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2006
Award Recipients
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Recipient
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Area
of Study
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Award
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Rachel Bean
Assistant Professor
Department: Astronomy
College: Arts & Sciences |
Understanding Cosmic Acceleration: Observational
Investigation of Matter and Gravity Based Theories |
$9,485 |
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Siu Sylvia Lee
Assistant Professor
Department: Molecular Biology & Genetics
College: Arts and Sciences |
Identification of evolutionarily conserved DAF-16
target genes |
$10,545 |
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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 |
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2005
Award Recipients
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Recipient
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Area
of Study
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Award
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Kavita Bala
Computer Science
Engineering |
Constrained Texture Synthesis for Computer Graphics |
$11,000 |
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Michelle Campos
Near Eastern Studies
Arts and Sciences |
“Palestine Between Empire and Nation: ‘Civic
Ottomanism’ in a ‘Shared Homeland’, 1908-14” |
$11,000 |
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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 |
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2004
Award Recipients
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Recipient
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Area
of Study
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Award
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Rachel Davidson
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering |
Optimizing post-earthquake restoration for electric
power and water supply systems |
$11,432 |
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Rachel Dunifon
Policy Analysis and Management
Human Ecology |
Local
Predictors of Household Food Security |
$7,500 |
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Melissa J. Ferguson
Psychology
Arts & Sciences |
Automatic attitudes and goal-pursuit: How implicit
evaluative processes reflect the goal relevance of
objects |
$12,000 |
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Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe Flamino
Clinical Sciences
Veterinary Medicine |
The
effect of CpG-ODN on the Antigen Presenting Cells of
Foals |
$11,810 |
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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 |
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Neema Kudva
City and Regional Planning
Architecture, Art & Planning |
Second
Cities in a Global World |
$6,694 |
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Christiane Linster
Neurobiology and Behavior
Arts & Sciences |
Role
of dopaminergic modulation in olfactory processing |
$10,200 |
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Simone Pinet
Romance Studies
Arts & Sciences |
Archipelagoes: Insularity and Fiction in Medieval
and Early Modern Spain |
$4,709 |
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Masha Raskolnikov
English
Arts & Sciences |
Body
and Soul: Middle English Debate and the Gender of
Allegory |
$4,978 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2003
Award Recipients
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Recipient
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Area
of Study
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Award
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Sally
A. McKee
Electrical & Computer Engr.,
Engineering
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Using
the Eclipse Software Infrastructure for Computer
Engineering Research
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$9,500
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Linda S. Rayor
Entomology,
Agriculture & Life Sciences
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Social Evolution and
Geographic Variation in Behavior in an Atypical Social
Spider
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$10,000
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Ruth
Richardson
Civil & Environmental Engr.,
Engineering
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Investigating
the importance of bacterial cell-to-cell communication
in the biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes.
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$10,000
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| 2002
Award
Recipients |
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Recipient
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Area
of Study |
Award |
Marianella Casasola
Human Development,
Human Ecology
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Korean infants’ categorization of spatial relations:
Does
linguistic environment influence spatial
categorization? |
$3,305 |
Elizabeth
DeLoughrey
English,
Arts
&Sciences
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Historicizing Indian Literature in
the Diaspora
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$3,600 |
Karen
Graubart
History,
Arts
&Sciences
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With our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous
Women and the
Construction of Colonial Society in Peru
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$5,787
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Kathie
Hodge
Plant Pathology,
Agriculture & Life
Sciences
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Life History and Relationships of
Ascopolyporus, an unusual fungus of bamboo
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$9,160
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Tamara
Loos
History,
Arts
&Sciences
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Subject Siam:
Gender, Justice and Colonialism, 1850’s -
1930’s
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$7,886
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Katerina
D. Papoulia
Civil and Environmental Eng, Engineering
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Linking of Scales in Structural
Materials: local
properties and global behavior
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$7,700
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Mildred Warner
City and Regional Planning,
Architecture, Art & Planning
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Privatization:
Markets, Public Values and Local Government
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$4,100
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| 2001
Award Recipients
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| Recipient |
Area
of Study |
Short
Description |
Award |
Patricia A. Cassano
Division of Nutritional Sciences,
Human Ecology |
The
Relation of cSHMT and Folate Status to the Risk of Cardiovascular
Disease |
To
study the role of disrupted folate metabolism in the
pathogenesis of both cardiovascular disease and cancer.
The results will guide further studies of the polymorphism-cardiovascular
disease association. |
$8,000 |
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Ruth
N. Collins
Department of Molecular Medicine,
Veterinary Medicine
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An
Investigation of Rab Protein Membrane Recruitment
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To
elucidate the mechanism by which small GTPase proteins
are recruited onto cellular membranes and become activated.
Both in vitro and in vivo biological experiments will
be performed.
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$3,800 |
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Laurie
E. Drinkwater
Horticulture,
Agriculture & Life Sciences
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The
role of carbon abundance in determining soil organic
matter composition and microbial community function
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To
understand how the availability of carbon over the
long-term effects soil carbon and nitrogen cycling
processes mediated by the microbial community.
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$7,865
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Quirine
M. Ketterings
Crop and Soil Sciences, Agriculture & Life
Sciences
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Phosphorus
Storage Capacity of Honeoye Soils in New York State
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Determine
the P storage capacity and desorption risk for one
dominant soil type in New York State: Honeoye soils
(Hapludalf).
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$8,000
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D.
Medina Lasansky
AAP,
Architecture, Art & Planning
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Tuscan
Vernacular Architecture
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Analyze
the role played by vernacular architecture within
the emerging definition of a Facist modern architecture
during the 1930s.
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$3,050
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Susanne
Pohl
History,
Arts and Sciences
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Book
Manuscript on the prosecution & punishment of
manslaughter in Zurich & Southwest Germany, 1350-1600
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Explore
the legal treatment of honorable manslaughter and
focus on the cultural attitudes within which legal
change unfolds, in late medieval and early modern
Germany and Switzerland.
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$3,900
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Rebecca
Schneider
Theater Film and Dance,
Arts & Sciences
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Reenactment
and Contemporary American Civil War History Plays
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To
research the original production of several plays
which will be combined with broader research for Prof.
Scheider's second book.
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$2,580
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