Research Council announces Summer Research Awards

In Announcements, by , on June 3rd, 2016

The Research Council is pleased to announce the awardees for Summer 2016 research grants. 

Dr. Sherri Cianca – STEM A Practical Guide to Unpacking, Teaching, and Assessing Common Core Standards. Heat.   

Dr. Michelle Ciminelli – Supporting Children’s Play: An Investigation of Local Playgrounds      

Dr. Philip Collington – “Smiling at Grief”: Envy in Twelfth Night     

Dr. Michael Durfee – Crack Era Reform: Race, Rights, and the Rise of Mass Incarceration   

 Dr. Mustafa Gokcek – Reformist or Traditionalist? A Late Ottoman Muslim Intellectual: Babanzade Ahmed Naim    

Dr. Talia Harmon – An Empirical Analysis of the Causes of the Astounding Decline in Death Sentences in the United States  

Dr. Chang Huh – Examining the Dimensions of Quality in Hospitality Management Education: A Student Perspective     

 Dr. John Keller – Cause, Choice, and Chance

 Dr. Abigail Levin – Close Encounters in Mediated Nature: The Life and Death of Cecil the Lion          

 Dr. Joel Louwsma – Stable commutator length in surface groups  

 Dr. Chad Mangum – Fermionic Representations of Twisted Toroidal Lie Algebras  

 Dr. Esteban Mayorga – A Journey to the Galapagos: the Rhetorical Genesis of Paradise        

 Dr. Anna McNab – Strategic Agility: A Framework for Strategic Planning Built For Competitive Business Using Agile Methods

 Dr. Steve Petersen – Superintelligence as Superethical        

 Dr. Doug Tewksbury – Online-Offline Collaboration, Participation, and Community-Building in Cooperative Makerspaces