Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
2012-2013
Socrates on the "Greatest Things" in the APOLOGY, Mark Moes
WATER AND SANITATION IN HAITI AN ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE, Azizur Molla, Wampler, Peter J., Rediske, and Richard R.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Rural Haiti: A Medical Anthropology, Azizur Molla, Wampler, Peter J., Rediske, and Rick R.
Taking it to the Streets: Field Reports on the Opportunities and Obstacles Associated with Helping Community Sports ProgramsAdopt the National Standards for Sport Coaches, Dana Monk and Rick Albrecht Dr.
Valuing Social Returns on Social Investments: Comparing the State-of-the-Art in the U.S. and Europe, Michael Moody and Laura Littlepage
Blacks, Boosterism, and Boxing, Louis Moore
What Happened to the White Athlete?, Louis Moore
Reporting Creatively: The Dying Art of Literary Journalism, Oindrila Mukherjee, Austin Bunn, Rueben Martinez, Sugi Ganeshananthan, and Billy Baker
Listening to the Public: Surveying Internship Work Sites to Determine Students Postgraduate Readiness., Dauvan Mulally
Sensitive subject matters: What determines vulnerability in Social Work research?, Cray Mulder and Lindsay Tryc
Claiming Humanism in the 1930s: Conservatives, Radicals, and the Power of a Label, Paul Murphy
See Below, Janet Navarro
The Role of Disturbance in Changing Our Practices, Janet Navarro and Rod Rock
Opportunities and Challenges in Undergraduate Research Mentorship, Felix Ngassa
Gongfu Interpretation of Confucianism, Peimin Ni
Earnings Persistence and Firm Characteristics in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries, Yatin N. and Marinus DeBruine
A study of crime and gentrification in central cities in the U.S., Laudo Ogura
The Historical Materialist Conception of History and the Meaning of the Messiah in Walter Benjamins Notion of the Dialectical Image, Michael R. Ott
Multi-wavelength Studies of the Gamma-ray Pulsar PSR J1907+0602, Dirk Pandel and Robert Scott
The Style of Pasternaks Translations of Shakespeare in Comparison to the Style of His Original Writings, Svetoslav Pavlov
Belisarius' second occupation of Rome and Pericles' last speech, Charles Pazdernik
Variance in the RACE Process Across PR Practice Settings, Tim Penning
Measuring students conceptual understanding using pre and post assessments and the Rasch model, Thomas Pentecost and Jack Barbera
Film Trek: The Cinematic Experience of Walking, Toni Perrine
General Semantics and Sexuality: Intimate Applications, Valerie Peterson
Infusion of ABET specified Professional and Academic Content into Off-campus Work Experiences via Distance Learning Modules, Chris Plouff and Nael Barakat
Incorporating Teaching of Meaning and Value in College Psychology Courses, Sandra Portko
Patriot Saint: Charles Elliott's Adaptation to Antebellum Methodism and the making of Mainline Protestantism, Barton Price
Leaving the Library to Google the Government: How Academic Patrons Find Government Information, Elizabeth Psyck
Why Corporations Adopt Sustainability Initiatives: Am Empirical Study, Paulette Ratliff-Miller and Anne Sergeant
A SURVEY OF HOUSEHOLD WATER QUALITY IN RURAL HAITI, Richard Rediske, Peter Wampler, and Azizur Molla
Using the ASME Student Design Competition as the Culminating Design and Build Experience in a Freshman Level CAD/CAM Course, Wendy Reffeor, Sung-Hwan Joo, and Chris Pung
Yoopers, Trolls, and Detroiters: The Perceptual Dialectology of Michigan, Kathryn Remlinger PhD and Angela Tratmontelli
Personality Profiles and Computing Majors: Predictive or Anecdotal, Informing or Useless?, John Reynolds
Progress toward determining the Structure and Function of the Extra-cellular Domain of Glucagon Receptor and complexes with Ligands, Ross Reynolds; L. Wren; N. Parker; A. Pioszak; and E, Xu
Equitable Access at Farmers Markets: The Food Services Movement, Russell Rhoads
The challenges of Internet defamation in the US and China, Mark Richards and Yi Zhao
Using a Photography Contest to Celebrate and Raise Awareness of Departmental Activities, Peter Riemersma and Peter Wampler
"Virtue and Vice Attributions in the Business Context: An Experimental Investigation", Brian Robinson, Mark Alfano, and Paul Stey
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Character Issue and Other Considerations, Jeremy Robinson, Sufen Lai, Curtis Smith, Steven Day, and Sherry Mou
32nd National Conference, A. Scott Rood and Andrew Holdnak Dr.
"Macho Nation: Chicano Soldiering & Masculinity During The Vietnam War", Steven Rosales
The Myth of Work Life Balance, Sally Ross, Jennifer Bruening PhD, Gregory Kane PhD, and John Miller PhD
Phylogeographic analyses reveal cryptic subdivisions and unexpected connections among Myotis lucifugus populations, Amy L. Russell, Maarten Vonhof, and Cassandra Miller-Butterworth
Billband CD Release Concert, Bill Ryan
Promoting Progress in the General Curriculum through Self-Advocacy, Amy Schelling
Panel presentation; also 2 workshops, Ellen Schendel, Violet Dutcher, and William J. Macauley
Whoooo Knew? Assessment Strategies for Inquiry Science, Ellen Schiller and Jacquelyn Melin
Implication and Realization in Kaija Saariaho's "Quatre Instants", John Schuster-Craig
Advising for Student Retention and Success, Mary Schutten
AN ADVISING AND REGISTRATION MODEL FOR TRANSFER STUDENT RETENTION AND SUCCESS, Mary Schutten
Circling back: Using learner-centered data to inform curricular decision-making, Shelley Schuurman, Scott Berlin, and Julie Guevara
Community Finding within the Community Set Space, Jerry Scripps
What's Skill Have to Do with It?, Beverly Seley, Kim Cridler, Phil Ranuzzi, Evan Larsen, and Kathleene Brown
The City as Spectacle: Santo Domingo as Seen by the First Travelers, Medar Serrata
Imperial Sentiment: Colonialism and Consequences in Owensons The Missionary, Ashley Shannon
Police Academy Cadets: Methods of Fitness Training (Lab vs. Field), Ross Sherman and Amy Crawley
Badge"-ring Preservice Teacher into Learning Issues and Trends in Technology Integration, Jason P. Siko
Title: Design-Based Research on the Use of Homemade PowerPoint Games, Jason P. Siko
Therapy and Fun, Jean Silbar, Rachael Voorhees, and Margaret Martin
Therapy and Fun Creating Positive Therapy for Children Through Effective Teen Mentoring, Jean Silbar, Rachael Voorhees, and Margaret Martin
Do Insiders Actually Earn Abnormal Returns in the Long-Run?, Thuy Simpson and Richard DeFusco
Su Shi's External and Internal Alchemy, Curtis Smith
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: Character Issue and Other Considerations, Curtis Smith, Sufen Lai, Sherry Mou, Jeremy Robinson, and Steven Day
History Writing and Printers in Early Modern France, James Smither
Title: The Impact of Late-Life Immigration on the Heath of Elderly Immigrants, Claudia Smith Kelly and Fungiasi Nota
Hands-on Calculus Using 3-D Paper Models, Shelly Smith
Grand Rapids at Night, Stafford Smith
"Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Curse Turned Into a Blessing", Ivo Soljan
The "Benefits" of the Slave Trade, Scott Stabler
A Group Control Chart for County Statistics in Michigan, Paul Stephenson and Marco Benedetti
Educating Middle Class Children in Santiago, Chile: Parents, Children, Knowledges and Practices, Joel Stillerman
Performing Middle Class and Teenage Identities at the Mall: Evidence from Chile, Joel Stillerman, Rodrigo Salcedo, Sofia Covarrubias, and Gail Phillips
Performances & Master Classes, Richard Stoeizel
Performances & Master Classes, Richard Stoeizel
Putting professionalism back into teaching: Secondary pre-service and in-service teachers engaging in interdisciplinary instruction unit plans, Elizabeth Stolle and Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer
Les Espaces des Animaux: Animals in the Spaces of Surrealism, Kirsten Strom
Endogenous Saving in a Model of Factor-Eliminating Technical Change, Brad Sturgill
Developing Writing Skills in an Introduction to Proofs Course, Ted Sundstrom
Integration of pixel-based and object-based image classification for extraction of water bodies with Landsat imagery, Wanxiao Sun, Fangdi Sun, Peng Gong, and Jin Chen
Eye Movements Reveal the Influence of Event Structure on Reading Behavior, Benjamin Swets and Christopher Kurby
Regime and Opposition in Russia: Engaging Society in a Semi-Authoritarian System, Heather Tafel
Enhancing Learning Skills via Opportunistic Software Development, Yonglei Tao
Standard Class Hierarchies as a Source of Design Knowledge for Model Transformation, Yonglei Tao
SCREENING THE EFFECTS OF GENE OVEREXPRESSION ON THE DEVELOPING CHICK MIDBRAIN WITH UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS, Merritt Taylor, Joshua Lee, Jordan Straight, Douglas Peterson, Elizabeth King, and Merritt Taylor
Social Media, Infographics, and the Role of Information Literacy in Business Communication, Christopher Toth, Hazel McClure, and Rachel Wolford
Revisiting a pattern for processing combinatorial objects in parallel, Christian Trefftz and Jerry Scripps
Whats Morality Got to Do With It? Some "Firsthand" Problems with Racial Profiling, Dwayne Tunstall
Finding Temporal Pattern in Gene Expression Profiles, Guenter Tusch, Yuka Kutsumi, Olvi Tole, Vincent Sam, and Lakshmi Mamidi
Translational Meta-Analysis Tool for Temporal Gene Expression Profiles, Guenter Tusch and Olvi Tole
Factors Correlated with Physical Activity in Middle-aged Women with and Without Type 2 Diabetes, Melodee Vanden Bosch and L.B. Robbins
COMPARISON OF MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT TYPE 2 DIABETES ON DEMOGRAPHIC, CLINICAL, AND SOCIAL-COGNITIVE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERATE- TO VIGOROUS-INTENSITY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, Melodee Vanden Bosch, Lorraine B. Robbins, Kirk Anderson, Karin A. Pfeiffer, William D. Corser, Barbara Given, and Ved Gossain
Sociocultural Impediments to Natural Resource Security and Sustainability in Haiti, Christian Vannier
Atikevodu: Medicine and Spirituality in a Gorovodu Community of Southern Togo, Christian Vannier and Eric Montgomery
Oboe Works by Petr Eben, Marlena Vavrikova
Strontium and sulfur isotopic data support Chesterian (Late Mississippian) age for the Michigan Formation, Patricia E. Videtich
Enigmatic Laminae in Dolomite in the Mississippian Michigan Formation: Subsurface of Western Michigan, Patricia E. Videtich and Adam J. Davis
Cities: Departure and Deviation, Norwood Viviano