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Summer 2012 CSU Research Grants Awards

Faculty Rank	Last Name	First Name	Department	Project Title
Associate Professor	Abd El-Raouf	Amal	Computer Science	Software Maintenance - Software Longevity
Professor	Abe	JoAnn	Psychology	Personality characteristics, linguistic styles, and successful online learning
Associate Professor	Abugri	Benjamin A.	Economics & Finance	An Empirical Examination of idiosyncratic Risk in the context of hedge funds
Professor	Achhpal	Beena	Elementary Education	A Collaborative Study to Investigate Urban Elementary Teaching Challenges
Assistant Professor	Adams	Gregory	Sociology	Urban Identities in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Sofia Bulgaria
Associate Professor	Andrushko	Valerie	Anthropology	People and Weight: An Anthropological Perspective
Assistant Professor	Bordner	Kelly	Psychology	Opioids and alcohol: molecular characterization of the consequences of fetal alcohol exposure
Professor	Breslin	Vincent	Science Education & Environmental Studies	Sediment Metal Contamination in the Lower Connecticut River Estuary
Associate Professor	Burke	Karen	Media Studies	Baby Boomers: Activism and Media Fifty Years On
Associate Professor	Chrissidis	Nikolaos	History	Religion and Society in Greek Port Communities of the Black Sea Region
Assistant Professor	Coca	Adiel	Chemistry	Development of the Polyene Cyclization Reaction
Professor	Coron	Cynthia	Earth Sciences	Archival lake/spring deposits of the Coe Limestone: A potential record for hydrovolcanic forcing of climate change
Professor	Crawford	Sarah	Biology	Development of "Ex Vivo" Culture Systems that Incorporates "In Vivo" Determinants of Tumor Progression and Drug Sensitivity Parameters
Assistant Professor	Das	Margaret	Biology	Mapping the amino acids that facilitate receptor binding, cell invasion, and intracellular localization of Dr+ Escherichia coli
Professor	DeJarnette	Glenda	Communication Disorders	African American Pragmatic Language Development and Disorders Phase I: Identification of Research and Research Gaps

Professor	Dickinson	Cheryl	Education	Talking through Texts: A Comprehensive Model for Literacy Development based on Strategic Reading, Writing, and Discussion at the Middle Grade Level
Professor	Dripchak	Valerie	Social Work	A Study Comparing Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Informed Program vs. A Dialectical-Adherent Program for Adolescents
Associate Professor	Edgington	Nicholas	Biology	Characterization of Molecular Pathways that Regulate the N/C ratio
Associate Professor	Ellis	Scott	English	Hawthorne, Science, and Technology
Associate Professor	Eren	Ruth	Special Education & Reading	Longitudinal/Developmental Changes in Academic Profiles of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Learning Disabilities
Associate Professor	Flynn	Deborah	Public Health	Evaluation of a "Drop-in" Support Center for Student Veterans
Associate Professor	Fopiano	Joy	Counseling & School Psychology	A Collaborative Study to Investigate Urban Elementary Teaching Challenges
Professor	Garvey	Sheila	Theater	A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck: an operatic production documentation
Professor	Gemme	Terese	Music	Creating and Documenting Cross Mobile Platform Structured Digital Story Applications
Associate Professor	Ginicola	Misty	Counseling & School Psychology	Sexual Orientation and Religion: The Development of a Religious LGBQ Identity Model
Assistant Professor	Gregory	Jess L.	Educational Leadership	Predicting pre-reading skills in ELL kindergarteners with music perception tests
Professor	Guagliumi	Arthur	Art	Scandinavian Craft Culture
Professor	Harris	Frank	Journalism	Racial Identification: The Evolving Description of Blacks in the American News Media - 1690 to 2011
Professor	Irving	Jonathan	Music	Through the Eyes of the Lens: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for piano-solo - A new multi-media interpretation
Assistant Professor	Irwin	Julia	Psychology	Training an Audiovisual Integration of Spoken Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Professor	Jacobs	John	Psychology	Self-Evaluation at Fifty: Measuring Well-being and its Predictors
Professor	Johnson	Brian	English	A Poet-Painter Portfolio
Professor	Judd	Steven	History	Ibn 'Asākir's Ta'rīkh madīnat Dimashq: Opportunities and Challenges
Assistant Professor	Karatjas	Andrew	Chemistry	Synthesis of Horsfiline and Coereluscine
Professor	Larocco	Steve	English	An Anatomy of Forgiveness
Professor	Lavin	Terrence	Art	Research of the Collections of Historic Scientific Instrumentation at the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum in London
Professor	Liu	Yan	Information & Library Science	Mobile Services in Connecticut Public and Academic Libraries
Associate Professor	Madlock Gatison	Annette	Communication	The pink and The Black Project Phase II: Family and Friends Perceptions of African American Women Breast Cancer Survivors
Professor	Manzella	Joseph	Anthropology	Locating Transcendence: South Asian influenced spiritual communities in California
Professor	Marsoobian	Armen	Philosophy	Memories of a Lost Home: Photography and the Story of an Armenian Family in Anatolia, 1888-1922
Assistant Professor	McVerry	J. Gregory	Education	Talking through Texts: A Comprehensive Model for Literacy Development based on Strategic Reading, Writing, and Discussion at the Middle Grade Level
Professor	Metaxas	Virginia	History	Women, War and Medicine in the Near East in the Early Twentieth Century
Director	Mordente	Giaccomo	Veteran's and Adults Services	Evaluation of a "Drop-in" Support Center for Student Veterans
Professor	Ogbaa	Kalu	English	Carrying my Father's Torch: A Memoir

Professor	Okobi	Elsie	Information & Library Sciences	Creation of a digital collection and catalog of the works of Ben Enwonwu
Professor	Parrish	Tim	English	Archival Research and Drafting of FEAR AND WHAT FOLLOWS, A Memoir
Professor	Pettigrew	David	Philosophy	Witnessing Genocide in Bosnia: Pathways to Justive: A book manuscript
Professor	Petto	Christine	History	The Lion and the Lily: Map and Atlant Production in the Early Modern England and France
Assistant Professor	Preston	Jonathan	Communication Disorders	Training an Audiovisual Integration of Spoken Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Assistant Professor	Randall	Regine	Special Education & Reading	What We Really Need to Know (and the Best Way to Find Out): Understanding the Contribution of Discrete Reading Skills to Total Reading Achievement in High School Students
Assistant Professor	Raynolds	Laura	Special Education & Reading	Predicting pre-reading skills in ELL kindergarteners with music perception tests
Assistant Professor	Risisky	Debra	Public Health	Satisfaction with Hospital and Crisis Services among Victims of Sexual Violence
Professor	Rogers	Michael	Anthropology	Prehistoric Transition: Origins of the Acheulian Tool Industry at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
Assistant Professor	Sandip	Dutta	Economics & Finance	An Empirical Examination of idiosyncratic Risk in the context of hedge funds
Associate Professor	Schmitt	Elena	World Languages & Literature	The effect of time distribution on student attainment in foreign language classes
Professor	Serchuk	Camille	Art	Putting Zacharie de Celers on the Map
Professor	Shipley	Vivian	English	To complete a 9th book of poetry, Archaeology of Days, by researching and writing new poetry to add balance to core poems about how the lives of women and men from 1800 to mid 1900 were shaped by economic circumstances
Assistant Professor	Silday	Rebecca	Biology	Identification of Genes involved in Plant Embryogenesis
Associate Professor	Slomba	Jeff	Art	Floating Home - new sculptures based on the dominion of commerce and ecology in the Long Island Sound
Associate Professor	Smith	Cheri	Counseling & School Psychology	Sexual Orientation and Religion: The Development of a Religious LGBQ Identity Model
Professor	Spear-Swerling	Louise	Special Education & Reading	Longitudinal/Developmental Changes in Academic Profiles of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Learning Disabilities
Assistant Professor	Taylor	Derek	Communcation	Immersive Experiences in Landscape Filmmaking
Professor	Taylor Roscow	Maravene	Special Education & Reading	What We Really Need to Know (and the Best Way to Find Out): Understanding the Contribution of Discrete Reading Skills to Total Reading Achievement in High School Students
Professor	Thompson	Michele	History	Carriers of Hope, the Children Used by in Vaccinators in Portuguese East and Southeast Asia.
Associate Professor	Unson	Christine	Public Health	Comparative Studies in Encore Careers and Ageism in the United States and New Zealand: Employer Perspectives
Professor	Vancour	Michele	Public Health	Estabilishing Best Practices in Lactation Support Initiatives in Higher Education
Professor	Vaters-Carr	Rachael	Art	Transition and aftermath as a metaphor of survivorship
Professor	Vu	Thuan	Art	Translating Vietnamese Imagery
Assistant Professor	Weinbaum	Jonathan	Biology	Late Triassic Paleontology Field Work and Collections Research
Professor	Workman	Robert	Computer Science	Creating and Documenting Cross Mobile Platform Structured Digital Story Applications
Assistant Professor	Yang	Chulguen (Charlie)	Management/MIS	The Effects of Mindfulness Practices on the Cultivation of Emotional Awareness and Moral Reasoning Skills

Community of Science (COS)

SPAR is pleased to announce that the University is now a member of Community of Science (COS) which features the most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

COS provides a full range of Internet-based services for the world's researchers.

Universities, corporations, societies, private institutions, government agencies and individual researchers all depend on COS Web-based products and services to find funding, promote their work, identify experts, manage resources, and collaborate with colleagues.

• COS Funding Opportunities - an up-to-date database of announcements for grants, fellowships, awards and more from around the world, comprising more than 25,000 records worth over $33 billion.

• COS Funding Alert - a weekly e-mail notification with a customized list of funding opportunities based on specified criteria provided by the individual COS member.

• COS Expertise - a richly featured knowledge management system for individuals and institutions, containing more than 480,000 first-person profiles of researchers from over 1,600 institutions worldwide.

• COS Scholar Universe - a searchable, editorially controlled database of nearly 2 million published scholars in a variety of disciplines.

• COS Public View of Expertise (PVE) - a user-friendly interface to make selected information from an institution's research expertise available to key external constituencies and the general public.

• COS Workbench - an easy-to-use Web workspace for Expertise profile holders, with many features to help you promote your work

SCSU Faculty & Staff can access COS Funding Opps and Funding Alert one of two ways:

1) IP Access

From any on-campus computer, you can go right to http://www.cos.com/. Because SCSU's IP addresses will be recognized by RefWorks-COS, you can start searching the database right away.

2) Username and Password

Faculty can log into http://www.cos.com/ with a COS username and password anytime, anywhere. Logging in this way will take the user to his or her COS Workbench. From the COS Workbench, the user can search for grant opportunities. Username and password access is necessary when a) a user is off-campus, or b) when a user needs to save a Funding record or search.

Getting a COS username and password is easy: SCSU faculty & staff can go to http://www.cos.com/ and click the "New User? Register Free" icon near the top left of the screen. You will gain access to Funding Opps and Alert by indicating that you are affiliated with SCSU.

We are certain that you will find many new and exciting opportunities available from the wide variety of funders featured in the searchable COS databases. As always, SPAR looks forward to assisting you with your grant submissions in the upcoming year!