FY2024 Awards List
| Faculty | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Bilyk | Biology | Investigating the genome of Saffron Cod for insight into the resilience of heat responding genetic elements in Arctic fishes |
| Cortni Borgerson | Anthropology | Endangered Primates on the Menu: Urban Demand for Wild Meat in Madagascar |
| Lauren Covey | Linguistics | A tale of two hemispheres: The role of literacy in bilingual metaphor processing |
| Nina Goodey | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Protecting NJ soils and cedars from salt pollution |
| Sunhyung Lee | Economics | Robots and Global Supply Chains |
| Rui Li | School of Computing | Study on Automatic Emergency Control of Vehicles in Virtual Highway Environments for Drivers’ Severe Drowsiness |
| Yam Limbu | Marketing | How do unethical retail practices provide illegal online pharmacies a competitive advantage over legal online pharmacies? Markers of trust, quality, and transparency |
| Sara Matsuzaka | Social Work and Child Advocacy | Assessing LGBTQ Bias and their Correlates Among Substance Use Treatment Providers |
| Patricia McGaughey | School of Nursing | Young, Pregnant, and Nowhere to Go: Exploring Adolescent Pregnancy Outcomes by Geographic Access to Maternity Care |
| Carlos Molina | Biology | Physiological consequences of ICER post-translational modifications |
| Vikash Singh | Sociology | Costs of Containment: Risk and Resilience in India’s Muslim Neighborhoods |
| Christos Suriano | Biology | Improving the Safety and Efficacy of Viral Vector Use in the Central Nervous System |
| Jennifer Urban and Miriam Linver | Family Science and Human Development | Accommodating Adolescents with Special Needs in Out-of-School Time Programs |
| Quinn Vega | Biology | Functional Analysis of Bacteriophage Gene Products |
| Weitian Wang | School of Computing | Enhancing Task Planning Efficiency of Multi-Human Multi-Robot Collaboration for Advanced Manufacturing |
| James Woodard | History | Darcy Ribeiro and the Popular Unity Years in Chile, 1970-1973 |
FY2023 Awards List
| Faculty | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Yeon Bai | Nutrition and Food Studies | Elicitation study to identify salient beliefs of WIC participants’ shopping experience |
| Richard Conway | History | Foreigners, Protestants, and the Inquisition in Colonial Mexico |
| Tarika Daftary-Kapur | Justice Studies | Public Perceptions of Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences |
| Nina Goodey, Kirsten Monsen and Lisa Hazard | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Rapid viral biosensing: Design of a field-based lateral flow assay for Ranavirus detection |
| Michael Hannon | Counseling | Black counselors’ motivators to join the profession: A grounded theory study |
| Laura Lakusta | Psychology | Can surprise and explanation foster learning of how children learn spatial language? |
| Eyyub Kibis and Serhat Simsek | Information Systems Decision Sciences | Effectiveness of Makeshift Hospitals as Pre- or Post-Treatment Facilities During the Pandemic: A Data-Driven Optimization Model |
| Esther Kim | Hospitality and Tourism | Cancellation policy to reduce restaurant no-shows |
| Eli Il-Hyung Lee | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Hybrid copolymer lipid vesicle applications for cargo transfer by vesicular fusion |
| Ruth Propper | Psychology | Skin Temperature as a Biomarker of Fatigue and Vigilance |
| Jeff Strickland | History | War Profiteers: Illicit Trade, Treason, and Confiscation in the Civil War |
FY2022 Awards List
| Faculty | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Aardema | Biology | Potential inheritance of increased thermal tolerance as a response to acute heat stress in two disease-transmitting mosquito species |
| Livia Alexander | Art & Design | Jerusalem Onsite: Contemporary Art Practices in a Contested City |
| Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia | History | Constituting the Nation. Law, History and Culture in the Gold Coast 1821-1960 |
| Nicholas DeMaison | John J. Cali School of Music | US premiere and documentation of KhiRe |
| Lyndal Khaw and Soyoung Lee | Family Science and Human Development | COVID-19 and the Experiences of Helpseeking for Intimate Partner Violence Among Asian Women Survivors |
| Roman Liera | Educational Leadership | How race becomes capital: Early career faculty of color navigating racial capitalism in the professoriate |
| Shannon O’Connor | Psychology | Exploring Accuracy of Perception of Peers’ Value for Weight/Shape/Appearance |
| Robert O’Hagan | Biology | Uncovering the function of the microtubule-associated protein Tau in neuronal cilia |
| Amrita Sarkar | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Reuse of Anodic Graphite Recycled from End-of-Life Li ion Battery |
| Matthew Schuler | Biology | Using shotgun sequencing to test the effects of salt pollution on microbial communities in freshwater environments |
| John Smallwood | Biology | The Genetic Response of a Declining Falcon Population to a Changing Environment |
| Yunsen Wang | Accounting and Finance | Detecting Suspicious Transactions using Deep-Learning based Process Mining |
FY2020 Awards List
| Faculty | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Cortni Borgerson | Anthropology | Traditional Insect Farmings Potential to Improve Child Health, Food Security, and the Viability of Endangered Species in a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| Jaclyn Catalano | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Identification of Key Residues that Influence Cytochrome P450 Catalysis Under Oxidative Stress |
| Bong Jae Chung | Mathematical Sciences | Enhancing the Reliability and Robustness of Hemodynamic Risk Assessment in Intracranial Aneurysms through Computational Analysis |
| Tarika Daftary-Kapur and Tina Zottoli | Justice Studies/Psychology | Process Evaluation of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Juvenile “Lifers” Resentencing Project |
| Dawn Marie Hayes | History | Rosalia of Palermo: An Enigmatic Norman Saint and her Reconstruction in Seventeenth-Century Sicily |
| Patricia Matthew | English | “And freedom to the slave”: Sugar, Gender, and the History of the Novel |
| Sandra Passchier | Earth and Environmental Studies | X-ray fluorescence of sediment cores from Amundsen Sea, Antarctica |
| Gregory Pope | Earth and Environmental Studies | “Forest Fires in the Soil Critical Zone” |
| Joshua Sandry | Psychology | Accelerated Forgetting Due to Rapid Time-Based Decay in Multiple Sclerosis |
FY2019 Awards List
| Faculty | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Deepak Bal | Mathematical Sciences | Ramsey Theory and Probability Theory |
| Evan Matthews and Amir Golnabi | Exercise Science and Physical Education | Open-Source Software Development for Quantitative Analysis of Cardiovascular Ultrasound Images |
| Kathleen Kelley | Theater and Dance | Digital Animal: a dance film |
| Alan Pehrson | Psychology | The effects of hypothyroidism on mood, cognitive function, and glutamate neurotransmission in mice |
| Peter Popolo | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Relating Laryngeal Image Data to Acoustic Parameters of Voice |
| Michele Rigolizzo | Management | The concrete learning behaviors of working adults |
| Mitchell Sitnick | Biology | Determining the impact of coconut oil on lipid metabolism and skeletal muscle mass regulation |