29 faculty receive General University Research Grants

Recipients include:

Tammy L. Anderson, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice, “Electronica and Youth Culture: Exploring Postrave Identity and Intereaction,” $6,000;

Jennifer M. Barker, associate professor of music, for production of a commercial CD of her own compositions, $3,000;

Thomas W. Bates, assistant professor of finance, “Bid Characteristics and Outcomes in Minority Squeeze-Out Finance Deals,” $6,000;

Persephone Braham, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, “New World Teratologies: Monsters in Latin-American Literature and Culture,” $6,000;

Kathleen Brewer-Smyth, assistant professor of nursing, “Pilot: Cognitive Function and HIV Risk in Female Prison Inmates,” $6,000;

James L. Butkiewicz, professor of economics, “The Development of Federal Credit Programs: The Economics Reconstruction Finance Corporation,” $3,000;

Joshua M. Duke, assistant professor of food and resource economics, “What Motivates Agricultural-Residential Land-Use
Conflicts?,” $6,000;

Andrea S. Everard, assistant professor of accounting and MIS, “How Attribution of Presentation Flaws Affects Users’ Impression of Web Sites,” $5,300;

Jeremy M. Firestone, assistant professor of Marine Studies, “Offshore Wind Power: Navigating Among Environmental, Social and Political Considerations,” $6,000;

Xiang Gao, assistant professor of music, “Butterfly Lovers—An Educational Multimedia Classical Music Production,” $3,000;

Nancy Getchell, assistant professor of health and exercise sciences, “Gross Motor Coordination Deficits in Children with Learning Disabilities,” $5,614;

Marika D. Ginsburg-Block, assistant professor of education, “An Examination of Cultural Continuity and Student Achievement in School,” $6,000;

R. Lance Holbert, assistant professor of communication, “Realigning the Use of Meta-Analysis in Political Communication,” $6,000;

Jaehee Jung, assistant professor of consumer studies, “Body Image as a Function of Acculturation: A Comparison of Caucasian and Asian Women,” $6,000;

Rachel A. Karchmer, assistant professor of education, “Examining the Internet Writing and Publishing Process: Elementary Students’ Views,” $4,990;

Heidi N. Kaufman, assistant professor of English, “The ‘Divine Mistake,’ the ‘Jewish’ Origins of Englishness in the 19th-Century Novel,” $6,000;

Hemant V. Kher, assistant professor of business administration, “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Flextime Work Schedules in Manufacturing Settings,” $6,000;

Nancy C. Lavigne, assistant professor of education, “Assessment of Teacher and Student Representations of Statistical Content,” $6,000;

Susan M. McKenna, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, “Crafting the Female Subject: Narrative Innovation in Pardo Bazán’s Fiction,” $6,000;

Steven T. Mortenson, associate professor of communication, “Assessing Macro and Micro Collectivism and Individualism on Distress Management,” $6,000;

Chrystalla Mouza, assistant professor of education, “Linking Professional Development to Teacher and Learning,” $6,000;

Meredith K. Ray, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, “Writing Gender: Women’s Letter Collections in the Italian Renaissance,” $6,000,

Charles E. Robinson, professor of English, “The Byron Society Collection at UD,” $6,000;

Rosalie Rolón-Dow, assistant professor of education, “Education and the American Dream: Latino/a Perspectives,” $6,000;

Gibbons Ruark, professor of English, “Seen Through a Temperament: A Poet’s Excursions into Prose,” $6,000;

Kathleen A. Schell, assistant professor of nursing, “A Delphi Study of Innovative Teaching in Baccalaureate Nursing Education,” $6,000;

Steven E. Sidebotham, professor of history, “Underwater Archaeological Excavation: A Roman Shipwreck in the Red Sea,” $6,000;

Timothy Spaulding, assistant professor of English, “Reminiscing in Tempo: African-American Literature and the Jazz Aesthetic,” $6,000 and

Monica Dominguez Torres, assistant professor of art history, “New Spanish Monastic Ornament as Space of Cultural Negotiation (1540-80),” $6,000.

Article by Barbara Garrison

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