Past Research Committee Awards
2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002‑2003
2008-2009
Lisa Berger
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Social Worker and Physician Administered Brief Alcohol Intervention for Hospitalized Patients
Winson W. Chu
Assistant Professor, History
Polish, German, or Jewish? The "Lodzer Mensch" and the Politics of Multi-Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century Poland
Christopher A. De Sousa
Associate Professor, Geography
Residential Brownfields Development, Sprawl, and Sustainability: A Demand Side Perspective
Frankie Flood
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Rapid Prototyping and D Scanning in the Production of Art
Ryan Holifield
Assistant Professor, Geography
Environmental Justice and the Cleanup of Contaminated Urban Rivers: A Comparative Study of Areas of Concern in the Lake Michigan Basin
Nan Y. Kim-Paik
Assistant Professor, History
Families of the Wartime Missing and the Return of the Korean War's Presumed Dead in 21st-Century South Korea
Anna Mansson McGinty
Assistant Professor, Geography and Women's Studies
Gender Identity and Activism Among Muslim Women in the Midwest
Lori Neighbors
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
To Weigh or Not to Weigh: The Demography, Epidemiology, and Qualitative Experience of Body Weight Monitoring for Weight Control
Susan Partington
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Prenatal Environment and Childhood Obesity
Joe Peschio
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Linguistics
The Green Lamp
Arijit H. Sen
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Collaborative Politics of the Contact Zone: White Women in the San Francisco Hindu Temple
R. Jason Sherman
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
The Margarita Settlement Survey: Ancient Maya Rural Settlement in South-Central Quintana Roo, Mexico
Julia A. Snethen
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Influence of Familial Environment and Decision-Making Patterns on Childhood Obesity
Natasha Borges Sugiyama
Assistant Professor, Political Science
The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil
Kristin M. Sziarto
Assistant Professor, Geography
The Scales of Immigrant Regulation and Resistance: A Comparative Study
Tanya J. Tiffany
Assistant Professor, Art History
Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville
Laura Trafí-Prats
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
A Narrative Study of Elementary Children's Aesthetic Perspectives of Urban Environment and Change
2007-2008
Christine Calynn T. Cheng
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Algorithmic and Complexity Issues of Sudoku.
Jennifer Suzanne Hruska
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
The dynamics of polynomial skew products in two complex variables.
Tae Youn Kim
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Using Electronic Patient Records to Measure Pressure Ulcer Prevalence.
Soyoung Lee
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Phonological awareness and nonsense word production in bilingual children.
Jin Li
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Impact of surface properties on the transport of microbial pollutants in prous media.
Aims McGuinness
Assistant Professor, History
Rights of Time: Labor, the Working Day, childhood, and Aging in the United States and Mexico, 1880-Present.
Katie E. Mosack
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Older Russian Immigrant Women's Health Beliefs and the Treatment of Hypertension.
Jason Puskar
Assistant Professor, English
Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871-1935.
Jenifer J. Runquist
Assistant Professor, Nursing
A pilot investigation of fatigue after childbirth in a vulnerable community.
Caorline Seymour-Jorn
Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women's Writing.
Lisa Silverman
Assistant Professor, History
Theater, Photography, and Austrian Jewish Cultural History: Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) and Dora Kallmus (1881-1963).
Michael Tofias
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Understanding Asymmetry in the Colonel Blotto Game.
Catherine Vanderboom
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Identification of Rescue Activities Provided to Home Healthcare Patients.
Florence Vatan
Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Mastering Sensibility: The Aesthetics of Flaubert and Baudelaire in Light of Contemporary Medical Conceptions.
Erin N. Winkler
Assistant Professor, Africology
"I Learn About Being Black Everywhere I Go": The Racial Socialization of African-American Children.
Hong Yu
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Effectively Determining the Information Needs from Ad Hoc Clinical Questions Posed for Question Answering.
2006-2007
Michael Brondino
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Development of a Content Specific Reading Test to Link Test Readability to Respondent Ability.
Noelle Chesley
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Contextualizing Care: Informal Elder Care, Employment, and Caregiver Health and Well-Being.
Edward Hinchman
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Evil and the Limits of Responsibility.
Rebecca Holderness
Assistant Professor, Theatre
A Mixed Media Performance: "The Observation of Miss Julie."
Wooseob Jeong
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Touchable Online Text and Image Display for Blind People.
Catherine Anne Johnson
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Investigating the Social Capital of Public Libraries.
Erin Kaheny Olsen
Assistant Professor, Political Science
An Investigation of Circuit Judge Gatekeeping Behavior in Administrative Agency Appeals.
Bonita Klein-Tasman
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Early Autism Phenotype: Head Circumference Growth and Emerging Executive Functioning.
Christina Mararnci
Associate Professor, Art History
The Geometry of Power.
Sandra Martell
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Field Trips to Museums and Student Learning: What Does the Data Tell Us?
J. Carson Smith
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Exercise as a Treatment for Depression in Older Adults: Effects on Emotional Reactivity and Brain Function.
Richard Tierney
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Aristotle's Concept of Nature.
Luc Vanier
Assistant Professor, Dance
The "e's of Water".
Andrea Westlund
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Care and the Self.
Jeb Willenbring
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Problems in Quantum Computation.
Bo Zhang
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Examining the Value of Group Grades in Assessing Student Achievement.
Huimin Zhao
Assistant Professor, Business
Intelligent Symptom-Based Retrieval of Electronic Medical Records.
2005-2006
Daniel Agterberg
Assistant Professor, Physics
Dynamics of Unconventional Superconductors.
Ellen J. Amster
Assistant Professor, History
City of Saints: Political Organization, Geography and Urban History in Fes, Morocco.
Joe Austin
Assistant Professor, History
Global Undergrounds: Graffiti Artists, Goths, and Print-Zines Across National Boundaries, 1980-Present.
Jay J. Bauer
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Voice F0 Responses Elicited by Perturbations in Pitch of Auditory Feedback in Individuals that Stutter and Controls.
Rachel Ida Buff
Assistant Professor, History.
Conjugal Policy: Occupying Asian America, 1945-1975.
Kuang-chi Chang
Assistant Professor, Sociology
The Social Logic Behind "Offshoring" in the Asian Market: Moving Business and Social Networks into China.
Steven Q. Dornbos
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Paleocology and Paleoenvironmental Setting of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna of China: An Early View of the Cambrian Explosion.
Caryn S. Easterling
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Effectiveness of Electrical Stimulation on Swallowing in Children with Neurologic Impairment with Chronic Dysphagia.
Laura Fingerson
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Food and Physical Activity in Teen Peer Cultures.
Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho
Assistant Professor, History
Burial Rites, Funerary Sociability, and Sense of Self Among Slaves and Freed Persons at Rome in the Early Principate.
Prasenjit Guptasarma
Assistant Professor, Physics
Probing Correlated Electron Spins in New Magnetoelectric Materials.
Tracey Heatherington
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Environmetalist Identities in the New Europe: Sardinian Forest Rangers.
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Adornment as Extension of the Body.
Jonathan W. Kanter
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapy for Depression.
Sergei V. Kuchin
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Assessment of Std1 and Related Proteins as New Molecular Targets for Safe Antifungal Therapy.
Jeri-Annette Lyons
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
B Lymphocyte Migration and Maturation During a Multiple-Sclerosis-like Disease in Mice.
Robin Mello
Assistant Professor, Theatre
Stages for Learning: History and Practice of Theatre Education in Public Schools.
James R. Moyer
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Evaluation of a Novel Treatment for Aging-Related Cognitive Decline.
Michael P. Muehlenbein
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Effects of Testosterone Supplementation on the Immune Functions of Obese Men and HIV-Infected Men.
Mark Netzloff
Assistant Professor, English
Before the Grand Tour: English Travel and Migration in Early Modern Europe, 1570-1640.
Kristian Matthew O'Connor
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Do Clinical Functional Tests Predict Knee Joint Mechanics During Play?
Mat Rappaport
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Presences: An Interactive Video Installation.
Stefan Schnitzer
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Quantifying Long-Term, Large-Scale Changes in Temperate Forest Plant Communities.
Douglas A. Steeber
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Defining the Role of Adhesion Molecules in Lymphocyte Migration and the Generation of Protective Immunity.
Kyle Talbott
Assistant Professor, Architecture
A Computer-Aided Architectural Design Method to Augment Creativity.
Hani H.Titi
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics
Mechanistic/Numerical Methodology for Improved Performance of Highway Pavements.
Jorg C. Woehl
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Development of Novel, High Performance Fiber Probes for the Optical Imaging of Single Molecules on Surfaces.
Changshan Wu
Assistant Professor, Geography
Understanding Lyme Disease and Environmental Relationships in Wisconsin - A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach.
Yaoying Xu
Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education
The Effect of Empowering Families of Premature Infants Through Linked Assessment and Intervention on Caregiver-Infant Interactions.
2004-2005
Scott Adams
Assistant Professor, Economics
The Health Insurance-Wage Tradeoff.
Jasmine Alinder
Assistant Professor, History
Left Living: Frank P. Zeidler and Milwaukee's Socialist Legacy.
Dyanna Czeck
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
When Tectonic Plates Collide: Predicting Strain for Rocks Under Stress.
Scott Drewianka
Assistant Professor, Economics
Causes of Trends in Family Structure: An International Comparison.
Kyle Ebersole
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Determinants of Performance During Functional Knee Joint Stability Exercises in Soccer Players.
Christina Ewig
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Is Neoliberalism Bad For Women? Peru and the Politics of Health Reform in Latin America.
Luca Ferrero
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Decisions for Future Action and Personal Identity.
Judith Franzak
Assistant Professor, English
Struggling Middle School Readers Transition to High School: A Study of Policy in Context.
Bryan Kennedy
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Understanding the Culture of the Brazilian Favela.
Lian Li
Associate Professor, Physics
Atomic Scale Studies of Magnetism in Magnetic Semiconductorsby Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
Christopher Papadopoulos
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Understanding and Predicting the Performance and Failure of Optimal Structures.
Adeeb Rahman
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Low-Weight and Low-Stiffness Cellular Metal Alloys for Human Joint Implants and as Bone Replacement.
Joel Rast
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Curbing Industrial Decline or Thwarting Redevelopment? An Evaluation of Chicago's Planned Manufacturing Districts.
Gillian Rodger
Assistant Professor, Music
The Early History of American Vaudeville, 1850-1880.
Scott Strath
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Enhancing Physical Activity Motivation in Older Adults.
Rodney Swain
Associate Professor, Psychology
Angiogenesis/Neurogenesis Inhibition and Learning.
Ann Swartz
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Determinants of Glucose Intolerance and Insulin Sensitivity in Older Adults.
Min Wu
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Tele-Educational System for Dental Residents Interpreting Oral Cancer Images.
Darci Wutz
Assistant Professor, Dance
Broadway Dances: A Journey Through Time.
Jian Xu
Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Suffering, Representation, and Critical Positioning in China's Postsocialist Literature and Film.
Vladislav Yakovlev
Associate Professor, Physics
When Dreams Come True: Nanoscopic Non-Invasive Imaging of Living Cells.
Ching-Hong Yang
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Genome-Wide Identification of Virulence Genes in Erwinia Chrysanthemi 3937.
2003-2004
Rene Antrop-Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Education Curriculum and Instruction
Factors that Latina/o Urban Alternative High School Students Attribute to their High Academic Achievement and Resiliency.
Razia Azen
Assistant Professor, Education Educational Psychology
Relative Importance of Correlated Predictor Variables: Inference with Dominance Analysis.
Sukanya Banerjee
Assistant Professor, English
Imperial Diasporas and the Politics of Nation-Space: Colonial Identities and Metropolitan Englishness.
John A. Berges
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Mortality in Freshwater Phytoplankton.
Kimberly J. Cosier
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Matters of Concern for At-Risk High School Students in Art Classrooms and Beyond.
Jennifer E. Earl
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Science
Relationships Among Gender, Dynamic Malalignment, and Lower Extremity Injury.
Simone Ferro
Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
Dance Research Performance Called "Ear-Walking Woman."
Jill Ann Holman
Assistant Professor, Economics
Alternative Methods of Financing Productive Government Expenditures in an Open Economy.
Susanne Jones
Assistant Professor, Communication
Socio-Psychological and Cultural Variations in the Experience and Expression of Emotional Labor.
William P. Jones
Assistant Professor, History
Dispatches from the War Within: An Anne Braden Reader.
Andrew Kincaid
Assistant Professor, English
Holding the Center: The Geographies of Consolidation and the Emergence of Postcolonial Dublin.
Jin Li
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Effect of Biological Filters and the Removal of Biological Warfare Agents.
Shelley Lund
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Effect of Augmented Input on the Development of Grammar by Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative . . .
Linda McCarthy
Assistant Professor, Geography
Milwaukee's Brownfields: Redevelopment and Environmental Equity?
Rebecca Neumann
Assistant Professor, Economics
Sequencing of Domestic Financial Market Development and International Capital Market Liberalization.
Sandra K. Plach
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Anxiety, Depression, and Positive Functioning in Women with Heart Failure: Can Social Roles Make a Difference?
Steven B. Redd
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Terrorism and Foreign Policy Decision Making: Including Emotions in the Calculus.
Robert O. Self
Assistant Professor, History
Century Interrupted: 1968 in American History and the International Imagination.
Hanh Q. Trinh
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Strategic Response of Urban Hospitals to the Managed Care Market.
Michael Weinert
Professor, Physics
Electronic Properties of Oxide Nanostructure Interfaces.
Dexuan Xie
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
A Fast Algorithm for Visualizing Structure-Activity Relationships of Large-Scale Chemical Databases.
Erica B. Young
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Nutrient Induced Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Transients as a Diagnostic of Nutrient Limitation in Freshwater Microalgae.
2002-2003
Alter, Alison
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Economic Expectations and Elections.
Azenabor, Anthony A.
Assistant Professor, Allied Health Health Sciences
Chlamydia Pneumoniae Infection Modulates Lipoprotein Lipase Activity, Enhances LDL Modification and Contributes to . . .
Burlage, Robert
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Isolation of Genes From a Toxic Fungus.
Buseh, Aaron G.
Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance
Stigma Experienced by Women Living with HIV/AIDS Along the Wellness-Illness Continuum.
Cameron, Barry I.
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
The Tempestuous Relationship Between Volcanoes and Glaciers.
Chee, Wonshik
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Online Monitoring of Gear Degradation for Automatic Control Systems.
Clark, Dave
Assistant Professor, English
Collectivist Individuals: Open-Source Software Communities and the Politics of Technology.
Clark, George
Assistant Professor, English
Ropa Rimwe: A Novel in Progress.
Eger, Robert J.
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Smart Economic Development: A Performance Study of Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) in Wisconsin.
Greene, Anthony J.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
The Organization of Inferential Learning and Declarative Memory: Amnesia and the Transitive Inference Task.
Greenwald, Michael
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
Sitting on Top of the World: The Application of Recently Acquired Orbital Imagery for Land Use and Water . . .
Im, Eun-Ok
Assistant Professor, Nursing Health Maintenance
An Internet Survey Study on Menopausal Symptoms Among Asian Women From Six Ethnic Groups.
Klein-Tasman, Bonita P.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Behavioral Characteristics of Children with Williams Syndrome in a Standardized Context: Performance on the . . .
Larson, Vincent
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Clouds and Forecasts of Weather and Climate.
McKay, Steven
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Globalization Afloat: The Making of Filipino Seafarers.
Miller, Christine
Assistant Professor, Nursing Health Restoration
Heart Disease Symptoms and Risk Factors in Black Women.
Moran, Graham
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
New Approaches to Therapeutics from First Principles.
Root, Meredith
Assistant Professor, Film
The Theatre of the Small.
Wang, Ying
Assistant Professor, Art History
Silk, Power, and Gender in Shang China.
Zeng, Chaoyang
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Searching the Genes that Orchestrate the Neuronal Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation in the Drosophila . . .