The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2018 Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF) Awards. Funding support totaling $52,791.77 will be granted to 36 exciting faculty projects. An additional $7,950.00 in matching funds will be granted to support a number of research symposia / colloquia.
The SFF program offers crucial support to faculty research, scholarly activities, creative works, and interdisciplinary initiatives. These competitive awards provide up to $2000 to assist faculty in the initiation, completion, or advancement of these projects.
Additional information about the program, including the guidelines and application form, are available on the OVPR website. The deadline for the Spring 2019 awards is December 1, 2018. Note that this is a change from previous competitions to allow adequate time for application processing before awards are effective on January 1.
The Fall 2018 SFF awardees are:
Daniel Adler, Anthropology, Tracking the Earliest Dispersal of Humans from Africa at Haghtanak-3, an Early Pleistocene Archaeological Site in Northern Armenia
Jorge Aguero, Economics and El Instituto, Can Inclusive Education Programs Reduce Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market?
Emma Amador, History (and El Instituto), Contesting Colonial Citizenship
Mary Anne Amalaradjou, Animal Science, Early and sustained application of probiotics to improve growth and performance in chickens
Brian Aneskievich, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Publication of a Critical Evaluation of Current Literature, Emerging Trends, and Future Research Foci for the Anti-Inflammatory Protein TNIP1
Alfredo Angeles-Boza, Chemistry, Mechanistic Studies of N2 Binding and Activation
Alexander Anievas, Political Science, Legacies of Fascism: Race and the Far-Right in the Making of the Cold War
Saraswathi Bellur Thandaveshwara, Communication, Media Psychophysiology Lecture and Workshop
Pamela Brown, English, The Diva’s Gift: The Italian Actress and the Shakespearean Stage
Brenda Brueggemann, English, Posting Mabel: An Epistolary Biography of Mabel Hubbard Bell
Clewiston Challenger, Educational Psychology, Dr. Challenger’s Transition to College Program for Student-Athletes (CTCPSA)
Chi-Ming Chen, Psychological Sciences, Neuronal oscillations in dysfunctions of obsessive-compulsive disorders
Ashwin Dani, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visual Tracking Using Sparse Coding and Earth Mover’s Distance
Debanuj DasGupta, Geography, Precarious Transgender Subject and Shrinking Urban Spaces in Kolkata
Ana Maria Diaz-Marcos, Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Stages of Crisis: Spanish Women Playwrights in the 21st Century
Maria Gordina, Mathematics, Workshop “Functional inequalities in probability”
Solomiya Ivakhiv, Music, Singles and Doubles: Haydns, Mendelssohn and Hummel Double Concertos
Walter Krawec, Computer Science & Engineering, Numerical Tools for Practical Limited-Resource Quantum Cryptography
Maria LaRusso, Human Development and Family Studies, Intervening with Behaviorally Challenging Students in Schools: A Pilot Study of Collaborative and Proactive Solutions
Glen Macleod, English, Wallace Stevens and Surrealism—Public Lecture as part of “UConn Celebrates Wallace Stevens in Hartford”
Philip Mannheim, Physics, Sabbatical Research at Stanford University
Samuel Martinez, El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies, 2018 Mead Lecture: “Immigration in the Time of Trump”
Deborah McDonald, Nursing, The Analgesic Adverse Drug Response Measure: Development and Psychometric Testing
Matthew McKenzie, History, Breaking the Banks: Representation and Reality in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966.
Liansu Meng, Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, Man/Woman, Machine/Nature: Modern Chinese Poetry at the Intersection of Industrialism and Feminism (1915-1980)
Yonatan Morse, Political Science, Legislative Candidacy in Tough Environments: The Case of Cameroon
Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Statistics, Sabbatical Leave Fall 2018: Major Book Revision and Research Trips
Shayla Nunnally, Political Science, The Black Class Reunion Oral History Project
Kim Price-Glynn, Sociology, Contradictions of Caregiving: Negotiating Parenting, Child Care, and Labor
Sarah Reed, Animal Science, Alterations in insulin-like growth factor signaling in maternal and fetal placental tissues as a result of poor maternal nutrition
Barry Rosenberg, Art & Art History, Two International Centers for Contemporary Art: London and Paris
Marcus Rossberg, Philosophy and UConn Logic Group, Logic Group Colloquium
Susan Schneider, Philosophy, Designing the Mind: AI, Brain Enhancement, and the Nature of the Self
Matthew Singer, Political Science, PREPPS: The Political Representation, Parties and Presidents Survey
Christine Sylvester, Political Science, Commemorating War Defeat: Japan and Australia
Whitney Tabor, Psychology, Escape from Fraught States: Testing a Web-based Mechanism for the Study of Group Coordination
Brian Waddell, Political Science, Transcription of interview tapes
Lingling Wang, Finance, Textual Analysis on the Compensation Discussion and Analysis
Xiaodong Yan, Mathematics, Recent progress in multiscale nonlocal PDEs
Jing Zhao, Chemistry, Study of the electron transfer mechanism from colloidal quantum dots to molecular electron acceptors