Research News

John Morrison, physics and physical oceanography, received $243,000 from North Carolina State University for the project "Benthic Dinoflagellate Migration Occurrence and Progress."

Stephen Kinsey and Richard Dillaman, biology and marine biology, received $466,186 from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Are Muscle Fibers Just the Right Size?"

The Charles L. Cahill Awards are granted annually to full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty to:

• provide seed money for the initiation of projects that subsequently may attract funding from other sources
• encourage new research or artistic endeavors
• support travel to research collections
• encourage the development of specific professional skills.

2008 Award Winners:

Amanda Boomershine, Foreign Languages and Literature, "The Perception of English Vowels by Monolingual and Bilingual Spanish and English Speakers."

Christopher Finelli, Biology and Marine Biology, "Cliona Chelata and its Effects on the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea Virginica"

Paul Gillingham, History, "Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico, Fieldwork, Summer 2009"

Tammy Gordon, History, "Archival Research and a Digital Memory Bank for BuyCentennial: Consumerism and HIstorical Memory in 1976"

Eric Henry, Geography and Geology, "Characterizing Tidal Creek Ground Water-Surface Water Exchange Using Temperature Profiles"

Patricia Kelley, Geography and Geology, "Latitudal Variation in Predation by South American Shell-Drilling Gastropods: A Modern Baseline for Studying the Evolution of the Naticid Gastropod Predator-Prey System"

Thomas Lankford, Biology and Marine Biology, "FIsh Nursery Function of Saltmarsh Tidal Creeks in Southeastern North Carolina: Effects of Residential Development and Water Pollution"

Sean Lema, Biology and Marine Biology, "Development of Antibodies to Assess the Expression Patterns and Regulation of Three Newly Discovered Vasotocin Receptors in Fish"

Shanhong Luo, Psychology, "The Role of Attachment in Infidelity: Why Do People Cheat?"

Derrick Miller, Foreign Languages and Literature, "Germans Imagine the American South, 1670-1870"

Jeremy Morgan, Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Phosphine-Catalyzed Synthesis of EnantiopureHeterocycles by the Rearrangement of Aziridines"

Ann Stapleton, Biology and Marine Biology, "Living on Leaves: Influence of Host Genotype and Abiotic Stress on Maize Phyllosphere Community Structure."

Jeffrey Toth, Pyschology, "Development of Computerized Touch-Screen Neuropsychological Tes for the Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease"

Frank Trimble, Communication Studies, "Normal Rockwell: America in Art - A Musical Stage Production Celebrating the Life and Artistic Works of Norman Rockwell"

Marcel Van Tuinen, Biology and Marine Biology, "Monitoring Evolution's Edge and the Current Collapse of the Salton Sea Ecosystem"

Sridhar Varadarajan, Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Selective Protein Capture Using Surface-Modified Nanoporous Alumina Membranes"

Tamara Walser, Educational Leadership, "Formative Evaluation of A School Leader's Guide to Evaluating Research"

Ami Wilbur, Biology and Marine Biology, "A Preliminary Evaluation of Genetic Structure and Parasite Prevalence in the Crested Oyster, Ostreola Equestris"

 

2007 Award Winners:

Judith Jarosinski and Brandy Mechling, Nursing, "A Qualitative Assessment of Critical Thinking Happening in Nursing Students in Computer Mediated Courses"

Cara Cilano, English, "Acts of Contrition: the 1971 Pakistani Civil War in English and Urdu Language Literatures"

Joe Hickman, Music, "Recent Developments in Choral Performance and Preparation"

Jeremy Morgan, Chemistry, "Catalytic Enantioselective Cohalogenation of Unactivated Alkenes"

Hee-Seung Lee, Chemistry, "Binding Interaction of Anticancer Active Dirhodium Compounds with DNA Bases"

Michelle Scatton-Tessier, Foreign Languages and Literatures, "Jean Pierre Jeunet"

Amy Kirschke, Art History, "Ghana at Fifty: Contemporary Art, Identity, Memory and Patronage"

Christine Hughes, Psychology, "Interaction Effects Between Stimulant Drugs and Time-out from Positive Reinforcement"

Olga Trokhimenko, Foreign Languages and Literatures, "Sense and Sensibility"

Bill Harris, Geography and Geology, "Numeric Dating of Major Geologic Boundaries, Last 65MA"

Matthew Eshleman, Philosophy and Religion, "On Foucault, Self Reflection and Care of the Self"

Christopher Halkides, Chemistry, "Syntheses of S-2, 2, 2-triflourethylcysteine sulfone and S-allylcysteine sulfone"

Frederick Scharf, Biology and Marine Biology, "Experimental evaluation of overwinter mortality of age-0 red drum"

Lisa Pollard, History, "Jewish Grassroots Movements in Modern Egypt"

Cameron Gordon, Psychology, "Life Transitions and Marital Satisfaction"

Scott Imig, Education, "School Effectiveness: Developing a Comprehensive Metric to Identify Schools that Work"

Mary Joanna White, Music, "World-premiere recording of a newly commissioned work for solo flute by composer Benjamin Boone"

Michael Benedetti, Geography and Geology, "Geomorphic Response to Climate and Sea Level Change, Estremadura Dune Field, Portugal"

Laurie Paarlberg, PIA, "Institutional Change in the United Way"

Christina Lanier, Sociology, "Intimate Partner Violence Across the Rural/Urban Divide: A Preliminary Investigation"

 

2006 Award Winners:

Antje Almeida, Chemistry, "Does the Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides Depend on their Amino Acid Sequence?"

Anne Berkeley, Theater, "Summer Institute: Making Theater/Facilitating Dialogue"

Michael McCartney, Biology and Marine Biology, "Massive Introgression of Gamete Recognition Genes in Hybridizing Blue Mussels: Cellular and Molecular Evolutionary Studies"

Marcel van Tuinen, Biology and Marine Biology, "Equipment Request for a Novel 'Ancient DNA' Facility at UNCW"

David Sepkoski, History, "An Investigation of the Papers of George Gaylord Simpson"

Jennifer Horan, Political Science, "Impact of Transnational Scientific Community on Environmental Conservation in the Galapagos"

William Bolduc, Communications, "Professional Advanced Training in the Fast Moving Field of Digital Media Production"

Scott Simmons, Anthropology, "Ancient Maya Metals: A Typological Analysis of Copper Artifacts at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian"

Mariana Johnson, Film Studies, "Film Culture in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba"

Lewis Walker, English, "Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1: The Advent Play of Mind"

Pascale Barthe, Foreign Languages and Literatures, "Searching and Analyzing Archival Sources Pertaining to a Sixteenth Century French Embassy to Constantinople"

W. Taylor Fain, History, "The United States, Great Britain, and the Creation of the British Indian Ocean Territory"

Frereshteh Rostampour, Theater, "Broadway Lighting Master Class"

Amy Kirschke, Art History, "Ghana: The Artist and Independence"

Paul Townsend, History, "Between Two Worlds: Irish Nationalists and Imperial Adventure 1870-1898"

Steve Elliot, Sue Combs and Candra Thornton, Health and Applied Human Sciences, "Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention designed to promote physical activity for at-risk students in New Hanover County Schools"

Glen Harris, History, "Liberalism and Identity in Mid-Century America: Black and Jewish Perspectives"

Heather Coopman, Biology and Marine Biology, "The Evolution of Specialized Lipids in the Toothed Whales"

Douglas Gamble, Geography and Geology, "Satellite Image Analysis of San Salvador, Bahamas: Assessment of Rainfall Processes and Hurricane Damage"

Vibke Olson, Art History, "Mapping Burgudian Romanesque Capitals: A Pilot GPS Project"

 

 

UNCW/Jamie Moncrief