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IRGP Recipients, Fall 2007

 

Chris Corneal; Art & Art History; College of Arts and Letters; Digital Video Short – Corneal

Teresa Dunn; Art & Art History; College of Arts and Letters; A Series of Contemporary Narrative Figure Paintings: Making Paintings a Visual Expression of Game Theory, Social Interaction, and Spatial Development

Patrick O’Donnell; English; College of Arts and Letters; Contemporary American Novel 1980-present

Lloyd Pratt; English; College of Arts and Letters; The Space of Freedom in American and African American Literature, 1820-1860

M Tavormina; English; College of Arts and Letters; The Dome of Uryn: Practical Middle English Uroscopy

Frederick Gifford; Philosophy; College of Arts and Letters; Ethics of Clinical Research in Developing Nations

Debra Nails; Philosophy; College of Arts and Letters; Two Dogmas of Platonism

James Nelson; Philosophy; College of Arts and Letters; Routine Retrieval as a Strategy for Human Organ Procurement: An Ethical Analysis 

Christopher Frilingos; Religious Studies; College of Arts and Letters; Jesus, Age 5: Christianity and Culture in Ancient Childhood Gospels

Tracey Covassin; Kinesiology; College of Education; A Long-Term Investigation of Age and Gender Differences on Concussion Outcomes in High School and Collegiate Athletes

Sue Grady; Geography; College of Social Science; Geographic Analysis of Infant Mortality in Michigan

Nwando Achebe; History; College of Social Science; Gendered Politics in a Changing Space: Colonialism and the Invention of a Female Igbo King

Pero Dagbovie; History; College of Social Science; The African American Historical Enterprise Reconsidered: Scholarship and Pedagogy

Maureen Flanagan; History; College of Social Science; Consolidating the Patriarchal City: Gender Ideals and the Transformation of the Built Environments of Chicago, Dublin, London, and Toronto, 1870s-1940s

Walter Hawthorne; History; College of Social Science; Forging an Atlantic Creole Culture

Charles Radding; History; College of Social Science; School, Studium, University

Joseph Cesario; Psychology; College of Social Science; How Different Types of Framings in Health Messages Can Impact Effectiveness: A Regulatory Focus Framework

Peilei Fan; School of Planning, Design & Construction; College of Social Science; Innovation, Globalization, and Catching-up by Chinese High-Tech Firms

Angela Kennedy; Social Work; College of Social Science; Piloting an Innovative Method to Assess Adolescent Mothers’ History of Co-Occurring Violence Exposure

Stephanie Nawyn; Sociology; College of Social Science; Uncovering the Temporal Dimension of African Immigrant Assimilation

Xuifei Ren; Sociology; College of Social Science; Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China

Melanie Helton; Music; College of Music; Music CD Recording of MSU Sesquicentennial Commissioned Work

Zhengfei Guan; Agricultural Economics; College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Conservation or Ethanol?  Designing and Pricing Conservation Contracts with Real Options

Jason Knott; Animal Science Department; College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Chromatin Remodeling and Early Embryo Development

Andrew Grandy; Crop and Soil Sciences; College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Agricultural Management Effects on Soil Organic Matter Turnover: Integrating Biological, Physical and Chemical Mechanisms

Donald Morelli; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; College of Engineering; Minimal Thermal Conductivity in Ternary Rocksalt Structure Compounds

Jeff Sakamoto; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; College of Engineering; Highly Ordered, High Aspect Ratio Electrodes Enabling a New Class of Lithium Batteries

Neeraj Buch; Civil and Environmental Engineering; College of Engineering; Research and Evaluation of the Design-Based Engineering Curriculum

Irene Xagoraraki; Civil and Environmental Engineering; College of Engineering; Fate of Selected Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water and Wastewater Chlorination

Xiang-Yang Liu; Computer Science and Engineering; College of Engineering; Privacy Preserving Execution of Distributed Security Policies

Farhang Pourboghrat; Mechanical Engineering; College of Engineering; Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Long-term Performance of Polymeric Liner in Total Hip Joint Replacements

Hwan Chung; Department of Epidemiology; College of Human Medicine; New Methods for the Analysis of Latent Stage-Sequential Development in Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment

Mark Kadrofske; Pediatrics and Human Development; College of Human Medicine; The Role of 5-Hydroxytryptamine in Intestinal Epithelial Cell Migration

Xiaochun Bian; Pharmacology & Toxicology; College of Human Medicine; Postnatal Development of Neurohumoral Signaling Mechanisms in the Gut

Maria Zavodszky; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; College of Natural Science; Detecting Change in Flexibility and Dynamics to Explain Allosteric Couplings in Proteins

Eun-Kyoung Kim; Food Science & Human Nutrition; College of Natural Science; Glucotoxicity Mediated by AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in Pancreatic Beta Cells

Jennifer Lau; Kellogg Biological Station; College of Natural Science; Ecological Genetics and Genomics of Adaptation to Climate Change

Jeffrey Schenker; Mathematics; College of Natural Science; Random Matrix Theory of a Metal Insulator Transition

Kathleen Hoag; Medical Technology Program; College of Natural Science; Use of Pythium Insidiosum Antigens for Treatment of Atopic/Allergic Disease

Federica Brandizzi; Plant Research Laboratory; College of Natural Science; Identification of Novel Plant-Specific Proteins Involved in the Biology of the Secretory Subdomains of the Plant Endoplasmic Reticulum

Michael Boivin; Neurology & Ophthalmology; College of Osteopathic Medicine; Neurocogntive and Psychosocial Effects of True Cerebral Malaria in Malawian Children

Simon Petersen-Jones; Small Animal Clinical Sciences; College of Veterinary Medicine; Altered Cardiovascular Homeostasis and Embryonic Lethality Associated with GNB# Mutation