Vol. 19, No. 22

March 2, 2000

Faculty receive General University Research awards

The General University Research Program Awards–totalling $154,805–for the summer of 2000 have been awarded to the following recipients.

Anne M. Boylan, history, “Popularizing Women’s History: The DuPont ‘Cavalcade of America,’ 1935-1953” $5,000;

Martin C. Brueckner, English, “The Surveyed Self: Land, Maps and Identity in Colonial America, 1690-1750,” $6,000;

Christine A. Cannon, nursing, “Comparative Patterns of Marital Interactions for Managing Life-challenging Illness,” $5,713;

Cynthia L. Carr, music, “Edition of York Bowen Ballade for Oboe, Horn and Piano,” $3,800;

Julio F. Carrion, political science and international relations, “Rethinking System Support in Unconsolidated Democracies,” $5,250;

Todd H. Chiles, business administration,” Emergence of Organizational Populations: Building Theory from Four Case Histories,” $6,000;

Danielle J. Ford, education, “Using Texts to Support Scientific Argumentation in Elementary Science Classrooms,” $5,765;

Maria H. Frawley, English, “An Edition of Harriet Martineau’s Life in the Sickroom (1844),” $6,000;

Lori Fuller, accounting, “Audit Planning and Assessment Changes Affected by SAS No. 82 Fraud Risk Assessments,” $6,000;

Annette L. Giesecke, foreign languages and literatures, “Virgil Reads Lucretius: The Evolution of a Utopian Vision,” $6,000;

Jennifer Gregan-Paxton, business administration, “Toward an Understanding of the Influence of Prior Knowledge on Consumer Learning and Memory,” $5,800;

Heinz-Uwe Haus, theatre, “Contemporary Uses of the Chorus and Masks from Ancient Greek Drama,” $6,000;

Phyllis Y. Keys, finance, “The Role of Corporate Governance During Financial Distress,” $5,000;

Douglas M. McLeod, communication, “Third-person Effects in the Context of Media Coverage of Social Protest,” $5,930;

Lawrence Nees, art history, “Frankish Manuscripts: Travel to Berlin in Order to Conduct Research for a Book,” $5,500;

Lisa Ann Plowfield, nursing, “Examining Social Networks in Families with Frail Elders,” $6,000;

Joel E. Pust, philosophy, “The Use of Intuitions as Evidence in Philosophical Inquiry,” $5,750;

Michael Rosenberg, parallel program, “Investigating the Beginnings of Agriculture in Eastern Anatolia,” $6,000;

Cynthia A. Schmidt-Cruz, foreign languages and literatures, “Mothers, Lovers and Others: Female Characters in the Stories of Julio Cortázar,” $6,000;

Bonnie Kime Scott, English, “Virginia Woolf’s Uses of Nature,” $6,000;

Mark A. Serva, accounting, “The Role of Trust in Systems Development,” $5,557;

Timothy A. Spaulding, English, “Reforming the Past: Aesthetics, Politics and the Postmodern Slave Narrative,” $6,000;

Cruce Stark, English, “Background Research for New Novel,” $6,000;

David R. Stockman, economics, “On the Friedman Rule with Non-negative Debt,” $6,000;

Satoshi Tomioka, linguistics, “The Morpho-syntax of Nouns and Semantic Variation,” $6,000;

Jeanne M. Walker, English, “Developing the Script, WORD/WORD/WORD,” $6,000; and

Gary R. Weaver, business administration, “Behavioral Outcomes of Corporate Ethics Programs,” $5,740.