2012 Summer Research Grants
Loyola College
Biology Department
Kim Derrickson, Associate Professor
Completing Two Projects and Continuing Data Processing on a Third, Long-Term Project
Christopher Thompson, Assistant Professor
Alteration of Macrophage Migration by Echinacea and Green Tea
Chemistry Department
Elizabeth Dahl, Assistant Professor
Production of alkyl nitrates by diatoms
Jesse More, Associate Professor
Studies in C-Glycosylation Chemistry
Classics Department
Thomas McCreight, Assistant Professor
A Romanized African Speaks about India: Demystifying the Eastern Other
Robert Miola, Professor
An edition of Macbeth for The Norton Shakespeare, Third Edition
Nandini Pandey, Assistant Professor
Inventing Augustus
Communications Department
Tania Rosas-Morena, Assistant Professor
Versions of Syncretism among Brazilian Media: Catholicism and Expressions of Belief in News and Novela
Kaye Whitehead, Assistant Professor
Notes from a Slave Ship: The 1749-51 Diary of William Chancellor
Computer Science Department
Megan Olsen, Assistant Professor
Analysis of an Agent-Based Computational Model of Cancer Growth
M.S. Raunak, Assistant Professor
Validation of Simulation Models using Metamorphic Testing
English Department
Giuseppina Lobo, Assistant Professor
Doubling Conscience in Hobbes's Leviathan
Gayla McGlamery, Associate Professor
Dickens over the Water: English and American Re-Visions of Dickens in Early Cinema
Brian Norman, Assistant Professor
Dead Women Talking: Encounters with the Past in American Literature
History Department
Sara Scalenghe, Assistant Professor
The Body Different: Disability in the Middle East, 1500-1800
Modern Languages and Literature Department
Diane Chaffee-Sorace, Professor
Portraits in Heraldry: Five Sonnets by Góngora
Ana Gomez-Perez, Associate Professor
A New Oresteia: Spanish Avant-Garde and the Battle of the Sexes in Dream of Reason by Rosa Chacel
Pastoral Counseling
Jill Snodgrass, Assistant Professor
Shelters or Sanctuaries?: Pastoral Counseling in the Homeless Context
Philosophy Department
Paul Bagley, Associate Professor
Secure and Healthy Life and the Prospect for Peace in Spinoza
Mavis Biss, Assistant Professor
Kant on the Duty to Moral Self-Perfection: Striving Toward Virtue
Richard Blum, Professor
Encyclopedia Entry on Philosophy in the 17th Century
Richard Boothby, Professor
Suicide Bombing: Anatomy of a Political Fantasy
Bret Davis, Associate Professor
Sharing Nothing in Common: Nishida after Levinas
Physics Department
Andrea Erdas, Associate Professor
Finite temperature Casimir effect for scalar fields in a magnetic field
Joseph Ganem, Professor
Effect of praseodymium concentration on the performance of a novel optically pumped mid-infrared phosphor
Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Department
Libby Kumin, Professor
Analysis and Dissemination of Data on Employment of Adults with Down Syndrome
Theology Department
Joseph David Decosimo, Assistant Professor
Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue
John Kiess, Assistant Professor
Hannah Arendt and Theology
Trent Pomplun, Associate Professor
A Critical Edition of Ippolito Desideri's Tibetan Writings for the Harvard Oriental
Writing Department
Allen Brizee, Assistant Professor
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Administrative and Pedagogical Approaches to Developing Professional Communication in Graduate Accounting Certificate Programs
School of Education
Education Specialties Department
Bradley Erford, Professor
Counseling Outcomes for School-Aged Youth with Oppositional Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis
Jennifer Watkinson, Assistant Professor
Participatory Study Exploring the Process of Training Elementary School Counselors in the Art of Visioning
Sellinger School of Business and Management
Economics Department
Andrew Samuel, Assistant Professor
Corruption and the Role of Intermediaries
Information Systems and Operations Management Department
Paul Tallon, Associate Professor
Information Governance: A Multi-Case Approach to Theory Development and Testing
Marketing Department
Richard Klink, Professor
The Importance of Consumer Adoption Orientation in Selecting Product Design Strategy
2011 Summer Research Grants
Loyola College
Biology Department
David Rivers, Professor
Heat production in maggot masses formed by forensically important flies
Lisa Scheifele, Assistant Professor
Mechanisms controlling chromosome rearrangement
Chemistry Department
Birgit Albrecht, Assistant Professor
Computational studies of drug binding to the ACE2 receptor: Implications for Treatment of SARS
Classics Department
Joseph Walsh, Professor
Slaughter of the Innocents
Communications Department
Russell Cook, Professor
A Phenomenology of Media Technics
Tania Rosas-Moreno, Assistant Professor
Fact and Fiction in Brazilian Media
Karsonya Whitehead, Assistant Professor
Notes from a Slave Ship Doctor: Interpreting the 1749-51 Diary of William Chancellor
English Department
Juniper Ellis, Professor
Worlds of Laughter: Humor Literature and Culture
Fine Arts Department
James Bunzli, Associate Professor
Completion of Manuscript for a Book Project: The Myth of Autobiography: Contemporary Solo Performance in Essays, Interviews, and Texts
Anthony Villa, Professor
Recording a Set of Original Works for the Moderately Sized Jazz Band
History Department
Sara Scalenghe, Assistant Professor
The Body Different: Disability in the Middle East, 1500-1800
Modern Languages and Literature Department
Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Associate Professor
"A Labyrinth of Concentric Circles": Critic and Actor in the Essays of Mariano José de Larra
Margarita Jacome, Assistant Professor
Violence, Nation and Identity in Colombian Short Fiction of Forced Displacement
Andrea Thomas, Assistant Professor
Oscar Wilde's Multilingual Salomé
Jinghua Wangling, Assistant Professor
Crafted Straightforwardness: Ninth-Century Chinese Poetry on Female Entertainers
Thomas Ward, Professor
Garcilaso’s Footprints across the Ages (a chapter)
Philosophy Department
Bret Davis, Associate Professor
The Other Inside/The Self Outside: Nishida and the I-Thou Relation
Drew Leder, Professor
The Phenomenology of "Shape-Shifting"
Physics Department
Gregory Derry, Professor
Development of a Lensed Electron/Ion Spectrometer
Political Science Department
Carsten Vala, Assistant Professor
Religion-based Resistance and Civil Society in Authoritarian China
Psychology Department
Theresa DiDonato, Assistant Professor
Romantic relationship initiation: How humor leads to attraction
Jason Prenoveau, Assistant Professor
Verifying a Hierarachical Model of Anxiety and Depression
Theology Department
Angela Christman, Professor
Arianism and Arium in Ambrose of Milan's Exposito Psalmi CXVIII
Writing Department
Allen Brizee, Assistant Professor
Using Empirical Research Methods to Assess Civic Engagement
Brian Murray, Professor
Dickens & Friends: Art in Society in Victorian London
School of Education
Education Specialities
Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Associate Professor
Don't forget the secret minority: The complexities of transculturally adopted Latino/as in the US
Jennifer Watkinson, Assistant Professor
School Counselors Taking Back the Reins
Sellinger School of Business and Management
Economics Department
John Burger, Associate Professor
Productive Recessions and Jobless Recoveries
Finance Department
Tuugi Chuluun, Assistant Professor
Board Networks and the Cost of Corporate Debt
Information Systems and Operations Management Department
Paul Tallon, Associate Professor
Rethinking the Dimensionality of Strategic IT Alignment
Law and Social Responsibility Department
Elizabeth Kennedy, Assistant Professor
When the Shop Floor is in the Living Room: A Theoretical Framework for the Domestic Employment Relationship
Management and International Business Department
Hung-bin Ding, Associate Professor
Family embedded network and diversification: Empirical evidence from family business groups in Taiwan
Marketing Department
Qiyu Zhang, Assistant Professor
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncertain: Understanding Consumers' Perception of User-Generated Product Ratings
2010 Summer Research Grants
Loyola College
Biology Department
Rebecca Brogan, Assistant Professor
Role of mineralocorticoids during luteinization
David Rivers, Professor
Impact of fly maggot masses on development of a forensically important parasitic wasp
Lisa Schiefele, Assistant Professor
Copy number of Mobile DNA Elements Following Genome Evolution
Christopher Thompson, Assistant Professor
Alteration of Neutrophil Function by Echinacea and Green Tea
Chemistry Department
Elizabeth Dahl, Assistant Professor
Assessing the potential for alkyl nitrate formation in clouds
Jesse More, Assistant Professor
Studies in Natural Product Chemistry: Synthesis of Diospongin B
English Department
Bryan Crockett, Associate Professor
Shakespeare Shorthanded: Another Look at Pirated Texts
Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor
After the Race: Urban Ireland, Accelerator, and the Legacy of the ‘Irish Film Renaissance'
Robert Miola, Professor
A Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Mark Osteen, Professor
Someone Else’s Nightmare and Left-Handed Endeavor: Two chapters of The Big Night: Film Noir and American Dreams
Fine Arts Department
James Bunzli, Associate Professor
Preliminary Research for Sabbatical Book Project: The Myth of Autobiography: Contemporary Solo Performance in Essays, Interviews, and Texts
History Department
Angela Leonard, Assistant Professor
Researching the Black African Presence in Pre-20th Century Great Britain
Modern Languages and Literatures Department
Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, Associate Professor
Spectator and Spectacle: The Creation of the Modern Reader in the Work of Ramón de Mesonero Romanos
Matthew Harper, Assistant Professor
Ladri di biciclette: A Study in Adaptation
Margarita Jacome, Assistant Professor
Hit Men in Colombian Fiction: Consuming the Drug-trafficking Culture of Violence
Jinghua Wangling, Assistant Professor
Commercialization and Professionalization: Poetic Capital in Ninth-Century Chinese Entertainment Culture
Thomas Ward, Professor
Garcilaso’s Footprints across the Ages: The Andes, Hispanic Culture, and the Nation of Peru
Philosophy Department
Richard Boothby, Professor
The Object of Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to a Forthcoming Book
Drew Leder, Professor
Toward a More Materialistic Medicine
Dale Snow, Associate Professor
Schelling's Encounter with Goethe
Physics Department
Gregory Derry, Professor
Chaotic Dynamics in the Human Menstrual Cycle
Joseph Ganem, Professor
Development of Optically-pumped Mid-IR Phosphor Materials
Psychology Department
Rachel Grover, Assistant Professor
Social Processes within Friendships as Mediators of the Link between Psychopathology and Friendship Quality
Christopher Higginson, Assistant Professor
Cognitive Test Performance of Individuals with Attention Problems in a Quiet versus Noisy Environment
Jason Prenoveau, Assistant Professor
Role of Expectancy in Extinction of Conditioned Fear
Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Department
Libby Kumin, Professor
Development and Dissemination of Information on Social Skills in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome
Theology Department
Stephen Fowl, Professor
A Theological Commentary on the Book of Ruth
Robert Trent Pomplun, Associate Professor
Jesuit Scholasticism and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola
Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Professor
The importance of the opening prayer in the Qur’an for contemporary dialogue between Christians and Muslims
Writing Department
Peggy O’Neill, Associate Professor
How Does Assessment Frame College Writing Programs?
School of Education
Teacher Education Department
Robert Simmons, Assistant Professor
Why did we decide to do this?: The journey of Black men who decide to become teachers in urban schools
Sellinger School of Business and Management
Economics Department
John Burger, Associate Professor
Local Bond Markets During the Global Financial Crisis
Andrew Samuel, Assistant Professor
Foreign aid: a cause or consequence of corruption in weak states?
Finance Department
Frank D’Souza, Assistant Professor
The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Market Efficiency: Evidence from Merger & Acquisition Activity
Information Systems and Operations Management Department
Gloria Phillips-Wren, Associate Professor
International Standards in Financial Reporting: Are U.S. Companies Ready for the Change?
2009 Summer Research Grants
Loyola College
Biology Department
Maren Blohm, Assistant Professor
The effect of the heavy metals nickel and chromium on disjunct populations of Arabidopsis lyrata
Kim Derrickson, Associate Professor
Is the Withdrawal of Parental Care by Male Wood Thrushes An Adaptive Response to Being Cuckolded?
Andrew Schoeffield, Associate Professor
Control of Pathogenic Bacteria in a viable-but-nonculturable state by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio
Christopher Thompson, Assistant Professor
Modulation of the Innate Immune System of Echinacea and Green Tea
Christopher Tilmann, Assistant Professor
Impact of environmental toxins on the development and reproduction of the nematode, C. Elegans
Chemistry Department
Birgit Albrecht, Assistant Professor
The Odd Couple: SARS and ACE2
Elizabeth E. Dahl, Assistant Professor
Proposal Writing for Research in Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry
Jesse D. More, Assistant Professor
Studies Toward the Synthesis of the Antifungal Natural Product Ezomycin A2: Preparation of Ezoaminuroic Acid
Classics Department
Thomas D. McCreight, Assistant Professor
Student Life in Early Jesuit Schools: Previously Untranslated Documents
Martha C. Taylor, Associate Professor
Democracy, Freedom, and Empire in Thucydides
English Department
Bryan Crockett, Associate Professor
The Puritan and the Pirate: Stephen Egerton’s Incendiary Sermon
Juniper Ellis, Associate Professor
A Handbook for Humor Studies
Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor
Tropics of Evolution: Science, Religion, and Literary Imagination
Robert S. Miola, Professor
A Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Mark W. Osteen, Professor
Femmes Not Fatale: Women, Love and Labor Power; and Vet Noir: Disability, Masculinity, and Memory, two chapters of a book entitled The Big Night: Film Noir and American Dreams
Fine Arts Department
Janet Headley, Professor and Chair
George A. Lucas, Samuel P. Avery, and Art Patronage in late 19th Century America
History Department
Thomas R. Pegram, Professor
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920’s American Society and Politics
Mathematical Sciences Department
Mili I. Shah, Assistant Professor
Symmetric Eigenfaces
Modern Languages and Literatures Department
Leslie Zarker Morgan, Associate Professor
Orable, Guibourc, Tiborga: Metamorphoses of a Medieval French Literary Protagonist into Italian
Pastoral Counseling Department
Joseph Stewart-Sicking, Assistant Professor
Called to Serve: A Study of Gender and Well-Being among Episcopal Clergy
Philosophy Department
Paul Richard Blum, Professor
Michael Polanyi: The Personal Coefficient and the Cultural Framework: Parameters of Advancement in Science
Bret W. Davis, Assistant Professor
Orienting Heidegger
Timothy J. Stapleton, Associate Professor
The Parting of the Ways: Husserl and Heidegger
Physics Department
Joseph W. Ganem, Associate Professor
Growth and Characterization of Praseodymium-Doped Potassium Lead Chloride Crystals
Political Science Department
Douglas B. Harris, Associate Professor
Arthur Pue Gorman and the Origins of Senate Party Leadership
Janine Holc, Associate Professor
Is a Secular Europe the Future of Catholic Poland? The Impact of European Union Conflict on Polish Electoral Politics
Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology Department
Marie Kerins, Associate Professor
Learning and Communication Pattern of Generation Y Students in Speech-Language Pathology
Libby Kumin, Professor
Development of a communication skills checklist for employment counseling with adults with Down Syndrome
Janet Preis, Associate Professor
The Effect of Sensory Integration Therapy on the Expressive Language of Children with Autism
Lisa Schoenbrodt, Professor
Response to Intervention: The Role of the Speech Language Pathologist
Theology Department
R. Trent Pomplun, Associate Professor
The Alphabetum Tibetanum of Antonio Agostino Giorgi (1711-1797)
Angela Russell Christman, Professor
Ambrose of Milan’s Exposito Psalmi CXVIII in its Liturgical Setting
Writing Department
Ron Tanner, Professor
Searching for the Island Story Tellers
School of Education
Teacher Education Department
L. Mickey Fenzel, Professor and Chair
The Education of At Risk Urban African American and Latino/a Middle School Students in Nativity Schools
Sellinger School of Business and Management
Marketing Department
Jason Qiyu Zhang, Assistant Professor
Born Unequal: Understanding Persuasiveness of Consumers Product Reviews