21 faculty to receive General University Research awards
Vol. 17, No. 21Feb. 26, 1998

21 faculty to receive General University Research awards

The General University Research Program has awarded grants to 21 faculty members for the summer of 1998. Recipients are:

Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, art history, "Cézanne and the Land: Regionalism and Modernism in 19th-century France," $6,000;

Jinfa Cai, mathematical sciences, "The Development of Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning: A Cross-national Study," $6,000;

Kenneth Campbell, political science and international relations, "The Forceful Suppression of Contemporary Genocide: Theory and Practice," $5,959;

Darwin J. Davis, business administration, "Quality Control Chart Selection," $6,000;

Benjamin H. Detenber, communication, "The Effects of Color in Film Clips on Emotional Responses," $4,312;

Laura T. Eisenman, educational studies, "Integrated Academic/ Occupational Learning for Students with Disabilities: Exploring Cases," $6,000;

Lakshmi J. Gogate, educational studies, "Infants' Learning of Spoken Label-object Relations," $5,929;

Jonathan H. Grossman, English, "The Rise of Trial Reporting and 'Newgate' (Crime) Novels, 1799-1852," $6,000;

James E. Hoffman, psychology, "Brain Electrical Activity Associated with Different Kinds of Knowledge Representation," $5,800;

Gregory D. Kane, accounting, "The Impact of Corporate Responses to Stress on the Likelihood of Firm Failure," $6,000;

Matthew J. Kinservik, English, "Samuel Foote and the Little Theatre in Haymarket, 1766-1776," $6,000;

R. Rogers Kobak, psychology, "Disorganized Attachment as a Risk Factor in Depression," $6,000;

Eugene L. Matusov, educational studies, "Using Discussion WWWs for Developing an Academic Community of Learners," $4,000;

James A. Myers, hotel, restaurant and institutional management, "A State and Regionalism Tourism Data Collection and Reporting System," $6,000;

Jean Pfaelzer, English, "Voicing History: Narratives of Chinese Roundups," $6,000;

Colin Phillips, linguistics, "Dynamic Sentence Structure: A Cross-language Study," $6,000;

Michael C. Rea, philosophy, "World without Design, The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism," $5,650;

Eric W. Rise, sociology and criminal justice, "Civil Rights and Criminal Extradition in the Early 20th Century," $5,942;

Alexander R. Selimov, foreign languages and literatures, "Self-censorship in Avellaneda's Prose," $6,000;

John St. Julien, educational development, "Designed for Learning: Connectionist Representation and Practices of Design," $5,000; and

Stephan S. Wolohojian, art history, "Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sienese Altarpieces," $6,000.