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UWM supports faculty in their roles as scholars and researchers, teachers, and service providers. Internal grant programs provide funding for travel to present research and attend conferences, develop research initiatives, foster international collaboration, and develop public service projects. The Office of Research administers internal grant programs, and all applications are peer-reviewed by committees comprised of faculty members.
Collaborative Research Team Development Awards
The Office of Research requests proposals to support the formation and development of collaborative research teams. This year's call for proposals is open to all disciplines.
The awards are not seed funding for projects, but rather support for developing successful teams within the context of exploring and answering specific research questions that address complex topics and problems requiring the integration of multiple disciplines. Examples of expected longer-term outcomes are the ability to respond to external funding opportunities calling for multidisciplinary collaborations, top-tier scholarly publications, and/or tangible products. At the end of the funding period, teams are expected to provide the deliverables, as specified in the RFP.
Award Information: Teams will be funded up to $15,000; activities must be completed between July 2, 2018 and June 30, 2019. Five awards are anticipated.
Team Composition: Each team must include at least three faculty and/or scientists as lead investigators. The team must span at least two disciplines (as represented by department-level units at UWM), and at least two members must be from UWM. Inclusion of non-UWM team members is allowed.
Budget: A minimum of 75% of the budget must be used for team development and support activities; examples of such activities are in the RFP. The remainder may be used to support your research project. Given the size of the awards, salary support for lead investigators cannot be requested.
Proposal Instructions and Review Criteria: Please see the Collaborative Research Team Development Grant guidelines for the proposal preparation instructions, internal review panel participants, and selection criteria.
Proposal Instructions and Review Criteria: Please see the full Call for Internal Proposals for the proposal preparation instructions, internal review panel participants, and selection criteria.
Proposal Submission: Submit the proposal as a single PDF file to Kathleen Koch at firstname.lastname@example.com 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 16, 2018. Finalists will deliver a six-minute presentation to discuss their proposal on May 4, 2018 between 9:00 and 11:30 a.m. in KIRC 1150.
Working with Proposal Development: Funded teams will meet with Proposal Development staff three times a year to review progress, discuss challenges, and receive feedback.
Panel Presentation: The lead investigators will be expected to participate in a panel presentation of progress on the collaboration and the project in Spring 2019.
Deliverables: The following deliverables will be due at the end of the funding period:
- Vision statement and long-term goals for the collaboration
- Collaboration plan with all group members listed
- Three-year strategic plan for the collaboration
- List of potential grant opportunities and (if appropriate) grant applications made
UWM Proposal Development Services will provide resources to help teams complete these deliverables.
RTDA Award Recipients
- Proposal Title: Assistive technology for older adults with multiple chronic conditions
Team Members: Hyunkyoung Oh, Assistant Professor, UWM College of Nursing; Zhi Zheng, Assistant Professor, UWM Biomedical Engineering Program; Jinsung Wang, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Kinesiology; Wonchan Choi, Visiting Assistant Professor, UWM School of Information Studies; Yura Lee, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Social Work
- Proposal Title: The Milwaukee Urban Observatory: The spatial and temporal variation of artificial light
Team Members: Dawn Erb, Associate Professor, David Kaplan, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Physics; Arijit Sen, UWM Department of Architecture; Woonsup Choi, Associate Professor, Ryan Holifield, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Geography; Federica Bianco, Senior Research Scientist, Gregory Dobler, Director, Urban Observatory, NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress
- Proposal Title: Choosing the City: Reinterpreting the Ethnography of Milwaukee
Team Members: Ermitte Saint Jacques, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Africology; Arijit Sen, UWM Department of Architecture; Simone Ferro, Professor, UWM Department of Dance; Chia Youyee Vang, UWM Department of History; Ann Hanlon, Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives, UWM Libraries
- Proposal Title: Reducing health disparities among vulnerable populations by increasing access to culturally humble, quality care
Team Members: Heidi Luft, Assistant Professor, Anne Dressel, Assistant Professor, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Associate Professor, UWM College of Nursing; Rachel Bloom-Pojar, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of English; Melinda Kavanaugh, Assistant Professor UWM Department of Social Work
- Proposal Title: Improving treatment outcomes among individuals undergoing rotator cuff repair
Team Members: Bhagwant Sindhu, Associate Professor, Brooke Slavens, Associate Professor, Alyssa Schnorenberg, Researcher, Virginia Stoffel, Associate Professor, Ying-Chih Wang, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Occupational Science and Technology; James Topitzes, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Social Work; Hanna Paul, Research Consultant, Karuna Labs; Steven Grindel, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Dara Mickschl, Physician Assistant – Surgical, Medical College of Wisconsin; Robert W. Wilson, External Exercise Science Consultant
- Proposal Title: Children's Media Use and Interventions to Enhance Health and Well-Being
Team Members: Noelle Chesley, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Sociology; W. Hobart Davies, Professor, UWM Department of Psychology; Jake Luo, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Health Informatics and Administration
- Proposal Title: Indexing Functional Communication across Specific Communication Disorders – a Transdisciplinary Approach to Outcome Measure Development
Team Members: John Heilmann, Associate Professor, Sabine Heuer, Assistant Professor, Shelley Lund, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders; Roger Smith, Professor; UWM Department of Occupational Science and Technology; Dennis Tomashek, Associate Researcher, UWM R2DR Center
- Proposal Title: Leveraging Big Data to Unmask the Functional Connectome of Attention
Team Members: Adam Greenberg, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Psychology; Wendy Huddleston, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Kinesiology; Jason Bacon, UITS Senior Systems Programmer, UWM; Daniel Siercks, L&S Systems Administrator, UWM; Edgar DeYoe, Professor, Andrew Nencka, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Radiology
- Proposal Title: Great Lakes Superfund Research Center: PCBs and Methylmercury – Environmental and Epigenetic Transgenerational Impacts
Team Members: David Petering, Distinguished Professor, UWM Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Hector Bravo, Professor, UWM Department of Civil Engineering; Michael Carvan, Professor, David Garman, Professor, John Janssen, Professor, Jhonatan Sepulveda-Villet, Assistant Professor, UWM School of Freshwater Sciences; Jeanne Hewitt, Associate Professor Emerita; UWM College of Nursing; Paul Auer, Assistant Professor, Peter Tonellato, Professor, UWM Zilber School of Public Health; Kimberley Gray, Professor and Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University; Michael Skinner, Eastlick Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
- Proposal Title: Mechanisms of Cell Migration and Differentiation in Development and Disease: From Basic Science to Public Health
Team Members: Jennifer Gutzman, Assistant Professor, Douglas A. Steeber, Associate Professor, Ava Udvadia, Associate Professor, UWM Department of Biological Sciences; Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Ionel Popa, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Physics; Paul Auer, Assistant Professor, Michael Laiosa, Associate Professor, Kurt Svoboda, Associate Professor, UWM Zilber School of Public Health
Arts and Humanities Research Travel Award
Description: Provides travel support funding to UWM faculty, and instructional and research academic staff in the Arts and Humanities Division, or those in other divisions who do humanistic research. Applications are accepted for (1) conducting research, (2) presenting research results, and (3) creative activity (performance, exhibition). Requests for support solely for conference/meeting attendance will not be considered.
Eligibility: Applicants must be UWM faculty or academic staff, and have the expectation of a continuing appointment. Deans are not eligible to apply.
Award: The maximum award is $500 for domestic travel; $900 for international travel. Awards are capped at two per applicant, and a total of $900, per fiscal year. Awards may be combined with funding from other institutional sources.
Deadlines: Applications are considered on a continual basis, and will be reviewed monthly. Application submission well in advance of your travel dates is strongly encouraged.
Application: As part of the application you will be asked to describe in detail one of the following purposes for travel:
- Conducting research: Describe what you intend to accomplish during your travel, how this relates to your research agenda, and the anticipated outcomes (monograph, articles, grants, etc).
- Presenting results of research: Explain the importance of your participation in the particular event for which you are requesting funding. Documentation of being invited/accepted to present your research (e.g. URL for the conference program, copy of email from conference organizers) is not required at the time of application submission, but is helpful, and must be provided before you request reimbursement of expenses.
- Creative activity (performance, exhibition): Explain the importance of your participation in the particular event for which you are requesting funding. Documentation of being invited/accepted as an exhibitor or performer (e.g. website showing your involvement in the event, or copy of email from event organizers) is not required at the time of application submission, but is helpful, and must be provided before you request reimbursement of expenses.
We suggest that you assemble this information in advance and then copy/paste into the appropriate places in the application, and that you complete and submit your application in the same browser session. If you do not, you may lose any progress in your application entry. You are able to upload supporting documents.
Outcome Report: All award recipients must submit a short report (1-2 pages) on the outcomes of the funding.
Travel Policies: Awardees must comply with the UWM and UW System travel guidelines and any other Department/School/College instructions (see your Unit Business Representative).
Questions? Contact Kathleen Koch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 229-3699.
The Research Growth Initiative® (RGI)
Application Process PowerPoint
Application materials:
- Request for Proposals
- Budget template (available by September 24)
- Supporting documentation template
- Online application (available by September 24—all application components must be uploaded here.
Eligible Projects:
- Are early-stage research projects in need of seed funding (e.g., for data collection, archival work, establishing proof-of concept).
- Have a 12- to 18-month timeline. (personnel funded for 12 months only).
- Will lead to the submission of competitive proposals for externally funded—and thereby self-sustaining—individual and collaborative research through grants, fellowships, or university/industry partnerships.
Eligible Project Expenses:
- UWM personnel: Post-docs, research assistants (includes tuition), and hourly students.
- Non-UWM personnel: Payments to non-UWM personnel or agencies on a fee-for-service basis.
- Capital Expenditures: Includes items that each cost $10,000 or more and have a lifetime beyond that of the project. Equipment requests must be part of a specific research project. Cost-sharing at 50% is required for all capital expenditures.
- Other Standard Expenses such as materials and supplies, travel, user fees, purchase of services, and publication costs.
- One course buyout (faculty only).
Applicant Eligibility: Must have UWM faculty or academic staff appointments, Principal Investigator status, and the expectation of a continuing appointment. Lead PIs may submit only one proposal per application cycle, although they can be co-PIs on other proposals. Those who received an RGI award as a PI in the last two years (funding began July 2017 or July 2018) are ineligible to apply for the 2019-2020 funding cycle.
Additional eligibility criteria are listed in the Request for Proposals.
Review Process:
RGI employs a two-stage review process.
Stage 1: Scientific/Scholarly Review
All proposals are externally reviewed for scientific/scholarly merit according to four criteria:
- Significance — the potential of the project to build upon and advance established knowledge or the state-or-the art.
- Work Plan — description of activities, methods, role of personnel, rationale for approach, assessment measures.
- Potential for External Funding — sources for sustaining the project beyond the seed funding period.
- Resources — People, space, equipment, access to collections or sites, budget.
Stage 2: Award Selection
Funding decisions are made by Office of Research leadership, based on final ratings and reviewer comments, past performance on previous awards, submission of final reports for previous internal awards, and representation of disciplines across the award portfolio.
2019-2020 RGI Funding Cycle:
Submission deadline: Tuesday, October 23, 2018; 5:00 p.m.
Final review: January-February 2019
Award announcement: By mid-April 2019
Funds available: July 2019
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RGI Award Recipients
Twenty-one proposals have been selected for funding in the 2018-2019 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation. Of these, ten were from first time recipients.
Daniel Agterberg
Professor, Department of Physics
Topology, symmetry, and superconductivity in quantum materials
Margo Anderson
Distinguished Professor, Department of History
The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
UWM Co-PI: Amanda Seligman, Professor, Department of History
Mark Dietz
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Controlled porosity supports for improved extraction chromatographic separations
Alison Donnelly
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Determining the contribution of the shrub layer to overall forest phenology using in situ observations and remote sensing metrics
Roshan D'Souza
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Novel Algorithms for Post Processing 4D Flow Data for Non-invasive Quantification of Patient-specific Hemodynamics
Clark Evans
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
A Climatology of Indirect Tropical Cyclone Interactions
Sandeep Gopalakrishnan
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Attenuation of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Immune Dysregulation by NIR Photobiomodulation in Diabetic Wound Healing
UWM Co-PIs Janis Eells, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences; Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Mahsa Ranji, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Sergey Kravtsov
Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Role of mesoscale coupling in the dynamics of an idealized ocean-atmosphere model
Michael Laiosa
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Regulation of cellular respiration by the Aryl hydrocarbon receptor during hematopoiesis
UWM Co-PI: Shama Mirza, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Yue Liu
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Integrating Big Data-Driven Approach into a Simulation-Based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model for Work Zone Impacts Assessment
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
Assistant Professor, Department of Africology
Political Opinions and Behavior of Afro-Brazilian and African-American Women Social Welfare Recipients
Michael Nosonovsky
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Acoustic Real-Time Detection of Pathogens and Nanoparticles in Water and their Removal
A. Andrew Pacheco
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Conformational gating of Mycobacterium tuberculosis truncated Hemoglobin N
Ramin Pashaie
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Functional Imaging in The Central Nervous System via Optical Coherence Tomography
Mahsa Ranji
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Optical Imaging of Diabetic Brain Metabolism and Vasculature
UWM Co-PI: Ramin Pashaie, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Nathaniel Stern
Associate Professor, Department of Art & Design
The World After Us: speculative media sculpture
Katharine Wells
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History
Uncanny Revivals: Designing Early America during the Rise of Fascism
Dietmar Wolfram
Professor, School of Information Studies
The Future of Peer Review in the Open Science Era: Can Transparency Address Current Concerns?
Shangping Xu
Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences
Development of improved zero valent iron nanoparticles for environmental remediation using fractioned humic substances
UWM Co-PI: Yin Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Jie Yu
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Transit System Efficiency and Incentive-based Subsidy Allocation
Jun Zhang
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Deep learning applied to iterative reconstruction for CT imaging
Eighteen proposals have been selected for funding in the 2017-2018 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
Joseph Aldstadt
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Development of a Novel Sequential Injection-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System for the Determination of Synthetic Cathinones in Forensic Samples
Dyanna Czeck
Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences
Pathways for water in quartz grains: exploring mineral weakening during deformation
Rani El Hajjar
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Magnetostrictive Smart Composites for Fused Deposition 3D-Printing
UWM Co-PI: Chui-Tai Law, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Jennifer Gutzman
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Molecular mechanisms that mediate basal constriction in the developing brain
M. Mahmun Hossain
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Synthesis of All-Carbon alpha-Aryl Quaternary Carbonyl Compounds
Nadine Kozak
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in U.S. Public Libraries
UWM Co-PI: Michael Zimmer, Associate Professor, Information Studies
Dean Nardelli
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Treatment of Lyme Arthritis with Induced Regulatory T Cells
Ryan Newton
Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
Integrating Nutrition Evaluation with Host Microbiome Characterization to Develop Cost Effective Feeds for Yellow Perch Aquaculture
UWM Co-PI: Dong-Fang Deng, Senior Research Scientist, Freshwater Sciences
Gyaneshwar Prasad
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Understanding the mechanism of rice colonization by Rhizobium sp. IRBG74 and enhancing its potential for rice growth promotion
UWM Co-PI: Dazhong Zhao, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Patricia Richards
Senior Scientist, Department of Anthropology
The Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project
Christopher Quinn
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Investigation of mechanisms that regulate axon branch stability
Peter Schwander
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
3D Molecular Movies and Energy Landscapes of Viruses by Lensless X-Ray Microscopy
Ava Udvadia
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Master regulatory transcription factors driving stage specific regeneration of CNS axons
UWM Co-PI: Paul Auer, Assistant Professor, Zilber School of Public Health
Lingfeng Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
A Game-theoretic Framework for Integrated Cyber-Physical-Human Risk Assessment and Security Management in Smart Grid
Yin Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Development of modified iron oxide adsorbents for removal of hexavalent chromium from water
Jorg Woehl
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Electrically induced trapping and separation of single molecules and nanoparticles
UWM Co-PI: Woo Jin Chang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Changshan Wu
Professor, Department of Geography
Examining Uncertainties in Spectral Mixture Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery
Dazhong Zhao
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Identifying the Novel Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in Arabidopsis Anther Development
Fifteen proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2016-2017 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation. Four assistant professors, five associate professors, and six full professors received awards.
Derek Counts
Professor, Art History
From Scanner to Scholar: The publication of 3D models in the digital age
David Frick
Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Viral helicase disruption of pattern recognition receptors
UWM Co-PI: Valerica Raicu, Physics
Karyn Frick
Professor, Psychology
Mechanisms of estrogenic regulation of dendritic spines in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Peter Geissinger
Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Luminescence-lifetime-based, simultaneous measurement of multiple metal ion concentrations in water for use on a real-time optical fiber sensor platform
Adam Greenberg
Assistant Professor, Psychology
The universal nature of topographic maps as the structural foundation of attention
UWM Co-PI: Wendy Huddleston, Kinesiology
John Isbell
Professor, Geosciences
Carboniferous and Permian strata in Brazil and surrounding areas: their significance in determining the timing and extent of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Junjie Niu
Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Scalable synthesis of air-stable ultra-small Al nano-composites for high-performance Li-Al batteries
Margaret Noodin
Assistant Professor, English; Director, Electa Quinney Institute
Ganawendamaw: Emerging Anishinaabe environmental ideologies
UWM Co-PIs: Patricia Mayes, English; Bernard Perley, Anthropology
Ionel Popa
Assistant Professor, Physics
A hybrid magnetic tweezers-FRET technique to study the mechano-chemistry of proteins involved in cellular mechano-transduction
UWM Co-PI: Valerica Raicu, Physics
Joel Rast
Associate Professor, Political Science
The Dual City: Policy paradigms and housing reform in twentieth century Chicago
Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Signal ontogeny and phonology in vibrational insects
Alan Schwabacher
Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Optical sensor arrays for metal ion detection
UWM Co-PI: Peter Geissinger, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ching-Hong Yang
Professor, Biological Sciences
Development of virulence-specific therapeutics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Chris Yingchun Yuan
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Integrated study of capacity fading on next generation lithium ion battery for electric vehicles
Mo Zell
Associate Professor, Architecture
Kinetic Learning Lights: Prototypes
Twelve proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2015-2016 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation. One Distinguished Professor, five full professors, three associate professors, and three assistant professors received awards. Six recipients are first-time RGI awardees.
Daniel Agterberg
Professor, Physics
High Temperature Superconductors: Pair Density Wave Order in the Pseudogap Phase
Joel Berkowitz
Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature
Preserving the Legacy of the Yiddish Theatre in the Digital Age
Patrick Brady
Professor, Physics
Astrophysics of Extreme Environments
UWM Co-PIs: Philip Chang, Jolien Creighton, Dawn Erb, David Kaplan, Alan Wiseman, Xavier Siemens, Physics
Michael Carvan
Associate Professor, Freshwater Sciences
Epigenetic Transgenerational Impacts of Great Lakes Chemicals of Concern
UWM Co-PIs: David Petering, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Hector Bravo, Civil and Environmental Engineering; David Garman, John Janssen, Freshwater Sciences; Junhong Chen, Mechanical Engineering; Peter Tonellato, Public Health
Carol Hirschmugl
Professor, Physics
Fluorescence imaging and mid infrared spectroscopy of diabetic retinopathy
UWM Co-PIs: Mahsa Ranji, Electrical Engineering
Emily Latch
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
A landscape genomics framework to study introgression in non-model species
Robin Mello
Associate Professor, Theatre
A Tale of Scale
UWM Co-PI: Jean Creighton, Physics
Adel Nasiri
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Integration of Batteries and Li-Ion Capacitors to Extend Battery Life in Vehicle Start Stop Applications
Xiaohua Peng
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hydrogen Peroxide Activated Quinone Methide Prodrugs for Tumor-Specific Destruction
UWM Co-PI: Alexander Arnold, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Aleksandra Snowden
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Off-Premise Alcohol Outlet Characteristics and Milwaukee Violence Rates
Xuexia Wang
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Methods to Detect Gene-Environment Interactions in Secondary Cancers
Michael Weinert
Distinguished Professor, Physics
Band Offsets in Lateral Junctions of 2-D materials,
UWM Co-PI: Lian Li, Physics
Seventeen proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2014-2015 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.Four proposals from Biological Sciences were funded, as well as three from Chemistry and Biochemistry. Seven full professors and seven associate professors earned awards, as well as three assistant professors.
S. Scott Graham
Assistant Professor, English
Evaluating the Impacts of Lay Stakeholder Inclusion and Industry Affiliations on FDA Pharmaceuticals Policy Decision-Making
Co-PIs: William Keith, Professor, English; Sang-Yeon Kim, Assistant Professor, Communication
Laodong Guo
Professor, Freshwater Sciences
Evaluating Reservoir Effects Of Radiocarbon and its Use For Tracking Carbon Dynamics in Lake Michigan
Guilherme Indig
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Intraoperative Fluorescence Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy Of Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Jeffrey Karron
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Understanding the Evolutionary Tug-Of-War Between Male and Female Function in Hermaphroditic Flowering Plants
Vincent Larson
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
From Cloud Parameterization to Subgrid Variability Parameterization
Chiu Law
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Chirped Fiber Optical Current Sensor
Co-PIs: Rani El-Hajjar, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics
Mark McBride
Professor, Biological Sciences
Novel Cellulose Utilization System of Cytophaga hutchinsonii
Graham Moran
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Redefining Renalase: The Discovery of a New Enzymatic Activity
Hanyong Park
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Longitudinal L2 learning of Korean coronal obstruents in perception and production
Donna Pasternak
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
How are English teacher preparation programs educating English teachers to teach into the 21st century? A study of the current practices used to educate English teachers in a time of teacher accountability.
David Petering
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Revealing the Cadmium Proteome with Metalloproteomic Methods
Ora John Reuter
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Political Machines at Work: Voter Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in the Workplace
Linda Whittingham
Professor, Biological Sciences
Genetic and Physiological Mechanisms of Ornament Expression in a Warbler
William Wood
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Participatory Community Museum Exhibition Development for Mangrove Conservation Education at Ventanilla, Oaxaca, Mexico: Formative Exhibition Evaluation
Iris Xie
Professor, Information Studies
Universal Accessibility of Digital Libraries: Design of Help Mechanisms for Blind Users
Co-PIs: Rakesh Babu, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies; Wooseob Jeong, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
Dazhong Zhao
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Determining the SERK1/2-EMS1 Receptor Kinase Complex in Cell Differentiation
Co-PIs: Valerica Raicu, Associate Professor, Physics
Chao Zhu
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
On Nonnegative Stochastic Processes and Their Financial Applications
Thirty-two proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2013-2014 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
Twenty awards went to assistant professors, six to associate professors, and six to full and Distinguished professors.
The departments of Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering each earned four awards; Electrical Engineering, Geosciences, and mathematical Sciences each received three.
George Barganier
Assistant Professor, Africology
Fanon's Children: The Black Panther Party and the Rise of the Crips and Bloods
Anne Basting
Associate Professor, Theatre
Arts At Home
Julie Bowles
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
The Long Valley Volcanic Field: Constraining the Geomagnetic Field and Local Volcanic Processes
Woo Jin Chang
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Paper-fluidic electrochemical heavy metal detection
Junhong Chen
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Exploration of Graphene-Based Nanohybrids for Electrocatalysis
Thomas Consi
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences
A Prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Tracking Radio-Tagged Sturgeon
Madhusudan Dey
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Mechanistic Insights into Ire1-HAC1/Xbp1 Signaling Pathway
Co-PIs: David Frick, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Peter Dunn
Professor, Biological Sciences
Immunogenetics of an endangered bird
Rani El-Hajjar
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Scaffolding and Forming Methods for Scalability of Thermosetting Nanocellulose Composites
Co-PIs: Krisha Pillai, Mechanical Engineering
Jennifer Gutzman
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Regulation of cell shortening during brain morphogenesis
Weon Shik Han
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Themorphysically Driven One, Two, and Three-Phase Fluids Transitions of Geologically Stored Supercritical CO2: Combination of Theoretical, Numerical and Field Studies
Co-PIs: Chang Soo Kim, Materials Science and Engineering
Fred Helmstetter
Professor, Psychology
Dissecting cortical-subcortical interactions in the regulation of fear memory with optogenetics
Co-PIs: Devin Mueller, Psychology; Ramin Pashaie, Electrical Engineering
Mohd Helwany
Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Thermomechanical Behavior of Energy Piles
Co-PIs: Tien-chien Jen, Mechanical Engineering; Adel Nasiri, Electrical Engineering
Gerlinde Hoebel
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Cross-modal interactions and leader preferences
Yi Hu
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Electroacoustic Stimulation
Kyongboon Kwon
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Emotional Socialization in the Social Network of Late Elementary Children: The Impact on Prosocial, Aggressive, and Withdrawn Behaviors
Istvan Lauko
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Novel optical detection of discrete layers in Lake Michigan ecosystem structure
Co-PIs: Carmen Aguilar-Diaz and Russell Cuhel, Freshwater Sciences
Ying Li
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Efficient Solar-Driven CO2 Reforming of Methane by Novel Composite Catalysts
Lindsay McHenry
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Hydrothermal Alteration of high Fe Icelandic Basalts, Analog for Mars Aqueous Processes
Co-PI: Barry Cameron, Geosciences
James Moyer Jr
Associate Professor, Psychology
Neurobiological Analyses of Aging-Related Deficits in Cognitive Flexibility
Co-PIs: Jeri-Anne Lyons, Biomedical Sciences
Wilkistar Otieno
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Investigating Reverse Supply Chains and Remanufacturing Processes as Feasible Alternatives to Product Recovery
Co-PIs: Vishnuteja Nanduri, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Anthony Ross, Lubar School of Business
Ramin Pashaie
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Interrogation of Cortical Dynamics via Optogenetic-mElectroCorticoGraphy
Anne Pycha
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Explaining phonological patterns with memories
Mahsa Ranji
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Optical imaging techniques for early detection of radiation-induced lung injury
Paru Shah
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Candidate Characteristics in Local Elections: Developing a Data Curation Community
Kurt Svoboda
Associate Professor, Public Health
Neural crest cell development in zebrafish: Anatomical analysis in 3-dimensional space
Tanya Tiffany
Associate Professor, Art History
Visual Culture and Feminine Devotion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Anastasios Tsonis
Distinguished Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Climate models: A new Babel?
Co-PIs: Kyle Swanson, Mathematical Sciences
Ying-chih Wang
Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Technology
Translating Modified Ashworth Scale into Neurophysiological, Quantitative Kinematic and Kinetic Values
Co-PIs: Jay Kapellusch and Roger Smith, Occupational Science and Technology
Dexuan Xie
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
New Nonlocal Continuum Electrostatic Models and Their Fast Numerical Solvers
Zengwang Xu
Assistant Professor, Geography
Modeling the diffusion and intervention of H5N1 in a realistically connected population in Milwaukee city: a social spatial network approach
Chris Yuan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable Development of High Capacity Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Thirty-nine proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2012-2013 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
Fifteen awards went to assistant professors, 13 to associate professors, and 11 to full professors.
Daniel Agterberg
Professor, Physics
Theory of the Electron Gas at Oxide Interfaces
Filipe Alberto
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Metapopulation Genetics of Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera in Southern California Bight
Ryoichi Amano
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Wastewater Management Using Sewage Aerator and Separator Cyclones
Alexander Arnold
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Vitamin D Receptor-Coregulator Interactions As Anticancer Targets
Ferne Bronson
Professor, Dance
The Sweet Grass Project: Preservation of African Movement Traditions Present in Gullah Culture of the Carolinas and Georgia Coast
Philip Chang
Assistant Professor, Physics
The Plasma Physics and Cosmological Impact of TeV Blazars
Jian Chen
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Transparent Conductive Ceramic-Graphene Nanolaminates
Co-PI: Carolyn Aita, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Junhong Chen
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Exploration of Graphene Array Electrodes for Energy Storage
Kamran Diba
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Optogenetic Silencing of Hippocampal Inputs During Spatial Learning
Karyn Frick
Associate Professor, Psychology
Roles of Specific Estrogen Receptors in Mediating the Beneficial Effects of Estrogens On Memory in Middle-Aged Females
Peter Geissinger
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Measurement of Electric Fields at Protein Active Sites: Towards Probing Electrostatic Structure-Function Relationships
Co-PI: Jorg Woehl, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Zhen He
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Development of Novel Osmotic Microbial Desalination Cells for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Desalination
John Isbell
Professor, Geosciences
Occurrence and Significance of Northern High Paleo-Latitude Deposits of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Northeastern Asia (Siberia)
David Kaplan
Assistant Professor, Physics
Isolated Neutron Stars: the Impact of Magnetic Field Decay
Christine Larson
Associate Professor, Psychology
Isolating the Mechanisms of Impaired Attentional Control in Social Anxiety: Implications for Attention Modification Training
Co-PI: Han Joo Lee, Psychology
Yue Liu
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
A New Decision Support Tool for Warranting Detour Operations During Freeway Corridor Incident Management
Kristen Murphy
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Processing Differences By Gender: Investigating Persistent Differential Item Functioning General Chemistry Items
Vishnuteja Nanduri
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Understanding the Electricity-Water-Climate Change Nexus: a Multi-Agent Simulation Framework and Efficient Reinforcement Learning Solution Techniques
Co-PIs: Wilkistar Otieno, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Rosha D'Souza, Mechanical Engineering
Adel Nasiri
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Advanced Wind Turbine Topology and Controls to Improve Transient Power Stability and Provide Short-Term Support
Michael Nosonovsky
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ultra-Durable Wear-Resistant 3D Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Concretes
Co-PI: Konstantin Sobolev, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Abbas Ourmazd
Professor, Physics
Determining the Structure and Conformations of Macromolecular Complexes
Co-PI: Peter Schwander, Physics
Ramin Pashaie
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Interrogation of Large-Scale Neural Circuits With Optogenetic-fMRI
Xiaohua Peng
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Achieving Turnover in DNA-Templated Fluorogenic "Click" Ligation for Sequence-Specific DNA Mutation Detection
Gabriella Pinter
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Establishing a Modeling Framework for the Investigation of Nano-Scale Drivers of Biogeochemical Cycling in Freshwater Ecosystems
Co-PI: Istvan Lauko, Mathematical Sciences; John Berges, Erica Young, Biological Sciences
Christopher Quinn
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Investigation of ITSN-1 Function in Axon Guidance.
Mahsa Ranji
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Optical Redox Imaging and NMR Metabolomics As Multi-Modal Tools to Monitor Metabolic Dysfunction in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Dilano Saldin
Professor, Physics
Reconstructing the Structure of Viruses Using an X-Ray Laser
Marius Schmidt
Associate Professor, Physics
Structure and Function of MtrC: an Electricity Generating Protein
Co-PI: Daad Saffarini, Biological Sciences
Stefan Schnitzer
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Do Lianas Redirect Successional Trajectories in Regenerating Tropical Forests?
Arijit Sen
Associate Professor, Architecture
Intertwined Geographies of Transcultural Contact: Cultural Landscapes of Muslim Immigrants in Milwaukee and Chicago
Matthew Smith
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences
In Situ Technology to Enhance Chemical, Physical and Biological Monitoring in Lake Michigan
Nathaniel Stern
Associate Professor, Art & Design
Body Language: a Suite of Four Interactive Installations
J. Rudi Strickler
Professor, Biological Sciences
Microfluidics and Form and Function in Cyclopoid Copepods
Co-PIs: Woo Jin Chang, Mechanical Engineering; Thomas Consi, Freshwater Sciences
Peter Tonellato
Professor, Public Health
Guiding Warfarin Clinical Trial Design Using Pharmacogenetic Simulations
Anastasios Tsonis
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Knowledge Discovery in Climate
Jorg Woehl
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Corral Trapping of Single Molecules in Solution: Theory and Applications
Changshan Wu
Associate Professor, Geography
Urban Impervious Surface Estimation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Simulation Approach
Ching-Hong Yang
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
A Lifestyle Choice for Ecological Success and Pathogenicity: Cell Aggregates and Bimodal Expression of T3SS
Jun Zhang
Professor, Electrical Engineering
3D CT Image Segmentation for Security Applications
Thirty-three proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2011-2012 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
As a testament to the improving quality of RGI submissions, the independent experts and scholars who reviewed the applications awarded double-alpha quality ratings to over 40 percent of this year's 112 proposals. The final selection of awardees, based on the external reviewers' ratings of the three evaluation criteria, was made by a committee (RGI coordinator Kathleen Koch and Associate Deans Michael Liston and Douglas Woods) appointed by the Dean of the Graduate School.
Five proposals from Biological Sciences were funded, as well as four each from Engineeringand Physics. Social sciences, professions, and the humanities were also well represented, including the first-ever award for Africology.
Reflecting the growing emphasis on multi- and interdisciplinary research, seven of the 15 collaborative projects funded feature investigators from multiple departments.
Unless noted, Co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:
Carolyn Aita
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Predicting Phase Formation and Transitions in Functional Oxide Nanolaminates
Rachel Buff
This Way Out: A History of Deportation from the U.S., 1935-1970
Jian Chen
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Remote-Controlled, Self-Healing Shape Memory Polymer Composites
Madhusudan Dey, Biological Sciences
The Novel Kinase KIN2 Signaling in Endoplasmic Stress
Co-PI(s): Valerica Raicu, Physics
Rebecca Dunham
Black Horizon: A Documentary in Verse
David Frick
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Drug Discovery for Hepatitis C: Hit-to-lead Development of Helicase Inhibitors
Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska
Advanced Electron Microscopy and Holography of Multiscale Multiferroic Materials
Co-PI(s): Prasenjit Guptasarma, Marvin Schofield
Pat Goldsmith
Residential Segregation and Discrete Choice Analysis
Co-PI(s): William Velez
Deborah Hannula
Recollection as a 2-Stage Process: A Converging Methods Approach to Investigation of Memory, Awareness, and the Brain.
Carol Hirschmugl
Thermally Derived Graphene Based Nanocrystalline Sheets for Lithium Ion Batteries
Co-PI(s): Junhong H Chen, Mechanical Engineering; Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovksa
Gerlinde Hoebel
Biological Sciences
Preference Functions and the Evolution of Multimodal Signals
Shale Horowitz
Political Science
Measuring Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Conflicts
Jennifer Johung
Art History
Vital Architecture: Sustaining Life and Living Space
Jonathan Kanter
Culturally Enhanced Behavioral Activation for African Americans with Depression
Co-PI(s): Michael Brondino, Social Work; Shakoor Lee, Nursing
Changsoo Kim
Materials Engineering
Theoretical Study of the Microstructural Impacts on the Mechanical Performance of Metal-Matrix Nano Composites
Co-PI(s): Pradeep Rohatgi
Arash Mafi
Electrical Engineering
Gain-Guiding Optical Fiber Lasers: Fundamental Limitations and Practical Solutions
Anna Mansson McGinty
The Muslim Milwaukee Project
Co-PI(s): Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Comparative Literature; Kristin Sziarto
Mark McBride
Biological Sciences
Novel Mechanisms of Cellulose and Chitin Utilization by Members of the Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidetes
Sandra McLellan
Freshwater Sciences
Microbial Communities as Indicators of Oil Contamination on Coastal Beaches
Susan McRoy, Computer Science
A Feasibility Study of Two-Way Messaging for Prostate Cancer Patients
Co-PI(s): Hayeon Song, Communication
Katie Mosack
A Test of the Association Between Subjective Self-Reports and Objective Measures of Social Support-Related Communication among HIV-Affected African American Female Dyads
Co-PI(s): Michael Brondino, Social Work; Patricia Stevens, Nursing
Ramin Pashaie
Electrical Engineering
Optogenetic Visual Neuroprosthetics
Mahsa Ranji
Electrical Engineering
Lung Oxygen Toxicity: Optical Biopsy and Imaging Techniques
Marius Schmidt
The Reaction of Nitric Oxide with Mycobacterium tuberculosis HemoglobinN
Co-PI(s): Arsenio Pacheco, Chemistry; Alan Schwabacher, Chemistry
Stefan Schnitzer
Biological Sciences
Identifying the Pathogens That Regulate Tree Species Diversity and Abundance in Tropical Forests
Jeffrey Sommers
Spatial Fixes and Hegemonic Re-Rrderings: Africa's Place in the Emerging New Order
Scott Strath
Human Movement Science
Understanding Multi-Level Barriers to Physical Activity and Health Behaviors in Older Adults
Co-PI(s): Kevin Keenan, Ann Swartz
Michael Weinert
Topological Insulators: Growth and Electronic Properties
Co-PI(s): Lian Li
Zeyun Yu
Computer Science
A Meshless Approach to Studying Cell-wide Calcium Signaling
Chris Yuan
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable Development of Atomic-scale Nano-coating Technology
Co-PI(s): Tien-chien Jen
Jun Zhang
Electrical Engineering
Automatic Patient Search for Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
Co-PI(s): Xiangming Mu, Information Studies; Tian Zhao; Computer Science
Dazhong Zhao
Biological Sciences
MicroRNA-mediated Cross-Talk Between ABA and Auxin Signaling in Arabidopsis
Chao Zhu
Mathematical Sciences
Singular Stochastic Control of Regime Switching Diffusion: Viscosity Solution and Linear Programming
Thirty proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2010-2011 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
The winners were chosen from the original pool of 139 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.
This year's projects come from a variety areas—from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to architecture, history, and visual art—and reflect the growing emphasis on multi- and interdisciplinary research. Seven projects feature investigators from multiple departments, compared to three in 2009-2010.
Unless noted, co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:
YiQiang Cheng
Biological Sciences
Preparation of Lead Anticancer Compounds for Preclinical Evaluations
Timothy Cleary
Educational Psychology
Efficacy of Self-Regulation Empowerment Program: A classroom-based intervention
Kimberly Cosier
Visual Art
Teaching and Learning Critical Visual Literacies with Urban Youth
Co-PI: Laura Trafi-Prats
Carolyn Eichner
In the Name of the Mother: Radical Naming, Marriage, and the Matronym
Dawn Erb
The Youngest Galaxies in the Young Universe
Margaret Fraiser
Testing the End-Permian Mass Extinction Recovery Paradigm
Thomas Hooyer
Evaluating glacier quarrying: Mapping recently deglaciated bedrock surfaces to determine the importance of pre-existing fractures in bedrock
M. Mahmun Hossain
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Novel Synthesis of Tryptophan-based Microtubule Inhibitors
Jay Kapellusch
Occupational Therapy
Injury Management System for Strategic Reduction of Workplace Injuries
Co-PIs: Naira Campbell-Kyureghan, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering; Arun Garg, I&ME; Matthew Petering, I&ME
Nikolai Kouklin
Electrical Engineering
Nanoarray-based optical sensor
Co-PIs: Vladislav Yakovlev, Physics
Emily Latch
Biological Sciences
Speciation caught in the act: Identification of genes under selection in a
vertebrate hybrid zone
Han Joo Lee
Examining the Nature of Sustained Attentional Regulation among Individuals with Social Phobia
Co-PI: Christine Larson
Arash Mafi
Electrical Engineering
Wavelength Dependence of Birefringence in Optical Fibers: The Nonlinear Implications
Co-PIs: Chiu Tai Law, Hao Zhang
Sandra McLellan
WATER Institute
Identification of new alternative indicators of sewage contamination
Co-PI: Anastasios Tsonis, Mathematical Sciences
Gretchen Meyer
Field Station
Genetic structure of an invasive plant in its native and introduced ranges
Co-PIs: Sara Hoot, Biological Sciences; Mai Phillips, Biological Sciences
Ian Musson
Mathematical Sciences
Enveloping Algebras and Invariant Differential Operators.
Michael Nosonovsky
Mechanical Engineering
Self-organization at the sliding interface: towards biomimetic self-lubrication and self-replenishing
Co-PIs: Emmanuel Wornyoh, Mechanical Engineering; Pradeep Rohatgi, Materials Engineering
Ramin Pashaie
Electrical Engineering
Optoelectronic Programming of the Brain
Co-PI: Mahsa Ranji
Krishna Pillai
Mechanical Engineering
Simulating the Making of Dual-Scale Metal-Matrix Composites using the Presure Infiltration Process
Co-PI: Pradeep Rohatgi, Materials Engineering
Valerica Raicu
Drug-targeted signal transduction: instrumentation and methodology for non-invasive probing of GPCR signaling
Co-PI: Sergei Kuchin, Biological Sciences
Paul Roebber
Mathematical Sciences
Simulating Warm Season Precipitation Climate at Regional Scale
Co-PI: Kyle Swanson
Amanda Seligman
Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
Co-PI: Margo Anderson
Na Jin Seo
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Ergonomic Interventions for Altered Grip Force Direction in Stroke Survivors
J. Carson Smith
Human Movement Sciences
Using Exercise to Enhance Brain Function and Memory in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer s Disease
Co-PIs: Anthony Greene, Psychology; Jeri-Anne Lyons, Health Sciences
Andrew Ulijasz
Biological Sciences
Phytochrome-Based Fluorophores (PBFs)
James Wasley
Carbon Neutral Building Design: from Case Studies to Conclusions
Co-PIs: Greg Thomson, Dennis Utzinger
Emmanuel Wornyoh
Mechanical Engineering
In Situ Self-Repairing, Self-Replenishing Solid-/Powder-Lubricated Rolling Element Bearings: Modeling and Experiments
Vladislav Yakovlev
High-throughput vibrational cytometer
Hao Zhang
Electrical Engineering
Photoacoustic Camera for Real-time Vascular Imaging
Dazhong Zhao
Biological Sciences
Understanding Embryogenesis Regulated by MicroRNA and AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR in Arabidopsis
Thirty-eight proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2009-2010 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
The winners were chosen from the original pool of 136 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.
The projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to architecture, film, and dance.
Unless noted, co-PIs are from the same departments as the PIs. The awardees are:
Kalman Applbaum
Adherence to Pharmaceutical Treatment: A Clinical Ethnography of Mental Health Services in Wisconsin
Co-PI: Paul Brodwin
Harvey Bootsma
WATER Institute
Carbon Dynamics in a Large, Tropical Lake
Patrick Brady
Frontiers of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Co-PIs: Luis Anchordoqui, Jean Creighton, Jolien Creighton, John Friedman, Xavier Siemens, Alan Wiseman
Junhong Chen
Mechanical Engineering
Energy-Efficient Nanoscale Corona Discharge for Ozone Reduction
Jian Chen
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advanced Carbon Nanotube-Elastomer Composite Infrared Sensors
Thomas Consi
WATER Institute
Micromechanical Enhancement of Sensing — Lessons from Copepods
Co-PI: Rudi Strickler, Biological Sciences
James Cook
Chemistry and Biochemistry
New Gabaergic Drugs to Treat Epilepsy Devoid of Sedative, Ataxic and Amnesic Side Effects Which Do Not Develop Tolerance
Dyanna Czeck
Quantifying Fabrics in Shear Zones
Stephen Dornbos
Sensory Evolution During the Cambrian Radiation
Shaoqin Gong
Mechanical Engineering
Multifunctional Polymeric Drug Nanocarriers for Targeted Cancer Therapy
Co-PI: Douglas Steeber, Biological Sciences
Peninnah Kako
HIV Transmission Risk, Access to Treatment, and Self Management of Illness Over Time: An In-Depth Longitudinal Study of HIV-Infected Women in Kenya
Co-PIs: Loren Galvao, Patricia Stevens
Kevin Keenan
Human Movement Sciences
Cortico-Muscular Control of Hand Function in Older Adults
Co-PI: Jerome Smith
J. Val Klump
WATER Institute
Application of New Methodology for Determining Benthic Metabolism in the Great Lakes
Sergey Kravtsov
Mathematical Sciences
Mesoscale Ocean Eddies and Climate Change Over the Southern Ocean
Vincent Larson
Mathematical Sciences
A Unified Parameterization for Clouds, Turbulence, the Surface Layer, and the Planetary Boundary Layer
Christine Larson
The Influence of Rumination on Sustained Experience of Negative Affect: Bridging the Gap from Prolonged Brief Emotional Experiences to Depression
Lian Li
Magnetic Graphene
Co-PI: Michael Weinert
Simone Linhares Ferro
Bumba-Meu-Boi: The Integration of Contemporary and Folk Dance as a Vehicle of Social and Historical Activism
Colleen Ludwig
Elemental Bodies: A Suite of Four Immersive Installations with Sensor Control
Renee Meyers
GroupBank Archival and Retrieval System
Co-PI: Elizabeth Buchanan, Information Studies
Devin Mueller
Prefrontal Regulation of Drug Seeking After Extinction
Co-PI: James Moyer
Kristen Murphy
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rapid Knowledge Assessment: The Development and Validation of a New Assessment Instrument in Chemistry
Abbas Ourmazd
Direct Determination of Structure by Scattering
Co-PI: Peter Schwander
Arsenio Pacheco
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Protein-NO Interactions by Time-Resolved Protein X-Ray Crystallography
Co-PI: Marius Schmidt, Physics
David Petering
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Zinc Trafficking in Proliferative Cells: Metallothionein and Other Sites
Gyaneshwar Prasad
Biological Sciences
Functional and Ecological Genomics of Sulfonate Utilization by Soybean Nodulating Bradyrhizobium Japonicum
Paul Roebber
Mathematical Sciences
Applied Research Opportunities for Students
Dilano Saldin
Biomolecular Structure from Ultrashort X-ray Pulses: Exploiting the Symmtery of Random Orientations
Co-PI: Valentin Shneerson
Marie Savundranayagam
Social Work
Caregiving and Alzheimer's Disease: Impact of Caregiver Communication Strategies on Communication Breakdown, Problem Behaviors, and Stress
Stefan Schnitzer
Biological Sciences
Do Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens Explain Plant Species Coexistence and Diversity in Tropical Forests? An Experimental Test
Konstantin Sobolev
Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Development of Ultra High Performance Concrete for Service Life of 120 Years
Co-PIs: Habib Tabatabai, Jian Zhao
Ichiro Suzuki
Computer Science
New Research Initiative in Distributed Robotic Systems
Gregory Thomson
Energy Efficiency and Historic Preservation: Using Digital Simulation and Empirical Testing to Quantify Passive Systems of Environmental Control in National Register Eligible Buildings of the Early Modern Era
Wilfred Tysoe
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Investigation of Oxidation Catalytic Reaction Pathways on Model Gold-Palladium Alloy Catalysts
Laura Villamil
Margarita Archaeological Project: Investigating the Social Structure of A Classic Maya Urban Community
Linda Whittingham
Biological Sciences
Genetics of Disease Resistance and Female Mate Choice
Co-PI: Peter Dunn
Ching-Hong Yang
Biological Sciences
Development of Type III Secretion System Inhibitors
Hao Zhang
Electrical Engineering
Functional Photoacoustic Imaging of Retinal Microvessels
Thirty-one proposals have been chosen for funding in the 2008-2009 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
The winners were chosen from the original pool of 137 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from prominent U.S. research institutions.
The projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from biological sciences, engineering, and physics, to History and French, Italian, and Comparative Literature.
The awardees are:
Daniel Agterberg
Theory of Pair Density Wave Superconductors
Carmen Aguilar
WATER Institute
Quagga Mussel Feces-Mediated Trace Metal Mobilization in Lake Michigan
Co-PI: Russell Cuhel, WATER Institute
Luis Anchordoqui
Cosmology and Particle Physics from String Theory
Barry Cameron
The Explosive-Effusive Transition and Compositional Diversity at Basaltic Scoria Cones in Central America
Yichiang Cheng
Biological Sciences
Engineer Novel Anticancer Bio-Agents — A Pilot Study
Peter Dunn
Biological Sciences
Genetic Diversity and Immunity in Endangered Birds
Charles Fink
Biological Sciences
Regulation of Neuronal Plasticity by Protein Phosphatase 1
Peter Geissinger
Chemistry and Biochemistry
High Spatial Resolution Optical Fiber Sensor Arrays for Real-Time, Remote Monitoring of Water Supplies and Potable Water Distribution Networks
Shaoqin Gong
Mechanical Engineering
Bionanocomposite Components with a Solid Skin/Foamed Core Structure Produced via a Novel Supercritical Fluid Assisted Co-Injection Molding Process
Anne Hansen
Buddhist Ethics of Love & Attachment in Southeast Asian Narrative Art & Literature
Carol Hirschmugl
Synchrotron Based Infrared Imaging (SBIRI) and Chemometrics of Living Algal Cells
Gerlinde Hoebel
Biological Sciences
Reinforcement and Behavioral Plasticity
Rebecca Klaper
WATER Institute
Tools for Determining the Impact of Nanomaterials on the Aquatic Model Organism Daphnia Pulex
Bonita Klein-Tasman
Early Cognitive and Behavioral Phenotype of NF-1
Co-PI: W. Hobart Davies, Psychology
Sergei Kuchin
Biological Sciences
Regulation of the Snf1 Protein Kinase in Yeast
Co-PI: Marianna Orlova, Biological Sciences
Mary Pat Kunert
The Influence of Estrogen on the Structure and Function of Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation in the Dahl S Female Rat
Vincent Larson
Mathematical Sciences
Mixed-phase Layer Clouds in the Arctic and Mid-Latitudes
Jin Li
Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Adhesion and Survival Strategies of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 in the Phyllosphere
Paul Lyman
Atomic Layer Deposition for Production of Polar Oxide Heterostructures
Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
Violence in the Lives of HIV-Infected Women in Malawi: A Critical Ethnography
Co-PI: Patricia Stevens, Nursing
Adel Nasiri
Electrical Engineering
Power Smoothing and Low Voltage Ride Through Solutions for Wind Turbines
Co-PI: David Yu, Electrical Engineering
Julie Oliver
Biological Sciences
Development of Platelet-Targeted Nanoparticles for Treatment of Thrombotic Stroke
Peter Paik
French, Italian and Comparative Literature
As Realistic as God: World-Making in Literature and Media
Paul Roebber
Mathematical Sciences
Resolving Severe Weather Impacts of Global Climate Change
Xavier Siemens
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis and Astronomy
Ava Udvadia
Biological Sciences
Functional Analysis of Candidate Genes for Learning and Memory
Co-PI: Fred Helmstetter, Psychology
Michael Weinert
Polarization and Electric Fields in Heterostructures
Co-PI: Lian Li, Physics
Jorg Woehl
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Measuring Molecular Electric Fields at the Active Sites of Proteins: Development of High Resolution Single Molecule and Hole-Burning Techniques
Co-PI: Peter Geissinger, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Leslie Ying
Electrical Engineering
Superfast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Compressed Sensing
Co-PI: Yi Ming Zou, Mathematical Sciences
Dazhong Zhao
Biological Sciences
Molecular Genetic Dissection of the MicroRNA160 Function in Arabidopsis Development
Jian Zhao
Civil Engineering and Mechanics
A Sensor Based on Electromagnetic Surface Wave Propagation for Bridge Monitoring
Co-PIs: Mukul Goyal, Computer Science; George Hanson, Electrical Engineering; Konstantin Sobolev, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
UWM will fund 42 proposals in the 2007-2008 Research Growth Initiative®, an internal seed-funding competition aimed at enhancing the university's research and scholarly work and supporting the state's economic development through innovation.
The winners were chosen from the original pool of 183 by independent review panels consisting of experts and scholars from top U.S. research institutions, including Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Harvard, Penn State, Northwestern, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and UW-Madison.
Although the funds to be awarded to each project are still under negotiation, the projects are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, from chemistry, anthropology, and engineering, to urban planning, music, and literature.
The awardees are:
Joseph H. Aldstadt
Modeling The Fate Of Lead In Battlefield Soils
Co-PIs: Erik R. Christensen, Civil Engineering; Timothy J. Grundl, Geosciences
Harvey A. Bootsma
WATER Institute
Lake-Atmosphere Gas Exchange In Lake Michigan
Jian Chen
High-Dielectric-Constant Nanotube-Polymer Composites For Electromechanical Actuation
Co-PI: Sarah Gong, Mechanical Engineering
Anoop K. Dhingra
Mechanical Engineering
Optimum Experimental Design Of A General Purpose Load Transducer
Kathleen A. Dolan
Political Science
Gender Stereotypes Voting for Women and Evaluations of the American Political System
Nadya A. Fouad
Educational Psychology
Barriers For Women In STEM Careers
Sarah Gong
Mechanical Engineering
Novel Photopolymerizable Macromers For Tissue Engineering Applications
Co-PI: Douglas A. Steeber, Biological Sciences
Thomas M. Holbrook
Political Science
Structure Context and Voting Behavior in Mayoral Elections
John L. Isbell
Late Paleozic Gondwanan Ice Age As Exposed In The Depositional Basins In Western Argentina
Tien-Chien Jen
Mechanical Engineering
Electrostatic-Force-Assisted Cold Gas Dynamic Spray Of Nanoparticles: A New Low Temperature Process
Co-PI: Junhong Chen, Mechanical Engineering
Mark V. Johnston
Occupational Therapy
Quality And Coordination Of Care For Persons With Disability: Developing A Survey Measure
Co-PIs: Amy Darragh; Kris Barnekow Occupational Therapy
Sergey Kravtsov
Mathematical Sciences
Stochastic Mode Reduction In Prototype Climate Models
Vincent E. Larson
Mathematical Sciences
A Boundary-Layer Parameterization For Weather Forecast Models
Lindsay J. McHenry
Improving Stratigraphic And Chronologic Control For Olduvai Gorge Bed II Archaeological Sites Using Tephra Geochemistry
Graham R. Moran
Kynureine-3-Monooxygenase And Ischemic Stroke
Abbas Ourmazd
Determining The Structure Of Individual Biological Molecules
Co-PIs: Valentin Shneerson; Dilano K Saldin; Physics
A. Andrew Pacheco
Structure-Function Relationships In Metalloenzymes With Multiple Redox-Active Centers
Sarah K. Patch
Thermoacoustic Tomography–Attenuation Correction
Zhong-Ren Peng
Urban Planning
Real-Time Traffic Management And Surveillance Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Co-PIs: Jun Zhang, Tian Zhao, Electrical Engineerg & Computer Science
David H. Petering
Cellular Zinc Imaging With Fluorescent Probes: What Is Being Imaged?
Jason R. Puskar
Underwriting The Accident: Narratives Of American Chance 1871-1935
Valerica Raicu
Brain Impedance Measurement Technique For Monitoring Of Anesthetic-Induced State Transition
Joel S. Rast
Political Science
Urban Redevelopment And Machine Building In Postwar Chicago: An Institutionalist Perspective
John D. Richards
Late Prehistoric Ceramic Chronology In The Western Great Lakes
Co-PI: Robert J. Jeske, Anthropology
Pradeep K. Rohatgi
Demonstration Of Feasibility Of Self Healing Metal Matrix Micro And Nanocomposites
Co-PI: Ryo S. Amano, Mechanical Engineering
Nigel T. Rothfels
Edison Initiative
Death And Butterflies In German New Guinea
Stefan A. Schnitzer
Biological Sciences
Do Lianas Alter Nutrient And Water Dynamics In Tropical Forests? An Experimental Test
Roger O. Smith
Occupational Therapy
Consumer Evaluation Of Assistive Technology: Web Based Data Collection And Reporting
Co-PIs: Kathleen L. Rust, Todd D. Schwanke, R2D2 Center
Ann C. Snyder
Human Movement Sciences
Near-Infrared Photobiomodulation For Immobilization-Induced Muscle Atrophy
Co-PI: Janis T. Eells, Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Douglas A. Steeber
Biological Sciences
Detection Of Infectious Disease Using High-Frequency Microelectronic Biosensors Based On Organic Semiconductors
Co-PI: David P. Klemer, Electrical Engineerg & Computer Science
Patricia E. Stevens
Feasibility Study Involving Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Hispanic Women Living With HIV
Hanh Q. Trinh
Health Care Administration & Information
Service Capacity Competition During The Era Of Managed Care: The Case Of Urban Hospitals
Anastasios A. Tsonis
Mathematical Sciences
An Investigation Into The Role Of Atmospheric Teleconnections In Climate
Florence Vatan
French, Italian and Comparative Literature
Mastering Sensibility: The Aesthetics Of Flaubert And Baudelaire In Light Of Contemporary Medical Conceptions
Jon Welstead
Leonard Sorkin International Institute Of Chamber Music Expansion
Co-PIs: Caen Thomason-Redus, Todd Levy, Wolfgang Laufer, Judit Jaimes, Yuri Gandelsman, Ralph Evans, Christopher Burns, Efim Boico, Kevin Hartman, Music
Jeb F. Willenbring
Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Problems In Quantum Computation
Douglas W. Woods
Examining The Role Of Attention In Tic Suppression: A pilot Investigation
Co-PI: Christine A. Conelea, Psychology
Hong (Iris) Xie
School Of Information Studies
Multiple Information Seeking Strategies In Information Retrieval: User Involvement And System Role
Vladislav V. Yakovlev
Advancing Real-Time Non-Invasive Microscopic Chemical Imaging With Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy
Ching-Hong Yang
Biological Sciences
Dissecting The Type III Secretion System Regulon In A Model Plant Pathogen Erwinia Chrysanthemi 3937
Erica B. Young
Biological Sciences
Phosphorus Acquisition: Exploring New Paradigms In Freshwater Phytoplankton
Co-PI: John A. Berges, Biological Sciences
Hong Yu
Health Care Administration & Information
Towards The Building Of The Next Generation Of Information Retrieval In Biology: Linking Abstract Sentences To Images
Co-PI: Joseph Bockhorst, Electrical Engineerg & Computer Science
Jon Welstead
Leonard Sorkin International Institute for Chamber Music (ICM)
Co-PIs: Elfin Boico, Christopher Burns; Ralph Evans; Yuri Gandelsman; Kevin Hartman; Judit Jaimes; Wolfgang Laufer; Caen Thomason-Redus; Bernard Zinck, Music
Brad Lichtenstein
docUWM: Providing Documentary Services
Co-PI: Alison I. Rostankowski, Journalism/Mass Communication
Michael Liston
Nineteenth Century Images of Science: A Philosophical Analysis of Their Import for Current Debates
Daniel Sherman
Center for 21st Century Studies
Center for 21st Century Studies Advancement & Planning
Carmen Aguilar
WATER Institute
Impact of Filter-Feeding Bivalves in Lake Michigan: Seasonal Variation of Phytoplankton Community Structure and Gene Expression
Co-PIs: Russell L. Cuhel; Matthew L. Rise, WATER Institute
John Buntin
Biological Sciences
Hormone-Brain Interactions Involved in Parental Behavior Expression
Yi-Qiang Eric Cheng
Biological Sciences
Natural Product Discovery from Genome-Sequenced Microorganisms
Co-PI: Patrick Anderson, WATER Institute
James Cook
Novel GABA-A Ligands for Treating Alzheimer's-Related Cognitive Deficits
Co-PI: Fred J. Helmstetter, Psychology
Steven Forst
Biological Sciences
Genomic Analysis of Antibiotic Genes in the Bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila
Soyoung Sue Ann Lee
Health Sciences
Speech Production of English-Korean Bilingual Children
Co-PI: Gregory K. Iverson, Foreign Languages & Linguistics
Mark McBride
Biological Sciences
Mechanism of Flavobacterium Gliding Motility
Graham Moran
4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase and Tyrosinemia
James Moyer Jr.
Plasticity and Dendritic Signaling in Hippocampal Neurons as a Function of Learning and Aging
Co-PI: Fred J. Helmstetter, Psychology
Michael Muehlenbein
Testosterone, Energetics and Immunity: The Costs of Being Male
Co-PI: Julia Z. Bonner, Norris Health Center
Co-PI: Douglas A. Steeber, Biological Sci
Co-PI: Ann M. Swartz, Human Movement Sci
Kristian O'Connor
Health Sciences
An Innovative Diagnostic Tool for Reducing Traumatic Knee Injuries
Co-PI: Brian S R. Armstrong, Electrical Eng. & Computer Sci
Stefan Schnitzer
Biological Sciences
The Ecology and Distribution of Liana (vines) and Tree Species in Tropical Forests
Mark Schwartz
National Phenological Research Center
Dietmar Wolfram
Information Studies
Discovering Hidden User Search Patterns through Visualization of Transaction Logs
Co-PI: Jin O. Zhang, Information Studies
Ching-Hong Yang
Biological Sciences
Impact of Nanomaterials on Microbial Community in Phyllosphere: A Genome Study
Co-PI: Jin Li, Civil & Mechanical Engineering
Erica Young
Biological Sciences
Long-Term Ecological Change in a Vulnerable Wisconsin Wetland
Co-PI: Mark D. Schwartz, Geography
Co-PIs: Gretchen Meyer, James Reinartz, UWM Field Station
Dazhong Dave Zhao
Biological Sciences
Signaling of Cell Fate Determination During Sexual Reproduction
Daniel Agterberg
Theory of Electron Spins in Magnetic, Superconducting, and Spintronic Materials
Bruce Allen
Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics
Co-PIs: Jolien D. Creighton; Marie Alesendra J. Papa; Patrick R. Brady; John L. Friedman; Leonard Parker; Alan Wiseman, Physics
Jian Chen
Nanoengineering Stable Carbon Nanotube Aerogels
Dyanna Czeck
Linking Quantitative Values of Strain and Fabrics in Naturally Deformed Rocks
Steven Dornbos
Shedding Light on the Cambrian Explosion
Shaoqin Sarah Gong
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable and Eco-friendly Bio-based Polymer Composites
Prasenjit Guptasarma
Growth of Single Crystals of Materials with Highly Correlated Ground Electron States
Co-PI: Bimal K. Sarma, Physics
Sergey Kravtsov
Atmospheric Sciences
Effects of Eddies onto Decadal Variability of Large-Scale Ocean Currents and Climate
Vince Larson
Atmospheric Sciences
Global Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Paul Lyman
Atomic Layer Deposition for Production of Nanostructured Materials
Adeeb Rahman
Civil Engineering
An Engineering Approach to Improve the Assessment and Prevention of Hip Fractures in the Elderly: Initial Development of Concept and Methodology
Co-PI: Chris Papadopoulos, Civil & Mechanical Engineering
Co-PI: David Klemer, Electrical Eng & Computer Sci
Valerica Raicu
Instrument Development and Application to Quantitative Protein-Protein Interaction Studies in Vivo
Co-PI: Dilano K. Saldin, Physics
Paul Roebber
Atmospheric Science
A New Paradigm for Understanding the Seasonal Predictability of Climate
Co-PI: Chaoyang Zeng, Physics
Sara Benesh
Political Science
Supreme Court Monitoring of Lower Courts in Cases Not Formally Decided
Aaron Buseh
Individual and Community Environment Effects on HIV Stigma in HIV-Infected African American Men
Co-PI: Patricia W. Stevens, Nursing
Dave Edyburn
Exceptional Education
Validation of Student Academic Achievement Using Technology Enhanced Performance Intervention Menus
Co-PI: Roger O. Smith, Occupational Therapy
Anthony Greene
How Humans Learn Contextual Associations: Functional MRI Analysis
Co-PI: Fred J. Helmstetter, Psychology
Anthony Hains
Educational Psychology
Influence of Social Attributions on Type 1 and Type II Diabetes Adherence
Co-PI: William H. Davies, Psychology
Fred Helmstetter
Imaging Memory Formation Using High-Field MRI
Co-PI: James R J. Moyer Jr, Psychology
Carol Ott
Grief Intervention for Spouses and Adult Children of Persons with End-Stage Alzheimer's Disease
Jennifer Peterson
Families Coping with HIV: The Impact of a Mother's Infection
Co-PI: Lindsay M. Timmerman, Communication
Azara Santiago-Rivera
Educational Psychology
Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression in Latino Adults
Co-PI: Jonathan W. Kanter, Psychology
Kathleen Sawin
Adaptation in Spina Bifida: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents and Young Adults
Research and Creative Activities Support (RACAS)
Description: Provides competitive support for faculty and instructional and research academic staff across the breadth of meritorious scholarship at UWM. Supported projects are expected to result in appropriate scholarly products that will increase the national and international recognition of the awardees, their programs, and the institution. Examples include publications, creative works, proposals for extramural funding and/or named fellowships, and artistic performances.
- Download the full RACAS Request for Proposals for complete program details and proposal submission guidelines (available by October 22)
- Complete the Applicant Information & Budget Form (available by October 22) .
Award: Up to a maximum of $15,000 for individual applicants or $25,000 for two or more UWM applicants working on a project. RACAS awards cannot be used to support curriculum development projects, service projects, or projects having the main intent of developing commercial products.
Proposal Sections: Project narrative, references, budget justification, curriculum vitae.
- Project Narrative: Limited to six singled-spaced pages with one-inch margins.(Page limit includes graphs, illustrations, figures, pictures, etc.) Minimum font size is 11 point in Arial, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Georgia, or Computer Modern.
- References: As needed in support of project narrative, single-spaced.
- Budget Justification: One to two pages, single-spaced.
- Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae: Limited to five pages, single-spaced, for each investigator.
Administrative staff with program experience will provide "non-specialist comments" on your proposal if requested up to two weeks before the submission deadline. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com, or email@example.com.
Proposal Submission: Submission instructions will be available by October 22.
Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m., Monday, November 19, 2018. Late submissions, incomplete applications, and proposals that exceed the page limits in any section will not be accepted.
Review Process:
- Stage One: The Office of Research sorts proposals into groups by topic and contacts potential internal reviewers with subject expertise for a proposal group. When possible, reviewers will be former Research Committee, FRACAS, or RACAS award recipients. All Stage One reviewers provide ratings and written comments.
- Stage Two: When possible, a second, broadly representative review panel is convened to evaluate the top-rated proposals and make funding recommendations. For both stages, reviewers remain anonymous and all reviewer feedback is anonymized before being sent to applicants.
Award Selection: Funding decisions are made by Office of Research leadership, based on final ratings, review comments, and funding recommendations. Additional considerations:
- For applicants with prior RACAS awards, significant factors in the funding decision are completion of project deliverables, and the submission of outcome reports.
- Projects that have significant overlap with any of the PI's externally supported projects will not be funded.
- Awards will not be given to applicants on notice of non-retention or who have accepted offers at other institutions.
In deciding among proposals with equivalent ratings near the funding cutoff, consideration will be given to a balanced award portfolio across disciplines.
Questions? Contact Kathleen Koch at firstname.lastname@example.com or (414) 229-3699.
Award Recipients
Margaret Bartlett
Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education
Community conversations for inclusive education: The case of children with dis/Abilities in Namibia
Viktorija Bilić
Assistant Professor, Translation and Interpreting
Translating the Civil War-Era Letters of Mathilde Franziska Anneke
Adream Blair
Associate Professor, Art & Design
Spatial Prosthetics using Gravity Sketch in Augmented Reality
Marcus Britton
Associate Professor, Sociology
Emmanuel Ngui
Associate Professor, Zilber School of Public Health
Hospital Segregation and Patient Mortality Outcomes
Rachel Buff
Professor, History
Terms of Occupancy: Refugees, Migrants, and Public Discourse, 1930- present
Winson Chu
Associate Professor, History
Nazi German Criminal Investigators and Jewish Suicides in Lodz/Litzmannstadt during the Second World War
Stanislaus Husi
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
The greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history? The Abolition of Slavery and its Implications for Moral Philosophy
Bowles Julie
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Assessing the ability of stromatolites to preserve Earth's magnetic field
Valerie Laken
Assistant Professor, English
Margot in Winter (a novel)
Elana Levine
Professor, Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies
Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History
Gyaneshwar Prasad
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation: Comparing rhizobial interactions with nodulating (Chamaecrista fasciculata) and non-nodulating (Gleditsia triacanthos) basal legumes
Alvaro Rios
Assistant Professor, Theatre
On The Wings of a Mariposa
Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Associate Professor, French, Italian & Comparative Literature
Women Writers and Global Politics in Jordan
Romila Singh
Associate Professor, Lubar School of Business
Nadya Fouad
University Distinguished Professor, Educational Psychology
Edward Levitas
Professor, Lubar School of Business
The role of gender and race in fostering innovation in engineering teams.
Erin Winkler
Associate Professor, Africology
Children's Cities: Understanding Race, Place, and Power through the Perspectives of African American and Latinx Children Experiencing Homelessness
Erica Young
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
John Berges
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Creatures who live in glass houses: Defining the players in freshwater and marine silicate cycling
Nikole Bouchard
Assistant Professor, Architecture
From Waste to Wonder: Working with What Remains
Liam Callanan
Associate Professor, English
Bird of Paradise: A Biography of Wisconsin Aviation Pioneer Lester Maitland
Sarah Davies-Cordova
Professor, French, Italian & Comparative Literature
Translating Sindiwe Magona's "Mother to Mother"
Gordon Gauchat
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Democratic Values and the Cultural Authority of Science
Kevin Keenan
Associate Professor, Kinesiology-Exercise Science and Health Promotion
Neural mechanisms contributing to falls in older adults
Emily Latch
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Landscape Genomics for Conservation of the Cascades Frog
Victoria Moerchen
Associate Professor, Kinesiology-Integrative Health Care & Promotion
Rachel Schiffman
Professor, Nursing
Parent-Infant Interaction as the Foundation for Infant Motor Performance
Blaine Neufeld
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Public Reason: Consensus or Convergence?
Barbara Pauloski
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Using Ultrasound to Document the Effects of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) on Suprahyoid Musculature
Michele Polfuss
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Accurate Identification of Body Fat in Children with Spina Bifida: A Feasibility Study
Filip Tejchman
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Dennis Utzinger
Professor, Architecture
Architecture for the Birds
Wei Wei
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
New Dependence Notions with Applications in Insurance and Finance
Anika Wilson
Associate Professor, Africology
The Hills are Alive: Spirits of Sustainability and Earth Shrines in Contemporary Central Africa
Michael Zimmer
Associate Professor, Information Studies
The Zuckerberg Files: Tracking the Evolution of Mark Zuckerberg's Technological Discourse
Sukanya Banerjee
Associate Professor, English
Loyalty and the Making of the Modern
Anne Basting
Professor, Theatre
Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia Volume 2
Dyanna Czeck
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Characterizing the geochemical changes in the Beja-Acebuches metabasites due to retrograde metamorphism and fluid flow along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone
Stephen Dornbos
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Understanding the early evolution of multicellular life: A new exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale-type biota from the Ediacaran of western Mongolia
Sandeep Gopalakrishnan
Clinical Assistant Professor, Nursing
Janis Eells
Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Near-infrared (NIR) irradiation in a diabetic mouse model with severe wound healing impairment
Jennifer Jordan
Professor, Sociology
Landscapes of Memory: Forgetting and Remembering in Historical Kitchen Gardens
Dean Nardelli
Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences and
Elizabeth Liedhegner
Laboratory Manager II, Biomedical Sciences
Effects of Naturally-Occurring Regulatory T Cells on Development of Lyme Disease
Timothy O'Brien
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Gender and Judicial Gatekeeping in Civil Rights Law
Tasha Oren
Associate Professor, English
FoodTV: Televisuality and the Transformation of Food into Popular Culture
John Roberts
Professor, Sociology
Methodological Challenges in Archaeological Network Analysis
Erin Ruppel
Assistant Professor, Communication
Effects of Communication Technology Use on Marital Conflict, Arousal, and Depressed Mood
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Assistant Professor, English
The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theatre Architecture
Tanya Tiffany
Associate Professor, Art History
Visual Culture and Feminine Devotion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Jie Yu
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics and
Yue Liu
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Development of a Prototype Lane-based Signal Merge Control System for Freeway Work Zone Operations
Ryan Holifield
Associate Professor, Geography
Urban political ecologies of the working-class city: The politics of producing green space in Milwaukee and Barcelona, 1930-1939
Patricia Mayes
Associate Professor, English
Agency as 'Distributed' Action: Investigating the Incremental, Intertextual, and Interactional Construction of What Writers Do
Annie McClanahan
Assistant Professor, English
Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture
Heather Owen
Associate Scientist, Biological Sciences
Morphological and Immunocytochemical Characterization of the feronia4 Mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana Ovules
Robert Schneider, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and
Lingqian Hu, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
Models to Estimate Pedestrian and Bicycle Commuting at the Neighborhood Level
Paru Shah
Associate Professor, Political Science
Racialized Campaigns in the States: New Questions and New Evidence
Ying Wang
Associate Professor, Art History
Khora at the Mt. Gangdis: Circumambulation of the Snow-Mountain in Tibet
Tami Williams
Associate Professor, English
The 'Silent Arts': Modern Pantomime, Symbolist Theater and Dance
Jorg Woehl
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
PSF Lab: A computational laboratory for the modeling of optical point spread functions
Bettina Arnold
Professor, Anthropology, $15,000
Subvention Funds for the Publication of "A Landscape of Ancestors: Archaeological Investigations in Two Iron Age Burial Mounds in the Hohmichele Group, Baden-Württemberg"
Christopher Burns
Associate Professor, Music, $9,943
A Sensor-Driven Generative Music Platform for Mobile Computing
George Clark
Professor, English, $14,100
The Tree of Diamond/The Hippo Hunters
Derek Counts
Associate Professor, Art History, $14,747
A Fragmented Past: (Re)Constructing Antiquity Through 3D Modeling
Carolyn Eichner
Associate Professor, History, $13,363
The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship in France
Margaret Fraiser
Associate Professor, Geosciences, $14,962
What Are the Controls on Ecosystem Recovery Following Global Environmental Change? A Geochemical and Paleoecological Case Study Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction
Jennifer Johung
Associate Professor, Art History, $11,367
Vital Dependencies: Biological Art, Architecture, and Life
Yevgenia Kaganovich
Professor, Art & Design, $14,309
David Klingbeil
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $13,311
Peer-Mediated Incremental Rehearsal for English Language Learners
Kyongboon Kwon
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $14,478
The Impact of Emotional Regulation Norms and Emotional Climate of Children's Social Network on Social Behavior: One Year Follow-Up
Christine Larson
Associate Professor, Psychology, $14,650
Predicting Who Will Get PTSD: The Role of the Neural Circuitry of Fear Extinction in the Immediate Aftermath of Trauma
Robin Mello
Associate Professor, Theatre, $12,500
Whistle Stop Adopt!
Oriol Mirosa
Assistant Professor, Sociology, $14,904
Water Poverty in American Cities
Devin Mueller
Assistant Professor, Psychology, $15,000
Cellular Contributions of Estradiol to Neural Plasticity
Jacqueline Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $24,977
Co-PI: Razia Azen, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Me, My Choices, and Why Study Phase II: Multidimensional Cultural Identity in Southeast Asian Adolescents
Julie Oliver
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, $25,000
Co-PI: Doug Steeber, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Targeting and Destruction of Tumor and Immune Suppressor Cells in Breast Cancer
David Pate
Associate Professor, Social Work, $14,963
Understanding Low-Income Civil Litigants' Experiences with Access to Justice Interventions
Neal Pease
Professor, History, $13,830
Remembering a Vanished World: The Jewish Revival in Poland
Changshan Wu
Professor, Geography, $14,866
Estimating Urban Impervious Surface Distribution in Wisconsin Using Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Winson Chu
Assistant Professor, History
Germans, Poles, and Jews in the Making of the "Lodzermensch": Competing Nationalisms in Poland, 1880-2009
Chris Cornelius
Associate Professor, Architecture
Radio Free Alcatraz: The Nineteen-Month American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island – An Architectural Speculation
Elizabeth Drame
Associate Professor, Exceptional Education
Barriers to inclusive education: A comparative study across West, East and South Africa
Scott Graham
Assistant Professor, English
Understanding the Communicative Process in FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meetings: A Methodological Pilot
Rebecca Holderness
Associate Professor, Theatre
The Garfield Play
Chris Lawson
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
The inductive privilege of large samples: Exploring the contextual and cognitive factors responsible for children's adherence to the law of large samples
Richard Leson
Assistant Professor, Art History
The Material Life of Jeanne of Flanders
Joseph Mougel
Assistant Professor, Art & Design
From Silver Crystals to Landscape Pixels
Susana Munoz
Assistant Professor, Administrative Leadership
Creating Counterspaces of Resistance and Sanctuaries of Learning and Teaching: An Analysis of Freedom University
Mark Netzloff
Associate Professor, English
Extraterritorial Sovereignties: English State Agents in Early Modern Europe
Michael Newman
Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising & Media Studies
Play TV: Early Video Games in the Home
Richard Popp
Assistant Professor, Journalism, Advertising & Media Studies
Direct Marketing, Communication Systems, and the Making of American Media Consumerism, 1865-2000
Rafael Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Miniaturization and behavioral capabilities
Aaron Schutz
Professor, Educational Policy and Community Studies
Beyond the Current Canon in Community Organizing
Manu Sobti
Associate Professor, Architecture
The Sliver of the Oxus Borderland: Medieval Cultural Encounters between the Arabs and Persians
Nathaniel Stern
Associate Professor, Art & Design
Rippling Images: undersea, performative, digital printmaking
Daniel Vyleta
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature
Nazi Criminal Justice and Jews: The Walter Pick Trial
Jinsung Wang
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Hemispheric motor lateralization in active and sedentary older adults
Jun Zhang
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Information Extraction from Free Text Patient Medical Reports for Breast Cancer Patient Care
Mary Jo Baisch
Associate Professor, Nursing
Bearing the Burden: Identifying Attributes of Allostatic Load in African American Women in An Electronic Health System
Anne Bonds
Assistant Professor, Geography
Enduring Incarceration: Gender, Race, and Post-Incarceration Geographies Survival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Xiaoxia Cao
Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Bridging the Distance: The Effect of Media Messages About Human Suffering on Help for People in Need From Another Country
David Divalerio
Assistant Professor, History
The Legacy of the Madman of ü (1458-1532) Through Oral Traditions
Christine Evans
Assistant Professor, History
Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Television
Clark Evans
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
An Assessment of Thunderstorm Development Forecast Successes and Failures From Very High Resolution Numerical Weather Forecasts
Marcus Filippello
Assistant Professor, History
Crossing the "Black Earth": Roads, Environmental Change, and Communal Consciousness in An African Forest Community
Nicholas Fleisher
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
The Semantics of Adjectives in the 'Tough' Construction
Frankie Flood
Associate Professor, Art & Design
Digital Craft Research: Data, Process, and Material
Kimberly Hassell
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Co-PI: Tina Freiburger Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Outcome and Process Evaluation of Police Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases
John Heilmann
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Developing Linguistic Profiles of Children with Language Impairment
Rene Izquierdo
Assistant Professor, Music
Advancing Chamber Music for Classical Guitar
Benjamin Johnson
Associate Professor, History
Escaping the Dark, Gray City: How Conservation Re-Made City, Suburb, and Countryside in the Progressive Era
Rohit Kate
Assistant Professor, Health Informatics & Administration
Extracting Evidence-Based Practical Guidelines for Laser Phototherapy From Meta-Analysis Data
Elana Levine
Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Constructing Femininity in Soap Opera History
Marcellus Merritt
Assistant Professor, Psychology
A Tailored Stress Management Intervention for Reduced Day and Nighttime Blood Pressure in Young Pre-Hypertensive Adults
Lisa Moline
Associate Professor, Art & Design
The Sideways OED, Memory Palaces and Other Stories: Experimental Interactive Narratives for the Internet
Joe Peschio
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature
Russian Literary Censorship 1801-28: Preliminary Analysis of Russian Archival Holdings
Sandra Pucci
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Instructed Heritage Language Speakers
Chia Vang
Associate Professor, History
A View of War From Below: History and Memory Among Ethnic Minorities in Laos During and After the Vietnam War
Ying-Chih Wang
Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Technology
Co-PI: Jay Kapellusch, Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Technology
Removing Air Bubbles Generated in the IV Lines During the Intravenous Cancer Therapy
Erin Winkler
Assistant Professor, Africology
Racism As a Threshold Topic: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in a University Diversity Requirement Course
Zengwang Xu
Assistant Professor, Geography
Identifing Potential Epidemic Pathways in the US Intercity Air Transportation Network
Nidal Abu-Zahra
Associate Professor, Materials Engineering
Graphene Based, Ultra-Efficient, Low Cost Polymer Solar Cells
David Allen
Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Spatial Frameworks and Dissent: The Use of Place in the Management of Expression in the U.S.
Elisabetta Cova
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature
Space, Function and Social Practice in the Roman Houses of Pompeii
W Hobart Davies
Professor, Psychology
Empirical Examination of Effects of Recruitment Approach on External Validity
Janis Eells
Professor, Health Sciences
Photobiomodulation for the Treatment of Retinal Degenerative Disease
Uk Heo
Professor, Political Science
South Korea's Rise in World Affairs: Power, Economic Development, and Foreign Policy
Lingquian Ivy Hu
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
Beyond Inner Cities: A Comparative Study of the Spatial Mismatch in Chicago and Los Angeles
Jason Christopher Jones
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages & Literature
Remaking Japan: American Remakes of Japanese Film
N Kundan Kishor
Assistant Professor, Economics
Has Housing Market Wealth Effect Increased Over Time?
Simonetta Konewko
Assistant Professor, FICL
Neorealism and Models of Compassion
Josepha Lanters
Professor, English
The Theatrical Oeuvre of Thomas Kilroy: The Art of Imperfection
Barbara Ley
Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
The Transmediated Culture of Online Pregnancy Support
Colleen Ludwig
Assistant Professor, Art & Design
Elemental Bodies: A Series of Four Immersive Environments with Sensor Control
Genevieve Mcbride
Associate Professor, History
Front Page Backstory: A Woman Journalist in 'Jazz Age' Chicago And
'Dear Mrs. Griggs': Readers Pouring Out Their Hearts in the Heartland
Kristen Murphy
Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Why Students Struggle with Scale Literacy: Identifying Analytical Reasoning Versus Heuristic Processing in Scaling Tasks
Blain Neufeld
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Civic Respect, Political Legitimacy, and Citizenship Education
Markeda Newel
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Using Computer-Simulation to Analyze Problem-Solving Consultation in a Racially Diverse School Context
Terrance Newell
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Examining the Effectiveness of Two Digital Learning Simulations in Increasing Students' Scientific Problem-Solving Skills
Hanyong Park
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
English Influence on Korean Consonant Category Change
Diana Reddy
Professor, Psychology
Increasing Vaccination for Human Papillomavirus in Economically Disadvantaged Girls and Boys
Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Associate Professor, FICL
Translating Memory and War: Ebtithal Salem's "A Small Box in the Heart
Heeju Shin
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Increase of Urban-Rural Disparities in Child Health in Peru Between 1991 and 2008
Robert Smith
Associate Professor, History
Battling Racial Colonialism with Legal Activism; Transnational Cooperation Within the Human Rights Bar
Michael Tofias
Assistant Professor, Political Science
For the Folks Back Home: Accountability and Representation in the United States Senate
Ricardo Vasconcelos
Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Completion of the Book Manuscript "Who's Afraid of Anthologies? Anthologies of Twentieth-Century Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry in the Portuguese
Ying Wang
Associate Professor, Art History
White Gold: Art and Salt in Yangzhou, 1700-1800
Carla Wiggins
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
The Use of Health Information Technology in Ambulatory Surgery Centers in Wisconsin
Chantel Wright
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature
A Book-Length History of German Gastarbeiterliteratur (Guest Worker Literature) 1955-1990
Joe Austin
Associate Professor, History
Before "Urban Youth": African American Youth and U.S. Central Cities, 1940-1970
Carla Bagnoli
Professor, Philosophy
A Puzzle About the Authority of Moral Norms
Rachel Ida Buff
Associate Professor, History
Deportation and the Evolution of Immigrant Rights in the U.S., 1935-65
P Shawn Cahill
Assistant Professor, Psychology
The Effects of Rape-Prevention Education on Threat Detection: Tests of Short-Term Acquisition and Long-Term Retention
Noelle Chesley
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Technology Use & Work-Family Processes: Impacts on Psychological Well- Being
Garry W. Davis
Associate Professor, Foreign Language and Literature
Empirical Research on the 'Interlanguage' of Immersion Learners
L Raquel Farmer-Hinton
Associate Ed. Policy & Communication Studies
Going to College: Exploring Key Supports and Resources in Urban Schools for Students' Preparation for College
Kathryn Fonner
Assistant Professor, Communication
I'm Working Here!" Linking Teleworkers' Boundary Management Strategies to Work-Life Balance, Role Identity, and Stress
Elena Gorfinkel
Assistant Professor, Art History
Indecent Desires, Obsolete Bodies: Sexpoitation Cinema, 1960s Film Culture and the Adult Film Audience
Jean Hudson
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Transitions At Gramalote: Evaluation of Coastal Contributions During the Initial Period in the Moche Valley of Peru
Jeri-Anne Lyons
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Therapeutic Efficancy of NIR Photobiomodulation in An Animal Model of Multiple Sclerosis
T Dean Nardelli
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Identification of T Helper Type 17 Cells in the Development of Lyme Arthritis
Timothy B. Patrick
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Developing a Measure of the Accuracy of the Translation of Research Into Practice
David Pritchard
Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication
Adapting Press Law to the Realities of the Digital Age: An Empirical Study of Legal Change in Trial Courts
Marcelino Stuhmer
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Dissecting Identity: Recreating a 17th Century Anatomy Theater to Function As An Alternative Performance and Exhibition Space
Anika Wilson
Assistant Professor, Africology
Strange Bedfellows: International Human Rights Law, Customary Courts, and the Marital Disputes of Malawian Women
Sukanya Banerjee
Associate Professor, English
Loyalty and the Making of the Modern Subject, 1858-1905
Gregory T. Carter
Assistant Professor, History
Wendell Phillips: Unapologetic Abolitionist, Unreformed Amalgamationist
Bruce Charlesworth
Assistant Professor, Film
Woonsup Choi
Assistant Professor, Geography
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Urban Climate in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Stephen C. Cobb
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Novel Multi-Segment Foot Model Based on In-Vivo and In-Vitro Stereophotogrammetric Studies and Clinical Theories of Foot Function.
Luca Ferrero
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Shared Actions, Individual Agency, and the Unity of Plural Subjects
Marcia A. Firmani
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Fitness Cost of Multiple-Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Rina Ghose
Associate Professor, Geography
Investigating Citizen Participation in Privatized Collaborative Planning in Inner-City Milwaukee
Leslie Harris
Assistant Professor, Communication
Holy Matrimony, Sacred Covenant, and Legal Union: Marriage and Its Deviations in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Associate Professor, Visual Art
Body: Subject and Site
Maria Del Pilar Melgarejo-Acosta
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Language of Regeneration: The Production of Political Discourse in Colombia and Mexico
Nathaniel Stern
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Embodiment and Minimalism in Internet-Based Art
Jennifer Watson
Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Linguistics
Wild One: A Biography of Selma Lagerlöf
Changshan Wu
Associate Professor, Geography
Mapping Urban Impervious Surfaces Using IKONOS Imagery: An Integrated Approach
Kathryn Zalewski
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Ability-Based Rehabilitation: A Case-Series Exploring Stroke Recovery in the United States
Mo (Maureen) Zell
Assistant Professor, Architecture
New Parking Paradigm: Re-Think, Re-Zone, Re-Use
Lisa Berger
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Social Worker and Physician Administered Brief Alcohol Intervention for Hospitalized Patients
Winson W. Chu
Assistant Professor, History
Polish, German, Or Jewish? The "Lodzer Mensch" and the Politics of Multi-Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century Poland
Christopher A. De Sousa
Associate Professor, Geography
Residential Brownfields Development, Sprawl, and Sustainability: A Demand Side Perspective
Frankie Flood
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Rapid Prototyping and D Scanning in the Production of Art
Ryan Holifield
Assistant Professor, Geography
Environmental Justice and the Cleanup of Contaminated Urban Rivers: A Comparative Study of Areas of Concern in the Lake Michigan Basin
Nan Y. Kim-Paik
Assistant Professor, History
Families of the Wartime Missing and the Return of the Korean War's Presumed Dead in 21st-Century South Korea
Anna Mansson Mcginty
Assistant Professor, Geography and Women's Studies
Gender Identity and Activism Among Muslim Women in the Midwest
Lori Neighbors
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
To Weigh Or Not to Weigh: The Demography, Epidemiology, and Qualitative Experience of Body Weight Monitoring for Weight Control
Susan Partington
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Prenatal Environment and Childhood Obesity
Joe Peschio
Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Linguistics
The Green Lamp
Arijit H. Sen
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Collaborative Politics of the Contact Zone: White Women in the San Francisco Hindu Temple
Jason Sherman
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
The Margarita Settlement Survey: Ancient Maya Rural Settlement in South-Central Quintana Roo, Mexico
Julia A. Snethen
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Influence of Familial Environment and Decision-Making Patterns on Childhood Obesity
Natasha Borges Sugiyama
Assistant Professor, Political Science
The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil
Kristin M. Sziarto
Assistant Professor, Geography
The Scales of Immigrant Regulation and Resistance: A Comparative Study
Tanya J. Tiffany
Assistant Professor, Art History
Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville
Laura Trafi-Prats
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
A Narrative Study of Elementary Children's Aesthetic Perspectives of Urban Environment and Change
Christine Calynn T. Cheng
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Algorithmic and Complexity Issues of Sudoku.
Jennifer Suzanne Hruska
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
The Dynamics of Polynomial Skew Products in Two Complex Variables.
Tae Youn Kim
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Using Electronic Patient Records to Measure Pressure Ulcer Prevalence.
Soyoung Lee
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Phonological Awareness and Nonsense Word Production in Bilingual Children.
Jin Li
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Impact of Surface Properties on the Transport of Microbial Pollutants in Prous Media.
Aims Mcguinness
Assistant Professor, History
Rights of Time: Labor, the Working Day, Childhood, and Aging in the United States and Mexico, 1880-Present.
Katie E. Mosack
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Older Russian Immigrant Women's Health Beliefs and the Treatment of Hypertension.
Jason Puskar
Assistant Professor, English
Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871-1935.
Jenifer J. Runquist
Assistant Professor, Nursing
A Pilot Investigation of Fatigue After Childbirth in a Vulnerable Community.
Caorline Seymour-Jorn
Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women's Writing.
Lisa Silverman
Assistant Professor, History
Theater, Photography, and Austrian Jewish Cultural History: Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) and Dora Kallmus (1881-1963).
Michael Tofias
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Understanding Asymmetry in the Colonel Blotto Game.
Catherine Vanderboom
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Identification of Rescue Activities Provided to Home Healthcare Patients.
Florence Vatan
Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Mastering Sensibility: The Aesthetics of Flaubert and Baudelaire in Light of Contemporary Medical Conceptions.
Erin N. Winkler
Assistant Professor, Africology
I Learn About Being Black Everywhere I Go": The Racial Socialization of African-American Children.
Hong Yu
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Effectively Determining the Information Needs From Ad Hoc Clinical Questions Posed for Question Answering.
Michael Brondino
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Development of a Content Specific Reading Test to Link Test Readability to Respondent Ability.
Noelle Chesley
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Contextualizing Care: Informal Elder Care, Employment, and Caregiver Health and Well-Being.
Edward Hinchman
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Evil and the Limits of Responsibility.
Rebecca Holderness
Assistant Professor, Theatre
A Mixed Media Performance
The Observation of Miss Julie.
Wooseob Jeong
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Touchable Online Text and Image Display for Blind People.
Catherine Anne Johnson
Assistant Professor, Information Studies
Investigating the Social Capital of Public Libraries.
Erin Kaheny Olsen
Assistant Professor, Political Science
An Investigation of Circuit Judge Gatekeeping Behavior in Administrative Agency Appeals.
Bonita Klein-Tasman
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Early Autism Phenotype: Head Circumference Growth and Emerging Executive Functioning.
Christina Mararnci
Associate Professor, Art History
The Geometry of Power.
Sandra Martell
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Field Trips to Museums and Student Learning: What Does the Data Tell Us?
J. Carson Smith
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Exercise As a Treatment for Depression in Older Adults: Effects on Emotional Reactivity and Brain Function.
Richard Tierney
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Aristotle's Concept of Nature.
Luc Vanier
Assistant Professor, Dance
The "E's of Water".
Andrea Westlund
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Care and the Self.
Jeb Willenbring
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Problems in Quantum Computation.
Bo Zhang
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Examining the Value of Group Grades in Assessing Student Achievement.
Huimin Zhao
Assistant Professor, Business
Intelligent Symptom-Based Retrieval of Electronic Medical Records.
Daniel Agterberg
Assistant Professor, Physics
Dynamics of Unconventional Superconductors.
Ellen J. Amster
Assistant Professor, History
City of Saints: Political Organization, Geography and Urban History in Fes, Morocco.
Joe Austin
Assistant Professor, History
Global Undergrounds: Graffiti Artists, Goths, and Print-Zines Across National Boundaries, 1980-Present.
Jay J. Bauer
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Voice F0 Responses Elicited By Perturbations in Pitch of Auditory Feedback in Individuals That Stutter and Controls.
Rachel Ida Buff
Assistant Professor, History.
Conjugal Policy: Occupying Asian America, 1945-1975.
Kuang-Chi Chang
Assistant Professor, Sociology
The Social Logic Behind "Offshoring" in the Asian Market: Moving Business and Social Networks Into China.
Steven Q. Dornbos
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Paleocology and Paleoenvironmental Setting of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna of China: An Early View of the Cambrian Explosion.
Caryn S. Easterling
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Effectiveness of Electrical Stimulation on Swallowing in Children with Neurologic Impairment with Chronic Dysphagia.
Laura Fingerson
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Food and Physical Activity in Teen Peer Cultures.
Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho
Assistant Professor, History
Burial Rites, Funerary Sociability, and Sense of Self Among Slaves and Freed Persons At Rome in the Early Principate.
Prasenjit Guptasarma
Assistant Professor, Physics
Probing Correlated Electron Spins in New Magnetoelectric Materials.
Tracey Heatherington
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Environmetalist Identities in the New Europe: Sardinian Forest Rangers.
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Adornment As Extension of the Body.
Jonathan W. Kanter
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapy for Depression.
Sergei V. Kuchin
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Assessment of Std1 and Related Proteins As New Molecular Targets for Safe Antifungal Therapy.
Jeri-Annette Lyons
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
B Lymphocyte Migration and Maturation During a Multiple-Sclerosis-Like Disease in Mice.
Robin Mello
Assistant Professor, Theatre
Stages for Learning: History and Practice of Theatre Education in Public Schools.
bJames R. Moyer
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Evaluation of a Novel Treatment for Aging-Related Cognitive Decline.
Michael P. Muehlenbein
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Effects of Testosterone Supplementation on the Immune Functions of Obese Men and HIV-Infected Men.
Mark Netzloff
Assistant Professor, English
Before the Grand Tour: English Travel and Migration in Early Modern Europe, 1570-1640.
Kristian Matthew O'Connor
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Do Clinical Functional Tests Predict Knee Joint Mechanics During Play?
Mat Rappaport
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Presences: An Interactive Video Installation.
Stefan Schnitzer
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Quantifying Long-Term, Large-Scale Changes in Temperate Forest Plant Communities.
Douglas A. Steeber
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Defining the Role of Adhesion Molecules in Lymphocyte Migration and the Generation of Protective Immunity.
Kyle Talbott
Assistant Professor, Architecture
A Computer-Aided Architectural Design Method to Augment Creativity.
Hani H.Titi
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics
Mechanistic/Numerical Methodology for Improved Performance of Highway Pavements.
Jorg C. Woehl
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Development of Novel, High Performance Fiber Probes for the Optical Imaging of Single Molecules on Surfaces.
Changshan Wu
Assistant Professor, Geography
Understanding Lyme Disease and Environmental Relationships in Wisconsin – a Remote Sensing and GIS Approach.
Yaoying Xu
Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education
The Effect of Empowering Families of Premature Infants Through Linked Assessment and Intervention on Caregiver-Infant Interactions.
Scott Adams
Assistant Professor, Economics
The Health Insurance-Wage Tradeoff.
Jasmine Alinder
Assistant Professor, History
Left Living: Frank P. Zeidler and Milwaukee's Socialist Legacy.
Dyanna Czeck
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
When Tectonic Plates Collide: Predicting Strain for Rocks Under Stress.
Scott Drewianka
Assistant Professor, Economics
Causes of Trends in Family Structure: An International Comparison.
Kyle Ebersole
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Determinants of Performance During Functional Knee Joint Stability Exercises in Soccer Players.
Christina Ewig
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Is Neoliberalism Bad for Women? Peru and the Politics of Health Reform in Latin America.
Luca Ferrero
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Decisions for Future Action and Personal Identity.
Judith Franzak
Assistant Professor, English
Struggling Middle School Readers Transition to High School: A Study of Policy in Context.
Bryan Kennedy
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Understanding the Culture of the Brazilian Favela.
Lian Li
Associate Professor, Physics
Atomic Scale Studies of Magnetism in Magnetic Semiconductorsby Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
Christopher Papadopoulos
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Understanding and Predicting the Performance and Failure of Optimal Structures.
Adeeb Rahman
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Low-Weight and Low-Stiffness Cellular Metal Alloys for Human Joint Implants and As Bone Replacement.
Joel Rast
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Curbing Industrial Decline Or Thwarting Redevelopment? An Evaluation of Chicago's Planned Manufacturing Districts.
Gillian Rodger
Assistant Professor, Music
The Early History of American Vaudeville, 1850-1880.
Scott Strath
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Enhancing Physical Activity Motivation in Older Adults.
Rodney Swain
Associate Professor, Psychology
Angiogenesis/Neurogenesis Inhibition and Learning.
Ann Swartz
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Sciences
Determinants of Glucose Intolerance and Insulin Sensitivity in Older Adults.
Min Wu
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Tele-Educational System for Dental Residents Interpreting Oral Cancer Images.
Darci Wutz
Assistant Professor, Dance
Broadway Dances: A Journey Through Time.
Jian Xu
Assistant Professor, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
Suffering, Representation, and Critical Positioning in China's Postsocialist Literature and Film.
Vladislav Yakovlev
Associate Professor, Physics
When Dreams Come True: Nanoscopic Non-Invasive Imaging of Living Cells.
Ching-Hong Yang
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Genome-Wide Identification of Virulence Genes in Erwinia Chrysanthemi 3937.
Rene Antrop-Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Education Curriculum and Instruction
Factors That Latina/O Urban Alternative High School Students Attribute to Their High Academic Achievement and Resiliency.
Razia Azen
Assistant Professor, Education Educational Psychology
Relative Importance of Correlated Predictor Variables: Inference with Dominance Analysis.
Sukanya Banerjee
Assistant Professor, English
Imperial Diasporas and the Politics of Nation-Space: Colonial Identities and Metropolitan Englishness.
John A. Berges
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Mortality in Freshwater Phytoplankton.
Kimberly J. Cosier
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Matters of Concern for At-Risk High School Students in Art Classrooms and Beyond.
Jennifer E. Earl
Assistant Professor, Human Movement Science
Relationships Among Gender, Dynamic Malalignment, and Lower Extremity Injury.
Simone Ferro
Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
Dance Research Performance Called "Ear-Walking Woman.
Jill Ann Holman
Assistant Professor, Economics
Alternative Methods of Financing Productive Government Expenditures in An Open Economy.
Susanne Jones
Assistant Professor, Communication
Socio-Psychological and Cultural Variations in the Experience and Expression of Emotional Labor.
William P. Jones
Assistant Professor, History
Dispatches From the War Within: An Anne Braden Reader.
Andrew Kincaid
Assistant Professor, English
Holding the Center: The Geographies of Consolidation and the Emergence of Postcolonial Dublin.
Jin Li
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Effect of Biological Filters and the Removal of Biological Warfare Agents.
Shelley Lund
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Effect of Augmented Input on the Development of Grammar By Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative . . .
Linda Mccarthy
Assistant Professor, Geography
Milwaukee's Brownfields: Redevelopment and Environmental Equity?
Rebecca Neumann
Assistant Professor, Economics
Sequencing of Domestic Financial Market Development and International Capital Market Liberalization.
Sandra K. Plach
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Anxiety, Depression, and Positive Functioning in Women with Heart Failure: Can Social Roles Make a Difference?
Steven B. Redd
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Terrorism and Foreign Policy Decision Making: Including Emotions in the Calculus.
Robert O. Self
Assistant Professor, History
Century Interrupted: 1968 in American History and the International Imagination.
Hanh Q. Trinh
Associate Professor, Health Sciences
Strategic Response of Urban Hospitals to the Managed Care Market.
Michael Weinert
Professor, Physics
Electronic Properties of Oxide Nanostructure Interfaces.
Dexuan Xie
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
A Fast Algorithm for Visualizing Structure-Activity Relationships of Large-Scale Chemical Databases.
Erica B. Young
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Nutrient Induced Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Transients As a Diagnostic of Nutrient Limitation in Freshwater Microalgae.
Alison Alter
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Economic Expectations and Elections.
Anthony A. Azenabor
Assistant Professor, Allied Health Health Sciences
Chlamydia Pneumoniae Infection Modulates Lipoprotein Lipase Activity, Enhances LDL Modification and Contributes to . . .
Robert Burlage
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Isolation of Genes From a Toxic Fungus.
Aaron G. Buseh
Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance
Stigma Experienced By Women Living with HIV/AIDS Along the Wellness-Illness Continuum.
Barry I. Cameron
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
The Tempestuous Relationship Between Volcanoes and Glaciers.
Wonshik Chee
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Online Monitoring of Gear Degradation for Automatic Control Systems.
Dave Clark
Assistant Professor, English
Collectivist Individuals: Open-Source Software Communities and the Politics of Technology.
George Clark
Assistant Professor, English
Ropa Rimwe: A Novel in Progress.
Robert J. Eger
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Smart Economic Development: A Performance Study of Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) in Wisconsin.
Anthony J. Greene
Assistant Professor, Psychology
The Organization of Inferential Learning and Declarative Memory: Amnesia and the Transitive Inference Task.
Michael Greenwald
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
Sitting on Top of the World: The Application of Recently Acquired Orbital Imagery for Land Use and Water . . .
Eun-Ok Im
Assistant Professor, Nursing Health Maintenance
An Internet Survey Study on Menopausal Symptoms Among Asian Women From Six Ethnic Groups.
Bonita P. Klein-Tasman
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Behavioral Characteristics of Children with Williams Syndrome in a Standardized Context: Performance on the . . .
Vincent Larson
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Clouds and Forecasts of Weather and Climate.
Steven Mckay
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Globalization Afloat: The Making of Filipino Seafarers.
Christine Miller
Assistant Professor, Nursing Health Restoration
Heart Disease Symptoms and Risk Factors in Black Women.
Graham Moran
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
New Approaches to Therapeutics From First Principles.
Meredith Root
Assistant Professor, Film
The Theatre of the Small.
Ying Wang
Assistant Professor, Art History
Silk, Power, and Gender in Shang China.
Chaoyang Zeng
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Searching the Genes That Orchestrate the Neuronal Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation in the Drosophila . . .
Daniel F. Agterberg
Assistant Professor, Physics, $14,272.00
Symmetry-Based Theories of Unconventional Superconductors
Margo Anderson
Professor, History, $4,130.00
The Proper Role of Population Data Systems in Time of War
Mark P. Bradley
Assistant Professor, History, $14,976.00
Becoming International: A History of Transnational Passions in the Twentieth Century
Dale N. Buechler
Assistant Professor, Elec. Eng. & Comp Sci, $14,777.00
Evaluation of Impedance Measurement Techniques for the Characterization of Highly Localized Regions of Tissue
Christopher A. Desousa
Assistant Professor, Geography, $12,829.00
Converting Urban Brownfields Into Green Spaces
Joan D. Dobkin
Assistant Professor, Visual Art, Arts & Humanities, $10,730.00
Public Art to Promote Public Discourse: An Examination of Welfare Reform in the Urban Environment
Kathleen Dolan
Associate Professor, Political Science, $5,833.00
Voting for Women in the United States
Nancy File
Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, $8,049.00
Teacher/Child Interaction and Peer Competence in Early Childhood Classrooms
Christopher J. Guse
Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance, $14,700.00
Research Design, Development and Implementation of Technical Production Elements of the Play "The Berlin Circle" . . .
Robert M. Hessling
Assistant Professor, Psychology, $14,980.00
Does Explanatory Style Affect the Perception of Support in Romantic Relationships?
Jean Hudson
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, $14,914.00
The Ethnography and Archaeology of Traditional Peruvian Reed Boat Fishing Communities
Teresa S. Johnson
Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance, $14,993.00
Breast Feeding Education and Support Home Visit Program
Rhonda K. Kowalchuk
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $5,349.00
The Analysis of Repeated Measurements with Mixed-Model Adjusted F-Tests
Mark Netzloff
Assistant Professor, English, $5,350.00
England's Internal Colonies: Class Relations, Capital Formation, and the Literature of English Colonialism . . .
A. Andrew Pacheco
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, $14,763.00
A Biochemical Investigation of Nitrification
Dawn H.S. Reinemann
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, $12,746.00
Project P.R.I.D.E.: Promoting Resiliency in Diverse Environments
Lisa N. Samuels
Assistant Professor, English, $9,266.00
Modernism Is Not Enough: Shaped Readings for New Writings
Lori Settersten
Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance
Critical Thinking and Participation in Health Behaviors, $14,998.00
Ting-Ruei Shiu
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, $14,999.00
A Numerical Study of Micromachining of Glassy Materials with Nanosecond Laser Pulses At Different Wavelengths
Habib Tabatabai
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics, $15,000.00
A New Method for Damage Detection in Advanced Composite Structures
Virginia Van Dyke
Assistant Professor, Political Science, $8,805.00
Caste, Religion and "Reconversions" in Indian Politics: Hindu Nationalism Confronts Ethnic Mobilization
Linda A. Whittingham
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, $13,055.00
Are There Benefits to Mating Promiscuously for Female Birds?
Hong (Iris) Xie
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science, $14,426.00
Supporting Shifts of Information Seeking Strategies in Corporate Settings At Digital Age: Implications for . . .
Keith A. Bender
Assistant Professor, Economics
Socio-Economic Factors and Health Status of the Elderly:A Comparative Analysis
Avik Chakrabarti
Assistant Professor, Economics
Taxes and Foreign Direct Investment: U.S. Multinationals in Europe
Kyoung Ae Cho
Assistant Professor, Visual Art
Accumulation / Pattern in Nature
Peter O. Dunn
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Conservation Genetics of the Threatened Prairie Chicken
Anne R. Hansen
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Suffering and the Prophetic Past and Future in Cambodian Religion and Society: A Study of the Buddha Damnay
Sam Helwany
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering & Mechanics
Estimating Pile Set-Up
Eugenie Hildebrandt
Assistant Professor, Health Maintenance
Exploringsystem and Personal Barriers to Success in the Wisconsin Workfare (W-2) Program
Kyu-Jung Kim
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Development of Three Dimensional Computer Models of the Hand/Forearm Complex Using a New Fuzzy Reasoning Technique
Grace E. La
Assistant Professor, Architecture
The Aperture Analyzed: Reconciliation of Built Form and Context Through the Design of Openings
Lian Li
Assistant Professor, Physics
Understand the Art of Compound Semiconductor Epitaxy
Tasha G. Oren
Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication
Signal Crossing: Television, Media Policy, and the Formation of Israeli National Culture
Elizabeth A. Skowron
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Stochastic Process Analysis of Parent-Child Communication Patterns in Stress-Affected Versus Stress-Resistant
Douglas W. Woods
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Development and Evaluation of a Treatment for Vocal Tic Disorder
Vladislav Yakovlev
Assistant Professor, Physics
Frontiers of Laser Surgery
Nidal Abu-Zahra
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, $12,296
Developing An Expert System to Predict Early Tool Failure in Machining Operations Using Ultrasound Waves
Joseph H. Aldstadt
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, $12,499
Study of the Chemical Speciation of Arsenic in Green Bay By Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Synchrotron X-Ray
Bettina Arnold
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, $12,450
A Landscape of Ancestors:, Early Iron Age Social Organization & Regional Interaction in Southwest Germany
Phoebe Crisman
Assistant Professor, Architecture, $11,954
Regeneration of the Post-Industrial Urban Landscape: Potentials and Strategies for Design
W. Hobart Davies
Assistant Professor, Psychology, $12,274
Affect, Behavior, and Interaction in Forensic Interviews for Child Sexual Abuse
Christopher Davis-Benavides
Assistant Professor, Art, $11,299
Icon of Power:, a Visual Study of the Assimilation of Santiago
Peter Geissinger
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, $12,402
Experimental Determination of Electric Fields Emanating From Solid Surfaces – How Do Surfaces Catalyse Gas Reactions?
John Isbell
Associate Professor, Geosciences, $12,486
Fluvial and Tidal Sedimentology of Pennsylvanian Rocks in the Appalachian Basin
Kathi Kamm
Assistant Professor, $11,232
The Effects of Occupationally Embedded Activity on Supination By People with CVA
Tomas A. Lipinski
Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science, $7,647
Knowledge Creation in U.S.: Using Copyright Office Registration Information in Public Policy Decision Making
Paul F. Lyman
Assistant Professor, Physics, $12,458
New Growth Methods for Semiconductors
Pamela F. Phillips
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, $6,000
In Search of Eighteenth-Century Spain: The Travel Narratives
Of Antonio Ponz
Linda M. Sabatini
Assistant Professor, $12,500
Molecular Basis of Environmental Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Daad A. Saffarini
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, $12,500
Molecular Analysis of FE(III) and MN(IV) Reduction By Shewanella Putrefaciens
Pamela Schermer
Associate Professor, Art, $7,493
The Momento Mori Series:, a Contemporary Exploration of the Vanitas Tradition in Still-Life Painting
Yehua (Dennis) Wei
Assistant Professor, Geography, $12,500
Intraprovincial Inequality in China:, Case Studies of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces
Joan B. Wolf
Assistant Professor, Political Science, $6,970
Vichy on Trial: Touvier, Papon, and the Politics of Historical Responsibility
John Agada
Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science
Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Inner Cities: A Survey of Harambee Residents.
Kristin E. Espinosa
Assistant Professor, Sociology
The Effects of Welfare Reform on Mexican Immigrants in Milwaukee: A Pilot Study.
Vicki Grafentin
Assistant Professor, Art
New Sculptural Drawings.
Carol Hirschmugl
Assistant Professor, Physics
Infrared Investigations of Water-Oxide Interactions.
Goldie Kadushin
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
Ethical Dilemmas of Social Workers in Home Health Care.
Jeffrey Merrick
Associate Professor, History
Domestic Conflict and Political Consciousness in 18th Century Paris.
Ethan V. Munson
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Representing and Analyzing Relationships Among Software Documents with the Software Concordance.
Marina Perez De Mendiola
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Visibility and Figurability: Latin America in French Contemporary Literature.
Sandra L. Pucci
Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Spanish Language Literacy Maintenance in One Latino/Mexicano Community.
Michael K. Reddy
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
The Biochemistry of Protein-DNA Interactions: Vaccinia Virus As a Eukaryotic Model System.
Sylvia Schafer
Assistant Professor, History
Citizenship, Public Assistance and the Politics of Difference in Modern France, 1840-1940.
Marlene M. Schmid
Assistant Professor, Health Restoration
A Study on the Development of Clinical Decision Algorithms.
Alan W. Schwabacher
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Self-Assembled Receptors: A Route to Highly Selective Binding.
Rhea E. Steinpreis
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Treating Parkinsonian Symptoms with MK801 in An Animal Model.
Karudapuram E. Supriya
Assistant Professor, Communication
Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ethnography
British India As a Site.
Rodney A. Swain
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Cerebellar Angiogenesis: Its Determinants and Impact on Behavior.
Kyle Swanson
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
The Role of Atmospheric Dynamics in the Response of the Temperate Climate to El Nino.
Hanh Q. Trinh
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Strategic Management in the Hospital Industry: Alliance Versus Competition.
Yehua Wei
Assistant Professor, Geography
Intra-Provincial Inequality in Post-Mao China: Case Studies of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, and Yunnan Provinces.
Fred Anapol
Expression of Genes for Slow- and Fast-Twitch Myosin Adenosine Triphosphatase in Developing Muscle.
Mark Bradley
Culture and Imperial Order in Southeast Asia, 1860-1910.
Virginia L. Carlson
Urban Planning
Women's Wages and Industry Decentralization.
Lane Hall
We Are Your Kinsmen' Large-Format Print Installation.
George W. Hanson
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Electromagnetic Modeling of Complex Dielectric Mines in a Layered Earth.
Fred J. Helmstetter
Real-Time Functional Imaging of Learning in the Human Brain.
Jonathan Kahl
Creation of a Polar Standard Atmosphere.
Mark Keane
Judith T. Kenny
Cultivating the Garden City: Politics and the Public Aesthetics of Bangalore, India.
Joan Liaschenko
Health Maintenance
The Work and Ethics of Nurse Managers: Analysis of Postdoctoral Data.
John W. Norbury
Search for An Intermediate Mass Higgs Boson.
Kathryn M. Olson
Shared Power, Contested Memory, and the Rhetorical Presidency.
Zhong-Ren Peng
Urban Planning
Development of An Integrated Land Use, Travel Behavior, and Air Quality Model.
Diane M. Reddy
Project IMPACS: Improving Mammography Participation and Cancer Survivability.
Lex Renda
Midterm Congressional Decline: Federalism, Incumbency, and Negative Voting.
Linda A. Whittingham
Biological Sciences
Historical and Ecological Components of Behavior in Birds.
Michael D. Wilson
Hopaki: An Historical Novel.
Jane L. Witten
Biological Sciences
Cellular Distribution, Developmental Changes, and Hormonal Regulation of Potassium Ion Channels in the Nervous System.
Melissa Hickman Barlow
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Policing Black Milwaukee: A History of Relations Between Police and African Americans.
Leslie Bellavance
Professor, Art
'Silhouette': An Exploration of Computer Imaging and Experimental Offset Printing in the Production of An Art Work.
Hector Bravo
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Model for the Transport and Longitudinal Dispersion of Conservative Pollutants in Real Streams.
Lisa Dieker
Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education
Evaluating the Use of Cooperative Teaching.
Pamela Downing
Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Socioeconomic Class and Interactive Language Use in the Home: Two Case Studies.
Sumanta Guha
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computational Topology.
Peter Haddawy
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Intelligent Control of Computer Vision.
Sara Hoot
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Evolutionary and Phytogeographic Patterns in the Proteaceae Based on Molecular Data.
Elizabeth Kraemer
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Student Learning, Classroom Climate and Student Behavior.
Susie Lamborn
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Interviews with Ethnic Youth: Perceptions of Parenting Style and Adjustment.
Chiu-Tai Law
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Light- Induced Waveguides and Switches.
Janet Lilly
Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
Solo Works.
Steve Mccole
Assistant Professor, Human Kinetics
Effect of Aging and Hormone Replacement Therapy on Blood and Plasma Volumes in Post-Menopausal Women.
Hamid Mohtadi
Associate Professor, Economics
Human Capital, Specialization and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis.
Terry Nardin
Professor, Political Science
The History of International Political Theory.
Panivong Norindr
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Pierre Loti in Morocco: Promoting Literary Impressionism and An Exotic Vision of the World.
Brian Reilly
Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Complement Component C4 and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Karen E. Riggs
Assistant Professor, Mass Communication
Elderly Women and Television Mysteries: Ritual and Late Life Experience.
Dilano Saldin Associate Professor, Physics; and Wilfred Tysoe Professor, Chemistry
Looking At Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces.
Scott V. Solberg
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
UWM – Comprehensive Assessment and Retention Programming.
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Research Recognition Awards
The following awards recognize and encourage UWM faculty early in their careers whose research, scholarly, or creative activity have shown potential to achieve distinction in their academic disciplines or honor veteran researchers who have a long history of significant contributions to their fields of research.
Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Awards
First awarded in 1979, the annual Office of Research /UWM Foundation Research Awards recognize and encourage UWM assistant and associate professors who have shown the potential to achieve distinction in their academic disciplines through scholarship, creative activity, and the dissemination of knowledge.
Departments/programs are encouraged to nominate a faculty member for an award. In addition to providing a means of honoring outstanding researchers, these awards recognize our collective commitment to academic research and to the importance of UWM's research mission.
These awards are not intended to recognize established faculty members who already have achieved distinction in their disciplines. Restrictions include:
- Previous research awardees are ineligible.
- Individuals holding the title of Distinguished or Wisconsin Distinguished Professor are ineligible.
- One individual may be nominated from a single department or program.
The nomination materials should include a letter of nomination from a dean, department chair, or multidisciplinary program director; two letters of support; and an up-to-date vitae. You may secure letters of support from UWM faculty members or from colleagues outside UWM. If you wish to submit or quote from confidential letters written for another purpose, you must first secure the permission of the author(s).
Submission information is posted each year during the nomination period.
The Committee of UWM Distinguished Professors reviews the nominations and makes recommendations to the interim vice provost for research for the final selections. The individuals selected as recipients receive a $1,500 cash award and will be honored at the fall UWM Awards Ceremony.
- Julie Bowles, Assistant Professor, Geosciences
- Winson Chu, Associate Professor, History
- Deborah Hannula, Associate Professor, Psychology
- David Kaplan, Associate Professor, Physics
- John Reuter, Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Miren Boehm, Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Harvey Bootsma, Associate Professor, Freshwater Sciences
- Dawn Erb, Associate Professor, Physics
- Han Joo Lee, Associate Professor, Psychology
- Blain Neufeld, Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Margaret Noodin, Director, Quinney Institute
- Ramin Pashaie, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
- Chia Vang, Associate Professor, History
- Dazhong Zhao, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
- Jason Puskar, Associate Professor, English
- Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
- Xavier Siemens, Associate Professor, Physics
Alexander Arnold
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Alexander Arnold has assumed a key role in UWM's mission of discovering new medicines for human disease.
His discoveries on ligand-receptor interactions set the groundwork for novel drug development in the area of vitamin D, thyroid hormone, and androgen signaling, to name a few.
As a founding faculty member of the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery (MIDD) at UWM, he uses his expertise in developing high-throughput screening methods for identifying promising drugs and drug targets from large molecular libraries.This is not only essential to his own research, but also for supporting the work of other researchers.
"Alexander has developed, equipped, and staffed a laboratory with broad expertise to perform in vitro pre-clinical assays and evaluate biological specimens from test animals. This capability is a core resource for my laboratory and many other investigators within the MIDD," said nominator and UWM Distinguished Professor James Cook.
Arnold is currently involved in grants from the National Institutes of Health that total more than $5.3 million. His research has led to several patent applications, and two awarded patents, one of which was already licensed to the Boston biotechnology company KeraFAST Inc.
S. Scott Graham
Assistant Professor, English
Can an English professor lay the foundation for restoring public trust in a federal agency and encouraging the many stakeholders involved in crafting national health care policy to play nice?
S. Scott Graham just might. The ambitious assistant professor of technical and professional writing has been credited for bringing new energy to the UWM English Department since he arrived in 2012 and founded the Scientific and Medical Communications Laboratory (SAMComm).
Graham explores the effective and ethical uses of communication at the often volatile intersections of science and public policy, such as the interfaces among pharmaceutical companies, the Food and Drug Administration and public advocacy groups.
Rather than try to tease just quantitative data from these snarled webs of communication, Graham developed an innovative, qualitative data analysis server at SAMComm to document financial conflicts on federal pharmaceuticals policy.
In addition to national recognition, Graham is also attracting federal funding. English colleague Dave Clark writes that Graham's funding so far–$300,000–and the nearly $1 million more in current proposals "promise to help the entire Professional and Technical Writing Program revise how it thinks about the potential of grant funding."
Emily Latch
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Emily Latch's research uses molecular genetic tools and statistical genetic methods to understand how ecological processes influence formation of new species and hybridization of existing species.
Her work is highly regarded by national and international researchers in her discipline. In 2013, her published work received a total of 94 citations.
"Dr. Latch's papers demonstrate an integration of methods and ideas across molecular genetics, ecology, evolutionary biology, and wildlife management that is extremely valuable to all of these fields, but too rarely demonstrated by others who have more narrow expertise or interests," says nominator Robert Lacy, a leader in the field of conservation genetics who has joint research appointments at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Brookfield Zoo.
Sara Oyler-McCance of the U.S. Geological Survey calls Latch "an emerging leader in wildlife genomics," who can convey complicated molecular concepts in a way that is understandable to a lay audience.
"Emily is particularly well-known for using genetic techniques to address questions in wildlife management. She has documented the impacts of reintroductions of wildlife species by looking at hybridization, gene flow, and social structure, and has provided much insight into management strategies."
Todd Miller
Assistant Professor Zilber School of Public Health
The research of Todd Miller focuses on algal blooms and the toxins they produce and release into the fresh- water environment, a potential threat to human health.
Miller is the leader of an international coalition of 20 scientists in 14 nations who collaborate to understand water eutrophication and algal toxin production.
With a background that encompasses micro- biology, genomics and analytical chemistry, he is well positioned to take a leading role in under- standing the nature of those problems and addressing their remediation.
"I do not know anyone else quite like him in terms of scientific breadth," says nominator and UWM Distinguished Professor David Petering.
Miller also has linked his work to the greater community by partnering with the national Children's Environmental Health Science Core Center and the City of Milwaukee Health Department on water quality issues.
In addition to these accomplishments, Miller has been wildly successful at attracting grants. In only three years, he has garnered just under $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Not only is it extremely difficult to obtain top-tier funding on the first try, but also Miller as earned these while the Zilber School was just launched.
Nathaniel Stern
Associate Professor, Art & Design
Nathaniel Stern's work bridges multiple disciplines, merging new with traditional media, installation with inter- active art, and the maker community with entrepreneurial endeavors.
He shows a sustained commitment to contemp- orary art practice, a vast conceptual and technical expertise, and diverse experiences as a scholar and art practitioner.
"His scholarly and creative research thoughtfully and seamlessly integrate to analyze digital media in a manner rarely seen in academics with a hybrid practice," says one of his nominators.
It's one reason he is sought after by multiple disciplines at UWM to teach a variety of research- intensive courses, be it the graduate seminars in Art and Design, senior seminars in Global Studies, Product Realization in Engineering, Entrepre- neurship Experience in Business. As co-founder of UWM's Student Startup Challenge, Stern inspires students to turn their ideas into companies.
"What distinguishes these pieces, and indeed all of Stern's work," says another nominator, "is a playful and rigorous collision of computational and digital media with more traditional media forms, whether prints, photographs or sculpture."
This approach has earned him international acclaim. His project "Tweets in Space" garnered a huge buzz while still in its fundraising phase, with stories about the project appearing in Scientific American, National Geographic and Forbes.
Luca Ferrero
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Luca Ferrero is a recognized leader in the philosophy of action, a broad field that explores aspects of human action and decision-making, including intention and intentional action, the ontology of action, motivation, free will, and social action.
The work of philosophers of action often overlaps with that of non-philosophers including jurists, neuroscientists, and psychologists. Ferrero studies how the nature of intentional action changes over time, and how such actions influence personal identity.
Michael E. Bratman, professor of philosophy at Stanford University and eminent thinker in the philosophy of action, has cited four publications that best represent Ferrero's work. "Taken together," he writes. "these essays constitute an extended and insightful investigation into the relations between time and our rational, autonomous agency. I know of no other younger scholar of philosophy who has made such progress on these basic issues."Recognition for his work include a 2005 Stanford Humanities Fellowship, selection for a 2011 NEH Summer Seminar on 20th Century American Philosophy at Princeton University, and numerous UWM distinctions, including two fellowship offers from the Center for 21st Century Studies, two Graduate School Research Committee Awards, and three Arts and Humanities Research Travel Awards. In addition, his 2008 essay "Action" tops the "Popular Essays" list on the Web site philosophyofaction.com.
Benjamin Johnson
Associate Professor, History
Ben Johnson's areas of research include three somewhat overlapping yet distinct fields: the history of the American West, the broader history of the North American borderlands, and environmental history.
His first two award-winning books, Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, and Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place, explore racial strife on the U.S.-Mexico border. Johnson is now working on a history of the conservation movement in the Progressive Era, a time that popularized the idea that wilderness is spiritually renewing and an essential part of the national landscape.
Stephen Aron, professor and chair of the UCLA Institute for the Study of the American West, writes that Johnson's achievements in Revolution in Texas go "well beyond the usual for a first book," and that it "stands, in fact, as a primer for how to write borderlands history." Aron further writes that Johnson's scholarship is "shaping the direction of multiple fields and inspiring other scholars to do the same."Among other achievements are a 2013-'14 NEH Faculty Fellowship for his project, "A History of the American Conservation Movement" and a faculty appointment in the 2013 NEH Summer Institutes for school teachers.
Krista Lisdahl
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Krista Lisdahl is advancing our understanding of how chronic drug use effects the brains of adolescents and young adults. With a unique, multidisciplinary approach integrating molecular genetics, brain structure and function, and behavior, her lab aims to better understand the cognitive consequences of a chronic pot habit in the developing brain, and whether physical exercise can reduce or even prevent the damage, or decrease drug abuse.
The research also seeks more information about the process of connectivity in the maturing brain and the role of physical activity in that process.
Described by a department colleague as "truly cutting edge work," Lisdahl's research has garnered several national awards, perhaps most notably the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on professionals in the early stages of their research careers.
Lisdahl has published 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and has eight more under review or in progress. Seven of her publications have come since her arrival at UWM in 2011. Lisdahl has 59 papers or posters presented at conferences and 11 invited lectures at research institutions around the country. Her research has been funded by more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health.
Christine Larson
Associate Professor, Psychology
Why is a smile perceived as happy, while a scowl is considered threatening? Christine Larson's work on emotion has demonstrated that understanding the effects of visual signals of threat and happiness can be reduced to fundamental properties, such as their geometry.
Using two important techniques to explore the emotion-brain connection—neuro-imaging and psycho-physiology—Larson has discovered that certain shapes influence neural circuits in the brain that are involved in emotional processing.
With more than $1 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, Larson also probes the regulation of emotions, with a focus on clarifying its role in depression and anxiety disorders."Chris sets herself apart from psychologists who do neuro-imaging and psycho-physiology by being one of the few scientists in the world who does both," according to one nominator.
Her work has been recognized by various publications and with several awards, including the K-award from N I H, given specifically to promising scientists wishing to acquire training in new areas of their disciplines. This will allow Larson to add molecular genetic techniques to her neurobiological investigations of emotional regulation.
Amanda Seligman
Between Amanda Seligman's numerous articles and well-reviewed book, Block-by-Block, colleagues say she is reshaping what scholars thought they knew about post-war urbanization. Eagerly anticipated is her book on community organizing in Chicago—of unique interest in political and pop-cultural contexts, in addition to its historical relevance. As America pondered similarities between the Great Depression and the 2008 financial collapse, Seligman designed and taught a 2009 class on the question, attracting more than 80 undergraduates and curious "drop-in" students in her fellow history faculty.
A richly detailed narrative style has earned her praise as a rising star in urban history and mirrors her exhaustive, engaging research approach. From neighborhood block parties to university laboratories, she strives for complete, balanced, accurate story-telling. As a humanities professor writing the book, Is Graduate School Really for You?, Seligman devoted additional time to researching and reporting on the experience of graduate students in laboratory sciences.
She continues to keep her research close to home as lead organizer and editor of the upcoming Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. For this collaboration between UWM and Marquette, Seligman helped secure RG I funding and negotiated key production contracts. She simultaneously contributed to other encyclopedias, directed the Urban Studies program and taught entry-level through doctoral students of history. It's working, say colleagues, who note that Seligman has attracted "legions of graduate students" to UWM.
Xiaohua Peng
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Xiaohua Peng has developed a novel platform for anticancer drugs that can specifically kill cancer cells while reducing the potential for toxicity to normal cells. The work could lead to cancer treatments with far fewer harsh side effects."Her independent research has shown creativity, courage to try new ideas and the ability to integrate novel concepts across scientific disciplines," says one nominator.
A founding faculty member of UWM's Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery, Peng's research has attracted international attention. Her work was featured in a news report published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. She has presented her work at National Institutes of Health workshops and at the Gordon Research Conference, considered the premier global scientific conference for leading investigators in the field.
Peng's goal is to connect basic science discovery to improved patient care. Her work at UWM has led to two patent applications, a key step in the transfer of technology from the lab to use in oncology practice.
In May, she received the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Shaw Scientist Award, which, in addition to providing $200,000 in support of her work, recognizes the importance, impact and potential of her contributions to cancer research.
Na Jin Seo
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Na Jin Seo has produced biomechanical models that explain the need and potential for new hand-strength and function assessment tools in medical clinics. Currently, clinics measure hand strength and function with grip and pinch gauges that do not capture the subtle effects of neurological impairment nor take friction into account."She is one of the most productive investigators in the field of hand biomechanics and rehabilitation," says one nominator.
The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research awarded Seo the Distinguished Fellowship Award for her research to develop innovative assistive devices for people with disabilities. Her research on how strokes affect hand functioning has appeared in both journals and non-journal publications, including Science Daily and Rehab Management magazine.
Seo has been exceptional in mentoring students in research, procuring extramural training fellowships for them from organizations such as the American Society of Biomechanics and the American Heart Association. Her graduate students took first, second and third places at this year's Larry Hause Student Poster Competition held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Under her mentorship, 12 undergraduates have produced national and international conference publications.
Seo also participates in local stroke support groups, encouraging stroke survivors to become involved in community events and university research.
Margaret L. Fraiser
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Margaret Fraiser's work focuses on understanding how simple marine organisms adapted to, recovered from and evolved after the worst mass extinction of life in Earth's history 252 million years ago.
The work is particularly significant because it is helping to unravel how ancient life forms responded to dramatic climate change and drastically elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Fraiser is quickly becoming a world expert on this topic.
Working with six other colleagues from China, Australia, the U.K. and the U.S., Fraiser has helped form a large international collaborative of scientists who study patterns from the mass extinction biotic recoveries in various environmental settings and climate zones.
Working with six other colleagues from China, Australia, the U.K. and the U.S., Fraiser has helped form a large international collaborative of scientists who study patterns from the mass extinction biotic recoveries in various environmental settings and climate zones.
She also was asked to be a special guest editor for Global and Planetary Change, connecting her work to the quest to understand how Earth's organisms will respond to climate change today and in the future.
Peter Geissinger
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Peter Geissinger's record of accomplishment during the last 12 years at UWM is impressive. In addition to securing $2.25 million in funding, he has published 25 peer-reviewed journal articles and five book chapters. He has also transferred his research into a productive collaboration with local industry.
Advanced Chemical Systems, a Milwaukee-based company that develops water treatment technologies, has signed an option to license Geissinger's optical-fiber sensor technology, which has been supported by the Bradley Foundation.
His novel research has also resulted in two patents—one issued and one pending. Geissinger recently completed a prestigious Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand."Peter's research is truly 'cross-cutting' in that, while educated in physics, his work is not only within the discipline of physical chemistry, but also encompasses analytical, biochemical and environmental research," says one nominator.
As an example, one of his doctoral students recently won "best poster" award at an annual meeting attended mostly by geologists, biologists and civil engineers. "To have the research of a physical chemistry group so well-recognized at this meeting is quite remarkable," says a nominator.
Rebecca D. Klaper
Associate Professor, Freshwater Sciences
Rebecca Klaper has clearly established herself as an expert on the biological effects of nanoparticles and emerging contaminants on aquatic organisms. She was one of the first researchers to identify the characteristics of nanomaterials that may cause toxicity in water.
In addition, she has conducted many studies gauging the effects of environmental exposure to trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in fish, including some of the first studies on how exposure to Prozac adversely affects fish reproductive behavior. Using genomics, she determines which genes in fish are "turned on" or "turned off" in controlling such behavior.
Klaper is a sought-after resource on environmental toxicology for numerous governmental agencies, including the U.
S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Academy of Sciences panel on the health and safety aspects of engineered nanomaterials.
She also enthusiastically promotes science to the public. She was producer of the 2008 documentary film "Inland Seas: Understanding and Protecting the Waters of the Great Lakes." In 2009 she was recognized by Milwaukee Magazine as one of 36 "new leaders under 40 who will change Milwaukee."
Marius Schmidt
Assistant Professor, Physics
Marius Schmidt has made important contributions in the relatively new field of timeresolved crystallography, a technique that allows him to image proteins as their atomic structure changes during biochemical reactions.
Using this X-ray diffraction technique, Schmidt can image an ensemble of molecules in five dimensions—three spatial dimensions and time. By adding and varying temperature, he can see all the changes in the protein as they happen, obtaining a comprehensive view of how it carries out essential functions.
This research could lead to a rational design of optical switches that could be used in biophysical research. Replicating the work of proteins also is an important aspect of new drug discovery. Schmidt received an Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2010, the most prestigious grant for younger researchers given by the National Science Foundation."This is a competitive field in which Schmidt has excelled," says one of his nominators. Says another: "With his connections, his worldclass experimental experience and his analysis methods, he is poised to make high-impact research in this new direction."
Andrea C. Westlund
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Andrea Westlund is acknowledged by peers as much for her original contributions to moral philosophy as she is for her deeply relevant subject matter and everyday eloquence."Her ideas are developing in new directions and it is absolutely clear that not only is her current work outstanding, but her best work is yet to come," writes one colleague.
Westlund's work on companion love and forgiveness—in "tightly argued, systematic, zero-fluff" writing—inspires particular praise. She does not proffer marital advice, nor does she make value-laden suggestions about those grievances that deserve forgiveness, or those that do not. Acknowledging the complexity of human relationships, she offers morality as a window through which to look at those near us and consider our response to them.
In her own words, forgiveness "expresses moral faith in an offender, understood as readiness to interpret the offender as worthy of one's love and goodwill even though the underlying realities are indeterminate."Westlund's philosophy, adds another nominator, is the kind that lingers on after the book has been closed or the page has been turned. "Her work is never just an intellectual exercise. It is the sort of work that a reader can come away from personally changed."
Jolien D. Creighton
Associate Professor, Physics
Jolien Creighton is one of a new breed of gravitational physicists who works at the interface of theory and experiment.
Detecting gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent movement of massive objects in space—is among the most challenging scientific endeavors of the century.
Finding evidence for gravitational waves requires the observation of a change in the distance between two mirrors on a detector that is smaller than a proton! It requires physicists like Creighton to extract a signal that is deeply buried in "noise," a task that Creighton accomplishes using algorithms.
His research brings together a deep understanding of theoretical gravitational physics with a superb technical mastery of data analysis and statistical methodologies in a unique way. For example, he developed methods for detecting weak, short bursts of gravitational radiation from sources that cannot be accurately modeled theoretically or numerically."The most recent talk I heard by Jolien was entitled something like, 'Searches for gravitational waves from bursts, compact binaries and ringdowns,'" says Barry Barish, Linde Professor of Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. "This title alone demonstrates the breadth of his in-depth work because the three topics have very different challenges and opportunities and Jolien has been central to all three."His high stature in gravitational physics also is reflected in the funding he has received from the National Science Foundation, which includes well over $2 million in grants as principal investigator.
Jennifer A. Jordan
Associate Professor, Sociology
Jennifer Jordan has distinguished herself as an outstanding scholar for her work in the areas of collective memory and the sociology of food. She has maintained a remarkable pace of research since attaining tenure in 2006.
In her first book, Structures of Memory, she explores why certain places in the urban landscape of Berlin—and, by extension, other places such as Oklahoma City—become marked as significant in our collective memory, while others fade."Her writings demonstrate a highly detailed and meticulous style of qualitative research," says one nominator.
Now she has "made the turn" from the research of her dissertation, which resulted in the highly praised book, and created a whole new research direction. Her work on the cultural meanings of heirloom produce and heritage livestock links memory, location, status and taste."Her attention to contexts of locale and space is one of Jennifer's singular contributions to studies of collective memory," says one nominator.
Not only has the draft of her second book, Edible Memory, already generated interest from one of the most prestigious presses in sociology, but Jordan also has garnered much coverage in the general media.
She also has been extraordinarily successful in generating external funding for research that is typically un- or underfunded. In her time at UWM, she has received funding from no less than five different external sources, including the Austrian Science Fund, the Austrian equivalent of the National Science Foundation in the U.S.
Lindsay J. McHenry
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Much of Lindsay McHenry's work has been focused at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, one of the world's most famous paleo-anthropological locations, and is helping to unravel questions of early human evolution.
McHenry is a geologist who uses geochemical analysis and correlation of volcanic ashes to help archaeologists at Olduvai accurately date finds at excavation sites.
These artifacts are buried in a complex succession of sedimentary and highly altered volcanic strata, rather than in neat, chronological layers. That has prevented researchers from identifying the first appearance of some of the various fossils and stone-tool technologies.
McHenry is involved in fieldwork in at least three other sites near Olduvai, demonstrating the interest of many project leaders in counting on her expertise, says one nominator. "It is not an exaggeration to state that Dr. McHenry is becoming a key researcher on the study of quaternary geology in East Africa."Because of the importance of Olduvai and the charged political climate, it is extremely difficult to obtain funding and permits to work in the gorge. But McHenry has managed to navigate these difficult waters and secure substantial funding.
As a result, she advanced this summer from being a participant on various field teams working within the gorge to being a lead principal investigator and team leader in charge of an international group.
Her research in altered volcanic ash in archaeological contexts has also led McHenry to a new line of inquiry. She has discovered that her methods are relevant to the study of the history of water on Mars.
Abdolhosein "Adel" Nasiri
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Adel Nasiri's research is focused on wind energy, particularly energy-efficient electronics and wind turbines, as well as the effective use of energy storage systems. His work addresses the need to integrate renewable energy systems with conventional power sources without major disruptions.
In the past five years, he has demonstrated great potential to achieve distinction in the field through his scholarship, well-funded research activities and broad collaboration, especially with local industry, which provides some of his funding."Dr. Nasiri is a scholar with a strong record of research accomplishments that can have significant impacts in solving our energy crisis," says one nominator. "Moreover, he plays a crucial role in connecting with local companies owing to the synergy of his research with the industrial base in Wisconsin."Since joining the faculty in 2005, Nasiri has acquired two patents, and a third is pending. He has achieved an impressive level of funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, and has developed collaborative research relationships with other UWM schools and departments and other institutions in Milwaukee.
His large team of 11 graduate students demonstrates his success in building a research program in power electronics and renewable energy in only a brief period."The record of external funding shows that he is gaining recognition for his creativity and innovations," says a nominator. "His professional activities are commensurate with a 'rising star' in his field."
Scott J. Adams
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Scott Adams specializes in the economics of health policy, the labor market for older workers, and the effect of living-wage ordinances—popular local laws that set wages that companies doing business with the government must pay to their employees.
Adams has become a national expert on these policies, showing how they have affected employment and the distribution of income.
He is a skilled and creative researcher, whose studies have generated substantial interest from the popular media, including the Washington Post, USA Today and The Economist.
He also is highly sought-after by policymakers. A clear indication of the regard with which his work is held in the profession was his selection last academic year as a senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
The nine appointees to this post are chosen by the best economists from a handful of leading departments. Adams is the first from UWM to be named to this position.
Erica Bornstein
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Erica Bornstein's research on humanitarianism in India, begun after her arrival at UWM in 2004, is at the forefront of the emerging field of comparative studies of humanitarianism. Her work encompasses philanthropy, charity, humanitarianism, nongovernmental organizations, political anthropology and the anthropology of religion.
Her 2003 book, The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe, has been adopted for courses in at least 15 universities, including Stanford and the London School of Economics.In 2006-07, Bornstein was one of six resident scholars at the School of Advanced Research on the Human Experience in New Mexico. In 2008 she co-organized an advanced seminar at the school that produced the forthcoming volume Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics.James Ferguson, chair of the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, wrote that Bornstein "combines an extraordinarily acute, critical intelligence with exceptional imagination, creativity and intellectual curiosity," adding that her dissertation was "one of the most exciting and original that I have seen."
Michael Liston
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Michael Liston has distinguished himself among philosophers of science and mathematics with his deep knowledge of the disciplines' actual history. He has compiled an impressive record of research in the philosophies of science, mathematics and language, and has also written on the philosophy of logic and philosophical naturalism.
Liston is currently writing a book on philosopher, physicist and historian Pierre Duhem, an important figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Liston's research on Duhem's philosophy of science was funded by a 2006 UWM Research Growth Initiative<sup® (RGI) award, and subsequently by the National Science Foundation in 2007, a rare accomplishment among philosophers.
Arnold Koslow, philosophy professor at City University of New York, calls many of Liston's papers "philosophical gems so worthy, and filled with interesting arguments and evaluations that they will repay continued study."Liston has also been a fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies and received two UWM Sabbatical awards and a Graduate School Research Committee Award.
Jorg Woehl
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jorg Woehl's research expertise lies in the imaging and manipulation of single nanoscale objects.
Prior to coming to UWM in 2004, Woehl had already built a reputation in his field—near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), which uses a subwavelength light source as a scanning probe.
He is one of the few people in the world with this expertise and has built an extremely sophisticated experimental laboratory focusing on NSOM imaging. The equipment he has built is so precise that it can obtain information on a single molecule.
He also is investigating nano-positioning methods for molecules on surfaces, such as proteins in biological membranes. If successful, such methods would provide new avenues for probing molecular function and present new potential applications.
Woehl has filed three patent applications related to his research on methods for fabricating novel optical fiber tips from photonic crystal fibers. He also has translated his initial experimental successes into both publications and funding since his arrival at UWM.
Lei "Leslie" Ying
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lei Ying's work revolves around improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, which currently are too slow to be effective for use on parts of the body that move, such as the heart.
Ying's work has opened up a new research direction for developing algorithms that will achieve the highest imaging speed possible.
She is one of the first researchers to investigate the application of a math theory called "compressing sensing" to MRI, and she is leading the field. Compressed sensing would enable MRIs to produce real-time pictures of internal human organs without sacrificing the quality of the image. It could potentially improve diagnoses of many diseases.
Ying's achievements have recently been recognized by the National Science Foundation with a prestigious Early CAREER Award.
She holds two U.S. patents through the UWM Research Foundation and will soon have a third. In addition, Ying has established collaborations with other institutions and industries, and with other departments at UWM.
Junhong Chen
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
The research of mechanical engineer Junhong Chen includes unique production of nanoparticles for advanced technology devices and development of nanoscale gas and biological sensors.
Using plasma—partially ionized gases—Chen's lab produces nanocrystals with precise size, form, structure, and composition, and on various surfaces.
The miniaturized gas sensors under development in his lab, which rapidly identify trace amount of gases/vapors or their mixtures, are important in such areas as environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis, food processing, and control of other industrial processes. Chen's UWM Research Foundation Catalyst Grant is funding development of a nanoscale gas sensor that combines and improves upon two existing sensor technologies.
Chen's graduate advisor at the University of Minnesota, Jane Davidson, writes that "he is one of the leading young scientists in the U.S. and has the intellect and drive to become one of the future superstars."Other funding for Chen's research since 2004 includes a Research Growth Initiative® award, five grants from the National Science foundation, and grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, Xerox Corporation, and Miller Electric Manufacturing in Appleton.
Dyanna Czeck
Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Dyanna Czeck studies how rocks deform under stresses caused by tectonic motions. Such research is important for understanding how and where rocks may fault—break catastrophically—or flow—deform gradually—in tectonically active areas.
Her specific areas of study include the three-dimensional flow processes, mineral alignment, and strain in deformed rocks.
Czeck's work is remarkable for the wide range of research techniques she employs. In addition to traditional geologic field mapping and geophysical surveys, she uses electron microscopy, material flow studies, and GIS technologies.
Czeck is a widely traveled researcher, having done fieldwork in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Mexico, Utah, Canada, Scotland, and Spain.
UW-Madison structural geologist Basil Tikoff writes of Czeck, "Her integration of field geology, quantitative analysis, and geophysical methods has had a major impact" on knowledge of lateral-motion faults, adding that "It is a pleasure to work with someone as intellectually alive as Dyanna."In addition to a 2005 grant from the National Science Foundation, Czeck received a 2003 UWM Research Committee Award and a 2006 Research Growth Initiative® award.
Prasenjit Guptasarma
Associate Professor, Physics
Understanding unconventional superconductivity, and other phenomena involving strong interactions between electrons, is considered the Holy Grail of condensed matter physics. Such research has helped produce many electronic devices we use today—devices that are faster, greener, cheaper, and smarter.
Prasenjit Guptasarma and his colleagues have carried out pioneering work in superconductivity and magnetism, now published in many influential research journals such as Nature. In 2005, Guptasarma won the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER award. Today, he continues to attract a substantial level of extramural funding.
To probe fundamental interactions, physicists use single crystals and study them in extreme environments such as very low temperature and high magnetic field."He ranks among the most promising young experimental physicists in this country today," says Arun Bansil, program manager in the Office of Science at the U.
S. Department of Energy. "He is already among the best crystal growers in the world."He also is well-known for the how often other scientists cite his published work in their own research. More than 1,500 publication citations places Guptasarma in the top 5 percent of associate professors in condensed matter physics, says Marshall Onellion, professor of physics at UW-Madison.
Daniel Agterberg
Associate Professor, Physics
Daniel Agterberg's basic research is helping explain how superconductors work. They're already revolutionizing the power, cell-phone, and magnetic imaging industries, but Agterberg is helping to overcome obstacles that could allow superconductors to help create a new type of faster, quantum computer.
How some materials are able to conduct electricity with zero resistance has long been a mystery to scientists, and Agterberg's bold predictions have helped overturn long-standing beliefs and resolved some important questions.
Professor Manfred Sigrist, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, writes that "Daniel is a highly gifted and original researcher with the rare talent to connect experiments and theoretical concepts in a very physical and intuitive way."Agterberg attracted a nearly quarter-million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, an impressive feat in the competitive field of superconductivity.
Agterberg is primary or contributing author of 50 articles since 1993 and has been invited to give 20 conference presentations and 21 seminars and colloquia. He has also received two UWM Research Committee Awards and funding for a 2006 Research Growth Initiative® proposal.
Jian Chen
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
With previous success in industry, Jian Chen has hit the ground running at UWM. Since arriving in August 2005, the materials chemist has focused his group's research on fundamental understanding of organic nanomaterials and their applications in alternative energies, smart materials, and biomedical materials and devices.
After nearly five years of research and development at nanotech company Zyvex Corporation, Chen has established a state-of-the-art nanomaterials laboratory at UWM and collaborated with researchers from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the WATER Institute.
At UWM Chen has generated over $910,000 in external funds from the National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency, and has received Research Growth Initiative® funding in each year of the program, as well as a 2007 MiTAG award.
Kristene Surerus, Chair of the UWM Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, praises Chen's "multidisciplinary approach and wide-ranging collaborations with physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers," and writes that "Jian has excelled both in an industrial setting and in academia."Chen holds seven patents, and has filed three provisional patents since coming to UWM.
Shaoqin "Sarah" Gong
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
After just two years at UWM, Shaoqin "Sarah" Gong has established one of the best research funding records at the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Gong is developing microcellular biobased polymer nanocomposites with the goal of improving the performance of plastics made from renewable resources. She also is making new polymers suitable for human tissue regeneration and drug delivery. In addition, she is developing novel polymer nanocomposites with unique actuation capabilities. She is author or co-author of 70 technical papers on a wide range of topics,Gong's research has attracted over $1.2 million extramural funding from the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, including an NSF CAREER award, the most prestigious award for junior faculty members. She also is a principal investigator for three UWM Research Growth Initiative® grants.
Lih-Sheng Turng, co-director of the UW-Madison Polymer Engineering Center, writes, "Every major research university would like to have Professor Gong in light of her research accomplishments and fund-raising record . . . which are incredible, to say the least."
Thomas Hubka
Professor, Architecture
Thomas Hubka is widely recognized for his studies of vernacular architecture, which refers to common, everyday buildings indigenous to a specific time or place.
He is best-known for his research on 18th century wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe. In the words of UWM Architecture Department Chair Brian Wishne, this work "single-handedly restored the history and significance of the architecture of Polish wooden synagogues from the lost Jewish-built culture and communities of Eastern Europe."Culminating in the 2003 book, Resplendent Synagogue, this work led to Hubka's lifetime achievement award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum in 2004.
His 1984 book, Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn—also recognized by the Vernacular Architecture Forum—was described by a reviewer as "one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America."Other areas of his research include imagery in the design process, New England farm architecture, vernacular architecture theory, and the architecture of H.H. Richardson.
He is currently investigating American popular housing of the 19th and 20th centuries, including case studies of working-class housing in major U.S. cities.
Adrian Dumitrescu, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Rina Ghose, Geography
Karen Marek, Nursing
Krishna Pillai, Mechanical Engineering
Gil Indig, Chemistry/Biochemistry
Paul Lyman, Physics
Gabrielle Pinter, Mathematical Sciences
Kyoung Ae Cho, Visual Arts
Lian Li, Physics
Thomas Malaby, Anthropology
Mark Netzloff, English
Lisa Samuels, English
Kyle Swanson, Mathematical Sciences
Yehua Dennis Wei, Geography
Vladislav Yakovlev, Physics
Carol Hirschmugl, Physics
Eun-Ok Im, Health Maintenance
Zhong-Ren Peng, Urban Planning
Carla Bagnoli, Philosophy
Keith Corzine, EE & Computer Science
Tien-Chien Jen, Mechanical Engineering
Jeffrey Karron, Biological Sciences
Mark Schwartz, Geography
Peter Haddawy, Electrical Engineering & Comp Sci
David Pritchard, Mass Comm
Ann Snyder, Health Sciences
Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, PhysicsMark McBride, Bio Sci
Rhea Steinpreis, Psychology
Fred Anapol, Anthropology
Laura Peracchio, Bus Admin
Leslie Schulz, Health Sciences
Craig Sandgren, Bio Sci
Kristene Surerus, Chemistry
Anastasios Tsonis, Geosci
Dennis Bennett, Chemistry
Chie Craig, Comm Sci and Disorders
Suresh Garimella, Mechanical Engineering
Patricia Mellencamp, Art History
John Heywood, Economics
Mahmun Hossain, Chemistry
Neil Oldridge, Health Sciences
Dilano Saldin, Physics
Mohsen Bahmani, Economics
Milicent Ficken, Bio Sci
Terry Nardin, Political Sci
Bimal Sarma, Physics
Richard Perlman, Economics
Carla Sinopoli, Anthropology
Brian Tonner, Physics
Gerald Weisman, Architecture
Richmond McQuistan, Physics
Ruth Phillips, Bio Sci
Pradeep Rohatgi, Materials
Mark Sothmann, Human Kinetics
Gerald Bergtrom, Bio Sci
Glen Jeansonne, History
Tong Hun Lee, Economics
Robert K. Turner, English & Comp Lit
Sidney Greenfield, Anthropology
C. Frank Shaw, Chemistry
Richard Sorbello, Physics
Yehuda Yannay, Music
J. Patrick Gray, Anthropology
Susan Riesch, Foundations of Nursing
Izzet Sahin, Bus Admin
William Wainwright, Philosophy
Victor Greene, History
Moises Levy, Physics
Will Rayms, Bus Admin
William Wehrenberg, Health Sciences
Melvin Friedman, Comparative Literature
John W.K. Harris, Anthropology
G. William Page, Urban Planning
Adolph Rosenblatt, Art
Jacqueline Clinton, Nursing
John Koethe, Philosophy
David Lichtman, Physics
Markos Mamalakis, Economics
James McFarland, Chemistry
Dennis Gensch, Bus Admin
Haig Khatchadourian, Philosophy
Leonard Parker, Physics
Cecelia Ridgeway, Sociology
Peter Farrell, Human Kinetics
David Petering, Chemistry
Jane Waldbaum, Art History
Kathleen Woodward, English
John Friedman, Physics
Sarah Vogen, English
William Washabaugh, Anthropology
James Cook, Chemistry
J. Walter Elliott, Bus Admin/Economics
Joan Moore, Sociology
Robert Eidt, Geography
Robert Greenler, Physics
David Hull, Philosophy
David Tong, Physics
UWM Research Foundation Senior Faculty Awards
The UWM Research Foundation, in collaboration with the Office of Research, has established the UWM Research Foundation Senior Faculty Awards, designed to recognize researchers who have a long history of significant contributions to their field of research. Unlike the Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Awards which recognize assistant and associate professors, all research faculty members, except UWM Distinguished Professors, are eligible for these awards.The Committee of UWM Distinguished Professors reviews the nominations and makes recommendations to the Associate Provost for Research for the final selections. The individuals selected as recipients will receive a $1,500 cash award and will be honored at the fall UWM Awards Ceremony.
We encourage you to consider nominating a member of your department/program for an award. In addition to providing a means of honoring outstanding researchers, these awards recognize our collective commitment to academic research and to the importance of UWM's research mission.
Nomination Procedures
A call for nominations is sent to campus each Spring from the Office of the Associate Provost for Research. The nomination materials should include a letter of nomination, two letters of support, and an updated vitae. You may secure letters of support from UWM faculty members or from colleagues outside UWM. Submission of or quotation from confidential letters written for another purpose require permission of the author(s).
- Rebecca Dunham, Professor, English
- Sandra McLellan, Professor, Freshwater
- Karyn Frick, Professor, Psychology
- Josepha Lanters, Professor, English
- Marius Schmidt, Professor, Physics
- Ching-Hong Yang, Professor, Biological Sciences
- Janis Eells, Professor, Biomedical Sciences
- Mark McBride, Professor, Biological Sciences
- Ryoichi Amano, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Carol Hirschmugl, Professor, Physics
- Reinhold Hutz, Professor, Biological Sciences
- Fatemeh Zahedi, Professor, Business
Junhong Chen,
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Junhong Chen's research projects are at the intersection of interesting fundamental science and industrial applications. In the College of Engineering and Applied Science, Chen is professor of both Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and an Excellence in Engineering Faculty Fellow in Nanotechnology. His research focuses on nanomaterial innovations for sustainable energy and environment.
Dr. Chen has invented a dry technique to efficiently and effectively assemble nanocrystals onto carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene-based materials. The resulting structures could enable numerous new opportunities for nanoscience and advanced applications in biosensors, gas sensors, water sensors, solar cells, nanoelectronics, catalysis, and nanomanufacturing.
In 2011 he founded NanoAffix Science to commercialize nanotechnologies invented in his UWM lab.
Chen is currently director of the Water Equipment and Policy Research Center, one of many industry-university partnership funded by the National Science Foundation.
College of Engineering and Applied Science dean and Mechanical Engineering colleague Tien-Chien Jen calls Chen "a star faculty on the UWM campus" who has "demonstrated an extremely high level of excellence in both research and entrepreneurship during his post at UWM."In addition to grants from the NSF, Chen receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and industries including Xerox, Johnson Controls, We Energies, Rockwell Automation, and Sigma Aldrich.
Thomas Holbrook
Professor, Political Science
Thomas Holbrook is a renowned scholar of American politics, whose work has focused on various aspects of political behavior, campaigns and elections, and voting behavior. His articles, which include analyses at both the state and national levels, have been cited more than 2,400 times, a strong testament to the significant impact of his work on his field.
On the faculty at UWM since 1989, Holbrook is the chair and Wilder-Crane Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science. He has served as editor of the journal American Politics Research and on the editorial boards of American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Quarterly, American Politics Research, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
He is former director of the UWM Undergraduate Laboratory for the Empirical Analysis of Politics (ULEAP).
James Garand, the Emogene Pliner Distinguished Professor and R. Downs Poindexter Professor at Louisiana State University, calls Holbrook "an outstanding scholar who is a major contributor to scholarship that furthers our understanding of American politics."
He has attracted over $500,000 in federal funding from the National Science Foundation—an impressive total for a social science researcher—and more than $200,000 in UWM Research Growth Initiative® grants.
Lian Li
Professor, Physics
Lian Li has an active and highly regarded research program focused on the study of the electronic and structural properties of exotic materials such as graphene and topological insulators. What he is learning about graphene—a single later of carbon atoms—are important pieces of a puzzle that may unlock graphene's potential as a material for next-generation electronics and quantum computing.
Experimental physicists in this field typically either specialize in growing a material or use a specific advanced characterization technique to investigate that material's physical properties, notes Michael Weinert, Physics Department chair and UWM Distinguished Professor. He continues, "Lian is one of only a small number of people worldwide that actually does—and excels in—both aspects."
Li has received continuous funding for his work from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy since 2003. He has attracted over $4 million in federal funds in a highly competitive field. This achievement is even more impressive, Weinert says, given that applicants to the programs that fund him have just a 10 percent success rate.
Professor Li is also a previous recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, the Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Award, and the UWM Research Committee Award.
Roger O. Smith
Professor, Occupational Therapy
Roger O. Smith has made a career-long commitment to advancing the field of rehabilitation science. Since arriving at UWM in 1994, Smith has made extraordinary contributions to the understanding of individuals with disabilities and strategies to improve their participation in daily activities.
His wide-ranging academic background in occupational therapy, engineering, and the social sciences has led to a research program that has been recognized nationally and internationally. His establishment in 2001 and successful management of the UWM Rehabilitation Research Design and Disability (R2D2) Center has resulted in a self-sustaining research center that brings together top scholars—from the College of Health Sciences, across the university, and throughout the broader research community—to answer some of the most complex problems facing the field of disability research.
Professor Carol Haertlein Sells, a longtime colleague in the UWM College of Health Sciences, calls Smith "one of the most innovative thinkers in our profession who has been sought out by international colleagues to advance their understanding of these critical topics."
Smith has attracted 32 grants totaling over $9.5 million from sources including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Fred Helmstetter
Professor, Psychology
Fred Helmstetter is among the world's leading researchers studying how the brain works, focusing on the brain's fundamental mechanisms of encoding and storing memory. Through experiments on rats and humans, he has advanced our understanding of the neural systems that support complex psychological phenomena such as learning, memory, and emotion. He has also shown new ways that experience and learning can modify the structure and function of the nervous system.
Psychology Department Chair Douglas Woods credits Helmstetter's "planning, vision, and dogged support of excellence" for the tremendous growth of the department's research productivity over the last 15 years.
Michael Fanselow, co-director of the UCLA Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, writes, "I can think of few people that have had such a broad impact" on our understanding of learning and memory.
Helmstetter's nearly $5 million in funded research since 2002-2003 ranks 10th among all UWM researchers during that time. His internal funding has also been impressive, including two RGI grants as principal investigator and four as co-investigator, as well as a collaboration on a 2010 Intercampus Research Incentive Grant.
Among the 17 Ph.D. students Helmstetter has supervised, five have earned prestigious NIH National Research Service Award training fellowships.
Helmstetter's publications include over 80 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and over 170 published abstracts.
James Peoples
Professor, Economics
James Peoples—whose broad research interests fall within the economics of transportation systems and labor markets—may be best known outside academe for studies of public transportation labor and infrastructure issues.
In 2010 testimony before the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Peoples presented research revealing the importance of greater investment in public transit as a complement to a comprehensive jobs program. He testified that public-transportation projects make the most substantial economic impact on jobs and improved transportation systems. The White House again invited Peoples in 2012 for a meeting on African Americans, jobs and the economy.
UWM Distinguished Professor of Economics Moshen Bahmani-Oskooee has cited People's "tireless work ethic and admirable innovativeness" and "prolific and consistent output." In addition to 38 refereed journal articles, he has written 10 book chapters and three encyclopedia entries, edited four books, and made 42 conference presentations.
Peoples is editor of the Advances in Airline Economics series, associate editor of the Review of Black Political Economy, editorial board member of the journal Transport Policy, and president of the Transportation and Public Utilities GroupBahmani-Oskooee concludes, "His passion for research and interest in sharing that passion with others has contributed to him becoming a central figure in the research reputation of the department of economics at UWM."
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Professor, Italian
Robin Pickering-Iazzi is internationally recognized as one of the top scholars in modern and contemporary Italian studies. Her many areas of inquiry include Italian literature and film, feminist theory, gender studies, and cultural studies.
Her groundbreaking research on Italian women during Fascism has revealed important contributors to Italian literature and culture, in contrast to the stereotype of obedient, submissive mothers.
Pickering-Iazzi's examination of portrayals and realities of the Italian Mafia and criminality are so pioneering that her undergraduate Mafia course premiered years before the first such course appeared in Italy in 2004.
Dana Renga, assistant professor of Italian at Ohio State University, writes, "I can think of no one working in the fields of Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First century Italian literature, film, and cultural studies more deserving of [this award]."
Her scholarly productivity—including books, edited collections, translations, and journal articles—has remained high, even with heavy teaching loads and her role as Italian program coordinator. Since she took on the role in 2000, the number of Italian majors has increased almost tenfold.
In addition to Pickering-Iazzi's numerous UWM awards—including two fellowships at the former Center for 20th Century Studies—she has also been funded by the Italian National Research Council.
Professor, Political Science
UWM political scientist Kathleen Dolan is a leading scholar on the impact of gender on American politics. She has made important contributions to our understanding of voting behavior and public opinion, gaining a national and international reputation in the process.Dolan currently is funded by the National Science Foundation to examine the impact of voter stereotypes on support for female candidates in gubernatorial and congressional races. She has nearly completed her second book, Does Gender Matter in Elections? The book explores whether voters employ gender stereotypes when evaluating women candidates and discusses the role of candidates' campaign decisions and the media's reporting decisions.Dolan's work often elicits strong reactions from journalists, commentators and members of the general public, but UWM colleague Marcus Ethridge says she "addresses them through rigorous empirical analysis, using sound statistical skills to shed light on the ways gender stereotyping affects public opinion and on the different choices men and women make in the voting booth. [Dolan's] work has corrected false presumptions and clarified important insights."Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and other top journals. Colleagues praise Dolan for her involvement in professional associations, service on committees and boards, and editorships.Martha Carlin
Professor, History
Much of what is known about everyday life in medieval England is a result of the tireless work of UWM history professor Martha Carlin, whom one nominator calls "the most knowledgeable scholar in the English-speaking world on the subject of how medieval urban householders fed and clothed themselves."Her focus on social, economic and urban history has produced highly regarded books. In Medieval Southwark (1996), she traced the urban development of London's first suburb from the year 50 to 1550. In London and Southwark Inventories 1316-1650 (1997), she cataloged from obscure legal documents more than 1,900 surviving inventories that shed light on the personal property of medieval and early modern debtors.In all, Carlin has seven published or forthcoming books to her credit, as well as 26 articles, 16 book reviews, and more than 50 conference presentations and lectures. Her efforts were recognized with her 1996 election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London.Carlin's exhaustive research in European libraries and archives has been funded in part by 11 travel awards from the Graduate School since 1995. Other UWM awards include a 1991 Graduate School Research Committee Award and a 1998 Graduate School (now Office of Research)/ UWM Foundation Research Award.Hugo Lopez
Professor, Materials Engineering
Hugo Lopez is widely known in the academic and research community for his work in developing advanced engineering materials.He has been at the forefront in the development of cobalt alloys with important applications in improving biomedical devices such as hip implants. His advances developing aluminum alloys and nodular irons have helped solve engineering challenges in the manufacture of engine blocks, heads and crankshafts for General Motors and Chrysler.Lopez has published more than 200 articles and conference papers, which have been cited more than 600 times in scientific literature.Tien-Chien Jen, mechanical engineering professor and former UWM College of Engineering and Applied Science interim dean, calls Lopez "a recognized leader in the development of cobalt-based alloys with enhanced properties for applications in the biomedical field."Last year Lopez was named a level-three member of the prestigious Mexican National System of Research Scientists. This year he was awarded the 2012 British Foundry Medal and Prize. Also, he is the founding editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Metals, established in 2011.Lopez has been primary or co-investigator on 20 grants, contracts and research awards, as well as founder and organizer of a 2011 international welding symposium and organizer of the World Casting Congress earlier this year.
Dennis W. Bennett
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dennis Bennett's research explores the structures and bonding of molecules within crystals, and how these molecules are affected by differences in electron charge density.
Among his accomplishments in the field of crystallography is revealing the complex decomposition process of sulfur-oxygen compounds, which had stumped other researchers.
Bennett last year completed a textbook titled Understanding Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography. Joseph Ferrara, a vice president at the Molecular Structure Corporation, writes, "If I were to teach a course in small molecule crystallography, this is the book I would use…. I can honestly say I wish I had this book when I was in school.
"Bennett also has written a widely used molecular graphics program called MolXtl. His collaboration beginning in the 1980s with UWM Professor James Otvos—developing methods for blood analysis, primarily determining "good" and "bad" cholesterol levels—led to the formation in 1994 of the diagnostic company today known as LipoScience.
Bennett has written more than 130 published articles and five book chapters.
Patrick R. Brady
Professor, Physics
For Patrick Brady, this UWM Research Foundation Senior Faculty Award is just one more of the many accolades he has received for his outstanding work on black holes and the search for gravitational waves.
While achieving full professorship after just eight years at UWM, Brady has been recognized with prestigious awards from the Sloan Foundation, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the UWM Graduate School. Perhaps most notable is his 2010 election as a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor earned by no more than half a percent of society members annually.
In a support letter for the APS fellowship, one reviewer wrote that Brady "is in every way a perfect gem, guaranteed to bring life, enthusiasm and the highest standards of scholarship to any group lucky enough to get him.
"At UWM, Brady directs the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, one of the most prominent such centers worldwide, and he plays a leading role in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, whose ambitious goal is to establish gravitational-wave astronomy.
Sandra Braman
Professor, Communication
Sandra Braman's research focuses on information policy and its impact on society, law and technology. She is author or co-editor of a number of books in the area, as well as four special journal issues. She has written numerous articles in the top journals of the communication and information fields.
She has held visiting professorships and fellowships in both the U.S. and internationally. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Because of her interdisciplinary approach, her work has been cited and is taught in classes in communication, information science, sociology, law and legal studies, political science, international relations, economics and the arts.
"Through her sustained and productive program of research, Professor Braman has not simply contributed to the field of information policy, she has been instrumental in defining that field, and in shaping national and international policy," writes Michele H. Jackson, director of the University of Colorado's ASSETT (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) program.
John L. Isbell
Professor, Geosciences
John Isbell is a sedimentologist internationally known for his work in the Late Paleozoic Ice Age that occurred 326 to 306 million years ago and is regarded as the longest glacial event since the evolution of animals.
His particular expertise on this period centers on the continents of the Southern Hemisphere that once composed the supercontinent called Gondwana. Isbell's work has set forth a wellreasoned challenge to conventional wisdom about the history of glaciation in this area, the best analog scientists have for examining the Earth's transition from icehouse to greenhouse conditions.
"This body of research clearly establishes him as a major player in the community of scientists working on climate issues, and a leader amongst those working on Gondwana glaciation," says one nominator.
His record of funded research and frequency of his fieldwork is hard to match. He has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation—13 grants—since 1990. He also has been a leader or team member on international research projects on three modern continents, notably on 14 trips to Antarctica.
John D. Buntin
Professor, Biological Sciences
It is very difficult to get a regular research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and even more difficult to have it renewed over several funding periods. John Buntin's main NIH grant was funded without interruption for more than 20 years.
Perhaps most striking, however, is that he received an NIH Merit Award from 1989-2000, which places him in the very top group of NIH investigators.
Buntin has established himself as an international authority on the actions of the hormone prolactin on the central nervous system. It is an avenue of research that would have discouraged many. How this hormone is able to affect processes that are presumably controlled by the brain has been a big mystery in the field of neuroscience.
Buntin has contributed more to solving this mystery than anyone else, and has advanced understanding of hormone-brain interactions more broadly.
He has made fundamental breakthroughs in understanding prolactin's central regulation of parental care at the cellular and molecular level. Many of these advances have been made possible by the systematic and insightful way Buntin has developed and characterized a unique avian model to approach these questions.
"While I think John deserves this award based only on his academic accomplishments in neuroendocrinology," says one nominator, "I think there are also several other reasons he should receive it. One of these is in recognition for his continued tangible contributions to the development of UWM as a serious research university and, more specifically, to the growth of neuroscience on campus."
Michael F. Fendrich
Director, Center for Addiction and Behavioral Health Research
Professor, Social Work
As director of the Center for Addiction and Behavioral Health Research (CABHR) and a member of the social work faculty since 2005, Michael Fendrich has brought a number of initiatives and grants to UWM and moved CABHR forward as a national center researching addictions and mental health.
While developing proposals for cutting-edge research examining substance abuse, Fendrich has become a nationally recognized expert and has served on national panels for federal agencies. In addition, he is on the editorial boards of two major addiction journals and is working on a number of federally funded projects—including an evaluation of Milwaukee's first drug treatment court.
Other projects include an important linkage to private industry conducting research on a new biomarker for heavy alcohol consumption. "This is an example of a public-private partnership to address a serious issue facing the community and private business," says Stan Stojkovic, dean of the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
In addition to making presentations to community agencies and national entities, Fendrich was pivotal in organizing a national conference held at UWM on high-risk drinking and the importance of a prevention message to students, a collaboration between CABHR and MillerCoors.
Under his leadership, CABHR has expanded its focus to include researchers in nursing, communication, psychology and gerontology. This has led to the creation of an ongoing summer research methods seminar, encouraging research competency among faculty and mentoring relationships on campus.
A milestone for CABHR was the recent establishment of the Community Research Center in Milwaukee's central city, a move that clearly demonstrates the importance Fendrich and other CABHR researchers place on university-community collaboration.
Marleen C. Pugach
Professor, Curriculum & Instruction
The faculty of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction unanimously nominated Marleen Pugach for the Senior Faculty Award.
"Dr. Pugach is one of the most respected scholars, nationally and internationally, in the area of collaboration between general and special educators," wrote colleague Linda Post, associate professor of education. "Her advocacy for models of inclusion for special education students is a consistent theme throughout her work.
"Pugach, who joined UWM in 1986, has focused her research and work on ways of helping children with special needs learn in the least restrictive environment. Pugach's research and writing continues to have a tremendous impact on teacher education, generally, and on special education, wrote colleague Linda Blanton, professor at Florida International University.
Her research and writing have focused on ways to help teachers integrate children with special needs into "regular" classrooms, looking at such topics as collaboration among general and special education teachers, team teaching and preparation of special education teachers in content areas.
Her work has been recognized nationally with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's (AACTE) Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education and the TED/Merrill Award from the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Pugach has been a visiting scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand and at Arizona State University. She received a Fulbright for work and research as a senior specialist at the University of Alberta.
Most recently, she and Blanton have been working with the AACTE and the Council of Chief State School Officers to study collaborative programs in general and special education. From that work, they have developed an action guide for policy makers.
Vladislav V. Yakovlev
Professor, Physics
Vladislav Yakovlev has made important advancements in optical spectroscopy both from an engineering and a scientific perspective, and has pioneered the development of techniques that have set the pace in the field of ultrafast optics for 20 years.
Yakovlev's research is focused on applications of advanced optical spectroscopy to biological and medical imaging that can provide immediate knowledge of chemical content.
His discoveries have helped move ultrafast femtosecond lasers from use only as laboratory tools to systems that solve real-world problems—in this case, some of the very first work using femtosecond lasers for surgery.
In fact, says one nominator, "His contributions to the fields of nanoscale optical imaging of sub-cellular structures, protein structural chemistry and biomedical applications of the optical technology are known throughout the world."
Examples of Yakovlev's work have been highlighted in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as well as in the top journals in the field.
In addition, he has developed strong ties to world-renowned collaborators, which allows him to continually link new breakthroughs in spectroscopy to applications in medicine and biology, generating a large number of research proposals. He currently has two active grants from the National Science Foundation, three from the National Institutes of Health and one from the U.S. Department of Defense.
"This brings your institution a very strong applied optics and spectroscopy program," says one nominator, "and a direct linkage to biomedical device engineering and development."
Margo J. Anderson
Professor, Department of History
As the country's leading scholar on the history of the U.S. Census, Margo Anderson has made distinguished contributions to research in American social science.
Her research on the past censuses shows how current events have affected or changed the process, and how social prejudices have tainted the count throughout its history.
Anderson has worked tirelessly to explain the significance of the census process to questions of social inequality, both through her many publications, including three books, and by testifying before Congress.
In addition, she has most recently been involved in promoting scholarship on Milwaukee. This work took off in 2004 when she organized a conference on Milwaukee history in conjunction with the meeting of the Urban History Association here.
Her scholarly contributions have been recognized by a variety of professional organizations. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Census Requirements for the Year 2000 and Beyond. In addition, she has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
Margaret Duncan
Professor, Department of Human Movement Sciences
Margaret Duncan is known nationally and internationally for her research into the sociocultural aspects of sport and physical activity.From earlier work on gendered bodies and media portrayals, to work on sport and ability/disability, to more recent work on the social construction of obesity, she has drawn upon the most recent constructs and theoretical orientations in a variety of disciplines.Her work has spanned the fields of sociology, anthropology, health and kinesiology, psychology, history, cultural studies and gender studies to advance research and professional practice in human movement sciences.Another noteworthy aspect of Duncan's research is her desire to share the findings of her work with students. Through mentoring of graduate students across campus departments, she has helped students translate research into professional practice.
Duncan is an Active Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, the most prestigious honorary organization in the U.S. for scholars in kinesiology. Membership is limited to 140 Active Fellows; to be elected, a candidate must demonstrate long-term scholarly productivity at the highest level.
Paul J. Roebber
Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Paul Roebber is regarded as one of the leading forecasting experts in the United States and the world, and his research has affected how future weather is determined today.
Roebber's research has led to an improved method for forecasting snowfall which has recently been adopted as the standard methodology by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
In addition, his research group was the first to show that high-resolution weather prediction models can reliably predict the occurrence, mode and timing of thunderstorms within a region 24 to 48 hours in advance.
Roebber also is widely regarded for his teaching expertise and for finding effective ways for his students to be actively involved in research. In the last two years, he created a program in which both undergraduate and graduate students provide targeted forecasts to local businesses. Eight clients, including We Energies, are signed up, and the contracts with these businesses are leading to new ways to support students in atmospheric science.
Research in the Humanities Award (Biennial)
Description: Former Associate Dean for Research Robert A. Jones and his spouse, Mary B. Jones, established the Research in the Humanities Award at the UWM Foundation for the purpose of recognizing outstanding scholarship and research in the Humanities.
The award recipient will have demonstrated a comprehensive grasp of the subject(s) of inquiry and research and will have made a substantive contribution to humanistic thought through a monograph or other scholarly publication during the two years prior to the award year.
In each odd-numbered year, the Office of Research solicits award nominations of faculty members in the Humanities (see below for eligible departments). The faculty member selected for the award is honored at the Fall Awards Ceremony and receive a $1,500 prize.
Eligibility and Selection
- Faculty members in the Departments of Africology; Art History; Communication; English; Foreign Languages and Literature; French, Italian, and Comparative Literature; History; Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies; Linguistics; Philosophy; Spanish and Portuguese.
- Author of monograph published during the two years prior to the award year.
The Vice Provost for Research, the Associate Dean of Humanities in L&S, and the Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities Executive Committee will comprise the Selection Committee.
Nomination Procedure
Calls for nomination are generally issued in February of each award year, with a March deadline. For more information, send e-mail to email@example.com or call (414) 229-5218.
- David DiValerio, Associate Professor, History
- Christine Evans, Associate Professor, History
- Joseph Peschio, Associate Professor, Russian
- Tami Williams, Associate Professor, Film Studies & English
Associate Professor, Art History
Tanya Tiffany's 2012 book, Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville, provides the most in-depth look to date into the early career of one of Western art's greatest artists.
By considering his work within the context of Seville's social, political and religious environment of the day, Tiffany reveals the issues that many of Velázquez's paintings address, such as women's place in society, the nature of artistic creativity, the role of religion in everyday life, and the incorporation of racial minorities into Christianity.
Laura Bass of Brown University describes Tiffany as "one of today's most important scholars of Velázquez." Citing its "rigorous research" of a wide variety of textual sources and "meticulous attention to pictorial composition," Bass writes that Tiffany's book will be "indispensable to students and scholars not only of art history but also of early modern Spanish culture more broadly."
Since coming to UWM in 2004, Tiffany's university awards include travel grants from College of Letters and Science, Center for International Education, and Graduate School, a Center for 21st Century Studies Fellowship, and a Graduate School Research Committee Award. She also earned a UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Research Support Grant and a fellowship from UW-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities.
Barrett Kalter
Associate Professor, English
In Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England, 1660-1780, Barrett Kalter examines the influence of antiquarianism on English literature, architecture, and interior design during the long eighteenth century.
Inspired by the history that scholars and collectors had recovered in such concrete detail, artists and writers combined fact with imagination, and old with new, to create works ranging from medieval-style wallpaper to the Gothic novel. These "modern antiques" were valued as exotic alternatives to the present, yet they also embody the changes that define the era, such as the legitimization of empirical knowledge, the spread of consumer culture, and the rise of British nationalism. Kalter argues that the proliferation of "modern antiques" in the period reveals modernity's paradoxical emergence out of encounters with the past.
Robert Folkenflik, professor emeritus of English at the University of California-Irvine, calls Kalter's work "an original and necessary book for eighteenth-century studies" whose chapters "give us a rigorously considered sense of the historical imagination of the eighteenth century."
Since coming to UWM in 2004, Kalter's university awards include travel grants from the Center for International Education and the Graduate School, and a Center for 21st Century Studies Fellowship.
Kalter's works in progress include a monograph on food and eighteenth-century literature.
Associate Professor, History
Jasmine Alinder's 2009 book, Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration, examines the ways in which photographs of the Japanese American incarceration were made, exhibited and seen from multiple perspectives—those of photographers, subjects and exhibitors—both then and later. As such, it is a history of how photographic meaning is not given but constructed—often subject to deeply ideological constraints.Published by University of Illinois Press, Alinder's book has established her as one of the most important and influential scholars in the burgeoning areas of public history, visual culture and museum studies. Moving Images has received high critical acclaim, praising the author's sophistication and imagination in developing a history of documentary photography that displays the complex interrelations between visual and ideological contexts.John Howard of King's College London writes: "[T]his book is a credit to the press, the series editor and the author. Alinder's keen insights will continue to inform and enhance the field for years to come."Sukanya Banerjee
Associate Professor, English
Sukanya Banerjee's 2010 book, Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late Victorian Empire, combines Victorian studies, postcolonial history and literary analysis with meticulous archival research to investigate the ways in which Indians fashioned conceptions of themselves as citizens in the British Empire, more than half a century before the founding of their own nation-state.Published by Duke University Press, the book provides a new transnational and extralegal framework for understanding the colonial subject and the global reach and complexity of Indian society in the late Victorian period.Calling it a "virtuoso performance," Antoinette Burton of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign writes that Becoming Imperial Citizens "is indispensable reading for those who want to understand the timing of nationalisms sponsored by colonial modernity."Banerjee's book was a culmination of research that included a UWM Center for 21st Century Studies fellowship in 2003-04. In addition to many external honors and awards, other UWM awards include a fellowship at the Center for Women's Studies, two Graduate School Research Committee Awards, an NEH summer research award and four UWM travel grants.
William Bristow
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a 19th century German idealist philosopher whose ideas and concepts, including dialectic, absolute idealism, ethical life and sublation, challenged many ideas of the prominent German idealist Immanuel Kant.
Scholars have long struggled to fully understand Hegel's criticisms of Kant, and William Bristow's 2007 book, Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique, has been called "the most successful account so far" of Hegel's arguments.
Published by Oxford University Press, the world's leading publisher in philosophy, the book was the subject of the "Author Meets Critics" session of the 2009 American Philosophical Association meeting, the profession's most distinguished venue for discussion of new books. It was also nominated for the APA's Annual Book Prize.
In a review, Paul Franks of the University of Toronto calls Bristow's book "a brilliant defense of Hegel, indispensable reading for anyone interested in Kant and Hegel," adding that, "It also presents a breathtaking vision of epistemology."
Aims McGuinness
Associate Professor, History
With the writing of Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush, Aims McGuinness has confirmed his place in the front ranks of researchers in the burgeoning field of global history.
This assessment by UWM History Department Chair Neal Pease is just one voice in the chorus of accolades the book has received since its 2008 publication.
Path of Empire describes the Gold Rush's impact on Panama, an important route for U.S. westward expansion even before the building of the canal in 1914. Robert Buffington, professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, calls Path of Empire "a pioneering work of transnational history that significantly revises our understanding of this hemispherechanging event."
McGuinness conducted research on Panama and the United States as a Center for 21st Century Studies fellow in 2003-04, and delivered the 2004 Fromkin Lecture, which focused on Milwaukee's socialist history.
John Koethe
Professor, Philosophy
Perhaps best known as a poet—author of seven books of poetry and recipient of numerous awards—UWM Distinguished Professor John Koethe reminds us of his importance as a philosopher with his 2005 book, Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning.
Described by UWM colleague Edward Hinchman as "a groundbreaking contribution to several issues in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of logic," the book examines skeptical arguments, a matter on which there is no consensus among contemporary philosophers.
How do you respond to a philosophical argument that contradicts your common-sense knowledge, such as an assertion that you cannot know that you are at this very moment sitting at a computer? Rather than denying the premises of such arguments or simply declaring them invalid, Koethe delves into what such arguments reveal about the nature of reasoning itself.
Ohio State University philosophy professor Robert Kraut calls Koethe's book "an excellent study of epistemological skepticism—one of the most intriguing discussions of the topic to appear in many years" and "a wonderful piece of systematic philosophy."
Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning was preceded by Koethe's 1996 book The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought and several important scholarly articles, which include "And They Ain't Outside the Head Either" in 1992, "The Stability of Reference over Time" in 1982, and "Putnam's Argument Against Realism" in 1979.
Koethe has taught and written at UWM since 1973, when he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Outstanding Creative Research Achievement Award (Biennial)
The Outstanding Creative Research Achievement Award recognizes a UWM faculty member for achieving significant artistic or creative contribution to their field or discipline within the past three years. The recipient will receive $1,500 and be honored at the Fall Awards ceremony. The award is offered biennially in rotation with the award that recognizes scholarly monographs in the humanities.
Any tenured or tenure-track faculty member of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee is eligible to be nominated for this award. Evidence of artistic or creative accomplishment (significant advancement of knowledge, technique, or creative expression) must be in a form that is appropriate to the nominee's professional field/discipline.
Emphasis will be placed on the quality, significance, and impact of the artistic or creative research activity within the given discipline rather than the number of activities, or quantity produced. A panel composed of the Vice Provost for Research; Associate Deans in the Peck School of the Arts, the College of Letters & Science (AD for Humanities), the School of Architecture & Urban Planning; and the chair of the Arts and Humanities divisional committee will make the final selection.
Nominations will be open again in January 2020. Details available then.
- Chris Cornelius, Associate Professor, Architecture
- Kimberly Cosier, Professor, Art And Design