Faculty Research & Scholarship Funds Awarded: 2004-2005

Calvin Research Fellowships:

† Terrence Cuneo, Philosophy
"The Normative Web: A Defense of Moral Realism"
Susan Felch, English
Naming the Animals: The Project of Christian Scholarship
Hyesook Kim, Music
A CD Recording of (French Composer) Olivier Messian's "Visions de l'Amen"
† Henry Luttikhuizen, Art
The Sacred and the Seen.
Larry Molnar, Physics and Astronomy
Radio Emission from the Saturn System
Carl Plantinga, Communication Arts and Sciences
Cinematic Emotion and Spectatorship.
John Ubels, Biology
Studies of the Lacrimal Gland Function and Dry Eye Syndrome.
† David Urban, English
John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1999
† DougVander Griend, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Discrete Coordination Networks

† indicates Diekema Fellowship Recipient


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"