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Research Annual Report 2012

WMU Research 32 2012 Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources

The stories and successes of our esteemed faculty and research partners gratify us all. They illustrate the nature of university research today—an approach that offers multidisciplinary solutions to today’s problems. That is to say, our research showcases scholars working together across disciplines to sculpt solutions to complex problems in need of varied perspectives and approaches.

This year’s annual report is a snapshot of some of these research endeavors at Western Michigan University. Your responses to our research magazine, the latest edition being released in summer 2012, tell us that you want to hear about the research and creative activity under way at this wonderful University. We are thrilled by your response and thank you for your interest and support.

Our strategic plan guides our faculty efforts to collaborate and provide cutting-edge research that impacts and defines our community. Kalamazoo is a culturally rich epicenter of the visual arts, theatre and music; it also leads in biomedical and pharmaceutical research and innovative start-ups, all in collaboration with our faculty and researchers.

Building upon these strengths, our office has implemented a Discovery action plan rooted in leadership, scholarship, collaboration, and resources.

Whether collaborating with peer institutions to jump-start the Michigan small business economy, licensing our research to industry partners, growing our overall scholarship capabilities here on campus, or sharing resources through campus events like the re-cent National Institutes of Health workshop, WMU remains true to its mission as a learner centered, discovery driven and globally engaged research institution.

Our efforts to transfer knowledge to the community through technology, patents, and in-tellectual property remain strong. We also remain steadfast in our historical mandate to enlighten through the humanities, fine arts and sciences.

We invite you to join us in our efforts.

To learn more about Western Michigan University and our outstanding research, visit us at www.wmich.edu/research.

John M. Dunn, Ed.D.President

Daniel M. Litynski, Ph.D.Vice President for Research

Western Michigan University Research Annual Report 2012

On the cover: Von Karman Vortices: As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, the vortices in this image, were created when prevailing winds sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean encountered Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

Courtesy of : The W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change

The W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change’s Earth Tones art exhibit featured false-color satellite scenes provided by USGS and NASA. This image is a Landsat 7 satellite scene from the USGS (United States Geological Survey), and was captured July 4, 2002.


WMU recently entered into a commercial product development partnership with HUMANeX Ventures, which continues to work with the University to develop an online product based on the Career Guidance Inventory (CGI) developed in the late 1970s by WMU researcher Jerry Nowak, M.A. and updated by Drs. Glinda Rawls and Mark St. Martin.

Unlike many career tests that measure only one or two areas, the CGI is a comprehensive career assessment that measures an individual’s personality, interests, values and achieve-ments. The CGI sets itself further apart by going in depth to look at psychological and per-sonal factors that can identify strengths and preferences that can help a person to find a career that is a good fit. Historically, the biggest limitations in the CGI were its size, format as a paper test and the inability to store the results in a useable database for research and development purposes.

The latest version, now referred to as CGI Online (on campus) or known as IMPACTeX Navi-gator (commercially) further sets itself apart by going in depth to look at psychological and personal factors that can provide powerful insights into talents, preferences and styles—a mirror into the key considerations for career fit and success.

Consulting, research and development firm, HUMANeX Ventures—the vision of which is to create talent-driven organizations and communities—strives to match the individual’s talent to an organization that best maximizes that worker’s potential. The idea is that employees are not an organization’s best resources; the right people in an organization are its best resources.

Partnership results in new product that directs students and adults in their career choices.

The collaboration naturally plays to each party’s strengths: HUMANeX’s reputation for innovation and drive to identify talents and passions in workers combined with WMU’s development and use of the CGI in its counseling center to supply students with career and life planning help. WMU also had the in-house expertise to develop a better and more comprehensive tool than others currently on the market. The assessment tool makes use of a series of questions that cumulatively can be interpreted to identify career options for students that fit with their individual goals and values.

Nowak’s version of the 1,100-question paper and pencil assessment was initially designed to explore individuals’ academic skills, interests, values and personality. Retooled to a much shorter version by Rawls and St. Martin, the updated version of CGI sets industry standards as perhaps the only comprehensive career assessment tool available to offer a holistic view of an individual, thus making it a one of a kind.

Dr. Michael Sharer, director of intellectual property management and commercialization at WMU, brought Rawls and St. Martin together with HUMANeX’s CEO Brad Black and his team to discuss plans for his company to commercialize the CGI by transitioning the assessment from its paper form to a scalable electronic tool that interfaced with today’s technology.

“It was a good fit because we had been marketing the CGI to the commercial sector looking for someone who could envision the opportunity or was willing to invest with us in creating a scalable, online version of the CGI,” says Sharer. “Brad Black and HUMANeX recognized the potential in WMU’s research to commercialize it for broader impact.”

Black agrees. He says of the CGI and his company’s decision to license it from WMU: “We saw in the assessment its commercialization potential on many levels, and we wanted to take CGI and make it famous and impactful to thousands of individuals.”

HUMANeX collaborated with Rawls and St. Martin to create the IMPACTeX Navigator, the online version of CGI, licensed from WMU by Black’s team.

“HUMANeX had the time, enthusiasm and resources needed to take the assessment and make it readily accessible to others,” observes Rawls. “While we have helped thousands through the use of the Career Guidance Inventory assessment tool, we were limited to our students, faculty and staff at the University in our use of it.”

“We wanted people to access the test so that its potential to help communities and individuals could be fully realized,” says Black. “We also were commit-ted to building a partnership with WMU as the major academic institution in the area to leverage the CGI for impact across the Kalamazoo community.”

HUMANeX Ventures markets the IMPACTeX Navigator for its clients nationwide, Black offers communities the means to tap into and keep local talent by marketing primarily to K-12, universities, businesses and community groups.

The tool affirms for the individual participants who they are and where they need to concentrate their efforts. Compared to other career assessments available commercially, the IMPACTeX Navigator has rigor, purpose and design. Its potential impact across the country to help assess personality and align personal values in the workforce is tremendous, according to Black.

“We all need ‘mirrors’ to reflect who we are as a person. A tool that reflects and affirms our personality and values helps us in our choice of a career,” Black says. “Once we identify our talents and skills, the ability to match those to a ‘map’ or career path, allows the individual to realize his or her passion in life.”

The WMU and HUMANeX teams continue to work together in developing,

testing, and refining the IMPACTeX Navigator as a tool to be used commercially to grow people, organizations and communities into talent-rich resources as well as to have a significant impact on WMU students and their career decision making. This collaboration demonstrates how WMU research can be commercialized for broader impact and, like all good commercial ventures, it takes commitment, resources, vision and the right partner.


Fulbright grant awardThe Fulbright Program was established in 1946 and is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the federal government. Grant recipients are selected based on academic or profes-sional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

WMU’s 2011-12 Fulbright grant recipients were awarded a combination of short- and long-term grants.

dr. Kuanchin Chen, associate professor of business informa-tion systems, received a Fulbright Specialist award. Chen spent three weeks at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan beginning in January 2012. While there, he assessed curriculum opportunities for that university to stay ahead of the competition in higher education and engaged in lectures, research and instruction that guided the business administration faculty’s development of a specialty focus in business analysis.

dr. william w. Cobern, Distinguished University Professor of Science Education and Biological Sciences as well as director of the Mallinson Institute for Science Education, received a Fulbright Lecturing/ Research award. Cobern spent five months in Turkey beginning September 2011. His research and teaching were about secular and religious issues with respect to the teaching of science. He

also gave lectures on the experimental study of science teaching efficacy. While in Turkey, Cobern gave 14 public lectures on both topics at various Turkish universities.

dr. richard a. gershon, professor as well as co-director of the telecommunications and information management program, received a Fulbright Specialist award. Gershon spent the 2011 fall semester at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. While there, he taught two accelerated courses, one for undergraduate students on media management and telecommunications and one for

graduate students on digital media and innovation.

albert laVergne, professor of art as well as the University’s sculpture area coordinator, received a Fulbright Lecturing/Research award. LaVergne began spending 10 months at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria in January 2012. His research and teaching involves a comparative analysis of traditional and contemporary Yoruba sculpture processes and his own unique metal style of fabricating sculptures.

EmErging sCholar awardThis award celebrates the accomplish-ments of faculty members who are in the first decade of their WMU careers who have gained national recognition and demonstrate outstanding promise to achieve renown in their continuing work.

Jeffery Angles, associate professor of world languages and literatures, joined the WMU faculty in 2004 and has served as director of the Soga Japan Center since 2011. He also is head of the Japanese Language Program. His work as a literary translator and scholar of modern Japanese literature has won several major awards and impacted both the scholarly community and the

general public, in the United States and internationally. Angles has produced significant translations of major Japanese modern and contemporary poets, in particular Tada Chimako and Ito Hiromi.

Charles henderson, associate professor of physics, joined the WMU faculty in 2002 and the faculty in WMU’s Mallinson Institute for Science Education in 2004. Since coming to the University, he has been involved in grant projects totaling more than $2 million, including awards from the National Science Foundation, the state of Michigan, NASA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Henderson has been instrumental in the evolution of physics education research, and his extensive research has helped change the landscape of STEM education.

sherine obare, associate professor of chemistry, joined the WMU faculty in 2004 and has been an adjunct professor in the Michigan State University Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science since 2007. An internationally respected rising star in the area of nanomaterials, she is acknowledged as someone who has been able to

design nanoscale materials with important optical, catalytic and electronic properties. Her research has earned Obare a number of prestigious awards, including the 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Award, which is given to the top 10 materials scientists each year.

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Faculty receive awards

Western Michigan University’s Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center has invested $250,000 in a Kalamazoo company that is doing early-stage work on a revolutionary approach to treat and restore function to people who have suffered major damage to their peripheral or central nervous systems.

The BRCC award to Axonia Medical is part of $2 million in seed financing the company recently assembled to advance technology its founders believe can transform medical care for people who suffer a debilitating nervous system injury. Such injuries include spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, peripheral nerve injury and stroke. Other investors providing seed funding include the Southwest Michigan First Life Science Venture Fund and Ann Arbor SPARK.

“The technology Axonia is developing is precisely the kind of innovative, early-stage work our center is designed to support,” says Stephen J. Haakenson, executive

director of the BRCC. “This is technology developed in a university setting that has great potential in the marketplace to address unmet medical needs.”

Axonia, located in Kalamazoo, is a startup that is leveraging groundbreak-ing discoveries on nervous system growth and repair by Dr. Douglas H. Smith at the University of Pennsylvania. Smith is scientific co-founder

of Axonia with Dr. Harry Ledebur, president and CEO.

The company’s products are expected to bridge lost nervous tis-sues and jump-start regenerative mechanisms that will allow levels of functional recovery not now possible. The company was an early participant in a Penn program called UPstart that focuses on the transfer of technology from higher education to the commercial arena.

Established in 2003 with an initial cash infusion of $10 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., WMU’s BRCC is designed to promote development of life science startups in Michigan. It has played a critical role in the creation of 30 Michigan companies and more than 200 high-paying jobs.

With every dollar of the original $10 million invested in startup companies, a new award of $3.8 million in 2011 allowed the center to

transition to a new fund, dubbed by BRCC organizers as BRCC-II.

The funds were provided by the 21st Century Jobs Fund, a Michigan Strategic Fund program designed to accelerate the growth and diversification of Michigan’s economy. The Michigan Economic

Development Corporation, a public-private partnership between the state and local communities, provides administrative support for the

21st Century Jobs Fund. The MEDC markets Michigan and provides the tools and environment to drive job creation and investment.

For more information on the 21st Century Jobs Fund initiative, visit MichiganAdvantage.org. WMU is a strategic partner with the BRCC; visit http://www.brcc.wmich.edu/strategicpartners.asp for more information.

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The mission of the University Center for the Humanities is to support and recognize the humanities at WMU.

Serving as a gathering place for dialogue, the Center functions as an idea incubator for the exchange of ideas among faculty, emeriti, alumni, students and community members beyond the campus.

In a day and age when the focus is on developing science, math and academic specialties, the role of the humanities remains strong. The humanities serve to elevate the thinking beyond any one area of study and to instead take up questions on the issues of our day, which are rooted in diverse perspectives ranging from those linked to anthropology, science, engineering, philosophy, political science, ethics and jurisprudence.

“We want the center to be an incubator of ideas and projects,” says Katherine Joslin, the center’s founding director and long-time WMU professor of English. “It’s like an industrial park for the mind. We want this space to generate and nurture ideas across colleges and across disciplines and, at the intersection of those, to stimulate new thinking.”

Years in the making, the center was conceived in 2006 when then-WMU President Diether H. Haenicke began working with a committee of faculty to explore forma-tion of a humanities center.

The center seeks to put humanities at the center of a university education, says Joslin. That goal is in keeping with efforts both nationally and internationally to provide the best tools and critical thinking skills necessary for a well-educated citizenry and workforce able to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.

Recently, high-profile Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne visited campus to launch this year’s speaker series. Dionne’s talk, titled ”The Election and Our Divided Political Heart,” came just days before the defining presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This year’s speaker series includes speakers from across disciplines who will examine the election’s outcome on science policy, the politics of race and the democratization efforts in Islamic countries.

“This center is all about collaboration,” says Joslin. “We want our humanities events to elevate the lives of everybody. Where WMU can and has made a name for itself is that it’s a state-funded University that places liberal education at its core and makes it available to all our citizens.”

Humanities Center launched at WMU

Included in the 2012 cohort for the Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellows is an engineer who holds 55 patents and a professional pilot with experience as a veterinary medicine surgical nurse supervisor. They are among 13 highly skilled people pursuing a specially designed master’s degree at Western Michigan University to prepare them for careers as science and math teachers in high-need public schools.

Each of the 13 has received one of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowships at WMU. This statewide initiative, in its second year, aims to improve student achievement by placing into secondary-school classrooms career changers or recent college graduates who are particularly talented in math, science or technology.

WMU and five other state universities are each charged with training a class of fellows. The students were selected for this competitive fellowship for their strong background in what are known as STEM disciplines— science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

“Great teachers and great teaching can make all the difference for our students, their educational growth, future success and quality of life,” said Michigan governor Rick Snyder in announcing the new fellows. “The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship is making tremendous strides toward the goal of providing children across Michigan access to highly effective educators in these critical subject areas, and I commend this work and look forward to its continued role and achievements.”

2012 Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellows at WMU

Each participant receives a $30,000 fellowship to complete a cutting-edge master’s degree program as preparation to teach in urban or rural schools. They commit to teaching for three years and will receive ongoing mentoring. Meanwhile, the participating universities agree to redesign their teacher education programs.

Goals of this initiative are to attract the best candidates to teaching, cut teacher attrition, put talented educators in high-need schools and transform university-based teacher education programs.

The Wilson fellowship program is offered in other states. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched this initiative in Michigan, providing $18 million in funding for it.

This year’s fellowship competition attracted 102,000 inquiries and ultimately 2,017 applications. The selection process included screening at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, a full-day interview led by STEM teachers and careful admissions review by the universities.

The other universities hosting fellows are the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, and Wayne State University. The 2012 cohort consists of 64 students who primarily hail from Michigan communities.

Fellows from WMU’s inaugural class are just completing their first year of the program, which included a teacher internship, and are in the process of filing for certification.

“We want the Center to be an incubator of ideas and projects. It’s like an industrial park for the mind.”

—Katherine Joslin

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne

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The MCRN offers a number of specific programs to help the business community. These programs include the Small Business Company Internship program, the Small Company Innovation Program, the Michigan Information Transfer Source, and Instant Innovation program and an expertise search tool and portal:

The internship program provides funding for students to work as interns at companies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. This cost-sharing grant helps to encourage student placements with innovative and dynamic company partners within Michigan.

The innovation program helps small companies attack technological and commercialization issues by providing access to top research university resources at a more affordable cost. The SCIP provides matching funds to engage the MCRN partner universities on company-specific research projects.

The information transfer program provides a cost-effective way for small companies to access a major research library’s collection.

The Instant Innovation program brings faculty experts from the universities together with Michigan companies to tackle significant business and re-search challenges. With the pro-vision of cost-sharing funds, the program’s goal is to foster creative approaches to solving these challenges in a one-day facilitated brainstorm.

The business portal will provide the private sector with a single point of access Web tool to search faculty expertise across the MCRN universities.

“The win-win here is—the students gain ‘real world’ experiences that they can add to their resumes while the businesses gain the creative energy and ‘outside the box’ thinking that comes from an outsider’s perspective.”

—Lisa Garcia

The Michigan Corporate Relations Network—MCRN—includes Western Michigan University, University of Michigan, Michigan Tech University, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and U-M Dearborn. Collectively these six institutions represent 99% of all research and patent activity among the state universities. Working together to form an alliance, the network creates partnerships between the universities and businesses to help grow the state’s economy. They each work individually on their own campuses to be a local resource as well.

Established in the past year, the WMU Business Connection office functions as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for West Michigan area companies that want to engage with the University. With the help of its new director, Lisa Garcia, the office has strategically served to match the resources on campus with the needs of over 100 local businesses, companies and entrepreneurs.

“Our office has helped to connect businesses with valuable University resources like research partnerships, faculty consultants, student talent and so much more,” says Garcia. “The response has been tremendous in that the people who come to us for help find their needs met in ways that benefit their bottom line.”

For example, Garcia’s office helped 14 businesses partner with the Haworth College of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences to offer experiential learning for students while providing companies with cost-effective solutions to their business problems. “The win-win here,” says Garcia, “is the students gain ‘real world’ experiences that they can add to their resumes while the businesses gain the creative energy and ‘outside the box’ thinking that comes from an outsider’s perspective.”

The Michigan Corporate Relations Network provides businesses with a critical new tool for business growth and attraction.

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From left: Jeff Mason, Executive Director, University Research Corridor; Lisa Garcia, Director, WMU Business Connection; Dennis Atkinson, Director of Corporate Engagement, Wayne State University; Daryl Weinert, Associate Vice President-Research, University of Michigan; Shannon Wilson, Marketing Specialist, University of Michigan Business Engagement Center; Charley Hasemann, Executive Director, Michigan State University Innovation Center; Kay Palan, Dean of the Haworth College of Business, WMU; and Bob Miller, Associate Vice President of Community Outreach, WMU


2011-2012 RECIPIENTS OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AND TRAVEL GRANTS

* indicates student received additional funding for international travel

Al-Amar, MohammadPhysicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Effects of Size on the Optical Properties of Organic Semiconduc-tors: Copper (II) Phthalocyanine Nanoparticles”

*Alharbi, TalalGeosciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Integrated Studies (Hydrology, Remote Sensing, GIS, Field) on Landslides in Jizan, Saudi Arabia”

Alharbi, TalalGeosciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“A Web-based GIS Approach for the Assessment of Landslides in the Jazan Area, Saudi Arabia”

Alsaid, DaniaPaper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and ImagingGraduate Student Research Grant“Screen Printing of Etchant for Direct Patterning of Transparent Conductive Oxide”

Bailey, CatherineEnglishGraduate Student Travel Grant“Beauties and Beasts: Feminism and Animalistic Transformation in Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight”

Barthelemy, RamonPhysicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Improving Physics: Women’s Choice of Research Subfield in Academic Physics”

Bentz, AmyScience EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Using Formative Assessment: Using Case-based Scenarios as a Discussion Tool for Formative Assessment in Pre-service Teacher Education”

Bierema, AndreaScience EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant1) “Undergraduate Biology Students’ Conceptions of the Term ‘Animal’”; 2) “Undergraduate Biology Students’ Conceptions of Fungi”

Binfet, KrystenHuman Performance and Health EducationGraduate Student Research Grant“Effects of Beta-Alanine Supple-mentation on Exercise Performance: Are there Gender Differences?”

Boyt, ZacharyMusicGraduate Student Research Grant“The Future of Music Performance through Sensor Bow Technology”

Bradshaw, ElizabethSociologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“What the Frack is Going On in Michigan? Hydraulic Fracturing and the Future of Michigan’s Great Lakes”

Bredernitz, RachelBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“The Relative Importance of Resource Limitation and Predator Limitation in a Trout Stream Food Web”

Bre’z, SkylarHistoryGraduate Student Research Grant“Women’s History Month: Results of a Revolution”

Buller, AllisonCounselor Education and Counseling PsychologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Excellent Teaching in Counselor Education”

Burns, JamesIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringGraduate Student Travel Grant“Investigating Vertical Displace-ment Within the Aesthesiometric Threshold of the Thigh”

Butler, SeanComparative ReligionGraduate Student Travel Grant1) “Monistic Interpretations of Tawheed in the Sufi Notion of Wahdat al-wujud”; 2) “God, the Devil, and Berkeley: Satan’s Berkeleian Justification for the Usurpation of the Position of God”

Chaffin, LaTashaPolitical ScienceGraduate Student Travel Grant“U. S. National and State-level Labor Policy Coordination in Response to Economic Recessions”

Chimner, RachelBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Isolation of a Dosage-Dependent Suppressor Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Yeast Model System”

Clark, TeresaBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Identification of Novel Regulatory Factors in the Biosynthesis of Aspartate-Derived Amino Acids”

Coleman, TamaraScience EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Adults’ Perception of Learning as Inspired by Awe in Nature”

Conrad, StevenBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“The Tanapox Virus as a Therapy for Human Breast Cancer”

*Crescentini, EnzoGeographyGraduate Student Research Grant“Foreign Direct Investment in Italy 2000–2010: Spatial Patterns and Implications”

Dasari, VeerendraElectrical and Computer EngineeringGraduate Student Research Grant“Wireless EEG Acquisition and Brain Activity Detection”

Derrick, SeanIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringGraduate Student Research Grant“Rapid Functional Injection Mold Tooling Using Polymer Additive Models”

Derrick, SeanIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringGraduate Student Travel Grant“An Evaluation Into the Cause of Corrosive Failure in Autophoretic Coated Material”

Dial, CaitlynHistoryGraduate Student Research Grant“The Wrecks of the Eastland and Edmund Fitzgerald: Great Lakes Shipwrecks in American Public Memory”

*Diop, SokhnaGeographyGraduate Student Research Grant“GIS-based Flood Analysis for Adequate Mitigation Plan in Unplanned Urban Area: The Case of Pikine Dagoudane Suburbs in Dakar-County”

*Douglass, KevinChemistryGraduate Student Travel Grant“Desorption Is Not Responsible for Mass Dependent Detection Defi-ciency During Desorption Electro-spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MIS) of Proteins”

Elhoussieny, EhabPhysicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Time Dependent Photoionization of Gas Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)”

Ellison, KatherineHistoryGraduate Student Research Grant“Building a House of Peace: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the Framework for Executive Power, 1933–1960”

Engebretson, StacyPsychologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Effect of Exercise in a Corticoste-rone Model of Depression”

Eshkeiti, AliElectrical and Computer EngineeringGraduate Student Research Grant“Detection of Toxic Heavy Metals Using a Novel Gravure Printed Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Based Sensor”

Fonger, NicoleMathematics EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant“An Analytic Framework for Representational Fluency: Algebra Students’ Connections Between Multiple Representations Using CAS”

Froeschke, LauraInterdisciplinary Health SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“CHIPS: Community Health Through Integration, Prevention, and Screening”

The Graduate Student Research Fund and Travel Grant supports graduate students engaged in independent scholarly research, scientific inquiry, inventive technology and original artistic activity. The fund is intended to help students pay extraordinary or unusual costs incurred in research projects. Grants range up to $1,000, and students may apply for up to $600 of additional support to defray the cost of international travel.

Garrison, AngelaCounselor Education and Counseling PsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Emotional Avoidance and Rumina-tion Mediate the Relation Between Adult Attachment and Disclosure”

Gayman, CatherinePsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Decision Making in Methadone Patients”

*Gentile, ChristinaCommunicationGraduate Student Travel Grant“It’s Complicated: The Effect of Facebook on Relationship Maintenance and Satisfaction in Long-Distance Romantic Relation-ships”

Ghimire, ShankarEconomicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Influence of Foreign Aid on Trade: Disparity Between General Aid and Targeted Aid on Export”

*Gilchrist, AnnGeosciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Studies and Modeling of Cr(VI) Adsorption on Mixed Mineral Assemblages”

*Gupta, NishantComputer ScienceGraduate Student Travel Grant“On Cloud Computing Performance Evaluating Tools”

Haase, AlexandraBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Engineering a Catalytic Site in Bacterial Flagellin Using Rational Design”

Hampel, KristinChemistryGraduate Student Research Grant“The Sugar Content in Algae Bio-mass for Bio-ethanol Production”

Haskill, ChristineEnglishGraduate Student Travel Grant“Late Victorian Horrors: Teaching the Fin de Siècle through the Monstrous”

The Undergraduate Research Excellence Award provides undergraduates with research experience. Selected students receive $500 toward a stipend, travel, or supplies for a mentored research project or creative activity experience with externally funded faculty. Under the program, faculty subsequently may apply for up to $200 for additional supplies to support the student’s work.

Al, BaderMechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board”Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala Anderson, DavidElectrical and Computer Engineering “Acquisition and Analysis of EEG signals in Real-Time”Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader Andrews, JerryMechanical Engineering “Affordable Shock Dynamometer”Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Ballman, KatherinePhysics “SAMURAI Time Projection Chamber (TPC) Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano Ballman, KatherinePhysics “SAMURAI Time Projection Chamber (TPC) Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano Bland, Jovon Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering“Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board”Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala Casperson, TomMechanical Engineering“Portable Shock Dyno”Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Cupp, Bailey Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering“BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Dawati, Micah Biological Sciences “Effects of Walk-Train Exercise on Glial Cell-line Derived Neurotropic Factor Expression in the Heart muscle of Als Model mouse”Faculty mentor: Dr. John Spitsbergern Day, Jennifer Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering“Three-Wheeled Urban Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD RECIPIENTS, 2011-2012

DeKam, WilliamMechanical/Aeronautical Engineering“Temperature Measurements in an Industrial Paint Curing Oven Using Infrared Thermometry” Faculty mentor: Dr. Claudia Hansford Del Orbe Henriquez, DionisioMechanical/Aeronautical Engineering“Temperature Measurement of the High Pressure Phase Transformation (HPPT)” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten Dye, Steven Physics “Active Target Time Projection Chamber Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano Heithoff, Trent Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering“Affordable Shock Dynamometer”Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Hulbert, Sarah Physics “Computing the Spectra of Li-Like Ions”Faculty mentor: Dr. Manuel Bautista Hurley, Neil Electrical and Computer Engineering“Hollow Core Generator” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader Jee, Adrian Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering“Three-Wheeled Urban Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov Kamm, Ryan Manufacturing Engineering “Green Manufacturing Initiative” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten Kurban, Esaw Biological Sciences “Random mutagenesis of TPV in the search for a cancer-specific oncolytic agent” Faculty mentor: Dr. Karim Essani Longrey, Christopher Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Urban Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Body Frame Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Mansfield, Wendell Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Urban Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov Marshall, Brandon Physics “Three Dimensional Modeling of Active Galactic Nuclei” Faculty mentor: Dr. Manuel Bautista Martlew, James Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Measurement of Nozzle Outlet Turbulence Using Particle Image Velocimetry”Faculty mentor: Dr. Claudia Hansford Masika, Noah Chemistry “Evaluating the Safety of Nanoscale Materials within Biological Cells” Faculty mentor: Dr. Sherine Obare McAlpine, James Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board” Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala McEntire, Adam Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board” Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala McKinley, Jared Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering Temperature Measurement of the High Pressure Phase Transformation (HPPT) Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten McKinley, Jared Manufacturing Engineering “Temperature Measurement of High Pressure Phase Transformation Region during Micro-Laser Assisted Machining Process” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten Messer, Amanda Anthropology “Analysis of lead shot from Fort St. Joseph” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Nassaney

Nahusenaye, Akliseya Electrical and Computer Engineering “Sensor System with a Mobile Phone Interface” Faculty mentor: Dr. Massood Atashbar Nielsen, Steven Physics “DUSEL Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano Olech, Tom Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Urban Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov Olson, Matthew Electrical and Computer Engineering “Hollow Core Generator” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader Ousseini-Abdoulaye, AbdoulayeElectrical and Computer Engineering “Acquisition and Analysis of EEG signals in Real-Time” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader Paula-Sanchez, Angie MassielElectrical and Computer Engineering “Acquisition and Analysis of EEG signals in Real-Time” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader Stolla, Bryan Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Sultan, Tipu Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Tucker, Scott Biological Sciences “Effects of acetylcholine and Carbachol of GDNF Secretion in C212 Skeletal Muscle Cells” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Spitsbergern

Tucker, Andrew Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez Wabeke, Sean Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Three-Wheeled Electric Urban Vehicle Frame Design & Build” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov Walser, Olivia Biological Sciences “Ghosts of Evolution Past: Resurrecting an Extinct Ancestral Enzyme to Understand the Origins of Modern-day Biochemical Activities”Faculty mentor: Dr. Todd Barkman Watza, Spencer Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Analysis of Melt-Spun Shape-Memory Alloy” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur Wentink, Jacob Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Three-Wheeled Electric Urban Vehicle Frame Design & Build” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov Wyman, Davina Geosciences “Investigating the Adsorption of Chromium (VI) on Kleinstuck Marsh Soils” Faculty mentor: Dr. Carla Koretsky Yang, Cong Electrical and Computer Engineering“Stationary Hollow Core Generator”Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader


Hawley, ChristopherHistoryGraduate Student Travel Grant“Sharing Tea: American-Afghan Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Ford Administration”

Herr, KeliPsychologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Conditioned Place Preference Procedures in Rats”

Hilton, DerrickBiological SciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Hook Homolog 3 Is Down-Regulated by the Presence of Alpha Synuclein in C6 Cells and is Reduced in the Granular Cell Layer of Multiple System Atrophy Patients”

Hinz, AliaChemistryGraduate Student Research Grant“Probing the Interaction Between Specific Domains of Wilson Disease Causing Protein”

Hobson, KristinInterdisciplinary EvaluationGraduate Student Travel Grant“A Meta-Analysis of Studies of the Effects of Measles, Mumps, and Ru-bella Vaccines on the Development of Autism Among Children”

Howard, KrystalEnglishGraduate Student Travel Grant“Female Subjectivity and Power as Transformative Agents in the YA Verse Novels of Francesca Lia Block and Ellen Hopkins”

Husovska, VeronikaPaper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and ImagingGraduate Student Travel Grant“Conductive Graphite Inks”

Izumi, MasashiEducational Leadership, Research, and TechnologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Teachers’ Perception for New Introduction of an Alternative School Into Japan: Through a Survey for Japanese Middle School English Teachers”

Jelsema, CaseyStatisticsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Self Assessment Model for Obesity-Related Chronic Diseases”

*Jeng, DavidBiological SciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Studies Related to Tanapox Virus 15L Open Reading Frame”

Job, JacobBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Can You Hear Me Now?: Does Urban Noise Induce Plastic Re-sponses in Populations of Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina)?”

Jones, AndrewPhilosophyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Morality, Reason, and Theism”

Kamel, AmmarComputer ScienceGraduate Student Travel Grant“Client-Side Architecture for Mobile Service QoS Monitoring Using Gen-eralized Extreme Value Theorem”

Kanclerz, LucasGeographyGraduate Student Research Grant“Understanding Wildfire Hazard Vulnerability Between Local and Seasonal Residents Based on Home Protection Activities in Teton County, Wyoming”

Kuhn, JenniferPsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Case Crossover Designs: Utility for Studying Child Injury Risk”

Lin, JianweiMathematicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“The Domination Number of Kao Kao Ka”

Lingle, DerrickGeosciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Source and Fate of High Levels of Ammonium in Groundwater, Ottawa County, Michigan”

Lininger, MonicaEducational Leadership, Research, and TechnologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Examining the Research Designs and Analytical Techniques in Ath-letic Training From 2005–2010”

Madawala, RathnayakaChemistryGraduate Student Travel Grant“Highly Sensitive and Selective Fluorescent Sensors for the Detec-tion of Cu2+”

Mahmoud, AmrChemistryGraduate Student Research Grant“Investigating the Biochemical Activity of Some New Anti-breast Cancer Agents”

Mahmoud, AmrChemistryGraduate Student Travel Grant“Synthesis and Biological Evalua-tion of Nimesulide Derivatives as Anti-Breast Cancer Agents”

Maitland, DanielPsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Comparing Sessions of Functional Analytical Psychotherapy to Nondi-rective Support in the Treatment of Interpersonal Distress”

Malcolm, AllisterBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“The Influence of Anthropogenic Noise on Acoustic Mating Signal Effectiveness in Hylid Frogs”

Mamudi, WilliamPhysicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Investigating Physics Teaching Assistants’ (TA) Practices to Improve Teaching Assistant Training for Physics Education”

Mamudi, WilliamScience EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Physics Faculty Use of Example Solutions in Teaching Introductory Physics”

Mansiz, CemCivil and Construction EngineeringGraduate Student Travel Grant“Incremental Finite Element Model for Component Interaction Investigation of a Full-Depth Deck Panel System”

Martin, JohnComparative ReligionGraduate Student Travel Grant“The Characteristics of Guidance and the Secrets of the Guided: A 13th-Century Treatise on the Divine Names in Islamic Theurgic Rites”

Mataka, LloydScience EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant“The Effect of Using an Explicit General Problem Solving Approach on Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Ability to Solve Heat Transfer Problems”

Mateu, PedroInterdisciplinary EvaluationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Meta-Analysis Demystified: A Step-by-Step Workshop”

*McCandless, JamieHistoryGraduate Student Research Grant“A Difficult and Dangerous Thing: Religious Reform in Late Medieval Ulm, 1390–1532”

McCullough, MonicaBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Walk-training Exercise Increases Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) Protein Content in the Spinal Cord”

McKenna, AmandaBiological SciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Mapping the Microglial/Immune Response to Two Methods of Olfactory Bulb Deafferentation in Zebrafish”

Means, StephanieInterdisciplinary EvaluationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Relationship Between Nurse Personality Traits and Work Assignments”

*Mohamed, LameesGeosciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Assessment and Development of Alternative Water Resources in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt”

*Mohammed, Abdel MawgoudGeosciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Hydrochemical Characteristics and Potential Tectonic Influences on Groundwater Quality of the Con-tinental-Scale Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS)”

Montalvo, JonathanSpanishGraduate Student Travel Grant“La actitud binaria de Tacho respecto al arquetipo homosexual en ‘Rumbo al hermoso norte’ de Luis Alberto Urrea” (“Tacho’s Binary Attitude in Regards the Homosexual Archetype in ‘Into the Beautiful North’ of Luis Alberto Urrea”)

Moorthi, AkhilElectrical and Computer EngineeringGraduate Student Research Grant“Development of a Flexible Strain Gauge Sensor Using Screen Printing”

Nichol, Dana JoHuman Performance and Health EducationGraduate Student Research Grant“The Effects of a Moisture-Wicking Fabric Shirt on the Physiological Responses During Acute Exercise in the Cold”

*Okwako, JanePolitical ScienceGraduate Student Research Grant“Innovative Governance and Natural Resource Management in Kenya: Modeling Procedural and Substan-tive Outcomes of Civil Society”

Pearce, BrandonMedieval InstituteGraduate Student Travel Grant“He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear: Owen Barfield and the Aurality of Medieval Thought”

Rubio, DanielPhilosophyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Are There True Libertarian Action Counterfactuals?”

Rubio, DanielPhilosophyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Libertarian Free Will and Circum-stantial Moral Luck”

Sawatzki, PhillipBiological SciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Identity, Life-cycles, and Phylogeny of Microsporidia in Benthic Stream Copepods”

Seibert, KrystalBiological SciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Development of Tanapox Virus for Oncolytic Therapy”

Serfas, DanielGeographyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Assessing the Impacts of Dams on Nutrient and Sediment Loading in the Kalamazoo River Watershed Using the Soil and Water Assess-ment Tool”

Shaheen, GlennEnglishGraduate Student Travel Grant“Flash Points: Publishing Flash Fic-tion in an Evolving Landscape”

Shin, Jae Young Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and ImagingGraduate Student Travel Grant“Rheological Properties of Starch Latex Dispersions and Starch Latex-Containing Coating Colors”

*Slager, BenjaminBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Modeling Monarch Migration”

*Sparks, KellyScience EducationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Students’ Conceptions of Learning and Approaches to Learning in an Undergraduate Physical Geography Course”

Stilling, StephaniePsychologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Social Behavior in Situations of Uncertainty and Risk”

Strong, BenjaminChemistryGraduate Student Travel Grant“Synthesis of Dialkyl Hydrazines and Their Hydroxyl Radical Degradation in Aqueous Environments”

Subramain, MaranInterdisciplinary EvaluationGraduate Student Travel Grant“Adding Value to Writing Center Evaluations Through Evaluation Theory”

Thwaites, MaryBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Metabolism of Therapeutically Relevant Inositol Compounds in a Bacterial Model System”

*Toth, ArianaGeographyGraduate Student Research Grant“Economic Autonomy of the Miskitu Women of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, Nicaragua: Do Current Development Policies Apply to Matrifocal Societies?”

Tuley, AmyInterdisciplinary Health SciencesGraduate Student Travel Grant“Criminal History and Social Work Admissions Decisions: Recidivism Related Factors vs. Social Work Related Factors”

Vianney, John-MaryBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Does Electrical Stimulation Regulate Glia Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) in Skeletal Muscle Cells?”

Walmsley, ChristopherPsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“An Assessment of a Biofeedback Device for the Treatment of Noctur-nal Bruxism”

Philippus, JancieMusicGraduate Student Travel Grant“Music and the Earth: Four Ele-ments for Horn and Piano”

Phinezy, BryanMathematicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“On Closed Modular Colorings of Graphs”

Phinezy, BryanMathematicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“On Locating Sets in Graphs”

*Polk, AdamGeographyGraduate Student Research Grant“Agriculture of the Ancien Régime”

Quisenberry, AmandaPsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Modafinil Potentiates Discrimina-tion of Low Dose Amphetamine”

Rai, BuddhiPhysicsGraduate Student Travel Grant“Nonlinear Modes in Photonic Crystal Waveguides With Off-channel Features”

Redding, AdrienneEnglishGraduate Student Travel Grant“’Pray to the Devils, the Gods Have Given Us Over’: Satire and the Iconography of Eden in Titus Andronicus”

Redner, RyanPsychologyGraduate Student Research Grant“The Effects of Punishment on Resurgence”

Redner, RyanPsychologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Punishment-induced Resurgence”

Reynolds, MichaelPsychologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Testing a Procedure to Promote Participant Understanding of Informed Consent Documents With a Linked Research Project on the Believability of Medical Claims”

Rodriguez Rivera, WandaChemistryGraduate Student Research Grant“Design and Development of Innovative Drugs That Inhibit COX-2 Enzyme”

Rowbotham, KatherineScience EducationGraduate Student Research Grant“Eutrophication-Related Concep-tions and Engagement Levels in an Environmental Field Geochemistry Course”

Wicks, NicholasBiological SciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Testicular Effects of Immunologi-cal Castration of Swine With Two Different Commercially Available Anti-GnRH Vaccines”

Wittbrodt, MatthewHuman Performance and Health EducationGraduate Student Research Grant“The Effect of ad libitum Hydration on Cognitive Function After Exercise in a Hot Environment”

Woodard, KelseyEducational Leadership, Research, and TechnologyGraduate Student Research Grant“Voices of Higher Education Service-Learning Directors”

Woodiga, SudeshMechanical and Aeronautical EngineeringGraduate Student Travel Grant“Effects of Yaw and Roll Angles on Skin Friction Topology on Delta Wings”

*Wright, Benjamin Medieval InstituteGraduate Student Travel Grant“The World as Cloister: Cambron Abbey and the Reconfiguration of Sacred Space 1322–1330”

Yamanaka, AoiEducational Leadership, Research, and TechnologyGraduate Student Travel Grant“Using Technology in Advising: Best Practices, Tools, and Tips”

Yaqoob, MuthannaGeosciencesGraduate Student Research Grant“Detection of Bedrock Fractures and Joints Beneath Cover: Geophysical Approaches to an Engineering Geology Problem”

Zerndt, EmilyPolitical ScienceGraduate Student Research Grant“The Patenting of American-Style Democracy: Freedom House and Numerical Knowledge”

Zhezha, MikelaSpanishGraduate Student Travel Grant“Where Lexical Aspect and Negation Meet Gricean Theory: Towards Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistic Analysis of Affirmative Inceptive hasta in Spanish”

Anemone, Robert Anthropology “Testing a predictive model for locating productive fossil localities”

Corder, Kevin Political Science “Bank regulation after the financial crisis”

Dudek, Andrzej Mathematics“Hamiltonicity of radom hypergraphs”

Farrell, Dan Management“Learning from whistleblowing”

Fitzsimmons, Stacey Management“Roles than multicultural employees play in organiza-tions: individual and contextual antecedents”

Frieder, Jessica Psychology“Effects of varied response methods in class activity and reviews on student performance and preference”

Gu, Chien-Juh Sociology“Middle-class immigrant house-wives: a study of self-concepts in life transitions”

Gustafson, PeterMechanical Engineering (patent pending, confidential)

Harvey, Kirsten “Dancing faces: teaching the technique of emotion”

Hill, Sarah Anthropology“Rent and recycling in Cuba: how not owning leads to not using things up”

Hyter, Yvette Speech Pathology and Audiology “Assessment of pragmatic language”

Jellies, John Biological Sciences“Peptide disruption of a peripheral neural oscillator”

Konate, Mariam Gender and Women’s Studies “Fatherlessness and African American female college students: a phenomenological study of their dating experiences”

Kubiski, Joyce Art“Pisanello and John Palaeologus VIII: details of dress and the Easter other”

Lu, Yan Biological Sciences“Novel transcriptional regulation of biosynthesis of aspartate-derived amino-acids”

Manning-Walsh, Juanita Nursing“Effect of practitioner self care and anxiety on relationships within the context of organiza-tional change”

Martini, Edwin History“Napalm: more than a weapon”

O’Reilly, Kelley Marketing“How young consumers assess online word-of-mouth (WOM) credibility”

Pyenson, Lewis History“Natural history illustration in 19th Century Argentina”

Salisbury, Eve English“Disseminating Gower: Newberry MS 33.5 and the Gower Project”

Scannell, Thomas Management “Successful small business growth supported by supply chain management best practices”

Soliman, Ghada Family and Consumer Sciences“Developing a manual for weight management as a resource for use by dietetic students, interns, and nutrition professionals”

Steuer, Susan Special Collections and Rare Books“Traveling libraries for prisoners in World War I work detachments”

Sun, Yuanliang Art“The bridge”

Tarbox, Gwen English“Gender and identification in Franco-Belgian YA graphic narratives”

Veeck, Ann Marketing“Food safety, trust and responsi-bility in urban China”

Vonhof, Maarten Biological Sciences“Patterns of population con-nectivity and gene flow in a neotropical bat”

Weeden, Marc Special Education“The effects of TeachLive on the acquisition of basic teaching skills in first-year special education students: a preliminary investigation”

SUPPORT FOR FACULTy SCHOLARS AWARD IN 2011-2012


Aktan, Haluk M. Civil and Construction Engineering Michigan Department of Transportation

$20,000

Al-Fuqaha, Ala I. Computer Science Scenaria, Inc.

$92,201

Al-Fuqaha, Ala I. Computer Science Behnke Warehouse

$3,000

Ari-Gur, Pnina Rabiej, Roman J. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Ikonomov, Pavel G. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringLitynski, Daniel M. Vice President for ResearchSchwartz, ReneeBiological SciencesNational Science Foundation

$195,003

Ari-Gur, Pnina Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

$16,000

Asumadu, Johnson A. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota

$8,333

Asumadu, Johnson A. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota

$8,333

Atashbar, Massood Zandi CAPE Center Rebrosova, Erika Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging FlexTech Alliance

$34,573

Atashbar, Massood Zandi Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan Space Grant Consortium

$10,500

Atashbar, Massood Zandi Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan Space Grant Consortium

$1,400

Barkman, Todd J. Biological Sciences National Science Foundation

$26,4177

EXTERNAL AWARDS TO FACULTy AND STAFF IN 2011-2012

Barnes, David A. Harrison III, William B.Hampton, Duane R. Geosciences University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

$77,462

Barnes, David A.Hampton, Duane R. Geosciences Battelle Memorial Institute

$31,262

Bautista, Manuel A. Physics National Aeronautics and Space Administration

$163,340

Beaudin-Seiler, Beth M. College of Aviation American College of Cardiology Foundation

$5,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Inter Tribal Council-Arizona

$278,182

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$270,000


$228,000


$225,000


$190,000


$164,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education State of Utah

$121,500


$115,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education State of Montana

$112,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Washington State Department of Health

$32,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education State of Utah

$27,750

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

$24,262

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Prevention Works

$23,000


$20,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education State of Oklahoma WIC Services

$16,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Prevention Works

$13,500

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Iowa Department of Public Health

$13,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Kansas Department of Administration

$11,000


$6,550

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Truman Medical Center

$6,500

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Alaska Department of Health & Social Services

$5,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education North Carolina Department of Health and Human

$3,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education State of Wisconsin

$3,000

Bensley, Robert J. Human Performance and Health Education Womens and Infants Hospital

$1,500

Berrah, Nora Physics U.S. Department of Energy

$200,000

Berrah, Nora Physics U.S. Department of Energy

$200,000

Bertman, Steven B. Chemistry National Science Foundation

$87,230

Bolar, Gordon M. WMUK Radio Corporation for Public Broadcasting

$144,467

Brandao, Jose Antonio History Frederick S. Upton Foundation

$75,000

Brown, Lori J.Whittles, James H. College of Aviation Wolf Aviation Fund

$1,089

Burns, Clement Physics Argonne National Laboratory

$27,626

Bush, Jonathan English National Writing Project Corporation

$20,000

Bush, Jonathan English Memorial Library

$8,750

Butt, Steven E. Fredericks, Tycho K. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering The Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIIE)

$31,200

Byrd-Jacobs, Christine A. Biological Sciences U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$414,135

Carr, Erika Ann Division of Multicultural Affairs U.S. Department of Education

$250,000

Carr, Erika Ann Division of Multicultural Affairs Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Econ

$149,263.49

Carr, Erika Ann Division of Multicultural Affairs Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Econ

$87,451

Carr, Erika Ann Division of Multicultural Affairs U.S. Department of Education

$19,495

Chase, Ronald B. Geosciences U.S. Department of Defense

$54,177

Ciccantell, Laura R. Academic Advising Cummings, Katharine E. College of Education and Human Development U.S. Department of Education

$213,180

College of Arts and Sciences $8,118,550 29.14%

College of Education and Human Development $6,327,550 22.71%

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences $2,653,024 9.52%

College of Health and Human Services $3,150,480 11.31%

Vice President for Business and Finance $2,694,182 9.67%

Vice President for Research $1,979,593 7.10%

College of Aviation $88,907 .032%

College of Fine Arts $13,016 .05%

Haworth College of Business $322,636 1.16%

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs $1,744,676 6.26%

Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion $605,718 2.17%

Vice President for Student Affairs $166,759 0.60%

TOTAL (as of 6/30/2012) $27,865,090 100%

Federal $14,001,769 50.25%

State $2,682,844 9.63%

Local $1,268,607 4.55%

International $390,063 1.40%

Industry/Corporation $1,550,395 5.56%

Educational Institution $2,118,860 7.60%

Foundation $1,004,472 3.61%

Other $3,351,107 12.03%

WMU $1,496,974 5.37%

TOTAL (as of 6/30/2012) $27,865,090

TOTAL FUNDS RECOVERED $4,346,292

Academic Units Research Support $1,738,516 40%

Principal Investigators $434,629 10%

Departments $434,629 10%

Colleges and other $869,258 20%

University Research Support $1,738,518 40%

OVPR Research Support $1,303,888 30%

Research Development $217,315 5%

WMU Research Foundation $217,315 5%

University Cost Recovery $869,258 20%

General Fund 20%

External Funding year-to-Date Expenditure Recipients

External Funding year-to-Date Expenditure Sources

Distribution of Facilities and Administration Recovery Funds

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Education and Human Development

Vice President for Business and Finance

Vice President for ResearchCollege of Engineering and Applied Sciences

other

College of Health and Human Services

10%

10% 7%

10%

29%

23%

11%

Educational Institutions

Industry/Corporation

Foundation

Other

Federal

WMULocal

State

International(2%)

50% 8%

6%

4%

12%

10%

Principal Investigators General Fund

Colleges and Other Research Development

WMU Research Foundation

DepartmentsOVPR (Research Support)

10%

10%

20%

20%

30%

5% 5%

5% 6%


Hirsch, Christian R. Mathematics National Science Foundation

$99,802

Jenness, Mark Mallinson Institute for Science Education Michigan Department of Education

$135,000


$10,000


$4,133

Jenness, Mark SAMPI Michigan State University

$29,314

Jenness, Mark SAMPI University of Michigan-Dearborn

$5,000

Joyce, Margaret Atashbar, Massood ZandiBazuin, Bradley J.Bilianyuk, Valery N.Flemming III, Paul D. Hrehorova, Erika Pekarovicova, AlexandraRebros, MarianYoung, Brian CAPE Center Obare, Sherine O.Chemistry Various Sponsors

$120,000

Kehew, Alan Geosciences U.S. Geological Survey

$61,994

Kehew, Alan Geosciences U.S. Geological Survey

$39,952

Kern, William S. Economics The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

$6,000

Kim, Dae Shik Emmerson Wall, Shawn Robert Blindness and Low Vision Studies Naghshineh, Koorosh Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Nissan Technical Center North America

$124,226

Kim, Dae Shik Blindness and Low Vision Studies U.S. Department of Education

$99,941

Kohler, Paula D. Special Education and Literacy Studies University of North Carolina at Charlotte

$105,120

Kohler, Paula D. Vice President for Research University of North Carolina

$467,857

Kujawski, Daniel Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Office of Naval Research

$100,000

Kwigizile, Valerian Oh,Jun-Seok Civil and Construction Engineering Michigan Department of State Police

$60,000

Lawie,Tracey Miller Auditorium Arts Midwest

$4,800

Lee, Helen Blindness and Low Vision Studies U.S. Department of Education

$81,941

Lemberg, David Geography Lewis, James B. Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

$59,000

Linn, Cindy Biological Sciences Western Michigan University Research Foundation

$17,700

Liou, William W. CAVIDS Center Hansford, Claudia M.Bade, ShresthaOm, Shiva Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Eaton Corporation

$371,020

Liou, William W. CAVIDS Center Mississippi State University

$84,191

Liou, William W. CAVIDS Center Eaton Corporation

$30,000

Long, Richard G. Guth, David A. Blindness and Low Vision Studies Gesink, John W. Electrical And Computer Engineering U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$889,899

Magura, Stephen Schroeter, DanielaCoryn, Chris L. The Evaluation Center U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$186,250

Mallak, Larry A.Lyth, David M. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Stryker Instruments

$22,928

Mallak,Larry A.Lyth, David M. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Stryker Instruments

$14,579

Malott, Richard W. Psychology Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency

$120,152

Manley, Robert Adam Zinser, Richard W. Family and Consumer Sciences Michigan Department of Education

$13,670

Meade, David J.Patten, John A. Manufacturing Engineering Various Industries

$75,000

Merati, Parviz Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Stryker Instruments

$6,194

Merati, Parviz Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Stryker Instruments

$516

Miller, Michael G. Human Performance and Health Education Bronson Orthopedic and Sports Medicine

$200,400

Miller, Michael G. Human Performance and Health Education Kalamazoo College

$16,700

Miller, Michael G. Human Performance and Health Education Bronson Orthopedic and Sports Medicine

$3,600


$300


$300

Miller, Robert G. Office of Community Outreach State of Michigan

$200,000

Mo, Yirong Chemistry National Science Foundation

$332,000

Mo, Yirong Chemistry Michigan State University

$30,019

Mr. Joel Kendrick Auxiliary Enterprises Various Industries

$325,746


$187,334


$142,717

Munley, Patrick H.Wiebold, Jennipher Craig, Stephen E. Counselor Education and Counseling PsychologyMichigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth

$214,593

Naghshineh, Koorosh Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Stryker Instruments

$5,757

Nassaney, Michael Anthropology Arizona State University

$9,605

Obare, Sherine O. Chemistry National Science Foundation

$145,000

Dr. Sundberg, Carol Center for Disability Services Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

$607,807


$581,547


$566,108

Everett, Kristin Mallinson Institute for Science Sydlik, Mary Anne SAMPIEducation Michigan Mathematics & Science Centers UCI Division

$30,563

Evergreen, Stephanie D. The Evaluation Center Literacy Center of West Michigan

$22,000

Evergreen, Stephanie D. The Evaluation Center Literacy Center of West Michigan

$7,583

Eversole, Robert R. Biological Sciences Michigan State University

$38,500

Eversole, Robert R. Biological Sciences Gilead Sciences, Inc.

$12,900

Famiano, Michael A. Physics National Science Foundation

$80,000


$77,669


$40,000

Flamme, Gregory A. Speech Pathology and Audiology Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

$49,961

Fleming III, Paul D. Pekarovic, Jan Joyce, MargaretCameron, John H. Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and ImagingHewlett Packard

$75,000

Fogarty, Kieran J. Occupational Therapy International Food Protection Training Institute

$46,470

Fogarty, Kieran J. Occupational Therapy International Food Protection Training Institute

$7,745

Fredericks, Tycho K.Butt, Steven E. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Stryker Medical

$66,500

Fredericks, Tycho K.Butt, Steven E. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Haworth, Inc.

$10,000

Freudenburg, Gene The Graduate College University of Michigan

$14,400

Ghantasala, Muralidhar K. CAVIDS Center Various Industries

$84,125


$68,250


$875

Ghantasala, Muralidhar K. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Central Manufacturing Technology Institute

$12,000

Gilbert, Kathryn Marie The Children’s Place Nelson, Regena Fails Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies U.S. Department of Education

$123,663

Giscombe, Charlotte L. Academic Skills Center U.S. Department of Education

$284,754

Glasser, Harold Office for Sustainability Strazdas, Peter J. Physical Plant Clean Energy Coalition

$448,800

Glasser, Harold Office for SustainabilityStrazdas, Peter J. Physical Plant Clean Energy Coalition

$198,500

Gorczyca, Thomas W. Physics National Aeronautics and Space Administration

$100,000

Gunter, Whitney D. Sociology City of Kalamazoo

$11,995

Gupta, Ajay K.Computer Science National Science Foundation

$20,000

Harrison III, William B. Geosciences Arizona Geological Survey Headquarters

$99,314

Hartmann, David J. Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$12,258


$12,258

Hartmann, David J . Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$11,378

Hartmann, David J . Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$11,378


$11,378


$11,378

Coryn, Chris L. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in EvaluationSchroeter, Daniela The Evaluation CenterApplegate, Edwards BrooksEducational Leadership, Research and TechnologySwiss National Science Foundation

$229,000

Coryn, Chris L. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Schroeter, Daniela The Evaluation CenterInternational Development Research Center

$38,777

Coryn, Chris L. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Applegate, Edward Brooks Educational Leadership, Research and TechnologySchroeter, Daniela The Evaluation CenterSwiss National Science Foundation

$16,336

Coryn, Chris L. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Hawaii Department of Education

$7,400

Curtis, Amy B. Interdisciplinary Health Studies Allen Foundation, Inc.

$15,463

Curtis, Amy B. Interdisciplinary Health Studies Michigan Department of Community Health

$2,000

DeDoncker, Elise Computer Science Fleming III, Paul D. Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging National Science Foundation

$289,574

DeLong, Cari Landscape Services Michigan Department of Environ-mental Quality

$393,845

Dennis, Tony O. The Graduate College Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth

$98,328

Sundberg, Dr. Carol Center for Disability Services Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

$1,029,372


$9,978


$9,978

Hartmann, David J . Sociology Livingston County Circuit Court

$7,885

Henderson, Charles R. Mallinson Institute for Science Education Iowa State University

$35,964

Henderson, Charles R. Physics National Science Foundation

$456,208

Henderson, Charles R. Physics American Physical Society

$39,000

Henry, James A . School of Social WorkAtchison,Ben James Occupational Therapy Coryn, Chris L.Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation U.S. Department of Justice

$499,983

Henry, James A. School of Social Work Atchison,Ben James Occupational Therapy Black-Pond, ConnieUnified Clinics Hyter, Yvette D.Speech Pathology and Audiology U.S. Department of Justice

$250,000

Henry, James A. School of Social Work RAND Corporation

$20,000

Henry, James A.Black-Pond,Connie School of Social Work