Summer Faculty Fellowships, FY 2007
Abbott, Allison
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Functional Analysis of Conserved MicroRNAs in C. elegans
Beardsley, Scott
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Adaptive Decoding of Neural Signals for Long-Term Control of an Assistive Device
Cannon, Claire
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Learning About Drug Reward in Genetically-Modified Dopamine "Knockout" Mice
Chappell, Virginia
Associate Professor, Department of English
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Exploring Issues, Exercising Positions: Rhetorical Analysis of Death Penalty Debates on the
Evening News From PBS
Donoghue, Michael
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Panama Canal Zone Oral History Project for the Years 1939 - 1979
Farkas, Mary Ann / Miller, Gale
Associate Professor / Professor, Department of Social & Cultural Sciences
Amount Awarded: $11,000.00
Living With Imprisonment: A Study of the Families of Persons Convicted of Sex Offenses
Gendron, Sarah
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literature
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
The Horror: Francophone Trauma Narratives
Goldzwig, Steven
Professor, College of Communication
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Commencing the Rationale for War: George W. Bush at West Point, June 1, 2002

Gorman, Brenda
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Memory and Language Mechanisms Underlying Phonological Awareness Development:
Evidence from Sequential Bilinguals
Hribal, C.J.
Professor, Department of English
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Close to the Ground: Stories
Hunter, Sandra / Hoeger Bement, Marie
Assistant Professors, Department of Physical Therapy
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
The Influence of Cognitive Stress on Fatiguing Contractions
Keiser, Steven
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
A Dialectology of Pennsylvania German: Completion of Book-Writing Stage
Lehner, Ulrich
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Benedictine Theology in the Age of Reason: The Challenge of Christian Wolff
Matthew, Laura
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala
Torres, Lucas
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Examining The Role of Latino Intercultural Competence in Cultural Adaptation: Definitions of
Success
Wang, Miao
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Physical Capital Accumulation and Skill-upgrading

Young, McGee
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Amount Awarded: $5,500.00
Rethinking Trade: How the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 Counteracted the
Protectionist Lobby
Regular Research Grants, FY 2007
Beardsley, Scott
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00
Adaptive Decoding of Neural Signals for Long-Term Control of an Assistive Device
Cannon, Claire
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Amount Awarded: $4,200.00
Experimental Reversal of Genetic Parkinsonism: Implications for Addiction and Obesity
Chappell, Virginia
Associate Professor, Department of English
Amount Awarded: $222.00
Exploring Issues, Exercising Positions: Rhetorical Analysis of Death Penalty Debates on the
Evening News From PBS
Donoghue, Michael
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Amount Awarded: $6,000.00
Panama Canal Zone Oral History Project for the Years 1939 - 1979
Farkas, Mary Ann / Miller, Gale
Associate Professor / Professor, Department of Social & Cultural Sciences
Amount Awarded: $10,000.00
Living With Imprisonment: A Study of the Families of Persons Convicted of Sex Offenses
Gendron, Sarah
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literature
Amount Awarded: $3,928.00
The Horror: Francophone Trauma Narratives
Hunter, Sandra / Hoeger Bement, Marie
Assistant Professors, Department of Physical Therapy
Amount Awarded: $7,785.00
The Influence of Cognitive Stress on Fatiguing Contractions

Johnson, Michael
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Amount Awarded: $6,000.00
Automatic Separation of Speech Streams Using Hidden Markov Models
Laabs, Carolyn
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Amount Awarded: $2,924.00
Confidence and Knowledge of Health Care Ethics Among Newly Graduating and Practicing
Advanced Practice Nurses
Lehner, Ulrich
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
Amount Awarded: $2,000.00
Benedictine Theology in the Age of Reason: The Challenge of Christian Wolff
Sebern, Margaret
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Amount Awarded: $5,979.20
Pilot Test the Shared Care Intervention to Enhance Supportive Relationships and Heart Failure
Management in Family Care
Torres, Lucas
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Amount Awarded: $1,540.00
Examining The Role of Latino Intercultural Competence in Cultural Adaptation: Definitions of
Success
Wang, Miao
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Amount Awarded: $3,300.00
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Physical Capital Accumulation and Skill-upgrading
Young, McGee
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Amount Awarded: $2,500.00
Rethinking Trade: How the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 Counteracted the
Protectionist Lobby