2009-2010 Niles Research Award Winners

Cowden, Tracy

Assistant

Music

Commission to Commemorate the Bicentennial of Edgar Allen Poe

$3,000

Fisher, Patti

Assistant

AHRM

The Effect of

Uncertainty on Household Saving in the U.S.

$3,000

Gabriele, Matt

Assistant

IDST(now called the Department of Relgion and Culture.)

New Paradigms in the Crusades

$3,000

Jones, Kathleen

Associate

History

Dying Young: A History of Suicide, 1870 to the Present

$2,500

Kajder, Sara

Assistant

T&L

Investigating Secondary English Teachers' New Literacies Practices during the Induction Years

$3,000

Kim, Minjeong

Assistant

IDST (now called the Department of Relgion and Culture.)

Gendered Desire, the Unification Church and Heteronormativity in Japanese-Korean International Marriage

$3,000

Luciak, Ilja

Professor

Pol. Sci.

The national Implementation of SCR 1325 in Latin America: The Case of Nicaragua

$3,000

Mesmer, Heidi

Assistant

T&L

Conquering the Opportunity Gap: Finding the Reading Interests and Modeling the Reading Habits of African-American Boys

$2,982

Skaggs, Gary

Associate

ELPS -Research and Evaluation

The Use of IRT Fusion Model for Diagnostic Testing of Borderline Students in Mathematics

$2,456

Total

$25,938

Name

Rank

Department

Title

Amt.

Evans, Michael and Jones, Brett

Assistant & Associate

LST

Developing and Evaluating Networked Engineering Projects in Energy for Middle School Girls and Boys

$12,000

Powell, Katrina

Associate

English

Answer at Once: Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938

$14,136

Wittenborn, Andrea

Assistant

Human Development

The Influence of Therapist Trainee’s Attachment Security and Affect Regulation Strategies on Their Clinical Treatment

$14,926

Zanotti, Laura

Associate

Pol. Sci.

Taming Risk, Making Peace, Reinventing Governance: The Role of NGOs in Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

$8,000