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President's Council of Cornell Women

President's Council of Cornell Women

Affinito-Stewart Grants Award Recipients

2007

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Margaret Bynoe
Microbiology & Immunology
Veterinary Medicine
Antigen-specific immunity against tumors by epicutaneous immunization $6,000
Holly Case
History
Arts & Sciences
Between the lines: Contested boundaries and the fate of the Jews and other minorities in Southeastern Europe during WWII $11,500
Susana Mendez
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Veterinary Medicine
Study of the Immunomodulatory Effect of the Hookworm Molecule Ac-TMP in the Intestinal Mucosa $12,500
Bernadette Meyler
Law
Law School
Towards a common law Originalism $5,900.88

 

2006

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Rachel Bean
Assistant Professor
Department: Astronomy
College: Arts & Sciences
Understanding Cosmic Acceleration: Observational Investigation of Matter and Gravity Based Theories $9,485
Siu Sylvia Lee
Assistant Professor
Department: Molecular Biology
& Genetics
College: Arts and Sciences
Identification of evolutionarily conserved DAF-16 target genes $10,545
Devra C. Moehler
Assistant Professor
Department: Government
College: Arts and Sciences
Private Radio and Media Effects in Africa $10,581
Samantha Zacher
Assistant Professor
Department: English
College: Arts and Sciences
"Anglo-Saxon Homilies in Italian Manuscripts" $4,768

 

2005

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Kavita Bala
Computer Science
Engineering

Constrained Texture Synthesis for Computer Graphics $11,000

Michelle Campos
Near Eastern Studies
Arts and Sciences

"Palestine Between Empire and Nation: 'Civic Ottomanism' in a 'Shared Homeland', 1908-14" $11,000

Nancy Wells
Design & Environmental Analysis
& The Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center
Human Ecology

The Effect of the Environment on Obesity in Low-Income Families: Influences on Physical Activity and Diet $11,000

 

2004

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Rachel Davidson
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering

Optimizing post-earthquake restoration for electric power and water supply systems $11,432

Rachel Dunifon
Policy Analysis and Management
Human Ecology

Local Predictors of Household Food Security $7,500

Melissa J. Ferguson
Psychology
Arts & Sciences

Automatic attitudes and goal-pursuit: How implicit evaluative processes reflect the goal relevance of objects $12,000

Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe Flamino
Clinical Sciences
Veterinary Medicine

The effect of CpG-ODN on the Antigen Presenting Cells of Foals $11,810

Sabine Haenni
Theatre, Film & Dance
Arts & Sciences

The Immigrant Scene: Movies, Theaters, and the Commercial Formation of Ethnic Public Cultures in New York City, 1880-1920 $4,650

Neema Kudva
City and Regional Planning
Architecture, Art & Planning

Second Cities in a Global World $6,694

Christiane Linster
Neurobiology and Behavior
Arts & Sciences

Role of dopaminergic modulation in olfactory processing $10,200

Simone Pinet
Romance Studies
Arts & Sciences

Archipelagoes: Insularity and Fiction in Medieval and Early Modern Spain $4,709

Masha Raskolnikov
English
Arts & Sciences

Body and Soul: Middle English Debate and the Gender of Allegory $4,978

Cynthia Robinson
History of Art /Near Eastern Studies
Arts & Sciences

Imag(in)ing Devotions: Texts, Images and Devotional Culture in Late Medieval Iberia
(14th - 15th centuries)
$7,057

Christine D. Smart
Plant Pathology, Geneva
Agriculture & Life Sciences

Gene expression profiling of tomato plants
that are under attack by a bacterial pathogen
$11,000

 

2003

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Sally A. McKee
Electrical & Computer Engr.,
Engineering

Using the Eclipse Software Infrastructure for Computer Engineering Research $9,500

Linda S. Rayor
Entomology,
Agriculture & Life Sciences

Social Evolution and Geographic Variation in Behavior in an Atypical Social Spider $10,000

Ruth Richardso
Civil & Environmental Engr.,
Engineering

Investigating the importance of bacterial cell-to-cell communication in the biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes.s $10,000

 

2002

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Marianella Casasola
Human Development,
Human Ecology

Korean infants' categorization of spatial relations: Does linguistic environment
influence spatial categorization?
$3,305

Elizabeth DeLoughrey
English,
Arts &Sciences

Historicizing Indian Literature in the Diaspora $3,600

Karen Graubart
History
Arts &Sciences

With our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous
Women and the Construction of Colonial
Society in Peru
$5,787
Kathie Hodge
Plant Pathology
Agriculture & Life Sciences
Life History and Relationships of Ascopolyporus, an unusual fungus of bamboo $9,160
Tamara Loos
History
Arts & Sciences
Subject Siam: Gender, Justice and
Colonialism, 1850's - 1930's
$7,886
Katerina D. Papoulia
Civil and Environmental Eng, Engineering
Linking of Scales in Structural Materials: local properties and global behavior $7,700
Mildred Warner
City and Regional Planning, Architecture, Art & Planning
Privatization: Markets, Public Values and Local Government $4,100

 

2001

Recipient

Area of Study

Award

Patricia A. Cassano
Division of Nutritional Sciences,
Human Ecology

The Relation of cSHMT and Folate Status to
the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
$8,000

Ruth N. Collins
Department of Molecular Medicine,
Veterinary Medicine

An Investigation of Rab Protein Membrane Recruitment $3,800

Laurie E. Drinkwater
Horticulture,
Agriculture & Life Sciences

The role of carbon abundance in determining soil organic matter composition and microbial community function $7,865

Quirine M. Ketterings
Crop and Soil Sciences, Agriculture & Life Sciences

Phosphorus Storage Capacity of Honeoye Soils in New York State $8,000

D. Medina Lasansky
AAP,
Architecture, Art & Planning

Tuscan Vernacular Architecture $3,050

Susanne Pohl
History,
Arts and Sciences

Book Manuscript on the prosecution & punishment of manslaughter in Zurich & Southwest Germany, 1350-1600 $3,900

Rebecca Schneider
Theater Film and Dance,
Arts & Sciences

Reenactment and Contemporary American
Civil War History Plays
$2,580