Faculty Research Grants Awarded
Ten NMU faculty members have been selected to receive research grants worth about $7,000 each for upcoming projects. The proposal submissions were reviewed by the Faculty Grants Committee, the Academic Senate and the provost.
The grant winners and their projects are:
•William Bergman (History), “Commerce and Arms: Defining the Western Economy during the Early Republic, 1776-1815”;
•Louise Bourgault (Communication and Performance Studies), “Exploring the Use of Film to Combat HIV/AIDS-related Stigma in India: A Preliminary Study”;
•Thomas Getman (Chemistry), “The Development of Fundamental Chain Reaction of the [B10H9NCCH3]- and [B12H12]2- Ions with Potential Application to the Oligomerization of Ethylene”;
•Jill Leonard (Biology) “A Seasonal and Strain-Specific Characterization of Brook Trout Thyroid Hormones”;
•Michael Loukinen (Sociology and Social Work), “Lost Drum of the Lac Vieux Desert Ojibwe”;
•Osvaldo Lopez (Biology), “Early Protective Immune Response Against Influenza Virus”;
•Stephanie McKenzie (English), “Van Gogh’s Granddaughters”;
•Michael Rudisill (Engineering Technology), “Hybrid Baja: Second-Generation Vehicle”;
•Alan Willis (History), “Raise Up a Child: Southern Evangelical Youth Programs and American Culture”;
•Qinghong Zhang (Mathematics and Computer Science), “Duality Theory and Interior-Point Methods in Semidefinite Programming.” |