Faculty Research & Scholarship Funds Awarded: 2004-2005

Sabbatical Leaves of Absence

Joel Adams, Computer Science

Writing textbook about "Alice"

Johnathan Bascom, Geology, Geography, and Environmental Studies

Writing "A Geography of Eritrea" textbook.

Randall Brouwer, Engineering

Congressional Fellowship through the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).

W. Dale Brown, English

Preacher and Poet: An Introduction to Frederick Buechner.

Gayle Ermer, Engineering

Refining a Christian Perspective on Technology: Multi-Aspect Normativity

David Fuentes, Music

An Investigation of Some Ramifications and Applications of Roger Sessions' Notion of the Musical Impulse

Kathi Groenendyk, Communication Arts and Sciences

Contested Meanings of "Stewardship"

Dan Harlow, Religion

Writing an Introduction to the Baruch Literature for the series, "Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha"

Jan Heerspink, Student Academic Services

Observation and evaluation of peer institution's innovations in tutoring and other learning and study

Jennifer Steensma-Hoag, Art

After the Hunt: A Photographic Examination of Society's Increasingly Complex Relationship with Animals

Kendra Hotz, Religion

Worship and the Religious Affections in the Reformed Tradition

Elizabeth Howell, Biology

Biophysical Analysis of Mutant Sliding Clamps

Beryl Hugen, Sociology and Social Work

The Study of Conceptual Models, Historical Understandings

Dave Koetje, Biology

A Christian Framework for Critical Engagement of Agricultural Biotechnology

Jim Korf, Communication Arts and Sciences

Documentary Films: "It's not a job, it's a calling"

Matt Mathews, Religion

Worship and the Religious Affections in the Reformed Tradition

Paul Moes, Psychology

Brain Hemisphere Interaction in Emotional Perception

Garth Pauley, Communication Arts and Sciences

Arise and March: The History and Rhetoric of the March on Washington

Charles Pollard, English

"An Impossible Prayer": Derek Walcott's Sacred Poetics

Randall Pruim, Mathematics and Statistics

Research in Biostatistics

Debra Rienstra, English

Psalms, Sonnets, and the Idea of Order

James K.A. Smith, Philosophy

Holy Wars and Democratic Crusades: Deconstructing Myths of Religious Violence and Secular Peace

Frans van Liere, History

A critical edition of Andrew St. Victor's commentary on the Minor Prophets and a translation of his commentary on Samuel

Katherine van Liere, History

The Historical Imagination of Sixteenth-Century Spain

Todd Vanden Berg, Sociology and Social Work

The Relationship between Christianity and the Discipline of Anthropology: Christian Anthropology is not Oxymoronic

Elizabeth Vander Lei, English

Preaching to the Choir: Addressing Congregations in African-American Sermons

Judith Vander Woude, Communication Arts & Sciences

Preliteracy and Language Development in Young Children

Gerard Venema, Mathematics and Statistics

Research in Geometric Topology

Kurt Ver Beek, Sociology and Social Work

The Impacts of Short-Term Missions

David Warners, Biology

Regeneration of Costa Rican Montane Cloud Forest in Abandoned Pastures

Glenn Weaver, Psychology

What comprises a "good" explanation in the human sciences? The case for "social-rule" and "value-realizing" alternatives to casual law accounts and resulting prospects for a Christian psychology

Mark Williams, Classical Languages

The "Liber Confortatorius" of Goscelin of St.-Bertain: A New Edition, with Translation and Commentary

Stephen Wykstra, Philosophy

Should Worldviews Shape Science? How religion impacts the guiding assumptions of scientific research

Dianne Zandstra, Spanish

Manuscript revision of "Griselda Gambaro and the Grotesque: A Critical Reading of Selected Narrative Works"