Past Winners

Pilot Funds for Faculty-Student Research Teams in the Social Sciences

2007-2008

Corning, Alexandra
Gondoli, Dawn
Psychology
Helping Our Daughters Avoid Eating Disorders

Lefever, Jennifer
Psychology
The Impact of Infant Attachment Status on Children's Early Mental and Physical Development

McKenna, James
Anthropology
Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab: Hormonal Correlates

2006-2007

Bergeman, Cindy
Psychology
Understanding Stress in Old Age: Physiology, Assessment, & Meaning

Chesson, Meredith
Anthropology
Natives, Traders, and Settlers: Culture Contact, Identity, and Ethnicity in Southern Calabria, 2000-700 BD

Guisinger, Alexandra
Political Science
A New Test of the Realist Balancing vs. Bandwagoning Hypotheses: On-line Diplomacy

Javeline, Debra
Political Science
Political Responses to Tragedy: (Citizen Participation After Beslan)

Lapsley, Daniel K.
Psychology
University Service Learning and Generative Well-Being at Mid-Life

Nickerson, David
Political Science
Racial Priming and Framing in Policy Evaluation

Pope-Davis, Donald and Brooks, Roger
Psychology
The Effects of Racial Identity, Religiosity and Coping on the Psychological Well-Being and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms of African American Survivors of Hurricane Katrina

Richman, Karen E.
Institute for Latino Studies [[[
New Minorities/Old Communities

Whitman, Thomas
Psychology
Risk and Resiliency in Mothers Caring for Children with Autism

2005-2006

Pope-Davis, Donald and Miller, Matthew
Psychology
The Development and Validation of the Bicultural Self-Efficacy Scale

Hachen, David
Sociology
Pilot Study in the Michiana Area of Temporary Help

Pope-Davis, Donald and Burrow, Anthony
Psychology
Development and Test of a Daily Racial Salience

2004-2005

Susan Blum
Anthropology
My Word & Your Word: Toward an Ethnographic Understanding of Plagiarism in U.S. Universities

Sy-Min Chow
Psychology
Modeling Emotion as "Chaotic Thermostat: Pilot Study of Intra-Person Dynamics

Freidewald, Vince
FTT
Voice Recognition Technology in Computer-Based Bio terrorism Surveillance