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Research Awards 2007-2012






Last Updated on March 8, 2013.

Biology | Biomedical studies | Church-State Studies |Curriculum and Instruction |English |Philosophy | Physics | Political Science |Psychology | Religion| Sociology | Statistics



Biology


Anica Debilica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

Research Related to the Dissertation, "Forest-Dwelling Bat Community:
Ecology, Behavior, Resource Partitioning, and Implications for Conservation"

Sam Houston National Forest, Texas. June 1 - August 15, 2010.

Nick Green
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

Research Related to the Dissertation,
"Mechanisms of Boundary Response in Small Mammal Communities"

Clymer Meadow Preserve near Celeste, Texas. Summer, 2010.

Zun Liu
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Kearney

Determining the Functionality of Retroviral Elements in Nuclear Export
in Plants for the Improvement of a Plant RNA Versus Vector

Galveston, Texas. May 6 to June 3, 2008.

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Biomedical Studies


Erin Arbuckle
Sponsor: Dr. Joaquin Lugo

Research Related to the Dissertation, "The Role of the Serotonin Receptor 5-HT2c in NS-Pten Knockout Mice"

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. March 11-13, 2013.

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Church-State Studies


Artyom Tonoyan
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

Research Related to the Dissertation, "Politicization of Religion
and Religiocization of Conflict in the South Caucasus"

Armenia and Georgia. July 10-25, 2010.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

Research Related to the Dissertation, "A Comparison of American Baptist and Southern Baptist Attitudes and Approaches to Environmental Issues"

Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia. May 22-30, 2011.

Xiaheng Xie
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

Dissertation entitled, "A Marketplace Covered by the Sacred Canopy"

Yunnan Province, China. October 1, 2008 (for 5 months).

Oleg Zaonegin
Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Marsh

"Islam in Russia"

Moscow, Russia. February 8-28, 2011.

Zhifeng Zhong
Sponsor: Dr. William A. Mitchell

"Modernization, Regulation and the Development of Christianity
in China: Case Study on Three Regions"

China. August-December, 2011.

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Curriculum and Instruction

Jessica Padrón Meehan
Sponsor: Dr. Tony L. Talbert

Research Related to the Dissertation, "Castañeda v. Prickard, The Story of One Family's Struggle for an Equitable Education: A Narrative Study"

Raymondville Chronicle Archives and Interviews with the Castañeda Family
Raymondville, Texas. October 12-13, 2012.

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English

Jeffrey Bilbro
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

Research Related to the Dissertation, "God's Garden: Religious Grounds for Environmental Ethics in American Literature"

The John Muir Papers in the Holt-Atherton Special Collections at University of the Pacific
Stockton, California. July 24-29 2011.

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Philosophy


Janelle Klapauszak
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

Research Related to the Dissertation, "Pascal: A Christian Prescription for Moderate Skepticism"

Paris, France. July, 2010.



Physics

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Kristen Pechan
Sponsor: Dr. Greg Benesh

Summer School in Cosmology in Preparation for PhD Research in String Cosmology

Trieste, Italy. July 21 to August 1, 2008.

Nancy Yu
Sponsor: Dr. Gregory Benesh

Research Pertaining to Surface Properties of Titanium Dioxide by Employing Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Baton Rouge, Louisiana. July-August, 2010.

Bo Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. Zhenrong Zhang

Research Pertaining to Atomically Resolved Studies of Catalytic Oxidation of Organics on TiO2 (110)

Richland, Washington. May-August, 2012.

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Political Science

Julianne Romanello
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

Examination of the Interpretive Strategy of Eric Voegelin as Applied to the Texts of Plato

Princeton, New Jersey. August 1-14, 2010.

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Psychology

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Grace Dean
Sponsor: Dr. Helen Benedict

Dissertation entitled, "Caregiver Relationship-Specific Attachment Representations and Child Attachment Representations in Adoptive Dyads"

London, England. January 24-29, 2009.



Religion

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John Essick
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

The Ministry and Contributions of Thomas Grantham

London, Oxford, Lincoln, Norwich, UK. March 2-16, 2008.

Roy Garton
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

Dissertation Entitled "Mirages in the Desert:
The Tradition-historical Developments of the Story of Massah-Meribah"

British Library in London, UK. July 2-9, 2011.

Bracy Hill
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

Dissertation entitled, "The Language of Dissent: The Defense of Eighteenth-Century English

Stirling, London, and Exeter, UK. August 2-16, 2008.

Sukjoo Kim
Sponsor: Dr. Rosalie Beck

Liang Fa's Quanshi Liangyan and its Impact on the Taiping Movement

London, UK. February 25 to March 3, 2008.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

'Freedom Faith': The Civil Rights Journey of Rev. Dr. Prathia Hall

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. June 9-22, 2012.

Chris Rios
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

The Origins and Early Developments of Two Twentieth Century Evangelical Scientific Organizations, One American and One British

Stirling, London, and Scotland. July 28 to August 16, 2008.

Michael Sciretti
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

Anne Dutton, a Prolific Eighteenth- Century British Baptist Author During the Early Years of the Evangelical Revival

Cambridgeshire, England. October 7-18, 2008.

Kyle Welty
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

Research Pertaining to the Anglican and British Methodist Missions
in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

New Haven, Connecticut. July 18 - August 15, 2010.

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Sociology

Alessandra Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Saleh Al-Mani Riyadh

Sociological Study of Islam

Cambridge, England. July 7-10, 2010.


Statistics

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John Ramey
Sponsor: Dr. Dean M. Young

High-Dimensional Supervised Classification and Dimension Reduction

Palo Alto, California. March 14-15, 2011.


Lindsey Renfro
Sponsor: Dr. John Seaman

Bayesian Biostatistics and Survival Analysis

Chapel Hill, North Carolina. May 15-23, 2008.

Forrest Williamson
Sponsor: Dr. Jane Harvill

Delegation Sponsored by the American Statistical Association to Meet with Cuban Statistic Scientists

Cuba. April 2013.

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