Research Annual Report 2012 by Western Michigan University

Research Annual Report 2012

WMU Research

Western Michigan University Research Annual Report 2012 On the cover: Von Karman Vortices: As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, the vortices in this image, were created when prevailing winds sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean encountered Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Courtesy of : The W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change The W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change’s Earth Tones art exhibit featured false-color satellite scenes provided by USGS and NASA. This image is a Landsat 7 satellite scene from the USGS (United States Geological Survey), and was captured July 4, 2002.

The stories and successes of our esteemed faculty and research partners gratify us all. They illustrate the nature of university research today—an approach that offers multidisciplinary solutions to today’s problems. That is to say, our research showcases scholars working together across disciplines to sculpt solutions to complex problems in need of varied perspectives and approaches. This year’s annual report is a snapshot of some of these research endeavors at Western Michigan University. Your responses to our research magazine, the latest edition being released in summer 2012, tell us that you want to hear about the research and creative activity under way at this wonderful University. We are thrilled by your response and thank you for your interest and support. Our strategic plan guides our faculty efforts to collaborate and provide cutting-edge research that impacts and defines our community. Kalamazoo is a culturally rich epicenter of the visual arts, theatre and music; it also leads in biomedical and pharmaceutical research and innovative start-ups, all in collaboration with our faculty and researchers. Building upon these strengths, our office has implemented a Discovery action plan rooted in leadership, scholarship, collaboration, and resources. Whether collaborating with peer institutions to jump-start the Michigan small business economy, licensing our research to industry partners, growing our overall scholarship capabilities here on campus, or sharing resources through campus events like the recent National Institutes of Health workshop, WMU remains true to its mission as a learner centered, discovery driven and globally engaged research institution. Our efforts to transfer knowledge to the community through technology, patents, and intellectual property remain strong. We also remain steadfast in our historical mandate to enlighten through the humanities, fine arts and sciences. We invite you to join us in our efforts. To learn more about Western Michigan University and our outstanding research, visit us at www.wmich.edu/research.

John M. Dunn, Ed.D. President

Daniel M. Litynski, Ph.D. Vice President for Research

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The collaboration naturally plays to each party’s strengths: HUMANeX’s reputation for innovation and drive to identify talents and passions in workers combined with WMU’s development and use of the CGI in its counseling center to supply students with career and life planning help. WMU also had the in-house expertise to develop a better and more comprehensive tool than others currently on the market. The assessment tool makes use of a series of questions that cumulatively can be interpreted to identify career options for students that fit with their individual goals and values. Nowak’s version of the 1,100-question paper and pencil assessment was initially designed to explore individuals’ academic skills, interests, values and personality. Retooled to a much shorter version by Rawls and St. Martin, the updated version of CGI sets industry standards as perhaps the only comprehensive career assessment tool available to offer a holistic view of an individual, thus making it a one of a kind.

Partnership results in new product that directs students and adults in their career choices. WMU recently entered into a commercial product development partnership with HUMANeX Ventures, which continues to work with the University to develop an online product based on the Career Guidance Inventory (CGI) developed in the late 1970s by WMU researcher Jerry Nowak, M.A. and updated by Drs. Glinda Rawls and Mark St. Martin. Unlike many career tests that measure only one or two areas, the CGI is a comprehensive career assessment that measures an individual’s personality, interests, values and achievements. The CGI sets itself further apart by going in depth to look at psychological and personal factors that can identify strengths and preferences that can help a person to find a career that is a good fit. Historically, the biggest limitations in the CGI were its size, format as a paper test and the inability to store the results in a useable database for research and development purposes. The latest version, now referred to as CGI Online (on campus) or known as IMPACTeX Navigator (commercially) further sets itself apart by going in depth to look at psychological and personal factors that can provide powerful insights into talents, preferences and styles—a mirror into the key considerations for career fit and success. Consulting, research and development firm, HUMANeX Ventures—the vision of which is to create talent-driven organizations and communities—strives to match the individual’s talent to an organization that best maximizes that worker’s potential. The idea is that employees are not an organization’s best resources; the right people in an organization are its best resources.

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Dr. Michael Sharer, director of intellectual property management and commercialization at WMU, brought Rawls and St. Martin together with HUMANeX’s CEO Brad Black and his team to discuss plans for his company to commercialize the CGI by transitioning the assessment from its paper form to a scalable electronic tool that interfaced with today’s technology.

“It was a good fit because we had been marketing the CGI to the commercial sector looking for someone who could envision the opportunity or was willing to invest with us in creating a scalable, online version of the CGI,” says Sharer. “Brad Black and HUMANeX recognized the potential in WMU’s research to commercialize it for broader impact.” Black agrees. He says of the CGI and his company’s decision to license it from WMU: “We saw in the assessment its commercialization potential on many levels, and we wanted to take CGI and make it famous and impactful to thousands of individuals.” HUMANeX collaborated with Rawls and St. Martin to create the IMPACTeX Navigator, the online version of CGI, licensed from WMU by Black’s team.

“HUMANeX had the time, enthusiasm and resources needed to take the assessment and make it readily accessible to others,” observes Rawls. “While we have helped thousands through the use of the Career Guidance Inventory assessment tool, we were limited to our students, faculty and staff at the University in our use of it.” “We wanted people to access the test so that its potential to help communities and individuals could be fully realized,” says Black. “We also were committed to building a partnership with WMU as the major academic institution in the area to leverage the CGI for impact across the Kalamazoo community.” HUMANeX Ventures markets the IMPACTeX Navigator for its clients nationwide, Black offers communities the means to tap into and keep local talent by marketing primarily to K-12, universities, businesses and community groups. The tool affirms for the individual participants who they are and where they need to concentrate their efforts. Compared to other career assessments available commercially, the IMPACTeX Navigator has rigor, purpose and design. Its potential impact across the country to help assess personality and align personal values in the workforce is tremendous, according to Black. “We all need ‘mirrors’ to reflect who we are as a person. A tool that reflects and affirms our personality and values helps us in our choice of a career,” Black says. “Once we identify our talents and skills, the ability to match those to a ‘map’ or career path, allows the individual to realize his or her passion in life.” The WMU and HUMANeX teams continue to work together in developing, testing, and refining the IMPACTeX Navigator as a tool to be used commercially to grow people, organizations and communities into talent-rich resources as well as to have a significant impact on WMU students and their career decision making. This collaboration demonstrates how WMU research can be commercialized for broader impact and, like all good commercial ventures, it takes commitment, resources, vision and the right partner.

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Biosciences Research & Commercialization Center

WMU commercialization center invests in nervous system breakthrough

BRCC

Western Michigan University Research Foundation

Western Michigan University’s Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center has invested $250,000 in a Kalamazoo company that is doing early-stage work on a revolutionary approach to treat and restore function to people who have suffered major damage to their peripheral or central nervous systems. The BRCC award to Axonia Medical is part of $2 million in seed financing the company recently assembled to advance technology its founders believe can transform medical care for people who suffer a debilitating nervous system injury. Such injuries include spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, peripheral nerve injury and stroke. Other investors providing seed funding include the Southwest Michigan First Life Science Venture Fund and Ann Arbor SPARK. “The technology Axonia is developing is precisely the kind of innovative, early-stage work our center is designed to support,” says Stephen J. Haakenson, executive director of the BRCC. “This is technology developed in a university setting that has great potential in the marketplace to address unmet medical needs.” Axonia, located in Kalamazoo, is a startup that is leveraging groundbreaking discoveries on nervous system growth and repair by Dr. D ouglas H. Smith at the University of Pennsylvania. Smith is scientific co-founder of Axonia with Dr. H arry Ledebur, president and CEO. The company’s products are expected to bridge lost nervous tissues and jump-start regenerative mechanisms that will allow levels of functional recovery not now possible. The company was an early participant in a Penn program called UPstart that focuses on the transfer of technology from higher education to the commercial arena. Established in 2003 with an initial cash infusion of $10 million from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., WMU’s BRCC is designed to promote development of life science startups in Michigan. It has played a critical role in the creation of 30 Michigan companies and more than 200 high-paying jobs. With every dollar of the original $10 million invested in startup companies, a new award of $3.8 million in 2011 allowed the center to transition to a new fund, dubbed by BRCC organizers as BRCC-II. The funds were provided by the 21st Century Jobs Fund, a Michigan Strategic Fund program designed to accelerate the growth and diversification of Michigan’s economy. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation, a public-private partnership between the state and local communities, provides administrative support for the 21st Century Jobs Fund. The MEDC markets Michigan and provides the tools and environment to drive job creation and investment. For more information on the 21st Century Jobs Fund initiative, visit MichiganAdvantage.org. WMU is a strategic partner with the BRCC; visit http://www.brcc.wmich.edu/strategicpartners.asp for more information.

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Faculty receive awards Fulbright grant award The Fulbright Program was established Biosciences, Researchin & 1946 and is the flagship international Commercialization Center educational exchange program sponsored by the federal government. Grant recipients Western Michigan University are selected based on academic or profesResearch Foundation sional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

BRCC

Biosciences WMU’s 2011-12 Fulbright grant recipients were awarded a Research & combination of short- and long-term grants. Commercialization Center

BRCC

Western Michigan University Research Foundation

Dr. Kuanchin Chen, associate professor of business information systems, received a Fulbright Specialist award. Chen spent three weeks at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan beginning in January 2012. While there, he assessed curriculum opportunities for that university to stay ahead of the competition in higher education and engaged in lectures, research and instruction that guided the business administration faculty’s development of a specialty focus in business analysis.

Dr. William W. Cobern, Distinguished University Professor of Science Education and Biological Sciences as well as director of the Mallinson Institute for Science Education, received a Fulbright Lecturing/ Research award. Cobern spent five months in Turkey beginning September 2011. His research and teaching were Cobern about secular and religious issues with respect to the teaching of science. He also gave lectures on the experimental study of science teaching efficacy. While in Turkey, Cobern gave 14 public lectures on both topics at various Turkish universities. Dr. Richard A. Gershon, professor as well as co-director of the telecommunications and information management program, received a Fulbright Specialist award. Gershon spent the 2011 fall semester at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. While there, he taught two accelerated courses, one for undergraduate Gershon students on media management and telecommunications and one for graduate students on digital media and innovation. Albert LaVergne, professor of art as well as the University’s sculpture area coordinator, received a Fulbright Lecturing/Research award. LaVergne began spending 10 months at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria in January 2012. His research and teaching involves a comparative analysis of traditional and contemporary Yoruba sculpture processes and his own unique metal style of fabricating sculptures.

Emerging scholar award This award celebrates the accomplishments of faculty members who are in the first decade of their WMU careers who have gained national recognition and demonstrate outstanding promise to achieve renown in their continuing work. Jeffery Angles, associate professor of world languages and literatures, joined the WMU faculty in 2004 and has served as director of the Soga Japan Center since 2011. He also is head of the Japanese Language Program. His work as a literary translator and scholar of modern Japanese literature has won Angles several major awards and impacted both the scholarly community and the general public, in the United States and internationally. Angles has produced significant translations of major Japanese modern and contemporary poets, in particular Tada Chimako and Ito Hiromi. Charles Henderson, associate professor of physics, joined the WMU faculty in 2002 and the faculty in WMU’s Mallinson Institute for Science Education in 2004. Since coming to the University, he has been involved in grant projects totaling more than $2 million, including awards from the National Science Foundation, Henderson the state of Michigan, NASA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Henderson has been instrumental in the evolution of physics education research, and his extensive research has helped change the landscape of STEM education. Sherine Obare, associate professor of chemistry, joined the WMU faculty in 2004 and has been an adjunct professor in the Michigan State University Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science since 2007. An int e r nat io nal l y respected rising star in the area of nanomaterials, she is acknowledged Obare as someone who has been able to design nanoscale materials with important optical, catalytic and electronic properties. Her research has earned Obare a number of prestigious awards, including the 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Award, which is given to the top 10 materials scientists each year.

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Humanities Center launched at WMU The mission of the University Center for the Humanities is to support and recognize the humanities at WMU. Serving as a gathering place for dialogue, the Center functions as an idea incubator for the exchange of ideas among faculty, emeriti, alumni, students and community members beyond the campus. In a day and age when the focus is on developing science, math and academic specialties, the role of the humanities remains strong. The humanities serve to elevate the thinking beyond any one area of study and to instead take up questions on the issues of our day, which are rooted in diverse perspectives ranging from those linked to anthropology, science, engineering, philosophy, political science, ethics and jurisprudence. “We want the center to be an incubator of ideas and projects,” says Katherine Joslin, the center’s founding director and long-time WMU professor of English. “It’s like an industrial park for the mind. We want this space to generate and nurture ideas across colleges and across disciplines and, at the intersection of those, to stimulate new thinking.” Years in the making, the center was conceived in 2006 when then-WMU President Diether H. Haenicke began working with a committee of faculty to explore formation of a humanities center. The center seeks to put humanities at the center of a university education, says Joslin. That goal is in keeping with efforts both nationally and internationally to provide the best tools and critical thinking skills necessary for a well-educated citizenry and workforce able to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne

“We want the Center to be an incubator of ideas and projects. It’s like an industrial park for the mind.”

Joslin

—Katherine Joslin

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Recently, high-profile Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne visited campus to launch this year’s speaker series. Dionne’s talk, titled ”The Election and Our Divided Political Heart,” came just days before the defining presidential election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This year’s speaker series includes speakers from across disciplines who will examine the election’s outcome on science policy, the politics of race and the democratization efforts in Islamic countries. “This center is all about collaboration,” says Joslin. “We want our humanities events to elevate the lives of everybody. Where WMU can and has made a name for itself is that it’s a state-funded University that places liberal education at its core and makes it available to all our citizens.”

2012 Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellows at WMU Included in the 2012 cohort for the Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellows is an engineer who holds 55 patents and a professional pilot with experience as a veterinary medicine surgical nurse supervisor. They are among 13 highly skilled people pursuing a specially designed master’s degree at Western Michigan University to prepare them for careers as science and math teachers in high-need public schools. Each of the 13 has received one of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowships at WMU. This statewide initiative, in its second year, aims to improve student achievement by placing into secondary-school classrooms career changers or recent college graduates who are particularly talented in math, science or technology. WMU and five other state universities are each charged with training a class of fellows. The students were selected for this competitive fellowship for their strong background in what are known as STEM disciplines— science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “Great teachers and great teaching can make all the difference for our students, their educational growth, future success and quality of life,” said Michigan governor Rick Snyder in announcing the new fellows. “The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship is making tremendous strides toward the goal of providing children across Michigan access to highly effective educators in these critical subject areas, and I commend this work and look forward to its continued role and achievements.”

Each participant receives a $30,000 fellowship to complete a cutting-edge master’s degree program as preparation to teach in urban or rural schools. They commit to teaching for three years and will receive ongoing mentoring. Meanwhile, the participating universities agree to redesign their teacher education programs. Goals of this initiative are to attract the best candidates to teaching, cut teacher attrition, put talented educators in high-need schools and transform university-based teacher education programs. The Wilson fellowship program is offered in other states. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched this initiative in Michigan, providing $18 million in funding for it. This year’s fellowship competition attracted 102,000 inquiries and ultimately 2,017 applications. The selection process included screening at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, a full-day interview led by STEM teachers and careful admissions review by the universities. The other universities hosting fellows are the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, and Wayne State University. The 2012 cohort consists of 64 students who primarily hail from Michigan communities. Fellows from WMU’s inaugural class are just completing their first year of the program, which included a teacher internship, and are in the process of filing for certification.

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Garcia

“The win-win here is—the students gain ‘real world’ experiences that they can add to their resumes while the businesses gain the creative energy and ‘outside the box’ thinking that comes from an outsider’s perspective.” —Lisa Garcia

The MCRN offers a number of specific programs to help the business community. These programs include the Small Business Company Internship program, the Small Company Innovation Program, the Michigan Information Transfer Source, and Instant Innovation program and an expertise search tool and portal:

The Michigan Corporate Relations Network provides businesses with a critical new tool for business growth and attraction.

The internship program provides funding for students to work as interns at companies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. This cost-sharing grant helps to encourage student placements with innovative and dynamic company partners within Michigan. The innovation program helps small companies attack technological and commercialization issues by providing access to top research university resources at a more affordable cost. The SCIP provides matching funds to engage the MCRN partner universities on company-specific research projects.

The Michigan Corporate Relations Network—MCRN—includes Western Michigan University, University of Michigan, Michigan Tech University, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and U-M Dearborn. Collectively these six institutions represent 99% of all research and patent activity among the state universities. Working together to form an alliance, the network creates partnerships between the universities and businesses to help grow the state’s economy. They each work individually on their own campuses to be a local resource as well. Established in the past year, the WMU Business Connection office functions as a ‘one-stopshop’ for West Michigan area companies that want to engage with the University. With the help of its new director, Lisa Garcia, the office has strategically served to match the resources on campus with the needs of over 100 local businesses, companies and entrepreneurs. “Our office has helped to connect businesses with valuable University resources like research partnerships, faculty consultants, student talent and so much more,” says Garcia. “The response has been tremendous in that the people who come to us for help find their needs met in ways that benefit their bottom line.” For example, Garcia’s office helped 14 businesses partner with the Haworth College of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences to offer experiential learning for students while providing companies with cost-effective solutions to their business problems. “The win-win here,” says Garcia, “is the students gain ‘real world’ experiences that they can add to their resumes while the businesses gain the creative energy and ‘outside the box’ thinking that comes from an outsider’s perspective.”

2012

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The information transfer program provides a cost-effective way for small companies to access a major research library’s collection. From left: Jeff Mason, Executive Director, University Research Corridor; Lisa Garcia, Director, WMU Business Connection; Dennis Atkinson, Director of Corporate Engagement, Wayne State University; Daryl Weinert, Associate Vice PresidentResearch, University of Michigan; Shannon Wilson, Marketing Specialist, University of Michigan Business Engagement Center; Charley Hasemann, Executive Director, Michigan State University Innovation Center; Kay Palan, Dean of the Haworth College of Business, WMU; and Bob Miller, Associate Vice President of Community Outreach, WMU

The Instant Innovation program brings faculty experts from the universities together with Michigan companies to tackle significant business and research challenges. With the provision of cost-sharing funds, the program’s goal is to foster creative approaches to solving these challenges in a one-day facilitated brainstorm.

The business portal will provide the private sector with a single point of access Web tool to search faculty expertise across the MCRN universities.

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Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Recipients, 2011-2012

2011-2012 Recipients of Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants

The Undergraduate Research Excellence Award provides undergraduates with research experience. Selected students receive $500 toward a stipend, travel, or supplies for a mentored research project or creative activity experience with externally funded faculty. Under the program, faculty subsequently may apply for up to $200 for additional supplies to support the student’s work.

The Graduate Student Research Fund and Travel Grant supports graduate students engaged in independent scholarly research, scientific inquiry, inventive technology and original artistic activity. The fund is intended to help students pay extraordinary or unusual costs incurred in research projects. Grants range up to $1,000, and students may apply for up to $600 of additional support to defray the cost of international travel.

Al, Bader

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board” Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala

Anderson, David

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Acquisition and Analysis of EEG signals in Real-Time” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Andrews, Jerry

Mechanical Engineering “Affordable Shock Dynamometer” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

DeKam, William

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Temperature Measurements in an Industrial Paint Curing Oven Using Infrared Thermometry” Faculty mentor: Dr. Claudia Hansford

Del Orbe Henriquez, Dionisio

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Temperature Measurement of the High Pressure Phase Transformation (HPPT)” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten

Dye, Steven

Mansfield, Wendell

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Urban Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Marshall, Brandon

Physics “Three Dimensional Modeling of Active Galactic Nuclei” Faculty mentor: Dr. Manuel Bautista

Martlew, James

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Measurement of Nozzle Outlet Turbulence Using Particle Image Velocimetry” Faculty mentor: Dr. Claudia Hansford

Ballman, Katherine

Physics “Active Target Time Projection Chamber Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano

Masika, Noah

Ballman, Katherine

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Affordable Shock Dynamometer” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

McAlpine, James

Bland, Jovon

Physics “Computing the Spectra of Li-Like Ions” Faculty mentor: Dr. Manuel Bautista

Physics “SAMURAI Time Projection Chamber (TPC) Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano

Heithoff, Trent

Physics “SAMURAI Time Projection Chamber (TPC) Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano

Hulbert, Sarah

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board” Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala

Hurley, Neil

Mechanical Engineering “Portable Shock Dyno” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Three-Wheeled Urban Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Casperson, Tom

Cupp, Bailey

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

Dawati, Micah

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Hollow Core Generator” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Jee, Adrian

Kamm, Ryan

Manufacturing Engineering “Green Manufacturing Initiative” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten

Biological Sciences “Effects of Walk-Train Exercise on Glial Cell-line Derived Neurotropic Factor Expression in the Heart muscle of Als Model mouse” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Spitsbergern

Kurban, Esaw

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Three-Wheeled Urban Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Urban Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Body Frame Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Day, Jennifer

2012

Biological Sciences “Random mutagenesis of TPV in the search for a cancer-specific oncolytic agent” Faculty mentor: Dr. Karim Essani

Longrey, Christopher

Chemistry “Evaluating the Safety of Nanoscale Materials within Biological Cells” Faculty mentor: Dr. Sherine Obare Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board” Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala

McEntire, Adam

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Digital Upgrade for Recumbent Infant Length Board” Faculty mentor: Dr. Muralidhar Ghantasala

McKinley, Jared

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering Temperature Measurement of the High Pressure Phase Transformation (HPPT) Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten

McKinley, Jared

Manufacturing Engineering “Temperature Measurement of High Pressure Phase Transformation Region during Micro-Laser Assisted Machining Process” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Patten

Messer, Amanda

Anthropology “Analysis of lead shot from Fort St. Joseph” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Nassaney

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Nahusenaye, Akliseya

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Sensor System with a Mobile Phone Interface” Faculty mentor: Dr. Massood Atashbar

Tucker, Andrew

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

* indicates student received additional funding for international travel

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Three-Wheeled Electric Urban Vehicle Frame Design & Build” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Physics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Effects of Size on the Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors: Copper (II) Phthalocyanine Nanoparticles”

Biological Sciences “Ghosts of Evolution Past: Resurrecting an Extinct Ancestral Enzyme to Understand the Origins of Modern-day Biochemical Activities” Faculty mentor: Dr. Todd Barkman

*Alharbi, Talal

Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering “Analysis of Melt-Spun ShapeMemory Alloy” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur

Geosciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “A Web-based GIS Approach for the Assessment of Landslides in the Jazan Area, Saudi Arabia”

Paula-Sanchez, Angie Massiel

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Three-Wheeled Electric Urban Vehicle Frame Design & Build” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging Graduate Student Research Grant “Screen Printing of Etchant for Direct Patterning of Transparent Conductive Oxide”

Stolla, Bryan

Geosciences “Investigating the Adsorption of Chromium (VI) on Kleinstuck Marsh Soils” Faculty mentor: Dr. Carla Koretsky

Nielsen, Steven

Physics “DUSEL Project” Faculty mentor: Dr. Michael Famiano

Olech, Tom

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “Urban Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Body Design” Faculty mentor: Dr. Pavel Ikonomov

Olson, Matthew

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Hollow Core Generator” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Ousseini-Abdoulaye, Abdoulaye

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Acquisition and Analysis of EEG signals in Real-Time” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Wabeke, Sean

Walser, Olivia

Watza, Spencer

Wentink, Jacob

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Acquisition and Analysis of EEG signals in Real-Time” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Wyman, Davina

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

Yang, Cong

Sultan, Tipu

Electrical and Computer Engineering “Stationary Hollow Core Generator” Faculty mentor: Dr. Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering “BroncoBot: Multi-tool Additive Manufacturing System” Faculty mentor: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez

Tucker, Scott

Biological Sciences “Effects of acetylcholine and Carbachol of GDNF Secretion in C212 Skeletal Muscle Cells” Faculty mentor: Dr. John Spitsbergern

Al-Amar, Mohammad

Geosciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Integrated Studies (Hydrology, Remote Sensing, GIS, Field) on Landslides in Jizan, Saudi Arabia”

Alharbi, Talal

Alsaid, Dania

Bailey, Catherine

English Graduate Student Travel Grant “Beauties and Beasts: Feminism and Animalistic Transformation in Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight”

Barthelemy, Ramon

Physics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Improving Physics: Women’s Choice of Research Subfield in Academic Physics”

Bentz, Amy

Science Education Graduate Student Travel Grant “Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Using Formative Assessment: Using Case-based Scenarios as a Discussion Tool for Formative Assessment in Pre-service Teacher Education”

Bierema, Andrea

Science Education Graduate Student Travel Grant 1) “Undergraduate Biology Students’ Conceptions of the Term ‘Animal’”; 2) “Undergraduate Biology Students’ Conceptions of Fungi”

Binfet, Krysten

Chimner, Rachel

Boyt, Zachary

Clark, Teresa

Human Performance and Health Education Graduate Student Research Grant “Effects of Beta-Alanine Supplementation on Exercise Performance: Are there Gender Differences?”

Music Graduate Student Research Grant “The Future of Music Performance through Sensor Bow Technology”

Bradshaw, Elizabeth

Sociology Graduate Student Travel Grant “What the Frack is Going On in Michigan? Hydraulic Fracturing and the Future of Michigan’s Great Lakes”

Bredernitz, Rachel

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “The Relative Importance of Resource Limitation and Predator Limitation in a Trout Stream Food Web”

Bre’z, Skylar

History Graduate Student Research Grant “Women’s History Month: Results of a Revolution”

Buller, Allison

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Graduate Student Research Grant “Excellent Teaching in Counselor Education”

Burns, James

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant “Investigating Vertical Displacement Within the Aesthesiometric Threshold of the Thigh”

Butler, Sean

Comparative Religion Graduate Student Travel Grant 1) “Monistic Interpretations of Tawheed in the Sufi Notion of Wahdat al-wujud”; 2) “God, the Devil, and Berkeley: Satan’s Berkeleian Justification for the Usurpation of the Position of God”

Chaffin, LaTasha

Political Science Graduate Student Travel Grant “U. S. National and State-level Labor Policy Coordination in Response to Economic Recessions”

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Isolation of a Dosage-Dependent Suppressor Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Yeast Model System”

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Identification of Novel Regulatory Factors in the Biosynthesis of Aspartate-Derived Amino Acids”

Coleman, Tamara

Science Education Graduate Student Travel Grant “Adults’ Perception of Learning as Inspired by Awe in Nature”

Conrad, Steven

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “The Tanapox Virus as a Therapy for Human Breast Cancer”

*Crescentini, Enzo

Geography Graduate Student Research Grant “Foreign Direct Investment in Italy 2000–2010: Spatial Patterns and Implications”

Dasari, Veerendra

Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Research Grant “Wireless EEG Acquisition and Brain Activity Detection”

Derrick, Sean

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Student Research Grant “Rapid Functional Injection Mold Tooling Using Polymer Additive Models”

Derrick, Sean

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant “An Evaluation Into the Cause of Corrosive Failure in Autophoretic Coated Material”

Dial, Caitlyn

History Graduate Student Research Grant “The Wrecks of the Eastland and Edmund Fitzgerald: Great Lakes Shipwrecks in American Public Memory”

*Diop, Sokhna

Garrison, Angela

Geography Graduate Student Research Grant “GIS-based Flood Analysis for Adequate Mitigation Plan in Unplanned Urban Area: The Case of Pikine Dagoudane Suburbs in Dakar-County”

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Emotional Avoidance and Rumination Mediate the Relation Between Adult Attachment and Disclosure”

*Douglass, Kevin

Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Decision Making in Methadone Patients”

Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Grant “Desorption Is Not Responsible for Mass Dependent Detection Deficiency During Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MIS) of Proteins”

Elhoussieny, Ehab

Physics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Time Dependent Photoionization of Gas Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)”

Ellison, Katherine

History Graduate Student Research Grant “Building a House of Peace: The Origins of the Imperial Presidency and the Framework for Executive Power, 1933–1960”

Engebretson, Stacy

Psychology Graduate Student Research Grant “Effect of Exercise in a Corticosterone Model of Depression”

Eshkeiti, Ali

Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Research Grant “Detection of Toxic Heavy Metals Using a Novel Gravure Printed Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Based Sensor”

Fonger, Nicole

Mathematics Education Graduate Student Travel Grant “An Analytic Framework for Representational Fluency: Algebra Students’ Connections Between Multiple Representations Using CAS”

Froeschke, Laura

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “CHIPS: Community Health Through Integration, Prevention, and Screening”

Gayman, Catherine

*Gentile, Christina

Communication Graduate Student Travel Grant “It’s Complicated: The Effect of Facebook on Relationship Maintenance and Satisfaction in Long-Distance Romantic Relationships”

Ghimire, Shankar

Economics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Influence of Foreign Aid on Trade: Disparity Between General Aid and Targeted Aid on Export”

*Gilchrist, Ann

Geosciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Studies and Modeling of Cr(VI) Adsorption on Mixed Mineral Assemblages”

*Gupta, Nishant

Computer Science Graduate Student Travel Grant “On Cloud Computing Performance Evaluating Tools”

Haase, Alexandra

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Engineering a Catalytic Site in Bacterial Flagellin Using Rational Design”

Hampel, Kristin

Chemistry Graduate Student Research Grant “The Sugar Content in Algae Biomass for Bio-ethanol Production”

Haskill, Christine

English Graduate Student Travel Grant “Late Victorian Horrors: Teaching the Fin de Siècle through the Monstrous”

WMU Research

Hawley, Christopher

History Graduate Student Travel Grant “Sharing Tea: American-Afghan Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Ford Administration”

Herr, Keli

Job, Jacob

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Can You Hear Me Now?: Does Urban Noise Induce Plastic Responses in Populations of Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina)?”

Psychology Graduate Student Research Grant “Conditioned Place Preference Procedures in Rats”

Jones, Andrew

Hilton, Derrick

Kamel, Ammar

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Hook Homolog 3 Is DownRegulated by the Presence of Alpha Synuclein in C6 Cells and is Reduced in the Granular Cell Layer of Multiple System Atrophy Patients”

Hinz, Alia

Chemistry Graduate Student Research Grant “Probing the Interaction Between Specific Domains of Wilson Disease Causing Protein”

Hobson, Kristin

Interdisciplinary Evaluation Graduate Student Travel Grant “A Meta-Analysis of Studies of the Effects of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccines on the Development of Autism Among Children”

Howard, Krystal

English Graduate Student Travel Grant “Female Subjectivity and Power as Transformative Agents in the YA Verse Novels of Francesca Lia Block and Ellen Hopkins”

Husovska, Veronika

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging Graduate Student Travel Grant “Conductive Graphite Inks”

Izumi, Masashi

Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology Graduate Student Research Grant “Teachers’ Perception for New Introduction of an Alternative School Into Japan: Through a Survey for Japanese Middle School English Teachers”

Jelsema, Casey

Statistics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Self Assessment Model for ObesityRelated Chronic Diseases”

*Jeng, David

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Studies Related to Tanapox Virus 15L Open Reading Frame”

2012

Philosophy Graduate Student Travel Grant “Morality, Reason, and Theism”

Computer Science Graduate Student Travel Grant “Client-Side Architecture for Mobile Service QoS Monitoring Using Generalized Extreme Value Theorem”

Kanclerz, Lucas

Geography Graduate Student Research Grant “Understanding Wildfire Hazard Vulnerability Between Local and Seasonal Residents Based on Home Protection Activities in Teton County, Wyoming”

Kuhn, Jennifer

Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Case Crossover Designs: Utility for Studying Child Injury Risk”

Lin, Jianwei

Mathematics Graduate Student Travel Grant “The Domination Number of Kao Kao Ka”

Lingle, Derrick

Geosciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Source and Fate of High Levels of Ammonium in Groundwater, Ottawa County, Michigan”

Lininger, Monica

Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Examining the Research Designs and Analytical Techniques in Athletic Training From 2005–2010”

Madawala, Rathnayaka

Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Grant “Highly Sensitive and Selective Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Cu2+”

Mahmoud, Amr

Chemistry Graduate Student Research Grant “Investigating the Biochemical Activity of Some New Anti-breast Cancer Agents”

Mahmoud, Amr

Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Grant “Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Nimesulide Derivatives as Anti-Breast Cancer Agents”

Maitland, Daniel

Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Comparing Sessions of Functional Analytical Psychotherapy to Nondirective Support in the Treatment of Interpersonal Distress”

Malcolm, Allister

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “The Influence of Anthropogenic Noise on Acoustic Mating Signal Effectiveness in Hylid Frogs”

Mamudi, William

Physics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Investigating Physics Teaching Assistants’ (TA) Practices to Improve Teaching Assistant Training for Physics Education”

Mamudi, William

Science Education Graduate Student Travel Grant “Physics Faculty Use of Example Solutions in Teaching Introductory Physics”

Mansiz, Cem

Civil and Construction Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant “Incremental Finite Element Model for Component Interaction Investigation of a Full-Depth Deck Panel System”

Martin, John

Comparative Religion Graduate Student Travel Grant “The Characteristics of Guidance and the Secrets of the Guided: A 13th-Century Treatise on the Divine Names in Islamic Theurgic Rites”

Mataka, Lloyd

Science Education Graduate Student Travel Grant “The Effect of Using an Explicit General Problem Solving Approach on Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Ability to Solve Heat Transfer Problems”

Mateu, Pedro

Interdisciplinary Evaluation Graduate Student Travel Grant “Meta-Analysis Demystified: A Stepby-Step Workshop”

*McCandless, Jamie

McKenna, Amanda

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Mapping the Microglial/Immune Response to Two Methods of Olfactory Bulb Deafferentation in Zebrafish”

Means, Stephanie

Interdisciplinary Evaluation Graduate Student Travel Grant “Relationship Between Nurse Personality Traits and Work Assignments”

*Mohamed, Lamees

Geosciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Assessment and Development of Alternative Water Resources in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt”

*Mohammed, Abdel Mawgoud

Geosciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Hydrochemical Characteristics and Potential Tectonic Influences on Groundwater Quality of the Continental-Scale Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS)”

Montalvo, Jonathan

Spanish Graduate Student Travel Grant “La actitud binaria de Tacho respecto al arquetipo homosexual en ‘Rumbo al hermoso norte’ de Luis Alberto Urrea” (“Tacho’s Binary Attitude in Regards the Homosexual Archetype in ‘Into the Beautiful North’ of Luis Alberto Urrea”)

Moorthi, Akhil

Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Research Grant “Development of a Flexible Strain Gauge Sensor Using Screen Printing”

Nichol, Dana Jo

Human Performance and Health Education Graduate Student Research Grant “The Effects of a Moisture-Wicking Fabric Shirt on the Physiological Responses During Acute Exercise in the Cold”

*Okwako, Jane

History Graduate Student Research Grant “A Difficult and Dangerous Thing: Religious Reform in Late Medieval Ulm, 1390–1532”

Political Science Graduate Student Research Grant “Innovative Governance and Natural Resource Management in Kenya: Modeling Procedural and Substantive Outcomes of Civil Society”

McCullough, Monica

Pearce, Brandon

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Walk-training Exercise Increases Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) Protein Content in the Spinal Cord”

Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources

Medieval Institute Graduate Student Travel Grant “He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear: Owen Barfield and the Aurality of Medieval Thought”

Philippus, Jancie

Rubio, Daniel

Phinezy, Bryan

Rubio, Daniel

Music Graduate Student Travel Grant “Music and the Earth: Four Elements for Horn and Piano”

Mathematics Graduate Student Travel Grant “On Closed Modular Colorings of Graphs”

Phinezy, Bryan

Mathematics Graduate Student Travel Grant “On Locating Sets in Graphs”

*Polk, Adam

Geography Graduate Student Research Grant “Agriculture of the Ancien Régime”

Quisenberry, Amanda

Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Modafinil Potentiates Discrimination of Low Dose Amphetamine”

Rai, Buddhi

Physics Graduate Student Travel Grant “Nonlinear Modes in Photonic Crystal Waveguides With Offchannel Features”

Redding, Adrienne

English Graduate Student Travel Grant “’Pray to the Devils, the Gods Have Given Us Over’: Satire and the Iconography of Eden in Titus Andronicus”

Redner, Ryan

Psychology Graduate Student Research Grant “The Effects of Punishment on Resurgence”

Redner, Ryan

Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Punishment-induced Resurgence”

Reynolds, Michael

Psychology Graduate Student Research Grant “Testing a Procedure to Promote Participant Understanding of Informed Consent Documents With a Linked Research Project on the Believability of Medical Claims”

Rodriguez Rivera, Wanda

Chemistry Graduate Student Research Grant “Design and Development of Innovative Drugs That Inhibit COX-2 Enzyme”

Rowbotham, Katherine

Science Education Graduate Student Research Grant “Eutrophication-Related Conceptions and Engagement Levels in an Environmental Field Geochemistry Course”

Philosophy Graduate Student Travel Grant “Are There True Libertarian Action Counterfactuals?”

Philosophy Graduate Student Travel Grant “Libertarian Free Will and Circumstantial Moral Luck”

Sawatzki, Phillip

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Identity, Life-cycles, and Phylogeny of Microsporidia in Benthic Stream Copepods”

Seibert, Krystal

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Development of Tanapox Virus for Oncolytic Therapy”

Serfas, Daniel

Geography Graduate Student Travel Grant “Assessing the Impacts of Dams on Nutrient and Sediment Loading in the Kalamazoo River Watershed Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool”

Shaheen, Glenn

English Graduate Student Travel Grant “Flash Points: Publishing Flash Fiction in an Evolving Landscape”

Shin, Jae Young

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging Graduate Student Travel Grant “Rheological Properties of Starch Latex Dispersions and Starch LatexContaining Coating Colors”

*Slager, Benjamin

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Modeling Monarch Migration”

*Sparks, Kelly

Science Education Graduate Student Travel Grant “Students’ Conceptions of Learning and Approaches to Learning in an Undergraduate Physical Geography Course”

Stilling, Stephanie

Psychology Graduate Student Research Grant “Social Behavior in Situations of Uncertainty and Risk”

Strong, Benjamin

Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Grant “Synthesis of Dialkyl Hydrazines and Their Hydroxyl Radical Degradation in Aqueous Environments”

Subramain, Maran

Interdisciplinary Evaluation Graduate Student Travel Grant “Adding Value to Writing Center Evaluations Through Evaluation Theory”

Thwaites, Mary

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Metabolism of Therapeutically Relevant Inositol Compounds in a Bacterial Model System”

*Toth, Ariana

Wicks, Nicholas

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Testicular Effects of Immunological Castration of Swine With Two Different Commercially Available Anti-GnRH Vaccines”

Geography Graduate Student Research Grant “Economic Autonomy of the Miskitu Women of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, Nicaragua: Do Current Development Policies Apply to Matrifocal Societies?”

Wittbrodt, Matthew

Tuley, Amy

Woodard, Kelsey

Human Performance and Health Education Graduate Student Research Grant “The Effect of ad libitum Hydration on Cognitive Function After Exercise in a Hot Environment”

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant “Criminal History and Social Work Admissions Decisions: Recidivism Related Factors vs. Social Work Related Factors”

Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology Graduate Student Research Grant “Voices of Higher Education ServiceLearning Directors”

Vianney, John-Mary

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant “Effects of Yaw and Roll Angles on Skin Friction Topology on Delta Wings”

Biological Sciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Does Electrical Stimulation Regulate Glia Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) in Skeletal Muscle Cells?”

Walmsley, Christopher

Psychology Graduate Student Travel Grant “An Assessment of a Biofeedback Device for the Treatment of Nocturnal Bruxism”

Woodiga, Sudesh

Yamanaka, Aoi

Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology Graduate Student Travel Grant “Using Technology in Advising: Best Practices, Tools, and Tips”

Yaqoob, Muthanna

Geosciences Graduate Student Research Grant “Detection of Bedrock Fractures and Joints Beneath Cover: Geophysical Approaches to an Engineering Geology Problem”

Zerndt, Emily

Political Science Graduate Student Research Grant “The Patenting of American-Style Democracy: Freedom House and Numerical Knowledge”

Zhezha, Mikela

Spanish Graduate Student Travel Grant “Where Lexical Aspect and Negation Meet Gricean Theory: Towards Explanatory Adequacy in Linguistic Analysis of Affirmative Inceptive hasta in Spanish”

*Wright, Benjamin

Medieval Institute Graduate Student Travel Grant “The World as Cloister: Cambron Abbey and the Reconfiguration of Sacred Space 1322–1330”

Support for Faculty Scholars Award in 2011-2012 Anemone, Robert

Anthropology “Testing a predictive model for locating productive fossil localities”

Corder, Kevin

Political Science “Bank regulation after the financial crisis”

Dudek, Andrzej

Mathematics “Hamiltonicity of radom hypergraphs”

Gu, Chien-Juh

Sociology “Middle-class immigrant housewives: a study of self-concepts in life transitions”

Gustafson, Peter

Mechanical Engineering (patent pending, confidential)

Harvey, Kirsten “Dancing faces: teaching the technique of emotion”

Hill, Sarah

Management “Learning from whistleblowing”

Anthropology “Rent and recycling in Cuba: how not owning leads to not using things up”

Fitzsimmons, Stacey

Hyter, Yvette

Farrell, Dan

Management “Roles than multicultural employees play in organizations: individual and contextual antecedents”

Frieder, Jessica

Psychology “Effects of varied response methods in class activity and reviews on student performance and preference”

Speech Pathology and Audiology “Assessment of pragmatic language”

Jellies, John

Biological Sciences “Peptide disruption of a peripheral neural oscillator”

Konate, Mariam

Gender and Women’s Studies “Fatherlessness and African American female college students: a phenomenological study of their dating experiences”

Kubiski, Joyce

Art “Pisanello and John Palaeologus VIII: details of dress and the Easter other”

Lu, Yan

Biological Sciences “Novel transcriptional regulation of biosynthesis of aspartatederived amino-acids”

Manning-Walsh, Juanita Nursing “Effect of practitioner self care and anxiety on relationships within the context of organizational change”

Martini, Edwin

History “Napalm: more than a weapon”

O’Reilly, Kelley

Marketing “How young consumers assess online word-of-mouth (WOM) credibility”

Pyenson, Lewis

History “Natural history illustration in 19th Century Argentina”

Salisbury, Eve

English “Disseminating Gower: Newberry MS 33.5 and the Gower Project”

Scannell, Thomas

Management “Successful small business growth supported by supply chain management best practices”

Soliman, Ghada

Family and Consumer Sciences “Developing a manual for weight management as a resource for use by dietetic students, interns, and nutrition professionals”

Sun, Yuanliang Art “The bridge”

Tarbox, Gwen

English “Gender and identification in Franco-Belgian YA graphic narratives”

Veeck, Ann

Marketing “Food safety, trust and responsibility in urban China”

Vonhof, Maarten

Biological Sciences “Patterns of population connectivity and gene flow in a neotropical bat”

Weeden, Marc

Special Education “The effects of TeachLive on the acquisition of basic teaching skills in first-year special education students: a preliminary investigation”

Steuer, Susan

Special Collections and Rare Books “Traveling libraries for prisoners in World War I work detachments”

WMU Research

External Awards to Faculty and Staff in 2011-2012

External Funding Year-to-Date Expenditure Recipients College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

other

Vice President for Research

10%

College of Arts and Sciences

10%

11%

29%

College of Health and Human Services 10% 23%

Vice President for Business and Finance

College of Arts and Sciences

$8,118,550

29.14%

College of Education and Human Development

$6,327,550

22.71%

Geosciences University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Al-Fuqaha, Ala I.

$77,462 Barnes, David A. Hampton, Duane R.

$2,653,024

9.52%

College of Health and Human Services

$3,150,480

11.31%

Computer Science Scenaria, Inc.

Vice President for Business and Finance

$2,694,182

9.67%

$92,201

Vice President for Research

$1,979,593

7.10%

Al-Fuqaha, Ala I.

College of Aviation

$88,907

.032%

Computer Science Behnke Warehouse

$31,262

College of Fine Arts

$13,016

$3,000

Bautista, Manuel A.

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

$322,636 $1,744,676

.05%

1.16% 6.26%

Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion

$605,718

Vice President for Student Affairs

$166,759 0.60%

TOTAL (as of 6/30/2012)

2.17%

$27,865,090

100%

Ari-Gur, Pnina Rabiej, Roman J.

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Ikonomov, Pavel G.

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Foundation Industry/ Corporation Educational Institutions

12% 4% 6%

Federal

International (2%)

50%

10% 6%

State

$2,682,844

9.63%

Local

$1,268,607

4.55%

$390,063

1.40%

International Industry/Corporation

$1,550,395

5.56%

Educational Institution

$2,118,860

7.60%

Foundation

$1,004,472

3.61%

Other $3,351,107

TOTAL (as of 6/30/2012)

Local

50.25%

12.03%

$1,496,974 5.37% $27,865,090

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

$16,000 Asumadu, Johnson A. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota

$8,333 Asumadu, Johnson A. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota

$8,333 Atashbar, Massood Zandi CAPE Center

Rebrosova, Erika

Distribution of Facilities and Administration Recovery Funds

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging FlexTech Alliance

$34,573 Total funds recovered $4,346,292

General Fund

Principal Investigators 20%

Academic Units Research Support

OVPR (Research Support)

10%

Departments 10% 30% 20%

Colleges and Other

Research Development WMU Research Foundation

$1,738,516 40%

Principal Investigators

$434,629

10%

Departments

$434,629

10%

Colleges and other University Research Support

$869,258

2012

20%

$1,738,518 40%

OVPR Research Support

$1,303,888

30%

Research Development

$217,315

WMU Research Foundation

$217,315

University Cost Recovery

$869,258 20%

General Fund

Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources

20%

Beaudin-Seiler, Beth M.

$5,000

$195,003

State

WMU

$14,001,769

$163,340

Schwartz, Renee

Ari-Gur, Pnina Federal

Physics National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Litynski, Daniel M.

Biological Sciences National Science Foundation

External Funding Year-to-Date Expenditure Sources

Geosciences Battelle Memorial Institute

College of Aviation American College of Cardiology Foundation

Vice President for Research

Other

Barnes, David A. Harrison III, William B. Hampton, Duane R.

$20,000

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Haworth College of Business

College of Education and Human Development

Aktan, Haluk M.

Civil and Construction Engineering Michigan Department of Transportation

Atashbar, Massood Zandi Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan Space Grant Consortium

$10,500 Atashbar, Massood Zandi Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan Space Grant Consortium

$1,400 Barkman, Todd J.

Biological Sciences National Science Foundation

$26,4177

Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Inter Tribal Council-Arizona

$278,182 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$270,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$228,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$225,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$190,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$164,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education State of Utah

$121,500

Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Community Health

$115,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education State of Montana

$112,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Washington State Department of Health

$32,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Inter Tribal Council-Arizona

$6,550 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Truman Medical Center

$6,500 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Alaska Department of Health & Social Services

$5,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education State of Utah

Human Performance and Health Education North Carolina Department of Health and Human

$27,750

$3,000

Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

$24,262 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Prevention Works

$23,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Inter Tribal Council-Arizona

$20,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education State of Oklahoma WIC Services

$16,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Prevention Works

$13,500 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Iowa Department of Public Health

$13,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education State of Wisconsin

$3,000 Bensley, Robert J.

Human Performance and Health Education Womens and Infants Hospital

$1,500 Berrah, Nora

Physics U.S. Department of Energy

$200,000 Berrah, Nora

Physics U.S. Department of Energy

Burns, Clement

Physics Argonne National Laboratory

$27,626 Bush, Jonathan

English National Writing Project Corporation

$20,000 Bush, Jonathan English Memorial Library

$8,750 Butt, Steven E. Fredericks, Tycho K.

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering The Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIIE)

$31,200 Byrd-Jacobs, Christine A. Biological Sciences U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$414,135 Carr, Erika Ann

Division of Multicultural Affairs U.S. Department of Education

$250,000 Carr, Erika Ann

Division of Multicultural Affairs Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Econ

$149,263.49 Carr, Erika Ann

Division of Multicultural Affairs Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Econ

$200,000

$87,451

Bertman, Steven B.

Carr, Erika Ann

$87,230

$19,495

Bolar, Gordon M.

Chase, Ronald B.

$144,467

$54,177

Brandao, Jose Antonio

Ciccantell, Laura R.

Chemistry National Science Foundation

WMUK Radio Corporation for Public Broadcasting

History Frederick S. Upton Foundation

$75,000

Human Performance and Health Education Kansas Department of Administration

Brown, Lori J. Whittles, James H.

$11,000

$1,089

Division of Multicultural Affairs U.S. Department of Education

Geosciences U.S. Department of Defense

Academic Advising

Cummings, Katharine E.

College of Education and Human Development U.S. Department of Education

$213,180

College of Aviation Wolf Aviation Fund

WMU Research

Coryn, Chris L.

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation

Schroeter, Daniela The Evaluation Center

Applegate, Edwards Brooks

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology Swiss National Science Foundation

$229,000 Coryn, Chris L.

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation

Schroeter, Daniela

The Evaluation Center International Development Research Center

$38,777

Dr. Sundberg, Carol

Center for Disability Services Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

$607,807 Dr. Sundberg, Carol

$75,000

$581,547

Sydlik, Mary Anne

$2,000 DeDoncker, Elise Computer Science

Fleming III, Paul D.

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging National Science Foundation

The Evaluation Center Literacy Center of West Michigan

Eversole, Robert R. Biological Sciences Michigan State University

Eversole, Robert R. Biological Sciences Gilead Sciences, Inc.

$12,900 Famiano, Michael A.

Physics National Science Foundation

$80,000 Famiano, Michael A.

Famiano, Michael A.

Physics National Science Foundation

$40,000

$98,328

Flamme, Gregory A.

Speech Pathology and Audiology Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

$49,961

Sundberg, Dr. Carol

Center for Disability Services Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

$7,745 Fredericks, Tycho K. Butt, Steven E.

Fredericks, Tycho K. Butt, Steven E.

2012

Sociology County of Kalamazoo

Physical Plant Clean Energy Coalition

$198,500 Gorczyca, Thomas W. Physics National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Gunter, Whitney D.

$11,995

Sociology Livingston County Circuit Court

$7,885 Henderson, Charles R.

Mallinson Institute for Science Education Iowa State University

$35,964 Henderson, Charles R. Physics National Science Foundation

$456,208 Henderson, Charles R. Physics American Physical Society

$39,000

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Haworth, Inc.

Gupta, Ajay K.

Henry, James A .

$10,000

Computer Science National Science Foundation

$20,000

Atchison,Ben James

Freudenburg, Gene The Graduate College University of Michigan

$14,400 Ghantasala, Muralidhar K. CAVIDS Center Various Industries

$84,125 Ghantasala, Muralidhar K. CAVIDS Center Various Industries

$68,250 Ghantasala, Muralidhar K. CAVIDS Center Various Industries

$875 Ghantasala, Muralidhar K. Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Central Manufacturing Technology Institute

$12,000 Gilbert, Kathryn Marie The Children’s Place

Nelson, Regena Fails

Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies U.S. Department of Education

$123,663

$1,029,372 18

Strazdas, Peter J.

$66,500

The Evaluation Center Literacy Center of West Michigan

DeLong, Cari

The Graduate College Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth

Fogarty, Kieran J.

Glasser, Harold

Evergreen, Stephanie D.

$77,669

Dennis, Tony O.

Strazdas, Peter J.

Sociology City of Kalamazoo

$289,574

$393,845

Kohler, Paula D.

$30,563

Physics National Science Foundation

Landscape Services Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

Jenness, Mark

$100,000

$38,500

Interdisciplinary Health Studies Michigan Department of Community Health

Hartmann, David J.

Office for Sustainability

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Stryker Medical

$7,583

Curtis, Amy B.

Glasser, Harold

Occupational Therapy International Food Protection Training Institute

$7,400

$15,463

$99,941

$566,108

Evergreen, Stephanie D.

Interdisciplinary Health Studies Allen Foundation, Inc.

$99,802

Office for Sustainability

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Hawaii Department of Education

Curtis, Amy B.

$9,978

$46,470

$22,000

Coryn, Chris L.

$284,754

Center for Disability Services Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

Dr. Sundberg, Carol

Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources

Kim, Dae Shik

Mathematics National Science Foundation

Hartmann, David J .

Fogarty, Kieran J.

Hirsch, Christian R.

Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$448,800

Applegate, Edward Brooks

$16,336

Hartmann, David J.

Occupational Therapy International Food Protection Training Institute

SAMPI Education Michigan Mathematics & Science Centers UCI Division

The Evaluation Center Swiss National Science Foundation

Academic Skills Center U.S. Department of Education

$9,978

Coryn, Chris L.

Schroeter, Daniela

Giscombe, Charlotte L.

Physical Plant Clean Energy Coalition

Mallinson Institute for Science

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging Hewlett Packard

Center for Disability Services Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

Everett, Kristin

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation

Fleming III, Paul D. Pekarovic, Jan Joyce, Margaret Cameron, John H.

Harrison III, William B. Geosciences Arizona Geological Survey Headquarters

School of Social Work

Occupational Therapy

Coryn, Chris L.

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in evaluation U.S. Department of Justice

$99,314

$499,983

Hartmann, David J.

Henry, James A.

Sociology County of Kalamazoo

School of Social Work

Atchison,Ben James

$12,258

Occupational Therapy

Hartmann, David J.

Unified Clinics

Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$12,258 Hartmann, David J . Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$11,378 Hartmann, David J . Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$11,378 Hartmann, David J. Sociology County of Kalamazoo

$11,378

Black-Pond, Connie Hyter, Yvette D.

Speech Pathology and Audiology U.S. Department of Justice

$250,000 Henry, James A.

School of Social Work RAND Corporation

$20,000 Henry, James A. Black-Pond,Connie

School of Social Work Michigan Department of Community Health

$15,000 Hernandez, Diana Doubblestein, Vunsin Hiew Division of Multicultural Affairs Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth

$150,000

Mallinson Institute for Science Education Michigan Department of Education

$135,000 Jenness, Mark

Blindness and Low Vision Studies U.S. Department of Education

Special Education and Literacy Studies University of North Carolina at Charlotte

$105,120

Mallinson Institute for Science Education Michigan Department of Education

Kohler, Paula D.

$10,000

$467,857

Jenness, Mark

Mallinson Institute for Science Education Michigan Department of Education

$4,133 Jenness, Mark

SAMPI Michigan State University

$29,314 Jenness, Mark

SAMPI University of Michigan-Dearborn

$5,000 Joyce, Margaret Atashbar, Massood Zandi Bazuin, Bradley J. Bilianyuk, Valery N. Flemming III, Paul D. Hrehorova, Erika Pekarovicova, Alexandra Rebros, Marian Young, Brian

Vice President for Research University of North Carolina

Kujawski, Daniel

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Office of Naval Research

$100,000

Long, Richard G. Guth, David A.

Blindness and Low Vision Studies

Gesink, John W.

Electrical And Computer Engineering U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$889,899 Magura, Stephen Schroeter, Daniela Coryn, Chris L.

The Evaluation Center U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$186,250 Mallak, Larry A. Lyth, David M.

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Stryker Instruments

Miller, Michael G.

Human Performance and Health Education Bronson Orthopedic and Sports Medicine

$3,600 Miller, Michael G.

Human Performance and Health Education Kalamazoo College

$300 Miller, Michael G.

Human Performance and Health Education Kalamazoo College

$300 Miller, Robert G.

Office of Community Outreach State of Michigan

$200,000

Kwigizile, Valerian Oh,Jun-Seok

$22,928

$60,000

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Stryker Instruments

$332,000

$14,579

Chemistry Michigan State University

Civil and Construction Engineering Michigan Department of State Police

Lawie,Tracey Miller Auditorium Arts Midwest

$4,800 Lee, Helen

Blindness and Low Vision Studies U.S. Department of Education

$81,941 Lemberg, David

Mallak,Larry A. Lyth, David M.

Malott, Richard W.

Psychology Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency

Mo, Yirong

Chemistry National Science Foundation

Mo, Yirong

Kehew, Alan

Linn, Cindy

Manufacturing Engineering Various Industries

$39,952 Kern, William S.

Economics The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

$6,000 Kim, Dae Shik Emmerson Wall, Shawn Robert

Blindness and Low Vision Studies

Naghshineh, Koorosh

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Nissan Technical Center North America

$124,226

$75,000 Merati, Parviz

$17,700

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Stryker Instruments

Liou, William W.

$6,194

Hansford, Claudia M. Bade, Shrestha Om, Shiva

Merati, Parviz

CAVIDS Center

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Eaton Corporation

$371,020 Liou, William W.

CAVIDS Center Mississippi State University

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Stryker Instruments

Auxiliary Enterprises Various Industries

$142,717 Munley, Patrick H. Wiebold, Jennipher Craig, Stephen E.

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth

$214,593 Naghshineh, Koorosh

$516 Miller, Michael G.

$5,757

Human Performance and Health Education Bronson Orthopedic and Sports Medicine

$200,400

Liou, William W.

Miller, Michael G.

$30,000

Auxiliary Enterprises Various Industries

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Stryker Instruments

$84,191 CAVIDS Center Eaton Corporation

Patten, John A.

Manufacturing Engineering National Science Foundation

$50,000 Patten, John A.

Manufacturing Engineering Western Michigan University Research Foundation

$20,000 Pekarovic, Jan Cameron, John H. Pekarovicova, Alexandra

Mr. Joel Kendrick

$59,000

Geosciences U.S. Geological Survey

$53,700

Peterson, Stephanie M.

$120,000

Kehew, Alan

Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies State of Michigan Workforce Development Agency

$325,746

Mr. Joel Kendrick

$61,994

Palmer, Jodie G.

Manley, Robert Adam Zinser, Richard W.

Meade, David J. Patten, John A.

Biological Sciences Western Michigan University Research Foundation

$120,000

$25,000

$187,334

Geosciences U.S. Geological Survey

Haworth College of Business University of Michigan

Auxiliary Enterprises Various Industries

$13,670

Chemistry Various Sponsors

Palan, Kay M.

$120,152

Human Performance and Health Education Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

Obare, Sherine O.

$195,000

Mr. Joel Kendrick

Family and Consumer Sciences Michigan Department of Education

CAPE Center

Haworth College of Business Grand Valley State University

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee

$30,019

Geography

Lewis, James B.

Palan, Kay M.

Human Performance and Health Education Kalamazoo College

$16,700

Nassaney, Michael Anthropology Arizona State University

$9,605 Obare, Sherine O.

Chemistry National Science Foundation

$145,000

Psychology Kalamazoo Community Mental Health Services

$68,553 Quakenbush, Janice K.

The Children’s Place Michigan Department of Education

$5,863 Quakenbush, Janice K.

The Children’s Place Michigan Department of Education

$4,277 Quakenbush, Janice K.

The Children’s Place Michigan Department of Education

$1,813 Ramrattan, Sam N.

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Sintokogio, LTD

$50,000 Ramrattan, Sam N.

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Pekarovic, Jan

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging The American Foundry Society, Inc.

$22,000 WMU Research

Ready, Timothy

Lewis Walker Institute for Race and Ethnic Ohio Campus Compact

$2,000 Ro, Kapseong Atashbar, Massood Zandi Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Korea Association of Industry, Academy, and Research Institute

$91,148 Robertson, Carolyn K.

Schuster, David Cobern, William W.

Mallinson Institute for Science Education National Science Foundation

$35,450 Shao, Xiaoyun

Civil and Construction Engineering Northeastern University Civil Environmental Engineering

$33,550 Shen, Jianping

Sindecuse Health Center Prevention Network

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology U.S. Department of Education

$15,000

$693,564

Rodriguez, Jorge Choudhury, Alamgir

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators

$8,000

Shen, Jianping Cooley, Van Edwin

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$110,000 Spybrook, Jessaca K.

Rossbach, Silvia

Biological Sciences Oklahoma State University

$86,188

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Center for Research and Evaluation

$86,596

Roth, Edward A.

School of Music Kalamazoo Communities in Schools Foundation

Spybrook, Jessaca K.

$6,508

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology University of Chicago

Roth, Edward A.

$27,600

School of Music Kalamazoo Communities in Schools Foundation

$6,508

Spybrook, Jessaca K.

Educational Leadership, Research and Technology William T. Grant Foundation

Schroeter, Daniela

$24,057

Zinser, Richard W.

Stapleton, Susan R.

The Evaluation Center

Family and Consumer Sciences University of Louisville

$129,895 Schroeter, Daniela The Evaluation Center Kalamazoo College

$75,000 Schroeter, Daniela The Evaluation Center Augustana College

Chemistry

Spitsbergen, John M. Biological Sciences National Science Foundation

$192,000 Stapleton, Susan R. Schreiber, Donald R. Bertman, Stephen B. Miller, John B. Huffman, David Obare, Sherine O.

$60,000

Chemistry U.S. Department of Education

Schroeter, Daniela

$131,925

The Evaluation Center AXIOM Sales Force Development

Sultan, Mohamed

$34,100

Geosciences National Science Foundation

Schroeter, Daniela

$124,300

The Evaluation Center AXIOM Sales Force Development

$5,000

2012

Sultan, Mohamed

Geosciences National Aeronautics and Space Administration

$107,744

Thompson, Raymond Grant, Martin B. Ludxiczak, Michael Ervin Nicolai, Dominic

Sultan, Mohamed

College of Aviation General Electric Company GE Aviation

Geosciences University of Kentucky

$50,601

$39,928

Tsang, Edmund

Sultan, Mohamed

Geosciences NATO Science Programme Cooperative Science and Technology

$26,896 Sultan, Mohamed Milewski, Adam

Geosciences California State University, Fullerton

$18,415 Sydlik, Mary Anne SAMPI

Everett, Kristin

Mallinson Institute for Science Education Wayne County Regional Educational Services Agency

$100,000 Sydlik, Mary Anne SAMPI

Everett, Kristin

Mallinson Institute for Science Education Wayne County Regional Educational Services Agency

$100,000 Sydlik, Mary Anne Ruhf,Robert J

SAMPI Dickinson-Iron Intermediate School District

$84,431 Sydlik,Mary Anne Everett,Kristin

College of Engineering and Applied Science

Kline, Andrew A.

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging University of Michigan

$121,303 Tsang, Edmund

College of Engineering and Applied Science

Kline, Andrew A.

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging University of Michigan

Washington, Earlie M.

Technology Development Fund 2012 Awards

Research Day and Creative Activities Poster Day 2012 Graduate Student participants

Cousins, Linwood H.

The Technology Development Fund is an internal grant program to provide funding to further develop faculty inventions. As such, it represents the significant investment WMU has made to enhance the impact of WMU’s research through commercialization. The WMU IP Management and Commercialization Faculty Advisory Committee (IPMCC)

Adams, Clara P.

Hanig, Justin K.

Kratky, James L.

Aljadeff-Abergel, Elian

Psychology “The Collateral Effects of Social Skills’ Intervention on Second Grade Students’ Academic Performance in Physical Education” Sponsor: Dr. Stephanie Peterson Associate Professor of Psychology

Hayden, Travis G.

Paskin, Taylor R.

awarded three proposals for 2012.

Barney, Jeffrey Mutambuki, Jacinta

Holcomb, Anne M.

Salim, Rachel

College of Health and Human Services School of Social Work

Raedy, Timothy

Lewis Walker Institute for Race and Ethnic Relations Voices for Action

$22,000 White, Tiffany B. Marshall, Tierra

Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion

Raedy, Timothy

Lewis Walker Institute for Race and Ethnic Relations Michigan Campus Compact

$1,000 Wiebold, Jennipher

Blindness and Low Vision Studies Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology

$11,442

Munley, Patrick H.

Van Houten, Ron

Leja, James A.

Psychology T.Y. Lin International Great Lakes, Inc.

$32,061 VanValey, Thomas L. Sociology City of Portage

$10,019 Vonhof, Maarten

Biological Sciences Pennsylvania State University

$11,400 Wall Emerson, Robert Shawn Lee, Donna B. Blindness and Low Vision Studies U.S. Department of Education

$291,533 Washington, Earlie M.

Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology Blindness and Low Vision Studies U.S. Department of Education

$149,974 Wingate, Lori A. Gullickson, Arlen R.

The Evaluation Center National Science Foundation

$166,252 Wingate, Lori A.

The Evaluation Center Indiana State University

$42,121 Wuosmaa, Alan H. Physics

School of Social Work

$12,000

$19,613 Sydlik, Mary Anne Ruhf, Robert J.

SAMPI Michigan State University

$14,852 Terpstra, Jeffrey

Statistics Bronson Methodist Hospital

$23,780

Lewis Walker Institute for Race and Ethnic Relations Voices for Action

$171,615 Washington, Earlie M.

Manufacturing Engineering Micro Laser Assisted Machining Technologies

$20,000 Yang, James

Computer Science Efficiently Detecting Concurrency Errors for Software Development

$12,000

Research Development Awards Docherty, Kathyrn

Biological Sciences “Investigating the soil microbial responses to fire and interacting global change factors in a California annual grassland”

$2,500 Grunert, Megan

$2,500

$69,999 SAMPI WGBH Educational Foundation

Patten, John

Yang, Zijiang James

Computer Science Western Michigan University Research Foundation

Sydlik,Mary Anne

$17,700

$182,000

U.S. Department of Energy

College of Health and Human Services

Raedy, Timothy

Biological Sciences Glaucoma Prevention

Chemistry “Pedagogical techniques training for graduate teaching assistants in a problem-based inquiry college chemistry laboratory”

SAMPI Lansing Community College

Cousins, Linwood H.

Linn, Cindy

Zhang, Jiabei

Human Performance and Health Education U.S. Department of Education

$299,412

College of Health and Human Services Hispanic Center of Western Michigan

Ziebarth, Steven

$120,000

$278,295

Mathematics The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation

Gu, Chien-Juh

Sociology “Culture, beliefs and mental health: the role of religion in Asian American women’s emotional lives”

$2,500 Kwigizile, Valerian

Civil and Construction Engineering “Evaluation of performance of older drivers at roundabouts to quantify potential safety and operational problems caused by age”

Lu, Yan

Biological Sciences “Identifying novel connections between photosynthesis and amino acid metabolism”

$2,500 Omilion-Hodges, Leah

Communication “Understanding the military’s use of communication to service member’s families”

$2,400 Pearl, Christopher

Biological Sciences “How changes in the estrogen environment contribute to declining sperm production and maturation”

$2,500 Szymczyna, Blair

Chemistry “Assembly mechanism of a potential target of anti-rotaviral therapeutics; development of a technique to investigate protein recognition of RNA targets”

Chemistry “Surface Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles for Dual Optical and Electrochemical Detection of Pathogens” Sponsor: Dr. Sherine Obare Associate Professor of Chemistry

Mallinson Institute for Science Education “Science Faculty Grading Practices on Quantitative Problems: Are Their Values Consistent with Their Practices?” Sponsors: Dr. Charles Henderson Associate Professor of Physics Dr. Heather Petcovic Associate professor of geosciences Dr. Herb Fynewever Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry Education

Dailey, Dale

Geosciences “Geophysical and Remote Sensing Applications for a Better Understanding of the Structural Controls on Groundwater Flow in the Lucerne Valley, California” Sponsor: Dr. Mohamed Sultan Chair of Geosciences

Gyorkos, Amy Morrison McCullough, Monica

Biological Sciences “Effect of Varying Exercise Intensities on GDNF Expression and Neuromuscular Junction Morphology” Sponsor: Dr. John Spitsbergen Chair of Biological Sciences

Economics “Showing World Market Integration through Time” Sponsors: Dr. Susan Pozo Professor of Economics Dr. James Hueng Associate Professor of Economics.

Geosciences “New Eocene Continental Breakup Ages from the Australian and Antarctic Margins: Results from IODP Expedition 318 to Wilkes Land, Antarctica” Sponsor: Dr. Michelle Kominz Professor of Geosciences.

Communication “Codes of Femininity and Body Image in Branded Social-Networking Messages and Consumer Responses” Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Machiorlatti Associate Professor of Communication

Jia, Yumeizhi Lim, Sooman

PaperEngineering, Chemical Engineering and Imaging “Ink Jet Ink Printability” Sponsors: Dr. Sasha Pekarovicova Professor of Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Imaging Dr. Paul Fleming Professor of Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Imaging

Kothari, Catherine L.

Interdisciplinary Health Sciences “Using GIS to Examine the Relationship of Maternal Race and Neighborhood Racial Segregation with Birth Outcomes” Sponsor: Dr. Amy Curtis Associate Professor of Physician Assistant

Mathematics “Investigating the Support for Algebraic Thinking in the Math Trailblazers Elementary Curriculum” Sponsor: Dr. Kate Kline Professor of Mathematics

Biological Sciences “Injury-Induced Degeneration and Regeneration of the Adult Zebrafish Olfactory System Affects Morphology, Function, and Behavior” Sponsor: Dr. Christine Byrd-Jacobs Professor of Biological Sciences

Geosciences “Laboratory Testing of Capillary Rise in Fine-Grained Sands and Silts” Sponsor: Dr. Duane Hampton Associate Professor of Geosciences

Sibert, Ryan J.

Geosciences “The Effects of Road Salt Influx on the Geochemical Cycling of Woods Lake” Sponsor: Dr. Carla Koretsky Lee Honors College Associate Dean and Professor of Geosciences

Nick, Setare Tahmasebi Bejcek, Elizabeth L.

Chemistry “Surface Modification of Metallic Nanoparticles for Effective Destruction of Biological Cells” Sponsors: Dr. Sherine Obare Associate Professor of Chemistry Dr. Bruce Bejcek Professor of Biological Sciences

$2,500

$2,468

Zoeller, Linda H.

School of Nursing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

$20,310 Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources

WMU Research

FACULTY RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES AWARD 2012 recipients Bondarchuk, Karen Frostic School of Art

$10,000 Councell-Vargas, Martha School of Music

Docherty, Kathryn Biological Sciences

$10,000 Geiser, John

$10,000 Gill, Sharon

Biological Sciences

$9,994

$9,974

Ellis, Anthony

Guda, Ramakrishna

English

Chemistry

$5,239 Emerson, Charles

$9,898

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Biological Sciences

$10,000

Geography

Fajardo-Hansford, Claudia

$10,000

To learn more about WMU research or how to expand your participation, visit www.wmich.edu/research, or contact us directly Kwigizile, Valerian

Miller, John

Venter, Andre

$9,483

$10,000

Lu, Yan

Moser, Christine

$9,999

$9,880

Villalobos-Echeverr, Patricia

Martini, Ed

Straight, Bilinda

$9,988

$10,000

Meng, Lei

Szymczyna, Blair

$9,979

$10,000

Civil and Construction Engineering

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Economics

History

Anthropology

Geography

Chemistry

Frostic School of Art

$10,000 Young, Brian

Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Imaging

Kiddle, James

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Chemistry

$10,000

College of Engineering and Applied Science Center for Advanced Smart Sensor and Systems Center for Advanced Vehicle Design and Simulation Center for Advancement of Printed Electronics Center for Coating Development Center for Excellence in Engineering Education Medflow Center for Design Excellence Human Performance Institute Center for Information Technology and Image Analysis Center for Ink and Printability Center for Integrated Design Manufacturing Research Center Center for Recycling Technology College of Arts and Sciences Center for African Development Policy Research Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research Biological Imaging Center Light Center for Chinese Studies Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies Center for Communication Research Environmental Institute (Contains the Environmental Research Center) Great Lakes Center for Environmental and Molecular Sciences Ethics in the Science Classroom Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change Institute of Government and Politics University Center for the Humanities Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum Medieval Institute MichCarb Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education Nanotechnology Research and Computation Center Science and Mathematics Program Improvement (SAMPI) Mallinson Institute for Science Studies Kercher Center for Social Research Soga Japan Center 2012

Paula Kohler Associate Vice President for Research (269) 387-8283 paula.kohler@wmich.edu

$10,000

Editor Diana Berkshire Hearit

WMU Centers and institutes*

Daniel M. Litynski Vice President for Research (269) 387-8294 dan.litynski@wmich.edu

Haworth College of Business Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Global Business Center Center for Health Information Technology Advancement (with the College of Health and Human Services) Center for Sustainable Business

Designer Kim Nelson Photographer Mike Lanka

College of Education and Human Development Center for Counseling and Psychological Services National Research Center for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren McGinnis Reading Center and Clinic College of Health and Human Services Center for Gerontology Center for Health Information Technology Advancement (with the Hathworth College of Business) Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trauma Assessment Center Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Heanicke Institute for Global Education (includes the Confucius Institute and the Center for English Language and Culture for International Students Center for Practices with Electronic Portfolios and Assessment Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations Office of the Vice President for Research Biosciences Research & Commercialization Center Evaluation Center Ofice of Diversity and Inclusion Center for Disability Services

*submitting annual reports to the Office of the Vice President for Research

Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources

WMU Research

Office of the Vice President for Research 1903 W Michigan Ave Kalamazoo MI 49008-5456

2012

Leadership, Scholarship, Collaboration and Resources