Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
2013-2014
Helping to Improve Non-Science Students Conceptual Understanding of the Greenhouse Effect, Heather Miller, Julie C. Libarkin, Stephen R. Thomas, and Joseph Spadafore
Plato's Theaetetus and Maritain's Le Philosophie Bergsonienne, Mark Moes
An integrated service project for junior and senior students, Wael Moktar
MECHANICAL DESIGN AND STUDENTS CREATIVITY THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, Wael Moktar
Homeless health and access to healthcare in urban settings a social epidemiology, Azizur Molla
Sustaining Standards Based Coaching Education in an Urban, Low-Income School District, Dana Monk and Chelsea Brehm
SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN: A NECESSITY IN TODAYS GLOBAL MARKETPLACE, Jaideep Motwani and Norman Christopher
Easy for Who?: Creative Writing Teachers Respond to Criticism of the Workshop, Oindrila Mukherjee, Laurie A. Cedilnik, Kate Schmitt, Elizabyth Hiscox, and Geronimo Johnson
Going Public with E-portfolios: Opening Up Communication and Composition in a Digital Environment that Speaks to the Net Generation, Dauvan Mulally, Julie White, and Amy Norkus
Humanism as a Way of Life: Liberals, Cultural Reform, and the Humanist Movement in the 1930s and 1940, Paul Murphy
Going Beyond Comprehension: Artful Thinking and the Common Core, Janet Navarro
The megalithic past of the Bronze Age kurgans of the North Pontic Region, Alexey G. Nikitin and Svetlana Ivanova
Harmony and Cultivation, Peimin Ni
Holism as an Art, Peimin Ni
Energy tranisitions in Kenya's tea sector, Erik Edward Nordman
GVSU Varsity Men Concert at IMC, Charles Norris
Taxing Hard-to-Tax Markets with Consumer Auditing, Laudo Ogura Ph.d., Marcelo A. Arbex, and Mattos Enlinson
Witnessing and Confessing to the Power and Relevancy of Utopic Thinking in the Historical Struggle for a More Reconciled Future Society, Michael R. Ott
Re-Inventing Engagement: Inviting Cross-Text Connections through Text Sets, Writing, and Discussion, Pamela Page, Nancy Patterson, and Elizabeth Storey
Introducing Arduino Platform to Sophomores using an apt recipe, Chirag Parikh
Landscape, Narrative, and Culture as Objects of Sustainability, Kelly Parker
Food for Thought When Working with Those Hungry for Success, Christen Pearson
Use of a Construct Map and Rasch Analysis in Assessing Student Understanding of Chemistry Concepts, Thomas Pentecost
What It's Like: Cinematic Embodiment In The Celebration, Toni Perrine
P-T-T PATH CONSTRAINTS DURING DEFORMATION WITHIN THE CHUNKY GAL MOUNTAIN FAULT, CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA, Virginia Peterson and Carlene Gilewski
The Dominance of the Market Factor in the Fama-French Three-Factor Model, Glenn Pettengill, George Chang, and Sridhar Sundaram
Minority Status and Workers Commitment to Their Union: Liberal versus Conservative, Brian Phillips, Phyllis Curtiss, and George Lundskow
Practice of Peace in A Northern Ireland Integrated Primary School, Linda Pickett
Bard To Go Puzzle The Will, Maria Chiara Pipino
Site Specific Theatre Curation. An Italian Case Study, Maria Chiara Pipino
A Model for Engineering Ethics Education Leveraging Workplace Experiences through a Co-op Program, Chris Plouff and Nael Barakat
Exceptions in the General Land Office: Mining and Federal Land Policy in the Early American Republic, Patrick Pospisek
Re-memorando el exilio: Ciencias naturales de Rosa Chacel (Re-membering Exile: Rosa Chacel's Ciencias naturales), Gabriela Pozzi
Moving beyond the Safe Space: Discomfort and Feminist Teaching on the Margi, Marilyn Preston
Pleasure/Consent/Participation: Critical Pedagogy in Sexuality Education, Marilyn Preston and Sydney Hamond
Industry Based Senior Projects and the Four Pillars of Manufacturing, Christopher Pung and Hugh Jack
Individual differences in older adults' forced-choice recognition memory: Partitioning contributions of recollection and familiarity., Joel Quamme, Ellen Migo, Selina Homes, Andrew Bendell, Kenneth Norman, Andrew Mayes, and Daniela Montaldi
Displays of Authenticity in The "Finnish American Nesting Place", Kathryn Remlinger PhD
Visual Basic Programming as a General Education Course, John Reynolds and Roger Ferguson PhD
The Diffusion of a Constitutional Idea: Public Figures and Equality Before the Law in China, Mark Richards and Yi Zhao
CASE STUDY PROJECT INVESTIGATING TCE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION IN A GLACIAL OUTWASH AQUIFER IN WESTERN MICHIGAN, Peter Riemersma
Reversing the Side-Effect Effect, Brian Robinson, Paul Stey, and Mark Alfano
Restoring Performance to Text: The Heike Mabushi, Jeremy Robinson
Seven Day Theatre, Monica Robinson and Christopher Stephens
Which are greater today, cultural or individual differences in customers? Research lessons for resorts to consider, A. Scott Rood
Examining the importance of Culture, Gender and Individual Differences in Customers, A. Scott Rood and Joanna Dziadkowiec
Teaching Public Administration in an Age of Austerity: Librarians and Hybrid Instruction, Ashley Rosener and Lara Jaskiewicz
Certification Issues for Criminal Justice Programs, Debra Ross
An Overview of Prevention Programs Related to Human Trafficking, Debra E. Ross and Samantha Lynn
The Costs of Heterochronic Time in Benito Cereno, Kelly Ross
War Time: Temporality in Henry Timrods and Herman Melvilles Civil War Verse, Kelly Ross
Negotiating an image: A textual analysis of female athlete photographic self-representations, Sally Ross, Vikki Krane Dr., Katie Barak, Mallory Mann, and Chealsea Kaunert
Resisting, Affirming, and Negotiating: Female Athletes Representations in Self-Created Photographic Images, Sally Ross, Vikki Krane Dr., Katie S. Barak, Mallory Mann, and Chealsea Kaunert
Doing More With Less: Exploring batch processing and outsourcing in academic libraries, Patrick J. Roth and Jeff Daniels
The Necessity of Transformative Education, Stephen Rowe
Software Theory: How Our Systems Shape Teaching, Learning, and Identity Robert Rozema, Robert A. Rozema
Cautionary tales in reconstructing the evolutionary history of island bats, Amy L. Russell, Frank Bonaccorso, Maarten Vanhof, Corinna Pinzari, Kevin Olival, and Liliana Davalos
Billband performance, Bill Ryan
h2 saxophone quartet performance, Bill Ryan
Connecting to Collections The Michigan Museum Association Experience 2012, Michael Scantlebury and Nancy Bryk
Paper, Mary Schutten
Unpacking Uruk exchange networks: The use of functional, spatial, and bulk stable isotope analyses of bitumen artifacts from Hacinebi Tepe, Turkey in reconstructing broad economic patterns of the Uruk expansion, Mark Schwartz and David Hollander
Best Practices in Event Services, Michael Sciarini and Julie Pingston
Painting on an Electronic Easel: Tips and Tricks for Using a Smart Board in Library Instruction, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra
Community Finding within the Community Set Space, Jerry Scripps and Christian Trefftz
Reporting of Corporate Sustainability: An Examination of Global Reporting Initiative Database, Anne Sergeant
Between the Local and the Universal: The Radical Eccentricity of the Postumista Movement, Medar Serrata
Local Revolution, Grassroots Mobilization, and Wartime Power Shift to the Rise of Communism, Patrick Shan
Tracing Wang Jingwei's Road to Puppet Regime, Patrick F. Shan Dr.
Role-related Stress Experienced by Academic Librarians, Ellen I. Shupe
Can Technologies for Studying the Neural Bases of Speech/Language Improve Treatment of Communication Disorders?, Linda Shuster
Applying the ESPRI to K-12 Blended Learning, Jason P. Siko
Parent and Student Perceptions of a Blended Learning Experience, Jason P. Siko and Michael Barbour
The Wicked Dimensions of Access: Food Hubs and Gentrification in Grand Rapids, Michigan (a Case Analysis), Lisa Sisson, Lara Jaskiewicz, and Danielle Lake
The Efficacy of Early Childhood Educators as Role Models of Nutrition Behavior, Lisa Sisson and Andrea Smith PhD
An Undisciplined Space: Interdisciplinarity as a Method in the Study of Religion, Brent A. Smith
The Hub and the Hole: Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Religion, Brent A. Smith
Chinese Literature before 1900, Curtis Smith
Immigrants Admitted Through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program: Who are they and how do they compare?, Claudia Smith Kelly
Functional Role Of Fringing Floodplain Wetlands On Streams In South-Central Michigan., Eric B. Snyder and Melissa L. Overweg
Visions of Revolution in Croatian Poetry: From JUDITA to Vukovar and Beyond (16th to 21st Century), Ivo Soljan
Wind Energy Assessment Using a Wind turbine with Dynamic Yaw Control, Mehmet Sozen and Nahid Pervez
Committee on Teaching and Public Education Roundtable: Teacher and Scholar: Working with Your Local K-12 Schools, Scott Stabler
Custer's Stand was Last, Scott Stabler
The Ironies of Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918, Gary D. Stark
Producing Space, Producing Protest: Chilean Metalworkers Spatial Strategies across Political and Economic Regimes, 1945-2011, Joel Stillerman
Glocalizing Malls in the Global South: Shopping Centers, Cities, and Consumers in Chile, Turkey, and India, Joel Stillerman, Rodrigo Salcedo, and Jennifer Parker
Transition to IFRS: What Can we Learn?, Dennis Stovall and Stephen R. Goldberg
Climate change, disease, and pathogen resistance: Immune systems in soft (alcyonacean) vs. hard (scleractinian) corals dictate survivorship, Kevin Strychar
GIS Analysis of the Spatial Structure of U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Case Study of Detroit, Wanxiao Sun and Gang Xu
Tracking China's Inflation with Domestic and International Indicators, Wei Sun
Eye movements reflect the cognitive reality and costs of event structure during reading, Benjamin Swets and Christopher Kurby
Factors Determining Carbapenemase Activity in the OXA Family of ²-Lactamases, Agnieszka Szarecka, James LaFleur, Zachary Hundley, Troy Wymore, and David Leonard
A comparative analysis of the tibia of Paralouatta varonai, an extinct Cuban primate, Melissa Tallman and Andrea Morrow
Grammatical Analysis of User Interface Events for Task Identification, Yonglei Tao
Nato3 induces the expression of key DA neuron markers in a regionally and temporally specific manner within the developing CNS, Merritt Taylor and Jordan Straight
Cracking the challenges of extractive foraging: Common marmosets use behavior to augment morphological specializations, Cynthia Thompson
Visual Lies: Infographics, Ethics, and Business Communication, Christopher Toth
Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Teaching of an Emerging Genre to Empower Students with Information Literacy Skills, Christopher Toth and Hazel McClure
