from Southern California, circa 1840–1920: The Lummis Cylinder Collection and Other Sources
College of Communications
Minjung Kim, Human Communication Studies
Developmental patterns of speech sounds in young Korean children with speech sound disorders
College of Education
Terri Patchen, Elementary and Bilingual Education
Stretching Beyond Stereotypes: Extending the Reach of High-Achieving Adolescents Across Disciplines
Kristin Stang, Special Education
A Replication Study and Exploration of the Writing Attitudes and Skills of Teachers in a University Writing Course: Can Teacher Education Courses Make a Difference?
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Beena Ajmera, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Strength Reduction in Soils Resulting from an Earthquake
Kristijan Kolozvari, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Novel Modeling Approach for Seismic Behavior Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls
Binod Tiwari, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contribution of Geological and Topographical Setting on Post-earthquake Rainfall Induced Landslides
College of Health and Human Development
Pimbucha Rusmevichientong, Health Science
Understanding how nutrition/food labeling of snacks found in vending machines effects college students’ purchasing decisions
Rebekah Smart, Counseling
Asian American Women and Eating Disorders: A Mixed Methods Study
Shelli Wynants, Child and Adolescent Studies
Effectiveness of Faculty Online Disability Awareness Professional Development Program
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Gayle K Brunelle, History
Fortunes of Violence: Simon Lecomte, A Merchant in Toulouse During the French Wars of Religion.
Russ Espinoza, Psychology
Mock Juror Decisions for Immigrant Defendants: An Examination of Contemporary Bias and Sociocultural Influences
Jorge Fontdevila, Sociology
Stigma-Related Barriers to HIV Prevention and Care among MSM in Orange County
Sarah Hill, Political Science
Filling the Gap: California Education Nonprofits
Elaine Lewinnek, American Studies
People's Guide to Orange County
Nga Nguyen, Anthropology
Understanding female reproductive biology in wild Ethiopian gelada monkeys
Elizabeth Pillsworth, Anthropology
Mate Preference Among the Shuar: 10 Year Follow Up
Irena Praitis, English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
Translating Lithuanian Poetry
Zia Salim, Geography
Addressing Housing Affordability: Analyzing the Role of Nonprofits in Providing Affordable Rental Housing
David Sandner, English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
Digital Humanities: Creation of a “Frankenstein Meme” web archive
Nancy Segal, Psychology
Associations Among Intelligence, Creativity and the Draw-A-Person Test: Analyses of Three Informative Kinships
Robert Voeks, Geography
The Changing Use of Medicinal Herbs, Vegetables, and Spices among the Indian Diaspora of Los Angeles County, California
Chris Westgate
, English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
“Da Real Ting”: Chuck Connors, the Bowery, and the Performance of Modern Celebrity
Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
Jordan Barlow, Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Collective Intelligence in an Online Workforce
Ester Gonzalez, Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Healthcare Fitness Tracking Devices for Organizational Gains
Yi Jiang, Finance
What is the optimal time to retire (based on CALPERS data)?
Sinjini Mitra, Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Human Face Identification under artificial make-up via facial “asymmetry”
David Obstfeld, Management
Creating Social Capital through the Leveraging of Social Networks, Social Skill, and Brokering: A Study of Disadvantaged College Student Success
Daniel Soper, Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Changing Minds in Evaluations of Web Interface Design
Yingdi Wang, Finance
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity
Dawit Zerom, Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Variable Screening for Quantile Regression when Data are Ultra-High Dimensional
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Jennifer Burnaford, Biological Science
Understanding the effects of environmental stress on chemical mediation of seaweed-consumer interactions
Diane Clemens-Knott, Geological Sciences
Hunting for the primitive end member of the Sierra Nevada volcanic arc using electron beams, mass spectrometers, and mules
Kathryn Dickson, Biological Science
Minimum size for endothermy, and amount, distribution, and development of the aerobic locomotor muscle that is the heat source for endothermy, in bluefin tunas
Kristy Forsgren, Biological Science
Identifying differentially expressed proteins to understand early ovarian development in fish
Leigh Hargreaves, Physics
Undergraduate experiment for electron scattering from atoms and molecules
Hope Johnson, Biological Science
The role of NAD+ in bacterial manganese oxidation
Gina Passante, Physics
Investigating student understanding of quantization in chemistry and physics at CSUF
Maria Soledad Ramirez, Biological Science
Light modulation of antimicrobial resistance: a novel approach to enhance the potency of existing antibiotics
Parvin Shahrestani, Biological Science
Identification of environmental and genetic factors that affect insect immune-defense against fungal infection
Paul Stapp, Biological Science
Elucidating the role of opossums in the maintenance and spread of flea-borne typhus
