FY2005 Research Council Grant Recipients
Awarded in the Spring of 2005 for the period May 15, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Award Statistics:
Total number of awards:
49
Total amount of awards:
$ 125,000
Weighted Average award amount: $ 2,810
Faculty Research Grants
(Total # of awards - 22; Total amount of awards - $35,000 Weighted average award - $2,302)
Bill Malambri (Music, College of Visual & Performing Arts): "The Sounds of Nationalism:
Employment of Martial Music to Promote Sociopolitical Allegiance to the Italian Fascist
Government During the Mussolini Era" - $2,000
Jeanne Woods (College of Visual and Performing Arts): "Shanghai Theatre Academy
Residency" - $1,000
Merry Sleigh-Ritzer (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences): "The Effect of Visual
Stimulation and Incubation Temperature on Growth Rate and Hatch Time" - $2,617
David Sleeth-Keepler (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences): " Friendship-Based Approach
to Understanding and Enhancing Student Adjustment to College Matriculation" - $4,000
Laura Dufresne (Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts): "The Art of Azulejara:
The Portuguese Ceramic Tradition on the Porto to Aveiro Line" - $1,500
Barbara Fuller (Management and Marketing, College of Business Administration): "Retail
Globalization: Perspective of Mid-Sized Retailers" - $2,500
Haney Howell and Mark Nortz (Mass Communication, College of Arts and Sciences): "The
Death of Small Town Radio" - $3,000
Cecile Leung (Modern Languages, College of Arts and Sciences): "Perception of France in
Nineteenth-Century China (1830-1930)" - $1,500
Jennifer Disney (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences): "Women's Activism and
Feminist Agency in Revolutinoary and Post-Revolutionary Mozambique and Nicaraqua: Toward
the Creation of Oral History" - $3,200
Scott Huffmon (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences): "Faith-Based Initiative Case
Study Research" - $1,223
Stephen Smith (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences): "Radical Flanks in US AntiWar Movements: A Comparative Analysis" - $2,000
Adolphus Belk (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences): "Making it Plain:
Deconstructing the Politics of te Prison-Industrial Complex" - $2,000
Kristi Westover (Biology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Phylogeny of the Mononegavirales
and Evolutionary Divergence of the Structural Glycoprotein Gene" - $1,000
Lisa Johnson (Center of Pedagogy, Riley College of Education): "The Impact of Technology on
the Develompent of Moral Judgment in Teacher Candidates" - $2,606
Douglas Eckberg (Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences): "The South
Carolina Murder Project" - $639
Phil Moody (Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts): "Textile Towns" - $3,069
Clara Kulmacz (English, College of Arts and Sciences): "The Art and Architecture of Portugal in
Travel Literature 1750-1850" - $2,500
Michael Lipscomb and Karen Kedrowski (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences):
"Guaging Social Attitudes About Breastmilk and Breastfeeding: A Latent Response Time
Analysis" - $3,300
Harold Arvidson (Chemistry/Physics/Geology, College of Arts and Sciences): "The
Identification of New Metabolities from the Bacterium Bacillus Subtilis" - $3,120
Cara Peters (Management and Marketing, College of Business Administration): "The Consumer
Search for Fulfillment via Co-Production" - $1,000
Faculty Research with Student as Co-Investigator
(Total number of awards - 9; Total amount of awards - $35,960; Weighted Average award $3,817)
Carol Marchel and AJ Angulo (Center of Pedagogy, Riley College of Education): "The Goose
Creek Incident: Community Reaction Phase; w/ Courtney Johnson and Kenyon Brown" $3,993
Laura Glasscock (Biology, College of Arts and Sciences): "The Roles of Activated Protein C,
Thrombin and Thrombomodulin in Tumor Cell Invasion; w/Rachel Wiley" - $2,760
Laura Glasscock (Biology, College of Arts and Sciences): "The Role of Thrombin and
Thrombomodulin in Angiogenesis; w/ Kris Bennett" - $4,165
Aaron Hartel (Chemistry/Physics/Geology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Mechanistic Studies
on the Epoxide Deoxygenation of 2,3-Epoxyketones with Dimethylphenylsilyllithium" - $3,000
Cheryl Fortner-Wood (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Evaluating the
Effectiveness of University College Curricula: A Pilot Study" - $2,500
Robin Lammi and Chasta Parker (Chemistry/Physics/Geology, College of Arts and Sciences):
"Fluorescent Monitoring of Metal-Induced Conformational Change in Amyloid Beta Peptide" $4,000
Dwight Dimaculangan (Chemistry/Physics/Geology, College of Arts and Sciences):
"Embroyonic Myocyte Responses to Injury Using a Bioengineered 3D Culture System; w/
Jessica Cloy" - $6,741
Takita Sumter (Chemistry/Physics/Geology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Cloning and
Characterization of Genetic Variants of High Mobility Group Proteins; w/ Julie Camille Burton"
- $4,300
Mabaye Dia (Human Nutrition-Geography, College of Arts and Sciences): "West Africa's Triple
Heritage Discovery; w/ Jared L. Funderburk" - $4,500
Curriculum Enhancement and Instructional Improvement
(Total number of awards - 20; Total amount of awards - $45,265; Weighted average award $2,245
Peter Phillips (Biology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Participation in a Two-Week Course:
Taxonomy and Natural History of Southern Appalachian Mayflies, Stonflies and Caddisflies" $904
Marsha Bollinger (Biology-Environmental Science, College of Arts and Sciences): "Long Term
Monitoring of Winthrop Lake" - $1,200
Beth Costner and Frank Pullano (Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences): "Concrete
Mathematics for Long-Term Understanding" - $4,400
Donna Webster Nelson (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Enhancing Student
Learning in Social Psychology with Feedback Intensive, Self Help Aids" - $1,600
Merry Sleigh-Ritzer (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences): "Laboratory Experience in
Physiological Psychology" - $1,500
Leigh Armistead (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences): "School Psychology Program
Handheld Computer Initiative" - $2,521
Barbara Blackburn (Curriculum and Instruction, Riley College of Education): "Middle Level
Education Legacy Project" - $1,500
Gwen Daley and Irene Boland (Chemistry/Physics/Geology, College of Arts and Sciences):
"Geology 251 Lab Book Project" - $2,000
Scott Huffmon (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences) and Paul Dezendorf (Social
Work, College of Arts and Sciences): "Modernizing the Social and Behavioral Science Research
Lab Including an Expansion of Service Capabilities" - $3,010
Karen Kedrowski (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences): "Media & Politics,
Presidential Debates" - $350
Virginia Williams (History, College of Arts and Sciences): "Introduction to Peace Studies"
Course and Minor Curriculum" - $1,000
Wendy Dover and Brad Witzel (Curriculum and Instruction, Riley College of Education):
"Comprehensive Program and Curriculum Revision for Undergraduate Special Education
Programs of Study" - $4,500
Laura Gardner (Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts) and Janice Wells
(Social Work, College of Arts and Sciences): "CMVS 301X" - $4,500
Chlotia Garrison (Computer Science and Quantitative Methods, College of Business
Administration): "Software Design" - $2,500
Lorrie Crochet (Music, College of Visual and Performing Arts): "Marching Band Drill Writing
Project" - $1,500
Sandra Neels (Dance, College of Visual and Performing Arts): "The Articulate Body" Changing
Trends in Dancers' Training" - $3,400
Josephine Kostner (English, College of Arts and Sciences): "Curriculum Development for New
Technology-Intensive Class" - $2,700
Mabaye Dia (Human Nutrition - Geography, College of Arts and Sciences): "The 2006 National
Model African Union" - $1,580
Kurt Heinlien (Dance, College of Visual and Performing Arts): "SAFD National Fight Directors
Meeting" - $2,600
Cara Peters (Management and Marketing, College of Business Administration): "E-Commerce
Course Development; BADM561" - $2,000