2014-2015 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) Award Announcement

The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2014-2015 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Angelin Chang
Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$5,000.00

Tradition and Technology: merging classical piano performance and digital media synchronization

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Jungsil (David) Choi
Department of Marketing
Monte Ahuja College of Business
$4,500.00

The moderation effect of regulatory focus on the effectiveness of negative charity appeals

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Benjamin Clark
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$3,950.00

Assessing Best Practices in the Utilization of Information Technologies to Enhance and Improve Citizen Participation in Government

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Ronnie Dunn
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$5,000.00

The History & Implications of School Desegregation in the Urban North: Cleveland ‐ A Case Study

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Valentin Gogonea
Department of Chemistry
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Dysfunctional carbamylated high density lipoprotein is atherogenic and pro-inflammatory

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Brian Harper
Department of Curriculum and Foundations
College of Education and Human Services
$4,132.65

Using Chess as a Means to Prepare Students for the Ohio Mathematics Common Core

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Annie Jouan-Westlund
Department of Modern Languages
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$3,930.00

Pierre Jourde’s Pays perdu (2005) and La Première pierre (2013): Misunderstanding or Misreading of Autofiction?

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Nancy Meyer-Emerick
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$4,503.90

Enhancing public emergency preparedness with local social marketing field research

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Ronald Reminick
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$5,000.00

Hawai’ian Kahuna Shamanic Cosmology and Practice on the Big Island, Hawai’i

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Adam Sonstegard
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,250.00

“The Color Line” in Graphic Illustration and in Charles Chesnutt’s Short Fictions

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Jacqueline Vitali
Department of Physics
College of Sciences and Health Professions
$5,000.00

Structural Studies of an Aspartate Transcarbamoylase

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Mary Ellen Waithe
Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$2,625.00

Busted!! A Pictorial History of Women Philosophers, in 4 Volumes