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General Research Fund (GRF) Awards: Fiscal Year 2008

PI Name
Title
Department
Christopher W. Anderson
Growth Opportunities and Organizational Structure: Evidence on Biopharmaceutical Firms
Business
Elizabeth Asiedu
The Effect of HIV/AIDS on Poverty Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economics
Vincent L. Barker
Predicting the Social Capital Losses of Fired CEO's
Business
Barbara Barnett
Learning What Students Know: Using Student Surveys to Inform Teaching Practices and Curriculum Development
Journalism
Philippe Barriere
Beyond Suburban Territorial Expansion
Architecture & Urban Planning
Henry C. Bial
Putting It Another Way: Critical Theory for the Theatre
Theatre & Film
Sharon Billings
Further Constraining the Carbon Budget: Understanding Microbial Growth Efficiency and Heterotrophic Respiration in Successional Forest Soils
Biological Sciences
Ruth Ann Bowman
To Cause Oneself to be Reminded
Design
Jonathan Boyarin
Translation of Abraham Joshua Heschel's Kotsk: In gerangl far emeskikeyt (Kotsk: The Struggle for Integrity)
Religious Studies
David B. Brackett
Jacquard Textile Design for the Studio Artist
Design
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Central Americans in the City: Goldman, Tobar and the Question
English
So-Min Cheong
Coastal Change in Asia
Geography
Wai K. Chong
Impact of Modularization on Building Design Recyclability
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Katherine Clark
Contested Space and Constructed Identities: an English Border Family and its Built Environment
History
Terry W. Clark
Concerted DNA Response in Nucleosome Particles: Towards a General Model
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Sally Cornelison
Medici Power and Popular Piety: Giambologna's St. Antoninus Chapel at San Marco
Art History
Luis Corteguera
Talking Pictures in the Spanish Empire
History
Michael Crawford
The Co-Evolution of Genes and Language in Chibchan Populations from Middle America
Anthropology
Gregory T. Cushman
The Moon's Vagina and the First Guano Lords: Environmental Knowledge in Premodern Coastal Peru
History
James Daugherty
Patterns of Voice Use by Public School Music Teachers and Secondary School Choral Students
Music & Dance
Michael L. Ettredge
CFO Turnover Following Adverse SOX 404 Opinions
Business
Christopher J. Fischer
Novel Use of Fluorescence Stopped-Flow Spectroscopy to Determine the Directionality and Rate of Double-Stranded DNA Translocation by S cerevisiae RSC
Physics & Astronomy
Alison Gabriele
Second Language Acquisition at the Interface: Exploring the Relationship Between Morphology and Semantics
Linguistics
Philip M. Gallagher
Heat Treatment for Muscle Damage
Health, Sport & Exercise Science
Jennifer M. Gleason
Courtship Song Evolution and a Molecular Phylogeny of the Drosophila saltans Species Group
Biological Sciences
Robert L. Glicksman
Federal Environmental Regulatory Preemption by Inaction
Law
J. Megan Greene
Narratives of History in Taiwan: The Construction of a National Past
History
James Guthrie
Employment Volatility: Determinants of Employment Instability and Downsizing
Business
Javier Guzman
Engineering Nonosstructured Metal Oxides for Hydrogen Storage and Catalysis
Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Nancy Hamilton
Fibromyalgia: Sleep and Motivated Attention
Psychology
Mark Hirschey
There Is No Place Like Home: Investor Behavior at Home and Abroad
Business
Michael H. Hoeflich
American Blackstones
Law
Jack L. Hofman
Modular Inter-Site Analysis in Folsom Archaeology and GIS Techniques for Plains-Wide Folsom Settlement Study
Anthropology
Rhonda S. Houser
History Mapper: Interactive Online Map of Douglas County Aerial Photographs Through Time
Libraries
Thomas M. Huang
Coolies
Design
Ann Huppert
"Baldassarre Peruzzi: Perspective, Practical Mathematics and the Professionalization of Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Italy"
Architecture & Urban Planning
Kirsten Jensen
Towards the Elucidation of Life Cycles of Tapeworms of Elasmobranchs: The Use of In Vitro Cultivation to Identify Cestode Larvae
Biological Sciences
Caroline A. Jewers
An Edition of University of Kansas M/S Pryce J1: A Thirteenth-Century Digest Roll of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie
French & Italian
William C. Johnson
Timing and Environments of the Last Interglacial Period in the North American Midcontinent
Geography
Gilbert G. Karuga
Implications of Publishing Inventory information on E-commerce Websites
Business
Paul T. Kelton
The Enduring Cherokees: Ecological Imperialism and the Survival of an Indigenous Nation, 1492-1838
History
Marni Kessler
Chapter 2, "Patient Patients, or Degas' Creole Feminine" of book-in-progress "Anxiety and the Maternal Substitute: Edgar Degas' New Orleans Paintings"
Art History
Ok-Jin Kim
The effect of ZIP/sequestosome in Expression of Dopamine Receptor
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Jeanne M. Klein
Interpreting Aesthetic Development Throughout Childhood
Physics & Theatre & Film
Michael J. Krueger
War All The Time - A Series of Twelve Large-Scale Color Drawings
Art
Paul Laird
Researching and Writing Beyond Songwriting: The Collaborative Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz'
Music & Dance
Pok Chi Lau
International Retrospective Exhibition at the Guangdong Museum of Art
Design
Marie A L'Heureux
Repackaging the City: Urban Environments in Estonia Under Soviet Occupation
Architecture & Urban Planning
Weishi Liu
Geometric Asymptotic Expansions and Applications to Poisson-Nernst-Planck Systems
Math
Elizabeth L. MacGonagle
Between Borders in Southeast Africa
History
Danny M. Marfatia
Testing Supersymmetric Origins of Lepton Flavor/Number Violation with the LHC
Physics & Astronomy
Amy E. McNair
"An Annotated Translation into English of Chapters 17-20 of The Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era (Xuanhe huapu)
Art History
Brent Metz
Review of Ethnographic Notes on the Ch'orti' Maya at the Smithsonian Institution
Anthropology
James R. Miller
eLearning on an iPhone
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Timothy A. Miller
Communal New Religions in a Global Society
Religious Studies
Robert G. Moyle
Deciphering the Pattern and Tempo of Avian Diversification in Northern Melanesia
Biological Sciences
Michael Murray
First Light at the Large Hadron Collider
Physics & Astronomy
Diane C. Nielsen
A Study of the Effectiveness of a Small-group Intervention on the Language Development of At-Risk Kindergarten Children
Curriculum & Teaching
So Yeon Park
Story Telling and Listening Series III: The Site of Mothers and Daughters
Art
Edward F. Peltier
Ecologically Based Treatment of Stormwater Runoff from Paved Roads
Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Jorge Perez
Spanish Culture on the Road: Mobile Identities at the Turn of the Century
Spanish & Portuguese
Vivki D. Peyton
Childrearing Beliefs: Factor Structure Invariance by Parent Gender and Administration Time
Psychology & Research in Education
Bangere P. Purnaprajna
Topics in Algebraic Geometry
Math
Eric C. Rath
Knife Work: From Ceremony to Cuisine in Early Modern Japan
History
Alan Redd
DNA Genotyping of Tuberculosis Bacterial Strains: A Pilot Study
Anthropology
Janelle F. Ruisinger
Efficacy of Almonds Added to Chronic Statin Therapy
Pharmacy Practice
Paul A. Scott
Eccentricity and Early Modern Identity in France
French & Italian
Prakash P. Shenoy
Solving Stochastic PERT Networks Using Hybrid Bayesian Networks
Business
Hagith S. Sivan
The Sinai in Antiquity: In Quest of Ancient Settlements and Landscapes
History
Donald D. Stull
Social Capital in a Kansas Community: An Ethnographic Study
Anthropology
Carsten Timm
Inelastic Electron Tunneling through Magnetic Molecules
Physics & Astronomy
Adrew W. Torrance
Endangered Species Law and the Endangered Species Concept
Law
Leslie R. Tuttle
Conceiving Absolutism: Pronatalism and the French State from Louis XIV to the French Revolution
History
Marta Vicente
Sex as Imitation: Families and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Spain
History
Anthony W. Walton
Studies of Alteration of Volcanic Rocks at Low Temperature and Documenting Traces of Subsurface Life: Snake River Plain, Idaho
Geology
Kim Warren
Education for Citizenship: African Americans and Native Americans in Kansas, 1865-1935
History
Jennifer L. Weber
Power and the People
History
Elizabeth A. Weeks
Cooperative Federalism and Health Care Reform: The Medicare Part D "Clawback" Example
Law
Andrea H. Wertzberger
Apparent Movement
Design
Sara Ellen Wilson
The Role of the Central Nervous System in the Integration of Proprioceptive Information
Mechanical Engineering
Hongguo Xu
Numerical Eigenvalue Problem of Skew-symmetric/Symmetric Pencils and Applications
Math
Jie Zhang
Testing the Productivity of Tone Sandhi in Beijing and Tianjin Mandarin
Linguistics
Guagzhi Zhao
The Differential Impact of Frequency vs. Percentage Information Formats on Consumer Belief Updating
Business

*Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences both received block GRF Awards for FY08.


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