With the generous support of UNCG donors, the Office of the Provost has launched the Faculty First Awards. Below you will find our list of award winners for 2015.
Adamson, Amy – Biology – Just say no to acid: Targeting a cellular proton pump to reduce Influenza virus infection
Allard, Janet – Theatre – Frank: A New Play
Anastopoulos, Arthur – Human Dev. & Family Studies – Improving the Educational and Psychosocial Functiong of College Students with ADHD
Andersen, Martin – Economics – Estimating the Welfare Effect of a Public Insurance Program
Bell, Gregory – Mathematics & Statistics – A Coarse Geometric Approach to Detecting Tree-like Structure in Networks
Boseovski, Janet – Psychology – Children’s Selective Social Learning in a Science Center Setting
Campbell, Thomas Barbara – Art – World Without End: A New Representation
Daynes, Sarah – Sociology – Ethnographic Methods: Theory and Practice
Dean, John Tomkiel – Biology – Whole genome sequencing to identify genes that control entry into meiosis in Drosophila
Etnier, Jennifer and Beverly, Lee – Nutrition; Kinesiology – Understanding the role of interleukin-6 and leukemia inhibiting factor as mediators of the effects of chroic exercise on hippocampal-dependent memory
Faircloth, Beverly – Teacher Education/Higher Ed. – A Place to belong: leveraging the Assets of Refugee Youth as Building Blocks of Learning
Grieve, Gregory – Religious Studies – Awake Online: Contemplating Zen, Digital, Religion, and The Virtual World of Second Life
Haines, Steve – Music Performance – Composing and Arranging For Chamber Strings and Small Jazz Ensemble
Helms, Heather and Supple, Andrew – Human Dev. & Family Studies – Marriage and Co-parenting amount Mexican Immigrant Parents: An Advanced Dyadic Analytic Approach, Collaboration, & Graduate Mentoring
Huebner, Daniel – Sociology – Creating Normal Schools: Institutional Factors in the Development of Teacher education in the American South, 1865-1930
Ingram, Brett – Media Studies – A History of Rocaterrania: The Creative Life of Renaldo Kuhler (Book)
Jones, Jeff – History – Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Varying Perspectives of the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-2014
Jovanovic, Spoma – Communication Studies – Evaluating Participatory Budgeting in Greensboro
Katula, Karen – Biology – Functional Analysis of the WNT5A Isoforms A and B
Keathley, Elizabeth – Music Studies – Alma Mahler & Arnold Schoenberg: Documents of a Modern Musical Friendship
Knapp, Paul – Geography – “Hurricane Droughts”: A multi-century reconstruction of tropical cyclone rainfall variability derived from longleaf pine in North Carolina
Kriger, Colleen – History – Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on the Guinea Coast
Krueger, Derek – Religious Studies – Hymnography and the Emotions in Byzantine Liturgy: Liturgical Joy and Marian Devotion
Legreco, Marianne – Communication Studies – Promoting Food Systems Literacy: A Case Study of a Community-Based Mobile Food Program
Lewis, Thomas – Mathematics & Statistics – Approximation Methods for Fully Nonlinear Second Order Partial Differential Equations
Murray, Christine – Counseling & Educ. Develop. – Experiences and Perspectives related to Teen Dating Violence among Survivors and Parents of Survivors
Pathman, Thanujeni – Psychology – A neuroimaging investigation of the development of temporal memory
Perrill, Elizabeth – Art – Burnished by History” Blackware Pottery and Global Markets
Rogers, Eugene – Religious Studies – The Cost of Signaling in Blood
Rubinoff, Kallan – Music Studies – “Music is Not a Solitary Act”: The Collaborations of Berio, Andriessen, Bruggen and Berberian
Rupert, Linda – History – Inter-colonial Marronage, Spanish Policy, and Imperial Rivalries in the Eighteenth-century Circum-Caribbean
Sills, Stephen – Sociology – Healthy Communities: A GIS Analysis of Housing, Health, and Race in the Piedmont
Swick, Danielle – Social Work – Examining Adolescent Risk Factors from a Schoo-based Health Center Collaborative to Inform Prevention and Intervention Efforts
Tsui, Tsz-Ki – Biology – Isolating methyl mercury from environmental samples for stable isotope analyses: Identification of hotspots of mercury methllation in nature
Vreshek-Schallhorn, Suzanne – Psychology – High or Low” Resolving Divergent Results for Depression Risk Predicting Cortisol Stress Responses
Wasserberg, Gideon – Biology – Field-test of the attraction of Lutzomyia verrucarum, the vector of Carrion’s disease and Adean Cutaneous Loishmaniasis, to male-sex pheromones in Ancash, Peru
Willis, Andrew – Music Performance – Recording The Six Partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach on a Florentine Portepiano
Wisco, Blair – Psychology – Cardiovasular Reactivity to Trauma Cues in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
