Faculty Seed Grants, 2006
Anterola, Aldwin
Plant Biology
"Eicosanoid Pathway in Plants: A Novel Route to Drug Discovery"
Colyar, Julia
Educational Administration and Higher Education
"Using Qualitative Software to Explore University Classrooms: New Tools for Understanding Female Student Experiences"
Esmaeeli, Asghar
Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes
"Computational Studies of Deformation and Interaction of Suspension of Drops in Electric Fields"
Hu, Zhiqiang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
"Development of Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment and Electricity Production"
Koch, Darwin
Rehabilitation Institute
"Utilization of Alcohol and Other Drug-Abuse Treatment Resources by Older Persons in Southern Illinois"
Loh, Christian
Curriculum and Instruction
"Information Trails—Designing Assessment into Digital Game-Based Learning"
Moon, Wanki
Agribusiness Economics
"Multifunctionality (Postproductivism) of Agriculture: Measuring Nonmarket Value of Agriculture"
Needham, Jay
Radio-Television
"Hanford Radio Documentary"
Obasi, Ezemenari
Psychology
"Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Violent Behavior and Health Disparities: Balanced Placebo Design"
Ojewuyi, Segun/Downing, John
Theater/Global Media Research Center
"The Nollywood Project: A Pilot Study"
Partridge, Julie
Physical Education
"Recess-Based Intervention to Increase Elementary School Children's Physical Activity"
Reinke, Karen
Psychology
"The Neural Mechanisms of Generalization in Perceptual Learning: An Event-Related Potential Study"
Ripp, Joseph
Library Affairs
"Open Court Collection Survey and Portal"
Sheng, Yanyan
Educational Psychology and Special Education
"Ability Estimation in Computerized Adaptive Testing"
Sloboda, Stacey
School of Art and Design
"Making China: Design, Empire, and Aesthetics in Britain"
Stover, Pamela
School of Music
"History of the Orff-Schulwerk in Germany, Austria, America, and Beyond"
Strader, April
Physiology
"The Role of the Ileum and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) in the Improvement in Diabetes After Obesity Surgery"
Tezcan, Jale
Civil and Environmental Engineering
"A Wavelet Based Approach for Nonlinear Seismic Response Estimation"
Thomas, Richard
Zoology
"Genomic Resources for the Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus: An Essential First Step Towards a Genome Project"
Thompson, Jan
Radio-Television
"Champion of Modern Music: The Life and Times of Serge Koussevitzky"
Tsige, Mesfin
Physics
"Morphology of Block Copolymers: Effect of Chain Stiffness"
Wells, Jeremy
English
"White Men's Burdens: Empire and the Culture of the Plantation Romance"
Weng, Ning
Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Security Enabled Network Processing System"
Whitledge, Gregory
Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center
"Assessment of Otolith Isotopic and Elemental Compositions as Indicators of Fish Environmental History in Large Midwestern Rivers"
Xu, Jianhong
Mathematics
"Markov Chain Model of Small World Networks"