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Faculty Research Grants: 2012 Recipients

Congratulations to these professors! These grants were made possible through alumni gifts to the Alumni Association via the Spark Voluntary Subscription Drive. [Grant criteria and application process.]

Andrew Bailey

Andrew Bailey ($1500)
Kinesiology

National Happiness Day

For students to administer and analyze surveys at a National Happiness Day event to promote activities that make life worth living
   
Mandy Cano Villalobos

Mandy Cano Villalobos ($2535)
Art & Art History

Voces ("Voices")

For a student to translate a video, for materials, and for travel to Wisconsin to install an exhibit on mass femicide in Mexico
   
Lee Hardy

Lee Hardy ($3930)
Philosophy

Making Way for Bikes: The Urban Bicycle Infrastructure of Amsterdam and Copenhagen

For travel expenses to Amsterdam and Copenhagen and for a student to gather data on bike paths
   
Matthew Heun

Matthew Heun ($2462)
Engineering

Economic Development Transitions, Energy and Carbon Constrains, and Innovation

For student salary for fall 2012 and partial travel expenses to South Africa; studying the relationship of energy, environment and economics in developing countries
   
Lew Klatt

Lew Klatt ($3300)
English

Sunshine Wound: Poems

For travel to NYC to visit art museums for inspiration for new poems about light and color
   
Paul Moes

Paul Moes ($500)
Psychology

Investigation of Possible Neuronal Function for Probst Bundles

For mice with agenesis of the corpous callosum to provide tissue for testing physiological function
   
David Noe

David Noe ($4000)
Classics

Conversational Ancient Greek Study Abroad

For expenses for a conference on speaking ancient Greek
   
Corey Roberts

F. Corey Roberts ($1400)
Germanic and Asian Languages

Expressing the Ineffable: German Pietism, the Discourse of Experience, and the Birth of Aesthetics

For travel expenses within Germany and photocopies at archives to research German Pietist confessional literature
   

Stephanie Sandberg

David Leugs

Stephanie Sandberg and David Leugs ($3000)
Communication Arts & Sciences

The iPad Project: Preserving the Process of Original Theatre Work on the Tablet Computer

For student salaries to take photos and design an iPad app to store all production stages of a performance
   
James K.A. Smith

James K.A. Smith ($3000)
Philosophy

Reforming Political Theology

For travel expenses for sabbatical work on the relationship of the church, the state, and politics
   

Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk

Debra Paxton-Buursma

Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk and Debra Paxton-Buursma ($2500)
Art & Education

Sacred Space Pedagogy

For student salaries for transcription and for travel to out-of-state classrooms to study how physical space makes that place/learning Christian