A 21-grant salute to the breadth of UW-Green Bay faculty scholarship
An unusually long list of 21 faculty projects received partial funding in the fall semester round of grants-in-aid of research made by the UW-Green Bay Research Council. The average award was $300. The Council extended congratulations to the entire faculty for being "passionately committed to pursuing research and scholarly endeavors."
Grant recipients and their projects provide a snapshot of the type of ongoing research taking place every day:
Gregory Aldrete, Humanistic Studies, will attend the American
Philological Association and Archaeological Institute of America
meeting in Montreal, Canada, where he’ll present a paper, “Floods
and the Distribution of Various Types of Buildings in Ancient
Rome.” The paper precedes his book on floods in ancient Rome,
scheduled for publication in 2006.
Denise Bartell, Human Development, will present
her research, “A Comparison of Television Portrayals and Real-life
Adolescent Romanic Experiences,” at the Biennial International
Conference of the International Association for Relationship Research
held on Crete.
Dawn D’Amico, Social Work, is conducting research
in Chicago, creating a photo documentary of low-income housing
residents entitled, “Life in Public Housing,” aimed at educating,
destigmatizing, and demystifing what it means to live and grow
up in federally subsidized housing. The research will serve as
a teaching tool for students in social work and education.
Carol Emmons, Communication in the Arts, will
travel to India to investigate sites related to research on installation
art, an art form in which aspects of the site are used to establish
content in the work as well as context. Prof. Emmons’ work generally
deals with large environments in which the viewer becomes a participant
by moving through the space.
Mark Everingham, Social Change and Development,
will travel to Mexico to conduct research on “Communal Land and
Forestry Management in Guatemala and Oaxaca, Mexico.” This collaborative
project on land restitution and land use is with the director
of area studies on population, environment and rural development
at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Guatemala
City.
Alison Gates, Communication in the Arts, will
construct art pieces for a solo exhibition in Moorhead, Minnesota.
She’ll construct six new pieces of fiber-sculpture expressing
the relationship between comfort and stability using fabric and
the boat as metaphors.
Regan Gurung, Human Development, will travel
to New York to present “Assessing Textbooks,” his research examining
the way textbooks are written and how they mediate the process
of student learning.
Andrew Kersten, Social Change and Development,
will continue research on the history of the American Federation
of Labor and its successor, the American Federation of Labor-Congress
of Industrial Organizations. His survey aims to explain the vast
historical literature about the U.S. labor movement and working
class of the 1900s.
Mark Kiehn, Education, will collect data for
a phase of research on “Music Creativity Development among Elementary
School Students.” The research will examine musical improvisational
ability, creativity, and a relationship to academic achievement
in three grades.
Anne Kok (and her research team of social work
students), Social Work, will conduct a survey, “What is Happening
to the Individuals and Families on the Housing Choice Voucher
Program Waiting List in Brown County?” The purpose is to learn
about vulnerability to homelessness due to the extended waiting
list.
Kari Beth Krieger, Human Biology, will continue
her research analyzing necropsy profiles for her project entitled,
“Colony Health Monitoring of Hoxa5SV2 Mouse Colony.”
John Lyon, Natural and Applied Sciences, will
investigate the “Characterization of Palladium Alloys as Catalysts
for the Hydrodechlorination of Chlorohydrocarbons.”
Brian Merkel, Human Biology, will continue
his collaborative project, “PCB-Mediated Immunotoxicity in CD2D1
Mice.” Additional phases are needed to strengthen preliminary
data before work can be submitted for publication.
Jennifer Mokren, Communication in the Arts,
will continue creating a series of new pieces, “Thin Line Brooch
Series,” exploring the “thin line” between two sides of an issue.
Kim Nielsen, Social Change and Development,
will travel to collect data for her research on “The Woman in
the Teacher: A Biography of Anne Sullivan Macy.” Macy was Helen
Keller’s teacher.
Cristina Ortiz, Humanistic Studies, will present
a paper at the Film and Literature Association meeting in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. Her paper analyzing the Mexican film “Y tu mama
tambičn,” is “Framing Globalization: A Cinematic Reflection of
the Impact of Globalization in Latin America.”
Patricia Ragan, Education, will give a paper
at the fifth Annual Session of the Oxford Round Table on Early
Childhood Education in England. She’ll be presenting “An International
Perspective” on the impact of children’s language experiences
at home.
Angeles Rodriguez, Humanistic Studies, will
continue research on “(His)stories of Mexico: Fictional Representation
of the Collective Past Through Historical Soap Operas.” It extends
Prof. Rodriguez’s work based on her dissertation.
Patricia Terry, Natural and Applied Sciences,
will attend the American Institute of Chemical Engineers conference
in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she’ll present a paper entitled, “Characterization
of Cr(VI) Ion Exchange with Hydrotalcite.”
Jeff Whitworth, Business Administration, will
travel to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for the annual Southwestern
Finance Association meeting where he will present his paper, “Ex-Dividend
Stock Price Behavior: Evidence From a Century of Tax Law Changes.”
Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges, Urban and Regional
Studies, will conduct research, “Gender differences in problem
solving in the natural and social sciences,” in which students
will participate in a problem solving task that seeks to uncover
potential gender differences based on major and problem solving
style.
