2008 Summer Research Grants

Robert Bailey, Ph.D., Engineering Science
The Effect of Element Type and Grid Resolution on Computer Simulations of Liquid Mixing in Very Small Channels

Richard Boothby, Ph.D., Philosophy
Modernity and Its Discontents: Grasping the Deep Root of Terrorism

Rebecca S. Brogan, Ph.D., Biology
The IGF System in Granulosa Cell Luteinization

Marie Celeste, Ed.D., Teacher Education
Patterns of Interaction Between Blind Infants and Their Sighted Mothers

Diane Chaffee-Sorace, Ph.D., Modern Languages & Literatures
Góngora's "Esperando están la rosa":  A Garden of Colorful Allegory

Jean Lee Cole, Ph.D., English
Getting Beautifully Under Fences: Immigrants in Mainstream U.S. Periodicals, 1900-1910

Bret Davis, Ph.D., Philosophy
Key Concepts of Heidegger's Philosophy

Elissa M. Derrickson, Ph.D., Biology
Response of mice (Mus musculus) to reduced levels of dietary protein

Kelly DeVries, Ph.D., History
'So Well Lost': The Sieges of Rhodes, 1480 and 1522

Hung-bin Ding, Ph.D., Management & International Business
Money-Left-on-the-Table and The Initial Public Offering of Family Firms

Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Ph.D., Modern Languages & Literatures
The City as Theater: Bretón de los Herreros and the Evolution of Spanish Romantic Prose

L. Mickey Fenzel, Ph.D., Teacher Education
The Use of Volunteer Teachers in Nativity Schools: How Do They Affect Student Learning

Ana Gómez-Pérez, Ph.D., Modern Languages & Literatures
The Many Exiles of Rosa Chacel (1937-1972)

Rachel L. Grover, Ph.D., Psychology
Development and Pilot of a Behavioral Coding Manual to Assess Social Processes in College Student Friendship Pairs

Catriona Hanley, Ph.D., Philosophy
Technology and War: Martin Heidegger and the Limitations of Enlightenment Rationality

Janine Holc, Ph.D., Political Science
Polish Catholic Intellectuals and the Secularization of Europe: The Identity of the 'New' Europe in the Writings of Marcin Król

William Kitchin, Ph.D., Political Science
The National Security Letter from a Soviet Law Perspective

Drew Leder, Ph.D., Philosophy
A Guide for the Perplexed

Mary Lowe, Ph.D., Physics
Studying the Motion of the Arm in the Protein AraC Using Self-Guided Langevin Dynamics

Thomas D. McCreight, Ph.D., Classics
Education, Poverty and Gender in Three Early Jesuit Latin Texts

Claire Mathews McGinnis, Ph.D., Theology
'Body Language' in the Book of Isaiah: A Literary and Theological Analysis

Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D., Modern Languages & Literatures
The Archbishop Turpin in Italian Literary Tradition

Matthew Mulcahy, Ph.D., History
'that fatall spott': The Rise and Fall - and Rise and Fall Again - of Port Royal, Jamaica

Sharon Diane Nell, Ph.D., Modern Languages and Literatures
Reclaiming the Works of Early Modern Women: The Problem of Authorship, Gender, and Interpretation in the Nouveau recueil des lettres des dames de ce temps (1635)

Peggy O'Neill, Ph.D., Writing
Examining Composition:  How Is Assessment Affecting Writing and Writing Programs?

Mark Peyrot, Ph.D., Sociology
Parent-Child Conflict over Diabetes Care

Janet Preis, Ed.D., Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology
What Variables Impact a Child with Autism's Educational Success?

David Rivers, Ph.D., Biology
Role of venom from a parasitic wasp in altering host development

Dan Schlapbach, M.F.A., Fine Arts
Recording Baltimore: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Andrew Schoeffield, Ph.D., Biology
Control of pathogenic bacteria in a viable-but-nonculturable state by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio

Lisa Schoenbrodt, Ed.D., Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology
Parent-training in Narrative Language Intervention with children with Down syndrome

Timothy J. Stapleton, Ph.D., Philosophy
Paths in Phenomenology

Jiyuan Tao, Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences
A Characterization of the P-property on the Lorentz Cone

Wilhelmus G. B. M. Valkenberg, Ph.D., Theology
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64) and the development of a theological approach to the Qur'an

Joseph J. Walsh, Ph.D., Classics
Ancient Discernment for Modern Deliberations

Qiyu (Jason) Zhang, Ph.D., Marketing
The Spillover Effects of Catastrophic Product Failure: A Study of Prescription Drug Withdrawals