Recent Awards

2023 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College of Arts & Sciences

Psychology
Diana Betz
The unique cost of "punching down": Disparagement humor, interpersonal impressions, and trust

Philosophy
Mavis Biss
Good Enough?

Computer Science
Hoang Bui
Evaluate performance of a new heterogeneous architecture with a scientific application

Visual and Performing Arts
James Bunzli
Creation and Performance of a New Autobiographical Solo Piece at Fringe Festivals

Philosophy
Bret Davis 
Radical Cosmopolitanism and the Dialogue of World Philosophy

Visual and Performing Arts
Billy Friebele
Inversion/Submersion: Explorations of the Anacostia River

Philosophy
Fuat Gursozlu
Thinking Peace Agonistically

Political Science
Janine Holc
Untethered: German Children and Youth Living in the Street in Postwar Hamburg

Modern Languages and Literatures 
Margarita Jacome
The Works of Jesus Abad Colorado and Maria Belen Sanz de Ibarra

Communication
Elliot King
The News Media and the Creation of American Politics 1754 to 1833

Philosophy
Drew Leder
Heaking Moves: Existential Recovery from Chronic Disease-A Cardiological Example

Philosophy
Jessica Locke
Finding One's way on a Pathless Path: On Nonreligious Spiritual Yearning

Biology
Craig Myrum
Age-related cognitive decline: Investigating the Role of Sleep and Evaluating Antiepileptic Drugs as a Potential Treatment

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Brianne Roos
The Many Faces of Belonging: Strategies, Success, and Setbacks related to Cultivating a Culture of Belonging as Described by Education Leaders, Teachers, and Others

Communication
Tania Rosas-Moreno
Ethnic News Coverage of U.S. Hispanic Maternal Mortality

Writing
Jane Satterfield
Your Place or Mine: Journeys Home and Away (creative nonfiction: essays)

History
Sara Scalanghe
A History of Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Kathleen Siren
The Effect of collaborative learning on depth of student understanding and student perception of course challenge

Writing
Jill Snodgrass
Liminality: The Spiritual Experience of Living Between What Was and What Will Be

Philosophy
Dale Snow
Translation of F.W.J. Schelling's System of Philosophy in General and of the Philosophy of Nature in Particular 

Writing
Lucas Southworth
That Way, This Way: A Novel

Classics
Martha Taylor
Is Lesbia Really Clodia?

Sellinger School of Business & Management

Marketing
Rebecca Trump
When will consumers with low moral identity importance donate?

2022 Mid-Career Grants

Communication
Amy Becker
John Oliver as the (Un)likely Pandemic Fundraiser: Championing Worthy Causes and Participation Through Satire

Psychology
Marianna Carlucci
Sleep Health and Environment in the Juvenile Justice System

English
Nicholas Miller
Metaphor and Metamorphosis: Animating the Modern Imagination

2022 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College of Arts & Sciences

Philosophy
Mavis Biss
Striving in Relation

Philosophy
Davis Bret
Ueda Shizuteru: Meister of Zen, Eckhart, and the Philosophy of the Kyoto School

Psychology
Theresa DiDonato
Book Project: The Science of Romantic Relationships

Theology
Rebekah Eklund
The Gospel of Luke: Baker Exegetical Commentary

Physics
Andrea Erdas
Magnetic Casimir effect of a Lorentz‐violating fermion field

Philosophy
Gursozlu Fuat
Ways of Being Adversarial

Physics
Joseph Ganem
Optical Thermometry using Thermally‐activated Absorption Bands in Thulium‐doped YAG

Fine Arts
Jon Malis
Accurate Representations of Digital Copyslides: The Color of Yves Klein

English
Mark Osteen
The 1990s Novels of Don De Lillo

English
Stephen Park
White Citizenship as Property:Textual and Racial Trespass in American Literature

Fine Arts
Daniel Pinha
Storytelling through Models

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Donna Pitts
Assessing Improvement in Auditory Processing Disorders Using the Acoustic Pioneer App

Political Science
Joan Ricart-Huguet
Political Elites and Regional Inequality:The Overlooked Legacies of Colonial Education in Africa

History
Andrew Ross
Abolishing the Police in Fin‐de‐Siècle Paris: Sexuality, Race, and the Campaign Against the Morals Brigade, 1870‐1920

School of Education

Education Specialties
Marie Heath
Technology, Democracy, and Justice:Toward a Civics of Technology

2019 Mid-Career Grants

Theology
John Kiess                 
The Essential Writings of Christophe Munzihirwa, S.J.

Pastoral Counseling
Gina Magyar-Russell             
Spiritual Bypass: Developing greater understanding of clients’ use of religion and spirituality in the psychotherapy process

Modern Languages and Literatures
Jinghua Wangling              
Yang Lai’er: A Case Study of Courtesan Poetry from the Northern Ward in Ninth-Century China

2019 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College of Arts & Sciences

Philosophy
Mavis Biss     
Kantian Aspirations and the Affirmation of a Way of Life

Philosophy
Richard Boothby                 
“God and the Unconscious: Rethinking Religion”

Biology
Rebecca Brogan 
Effects of a diet high in fructose on neuronal activation

Writing
Martin Camper                   
How the Bible's Meaning Changes: Argument and Controversy in the Christian Church

History
David Carey              
I. Pandemic Politics: Race Relations, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Guatemala and Ecuador

Writing
Marian Crotty
Modern Families: Stories

Theology
Rebekah Eklund                 
Happy Are the Hungry: The Beatitudes through the Ages

Fine Arts
Billy Friebele             
Solar-powered Kinetic Sculpture Using Proximity Sensors

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Sally Gallena                        
Does Choral Singing Improve Aspects of Speech and Voice for Persons with Aphasia?

Philosophy
Fuat Gursozlu          
Democracy and Peace: Is Democracy Good for Peace?

Political Science
Janine Holc
‘Untethered’: German Street Children under British Occupation in Hamburg, 1945-1953

Modern Languages and Literatures
Margarita Jacome            
Geographies of Sorrow and Resistance in Colombia: the Works of Jesús Abad Colorado 

Philosophy
Drew Leder   
“Embodied Healing: Twenty Strategies for Dealing with the Ill, Injured, and Impaired Body”

Mathematics and Statistics
Michael Knapp                    
Values of the Davenport-Lewis Gamma*-Function

Modern Languages and Literatures
Leslie Morgan                    
Between France and Italy: King Arthur’s Adolescent Adventures in "The Knight of the Parrot"

Chemistry
Theresa Nguyen                 
Novel probiotic mechanism: Monascus purpureus isolated from red rice yeast assimilates cholesterol 

English
Stephen Park                       
Migrating Stories: Central American Refugees and U.S. Readers

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Janet Preis    
Interprofessional Education Simulation: Enhancing Collaboration Between Nursing and Speech-language Pathology Students for Improved Quality of Patient Care

Psychology
Jason Prenoveau    
Examining the Structural Relations among Anxiety and Depression in Older Adults

Psychology
Emalee Quickel
Plea Bargaining: Race, Guilt, and Policy Capturing

Biology
David Rivers 
Characterization of Fly Artifacts on Clothing Fabrics Commonly Associated with Crime Scenes

Communication
Tania Rosas-Moreno
How Have the U.S. News Media Portrayed Human Trafficking Victims?

History
Andrew Ross            
Josephine Butler in Paris: Contesting Regulated Prostitution

Writing
Jane Satterfield       
Fire in Frost: A Biographical Sequence

History
Sara Scalenghe                   
A History of “Special Education” in the Arab World

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Lisa Schoenbrodt                
Training Law Enforcement to Interact with Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Sociology 
Nicole Shoenberger           
Identity Formation of Positive Deviants: A Case Study of Academically Advanced High School Students

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Kathleen Siren                     
Using Ultrasound Imaging to Expedite Speech Therapy for /s/ Misarticulations (proposed external grant application)

English
Lucas Southworth
That Way, This Way: A Novel

School of Education

Educational Technology
Marie Heath 
Technology, Dignity, and Democracy in the Middle School: One-to-One Technology Integration and High Pedagogical Practices 

Education in the School Counseling Program
Qi Shi              
"School Counselors’ Professional Development (PD) Needs in Working with English Language Learner (ELL) Students"

Sellinger School of Business & Management

Information Systems
Paul Tallon               
Data Sharing and other Impediments to Data Monetization: An Exploration of the Realities Underlying Big Data

2018 Mid-Career Grants

Philosophy
Mavis Biss
Friendship, Trust and Moral Self-Perfection: A Study in Kantian Ethics

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Marie Kerins
Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Practice: Perceptions and Behaviors among School-Based Professionals

Writing
Terre Ryan
Industrial Gardens in the Arsenal of Democracy," and "Guns and Roses: From Homestead to Homefront Aesthetics

Sociology
Barbara Vann
Jachymov Hell: Whose Hell is it?

2018 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College of Arts & Sciences

Philosophy
Richard Blum
Gasparo Contarini, On the Immortality of the Soul (Latin/English)

Fine Arts
Kerry Boeye
From Kin-Making to King-Making in a 13th-Century English Psalter

Writing
Allen Brizee
Results from the York Road Literacy and Employment Initiative Community Workshops

Fine Arts
James Bunzuli
The Personal Essay in Performance: Writing and Recording Six to Eight Closely Connected but Discrete Personal Essay/Memoir Pieces for Publication and Performance.

Writing
Martin Camper
How the Bible's Meaning Changes: Argument and Controversy in the Christian Church

Psychology
Marianna Carlucci
Curbing Prison Violence: The Effectiveness of the Alternatives to Violence Project

Theology
John Conley
Agnès Arnauld: Spiritual Writings (A Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary)

Philosophy
Bret Davis
Real Zen for Real Life

Physics
Gregory Derry
Failure of Time Series Analysis Using Event Intervals—a Methodological Mystery

Psychology
Theresa DiDonato
Food for Thought: How Food Choices Affect Romantic Attraction

Physics
Joseph Ganem
Modeling and Measurement of Temperature-Dependent Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in Thulium-doped YAG and YAlO3 Crystals

Political Science
Janine Holc
Curating the Cold War: The Berlin Wall and its Remnants in Berlin’s Urban Landscape

Biology
Derek Kendig
The Effect of Short Chain Fatty Acids on Colonic Motility: A Marker of Changes to the Gut Microbiome

Sociology
Amanda Konradi
Depictions of the Post-Communist Family in Film

Modern Languages & Literatures
Leslie Morgan
Charlemagne, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: The Image of Charlemagne in the Prose Compilations of Andrea da Barberino

English
Mark Osteen
Forgery and Authenticity in Gaddis's "The Recognitions"

Fine Arts
Daniel Piñha
Performance and Engagement

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Donna Pitts
Hearing impairment and Type II diabetes mellitus

History
Willeke Sandler
Unofficial Empire: Germans between Germany and Tanganyika, 1925-1945

Pastoral Counseling
Jill Snodgrass
A Practical Theology of Liminality

Writing
Ron Tanner
Live Music on the Nevada Casino Circiuit

Modern Languages & Literatures
Andrea Thomas
Putrid Literature Revisited

Biology
Christopher Thompson
Alteration of Macrophage Phagocytosis and Cytoskeletal Arrangement by Black Tea

Political Science
Carsten Vala
Chinese Protestant Collective Contention Within Official Churches

Modern Languages & Literatures
Thomas Ward
In the Thick of It: Manuel González Prada’s Philosophical Speculation after the War of the Pacific

Modern Languages & Literatures
Yu Zhang
Words and Faith: Dora Yü's Hymn as Literature

School of Education

Education Specialties
Ramon Goings
Development of the Black Male Adult Learner Student Success Survey

Teacher Education
Camika Royal
Schools for Sale: Black Educators and School Reform in Philadelphia

Education Specialties
Qi Shi
Sense of Community (SOC) and Professional Identity and Engagement (PIE) of Graduate Students in Hybrid and Online Courses in Counselor Education Programs

Sellinger School of Business & Management

Finance
Tuugi Chuluun
Forward-Looking Language in Annual Reports and Firm Investment

Management & International Business
Patricia Kanashiro
Sustainability in Management Education: A Bibliometric Survey of the Literature

Economics
Fabio Mendez
Wage setting power in the USA

Information Systems, Law, & Operations Management
Ravi Srinivasan
Revisiting innovation objectives and knowledge sources: Cross-validations and extensions

Marketing
Rebecca Trump
Consumers look to the marketplace to regulate their emotions: An examination of the role of pleasant brand personalities

Marketing
Marie Yeh
Conceptualizing Mental Health Stigma: A Comparison of Theoretical Models

2017 Mid-Career Grants

Chemistry
Elizabeth Dahl
Assessing neighborhood air quality in urban spaces and forested greenspaces in Baltimore City

Communication
Jonathon Lillie
The Community Nets of the 1990s and Today: How the use of the Next Door app in Baltimore compares
to the reality and hype from the golden age of Community Networking 20 years ago

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Lena Caesar
Development of a Training Protocol for Collecting Narrative Samples in Guyana, South America

2017 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College

Biology
Derek Kendig
Modifying Colonic Motility Through Food: Implications for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Colorectal Cancer

Classics
Martha Taylor
Thucydides, the Athenians, and Harmodios and Aristogeiton

Communication
Amy Becker
Engaging with Saturday Night Live: Donald Trump, Twitter, and Political Comedy

Tania Rosas-Moreno
A Merged-media Analysis Reveals How Brazil's IBSA Membership Influences its Human Trafficking Policies and Practices

English
Robert Miola
An edition entitled Chapman's Homer: The Iliad

Mark Osteen
Fake It: Fictions of Forgery - "The best performance of mie lyttel witte”: Chatterton, Meredith, Ackroyd

Fine Arts
Daniel Pinha
In the Attic

History
David Carey
Practicing Medicine in Twentieth-Century Latin America: Native Healers, Scientific Doctors, and Hybrid
Health Care in Guatemala and Ecuador

Matthew Mulcahy
The Reluctant Absentee: Robert Graham of Gartmore and the Eighteenth Century Anglo-American World

Sara Scalenghe
The British Syrian Mission, 1860-1918: Empire, Charity, and Disabled Bodies

Modern Languages & Literatures

Tasha N. Lewis 
Patterned iconicity for second language acquisition: Differential effects of gesture type on parts of speech

Margarita Jacome
Representations of Forced Displacement in Recent Colombian Cinema

Andrea Thomas
The Editor’s Imprint: Albert Lacroix and Literary Culture in the Second French Empire

Jinghua Wangling
Cinematic Interpretation and Transmission of Classical Chinese Poetry: from the “Ballad of Mulan” to Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (Jingle Ma, 2009)

Yu Zhang
Lottie Moon and Her Friends in Late Qing China

Philosophy
Richard Boothby
Essay In Memoriam for William J. Richardson, S.J.

Bret Davis
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy (Part Three)

Fuat Gursozlu
Liberal Democracy and Peace

Drew Leder
Inside Insights: A Phenomenology of Interoception

Physics
Andrea Erdas
Magnetic effects on neutrino masses

Joseph Ganem
Mathematical Modeling and Measurement of Temperature-Dependent Light Absorption in Rare Earth-Doped Optical Materials

Political Science
Celia Paris
Testing Americans’ Beliefs About Representation in Congress

Psychology
Theresa DiDonato
Good partners don’t forgive their partner’s enemies: Perceptions of third-party (non)forgivers

Sociology
Michelle Gawerc
Building Solidarity and a Collective Identity across Deep Cleavage and Asymmetrical Risks: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement Organizations

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Sally Gallena
Seeking Fidelity for a Vocal Cord Dysfunction Treatment Approach

Kathleen Siren
Using ultrasound to determine ideal tongue placement for speech therapy

Theology
Rebekah Eklund
Happy Are the Hungry: A Reception History of the Beatitudes

Writing
Lisa Zimmerelli
Conduct Biography: Progressive-Era Depictions of Gender, Literacy, and Activism

School of Education

Education Specialties
Bradley Erford
Meta-analysis of Psychometric Properties of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and Various Shortened Versions

School of Business

Economics
John Berger
Historical and Empirical Assessment of the Original Sin Hypothesis

Finance
Tuugi Chuluun
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Wellbeing in the U.S.

Yoon Shin
Home Bias in Capital Structure Decisions by Credit Rating Changes

Law and Social Responsibility
Michael Runnels
A New Governance for the New World: Filling the Ethical and Legal Voids of the 2015 Space Act

Marketing
Gerard Athaide
A Contingency Model of Seller-Buyer Relationships during New Product Development in Technology-Based, Industrial Markets

Rebecca Trump
The Important Role of Gender in Consumer Perceptions of the Sincerity of Corporate Social Responsibility

Marie Yeh
Women as Commodities: An Examination of Violence Against Women

2016 Mid-Career Grants

Loyola College

Political Science
Carsten Vala, Associate Professor
China’s Expanding Influence in Latin America? Studying China’s Export of Religion Management Strategies to Cuba

Speech-Language Pathology
Janet Preis, Associate Professor
Can you feel the music? The impact of music on the ability to recognize emotion in adults with ASD

Sellinger School of Business & Management

Law and Social Responsibility
Michael Runnels, Associate Professor
The Core Of An Unqualified Case For Judicial Review: A Reply To Jeremy Waldron And Contemporary Critics

2016 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College

Biology
Elissa Derrickson, Associate Professor
Does the length of the breeding season select for more rapid growth rate in rodents?

Lisa Scheifele, Associate Professor
Nuclear position of repetitive DNA sequences

Christopher Thompson, Associate Professor
Alteration of Macrophage Phagocytosis, Cytokine Secretion, and Microbicidal Activity by Black Tea

Chemistry
Brian Barr, Associate Professor
Isolation of Phytoene Desaturase from Chlorella vulgaris

Classics
Joseph Walsh, Professor
The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Imperial City

Communication
Sara Magee, Associate Professor
Morning Edition: A Content Analysis of NPR's Flagship Morning News Program

Engineering
David Hoe, Assistant Professor
Development of Electronic Circuits for Brain-inspired Computing

English
Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor
Unsettling the Cinematic Imagination: Continuous Metamorphosis in Early Drawn Animation

Fine Arts
Natka Bianchini, Associate Professor
Arena Stage: The Story of America's First Regional Theatre

History
Michele Alacevich, Assistant Professor
The Making of a Development Economist: Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Birth of Development Economics

Matthew Mulcahy, Professor
'Dreadfully Frequent': Natural Disasters in the Early Modern Caribbean

Sara Scalenghe, Associate Professor
A History of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Syria and Lebanon

Modern Languages & Literatures
Leslie Morgan, Professor
Verification of the Hell Scenes Based on Dante's "Inferno" in "Huon d'Auvergne" (Turin National Library Manuscript N.III.19)

Philosophy
Richard Boothby, Professor
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Religion

Fuat Gursozlu, Assistant Professor
Cultural Violence and Peace

Catriona Hanley, Associate Professor
Aldo Capitini, Philosopher: The Italian Gandhi’s Philosophical Roots

Drew Leder, Professor
Breath: Phenomenological and Medical Reflections

Dale Snow, Associate Professor
Translation of Schelling's "Statement" (1806)

Jeffrey Witt, Assistant Professor
Adam Wodeham and the Tarazona Manuscript (Bibl. de la Catedral, MS cod. 7)

Psychology
Jason Prenoveau, Associate Professor
Assessing Mindfulness in Urban Youth

Physics
Andrea Erdas, Associate Professor
Temperature and magnetic field corrections to the repulsive Casimir effect

Political Science
Janine Holc, Associate Professor
Adapting to the Holocaust: Four Czechoslovakian Textile Companies and the Use of Jewish Slave Labor during World War II

Speech-Language Pathology
Libby Kumin, Professor
An Analysis and Synthesis of Research on Communication Skills in Children with Down Syndrome

Sociology
Barbara Vann, Associate Professor
Strategies of Social Advocacy in Context: Commemorating Communist-Era Repression in the Czech Republic

Theology
Rebekah Eklund, Assistant Professor
Happy Are the Hungry: The Beatitudes through the Ages

Robert (Trent) Pomplun, Associate Professor
A Critical Edition of Ippolito Desideri's Tibetan Writings for the Harvard Oriental Series

Writing
Jane Satterfield, Associate Professor
Fire in Frost: A Biographical Sequence

School of Education

Education Specialties
Qi Shi, Assistant Professor
Immigrant Students’ Use of School Counseling Services and Their Perceptions of School Counselors: An Exploratory Investigation Using High School Longitudinal Study:09

Sellinger School of Business and Management

Economics
Fabio Mendez, Associate Professor
Regulation of Public Policy in Environments with Corruption

Andrew Samuel, Associate Professor
Competition and regulatory compliance in the audit industry: a theoretical and empirical investigation

Finance
Yoon Shin, Associate Professor
The Impact of Bond Ratings on Rule 144A Private Placement Bonds

Law and Social Responsibility
Elizabeth Kennedy, Associate Professor
Employed by an Algorithm: Labor Rights in the On-Demand Economy

Marketing
Guangzhi (Terry) Zhao, Assistant Professor
How Perspective-taking Influences the Effectiveness of Help-Self Appeal and Help-Others Appeal in Charity Advertising

2015 Mid-career Grants

Loyola College

English
Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor
The Transforming Figure: Animation, Metamorphosis, and the Modern Imagination

Fine Arts
James Bunzli, Associate Professor
Revisiting Autobiographical Solo Performance: A re-tooled long term research plan beginning with an article on the city-specific solo work for Lauren Weedman

Political Science
Carsten Vala, Associate Professor
Is China’s Globalization Push New or Neo-colonialism? A Study of Global Capital, National Government, and Civil Society in the Case of Chile’s Copper Sector

2015 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College

Biology
Rebecca Brogan, Associate Professor
The role of dietary sugar on reproduction

Christopher Thompson, Associate Professor

Alteration of Macrophage Calcium Responses by Echinacea and Green Tea

Classics
Joseph Walsh, Professor
The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Great City

Communication
Amy Becker, Assistant Professor
The President as Comedian in Chief? Source Credibility, Argument Scrutiny, Message Elaboration, and Differential Perceptions of Serious vs. Humorous Political Speech

Computer Science
Megan Olsen, Assistant Professor
Agent Coordination through Swarm Intelligence

English
Jean Lee Cole, Associate Professor
How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in Art and Literature, 1895-1920

Mark Osteen, Professor
Two Chapters of Fake It: Fictions of Forgery

Fine Arts
Jon Malis, Assistant Professor
Residency at "London Summer Intensive"

History
Chad Richard Diehl, Assistant Professor
Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Memory, 1945-1970

Modern Languages & Literatures
Ana Gomez-Perez, Associate Professor
Religion and the Challenges of Human Understanding in Dream of Reason by Rosa Chacel

Yolopattli Hernandez-Torres, Assistant Professor
Geographies of Political and Corporeal Knowledge

Thomas Ward, Professor
Garcilaso's Footprints Across the Ages: (Chapter of Mariátegui, Vallejo, and Sánchez)

Philosophy
Bret Davis, Professor
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy (Part Two)

Physics
Joseph Ganem, Professor
Mathematical Modeling and Measurement of Temperature-Dependent Absorption and Emission of Light in Materials for Optical Refrigeration

Political Science
Janine Holc, Associate Professor
Forced Labor and Daily Life in Germany's Silesia Region During World War II: Evidence from Prisoner Transport Records

Moira Lynch, Assistant Professor
What Makes Colombia Different? A Study of Human Rights Prosecutions During the Colombian Civil War

Celia Paris, Assistant Professor
Understanding Americans' Reactions to Partisan Conflicts in Congress

Psychology
Theresa DiDonato, Associate Professor
Casual Sex In College: An Investigation into Psychological Correlates of Positive and Negative Emotional Responses to Hooking Up

Beth Kotchick, Associate Professor
An Analysis of Peer Aggression, Victimization and School Climate in Catholic Schools

Sociology
Michelle Gawerc, Assistant Professor
Sustaining a Cross-Conflict Collective Identity during War: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement Organizations

Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
Lena Casesar, Associate Professor
An Analysis of Dialect Density in the Narratives of School-Aged African American Children

Sally Gallena, Assistant Professor
The Effects of Short-Term Intensive Therapy on Respiratory Resistance for Athletes with Vocal Cord Dysfunction

Lisa Schoenbrodt, Professor
Training Parents to Enhance Narrative Language Development in Children with Language Disorders

Kathleen Siren, Associate Professor
The Clinical Importance of Speech Sound Disorders Nomenclature

Writing
Marian Crotty, Assistant Professor
The Calculation of Love: A Novel

School of Education

Education Specialties
Bradley Erford, Professor
Meta-analysis of Counseling Outcomes for Youth with Conduct Disorders AND Choosing Assessment Instruments for Disruptive Behavior Disorder Outcome Research with School-aged Youth

Teacher Education
Mark Lewis, Assistant Professor
Analysis of Emerging Bilingual Middle Schools Students' Writing

Sellinger School of Business & Management

Economics
John Burger, Professor
Bond Market Development in Emerging Economies

Jeremy Schwartz, Assistant Professor
Job Competition and the Lock-in Effect

Finance
Tuugi Chuluun, Assistant Professor
Local Culture and Firm Behavior: Do Firms in Happy Places Invest More?

Law & Social Responsibility
Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, Professor
Racialized Job Competition in the Low-Skill Sector and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

Marketing
Richard Klink, Professor
Consumer Innovativeness and the Response to New vs. Existing Brand Names on High Technology Products

Terry Zhao, Assistant Professor
Effectiveness of Two Ad Appeals that Encourage College Students to Volunteer in the Community

2014 Summer Research Grants

Loyola College

Biology Department

Theresa Geiman, Assistant Professor
Generation of human mutants of the chromatic gene, jarid1C, in mouse stem cells