Summer 2008
Dr. Brian Bennett
Abecedarian Discourse: The Old Orthography in the New Russia
Dr. Alexander Bertland
Heroic Contests: Vico on Myth and Legislation
Dr. Maritza Branker
Weighted Pluripotential Theory on Compact Kahler Manifolds
Dr. Morgan Brooks
Personality Disorders in the College Population
Dr. William Edwards
The Role of Chironomid Larvae in Lake Erie Hypoxia
Professor Terri Filips
The Lewiston Rascals Present: The True Tales of Three and Goldilocks?
Dr. Amelia Gallagher
Shah Ismail: A Biography
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Islamic Secularization: Ottoman Islamist Intellectuals' Justifications for a Secular State
Dr. Talia Harmon
Themes of Commutations in New York State from 1890-1963
Dr. Jinyan Huang
Examining the Factors Affecting the Assessment of ESL Graduate Students
Dr. Robert Kane
Teaching as Counterinsurgency: Winning Hearts and Minds with Minimum Force to Build Effective Learning Communities (Scholarship of Teaching Grant)
Dr. Mikhail Melnik
Sales Tax Compliance in Online Commerce
Dr. Timothy Osberg
The College Life Expectations Test (CLET): Development and Psychometric Evaluation
Dr. Ron Priefer
Phenol-Based Polymeric Materials as Antimicrobial Films
Dr. Christopher Stoj
Construction of Fluorescence Based Intracellular Metal Ion Biosensors
Dr. John Wang
Algorithmic Characterization of Cosmological Parameters in String Models
Summer 2007
Dr. Abdiweli Ali
Corruption, Economic Growth, and Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis
Dr. Michael Barnwell
'Virtual Knowledge' in Suarez: Is it a Viable Concept such that it can Help Solve the Problem of Negligent Omissions?
Dr. Peter Butera
Role of Interleukin-1 in the Anoretic Effect of Lipopolysaccharide in Female Rats
Dr. Thomas Chambers
Isaac Rice, America's First Tour Guide: Revolutionary War Veterans and the Creation of Memory
Dr. Philip Collington
'Love Me and Leave Me Not': An Anatomy of the English Renaissance Posy
Dr. Kenneth Culton
Zines to the Internet: An Analysis of Changing Patterns of Subcultural Communication
Dr. Lerong He
Compensation Committee and Executive Compensation
Dr. Barbara Iannarelli, Dr Chandra Foote, and Dr. Laurie Harper (Scholarship of Teaching Grant)
Instructional Styles and Strategies During the First Week of Classes
Dr. Michael Kotarski
A New Approach to Classifying Rogue Plant Genera
Dr. Joseph Little
Analogy, Insight, and Coherence: A Gentnerian Analysis of the Theoretical Work of Hantaro Nagaoka and George Gamow
Dr. David Reilly and Dr. Robert Kane
Making Democracy Safe for the World: Assessing Conflict and Democratization in Imperial Japan
Dr. Craig Seal
Emotional Competencies at Work: A Qualitative Study
Dr. Walter Steiner
Evaluation of Recombination Hotspot Sequence Motif Conservation Between Species
Dr. Christoper Stoj
Expression and Purification of the Multicopper Oxidas Fet5 from Saccharomyces Cerevisae
Dr. Burt Thompson
Eyewitness Identification Accuracy: Influence of Lineup Composition and Pre-Lineup Instructions
Dr. John Wang
D-branes Constructions and String Cosmology
Summer 2006
Dr. Abdiweli Ali (Vincentian)
Foreign Aid, Poverty and Growth
Dr. Brian Bennett
The Discourse of "Spiritual Culture" (Dukhovnaia Kul'tura in Postcommunist Russia)
Dr. James Delaney
Why Consent May Not be Needed for Organ Procurement
Dr. William Edwards
Benthic-Pelagic Coupling in Western Lake Erie: Role of Internal Fertilization in the Resurgence of Harmful Algal Blooms and Central Basin Hypoxia
Dr. Timothy Ireland and Dr. Craig Rivera
Terror Alert Levels and Crime: A Replication and Extension
Dr. Haoua Hamza
In-Service Teachers' Perceptions and Approaches to Classroom Management, Student Motivation and Culturally Inclusive Pedagological Practices Survey
Dr. Robert Kane
A Double-dealing Uncle Sam: Competing Japanese Interpretations of the 1924 U.S. National Origins Act
Dr. Erin Karper (Scholarship of Teaching Grant)
Examining the Composing Behavior of Beginning Web Writers
Dr. Arpad Kelemen
Pattern Differentiations and Formulations for Heterogeneous Genomic Data Through Hybrid Approaches
Dr. Joseph Little
The Role of Gamow's Liquid-Drop Analogy in Theorizing Mass Defect
Dr. Timothy Osberg
College Student Drinking Patterns, Drinking Motives, and Protective Behavioral Strategies from Freshmen to Senior Year: Implications for Student Retention
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Theology and Literary Style in Tyndale's Translation of the Fourth Gospel
Dr. Ronny Priefer
Synthesis of Poly(4-Vinylphenol) Derivatives for Application in Antibacterial Surface Coatings
Dr. Walter Steiner
Predicting Recombination Hotspots by Simple Nucleotide Sequence Motifs
Dr. Susan Sze
A Study of Teacher Candidates Perceptions Towards Students with Disabilities
Dr. Donna Thompson
Context Determinants of 3-Month-Old Infants' Kicking, Arousal, and Attention During a Mobile Task
Summer 2005
Dr. Abdiweli Ali
How Robust is the Effect of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth
Dr. Brian Bennett
The Liturgical Language Debate in Post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy
Peter Butera
Effects of Ghrelin on Food Intake and Meal Patterns in Female Rats: Role of Ovarian Hormones
Dr. Thomas Chambers
Why Was There No Memory in the Early Republic?: Historians and Reconstructing Commemorations of the American Revolution
Dr. Timothy Ireland and Dr. Craig Rivera
Developmental Trajectories and General Strain Theory
Sr. Judith Merkle (Vincentian)
Beyond Catholic Action: Carriers of the Social Tradition Today
Dr. Robert Kane
Patriotic Partisanship: The Impact of Domestic Politics on Japan-U.S. Relations during the First World War
Dr. Tenpao Lee
Global Patent Strategy in the New Economy
Dr. Wayne Northcutt
Islam and the West: The Cases of Tariq Ramadan and France
Dr. Daniel Pinti
The Windsor Report and Models of Anglican Ecclesiology
Dr. Walter Steiner
Sequence-Specific Recombination Hotspots in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces Pombe
Dr. Suzanne Wagner
Measuring Neutralization
Summer 2004
Dr. Abdiweli Ali
An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Foreign Aid: A Panel Approach
Dr. Kristine Augustyniak
School-Based Prosocial Behavior Intervention: A Youth Needs Assessment
Dr. Laurence Boxer
Fundamental Groups of Sphere-like Digital Images
Dr. Victoria Carty (Vincentian Award)
Going Bananas: Globalization and the Labor Struggle in Panama
Dr. Thomas Chambers
Remembering the Revolution: Battlefield Tourism and Historic Commemoration in the Early Republic
Dr. Philip Collington
"Stuffed with All Honorable Virtues": Gender, Marriage, and Composite Ideals in The Book of the Courtier and Much to do About Nothing
Dr. William Edwards
Evaluation of the Lake Erie-Phosphorus Paradigm: Does Phosphorus (Still) Make the World go Round
Dr. Matt Jackson-McCabe
Classification in the Study of Christian Origins: The Case of Jewish Christianity
Dr. Andrew Jenks
Yuri Gagarin and the Search for a Soviet Fountain of Youth
Dr. Robert Kane
The Specter of the Shogun: The Tokugawa as the Central Other in the Political Discourse of Taisho Japan
Dr. Michael Kotarski
Gene Transfer in African Violets
Dr. Tenpao Lee
Business Practices in the New Economy: The Emerging of Procurement to Supply Management
Dr. Timothy Osberg (Scholarship of Teaching Grant)
Reframing the Retention Question to Ask Why Students Stay: Impending Graduates' and Continuing Students' Self-Reports of the Sources of Support that Enabled their Persistence
Dr. Daniel Pinti
The Federal Writers' Project and Jerre Mangione's Mount Allegro
Dr. Eduard Tsekanovskii
Rank One Perturbations of Self-Adjoint Operators
Summer 2003
Dr Victoria Carty (Vincentian Award)
Cuba's Struggle with Poverty: Export Processing Zones as a Strategy for Development
Dr. Philip Collington
Sans Wife: Ageism, Sexual Anxiety and the Old Man in Shakespeare
Dr. Karen Dutt-Doner (Scholarship of Teaching Stipend)
Improving Classroom Instruction: Understanding the Developmental Nature of Skills that Aid Students in Analyzing Primary Source Documents
Dr. Maritza Espina
Managing Intellectual Property: An Empirical Study of Patent Maintenance by Entrepreneurs
Dr. Mark Gallo
Characterization of the N-methyltransferases Found in the Non Ribosomal Peptidyl Synthases Responsible for the Synthesis of Virginiamycin and Pristinamycin from Streptomyces Virginiae and Streptomyces Pristinaespiralis
Dr. Matt Jackson-McCabe
The Stoic Theory of Implanted Preconceptions: Innate Knowledge in Stoic Ethical Theory
Dr. Donna Kester-Phillips
The Importance of Balanced Literacy Training in Elementary Teacher Graduates as Viewed by Principal and Language Arts Curriculum Coordinators
Dr. Paula Kot
The Role of Mesmerism in Harriet Prescott Spofford's Fiction
Dr. Tenapo Lee
New Business Strategies in the Global Supply Chain
Dr. Jacqueline Murphy
The Special Education Experiences of Children with Neuromuscular Disorders and Their Families
Dr. David Reilly
Democratic Diffusion--Evaluating Stocks and Flows in Adopter Countries
Dr. Donna Thompson
Stepping Practice and Weight Training Effects Among Young Infants
Dr. Daniel Tompkins
The Long Run Performance of Demutualized Insurance Companies
Summer 2002
Dr. William Cliff (Scholarship of Teaching Grant)
Diagnosis of Student Misconceptions about Renal Physiology
Dr. Philip Collington
"His Will is Not His Own": Hamlet and the Search for the Self
Dr. Karen Dutt-Doner
What Impacts Technology Integration into Classroom Practice? A
Study of Faculty, Cooperating Teachers, and Pre-service Teachers
Dr. Chandra Foote (Vincentian Award)
Establishing Quality Field-Experiences in High-Need Urban Schools
Dr. Mark Gallo
Elucidation of the Functionality and Interaction of Domains in
Fatty Acid Synthases, Non Ribosomal Peptide Synthases and
Polyketide Synthases
Dr. Talia Harmon
Too Late For Luck: An Analysis of Post-Furman Executions
"Despite Doubts About Their Guilt"
Dr. Michael Kotarski
African Violets in Tissue Culture
Dr. Mary McCourt
The Effects of Newly Synthesized Cantharadin Analogues on
Cancer Cells: Developing a Drug to Specifically Target Liver Cancer
Cells
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Metamorphosis and Idenity in Tony Ardizzone's "In the Garden
of Papa Santuzzu"
Dr. David Reilly
Uncovering the Roots of Terrorism
Dr. David Taylor
Community Perceptions and Attitudes toward the Police
Dr. Daniel Tompkins
Management Tenure and the Risk Adjusted Performance of Mutual Funds
Summer 2001
Dr. Peter Butera
Modulation of Interleukin-1-Induced c-Fos Expression by Estradiol
Dr. Chandra Foote (Scholarship of Teaching Grant)
Teacher Reporting of Child Behavior: A Validation Study
Dr. Kathy Ho
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Hospital Capital Budgeting Practices
Dr. Matt Jackson-McCabe
Early Roman Period Messianism and the Letter of James
Dr. Sean Kelly
Computer-Aided Content Analysis of the Committee Request Letters of U.S. House Members, 1965-1994
Dr. Roland Kidwell
Ethical Implications of "Deviant" Behavior in the Workplace
Sister Judith Merkle (Vincentian Award)
The Social Catholicism of John Paul II
Dr. Wayne Northcutt
The Movement in France Against Globalization: The Case of Jose Bove in Millau
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Chaucer's Use of Dante in Fragment III of The Canterbury Tales
Dr. Carol Sweeney
Is the Flora of Tiff Nature Preserve Changing?
Dr Eduard Tsekanovskii
On Positive Selfadjoint Extensions of Positive Operators
Dr. James Wittebols
The Soap Opera Paradigm: The Evolution of Network Television News
Summer 2000
Dr. Peggy Choong
The Economic Worth of Advertising in the Super Bowl: An Event Study Approach
Dr. Mark Gallo
Construction of Promotorless GFP E. Coli-Streptomyces Shuttle Vectors for the Purpose of Characterizing
the Expression Levels of Various Proteins Believed to be Important
in the Regulation of Daunorubicin and Doxorubicin Production in
Streptomyces Peucetius ATCC 29050.
Dr. Zdenka Gredel-Manuele
Peace and Justice: The Reaction of the International Community to the War in the Former Yugoslavia
Dr. Kathy Ho
Performance Measurement and the Use of Balanced Scorecard in Hospitals
Dr. Linda Kidwell
Implications of Campaign Contributions on Perceptions of Auditor Independence
Dr. Michael Kotarski
PCR Analysis of Mutations of the Asteroid Gene of Drosophilia
Dr. Mary McCourt
Computational and Crystallographic Investigations of Cytotoxic Oxysterols
Dr. Timothy Osberg (Vincentian Award)
Youth Aggression and Violence: Identifying Psychological Correlates Using the Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory--Adolescent Form
Dr. Burt Thompson
Metamemory Processes and Memory Performance
Dr. Daniel Tompkins
The Option to Withdraw Seasoned Equity Issues
Dr. Eduard Tsekanovskii
Inverse Problems for J-Contractive Transfer Operator-Valued Functions
Summer 1999
Dr. Mark Barner
Images of Education in Children's Educational Television
Dr. Laurence Boxer
Point Set Pattern Matching in 3-D
Dr. Peggy Choong
Consumer Choice Channels in the Mutual Fund Industry
Dr. William Cliff
Activation and Inactivation of the Calcium-Dependent Epithelial Chloride Channels by Pharmacological Channel Modulators
Dr. Mark Gallo
Characterization of Streptomyces Isolates Able to Produce Secondary Metabolities that Induce Apoptosis in RIF Cells
Dr. Michael Ishman
Developing a Theoretical Framework for Information Exchange Within and Between Organizational Structures
Dr. Michael Kotarski
Production of Mutations of the Astroid Gene of Drosophila
Dr. Ruth McKay
Applying Ethical Principles to the Decision to Build the Red Hill Creek Expressway
Professor George Neimanis
The Economics of the Difficulties of Post Communist Transition: A Case Study of the Republic of Latvia, 1991-1998
Dr. Delar Singh (Vincentian Award)
Families of Head Start Children: What Do We Know
Dr. Donna Thompson
Developmental Changes in Infant Looking during a Paired-Comparison Task