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Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Archives

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Fall 2011 FRG Awards

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Bearn, G. (Professor) CAS Philosophy Life Drawing: An Aesthetics of Existence
Hoelscher, E. (Associate Professor) CAS Theatre Envisioning Joe Turner's Come And Gone; An August Wilson Masterpiece In Philadelphia, PA
Jellison, K. (Associate Professor) RCEAS / Camp, A. (Assistant Professor) CAS Civil & Environmental Engineering / Biological Sciences

Protein Expression In Cryptosporidium Oocysts Exposed To Solar Radiation

Kramp, D.M. (Associate Professor) CAS English Archival Work At The Wellcome Trust And The Victoria And Albert Museum
Lowe-Krentz, L. (Professor) CAS Biological Sciences A Model For Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration
Nikolov, N. (Assistant Professor) CAS Arts, Architecture & Design Use Of Environmental Parameters In Building Envelope Design And Optimization
SenGupta, A. (Professor) RCEAS Civil & Environmental Engineering Developing Arsenic And Fluoride Removal Technology In South And Southeast Asia
Viscardi, A. (Professor) CAS Arts, Architecture & Design Shadow Mapping : The Transformation of Time and Space
Warfiled, W. (Associate Professor) CAS Music
Weiss, R. (Professor) CAS Philosophy Philosophers by Nature/Philosophers by Design: Two Paradigms in Plato's Republic

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Spring 2011 FRG Awards

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Bean, B. (Professor) CAS Biological Sciences The fate and function of the sperm equatorial segment during fertilization
Brown, D. (Associate Professor) CAS Earth & Environmental Sciences Effects of surface electric potential on the activity and surface coloniation of bacteria
Cortinas, J. (Assistant Professor) CAS Theatre

Lehigh Theatre Laboratory: A Pilot Program

Dolan, E . (Associate Professor) CAS English A West Indian planter, an Abolitionist author, and a Colonial Governor: The Smith family's involvement in slavery, abolition, and emancipation (1707-1845), research trip to National Archive, London
Jedlicka, S . (Assistant Professor) RCEAS Materials Science Substrate-based biomechanical signaling: Investigation of translational forces between cells
Lai, E . (Assistant Professor) CBE Economics Eliciting private information through noisy channels: an experimental investigation
Lay, J. (Assistant Professor) CAS English Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and early modern book culture
Pamukcu, S. (Professor) RCEAS Civil & Environmental Engineering Electroacross: Electrokinetics Across disciplines and continents: an integrated approach to finding new strategies for sustainable development
Portela, M. (Associate Professor) CAS Modern Languages and Literature Terrorism of indifference: a reflection on violence in the Basque country
Sawicki, N. (Assistant Professor) CAS Art, Architecture & Design The Eight and their circle: the rise and formation of an Artists' group, 1900-1910
Shih, M. (Assistant Professor) COE Education/Human Services Efficacy of a Tier II Mathematics intervention for students who are at risk for Mathematics learning difficulties
Small, D. (Professor) CAS Sociology & Anthropology Analyzing Iron Age Cretan community social evolution through evidence of funeral feasting
Zacharia, Z. (Assistant Professor) CBE Management Does investment in supply chain management and information technology provide value for micro firms?
Ridings, C. (Associate Professor) CBE Economics
Zhang, Y. ( Assistant Professor) CAS Sociology & Anthropology Gender disparities in China's labor market: 1989-2009

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Fall 2010 FRG Awards

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Berger, B. (Assistant Professor) RCEAS Chem. Engineering Biological Eng. Investigating Calcitonin Receptor Signaling in Cardiovascular Disease
Gans, L. (Professor) CAS Architecture, Art & Design Things I Never Told You: a hand printed series of lithographs with text
Gillroy, J.M. (Professor) CAS International Relations & EI

Philosophical-Policy & International Law As Hegelian Dialectic: Toward A Synthesis of Justice & Order: Phase ll

Kramp, M. (Associate Professor) CAS English Research Trip to Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England
Laible, D. (Associate Professor) CAS Psychology Bystanders in Bullying: What factors distinguish those who are passive, involved, and defenders of victims?
Liu, Y. (Assistant Professor) RCEAS Mech. Eng. & Mechanics Molecular Dynamic Study of Nano-patterning by Shadow Edge Lithography
Munson, Z. (Associate Professor) CAS Sociology & Anthropology Organizing Political Violence: Strategy, Ideology, and the Development of Terrorist Groups
Nikolov, N. (Assistant Professor) CAS Architecture, Art & Design Architecture of Dissappearance: Anderson Todd in Detail
Price, S.M. (Assistant Professor) CBE Finance The relationship between board composition and institutional ownership: Evidence from REITs
Spletzer, J. (Professor) RCEAS Computer Science & Engineering FRG Proposal:  Prototype Development of a Helmet-mounted Mapping and Positioning System for First Responders
Storer, R. (Professor) RCEAS ISE FRG proposal for the Purchase of Detailed Historical Options Price Data for Research in Financial Mathematics and Engineering
Drobic, V. (Professor) CAS Mathematics
Wiseman, A. (Associate Professor) COE Education Math and Science Learning Using Electronic Gaming in Disadvantaged Communities in South Africa

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Spring 2010 FRG Awards

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Caskie, G (Asst. Professor) COE Education and Human Services Congruence of Self-Report Indicators of Health Conditions in Mexican-American Older Adults
Columba, L (Associate Professor) COE Education and Human Services Mathematical Discourse in Shared Storybook Reading
Crassons, K (Asst. Professor) CAS English Days of Miracle and Wonder: Religious Faith and Literary Representation in Late Medieval England
Hojnoski, R (Asst. Professor) COE Education and Human Services Examining the Technical Adequacy of Early Mathematics Measures for Preschoolers
Iovine, M (Associate Professor) CAS Biological Sciences Putting Cx43 in its place: Determination of the signaling pathways that regulate Cx43 expression and function
Lee, K (Associate Professor) CAS Modern Languages & Literature An Exploration of Emerging Nationhood through Global Schooling: A case of Japanese Language School in the United States
LeMaster, M (Asst. Professor) CAS History Crisis and Conflict in the Early Carolinas
Malt, B (Professor) CAS Psychology Cross-language Lexical Interaction
Meyerhoefer, C (Asst. Professor) CBE Economics Do Physical Education Requirements Influence Childhood Obesity and Student Achievement?
Nicolopoulou, A (Professor) CAS Psychology Developing an Assessment Instrument to Evaluate the Narrative and Cognitive Difficulty of Children's Books
Salas, J (Asst. Professor) CBE Finance and Law CEO firm allegiance and US compensation patterns
Salerni, P (Professor) CAS Music Rehearsal/Recording of "The Room Upstairs"
Saunders, T (Asst. Professor) CAS Sociology and Anthropology Studying the Relationship between Afro Diasporic Cultures, Music-based Activism and Social Change in Latin America
Ware, V (Associate Professor) CAS Biological Sciences Exploring Differential Functions of the Ribosomal Protein RpL22e Family in Spermatogenesis in Drosophilia melanogaster
Yang, M (Asst. Professor) CBE Economics Buy What is Advertised on Television? Evidence from Bans on Child-Directed Food Advertising
Zirkel, P (Professor) COE Education and Law An Exploratory Study of the Representativeness of Published Court Decisions in Special Education Law

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Fall 2009

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Bean, B. (Professor) Biological Sciences Roles of a sperm enzyme in the development of the embryo
Bush, M. (Assistant Professor) Modern Languages and Literature Poetic Justice: Melodrama and the Latin American Social Novel
Foltz, M. (Assistant Professor) English Learning from the Landfill: Contemporary American Fiction in Conversation with Fluxus Art
Gordon, S. (Professor) English William Henry - translation
Holland, B. Political Sciences/EI Particulates Puzzle: Is PM2.5 Exposure Correlated with Asthma Hotspots in Lehigh Valley
Hargreaves, B. Earth and Environmental Science
Jones, M. (Assistant Professor) Graphic Design, Art, Architecture and Design Book Design:Blending Tradition with Technology
Lai, E. (Assistant Professor) Economics Authority and Communication: An Experimental Study
Silova, I. (Professor) Education and Human Services In Pursuit of Critical Inquiry: Percy Hughes and His Students at Lehigh University
Swann, J. (Associate Professor) Biological Sciences Hormonal Mechanisms of Reproductive Behaviors in the Convict Cichlid (Amatitlania Nicrof Asciatum)
Wood, B. (Assistant Professor) Special Education Efficacy of a Function-Based Intervention in Drecreaing the Food Refusal of Two Elementary Students At-Risk for Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
Yang, K. (Assistant Professor) Finance Social Networks in Corporate Finance
Yang, M. (Assistant Professor) Economics Peer Effects in Health-Related Outcomes Among Adolescents


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Spring 2009

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Briggs, C. (Assistant Professor) International Relations & Envirornmental Studies European Enviornmental & Energy Security
Cassimeris, L. (Professor) Biological Sciences Targeted Death of Cancer Cells
Chou, S. (Associate Professor) Economics Parental Loss and Children's Educational Attainment
Cundall, D. (Professor) Biological Sciences Cover cost of attending 2 Herpetologists' Meeting
Cutcliffe, S. (Professor), Emeritus Historian, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers History To support publication of The Illusory Boundary: Environmental and Technology in History
Deily, M. (Professor) Department of Economics Investigate how increased Competition in the market for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery in Pennsylvania affected the quality of patients health outcomes
LeMaster, M. (Assistant Professor) History Cost of 2 week course with Moravian Archives essential to continue research to write second book.
Mattern, J. (Associate Professor) International Relations From Transnational Criminal to Transnational Terrorist: The Unintended Consequences of International Policing
Nicholas, M. (Associate Professor) Russian Russian Conceptualism
Pankenier, D. (Professor) Modern Language and Literature Archaeoastronomy and the "Celestial Thearch" in Prehistoric China
Ridings, C. (Associate Professor) Management Department, College of Business and Economics IT Use and Impact in Locally Produced Food Systems
Stavola, M. (Professor) Department of Physics Experimental study of defects and impurities in silicon solar-cell materials that affect solar-cell efficiency
Stegmann, V. (Associate Professor) Modern Languages and Literature Balancing the Global and the Local in Anna Segher's Postwar Prose
Traister, B. (Professor) English Transcription of alchemical manuscript "Of Appoticarie Drugs"
Viscardi, A. (Professor) Art and Architecture "A Visual Journal"
Weintraub, S. (Professor) Mathematics Humbert Surfaces and Linear Algebra
Yan, Z. (Assistant Professor) Electrical & Computer Engineering FPGA Implementation of Efficient Algorithims for MIMO Detection
Yoshida, R. (Professor and Provost Emeritus)   How influential is Prestige in Teacher and Administrator Choice to work at American International Schools


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Fall 2008

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Anderson, A. (Assistant Professor) Finance Board Performance and Standard Regression Analysis
Brown, J. (Assistant Professor) Management
Buchholtz, A.  
Gupta, P. (Professor) Accounting
Myers,D. (Professor of Practice) Finance and Law
Bush, M. (Assistant Professor) Modern Languages and Literature Jose Maria Arguedas
Cheng, X. (Assistant Professor) Materials Science Nanoporous Membranes for Whole Particle Viral Processing and Detection at the Point of Care
Felzer, B. (Assistant Professor) Earth and Environmenatl Sciences Effect of the Terrestirial Ecosystem on Freshwater Input to the Arctic and the 'Global Conveyor Belt'
Forsyth, A. (Associate Professor) Art and Architecture Hardanger Fiddles and Norwegian Music
Fritschmann, N. (Assistant Professor) Special Education Low Cost Measuring and Predicting Reading Comprehension in Elementary School
Shapiro, E. (Professor) School Psychology
Gillroy, J. (Professor) International Relations Philosophical-Policy & International Law as Hegelian Dialectic: Toward a Synthesis of Justice and Order
Kodama, K.P. (Professor) Earth and Environmental Sciences Paleomagnetic and Inclination Flattening Study of the Triassic-Jurassic Moenave Formation, Colorado Plateau: Investigating Differences in the Paleomagnetic Poles from eastern and western North America
Moglen, S. (Associate Professor) English Co-Director Southside Initiative, Bethlehem book project
Pettegrew, J. (Associate Professor) History American Diaspora against War: Costa Rica & British Columbia, 1951 - 1973
Peytcheva,M. (Assistant Professor)
Yu, W. (Assistant Professor)
Accounting Effects of Experiential and Non-Experiential Knowledge on Auditor Performance
Silova, I., Professor Education and Human Services Percy Hughes and the History of Education at Lehigh University
Small, D.B. (Professor) Sociology and Anthropology The Sky Witness Excavation, Honduras
Ware, V.C. (Associate Professor) Biological Sciences Alternative Splicing of Ribosomal ProteinsL22 and L22-like: Is there Ribosome Diversity within Drosophila malanogaster?
Zhang, L. (Associate Professor) Mathematics Mathematics research Beijing University
Zhang, Y. (Assistant Professor) Sociology and Anthropology The Lives and Times of the Iron Girls: Evolving Gender Identity under Social Transformations


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Spring 2008

PI and CO-PI Department Title
Booth, R.K. (Assistant Professor) Earth and Environmental Studies What is a Natural Ecosystem? Assessing the Anthropogenic Origin of Quaking Mires
Brown, D.G. ( Associate Professor) Civil and Environmental Engineering Investigation of ph shift at the bacterial cell surface upon adhesion: implications for adhesion-mediated changes to cellular bioenergetics
Chuah, M.C. (Associate Professor) Computer Sciences and Engineering A Smart-wheelchair System for Home Care Research
Spletzer, J. (Assistant Professor) Computer Sciences and Engineering
Cook, C. (Professor and Director Asian Studies Program) Chinese Language & Literature Clans and Vessels in Ancient China
Crassons, K. (Professor) English The Claims of Poverty: Literature, culture and Ideology in late Medieval England
Hojnoski, R. (Assistant Professor) Education and Human Services Development and Piloting of a Parent Child Intervention for Early Number Sense
Itzkowitz, M.(Professor) Biological Sciences The Behavioral and genetic consequences of large-scale habitat disturbance on a coral reef damselfish community
and Mullen, S. (Assistant Professor) Biological Sciences
Richardson,T. (Associate Professor and Program Coordinator) Counseling Psychology Education and Human Services , Mentoring African American Women in Higher Education Leadership
Savage, J. (Associate Professor) History Napoleon’s Atlantic
SenGupta, A. (Professor) Civil and Environmental Engineering Developing an Inexpensive Yet Precise Arsenic analysis Technique for Remote Villages in the Indian Subcontinent
Warfield, B. (Associate Professor) Music Piano Concerto
Albulescu, E. (Assistant Professor) Music
Wu, P.S. (Assistant Professor) Mathematics Patterning for Endocrine Disruptive Chemicals using Medaka fish Model


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