Internal Grant Program Awardees

Eight awards were made in the fifth year of the Advancing Research and Creativity program, which replaced the Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS) program.

Rachel Buff Professor, Department of History Lost in the Red Scare

Carolyn Eichner Professor, Department of History, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Louise Michel: A Revolutionary Life

Kennan Ferguson Professor, Department of Political Science Inhuman Politics

Megan Gilbertson Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology The WISE Project: Well-Being, Identity, Social Support, and Education in Middle School

Maria Gillespie Associate Professor, Department of Dance External Co-Investigator(s): Nguyễn  Nguyễn , Renaissance Arts Academy; Kevin Williamson, Scripps College Wild Tongue: Translating Embodied Memory in the Language of Dance

Andy Miller Teaching Faculty III, Department of Dance Mallet Music for Ballet Class: Composing New Works for Marimba and Vibraphone to Accompany Ballet Techniques Classes

Erin Ruppel Associate Professor, Department of Communication Pathways to Well-Being: Theorizing Social Compensation and Social Enhancement

Nine awards were made in the fourth year of the Advancing Research and Creativity program, which replaced the Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS) program.

Viktorija Bilic Associate Professor, Translation & Interpreting Studies Translating the History of Germans in America

Esther Chan Assistant Professor, Sociology The Limits of Diversity: From Equality and Representation to Equity

Jennifer Haas Research Program Director, Anthropology UWM Co-Investigators: Brian Nicholls, Research Program Associate Director, Archaeological Research Laboratory Center Seth Schneider, Research Services Manager, Archaeological Research Laboratory Center Indigenous Lifeways in Northeastern Wisconsin during the Middle Woodland Period (AD 0 to 400)

Kundan Kishor Professor, Economics Credit Gap Uncertainty

Elana Levine Professor, English Doris & Frank: Love, Politics, and Soap Opera Scandal

Aragorn Quinn Associate Professor, Ancient & Modern Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Avatar: Disembodied Performance in Modern Japan

Marie Sandy Associate Professor, Administrative Leadership External Co-Investigator: Rosa Martha Zarate, Independent community organizer, Libreria del Pueblo Music is a double edged sword: Community organizer Rosa Martha Zarate’s continental belonging through musical cantos y cantos historias to incite pueblo

Jeb Willenbring Professor, Mathematical Sciences UWM Co-Investigator: Rebecca Bourn, Teaching Faculty III, Department of Mathematical Sciences Cluster Analysis of Distributions in the Section Attrition and Grade Report using the Earth Mover’s Distance

Jing Yang Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders External Co-Investigator: Michael Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin Accent rating and perception of foreign-accented speech by postlingually deafened adults with cochlear implants

Ten awards were made in the third year of the Advancing Research and Creativity program, which replaced the Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS) program.

Nikole Bouchard Associate Professor, Department of Architecture AFTERLIVES

Katherine Du Assistant Professor, Lubar School of Business The Effect of Stigma on the Evaluation and Perpetuation of Workplace Authenticity Advice

Jennifer Jordan Professor, Department of Sociology Before Craft Beer: Lost Landscapes of Forgotten Hops

Andrew Kincaid Associate Professor, Department of English The Themes, Theories and Genres of Maritime Literature: The Oceanic Feeling

Victoria Moerchen Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science &Technology UWM Co-Investigator: Michelle Polfuss, College of Nursing Feasibility and preliminary performance profiles of individuals with Down syndrome on the MAP-2MWT: Steps toward a lifespan measure

Maria Novotny Assistant Professor, Department of English Rhetorical Dispositions: Addressing the Language of Embryo Donation, Decision-Making, and Family Formation

Sara Benesh Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Justice Visibility and Public Support for the U.S. Supreme Court

Michael Pauers Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Geographical and Morphological Delineation of Labeotropheus fuelleborni and L. trewavasae at Their Type Localities

Nancy Rice Associate Professor, Department of Teaching & Learning Making Choices: Why Parents Choose Voucher Schools for their Children with Disabilities

Rebecca Shumway Associate Professor, Department of History The West African Roots of Pan-Africanism in the Nineteenth Century

Mair Culbreth Assistant Professor, Department of Dance Transtemporal Choreographies: Milwaukee’s American Black Holocaust Museum as an Anchor Institution

David DiValerio Associate Professor, Department of History Making Modern Lamas: Three-year Tibetan Buddhist Meditative Retreat in Contemporary France

Krista Grensavitch Lecturer, Department of History UWM co-investigator: Rachel Buff, Professor, Department of History Documenting Wisconsin’s Black Lives Matter Demonstrations

Karolina May-Chu Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literature Entangled Imaginations: Border Poetics in German and Polish Language Fiction after 1989

Timothy O’Brien Associate Professor, Department of Sociology The Effects of Expert Witness Sex and Race on Expert Witness Credibility

Nicole Roman Assistant Professor, Department of Music “Unquiet Waters”, Recording New Works for Saxophone

Ermitte Saint Jacques Assistant Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies External co-investigator: Robert Smith, Harry G. John Professor of History, Marquette University Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee

Arijit Sen Associate Professor, Department of Architecture Restorative Ligaments: Histories and Spaces of Everyday Resistance against Injustice in Milwaukee’s Northside

Peter Van Elswyk Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Hedging: the linguistics, epistemology, and normativity of qualified speech

James Wasley Professor, Department of Architecture Completing the Greenfield Avenue Gateway

Twelve awards were made in the first year of the Advancing Research and Creativity program, which replaced the Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS) program.

Filipe Alberto Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Genomic underpinnings of gametophyte development and reproductive success in the Giant Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera

Marcus Filippello Associate Professor, History Litigating Liberation: Hearing Recaptive African Voices in Colonial Courts

Leslie Harris Associate Professor, Communication UWM Co-PIs: Portia Cobb, Associate Professor, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres; Erin Parcell, Associate Professor, Communication The Gun Violence Project

Christine Larson Professor, Psychology UWM Co-PI: Karyn Frick, Professor, Psychology Role of Ovarian Hormones in Predicting Risk for PTSD

Patricia Mayes Associate Professor, English Resources for Repairing Miscommunications in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Paru Shah Associate Professor, Political Science She Persisted: Women Candidates, Electoral Loss, and Intentions to Run Again

Joshua Spencer Associate Professor, Philosophy Meta-Mereology

Ava Udvadia Associate Professor, Biological Sciences UWM Co-PI: Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Identifying transcriptional complexes active during successful optic nerve regeneration

Shevaun Watson Associate Professor, English Worshipping History in the “Holy City”: Race, Tourism and Public Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

Alexander Wier Lecturer, Music Electrified Percussion: Creating and Recording New Works for Solo Percussion and Live Electronics

Jorg Woehl Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Development of software for advanced microscopy and tracking of microbeads in solution

William Wood Associate Professor, Anthropology Images and Voices of Community Conservation from La Ventanilla, Mexico: Traveling Exhibition Fabrication

Topic: The Gun Violence Project Team members: Leslie Harris, Associate Professor, Department of Communication; Portia Cobb, Associate Professor, Department of Film; Erin Parcell, Associate Professor, Department of Communication; Kaija Zusevics, Associate Researcher, Center for Urban Population Health; Barbra Beck-Clayton, Associate Professor, Associate professor of Public Health, Carroll University; Debra Gillispie, Founder, Mothers Against Gun Violence

Topic: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Improving Communication in the Intensive Care Unit Team members: Natalie McAndrew, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing; Jeanne Erickson, Associate Professor, College of Nursing; Jayshil Patel, Physician and Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin; Alexandria Bear, Physician and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin; Jill Guttormson, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Marquette University

Topic: When Racism, Equity, and Health Collide: Building Collaborative Team Science on Wicked Problems

Topic: Assistive Technology for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions Team Members: Hyunkyoung Oh, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing; Zhi Zheng, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program; Jinsung Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology; Wonchan Choi, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies; Yura Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work

Topic: The Milwaukee Urban Observatory: The Spatial and Temporal Variation of Artificial Light Team Members: Dawn Erb, Associate Professor, David Kaplan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics; Arijit Sen, Department of Architecture; Woonsup Choi, Associate Professor, Ryan Holifield, Associate Professor, Department of Geography; Federica Bianco, Senior Research Scientist, Gregory Dobler, Director, Urban Observatory, NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress

Topic: Choosing the City: Reinterpreting the Ethnography of Milwaukee Team Members: Ermitte Saint Jacques, Assistant Professor, Department of Africology; Arijit Sen, Department of Architecture; Simone Ferro, Professor, Department of Dance; Chia Youyee Vang, Department of History; Ann Hanlon, Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives, Libraries

Topic: Reducing Health Disparities Among Vulnerable Populations by Increasing Access to Culturally Humble, Quality Care Team Members: Heidi Luft, Assistant Professor, Anne Dressel, Assistant Professor, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Associate Professor, College of Nursing; Rachel Bloom-Pojar, Assistant Professor, Department of English; Melinda Kavanaugh, Assistant Professor Department of Social Work

Topic: Improving Treatment Outcomes Among Individuals Undergoing Rotator Cuff Repair Team Members: Bhagwant Sindhu, Associate Professor, Brooke Slavens, Associate Professor, Alyssa Schnorenberg, Researcher, Virginia Stoffel, Associate Professor, Ying-Chih Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Technology; James Topitzes, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work; Hanna Paul, Research Consultant, Karuna Labs; Steven Grindel, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Dara Mickschl, Physician Assistant—Surgical, Medical College of Wisconsin; Robert W. Wilson, External Exercise Science Consultant

Topic: Children’s Media Use and Interventions to Enhance Health and Well-Being Team Members: Noelle Chesley, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; W. Hobart Davies, Professor, Department of Psychology; Jake Luo, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Informatics and Administration

Topic: Indexing Functional Communication Across Specific Communication Disorders—A Transdisciplinary Approach to Outcome Measure Development Team Members: John Heilmann, Associate Professor, Sabine Heuer, Assistant Professor, Shelley Lund, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders; Roger Smith, Professor; Department of Occupational Science and Technology; Dennis Tomashek, Associate Researcher, R2DR Center

Topic: Leveraging Big Data to Unmask the Functional Connectome of Attention Team Members: Adam Greenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology; Wendy Huddleston, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology; Jason Bacon, UITS Senior Systems Programmer; Daniel Siercks, L&S Systems Administrator; Edgar DeYoe, Professor, Andrew Nencka, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Radiology

Topic: Great Lakes Superfund Research Center: PCBs and Methylmercury—Environmental and Epigenetic Transgenerational Impacts

Topic: Mechanisms of Cell Migration and Differentiation in Development and Disease: From Basic Science to Public Health Team Members: Jennifer Gutzman, Assistant Professor, Douglas A. Steeber, Associate Professor, Ava Udvadia, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Ionel Popa, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics; Paul Auer, Assistant Professor, Michael Laiosa, Associate Professor, Kurt Svoboda, Associate Professor, Zilber School of Public Health

Twelve proposals have been selected for funding in the fifth year of the Discovery and Innovation Grant program, which replaced the Research Growth Initiative.

Qingsu Cheng Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Elucidating the effect of microgravity on breast cancer

Claire De La Cova Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Conserved kinase and phosphatase regulators of RAF signaling in Noonan Syndrome

Dawn Erb Professor, Physics GLIFS: The Gravitationally Lensed Integral Field Survey of star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

David Kaplan Professor, Physics The ASKAP VASTER Survey of the Galactic Center

Min Gyu Kim Assistant Professor, Physics Understanding Antiferromagnetic Domains/Domain Walls in Quantum Antiferromagnets by Coherent X-ray Imaging.

Ashley Lemke Associate Professor, Anthropology Lake Michigan’s Submerged Indigenous Past: Capacity Building and New Underwater Archaeological Research

Jeffrey Lopez-Rojas Assistant Professor, Psychology Disrupted social information content in layer IIa of the Entorhinal Cortex in a mouse model of a human genetic disorder strongly linked to Schizophrenia

Shama Mirza Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry External Co-investigator: Mona Al-Gizawiy, Medical College of Wisconsin Predicting response to anti-VEGF therapy in recurrent glioblastoma a priori

Arjun Saha Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry UWM Co-investigator: Alexander Arnold, Chemistry &  Biochemistry Combining Computational Biophysics and Experimental  Biochemistry to Understand and Inhibit Cytokine-Cytokine Receptor Interactions to Develop New Therapeutic Approaches for Atopic Dermatitis

Daniel Schlitz Scientist II, Civil & Environmental Engineering UWM Co-investigators: Rani El-Hajjar, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Chiu-Tai Law, Electrical Engineering Multiscale Experimental and Analytical Approach for Amplification of Smart Metamaterial Behavior

Yongjin Sung Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Hyperspectral spatial-frequency domain imaging of pharmaceutical tablets

An-Phu Tran Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Unraveling the role of Rab-GTPases in LRRK2-induced neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease

Sixteen awards were made in the fourth year of the Discovery and Innovation Grant program, which replaced the Research Growth Initiative.

Filipe Alberto Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Unlocking the secret microscopic life of kelp: assessing gametophyte density and resilience in disappearing kelp forest habitats

Kelsey Autin Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology External Co-investigator: Blake Allen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston Psychological Mediators in the Link from Quality Maternity Leave to Postpartum Depression

Alita Burmeister Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Investigating molecular mechanisms that result in evolutionary trade-offs between phage resistance and antibiotic resistance

Benjamin Church Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering UWM Co-investigator: William Musinski, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering ICME Framework for Alloy Design and Modeling Materials with Evolving Microstructures

Shannon Freire Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology “Memory Against Forgetting”: An Archaeology of Relationships, Power, and Other Narratives

Joshua Gwon Associate Professor, Nursing UWM Co-investigators: Han Joo Lee, Professor, Department of Psychology; Young Ik Cho, Associate Professor, School of Public Health Development and Feasibility of Text Messaging Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) Cessation Intervention for Young Adults in Rural Areas

Mohd Helwany Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering On-road charging of EVs

Sergey Kravtsov Professor, Freshwater Sciences UWM Co-investigator: Clark Evans, Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences Downstream impacts of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones in a changing climate

Ryan Newton Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences Developing DNA Sequencing Approaches for Microbial Source Tracking

Junjie Niu Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Low Cobalt Cathode Material For High-Energy-Density Batteries

Ionel Popa Associate Professor, Physics Development of a focus adjustment method for optical microscopy with nanometer positioning resolution over hour-long recordings

Priyatha Premnath Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Biphasic microparticles to improve differentiation capacity of Mesenchymal Stem Cells during bone healing

Valerica Raicu Professor, Physics Fluorescence energy extraction via radiation- and vacuum-induced stimulated emission

Xinyi Shen Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences UWM Co-investigators: Sergey Kravtsov, Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences; James Price, Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences Mapping the Dynamics of Social inequity on Flood Vulnerability under Climate Change

Nathaniel Stern Professor, Arts & Design External Co-investigators: Sasha Stiles, Independent Researcher Mother Computer: thinking with natural and artificial intelligences

Linda Wesp Assistant Professor, Nursing UWM Co-investigator(s): Jane Hereth, Assistant Professor, Social Work Community Shot Clinics to Support Self-Management of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy

Twelve proposals have been selected for funding in the third year of the Discovery and Innovation Grant program, which replaced the Research Growth Initiative.

Daniel Agterberg Professor, Department of Physics Correlated electrons with anomalous pseudospin

Carmen Aguilar-Diaz Scientist III, School of Freshwater Sciences UWM Co-investigator: Russell Cuhel, Scientist III, School of Freshwater Sciences External Co-investigator: John Ejnik, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, UW-Whitewater Method for Preemptive Assessment of Risks to Wisconsin Waters Resulting from Sediment Dredging

Barry Cameron Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences External Co-investigator: Ben Edwards, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Dickinson College Paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the Pleistocene ice sheet informed by glaciovolcanic deposits in northeast Iceland

Tamjid Chowdhury Researcher II, Department of Biological Sciences Elucidating the Role of RBM-26 in Development and Disease

Mahsa Dabagh Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering UWM Co-investigator: Sandeep Gopalakrishnan, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing Role of mechanotransduction within wound tissue to characterize and design advanced dressings for non-healing wounds

Jennifer Gutzman Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Biomechanics of vertebrate brain morphogenesis

Emily Latch Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Phylogeography to predict bat responses to changing environments

Victoria McCoy Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences Fluorescence in fossil plants

Gyaneshwar Prasad Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Characterizing Nod factor independent symbiosis between Mimosa pudica and beta-rhizobia

Ava Udvadia Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Evolutionarily Conserved Gene Regulatory Networks Promoting Optic Nerve Regeneration

Yin Wang Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering UWM Co-investigators: Laodong Guo, Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences; Shangping Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences Elucidating the Role of Dissolved Organic Matter in Regulating the Sorption of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) by Engineered Adsorbents

Dazhong Zhao Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Regulation of Anther Cell Differentiation by Receptor-like Kinase-mediated Protein Phosphatase

Fourteen proposals have been selected for funding in the first year of the Discovery and Innovation Grant, a program that replaced the Research Growth Initiative.

Joel Berkowitz Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature Plotting Yiddish Drama

Woo Jin Chang Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering UWM Co-investigator: Jorg Woehl, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Dielectrophoretic chromatography system for parallel analysis of single bioparticles

Philip Chang Associate Professor, Physics Tidal Disruption Events on a Moving‐mesh

Claire De La Cova Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Investigation of UFD‐2‐mediated regulation of Ras/MAP kinase signaling

Laodong Guo Professor, Freshwater Sciences Assessing sources and deposition of phosphorus in Lake Michigan over the last 400 years

Deyang Qu Professor, Mechanical Engineering An innovative and economical method for the recycling of retired power lithium‐ion batteries

Mohammad Rahman Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Control of a Wearable Upper Extremity Exoskeleton Robot for Rehabilitation

Kurt Svoboda Associate Professor, Public Health You vape, I vape, We vape: Acute and potential transgenerational consequences of exposure to nicotine, e‐juice and e‐juice ingredients

Sarah Vigeland Assistant Professor, Physics Probing Strong‐Field Gravity with Gravitational Waves

James Waples Associate Professor, Freshwater Sciences UWM Co-investigator: Ryan Newton, Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences Linking water age and microbial growth in a full‐scale water distribution system

Iris Xie Professor, Information Studies Universal Accessibility and Usability of Digital Libraries in the Mobile Environment: Developing design guidelines for blind and visually impaired users

Erica Young Associate Professor, Biological Sciences UWM Co-investigator: Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Developing Tools to Investigate Ecosystem Functions in Model Pitcher Plant Communities

Zeyun Yu Associate Professor, Computer Science UWM Co-investigator: Sandeep Gopalakrishnan, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing Smartphone‐Based Intelligent Assessment of Wound Healing

Chao Zhu Professor, Mathematical Sciences McKean‐Vlasov functional stochastic differential equations with applications

Carolyn Eichner Associate Professor, History The Mark of Identity: Metropolitan Jews, Liberated Afro-Caribbeans, Algerian Muslims, and the Surname

Deborah Hannula, Associate Professor, Psychology and Fred Helmstetter, Distinguished Professor, Psychology Attention Capture by Acquired Fear

Gerlinde Hoebel Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Do Signal Types Not Intended for Mate Attraction Influence Mate Choice Decisions?

Sang-Yeon Kim Associate Professor, Communication Finding Meta-Analytic Evidence for a Paradigm Shift: From Cross-Cultural to Inter-Ethnic Communication Research

Andrew Kincaid Associate Professor, English The Oceanic Feeling: Ireland and Maritime Fiction

Joyce Latham, Associate Professor, Information Studies and Milo Miller, Senior Information Processing Consultant, College of Letters & Science How We Say Who We Are: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of QZAP—The Queer Zine Archive Project

Natalie McAndrew, Assistant Professor, Nursing and Jeanne Erickson, Associate Professor, Nursing Experiences of Family Caregivers of Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study

Katherine Milco Lecturer, History Coptic Martyrdom in the Twenty-First Century

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Black Brazilian YouTube Social Justice Activism in a Time of Political Repression

Erin Sahlstein Parcell, Associate Professor, Communication and Erin Ruppel, Associate Professor, Communication Difficult Conversations for Military Couples: An Application of the Theory of Motivated Information Management

Amanda Schoofs Senior Lecturer, Music Hers, a Partita for the Twenty-First Century Voice

R. Jason Sherman Associate Professor, Anthropology Sierra Blanca Archaeological Survey

Nathaniel Stern Associate Professor, Art & Design The World After Us

Dazhong Zhao Professor, Biological Sciences Regulation of Anther Cell Differentiation by Receptor-Like Kinase-Mediated Auxin Signaling

Margaret Bartlett Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education Community conversations for inclusive education: The case of children with dis/Abilities in Namibia

Viktorija Bilić Assistant Professor, Translation and Interpreting Translating the Civil War-Era Letters of Mathilde Franziska Anneke

Adream Blair Associate Professor, Art & Design Spatial Prosthetics using Gravity Sketch in Augmented Reality

Marcus Britton Associate Professor, Sociology

Emmanuel Ngui Associate Professor, Zilber School of Public Health Hospital Segregation and Patient Mortality Outcomes

Rachel Buff Professor, History Terms of Occupancy: Refugees, Migrants, and Public Discourse, 1930- present

Winson Chu Associate Professor, History Nazi German Criminal Investigators and Jewish Suicides in Lodz/Litzmannstadt during the Second World War

Stanislaus Husi Assistant Professor, Philosophy The greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history? The Abolition of Slavery and its Implications for Moral Philosophy

Bowles Julie Assistant Professor, Geosciences Assessing the ability of stromatolites to preserve Earth’s magnetic field

Valerie Laken Assistant Professor, English Margot in Winter (a novel)

Elana Levine Professor, Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History

Gyaneshwar Prasad Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation: Comparing rhizobial interactions with nodulating (Chamaecrista fasciculata) and non-nodulating (Gleditsia triacanthos) basal legumes

Alvaro Rios Assistant Professor, Theatre On The Wings of a Mariposa

Caroline Seymour-Jorn Associate Professor, French, Italian & Comparative Literature Women Writers and Global Politics in Jordan

Romila Singh Associate Professor, Lubar School of Business

Nadya Fouad University Distinguished Professor, Educational Psychology

Edward Levitas Professor, Lubar School of Business The role of gender and race in fostering innovation in engineering teams.

Erin Winkler Associate Professor, Africology Children’s Cities: Understanding Race, Place, and Power through the Perspectives of African American and Latinx Children Experiencing Homelessness

Erica Young Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

John Berges Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Creatures who live in glass houses: Defining the players in freshwater and marine silicate cycling

Nikole Bouchard Assistant Professor, Architecture From Waste to Wonder: Working with What Remains

Liam Callanan Associate Professor, English Bird of Paradise: A Biography of Wisconsin Aviation Pioneer Lester Maitland

Sarah Davies-Cordova Professor, French, Italian & Comparative Literature Translating Sindiwe Magona’s “Mother to Mother”

Gordon Gauchat Assistant Professor, Sociology Democratic Values and the Cultural Authority of Science

Kevin Keenan Associate Professor, Kinesiology-Exercise Science and Health Promotion Neural mechanisms contributing to falls in older adults

Emily Latch Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Landscape Genomics for Conservation of the Cascades Frog

Victoria Moerchen Associate Professor, Kinesiology-Integrative Health Care & Promotion

Rachel Schiffman Professor, Nursing Parent-Infant Interaction as the Foundation for Infant Motor Performance

Blaine Neufeld Associate Professor, Philosophy Public Reason: Consensus or Convergence?

Barbara Pauloski Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders Using Ultrasound to Document the Effects of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) on Suprahyoid Musculature

Michele Polfuss Assistant Professor, Nursing Accurate Identification of Body Fat in Children with Spina Bifida: A Feasibility Study

Filip Tejchman Assistant Professor, Architecture

Dennis Utzinger Professor, Architecture Architecture for the Birds

Wei Wei Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences New Dependence Notions with Applications in Insurance and Finance

Anika Wilson Associate Professor, Africology The Hills are Alive: Spirits of Sustainability and Earth Shrines in Contemporary Central Africa

Michael Zimmer Associate Professor, Information Studies The Zuckerberg Files: Tracking the Evolution of Mark Zuckerberg’s Technological Discourse

Sukanya Banerjee Associate Professor, English Loyalty and the Making of the Modern

Anne Basting Professor, Theatre Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia Volume 2

Dyanna Czeck Associate Professor, Geosciences Characterizing the geochemical changes in the Beja-Acebuches metabasites due to retrograde metamorphism and fluid flow along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone

Stephen Dornbos Associate Professor, Geosciences Understanding the early evolution of multicellular life: A new exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale-type biota from the Ediacaran of western Mongolia

Sandeep Gopalakrishnan Clinical Assistant Professor, NursingJanis Eells Professor, Biomedical Sciences Near-infrared (NIR) irradiation in a diabetic mouse model with severe wound healing impairment

Jennifer Jordan Professor, Sociology Landscapes of Memory: Forgetting and Remembering in Historical Kitchen Gardens

Dean Nardelli Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Elizabeth Liedhegner Laboratory Manager II, Biomedical Sciences Effects of Naturally-Occurring Regulatory T Cells on Development of Lyme Disease

Timothy O’Brien Assistant Professor, Sociology Gender and Judicial Gatekeeping in Civil Rights Law

Tasha Oren Associate Professor, English FoodTV: Televisuality and the Transformation of Food into Popular Culture

John Roberts Professor, Sociology Methodological Challenges in Archaeological Network Analysis

Erin Ruppel Assistant Professor, Communication Effects of Communication Technology Use on Marital Conflict, Arousal, and Depressed Mood

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Assistant Professor, English The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theatre Architecture

Tanya Tiffany Associate Professor, Art History Visual Culture and Feminine Devotion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire

Jie Yu, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics and Yue Liu, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Development of a Prototype Lane-based Signal Merge Control System for Freeway Work Zone Operations

Ryan Holifield Associate Professor, Geography Urban political ecologies of the working-class city: The politics of producing green space in Milwaukee and Barcelona, 1930-1939

Patricia Mayes Associate Professor, English Agency as ‘Distributed’ Action: Investigating the Incremental, Intertextual, and Interactional Construction of What Writers Do

Annie McClanahan Assistant Professor, English Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture

Heather Owen Associate Scientist, Biological Sciences Morphological and Immunocytochemical Characterization of the feronia4 Mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana Ovules

Robert Schneider, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Lingqian Hu, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning Models to Estimate Pedestrian and Bicycle Commuting at the Neighborhood Level

Paru Shah Associate Professor, Political Science Racialized Campaigns in the States: New Questions and New Evidence

Ying Wang Associate Professor, Art History Khora at the Mt. Gangdis: Circumambulation of the Snow-Mountain in Tibet

Tami Williams Associate Professor, English The ‘Silent Arts’: Modern Pantomime, Symbolist Theater and Dance

Jorg Woehl Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry PSF Lab: A computational laboratory for the modeling of optical point spread functions

Bettina Arnold Professor, Anthropology, $15,000 Subvention Funds for the Publication of “A Landscape of Ancestors: Archaeological Investigations in Two Iron Age Burial Mounds in the Hohmichele Group, Baden-Württemberg”

Christopher Burns Associate Professor, Music, $9,943 A Sensor-Driven Generative Music Platform for Mobile Computing

George Clark Professor, English, $14,100 The Tree of Diamond/The Hippo Hunters

Derek Counts Associate Professor, Art History, $14,747 A Fragmented Past: (Re)Constructing Antiquity Through 3D Modeling

Carolyn Eichner Associate Professor, History, $13,363 The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship in France

Margaret Fraiser Associate Professor, Geosciences, $14,962 What Are the Controls on Ecosystem Recovery Following Global Environmental Change? A Geochemical and Paleoecological Case Study Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Jennifer Johung Associate Professor, Art History, $11,367 Vital Dependencies: Biological Art, Architecture, and Life

Yevgenia Kaganovich Professor, Art & Design, $14,309 grow

David Klingbeil Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $13,311 Peer-Mediated Incremental Rehearsal for English Language Learners

Kyongboon Kwon Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $14,478 The Impact of Emotional Regulation Norms and Emotional Climate of Children’s Social Network on Social Behavior: One Year Follow-Up

Christine Larson Associate Professor, Psychology, $14,650 Predicting Who Will Get PTSD: The Role of the Neural Circuitry of Fear Extinction in the Immediate Aftermath of Trauma

Robin Mello Associate Professor, Theatre, $12,500 Whistle Stop Adopt!

Oriol Mirosa Assistant Professor, Sociology, $14,904 Water Poverty in American Cities

Devin Mueller Assistant Professor, Psychology, $15,000 Cellular Contributions of Estradiol to Neural Plasticity

Jacqueline Nguyen Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $24,977 Co-PI: Razia Azen, Associate Professor, Educational PsychologyMe, My Choices, and Why Study Phase II: Multidimensional Cultural Identity in Southeast Asian Adolescents

Julie Oliver Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, $25,000 Co-PI: Doug Steeber, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Targeting and Destruction of Tumor and Immune Suppressor Cells in Breast Cancer

David Pate Associate Professor, Social Work, $14,963 Understanding Low-Income Civil Litigants’ Experiences with Access to Justice Interventions

Neal Pease Professor, History, $13,830 Remembering a Vanished World: The Jewish Revival in Poland

Changshan Wu Professor, Geography, $14,866 Estimating Urban Impervious Surface Distribution in Wisconsin Using Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Winson Chu Assistant Professor, History Germans, Poles, and Jews in the Making of the “Lodzermensch”: Competing Nationalisms in Poland, 1880-2009

Chris Cornelius Associate Professor, Architecture Radio Free Alcatraz: The Nineteen-Month American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island – An Architectural Speculation

Elizabeth Drame Associate Professor, Exceptional Education Barriers to inclusive education: A comparative study across West, East and South Africa

Scott Graham Assistant Professor, English Understanding the Communicative Process in FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meetings: A Methodological Pilot

Rebecca Holderness Associate Professor, Theatre The Garfield Play

Chris Lawson Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology The inductive privilege of large samples: Exploring the contextual and cognitive factors responsible for children’s adherence to the law of large samples

Richard Leson Assistant Professor, Art History The Material Life of Jeanne of Flanders

Joseph Mougel Assistant Professor, Art & Design From Silver Crystals to Landscape Pixels

Susana Munoz Assistant Professor, Administrative Leadership Creating Counterspaces of Resistance and Sanctuaries of Learning and Teaching: An Analysis of Freedom University

Mark Netzloff Associate Professor, English Extraterritorial Sovereignties: English State Agents in Early Modern Europe

Michael Newman Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising & Media Studies Play TV: Early Video Games in the Home

Richard Popp Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising & Media Studies Direct Marketing, Communication Systems, and the Making of American Media Consumerism, 1865-2000

Rafael Rodriguez Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Miniaturization and behavioral capabilities

Aaron Schutz Professor, Educational Policy and Community Studies Beyond the Current Canon in Community Organizing

Manu Sobti Associate Professor, Architecture The Sliver of the Oxus Borderland: Medieval Cultural Encounters between the Arabs and Persians

Nathaniel Stern Associate Professor, Art & Design Rippling Images: undersea, performative, digital printmaking

Daniel Vyleta Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature Nazi Criminal Justice and Jews: The Walter Pick Trial

Jinsung Wang Assistant Professor, Kinesiology Hemispheric motor lateralization in active and sedentary older adults

Jun Zhang Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Information Extraction from Free Text Patient Medical Reports for Breast Cancer Patient Care

Mary Jo Baisch Associate Professor, Nursing Bearing the Burden: Identifying Attributes of Allostatic Load in African American Women in An Electronic Health System

Anne Bonds Assistant Professor, Geography Enduring Incarceration: Gender, Race, and Post-Incarceration Geographies Survival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Xiaoxia Cao Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication Bridging the Distance: The Effect of Media Messages About Human Suffering on Help for People in Need From Another Country

David Divalerio Assistant Professor, History The Legacy of the Madman of ü (1458-1532) Through Oral Traditions

Christine Evans Assistant Professor, History Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Television

Clark Evans Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences An Assessment of Thunderstorm Development Forecast Successes and Failures From Very High Resolution Numerical Weather Forecasts

Marcus Filippello Assistant Professor, History Crossing the “Black Earth”: Roads, Environmental Change, and Communal Consciousness in An African Forest Community

Nicholas Fleisher Assistant Professor, Linguistics The Semantics of Adjectives in the ‘Tough’ Construction

Frankie Flood Associate Professor, Art & Design Digital Craft Research: Data, Process, and Material

Kimberly Hassell Associate Professor, Criminal Justice Co-PI: Tina Freiburger Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Outcome and Process Evaluation of Police Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases

John Heilmann Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders Developing Linguistic Profiles of Children with Language Impairment

Rene Izquierdo Assistant Professor, Music Advancing Chamber Music for Classical Guitar

Benjamin Johnson Associate Professor, History Escaping the Dark, Gray City: How Conservation Re-Made City, Suburb, and Countryside in the Progressive Era

Rohit Kate Assistant Professor, Health Informatics & Administration Extracting Evidence-Based Practical Guidelines for Laser Phototherapy From Meta-Analysis Data

Elana Levine Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication Constructing Femininity in Soap Opera History

Marcellus Merritt Assistant Professor, Psychology A Tailored Stress Management Intervention for Reduced Day and Nighttime Blood Pressure in Young Pre-Hypertensive Adults

Lisa Moline Associate Professor, Art & Design The Sideways OED, Memory Palaces and Other Stories: Experimental Interactive Narratives for the Internet

Joe Peschio Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature Russian Literary Censorship 1801-28: Preliminary Analysis of Russian Archival Holdings

Sandra Pucci Associate Professor, Linguistics Instructed Heritage Language Speakers

Chia Vang Associate Professor, History A View of War From Below: History and Memory Among Ethnic Minorities in Laos During and After the Vietnam War

Ying-Chih Wang Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Technology Co-PI: Jay Kapellusch, Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Technology Removing Air Bubbles Generated in the IV Lines During the Intravenous Cancer Therapy

Erin Winkler Assistant Professor, Africology Racism As a Threshold Topic: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in a University Diversity Requirement Course

Zengwang Xu Assistant Professor, Geography Identifying Potential Epidemic Pathways in the US Intercity Air Transportation Network

Nidal Abu-Zahra Associate Professor, Materials Engineering Graphene Based, Ultra-Efficient, Low Cost Polymer Solar Cells

David Allen Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication Spatial Frameworks and Dissent: The Use of Place in the Management of Expression in the U.S.

Elisabetta Cova Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature Space, Function and Social Practice in the Roman Houses of Pompeii

W Hobart Davies Professor, Psychology Empirical Examination of Effects of Recruitment Approach on External Validity

Janis Eells Professor, Health Sciences Photobiomodulation for the Treatment of Retinal Degenerative Disease

Uk Heo Professor, Political Science South Korea’s Rise in World Affairs: Power, Economic Development, and Foreign Policy

Lingquian Ivy Hu Assistant Professor, Urban Planning Beyond Inner Cities: A Comparative Study of the Spatial Mismatch in Chicago and Los Angeles

Jason Christopher Jones Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature Remaking Japan: American Remakes of Japanese Film

N Kundan Kishor Assistant Professor, Economics Has Housing Market Wealth Effect Increased Over Time?

Simonetta Konewko Assistant Professor, FICL Neorealism and Models of Compassion

Josepha Lanters Professor, English The Theatrical Oeuvre of Thomas Kilroy: The Art of Imperfection

Barbara Ley Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication The Transmediated Culture of Online Pregnancy Support

Colleen Ludwig Assistant Professor, Art & Design Elemental Bodies: A Series of Four Immersive Environments with Sensor Control

Genevieve McBride Associate Professor, History Front Page Backstory: A Woman Journalist in ‘Jazz Age’ Chicago And ‘Dear Mrs. Griggs’: Readers Pouring Out Their Hearts in the Heartland

Kristen Murphy Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Why Students Struggle with Scale Literacy: Identifying Analytical Reasoning Versus Heuristic Processing in Scaling Tasks

Blain Neufeld Assistant Professor, Philosophy Civic Respect, Political Legitimacy, and Citizenship Education

Markeda Newel Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Using Computer-Simulation to Analyze Problem-Solving Consultation in a Racially Diverse School Context

Terrance Newell Assistant Professor, Information Studies Examining the Effectiveness of Two Digital Learning Simulations in Increasing Students’ Scientific Problem-Solving Skills

Hanyong Park Assistant Professor, Linguistics English Influence on Korean Consonant Category Change

Diana Reddy Professor, Psychology Increasing Vaccination for Human Papillomavirus in Economically Disadvantaged Girls and Boys

Caroline Seymour-Jorn Associate Professor, FICL Translating Memory and War: Ebtihal Salem’s “A Small Box in the Heart

Heeju Shin Assistant Professor, Sociology Increase of Urban-Rural Disparities in Child Health in Peru Between 1991 and 2008

Robert Smith Associate Professor, History Battling Racial Colonialism with Legal Activism; Transnational Cooperation Within the Human Rights Bar

Michael Tofias Assistant Professor, Political Science For the Folks Back Home: Accountability and Representation in the United States Senate

Ricardo Vasconcelos Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Completion of the Book Manuscript “Who’s Afraid of Anthologies? Anthologies of Twentieth-Century Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry in the Portuguese

Ying Wang Associate Professor, Art History White Gold: Art and Salt in Yangzhou, 1700-1800

Carla Wiggins Associate Professor, Health Sciences The Use of Health Information Technology in Ambulatory Surgery Centers in Wisconsin

Chantel Wright Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature A Book-Length History of German Gastarbeiterliteratur (Guest Worker Literature) 1955-1990

Joe Austin Associate Professor, History Before “Urban Youth”: African American Youth and U.S. Central Cities, 1940-1970

Carla Bagnoli Professor, Philosophy A Puzzle About the Authority of Moral Norms

Rachel Ida Buff Associate Professor, History Deportation and the Evolution of Immigrant Rights in the U.S., 1935-65

P Shawn Cahill Assistant Professor, Psychology The Effects of Rape-Prevention Education on Threat Detection: Tests of Short-Term Acquisition and Long-Term Retention

Noelle Chesley Assistant Professor, Sociology Technology Use & Work-Family Processes: Impacts on Psychological Well- Being

Garry W. Davis Associate Professor, Foreign Language and Literature Empirical Research on the ‘Interlanguage’ of Immersion Learners

L Raquel Farmer-Hinton Associate Ed. Policy & Communication Studies Going to College: Exploring Key Supports and Resources in Urban Schools for Students’ Preparation for College

Kathryn Fonner Assistant Professor, Communication I’m Working Here!” Linking Teleworkers’ Boundary Management Strategies to Work-Life Balance, Role Identity, and Stress

Elena Gorfinkel Assistant Professor, Art History Indecent Desires, Obsolete Bodies: Sexploitation Cinema, 1960s Film Culture and the Adult Film Audience

Jean Hudson Associate Professor, Anthropology Transitions At Gramalote: Evaluation of Coastal Contributions During the Initial Period in the Moche Valley of Peru

Jeri-Anne Lyons Associate Professor, Health Sciences Therapeutic Efficacy of NIR Photobiomodulation in An Animal Model of Multiple Sclerosis

Dean Nardelli Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Identification of T Helper Type 17 Cells in the Development of Lyme Arthritis

Timothy B. Patrick Associate Professor, Health Sciences Developing a Measure of the Accuracy of the Translation of Research Into Practice

David Pritchard Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication Adapting Press Law to the Realities of the Digital Age: An Empirical Study of Legal Change in Trial Courts

Marcelino Stuhmer Assistant Professor, Visual Art Dissecting Identity: Recreating a 17th Century Anatomy Theater to Function As An Alternative Performance and Exhibition Space

Anika Wilson Assistant Professor, Africology Strange Bedfellows: International Human Rights Law, Customary Courts, and the Marital Disputes of Malawian Women

Sukanya Banerjee Associate Professor, English Loyalty and the Making of the Modern Subject, 1858-1905

Gregory T. Carter Assistant Professor, History Wendell Phillips: Unapologetic Abolitionist, Unreformed Amalgamationist

Bruce Charlesworth Assistant Professor, Film Retraction

Woonsup Choi Assistant Professor, Geography Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Urban Climate in Wisconsin and Minnesota

Stephen C. Cobb Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Novel Multi-Segment Foot Model Based on In-Vivo and In-Vitro Stereophotogrammetric Studies and Clinical Theories of Foot Function.

Luca Ferrero Assistant Professor, Philosophy Shared Actions, Individual Agency, and the Unity of Plural Subjects

Marcia A. Firmani Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Fitness Cost of Multiple-Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Rina Ghose Associate Professor, Geography Investigating Citizen Participation in Privatized Collaborative Planning in Inner-City Milwaukee

Leslie Harris Assistant Professor, Communication Holy Matrimony, Sacred Covenant, and Legal Union: Marriage and Its Deviations in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Yevgeniya Kaganovich Associate Professor, Visual Art Body: Subject and Site

Maria Del Pilar Melgarejo-Acosta Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Language of Regeneration: The Production of Political Discourse in Colombia and Mexico

Nathaniel Stern Assistant Professor, Visual Art Embodiment and Minimalism in Internet-Based Art

Jennifer Watson Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Linguistics Wild One: A Biography of Selma Lagerlöf

Changshan Wu Associate Professor, Geography Mapping Urban Impervious Surfaces Using IKONOS Imagery: An Integrated Approach

Kathryn Zalewski Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Ability-Based Rehabilitation: A Case-Series Exploring Stroke Recovery in the United States

Mo (Maureen) Zell Assistant Professor, Architecture New Parking Paradigm: Re-Think, Re-Zone, Re-Use

Lisa Berger Assistant Professor, Social Work Social Worker and Physician Administered Brief Alcohol Intervention for Hospitalized Patients

Winson W. Chu Assistant Professor, History Polish, German, Or Jewish? The “Lodzer Mensch” and the Politics of Multi-Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century Poland

Christopher A. De Sousa Associate Professor, Geography Residential Brownfields Development, Sprawl, and Sustainability: A Demand Side Perspective

Frankie Flood Assistant Professor, Visual Art Rapid Prototyping and D Scanning in the Production of Art

Ryan Holifield Assistant Professor, Geography Environmental Justice and the Cleanup of Contaminated Urban Rivers: A Comparative Study of Areas of Concern in the Lake Michigan Basin

Nan Y. Kim-Paik Assistant Professor, History Families of the Wartime Missing and the Return of the Korean War’s Presumed Dead in 21st-Century South Korea

Anna Mansson Mcginty Assistant Professor, Geography and Women’s Studies Gender Identity and Activism Among Muslim Women in the Midwest

Lori Neighbors Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences To Weigh Or Not to Weigh: The Demography, Epidemiology, and Qualitative Experience of Body Weight Monitoring for Weight Control

Susan Partington Assistant Professor, Health Sciences An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Prenatal Environment and Childhood Obesity

Joe Peschio Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Linguistics The Green Lamp

Arijit H. Sen Assistant Professor, Architecture Collaborative Politics of the Contact Zone: White Women in the San Francisco Hindu Temple

Jason Sherman Assistant Professor, Anthropology The Margarita Settlement Survey: Ancient Maya Rural Settlement in South-Central Quintana Roo, Mexico

Julia A. Snethen Assistant Professor, Nursing Influence of Familial Environment and Decision-Making Patterns on Childhood Obesity

Natasha Borges Sugiyama Assistant Professor, Political Science The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil

Kristin M. Sziarto Assistant Professor, Geography The Scales of Immigrant Regulation and Resistance: A Comparative Study

Tanya J. Tiffany Assistant Professor, Art History Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville

Laura Trafi-Prats Assistant Professor, Visual Art A Narrative Study of Elementary Children’s Aesthetic Perspectives of Urban Environment and Change

Christine Calynn T. Cheng Assistant Professor, Computer Science Algorithmic and Complexity Issues of Sudoku.

Jennifer Suzanne Hruska Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences The Dynamics of Polynomial Skew Products in Two Complex Variables.

Tae Youn Kim Assistant Professor, Nursing Using Electronic Patient Records to Measure Pressure Ulcer Prevalence.

Soyoung Lee Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders Phonological Awareness and Nonsense Word Production in Bilingual Children.

Jin Li Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Impact of Surface Properties on the Transport of Microbial Pollutants in Prous Media.

Aims McGuinness Assistant Professor, History Rights of Time: Labor, the Working Day, Childhood, and Aging in the United States and Mexico, 1880-Present.

Katie E. Mosack Assistant Professor, Psychology Older Russian Immigrant Women’s Health Beliefs and the Treatment of Hypertension.

Jason Puskar Assistant Professor, English Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871-1935.

Jenifer J. Runquist Assistant Professor, Nursing A Pilot Investigation of Fatigue After Childbirth in a Vulnerable Community.

Caorline Seymour-Jorn Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women’s Writing.

Lisa Silverman Assistant Professor, History Theater, Photography, and Austrian Jewish Cultural History: Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) and Dora Kallmus (1881-1963).

Michael Tofias Assistant Professor, Political Science Understanding Asymmetry in the Colonel Blotto Game.

Catherine Vanderboom Assistant Professor, Nursing Identification of Rescue Activities Provided to Home Healthcare Patients.

Florence Vatan Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature Mastering Sensibility: The Aesthetics of Flaubert and Baudelaire in Light of Contemporary Medical Conceptions.

Erin N. Winkler Assistant Professor, Africology I Learn About Being Black Everywhere I Go”: The Racial Socialization of African-American Children.

Hong Yu Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Effectively Determining the Information Needs From Ad Hoc Clinical Questions Posed for Question Answering.

Michael Brondino Assistant Professor, Social Work Development of a Content Specific Reading Test to Link Test Readability to Respondent Ability.

Noelle Chesley Assistant Professor, Sociology Contextualizing Care: Informal Elder Care, Employment, and Caregiver Health and Well-Being.

Edward Hinchman Assistant Professor, Philosophy Evil and the Limits of Responsibility.

Rebecca Holderness Assistant Professor, Theatre A Mixed Media Performance The Observation of Miss Julie.

Wooseob Jeong Assistant Professor, Information Studies Touchable Online Text and Image Display for Blind People.

Catherine Anne Johnson Assistant Professor, Information Studies Investigating the Social Capital of Public Libraries.

Erin Kaheny Olsen Assistant Professor, Political Science An Investigation of Circuit Judge Gatekeeping Behavior in Administrative Agency Appeals.

Bonita Klein-Tasman Assistant Professor, Psychology Early Autism Phenotype: Head Circumference Growth and Emerging Executive Functioning.

Christina Mararnci Associate Professor, Art History The Geometry of Power.

Sandra Martell Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Field Trips to Museums and Student Learning: What Does the Data Tell Us?

J. Carson Smith Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Exercise As a Treatment for Depression in Older Adults: Effects on Emotional Reactivity and Brain Function.

Richard Tierney Assistant Professor, Philosophy Aristotle’s Concept of Nature.

Luc Vanier Assistant Professor, Dance The “E’s of Water”.

Andrea Westlund Assistant Professor, Philosophy Care and the Self.

Jeb Willenbring Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Problems in Quantum Computation.

Bo Zhang Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Examining the Value of Group Grades in Assessing Student Achievement.

Huimin Zhao Assistant Professor, Business Intelligent Symptom-Based Retrieval of Electronic Medical Records.

Daniel Agterberg Assistant Professor, Physics Dynamics of Unconventional Superconductors.

Ellen J. Amster Assistant Professor, History City of Saints: Political Organization, Geography and Urban History in Fes, Morocco.

Joe Austin Assistant Professor, History Global Undergrounds: Graffiti Artists, Goths, and Print-Zines Across National Boundaries, 1980-Present.

Jay J. Bauer Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders Voice F0 Responses Elicited By Perturbations in Pitch of Auditory Feedback in Individuals That Stutter and Controls.

Rachel Ida Buff Assistant Professor, History. Conjugal Policy: Occupying Asian America, 1945-1975.

Kuang-Chi Chang Assistant Professor, Sociology The Social Logic Behind “Offshoring” in the Asian Market: Moving Business and Social Networks Into China.

Steven Q. Dornbos Assistant Professor, Geosciences Paleocology and Paleoenvironmental Setting of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna of China: An Early View of the Cambrian Explosion.

Caryn S. Easterling Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders Effectiveness of Electrical Stimulation on Swallowing in Children with Neurologic Impairment with Chronic Dysphagia.

Laura Fingerson Assistant Professor, Sociology Food and Physical Activity in Teen Peer Cultures.

Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho Assistant Professor, History Burial Rites, Funerary Sociability, and Sense of Self Among Slaves and Freed Persons At Rome in the Early Principate.

Prasenjit Guptasarma Assistant Professor, Physics Probing Correlated Electron Spins in New Magnetoelectric Materials.

Tracey Heatherington Assistant Professor, Anthropology Environmetalist Identities in the New Europe: Sardinian Forest Rangers.

Yevgeniya Kaganovich Assistant Professor, Visual Art Adornment As Extension of the Body.

Jonathan W. Kanter Assistant Professor, Psychology Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapy for Depression.

Sergei V. Kuchin Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Assessment of Std1 and Related Proteins As New Molecular Targets for Safe Antifungal Therapy.

Jeri-Annette Lyons Assistant Professor, Health Sciences B Lymphocyte Migration and Maturation During a Multiple-Sclerosis-Like Disease in Mice.

Robin Mello Assistant Professor, Theatre Stages for Learning: History and Practice of Theatre Education in Public Schools.

James R. Moyer Assistant Professor, Psychology Evaluation of a Novel Treatment for Aging-Related Cognitive Decline.

Michael P. Muehlenbein Assistant Professor, Anthropology Effects of Testosterone Supplementation on the Immune Functions of Obese Men and HIV-Infected Men.

Mark Netzloff Assistant Professor, English Before the Grand Tour: English Travel and Migration in Early Modern Europe, 1570-1640.

Kristian Matthew O’Connor Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Do Clinical Functional Tests Predict Knee Joint Mechanics During Play?

Mat Rappaport Assistant Professor, Visual Art Presences: An Interactive Video Installation.

Stefan Schnitzer Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Quantifying Long-Term, Large-Scale Changes in Temperate Forest Plant Communities.

Douglas A. Steeber Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Defining the Role of Adhesion Molecules in Lymphocyte Migration and the Generation of Protective Immunity.

Kyle Talbott Assistant Professor, Architecture A Computer-Aided Architectural Design Method to Augment Creativity.

Hani H. Titi Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics Mechanistic/Numerical Methodology for Improved Performance of Highway Pavements.

Jorg C. Woehl Assistant Professor, Chemistry Development of Novel, High Performance Fiber Probes for the Optical Imaging of Single Molecules on Surfaces.

Changshan Wu Assistant Professor, Geography Understanding Lyme Disease and Environmental Relationships in Wisconsin – a Remote Sensing and GIS Approach.

Yaoying Xu Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education The Effect of Empowering Families of Premature Infants Through Linked Assessment and Intervention on Caregiver-Infant Interactions.

Scott Adams Assistant Professor, Economics The Health Insurance-Wage Tradeoff.

Jasmine Alinder Assistant Professor, History Left Living: Frank P. Zeidler and Milwaukee’s Socialist Legacy.

Dyanna Czeck Assistant Professor, Geosciences When Tectonic Plates Collide: Predicting Strain for Rocks Under Stress.

Scott Drewianka Assistant Professor, Economics Causes of Trends in Family Structure: An International Comparison.

Kyle Ebersole Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Determinants of Performance During Functional Knee Joint Stability Exercises in Soccer Players.

Christina Ewig Assistant Professor, Political Science Is Neoliberalism Bad for Women? Peru and the Politics of Health Reform in Latin America.

Luca Ferrero Assistant Professor, Philosophy Decisions for Future Action and Personal Identity.

Judith Franzak Assistant Professor, English Struggling Middle School Readers Transition to High School: A Study of Policy in Context.

Bryan Kennedy Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Understanding the Culture of the Brazilian Favela.

Lian Li Associate Professor, Physics Atomic Scale Studies of Magnetism in Magnetic Semiconductors by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

Christopher Papadopoulos Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Understanding and Predicting the Performance and Failure of Optimal Structures.

Adeeb Rahman Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Low-Weight and Low-Stiffness Cellular Metal Alloys for Human Joint Implants and As Bone Replacement.

Joel Rast Assistant Professor, Political Science Curbing Industrial Decline Or Thwarting Redevelopment? An Evaluation of Chicago’s Planned Manufacturing Districts.

Gillian Rodger Assistant Professor, Music The Early History of American Vaudeville, 1850-1880.

Scott Strath Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Enhancing Physical Activity Motivation in Older Adults.

Rodney Swain Associate Professor, Psychology Angiogenesis/Neurogenesis Inhibition and Learning.

Ann Swartz Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences Determinants of Glucose Intolerance and Insulin Sensitivity in Older Adults.

Min Wu Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Tele-Educational System for Dental Residents Interpreting Oral Cancer Images.

Darci Wutz Assistant Professor, Dance Broadway Dances: A Journey Through Time.

Jian Xu Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature Suffering, Representation, and Critical Positioning in China’s Postsocialist Literature and Film.

Vladislav Yakovlev Associate Professor, Physics When Dreams Come True: Nanoscopic Non-Invasive Imaging of Living Cells.

Ching-Hong Yang Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Genome-Wide Identification of Virulence Genes in Erwinia Chrysanthemi 3937.

Rene Antrop-Gonzalez Assistant Professor, Education Curriculum and Instruction Factors That Latina/O Urban Alternative High School Students Attribute to Their High Academic Achievement and Resiliency.

Razia Azen Assistant Professor, Education Educational Psychology Relative Importance of Correlated Predictor Variables: Inference with Dominance Analysis.

Sukanya Banerjee Assistant Professor, English Imperial Diasporas and the Politics of Nation-Space: Colonial Identities and Metropolitan Englishness.

John A. Berges Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Mortality in Freshwater Phytoplankton.

Kimberly J. Cosier Assistant Professor, Visual Art Matters of Concern for At-Risk High School Students in Art Classrooms and Beyond.

Jennifer E. Earl Assistant Professor, Human Movement Science Relationships Among Gender, Dynamic Malalignment, and Lower Extremity Injury.

Simone Ferro Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance Dance Research Performance Called “Ear-Walking Woman.

Jill Ann Holman Assistant Professor, Economics Alternative Methods of Financing Productive Government Expenditures in An Open Economy.

Susanne Jones Assistant Professor, Communication Socio-Psychological and Cultural Variations in the Experience and Expression of Emotional Labor.

William P. Jones Assistant Professor, History Dispatches From the War Within: An Anne Braden Reader.

Andrew Kincaid Assistant Professor, English Holding the Center: The Geographies of Consolidation and the Emergence of Postcolonial Dublin.

Jin Li Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Effect of Biological Filters and the Removal of Biological Warfare Agents.

Shelley Lund Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders The Effect of Augmented Input on the Development of Grammar By Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative . . .

Linda Mccarthy Assistant Professor, Geography Milwaukee’s Brownfields: Redevelopment and Environmental Equity?

Rebecca Neumann Assistant Professor, Economics Sequencing of Domestic Financial Market Development and International Capital Market Liberalization.

Sandra K. Plach Assistant Professor, Nursing Anxiety, Depression, and Positive Functioning in Women with Heart Failure: Can Social Roles Make a Difference?

Steven B. Redd Assistant Professor, Political Science Terrorism and Foreign Policy Decision Making: Including Emotions in the Calculus.

Robert O. Self Assistant Professor, History Century Interrupted: 1968 in American History and the International Imagination.

Hanh Q. Trinh Associate Professor, Health Sciences Strategic Response of Urban Hospitals to the Managed Care Market.

Michael Weinert Professor, Physics Electronic Properties of Oxide Nanostructure Interfaces.

Dexuan Xie Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences A Fast Algorithm for Visualizing Structure-Activity Relationships of Large-Scale Chemical Databases.

Erica B. Young Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Nutrient Induced Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Transients As a Diagnostic of Nutrient Limitation in Freshwater Microalgae.

Alison Alter Assistant Professor, Political Science Economic Expectations and Elections.

Anthony A. Azenabor Assistant Professor, Allied Health Health Sciences Chlamydia Pneumoniae Infection Modulates Lipoprotein Lipase Activity, Enhances LDL Modification and Contributes to . . .

Robert Burlage Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Isolation of Genes From a Toxic Fungus.

Aaron G. Buseh Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance Stigma Experienced By Women Living with HIV/AIDS Along the Wellness-Illness Continuum.

Barry I. Cameron Assistant Professor, Geosciences The Tempestuous Relationship Between Volcanoes and Glaciers.

Wonshik Chee Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Online Monitoring of Gear Degradation for Automatic Control Systems.

Dave Clark Assistant Professor, English Collectivist Individuals: Open-Source Software Communities and the Politics of Technology.

George Clark Assistant Professor, English Ropa Rimwe: A Novel in Progress.

Robert J. Eger Assistant Professor, Political Science Smart Economic Development: A Performance Study of Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) in Wisconsin.

Anthony J. Greene Assistant Professor, Psychology The Organization of Inferential Learning and Declarative Memory: Amnesia and the Transitive Inference Task.

Michael Greenwald Assistant Professor, Urban Planning Sitting on Top of the World: The Application of Recently Acquired Orbital Imagery for Land Use and Water . . .

Eun-Ok Im Assistant Professor, Nursing Health Maintenance An Internet Survey Study on Menopausal Symptoms Among Asian Women From Six Ethnic Groups.

Bonita P. Klein-Tasman Assistant Professor, Psychology Behavioral Characteristics of Children with Williams Syndrome in a Standardized Context: Performance on the . . .

Vincent Larson Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences Clouds and Forecasts of Weather and Climate.

Steven Mckay Assistant Professor, Sociology Globalization Afloat: The Making of Filipino Seafarers.

Christine Miller Assistant Professor, Nursing Health Restoration Heart Disease Symptoms and Risk Factors in Black Women.

Graham Moran Assistant Professor, Chemistry New Approaches to Therapeutics From First Principles.

Meredith Root Assistant Professor, Film The Theatre of the Small.

Ying Wang Assistant Professor, Art History Silk, Power, and Gender in Shang China.

Chaoyang Zeng Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Searching the Genes That Orchestrate the Neuronal Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation in the Drosophila . . .

Daniel F. Agterberg Assistant Professor, Physics, $14,272.00 Symmetry-Based Theories of Unconventional Superconductors

Margo Anderson Professor, History, $4,130.00 The Proper Role of Population Data Systems in Time of War

Mark P. Bradley Assistant Professor, History, $14,976.00 Becoming International: A History of Transnational Passions in the Twentieth Century

Dale N. Buechler Assistant Professor, Elec. Eng. & Comp Sci, $14,777.00 Evaluation of Impedance Measurement Techniques for the Characterization of Highly Localized Regions of Tissue

Christopher A. Desousa Assistant Professor, Geography, $12,829.00 Converting Urban Brownfields Into Green Spaces

Joan D. Dobkin Assistant Professor, Visual Art, Arts & Humanities, $10,730.00 Public Art to Promote Public Discourse: An Examination of Welfare Reform in the Urban Environment

Kathleen Dolan Associate Professor, Political Science, $5,833.00 Voting for Women in the United States

Nancy File Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, $8,049.00 Teacher/Child Interaction and Peer Competence in Early Childhood Classrooms

Christopher J. Guse Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance, $14,700.00 Research Design, Development and Implementation of Technical Production Elements of the Play “The Berlin Circle” . . .

Robert M. Hessling Assistant Professor, Psychology, $14,980.00 Does Explanatory Style Affect the Perception of Support in Romantic Relationships?

Jean Hudson Assistant Professor, Anthropology, $14,914.00 The Ethnography and Archaeology of Traditional Peruvian Reed Boat Fishing Communities

Teresa S. Johnson Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance, $14,993.00 Breast Feeding Education and Support Home Visit Program

Rhonda K. Kowalchuk Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $5,349.00 The Analysis of Repeated Measurements with Mixed-Model Adjusted F-Tests

Mark Netzloff Assistant Professor, English, $5,350.00 England’s Internal Colonies: Class Relations, Capital Formation, and the Literature of English Colonialism . . .

A. Andrew Pacheco Assistant Professor, Chemistry, $14,763.00 A Biochemical Investigation of Nitrification

Dawn H.S. Reinemann Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $12,746.00 Project P.R.I.D.E.: Promoting Resiliency in Diverse Environments

Lisa N. Samuels Assistant Professor, English, $9,266.00 Modernism Is Not Enough: Shaped Readings for New Writings

Lori Settersten Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance Critical Thinking and Participation in Health Behaviors, $14,998.00

Ting-Ruei Shiu Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, $14,999.00 A Numerical Study of Micromachining of Glassy Materials with Nanosecond Laser Pulses At Different Wavelengths

Habib Tabatabai Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics, $15,000.00 A New Method for Damage Detection in Advanced Composite Structures

Virginia Van Dyke Assistant Professor, Political Science, $8,805.00 Caste, Religion and “Reconversions” in Indian Politics: Hindu Nationalism Confronts Ethnic Mobilization

Linda A. Whittingham Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, $13,055.00 Are There Benefits to Mating Promiscuously for Female Birds?

Hong (Iris) Xie Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science, $14,426.00 Supporting Shifts of Information Seeking Strategies in Corporate Settings At Digital Age: Implications for . . .

Keith A. Bender Assistant Professor, Economics Socio-Economic Factors and Health Status of the Elderly: A Comparative Analysis

Avik Chakrabarti Assistant Professor, Economics Taxes and Foreign Direct Investment: U.S. Multinationals in Europe

Kyoung Ae Cho Assistant Professor, Visual Art Accumulation / Pattern in Nature

Peter O. Dunn Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Conservation Genetics of the Threatened Prairie Chicken

Anne R. Hansen Assistant Professor, Anthropology Suffering and the Prophetic Past and Future in Cambodian Religion and Society: A Study of the Buddha Damnay

Sam Helwany Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics Estimating Pile Set-Up

Eugenie Hildebrandt Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance Exploringsystem and Personal Barriers to Success in the Wisconsin Workfare (W-2) Program

Kyu-Jung Kim Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Development of Three Dimensional Computer Models of the Hand/Forearm Complex Using a New Fuzzy Reasoning Technique

Grace E. La Assistant Professor, Architecture The Aperture Analyzed: Reconciliation of Built Form and Context Through the Design of Openings

Lian Li Assistant Professor, Physics Understand the Art of Compound Semiconductor Epitaxy

Tasha G. Oren Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication Signal Crossing: Television, Media Policy, and the Formation of Israeli National Culture

Elizabeth A. Skowron Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Stochastic Process Analysis of Parent-Child Communication Patterns in Stress-Affected Versus Stress-Resistant

Douglas W. Woods Assistant Professor, Psychology Development and Evaluation of a Treatment for Vocal Tic Disorder

Vladislav Yakovlev Assistant Professor, Physics Frontiers of Laser Surgery

Nidal Abu-Zahra Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, $12,296 Developing An Expert System to Predict Early Tool Failure in Machining Operations Using Ultrasound Waves

Joseph H. Aldstadt Assistant Professor, Chemistry, $12,499 Study of the Chemical Speciation of Arsenic in Green Bay By Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Synchrotron X-Ray

Bettina Arnold Assistant Professor, Anthropology, $12,450 A Landscape of Ancestors:, Early Iron Age Social Organization & Regional Interaction in Southwest Germany

Phoebe Crisman Assistant Professor, Architecture, $11,954 Regeneration of the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape: Potentials and Strategies for Design

W. Hobart Davies Assistant Professor, Psychology, $12,274 Affect, Behavior, and Interaction in Forensic Interviews for Child Sexual Abuse

Christopher Davis-Benavides Assistant Professor, Art, $11,299 Icon of Power: A Visual Study of the Assimilation of Santiago

Peter Geissinger Assistant Professor, Chemistry, $12,402 Experimental Determination of Electric Fields Emanating From Solid Surfaces – How Do Surfaces Catalyse Gas Reactions?

John Isbell Associate Professor, Geosciences, $12,486 Fluvial and Tidal Sedimentology of Pennsylvanian Rocks in the Appalachian Basin

Kathi Kamm Assistant Professor, $11,232 The Effects of Occupationally Embedded Activity on Supination By People with CVA

Tomas A. Lipinski Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science, $7,647 Knowledge Creation in U.S.: Using Copyright Office Registration Information in Public Policy Decision Making

Paul F. Lyman Assistant Professor, Physics, $12,458 New Growth Methods for Semiconductors

Pamela F. Phillips Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, $6,000 In Search of Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Travel Narratives of Antonio Ponz

Linda M. Sabatini Assistant Professor, $12,500 Molecular Basis of Environmental Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

Daad A. Saffarini Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, $12,500Molecular Analysis of FE(III) and MN(IV) Reduction By Shewanella Putrefaciens

Pamela Schermer Associate Professor, Art, $7,493 The Momento Mori Series:, a Contemporary Exploration of the Vanitas Tradition in Still-Life Painting

Yehua (Dennis) Wei Assistant Professor, Geography, $12,500 Intraprovincial Inequality in China:, Case Studies of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces

Joan B. Wolf Assistant Professor, Political Science, $6,970 Vichy on Trial: Touvier, Papon, and the Politics of Historical Responsibility

John Agada Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Inner Cities: A Survey of Harambee Residents.

Kristin E. Espinosa Assistant Professor, Sociology The Effects of Welfare Reform on Mexican Immigrants in Milwaukee: A Pilot Study.

Vicki Grafentin Assistant Professor, Art New Sculptural Drawings.

Carol Hirschmugl Assistant Professor, Physics Infrared Investigations of Water-Oxide Interactions.

Goldie Kadushin Assistant Professor, Social Welfare Ethical Dilemmas of Social Workers in Home Health Care.

Jeffrey Merrick Associate Professor, History Domestic Conflict and Political Consciousness in 18th Century Paris.

Ethan V. Munson Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Representing and Analyzing Relationships Among Software Documents with the Software Concordance.

Marina Perez De Mendiola Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Visibility and Figurability: Latin America in French Contemporary Literature.

Sandra L. Pucci Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction Spanish Language Literacy Maintenance in One Latino/Mexicano Community.

Michael K. Reddy Assistant Professor, Chemistry The Biochemistry of Protein-DNA Interactions: Vaccinia Virus As a Eukaryotic Model System.

Sylvia Schafer Assistant Professor, History Citizenship, Public Assistance and the Politics of Difference in Modern France, 1840-1940.

Marlene M. Schmid Assistant Professor, Health Restoration A Study on the Development of Clinical Decision Algorithms.

Alan W. Schwabacher Assistant Professor, Chemistry Self-Assembled Receptors: A Route to Highly Selective Binding.

Rhea E. Steinpreis Assistant Professor, Psychology Treating Parkinsonian Symptoms with MK801 in An Animal Model.

Karudapuram E. Supriya Assistant Professor, Communication Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ethnography British India As a Site.

Rodney A. Swain Assistant Professor, Psychology Cerebellar Angiogenesis: Its Determinants and Impact on Behavior.

Kyle Swanson Assistant Professor, Geosciences The Role of Atmospheric Dynamics in the Response of the Temperate Climate to El Nino.

Hanh Q. Trinh Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Strategic Management in the Hospital Industry: Alliance Versus Competition.

Yehua Wei Assistant Professor, Geography Intra-Provincial Inequality in Post-Mao China: Case Studies of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, and Yunnan Provinces.

Fred Anapol Anthropology Expression of Genes for Slow- and Fast-Twitch Myosin Adenosine Triphosphatase in Developing Muscle.

Mark Bradley History Culture and Imperial Order in Southeast Asia, 1860-1910.

Virginia L. Carlson Urban Planning Women’s Wages and Industry Decentralization.

Lane Hall Art We Are Your Kinsmen’ Large-Format Print Installation.

George W. Hanson Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Electromagnetic Modeling of Complex Dielectric Mines in a Layered Earth.

Fred J. Helmstetter Psychology Real-Time Functional Imaging of Learning in the Human Brain.

Jonathan Kahl Geosciences Creation of a Polar Standard Atmosphere.

Mark Keane Architecture Wright.

Judith T. Kenny Geography Cultivating the Garden City: Politics and the Public Aesthetics of Bangalore, India.

Joan Liaschenko Health Maintenance The Work and Ethics of Nurse Managers: Analysis of Postdoctoral Data.

John W. Norbury Physics Search for An Intermediate Mass Higgs Boson.

Kathryn M. Olson Communication Shared Power, Contested Memory, and the Rhetorical Presidency.

Zhong-Ren Peng Urban Planning Development of An Integrated Land Use, Travel Behavior, and Air Quality Model.

Diane M. Reddy Psychology Project IMPACS: Improving Mammography Participation and Cancer Survivability.

Lex Renda History Midterm Congressional Decline: Federalism, Incumbency, and Negative Voting.

Linda A. Whittingham Biological Sciences Historical and Ecological Components of Behavior in Birds.

Michael D. Wilson English Hopaki: An Historical Novel.

Jane L. Witten Biological Sciences Cellular Distribution, Developmental Changes, and Hormonal Regulation of Potassium Ion Channels in the Nervous System.

Melissa Hickman Barlow Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Policing Black Milwaukee: A History of Relations Between Police and African Americans.

Leslie Bellavance Professor, Art ‘Silhouette’: An Exploration of Computer Imaging and Experimental Offset Printing in the Production of An Art Work.

Hector Bravo Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Model for the Transport and Longitudinal Dispersion of Conservative Pollutants in Real Streams.

Lisa Dieker Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education Evaluating the Use of Cooperative Teaching.

Pamela Downing Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature Socioeconomic Class and Interactive Language Use in the Home: Two Case Studies.

Sumanta Guha Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Computational Topology.

Peter Haddawy Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Intelligent Control of Computer Vision.

Sara Hoot Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Evolutionary and Phytogeographic Patterns in the Proteaceae Based on Molecular Data.

Elizabeth Kraemer Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Student Learning, Classroom Climate and Student Behavior.

Susie Lamborn Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Interviews with Ethnic Youth: Perceptions of Parenting Style and Adjustment.

Chiu-Tai Law Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Light- Induced Waveguides and Switches.

Janet Lilly Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance Solo Works.

Steve Mccole Assistant Professor, Human Kinetics Effect of Aging and Hormone Replacement Therapy on Blood and Plasma Volumes in Post-Menopausal Women.

Hamid Mohtadi Associate Professor, Economics Human Capital, Specialization and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis.

Terry Nardin Professor, Political Science The History of International Political Theory.

Panivong Norindr Associate Professor, French and Italian Pierre Loti in Morocco: Promoting Literary Impressionism and An Exotic Vision of the World.

Brian Reilly Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Complement Component C4 and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Karen E. Riggs Assistant Professor, Mass Communication Elderly Women and Television Mysteries: Ritual and Late Life Experience.

Dilano Saldin Associate Professor, Physics; and Wilfred Tysoe Professor, Chemistry Looking At Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces.

Scott V. Solberg Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology UWM – Comprehensive Assessment and Retention Programming.

Fifteen proposals have been selected for funding in the 2019-2020 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.

Alexander Arnold Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Pharmacological Characterization of Calcitroic Acid as an Anti-Inflammatory

Dawn Erb Associate Professor, Department of Physics The Extreme Census of the Local Universe: The Most Highly Ionized Galaxies in the Northern Sky

Wendy Huddleston Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology – Integrative Health Care & Performance UWM Co-PI: Adam Greenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Individual Differences in Voxel-wise Mapping of Attention Fields in the Human Motor System

John Isbell Distinguished Professor, Department of Geosciences Strata of the late Paleozoic Ice Age in Namibia and Mozambique: their significance in determining the timing and extent of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age

Jeffrey Karron Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Understanding the effects of pollinator loss on mating patterns and gene dispersal in a native flowering plant species

Nikolai Kouklin Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Cadmium Arsenide for Electrical Power Generation and Heat Waste Recovery

Sergei Kuchin Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Mitochondrial regulation of yeast AMPK and its role in aging

Xiaoli Ma Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Metal-Organic Framework Membranes for the Separation of C4-Hydrocarbons

Shama Mirza Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry UWM Co-PI: Ava Udvadia, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences A new therapeutic strategy for the treatment of glioblastoma via ASAH1 inhibition

Junjie Niu Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Developing Novel Hybrid Composites Via Tailoring The Interface As Electrode For High Capacity Batteries At Cold Conditions

Ionel Popa Assistant Professor, Department of Physics UWM Co-PI: Valerică Raicu, Professor, Department of Physics Development of a hybrid force-clamp rheometry – fluorescence approach to study the mechanical response of biomaterials

Konstantin Sobolev Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering UWM Co-PI: Michael Nosonovsky, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Superhydrophobic and Photocatalytic Anticorrosive (XPAC) Coatings

J. Rudi Strickler Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences UWM Co-PIs: Ryoichi Amano, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Peter Hinow, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences Discovering how aquatic ectoparasites find their hosts: Transforming an entomological instrument to investigate olfaction in external parasites of fish

Yongjin Sung Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 4-D fluorescence imaging cytometer with high spatiotemporal resolution

Jian Zhao Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering UWM Co-PIs: Konstantin Sobolev, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Yue Liu, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; Nathan Salowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Smart Concrete for Data-Driven Infrastructure Maintenance

Twenty-one proposals have been selected for funding in the 2018-2019 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation. Of these, ten were from first time recipients.

Daniel Agterberg Professor, Department of Physics Topology, symmetry, and superconductivity in quantum materials

Margo Anderson Distinguished Professor, Department of History The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee UWM Co-PI: Amanda Seligman, Professor, Department of History

Mark Dietz Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Controlled porosity supports for improved extraction chromatographic separations

Alison Donnelly Associate Professor, Department of Geography Determining the contribution of the shrub layer to overall forest phenology using in situ observations and remote sensing metrics

Roshan D’Souza Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Novel Algorithms for Post Processing 4D Flow Data for Non-invasive Quantification of Patient-specific Hemodynamics

Clark Evans Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences A Climatology of Indirect Tropical Cyclone Interactions

Sandeep Gopalakrishnan Assistant Professor, College of Nursing Attenuation of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Immune Dysregulation by NIR Photobiomodulation in Diabetic Wound Healing UWM Co-PIs Janis Eells, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences; Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Mahsa Ranji, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Sergey Kravtsov Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences Role of mesoscale coupling in the dynamics of an idealized ocean-atmosphere model

Michael Laiosa Associate Professor, School of Public Health Regulation of cellular respiration by the Aryl hydrocarbon receptor during hematopoiesis UWM Co-PI: Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Yue Liu Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Integrating Big Data-Driven Approach into a Simulation-Based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model for Work Zone Impacts Assessment

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour Assistant Professor, Department of Africology Political Opinions and Behavior of Afro-Brazilian and African-American Women Social Welfare Recipients

Michael Nosonovsky Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Acoustic Real-Time Detection of Pathogens and Nanoparticles in Water and their Removal

A. Andrew Pacheco Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Conformational gating of Mycobacterium tuberculosis truncated Hemoglobin N

Ramin Pashaie Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Functional Imaging in The Central Nervous System via Optical Coherence Tomography

Mahsa Ranji Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Optical Imaging of Diabetic Brain Metabolism and Vasculature UWM Co-PI: Ramin Pashaie, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Nathaniel Stern Associate Professor, Department of Art & Design The World After Us: speculative media sculpture

Katharine Wells Assistant Professor, Department of Art History Uncanny Revivals: Designing Early America during the Rise of Fascism

Dietmar Wolfram Professor, School of Information Studies The Future of Peer Review in the Open Science Era: Can Transparency Address Current Concerns?

Shangping Xu Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences Development of improved zero valent iron nanoparticles for environmental remediation using fractioned humic substances UWM Co-PI: Yin Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jie Yu Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental EngineeringMulti-Dimensional Assessment of Transit System Efficiency and Incentive-based Subsidy Allocation

Jun Zhang Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Deep learning applied to iterative reconstruction for CT imaging

Eighteen proposals have been selected for funding in the 2017-2018 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.

Joseph Aldstadt Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Development of a Novel Sequential Injection-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System for the Determination of Synthetic Cathinones in Forensic Samples

Dyanna Czeck Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences Pathways for water in quartz grains: exploring mineral weakening during deformation

Rani El Hajjar Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Magnetostrictive Smart Composites for Fused Deposition 3D-Printing UWM Co-PI: Chui-Tai Law, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Jennifer Gutzman Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Molecular mechanisms that mediate basal constriction in the developing brain

M. Mahmun Hossain Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Synthesis of All-Carbon alpha-Aryl Quaternary Carbonyl Compounds

Nadine Kozak Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in U.S. Public Libraries UWM Co-PI: Michael Zimmer, Associate Professor, Information Studies

Dean Nardelli Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences Treatment of Lyme Arthritis with Induced Regulatory T Cells

Ryan Newton Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences Integrating Nutrition Evaluation with Host Microbiome Characterization to Develop Cost Effective Feeds for Yellow Perch Aquaculture UWM Co-PI: Dong-Fang Deng, Senior Research Scientist, Freshwater Sciences

Gyaneshwar Prasad Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Understanding the mechanism of rice colonization by Rhizobium sp. IRBG74 and enhancing its potential for rice growth promotion UWM Co-PI: Dazhong Zhao, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Patricia Richards Senior Scientist, Department of Anthropology The Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project

Christopher Quinn Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Investigation of mechanisms that regulate axon branch stability

Peter Schwander Associate Professor, Department of Physics 3D Molecular Movies and Energy Landscapes of Viruses by Lensless X-Ray Microscopy

Ava Udvadia Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Master regulatory transcription factors driving stage specific regeneration of CNS axons UWM Co-PI: Paul Auer, Assistant Professor, Zilber School of Public Health

Lingfeng Wang Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering A Game-theoretic Framework for Integrated Cyber-Physical-Human Risk Assessment and Security Management in Smart Grid

Yin Wang Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Development of modified iron oxide adsorbents for removal of hexavalent chromium from water

Jorg Woehl Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Electrically induced trapping and separation of single molecules and nanoparticles UWM Co-PI: Woo Jin Chang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Changshan Wu Professor, Department of Geography Examining Uncertainties in Spectral Mixture Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery

Dazhong Zhao Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Identifying the Novel Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in Arabidopsis Anther Development

Fifteen proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2016-2017 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation. Four assistant professors, five associate professors, and six full professors received awards.

Derek Counts Professor, Art History From Scanner to Scholar: The publication of 3D models in the digital age

David Frick Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Viral helicase disruption of pattern recognition receptors UWM Co-PI: Valerica Raicu, Physics

Karyn Frick Professor, Psychology Mechanisms of estrogenic regulation of dendritic spines in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus

Peter Geissinger Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Luminescence-lifetime-based, simultaneous measurement of multiple metal ion concentrations in water for use on a real-time optical fiber sensor platform

Adam Greenberg Assistant Professor, Psychology The universal nature of topographic maps as the structural foundation of attention UWM Co-PI: Wendy Huddleston, Kinesiology

John Isbell Professor, Geosciences Carboniferous and Permian strata in Brazil and surrounding areas: their significance in determining the timing and extent of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age

Junjie Niu Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Scalable synthesis of air-stable ultra-small Al nano-composites for high-performance Li-Al batteries

Margaret Noodin Assistant Professor, English; Director, Electa Quinney Institute Ganawendamaw: Emerging Anishinaabe environmental ideologies UWM Co-PIs: Patricia Mayes, English; Bernard Perley, Anthropology

Ionel Popa Assistant Professor, Physics A hybrid magnetic tweezers-FRET technique to study the mechano-chemistry of proteins involved in cellular mechano-transduction UWM Co-PI: Valerica Raicu, Physics

Joel Rast Associate Professor, Political Science The Dual City: Policy paradigms and housing reform in twentieth century Chicago

Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Signal ontogeny and phonology in vibrational insects

Alan Schwabacher Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Optical sensor arrays for metal ion detection UWM Co-PI: Peter Geissinger, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ching-Hong Yang Professor, Biological Sciences Development of virulence-specific therapeutics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Chris Yingchun Yuan Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Integrated study of capacity fading on next generation lithium ion battery for electric vehicles

Mo Zell Associate Professor, Architecture Kinetic Learning Lights: Prototypes

Twelve proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2015-2016 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation. One Distinguished Professor, five full professors, three associate professors, and three assistant professors received awards. Six recipients are first-time RGI awardees.

Daniel Agterberg Professor, Physics High Temperature Superconductors: Pair Density Wave Order in the Pseudogap Phase

Joel Berkowitz Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature Preserving the Legacy of the Yiddish Theatre in the Digital Age

Patrick Brady Professor, Physics Astrophysics of Extreme Environments UWM Co-PIs: Philip Chang, Jolien Creighton, Dawn Erb, David Kaplan, Alan Wiseman, Xavier Siemens, Physics

Michael Carvan Associate Professor, Freshwater Sciences Epigenetic Transgenerational Impacts of Great Lakes Chemicals of Concern UWM Co-PIs: David Petering, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Hector Bravo, Civil and Environmental Engineering; David Garman, John Janssen, Freshwater Sciences; Junhong Chen, Mechanical Engineering; Peter Tonellato, Public Health

Carol Hirschmugl Professor, Physics Fluorescence imaging and mid infrared spectroscopy of diabetic retinopathy UWM Co-PIs: Mahsa Ranji, Electrical Engineering

Emily Latch Associate Professor, Biological Sciences A landscape genomics framework to study introgression in non-model species

Robin Mello Associate Professor, Theatre A Tale of Scale UWM Co-PI: Jean Creighton, Physics

Adel Nasiri Professor, Electrical Engineering Integration of Batteries and Li-Ion Capacitors to Extend Battery Life in Vehicle Start Stop Applications

Xiaohua Peng Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Hydrogen Peroxide Activated Quinone Methide Prodrugs for Tumor-Specific Destruction UWM Co-PI: Alexander Arnold, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Aleksandra Snowden Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Off-Premise Alcohol Outlet Characteristics and Milwaukee Violence Rates

Xuexia Wang Assistant Professor, Public Health Methods to Detect Gene-Environment Interactions in Secondary Cancers

Michael Weinert Distinguished Professor, Physics Band Offsets in Lateral Junctions of 2-D materials, UWM Co-PI: Lian Li, Physics

Seventeen proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2014-2015 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.Four proposals from Biological Sciences were funded, as well as three from Chemistry and Biochemistry. Seven full professors and seven associate professors earned awards, as well as three assistant professors.

S. Scott Graham Assistant Professor, English Evaluating the Impacts of Lay Stakeholder Inclusion and Industry Affiliations on FDA Pharmaceuticals Policy Decision-Making Co-PIs: William Keith, Professor, English; Sang-Yeon Kim, Assistant Professor, Communication

Laodong Guo Professor, Freshwater Sciences Evaluating Reservoir Effects Of Radiocarbon and its Use For Tracking Carbon Dynamics in Lake Michigan

Guilherme Indig Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Intraoperative Fluorescence Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy Of Advanced Ovarian Cancer

Jeffrey Karron Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Understanding the Evolutionary Tug-Of-War Between Male and Female Function in Hermaphroditic Flowering Plants

Vincent Larson Professor, Mathematical Sciences From Cloud Parameterization to Subgrid Variability Parameterization

Chiu Law Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Chirped Fiber Optical Current Sensor Co-PIs: Rani El-Hajjar, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics

Mark McBride Professor, Biological Sciences Novel Cellulose Utilization System of Cytophaga hutchinsonii

Graham Moran Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Redefining Renalase: The Discovery of a New Enzymatic Activity

Hanyong Park Assistant Professor, Linguistics Longitudinal L2 learning of Korean coronal obstruents in perception and production

Donna Pasternak Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction How are English teacher preparation programs educating English teachers to teach into the 21st century? A study of the current practices used to educate English teachers in a time of teacher accountability.

David Petering Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Revealing the Cadmium Proteome with Metalloproteomic Methods

Ora John Reuter Assistant Professor, Political Science Political Machines at Work: Voter Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in the Workplace

Linda Whittingham Professor, Biological Sciences Genetic and Physiological Mechanisms of Ornament Expression in a Warbler

William Wood Associate Professor, Anthropology Participatory Community Museum Exhibition Development for Mangrove Conservation Education at Ventanilla, Oaxaca, Mexico: Formative Exhibition Evaluation

Iris Xie Professor, Information Studies Universal Accessibility of Digital Libraries: Design of Help Mechanisms for Blind Users Co-PIs: Rakesh Babu, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies; Wooseob Jeong, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies

Dazhong Zhao Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Determining the SERK1/2-EMS1 Receptor Kinase Complex in Cell Differentiation Co-PIs: Valerica Raicu, Associate Professor, Physics

Chao Zhu Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences On Nonnegative Stochastic Processes and Their Financial Applications

Thirty-two proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2013-2014 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.Twenty awards went to assistant professors, six to associate professors, and six to full and Distinguished professors.

The departments of Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering each earned four awards; Electrical Engineering, Geosciences, and mathematical Sciences each received three.

George Barganier Assistant Professor, Africology Fanon’s Children: The Black Panther Party and the Rise of the Crips and Bloods

Anne Basting Associate Professor, Theatre Arts At Home

Julie Bowles Assistant Professor, Geosciences The Long Valley Volcanic Field: Constraining the Geomagnetic Field and Local Volcanic Processes

Woo Jin Chang Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Paper-fluidic electrochemical heavy metal detection

Junhong Chen Professor, Mechanical Engineering Exploration of Graphene-Based Nanohybrids for Electrocatalysis

Thomas Consi Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences A Prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Tracking Radio-Tagged Sturgeon

Madhusudan Dey Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Mechanistic Insights into Ire1-HAC1/Xbp1 Signaling Pathway Co-PIs: David Frick, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Peter Dunn Professor, Biological Sciences Immunogenetics of an endangered bird

Rani El-Hajjar Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Scaffolding and Forming Methods for Scalability of Thermosetting Nanocellulose Composites Co-PIs: Krisha Pillai, Mechanical Engineering

Jennifer Gutzman Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Regulation of cell shortening during brain morphogenesis

Weon Shik Han Assistant Professor, Geosciences Themorphysically Driven One, Two, and Three-Phase Fluids Transitions of Geologically Stored Supercritical CO2: Combination of Theoretical, Numerical and Field Studies Co-PIs: Chang Soo Kim, Materials Science and Engineering

Fred Helmstetter Professor, Psychology Dissecting cortical-subcortical interactions in the regulation of fear memory with optogenetics Co-PIs: Devin Mueller, Psychology; Ramin Pashaie, Electrical Engineering

Mohd Helwany Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Thermomechanical Behavior of Energy Piles Co-PIs: Tien-chien Jen, Mechanical Engineering; Adel Nasiri, Electrical Engineering

Gerlinde Hoebel Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Cross-modal interactions and leader preferences

Yi Hu Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Electroacoustic Stimulation

Kyongboon Kwon Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology Emotional Socialization in the Social Network of Late Elementary Children: The Impact on Prosocial, Aggressive, and Withdrawn Behaviors

Istvan Lauko Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences Novel optical detection of discrete layers in Lake Michigan ecosystem structure Co-PIs: Carmen Aguilar-Diaz and Russell Cuhel, Freshwater Sciences

Ying Li Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Efficient Solar-Driven CO2 Reforming of Methane by Novel Composite Catalysts

Lindsay McHenry Associate Professor, Geosciences Hydrothermal Alteration of high Fe Icelandic Basalts, Analog for Mars Aqueous Processes Co-PI: Barry Cameron, Geosciences

James Moyer Jr Associate Professor, Psychology Neurobiological Analyses of Aging-Related Deficits in Cognitive Flexibility Co-PIs: Jeri-Anne Lyons, Biomedical Sciences

Wilkistar Otieno Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Investigating Reverse Supply Chains and Remanufacturing Processes as Feasible Alternatives to Product Recovery Co-PIs: Vishnuteja Nanduri, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Anthony Ross, Lubar School of Business

Ramin Pashaie Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Interrogation of Cortical Dynamics via Optogenetic-mElectroCorticoGraphy

Anne Pycha Assistant Professor, Linguistics Explaining phonological patterns with memories

Mahsa Ranji Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Optical imaging techniques for early detection of radiation-induced lung injury

Paru Shah Assistant Professor, Political Science Candidate Characteristics in Local Elections: Developing a Data Curation Community

Kurt Svoboda Associate Professor, Public Health Neural crest cell development in zebrafish: Anatomical analysis in 3-dimensional space

Tanya Tiffany Associate Professor, Art History Visual Culture and Feminine Devotion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire

Anastasios Tsonis Distinguished Professor, Mathematical Sciences Climate models: A new Babel? Co-PIs: Kyle Swanson, Mathematical Sciences

Ying-chih Wang Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Technology Translating Modified Ashworth Scale into Neurophysiological, Quantitative Kinematic and Kinetic Values Co-PIs: Jay Kapellusch and Roger Smith, Occupational Science and Technology

Dexuan Xie Professor, Mathematical Sciences New Nonlocal Continuum Electrostatic Models and Their Fast Numerical Solvers

Zengwang Xu Assistant Professor, Geography Modeling the diffusion and intervention of H5N1 in a realistically connected population in Milwaukee city: a social spatial network approach

Chris Yuan Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Sustainable Development of High Capacity Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles

Thirty-nine proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2012-2013 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.Fifteen awards went to assistant professors, 13 to associate professors, and 11 to full professors.

Daniel Agterberg Professor, Physics Theory of the Electron Gas at Oxide Interfaces

Filipe Alberto Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Metapopulation Genetics of Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera in Southern California Bight

Ryoichi Amano Professor, Mechanical Engineering Wastewater Management Using Sewage Aerator and Separator Cyclones

Alexander Arnold Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Vitamin D Receptor-Coregulator Interactions As Anticancer Targets

Ferne Bronson Professor, Dance The Sweet Grass Project: Preservation of African Movement Traditions Present in Gullah Culture of the Carolinas and Georgia Coast

Philip Chang Assistant Professor, Physics The Plasma Physics and Cosmological Impact of TeV Blazars

Jian Chen Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Transparent Conductive Ceramic-Graphene Nanolaminates Co-PI: Carolyn Aita, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Junhong Chen Professor, Mechanical Engineering Exploration of Graphene Array Electrodes for Energy Storage

Kamran Diba Assistant Professor, Psychology Optogenetic Silencing of Hippocampal Inputs During Spatial Learning

Karyn Frick Associate Professor, Psychology Roles of Specific Estrogen Receptors in Mediating the Beneficial Effects of Estrogens On Memory in Middle-Aged Females

Peter Geissinger Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Measurement of Electric Fields at Protein Active Sites: Towards Probing Electrostatic Structure-Function Relationships Co-PI: Jorg Woehl, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Zhen He Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics Development of Novel Osmotic Microbial Desalination Cells for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Desalination

John Isbell Professor, Geosciences Occurrence and Significance of Northern High Paleo-Latitude Deposits of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Northeastern Asia (Siberia)

David Kaplan Assistant Professor, Physics Isolated Neutron Stars: the Impact of Magnetic Field Decay

Christine Larson Associate Professor, Psychology Isolating the Mechanisms of Impaired Attentional Control in Social Anxiety: Implications for Attention Modification Training Co-PI: Han Joo Lee, Psychology

Yue Liu Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics A New Decision Support Tool for Warranting Detour Operations During Freeway Corridor Incident Management

Kristen Murphy Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Processing Differences By Gender: Investigating Persistent Differential Item Functioning General Chemistry Items

Vishnuteja Nanduri Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Understanding the Electricity-Water-Climate Change Nexus: a Multi-Agent Simulation Framework and Efficient Reinforcement Learning Solution Techniques Co-PIs: Wilkistar Otieno, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Rosha D’Souza, Mechanical Engineering

Adel Nasiri Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Advanced Wind Turbine Topology and Controls to Improve Transient Power Stability and Provide Short-Term Support

Michael Nosonovsky Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ultra-Durable Wear-Resistant 3D Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Concretes Co-PI: Konstantin Sobolev, Civil Engineering and Mechanics

Abbas Ourmazd Professor, Physics Determining the Structure and Conformations of Macromolecular Complexes Co-PI: Peter Schwander, Physics

Ramin Pashaie Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Interrogation of Large-Scale Neural Circuits With Optogenetic-fMRI

Xiaohua Peng Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Achieving Turnover in DNA-Templated Fluorogenic “Click” Ligation for Sequence-Specific DNA Mutation Detection

Gabriella Pinter Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences Establishing a Modeling Framework for the Investigation of Nano-Scale Drivers of Biogeochemical Cycling in Freshwater Ecosystems Co-PI: Istvan Lauko, Mathematical Sciences; John Berges, Erica Young, Biological Sciences

Christopher Quinn Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Investigation of ITSN-1 Function in Axon Guidance.

Mahsa Ranji Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Optical Redox Imaging and NMR Metabolomics As Multi-Modal Tools to Monitor Metabolic Dysfunction in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Dilano Saldin Professor, Physics Reconstructing the Structure of Viruses Using an X-Ray Laser

Marius Schmidt Associate Professor, Physics Structure and Function of MtrC: an Electricity Generating Protein Co-PI: Daad Saffarini, Biological Sciences

Stefan Schnitzer Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Do Lianas Redirect Successional Trajectories in Regenerating Tropical Forests?

Arijit Sen Associate Professor, Architecture Intertwined Geographies of Transcultural Contact: Cultural Landscapes of Muslim Immigrants in Milwaukee and Chicago

Matthew Smith Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences In Situ Technology to Enhance Chemical, Physical and Biological Monitoring in Lake Michigan

Nathaniel Stern Associate Professor, Art & Design Body Language: a Suite of Four Interactive Installations

J. Rudi Strickler Professor, Biological Sciences Microfluidics and Form and Function in Cyclopoid Copepods Co-PIs: Woo Jin Chang, Mechanical Engineering; Thomas Consi, Freshwater Sciences

Peter Tonellato Professor, Public Health Guiding Warfarin Clinical Trial Design Using Pharmacogenetic Simulations

Anastasios Tsonis Professor, Mathematical Sciences Knowledge Discovery in Climate

Jorg Woehl Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Corral Trapping of Single Molecules in Solution: Theory and Applications

Changshan Wu Associate Professor, Geography Urban Impervious Surface Estimation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Simulation Approach

Ching-Hong Yang Associate Professor, Biological Sciences A Lifestyle Choice for Ecological Success and Pathogenicity: Cell Aggregates and Bimodal Expression of T3SS

Jun Zhang Professor, Electrical Engineering 3D CT Image Segmentation for Security Applications

Thirty-three proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2011-2012 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.As a testament to the improving quality of RGI submissions, the independent experts and scholars who reviewed the applications awarded double-alpha quality ratings to over 40 percent of this year’s 112 proposals. The final selection of awardees, based on the external reviewers’ ratings of the three evaluation criteria, was made by a committee (RGI coordinator Kathleen Koch and Associate Deans Michael Liston and Douglas Woods) appointed by the Dean of the Graduate School.

Five proposals from Biological Sciences were funded, as well as four each from Engineering and Physics. Social sciences, professions, and the humanities were also well represented, including the first-ever award for Africology.

Reflecting the growing emphasis on multi- and interdisciplinary research, seven of the 15 collaborative projects funded feature investigators from multiple departments.
Unless noted, Co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:

Carolyn Aita Chemistry and Biochemistry Predicting Phase Formation and Transitions in Functional Oxide Nanolaminates

Rachel Buff History This Way Out: A History of Deportation from the U.S., 1935-1970

Jian Chen Chemistry and Biochemistry Remote-Controlled, Self-Healing Shape Memory Polymer Composites

Madhusudan Dey, Biological Sciences The Novel Kinase KIN2 Signaling in Endoplasmic Stress Co-PI(s): Valerica Raicu, Physics

Rebecca Dunham English Black Horizon: A Documentary in Verse

David Frick Chemistry and Biochemistry Drug Discovery for Hepatitis C: Hit-to-lead Development of Helicase Inhibitors

Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska Physics Advanced Electron Microscopy and Holography of Multiscale Multiferroic Materials Co-PI(s): Prasenjit Guptasarma, Marvin Schofield

Pat Goldsmith Sociology Residential Segregation and Discrete Choice Analysis Co-PI(s): William Velez

Deborah Hannula Psychology Recollection as a 2-Stage Process: A Converging Methods Approach to Investigation of Memory, Awareness, and the Brain.

Carol Hirschmugl Physics Thermally Derived Graphene Based Nanocrystalline Sheets for Lithium Ion Batteries Co-PI(s): Junhong H Chen, Mechanical Engineering; Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovksa

Gerlinde Hoebel Biological Sciences Preference Functions and the Evolution of Multimodal Signals

Shale Horowitz Political Science Measuring Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Conflicts

Jennifer Johung Art History Vital Architecture: Sustaining Life and Living Space

Jonathan Kanter Psychology Culturally Enhanced Behavioral Activation for African Americans with Depression Co-PI(s): Michael Brondino, Social Work; Shakoor Lee, Nursing

Changsoo Kim Materials Engineering Theoretical Study of the Microstructural Impacts on the Mechanical Performance of Metal-Matrix Nano Composites Co-PI(s): Pradeep Rohatgi

Arash Mafi Electrical Engineering Gain-Guiding Optical Fiber Lasers: Fundamental Limitations and Practical Solutions

Anna Mansson McGinty Geography The Muslim Milwaukee Project Co-PI(s): Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Comparative Literature; Kristin Sziarto

Mark McBride Biological Sciences Novel Mechanisms of Cellulose and Chitin Utilization by Members of the Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidetes

Sandra McLellan Freshwater Sciences Microbial Communities as Indicators of Oil Contamination on Coastal Beaches

Susan McRoy, Computer Science A Feasibility Study of Two-Way Messaging for Prostate Cancer Patients Co-PI(s): Hayeon Song, Communication

Katie Mosack Psychology A Test of the Association Between Subjective Self-Reports and Objective Measures of Social Support-Related Communication among HIV-Affected African American Female Dyads Co-PI(s): Michael Brondino, Social Work; Patricia Stevens, Nursing

Ramin Pashaie Electrical Engineering Optogenetic Visual Neuroprosthetics

Mahsa Ranji Electrical Engineering Lung Oxygen Toxicity: Optical Biopsy and Imaging Techniques

Marius Schmidt Physics The Reaction of Nitric Oxide with Mycobacterium tuberculosis HemoglobinN Co-PI(s): Arsenio Pacheco, Chemistry; Alan Schwabacher, Chemistry

Stefan Schnitzer Biological Sciences Identifying the Pathogens That Regulate Tree Species Diversity and Abundance in Tropical Forests

Jeffrey Sommers Africology Spatial Fixes and Hegemonic Re-Orderings: Africa’s Place in the Emerging New Order

Scott Strath Human Movement Science Understanding Multi-Level Barriers to Physical Activity and Health Behaviors in Older Adults Co-PI(s): Kevin Keenan, Ann Swartz

Michael Weinert Physics Topological Insulators: Growth and Electronic Properties Co-PI(s): Lian Li

Zeyun Yu Computer Science A Meshless Approach to Studying Cell-wide Calcium Signaling

Chris Yuan Mechanical Engineering Sustainable Development of Atomic-scale Nano-coating Technology Co-PI(s): Tien-chien Jen

Jun Zhang Electrical Engineering Automatic Patient Search for Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Co-PI(s): Xiangming Mu, Information Studies; Tian Zhao; Computer Science

Dazhong Zhao Biological Sciences MicroRNA-mediated Cross-Talk Between ABA and Auxin Signaling in Arabidopsis

Chao Zhu Mathematical Sciences Singular Stochastic Control of Regime Switching Diffusion: Viscosity Solution and Linear Programming

Thirty proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2010-2011 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.The winners were chosen from the original pool of 139 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.

This year’s projects come from a variety areas—from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to architecture, history, and visual art—and reflect the growing emphasis on multi- and interdisciplinary research. Seven projects feature investigators from multiple departments, compared to three in 2009-2010.

Unless noted, co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:

YiQiang Cheng Biological Sciences Preparation of Lead Anticancer Compounds for Preclinical Evaluations

Timothy Cleary Educational Psychology Efficacy of Self-Regulation Empowerment Program: A classroom-based intervention

Kimberly Cosier Visual Art Teaching and Learning Critical Visual Literacies with Urban Youth Co-PI: Laura Trafi-Prats

Carolyn Eichner History In the Name of the Mother: Radical Naming, Marriage, and the Matronym

Dawn Erb Physics The Youngest Galaxies in the Young Universe

Margaret Fraiser Geosciences Testing the End-Permian Mass Extinction Recovery Paradigm

Thomas Hooyer Geosciences Evaluating glacier quarrying: Mapping recently deglaciated bedrock surfaces to determine the importance of pre-existing fractures in bedrock

M. Mahmun Hossain Chemistry and Biochemistry Novel Synthesis of Tryptophan-based Microtubule Inhibitors

Jay Kapellusch Occupational Therapy Injury Management System for Strategic Reduction of Workplace Injuries Co-PIs: Naira Campbell-Kyureghan, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering; Arun Garg, I&ME; Matthew Petering, I&ME

Nikolai Kouklin Electrical Engineering Nanoarray-based optical sensor Co-PIs: Vladislav Yakovlev, Physics

Emily Latch Biological Sciences Speciation caught in the act: Identification of genes under selection in a vertebrate hybrid zone

Han Joo Lee Psychology Examining the Nature of Sustained Attentional Regulation among Individuals with Social Phobia Co-PI: Christine Larson

Arash Mafi Electrical Engineering Wavelength Dependence of Birefringence in Optical Fibers: The Nonlinear Implications Co-PIs: Chiu Tai Law, Hao Zhang

Sandra McLellan WATER Institute Identification of new alternative indicators of sewage contamination Co-PI: Anastasios Tsonis, Mathematical Sciences

Gretchen Meyer Field Station Genetic structure of an invasive plant in its native and introduced ranges Co-PIs: Sara Hoot, Biological Sciences; Mai Phillips, Biological Sciences

Ian Musson Mathematical Sciences Enveloping Algebras and Invariant Differential Operators.

Michael Nosonovsky Mechanical Engineering Self-organization at the sliding interface: towards biomimetic self-lubrication and self-replenishing Co-PIs: Emmanuel Wornyoh, Mechanical Engineering; Pradeep Rohatgi, Materials Engineering

Ramin Pashaie Electrical Engineering Optoelectronic Programming of the Brain Co-PI: Mahsa Ranji

Krishna Pillai Mechanical Engineering Simulating the Making of Dual-Scale Metal-Matrix Composites using the Pressure Infiltration Process Co-PI: Pradeep Rohatgi, Materials Engineering

Valerica Raicu Physics Drug-targeted signal transduction: instrumentation and methodology for non-invasive probing of GPCR signaling Co-PI: Sergei Kuchin, Biological Sciences

Paul Roebber Mathematical Sciences Simulating Warm Season Precipitation Climate at Regional Scale Co-PI: Kyle Swanson

Amanda Seligman History Encyclopedia of Milwaukee Co-PI: Margo Anderson

Na Jin Seo Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Ergonomic Interventions for Altered Grip Force Direction in Stroke Survivors

J. Carson Smith Human Movement Sciences Using Exercise to Enhance Brain Function and Memory in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer s Disease Co-PIs: Anthony Greene, Psychology; Jeri-Anne Lyons, Health Sciences

Andrew Ulijasz Biological Sciences Phytochrome-Based Fluorophores (PBFs)

James Wasley Architecture Carbon Neutral Building Design: from Case Studies to Conclusions Co-PIs: Greg Thomson, Dennis Utzinger

Emmanuel Wornyoh Mechanical Engineering In Situ Self-Repairing, Self-Replenishing Solid-/Powder-Lubricated Rolling Element Bearings: Modeling and Experiments

Vladislav Yakovlev Physics High-throughput vibrational cytometer

Hao Zhang Electrical Engineering Photoacoustic Camera for Real-time Vascular Imaging

Dazhong Zhao Biological Sciences Understanding Embryogenesis Regulated by MicroRNA and AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR in Arabidopsis

Thirty-eight proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2009-2010 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.The winners were chosen from the original pool of 136 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.

The projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to architecture, film, and dance.

Unless noted, co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:

Kalman Applbaum Anthropology Adherence to Pharmaceutical Treatment: A Clinical Ethnography of Mental Health Services in Wisconsin Co-PI: Paul Brodwin

Harvey Bootsma WATER Institute Carbon Dynamics in a Large, Tropical Lake

Patrick Brady Physics Frontiers of Multi-Messenger Astronomy Co-PIs: Luis Anchordoqui, Jean Creighton, Jolien Creighton, John Friedman, Xavier Siemens, Alan Wiseman

Junhong Chen Mechanical Engineering Energy-Efficient Nanoscale Corona Discharge for Ozone Reduction

Jian Chen Chemistry and Biochemistry Advanced Carbon Nanotube-Elastomer Composite Infrared Sensors

Thomas Consi WATER Institute Micromechanical Enhancement of Sensing — Lessons from Copepods Co-PI: Rudi Strickler, Biological Sciences

James Cook Chemistry and Biochemistry New Gabaergic Drugs to Treat Epilepsy Devoid of Sedative, Ataxic and Amnesic Side Effects Which Do Not Develop Tolerance

Dyanna Czeck Geosciences Quantifying Fabrics in Shear Zones

Stephen Dornbos Geosciences Sensory Evolution During the Cambrian Radiation

Shaoqin Gong Mechanical Engineering Multifunctional Polymeric Drug Nanocarriers for Targeted Cancer Therapy Co-PI: Douglas Steeber, Biological Sciences

Peninnah Kako Nursing HIV Transmission Risk, Access to Treatment, and Self Management of Illness Over Time: An In-Depth Longitudinal Study of HIV-Infected Women in Kenya Co-PIs: Loren Galvao, Patricia Stevens

Kevin Keenan Human Movement Sciences Cortico-Muscular Control of Hand Function in Older Adults Co-PI: Jerome Smith

J. Val Klump WATER Institute Application of New Methodology for Determining Benthic Metabolism in the Great Lakes

Sergey Kravtsov Mathematical Sciences Mesoscale Ocean Eddies and Climate Change Over the Southern Ocean

Vincent Larson Mathematical Sciences A Unified Parameterization for Clouds, Turbulence, the Surface Layer, and the Planetary Boundary Layer

Christine Larson Psychology The Influence of Rumination on Sustained Experience of Negative Affect: Bridging the Gap from Prolonged Brief Emotional Experiences to Depression

Lian Li Physics Magnetic Graphene Co-PI: Michael Weinert

Simone Linhares Ferro Dance Bumba-Meu-Boi: The Integration of Contemporary and Folk Dance as a Vehicle of Social and Historical Activism

Colleen Ludwig Film Elemental Bodies: A Suite of Four Immersive Installations with Sensor Control

Renee Meyers Communication GroupBank Archival and Retrieval System Co-PI: Elizabeth Buchanan, Information Studies

Devin Mueller Psychology Prefrontal Regulation of Drug Seeking After Extinction Co-PI: James Moyer

Kristen Murphy Chemistry and Biochemistry Rapid Knowledge Assessment: The Development and Validation of a New Assessment Instrument in Chemistry

Abbas Ourmazd Physics Direct Determination of Structure by Scattering Co-PI: Peter Schwander

Arsenio Pacheco Chemistry and Biochemistry Protein-NO Interactions by Time-Resolved Protein X-Ray Crystallography Co-PI: Marius Schmidt, Physics

David Petering Chemistry and Biochemistry Zinc Trafficking in Proliferative Cells: Metallothionein and Other Sites

Gyaneshwar Prasad Biological Sciences Functional and Ecological Genomics of Sulfonate Utilization by Soybean Nodulating Bradyrhizobium Japonicum

Paul Roebber Mathematical Sciences Applied Research Opportunities for Students

Dilano Saldin Physics Biomolecular Structure from Ultrashort X-ray Pulses: Exploiting the Symmtery of Random Orientations Co-PI: Valentin Shneerson

Marie Savundranayagam Social Work Caregiving and Alzheimer’s Disease: Impact of Caregiver Communication Strategies on Communication Breakdown, Problem Behaviors, and Stress

Stefan Schnitzer Biological Sciences Do Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens Explain Plant Species Coexistence and Diversity in Tropical Forests? An Experimental Test

Konstantin Sobolev Civil Engineering and Mechanics Development of Ultra High Performance Concrete for Service Life of 120 Years Co-PIs: Habib Tabatabai, Jian Zhao

Ichiro Suzuki Computer Science New Research Initiative in Distributed Robotic Systems

Gregory Thomson Architecture Energy Efficiency and Historic Preservation: Using Digital Simulation and Empirical Testing to Quantify Passive Systems of Environmental Control in National Register Eligible Buildings of the Early Modern Era

Wilfred Tysoe Chemistry and Biochemistry Investigation of Oxidation Catalytic Reaction Pathways on Model Gold-Palladium Alloy Catalysts

Laura Villamil Anthropology Margarita Archaeological Project: Investigating the Social Structure of A Classic Maya Urban Community

Linda Whittingham Biological Sciences Genetics of Disease Resistance and Female Mate Choice Co-PI: Peter Dunn

Ching-Hong Yang Biological Sciences Development of Type III Secretion System Inhibitors

Hao Zhang Electrical Engineering Functional Photoacoustic Imaging of Retinal Microvessels

Thirty-one proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2008-2009 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.The winners were chosen from the original pool of 137 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.

The projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to History and French, Italian, and Comparative Literature.

The awardees are:

Daniel Agterberg Physics Theory of Pair Density Wave Superconductors

Carmen Aguilar WATER Institute Quagga Mussel Feces-Mediated Trace Metal Mobilization in Lake Michigan Co-PI: Russell Cuhel, WATER Institute

Luis Anchordoqui Physics Cosmology and Particle Physics from String Theory

Barry Cameron Geosciences The Explosive-Effusive Transition and Compositional Diversity at Basaltic Scoria Cones in Central America

Yichiang Cheng Biological Sciences Engineer Novel Anticancer Bio-Agents — A Pilot Study

Peter Dunn Biological Sciences Genetic Diversity and Immunity in Endangered Birds

Charles Fink Biological Sciences Regulation of Neuronal Plasticity by Protein Phosphatase 1

Peter Geissinger Chemistry and Biochemistry High Spatial Resolution Optical Fiber Sensor Arrays for Real-Time, Remote Monitoring of Water Supplies and Potable Water Distribution Networks

Shaoqin Gong Mechanical Engineering Bionanocomposite Components with a Solid Skin/Foamed Core Structure Produced via a Novel Supercritical Fluid Assisted Co-Injection Molding Process

Anne Hansen History Buddhist Ethics of Love & Attachment in Southeast Asian Narrative Art & Literature

Carol Hirschmugl Physics Synchrotron Based Infrared Imaging (SBIRI) and Chemometrics of Living Algal Cells

Gerlinde Hoebel Biological Sciences Reinforcement and Behavioral Plasticity

Rebecca Klaper WATER Institute Tools for Determining the Impact of Nanomaterials on the Aquatic Model Organism Daphnia Pulex

Bonita Klein-Tasman Psychology Early Cognitive and Behavioral Phenotype of NF-1 Co-PI: W. Hobart Davies, Psychology

Sergei Kuchin Biological Sciences Regulation of the Snf1 Protein Kinase in Yeast Co-PI: Marianna Orlova, Biological Sciences

Mary Pat Kunert Nursing The Influence of Estrogen on the Structure and Function of Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation in the Dahl S Female Rat

Vincent Larson Mathematical Sciences Mixed-phase Layer Clouds in the Arctic and Mid-Latitudes

Jin Li Civil Engineering and Mechanics Adhesion and Survival Strategies of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 in the Phyllosphere

Paul Lyman Physics Atomic Layer Deposition for Production of Polar Oxide Heterostructures

Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu Nursing Violence in the Lives of HIV-Infected Women in Malawi: A Critical Ethnography Co-PI: Patricia Stevens, Nursing

Adel Nasiri Electrical Engineering Power Smoothing and Low Voltage Ride Through Solutions for Wind Turbines Co-PI: David Yu, Electrical Engineering

Julie Oliver Biological Sciences Development of Platelet-Targeted Nanoparticles for Treatment of Thrombotic Stroke

Peter Paik French, Italian and Comparative Literature As Realistic as God: World-Making in Literature and Media

Paul Roebber Mathematical Sciences Resolving Severe Weather Impacts of Global Climate Change

Xavier Siemens Physics Gravitational Wave Data Analysis and Astronomy

Ava Udvadia Biological Sciences Functional Analysis of Candidate Genes for Learning and Memory Co-PI: Fred Helmstetter, Psychology

Michael Weinert Physics Polarization and Electric Fields in Heterostructures Co-PI: Lian Li, Physics

Jorg Woehl Chemistry and Biochemistry Measuring Molecular Electric Fields at the Active Sites of Proteins: Development of High Resolution Single Molecule and Hole-Burning Techniques Co-PI: Peter Geissinger, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Leslie Ying Electrical Engineering Superfast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Compressed Sensing Co-PI: Yi Ming Zou, Mathematical Sciences

Dazhong Zhao Biological Sciences Molecular Genetic Dissection of the MicroRNA160 Function in Arabidopsis Development

Jian Zhao Civil Engineering and Mechanics A Sensor Based on Electromagnetic Surface Wave Propagation for Bridge Monitoring Co-PIs: Mukul Goyal, Computer Science; George Hanson, Electrical Engineering; Konstantin Sobolev, Civil Engineering and Mechanics

UWM will fund 42 proposals in the 2007-2008 Research Growth Initiative^®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university’s research and scholarly work and supporting the state’s economic development through innovation.The winners were chosen from the original pool of 183 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from top U.S. research institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Harvard, Penn State, Northwestern, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and UW-Madison.

Although the funds to be awarded to each project are still under negotiation, the projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from chemistry, anthropology, and engineering, to urban planning, music, and literature.

The awardees are:

Joseph H. Aldstadt Chemistry Modeling The Fate Of Lead In Battlefield Soils Co-PIs: Erik R. Christensen, Civil Engineering; Timothy J. Grundl, Geosciences

Harvey A. Bootsma WATER Institute Lake-Atmosphere Gas Exchange In Lake Michigan

Jian Chen Chemistry High-Dielectric-Constant Nanotube-Polymer Composites For Electromechanical Actuation Co-PI: Sarah Gong, Mechanical Engineering

Anoop K. Dhingra Mechanical Engineering Optimum Experimental Design Of A General Purpose Load Transducer

Kathleen A. Dolan Political Science Gender Stereotypes Voting for Women and Evaluations of the American Political System

Nadya A. Fouad Educational Psychology Barriers For Women In STEM Careers

Sarah Gong Mechanical Engineering Novel Photopolymerizable Macromers For Tissue Engineering Applications Co-PI: Douglas A. Steeber, Biological Sciences

Thomas M. Holbrook Political Science Structure Context and Voting Behavior in Mayoral Elections

John L. Isbell Geosciences Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age As Exposed In The Depositional Basins In Western Argentina

Tien-Chien Jen Mechanical Engineering Electrostatic-Force-Assisted Cold Gas Dynamic Spray Of Nanoparticles: A New Low Temperature Process Co-PI: Junhong Chen, Mechanical Engineering

Mark V. Johnston Occupational Therapy Quality And Coordination Of Care For Persons With Disability: Developing A Survey Measure Co-PIs: Amy Darragh; Kris Barnekow Occupational Therapy

Sergey Kravtsov Mathematical Sciences Stochastic Mode Reduction In Prototype Climate Models

Vincent E. Larson Mathematical Sciences A Boundary-Layer Parameterization For Weather Forecast Models

Lindsay J. McHenry Geosciences Improving Stratigraphic And Chronologic Control For Olduvai Gorge Bed II Archaeological Sites Using Tephra Geochemistry

Graham R. Moran Chemistry Kynureine-3-Monooxygenase And Ischemic Stroke

Abbas Ourmazd Physics Determining The Structure Of Individual Biological Molecules Co-PIs: Valentin Shneerson; Dilano K Saldin; Physics

A. Andrew Pacheco Chemistry Structure-Function Relationships In Metalloenzymes With Multiple Redox-Active Centers

Sarah K. Patch Physics Thermoacoustic Tomography–Attenuation Correction

Zhong-Ren Peng Urban Planning Real-Time Traffic Management And Surveillance Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Co-PIs: Jun Zhang, Tian Zhao, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

David H. Petering Chemistry Cellular Zinc Imaging With Fluorescent Probes: What Is Being Imaged?

Jason R. Puskar English Underwriting The Accident: Narratives Of American Chance 1871-1935

Valerica Raicu Physics Brain Impedance Measurement Technique For Monitoring Of Anesthetic-Induced State Transition

Joel S. Rast Political Science Urban Redevelopment And Machine Building In Postwar Chicago: An Institutionalist Perspective

John D. Richards Anthropology Late Prehistoric Ceramic Chronology In The Western Great Lakes Co-PI: Robert J. Jeske, Anthropology

Pradeep K. Rohatgi Materials Demonstration Of Feasibility Of Self Healing Metal Matrix Micro And Nanocomposites Co-PI: Ryo S. Amano, Mechanical Engineering

Nigel T. Rothfels Edison Initiative Death And Butterflies In German New Guinea

Stefan A. Schnitzer Biological Sciences Do Lianas Alter Nutrient And Water Dynamics In Tropical Forests? An Experimental Test

Roger O. Smith Occupational Therapy Consumer Evaluation Of Assistive Technology: Web Based Data Collection And Reporting Co-PIs: Kathleen L. Rust, Todd D. Schwanke, R2D2 Center

Ann C. Snyder Human Movement Sciences Near-Infrared Photobiomodulation For Immobilization-Induced Muscle Atrophy Co-PI: Janis T. Eells, Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Douglas A. Steeber Biological Sciences Detection Of Infectious Disease Using High-Frequency Microelectronic Biosensors Based On Organic Semiconductors Co-PI: David P. Klemer, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Patricia E. Stevens Nursing Feasibility Study Involving Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Hispanic Women Living With HIV

Hanh Q. Trinh Health Care Administration & Information Service Capacity Competition During The Era Of Managed Care: The Case Of Urban Hospitals

Anastasios A. Tsonis Mathematical Sciences An Investigation Into The Role Of Atmospheric Teleconnections In Climate

Florence Vatan French, Italian and Comparative Literature Mastering Sensibility: The Aesthetics Of Flaubert And Baudelaire In Light Of Contemporary Medical Conceptions

Jon Welstead Music Leonard Sorkin International Institute Of Chamber Music Expansion Co-PIs: Caen Thomason-Redus, Todd Levy, Wolfgang Laufer, Judit Jaimes, Yuri Gandelsman, Ralph Evans, Christopher Burns, Efim Boico, Kevin Hartman, Music

Jeb F. Willenbring Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Problems In Quantum Computation

Douglas W. Woods Psychology Examining The Role Of Attention In Tic Suppression: A pilot Investigation Co-PI: Christine A. Conelea, Psychology

Hong (Iris) Xie School Of Information Studies Multiple Information Seeking Strategies In Information Retrieval: User Involvement And System Role

Vladislav V. Yakovlev Physics Advancing Real-Time Non-Invasive Microscopic Chemical Imaging With Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy

Ching-Hong Yang Biological Sciences Dissecting The Type III Secretion System Regulon In A Model Plant Pathogen Erwinia Chrysanthemi 3937

Erica B. Young Biological Sciences Phosphorus Acquisition: Exploring New Paradigms In Freshwater Phytoplankton Co-PI: John A. Berges, Biological Sciences

Hong Yu Health Care Administration & Information Towards The Building Of The Next Generation Of Information Retrieval In Biology: Linking Abstract Sentences To Images Co-PI: Joseph Bockhorst, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Jon Welstead Music Leonard Sorkin International Institute for Chamber Music (ICM) Co-PIs: Elfin Boico, Christopher Burns; Ralph Evans; Yuri Gandelsman; Kevin Hartman; Judit Jaimes; Wolfgang Laufer; Caen Thomason-Redus; Bernard Zinck, Music

Brad Lichtenstein Film docUWM: Providing Documentary Services Co-PI: Alison I. Rostankowski, Journalism/Mass Communication

Michael Liston Philosophy Nineteenth Century Images of Science: A Philosophical Analysis of Their Import for Current Debates

Daniel Sherman Center for 21st Century Studies Center for 21st Century Studies Advancement & Planning

Carmen Aguilar WATER Institute Impact of Filter-Feeding Bivalves in Lake Michigan: Seasonal Variation of Phytoplankton Community Structure and Gene Expression Co-PIs: Russell L. Cuhel; Matthew L. Rise, WATER Institute

John Buntin Biological Sciences Hormone-Brain Interactions Involved in Parental Behavior Expression

Yi-Qiang Eric Cheng Biological Sciences Natural Product Discovery from Genome-Sequenced Microorganisms Co-PI: Patrick Anderson, WATER Institute

James Cook Chemistry Novel GABA-A Ligands for Treating Alzheimer’s-Related Cognitive Deficits Co-PI: Fred J. Helmstetter, Psychology

Steven Forst Biological Sciences Genomic Analysis of Antibiotic Genes in the Bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila

Soyoung Sue Ann Lee Health Sciences Speech Production of English-Korean Bilingual Children Co-PI: Gregory K. Iverson, Foreign Languages & Linguistics

Mark McBride Biological Sciences Mechanism of Flavobacterium Gliding Motility

Graham Moran Chemistry 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase and Tyrosinemia

James Moyer Jr. Psychology Plasticity and Dendritic Signaling in Hippocampal Neurons as a Function of Learning and Aging Co-PI: Fred J. Helmstetter, Psychology

Michael Muehlenbein Anthropology Testosterone, Energetics and Immunity: The Costs of Being Male Co-PIs: Julia Z. Bonner, Norris Health Center; Douglas A. Steeber, Biological Sci; Ann M. Swartz, Human Movement Sci

Kristian O’ConnorHealth Sciences An Innovative Diagnostic Tool for Reducing Traumatic Knee Injuries Co-PI: Brian S R. Armstrong, Electrical Eng. & Computer Sci

Stefan Schnitzer Biological Sciences The Ecology and Distribution of Liana (vines) and Tree Species in Tropical Forests

Mark Schwartz Geography National Phenological Research Center

Dietmar Wolfram Information Studies Discovering Hidden User Search Patterns through Visualization of Transaction Logs Co-PI: Jin O. Zhang, Information Studies

Ching-Hong Yang Biological Sciences Impact of Nanomaterials on Microbial Community in Phyllosphere: A Genome Study Co-PI: Jin Li, Civil & Mechanical Engineering

Erica Young Biological Sciences Long-Term Ecological Change in a Vulnerable Wisconsin Wetland Co-PI: Mark D. Schwartz, Geography Co-PIs: Gretchen Meyer, James Reinartz, UWM Field Station

Dazhong Dave Zhao Biological Sciences Signaling of Cell Fate Determination During Sexual Reproduction

Daniel Agterberg Physics Theory of Electron Spins in Magnetic, Superconducting, and Spintronic Materials

Bruce Allen Physics Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics Co-PIs: Jolien D. Creighton; Marie Alesendra J. Papa; Patrick R. Brady; John L. Friedman; Leonard Parker; Alan Wiseman, Physics

Jian Chen Chemistry Nanoengineering Stable Carbon Nanotube Aerogels

Dyanna Czeck Geosciences Linking Quantitative Values of Strain and Fabrics in Naturally Deformed Rocks

Steven Dornbos Geosciences Shedding Light on the Cambrian Explosion

Shaoqin Sarah Gong Mechanical Engineering Sustainable and Eco-friendly Bio-based Polymer Composites

Prasenjit Guptasarma Physics Growth of Single Crystals of Materials with Highly Correlated Ground Electron States Co-PI: Bimal K. Sarma, Physics

Sergey Kravtsov Atmospheric Sciences Effects of Eddies onto Decadal Variability of Large-Scale Ocean Currents and Climate

Vince Larson Atmospheric Sciences Global Climate and the Carbon Cycle

Paul Lyman Physics Atomic Layer Deposition for Production of Nanostructured Materials

Adeeb Rahman Civil Engineering An Engineering Approach to Improve the Assessment and Prevention of Hip Fractures in the Elderly: Initial Development of Concept and Methodology Co-PI: Chris Papadopoulos, Civil & Mechanical Engineering Co-PI: David Klemer, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Valerica Raicu Physics Instrument Development and Application to Quantitative Protein-Protein Interaction Studies in Vivo Co-PI: Dilano K. Saldin, Physics

Paul Roebber Atmospheric Science A New Paradigm for Understanding the Seasonal Predictability of Climate Co-PI: Chaoyang Zeng, Physics

Sara Benesh Political Science Supreme Court Monitoring of Lower Courts in Cases Not Formally Decided

Aaron Buseh Nursing Individual and Community Environment Effects on HIV Stigma in HIV-Infected African American Men Co-PI: Patricia W. Stevens, Nursing

Dave Edyburn Exceptional Education Validation of Student Academic Achievement Using Technology Enhanced Performance Intervention Menus Co-PI: Roger O. Smith, Occupational Therapy

Anthony Greene Psychology How Humans Learn Contextual Associations: Functional MRI Analysis Co-PI: Fred J. Helmstetter, Psychology

Anthony Hains Educational Psychology Influence of Social Attributions on Type 1 and Type II Diabetes Adherence Co-PI: William H. Davies, Psychology

Fred Helmstetter Psychology Imaging Memory Formation Using High-Field MRI Co-PI: James R J. Moyer Jr, Psychology

Carol Ott Nursing Grief Intervention for Spouses and Adult Children of Persons with End-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

Jennifer Peterson Communication Families Coping with HIV: The Impact of a Mother’s Infection Co-PI: Lindsay M. Timmerman, Communication

Azara Santiago-Rivera Educational Psychology Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression in Latino Adults Co-PI: Jonathan W. Kanter, Psychology

Kathleen Sawin Nursing Adaptation in Spina Bifida: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents and Young Adults