Department Faculty Member(s) Award Title
2014-15 Internal Grants Comprehensive Listing
AAUP University Research, Faculty-Student Research, Faculty
Development, PT Faculty Development, Curriculum Development
Department Faculty Member(s) Award Title
AAUP University Research Total Awarded $303,086
Accounting
Pankaj Nagpal $2,520 Review and exploratory research on
Outsourcing and Backsourcing: Preparation of External Research Grant Proposal at CSU and SUNY
Anthropology
Kenneth Feder $3,963 Message in Stone? Investigating Claims of
the Existence of Artifacts in North America of Pre-Columbian Age Exhibiting Old World Writing
Ivan Small $4,500 Anticipating a Market: Deploying and
Framing “Culture” in Asian Transportation Design and Consumption
Art
Sean Gallagher $3,466 Portraying Our Students Beyond the
University
Biology
Alicia Bray $4,100 Genetic analysis of an invasive species,
Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) introduced into western Russia
Alicia Bray $796 Second year of field surveys of mosquito
species in Connecticut with special attention to introduced species and pathogen vectors
Paul Hapeman $2,070 Occupancy Modeling of Atlantic Saltmarsh
Mink (Neovison vison lutensis) in Northeastern Florida
Paul Hapeman $1,613 Extent of Occurrence of the Endangered
American Marten (Martes Americana) in Southern Vermont and Northwestern Massachusetts
Mark Jackson $4,500 Neurosteroid modulation of synaptic
plasticity in the crayfish neuromuscular system
Jeremiah Jarrett $4,870 The Biology and Ecology of the
Commercially Harvested Sea Cucumber, Holthuria mexicana, along the Belize Barrier Reef
Sadie Marjani $4,468 Effects of in vitro maturation, fertilization
Thomas Mione $3,261 The genetics of close relatives of the tomato
and culture on genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in single, bovine pre-implantation embryos
Clayton Penniman $5,000 Population Ecology of an Estaurine
Seaweed, Polysiphonia subtilissima (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales)
Biomolecular Sciences
Daniel Chase $4,970 A new mechanism of dopamine signaling
Michael Davis $4,500 Planaria as an Animal Model for Evaluating
Microbial Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Environments
Betsy Dobbs-McAuliffe $4,770 Investigating heart development in zebrafish
embryos exposed to ethanol and acetaminophen
Barry Hoopengardner $3,000 RNA editing and phylogenetic relationships
in Porifera
Martin Kapper $2,430 Contribution of the molecular chaperone
protein HSP40 to salinity adaptation in the ribbed mussel
Thomas King $4,500 Importation and initial analysis of the curly
whiskers mutation (cw) in mice
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Sourav Chakraborty $4,500 A Mechanistic Investigation into Tissue
Browning Using Apple (Malus spp.) as a Model System
Guy Crundwell $4,576 Silver (I) complexes with
dithienylpyridoquinoxalines: Evidence of η¹-thiophene bonding to generate molecular frameworks
Sarah Maurer $4,896 Reduction of Ultra-Violet Damage to DNA
using Membrane-Bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Stephen Watton $3,000 Coordination and Redox Equilibria of
Proximally Substituted Copper-Phenanthroline Complexes
Barry Westcott $4,433 The bioinorganic chemistry of invasive sea
squirts in Long Island Sound
Computer Electronics & Graphics Technology
Haji Naik Dharavath $4,819 Analysis of Spectral Response Variation of
Ravindra Thamma Multiple Color Measuring Devices in a
CQMW for Color Verification
Computer Science
Sixia Chen $3,500 Deniable, Affiliation-Hiding Authentication
Stan Kurkovsky $3,250 Improving student learning in Computer
Science with Lego Serious Play
Irena Pevac $2,996 Tools to Improve Student Learning of
Recursive Algorithms Time Performance Analysis
Neli Zlatareva $3,120 Validation of integrated ontologies
Counselor Education & Family Therapy
Evadne Ngazimbi $2,500 To explore the challenges faced and measure
the level of depression among Zimbabwe family caregivers of persons living with HIV/AIDS who are on antiretroviral medications
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Eugena Givens $4,748 Developmental trajectories of childhood and
adolescent problem behavior: The intergenerational influence of parent mental health diagnosis and illicit substance use
Damon Mitchell $6,500 Treatment Plans and Interventions for
Antisocial Behavior Patterns
Raymond Chip Tafrate
Economics
Paramita Dhar $3,850 Fast-food restaurants and Childhood Obesity
Christina Robinson
Naranchimeg Mijid $6,930 Impacts of Different Trainings on Business
Bin Zhou Community in Central Connecticut using
Micro-level Data
Christina Robinson $9,000 Student’s Choice of Major: A Case Study
Carlos Liard-Muriente from Central Connecticut State University
Engineering
Reza Ghodsi $4,000 Study to Design a New Novel Vertical Axis
Luz Amaya-Bower Wind Turbine
Khaled Hammad $3,750 The Heat Transfer Behavior of a Confined
Bingham Fluid Flow
Viatcheslav Naoumov $4,850 Research on the Combustion of Bio-Derived
Fuels in Hybrid Propellant Rocket Engine. Phase-V: Study of the Combustion of Fuel Grains with Different Port Diameters and Analysis of the Influens of Grain Port Diameters on the Combustion Parameters
English
Stuart Barnett $3,225 Archival Research on Agatha Christie
Candace Barrington $5,000 Global Chaucers: The Canterbury Tales in
the Brazilian Pampas
Robert Dowling $3,750 Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts
Heidi Hartwig $2,730 Catholic Matters in the Letters, Tablet
Journalism, and Essais Catholiques of Graham Greene
Elena Koulidobrova $3,500 Examination of the linguistic development
of ASL and English by Deaf/Hard of Hearing non-native language learners: Expansion
Ravi Shankar $3,250 Producing an Award-Winning Online
Journal of the Arts
Geography
Richard Benfield $2,933 Psychographic profiling of Garden Tourists
to Historic Gardens and Cemeteries
Peter Kyem $4,095 Mobile phone Expansion in Africa and
Opportunities for e-Governance
Yunliang Meng $5,000 A GIS Approach to Racial Profiling: The
Micro-analysis and Macro-analysis of Racial Disparity in Police Stops in Toronto
Cynthia Pope $3,500 Changing Geographies of Health Care in
Cuba: From Revolution to Privatization
Xiaoping Shen $5,000 Older People’s Perceptions of Elderly
Dining Services in China
Geological Sciences
Mark Evans $1,638 Structural and Fluid History of the Middle
Devonian sequence (including the Marcellus shale) in the central Appalachian fold-and-thrust belt of Pennsylvania: A continuation
Oluyinka Oyewumi $5,000 Lithogenic Concentrations Trace and Major
Elements in Soil and Saprolite over Basement Rock of Lebanon, Connecticut
Michael Wizevich $5,000 Tracing Sediment Sources for the Mesozoic
Hartford Basin Through Laser Ablation U-Pb dating of Detrital Zircons
History
Matthew Warshauer $5,000 The Genius of Connecticut
Robert Wolff $5,000 Race, Slavery, and Abolition in the Making
of New England Memory
Management & Organization
Lee W. Lee $2,275 Developing Leadership Models in the
Globalizing Context: Universal versus Cross-cultural Variation of Leadership Images
Manufacturing & Construction Management
Namhun Lee $3,903 Using stereoscopic visualization to improve
Sangho Park student spatial skills in construction
management education
Talat Salama $7,313 Structural Evaluation of Model Steel Truss
Ravindra Thamma Bridge
Haoyu Wang $3,250 Facilitating applications of CAD (Computer
Aided Design), CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing), and Rapid Prototyping in Medical and Dental Research and Product Development through Software Platform Development
Mathematical Sciences
Marian Anton $3,750 A refinement of an conjecture of Quillen
Ivan Gotchev $3,500 Cardinal Functions on Hausdorff
Topological Spaces
Shelly Jones $2,871 Using Culturally Relevant Cognitively
Demanding Mathematics Tasks in Classrooms in the United States and Abroad: University and School Connections
Oscar Perdomo $3,750 Periodic Solution of the Three Body
Problem
Krishna Saha $4,500 Analysis of Intraclass Correlation
Coefficients for Correlated Binary data from Several Treatment Groups
Music
Charles Menoche $4,796 Creation of Two New Works: Soundpiece
No. 2: Duo for bass clarinet and interactive electro-acoustics and After Midnight (working title) for tuba ensemble and electro-acoustics
Philosophy
Abel Iannone $2,500 Inquiry and Imagination
Physical Education & Human Performance
Chee Hoi Leong $5,000 The Effects of Chronic Eccentric Cycling
Training on Running Economy of Forefoot Strike Runners
Mike Voight $3,250 Leadership Development Through Sport: A
National and International Perspective on Best and Next Practices
Sean Walsh $2,275 Replication study of the vitamin D receptor
(VDR) genotype association with skeletal muscle traits and sarcopenia
Physics & Engineering Physics
Peter LeMaire $3,000 Study of High Energy Density cathode
materials for Li ion rechargeable batteries
Anton Naoumov $3,533 Controllable Fabrication of Graphene
Derivatives with Pre-Designed Physical Properties and Study of their Optical Response for Optoelectronic Device Applications
Nimmi Sharma $3,750 Linking Aerosol Angular Scattering
Parameters with Laser Atmospheric Measurements
Political Science
Diana Cohen $4,500 Invisible Pelotons: The Gendered Politics of
Women’s Cycling
Sociology
John Mitrano $3,749 On the Beaten Track?: Cultural Tourism and
the Search for “Authenticity” Along Route 66
Fiona Pearson $1,625 Studying Parents: How Students With
Children are Changing College, Campus, and Culture
Fumilayo Showers $3,750 Care for Hire: Immigration, Race, Gender
and Health Care in the United States
Special Education
Sally Drew $5,610 Development of the Disciplinary Literacy
Jeff Thomas Observation Model
Teacher Education
Daniel Mulcahy $2,500 Considering the Adequacy of Market-Driven
Educational Policy
Curriculum Development Total Awarded $67,865
Biology
Sylvia Halkin $450 Development of Field Experiences and
Exercises for Biology 230, Natural History
Mark Jackson $1,200 Enhancements to Bio 122 General Biology
II; Developing a narrative of biology
Sadie Marjani $1,200 Course design and development of
Epigenetics in Development and Disease
Biomolecular Sciences
Thomas King $1,750 Development of an extended set of modern
“Case Studies” to improve both student
engagement and the relevancy of content in
Genetics for Nursing
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Guy Crundwell $1,600 Lecture Demonstrations, Virtual Labs, and a
Potential Assessment Tool: Incorporating
Wavefunction Odyssey into the General
Chemistry Lecture and Lab Sequence in an
Attempt to Increase Student Success
Neil Glagovich $1,200 Creating a Laboratory Manual for Organic
Synthesis Laboratory (CHEM 213)
Communication
Ben Tyson $1,200 Campaign Monitoring and Evaluation
Computer Electronics & Graphics Technology
Haji Naik Dharavath $2,650 Development of the Lecture Contents, RFID
Lab Activities, and Assessment of: GRT
422 Print Distribution Management Course
(3 cr.) – 2015 new
Shuju Wu $2,400 Development of Advanced Networking
Xiaobing Hou Technology Courses for Graduate Students
Computer Science
Bradley Kjell $2,400 Web Assembly Language Tutorial Revision
Sixia Chen
Stan Kurkovsky $3,195 Expanding the Applications of Lego Serious
Play in Computer Science Courses
Counselor Education & Family Therapy
Cherie King $1,970 Graduate Certification Program in
Gerontology Counseling
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Eugena Givens $1,700 Flipped Course Redesign for Media, Culture
& Crime
Damon Mitchell $1,288 The Restructuring and Hybridization of
Honors 250: Alien and Cultic Worlds
Economics
Christina Robinson $1,663 Developing a Course on Race, Gender, and
Economic Inequality
Engineering
Luz Amaya-Bower $1,399 Fluid Mechanics Problems on the Go
Luz Amaya-Bower $2,400 Let’s “Flip” Computational Methods for
Steven Kirstukas Engineering
English
Heidi Hartwig $1,200 Developing a Fully Online British Literature
Survey II Course
Geography
Peter Kyem $2,300 Revamping Remote Sensing within the
James Gambardella Geographic Information Science Program at
the Geography Department, CCSU.
Yunliang Meng $1,800 Upgrading GIS Labs to the Latest Version:
ArcGIS 10.3
William Price $2,400 Proposal to Create New Course – GEOG
Charles Button 4xx: Sustainable Tourism
Xiaoping Shen $1,200 Development of New Course Packs for
Elementary and Advanced Cartography
Courses
Geological Sciences
Jeff Thomas $1,200 Creating an e-Textbook for Pre-service
Science Teachers
History
Kate McGrath $1,200 HIST 395: Reacting to the Past – Greco-
Roman World
Mathematical Sciences
Rachel Schwell $2,400 An Inquiry-Based Course in Topology
Marian Anton
Nursing
Heather Hamilton $1,400 Developing a Medical Terminology Course
Philosophy
Cameron Brewer $2,400 Interdisciplinary course development on The
Alicia Bray Science and Ethics of Invasive Species
Physical Education & Human Performance
Jan Bishop $1,200 Developing a Library of Digital Video
Vignettes of Instructional Models in Action
and Best Practices in Teaching Physical
Education
Matthew Orange $2,000 Developing online lecture materials and
Chee-Hoi Leong acquiring physical laboratory resources to
improve anatomy and physiology courses
Sean Walsh $1,200 EXS 409 Clinical Exercise Physiology
Online Only & Hybrid Course Development
Physics & Engineering Physics
Peter LeMaire $2,900 Update of the Introductory Physics Manual
Luisito Tongson for CCSU – Part 2
Anton Naumov $1,200 Development of “Introduction to
Nanotechnology Phys 360 course”
Reading & Language Arts
Julia Kara-Soteriou $1,200 Preparing Graduate Students for the
Connecticut Foundations of Reading Test
Sociology
John Mitrano $1,200 The Creation and Development of a
“Sociology of Children and Childhood”
Course
Special Education
John Foshay $2,400 Department of Special Education Capstone
Susan Seider Redesign
Joan Nicoll-Senft $3,900 21st Century Special Education Teacher
Ernie Pancsofar Preparation: Evidence-Based Practices &
Bill Nelson Cloud-Based Assessment Practices
Teacher Education
Jacob Werblow $3,500 Finalizing the Proposal for the New
Kurt Love Secondary Education Graduate Program
Aram Ayalon
Linda George
Karen Riem
Faculty-Student Research Total Awarded $15,647
Biology
Alicia Bray $300 Culiseta melanura dispersal from swamp
Julia Mondak habitat and spread of Eastern Equine
Encephalitis in Connecticut
Paul Hapeman $340 Extant of Occurrence of the Endangered
Patrick O’Brien American Marten (Martes Americana) in
Southern Vermont and Northwestern
Massachusetts
Mark Jackson $474 Neurophysiological interaction between the
Daniel Mangini stress neurohormones corticosterone and
serotonin in the crayfish abdominal ganglion
Mark Jackson $485 Long-term potentiation in lateral giant motor
Tuong Ngu neuron in crayfish in presence of stress
hormone
Biomolecular Sciences
Michael Davis $500 Bacteriophage Typing of an Extensive
Sydney Parent Bacterial Collection of Proprionibacterium
acnes
Barry Hoopengardner $550 The KCNQ gene is a potential editing target
Affrin Ahmed in Drosophila melanogaster
Ceilena Gurahoo
Barry Hoopengardner $530 RNA editing in components of nervous
Gabriel Benet signal transduction
Chelsea Slater
Thomas King $600 Assignment of the classical wellhaarig (we)
Minh Huynh mutations to the Tgm3 gene in mice.
Hailie Shaw
Brett Brennan
Charlene Campbell
Thomas King $622 Development of a genetic screen for Gyrate
Michael Davis Atrophy of the Choroid and Retina (GACR)
Alex Nesta
Kenny Palanza
Betsy Dobbs-McAuliffe $433 Understanding the effects of retinoic acid on
Astha Pokhrel nervous system of planaria through
immunofluorescence.
Betsy Dobbs-McAuliffe $547 Investigating autophagy in zebrafish treated
Amelia Sulejmanovic with acetaminophen and ethanol.
Ona Dwyer
Audra Kohm
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Sourav Chakraborty $500 Investigation of oxidation products of
Dylan Edelbaum fluorescent probe Amplex Red using metal
catalyzed oxidation of hydrogen peroxide
(H2O2) by flourometric and
spectrophotometric methods
Sourav Chakraborty $1,000 Probing into products of tissue browning in
Alexander Steele apples – quinones or higher-order
Jahmar Walton polyphenols?
Sarah Maurer $600 Analysis of Lipid Membrane Content in
Amanda Chamberland Dynamic Environments
Leanne Aakjar
Computer Electronics & Graphic Technology
Shuju Wu $354 Active RFID Automatic Garage Door
Justin A. Bosse System
Peter Tran
Shuju Wu $325 Smart User Authentication using RFID/
Edward D. Wanczyk Bluetooth and Mobile Phone
Matt R. Savastio
Engineering
Viatcheslav Naoumov $1,000 HPRE Project – Stage V: Research on the
Patryk Deptula Combustion of the Solid Propellant Grains
Scott Werkheiser with Inner Diameters of 1.5”. Experimental
Huy Nguyen and Theoretical Study of the Losses of
Adam Mocarski Unburned Paraffin and Bee’s Wax
Zbigniew Prusak $787 In Car Dampening Control System (ICDC)
Tyler Balczun
Austin Campbell
Fu-Shang Wei $2,000 Folding Wing Modification for Ultralight
Vincent Carucci Aircraft
Michael Lisewski
Matt Sullivan