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Summer 2009 SFF Award Winners and Abstracts

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Kimberly Moffitt, American Studies, The Wire and its Representations of Baltimore: Through the Eyes of the Natives

Paula Nicole King, American Studies, Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: How Tourist Landscapes Refashion southern Identity in Modern South Carolina

Tamara Bhalla, American Studies, Between History and Identify: Reading the Authentic in South Asian Diasporic Literature and Community

Christelle Viauroux, Economics, The Commitments of Traders and the Dynamics of Exchange Rates

Michele Osherow, English, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen:Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts

Dawn Biehler, Geography and Environmental Systems, A historical geography of domestic pest control and public health in the twentieth-century US

Claudia Galindo, Language, Literacy & Culture, Examining the Effects of School-Home Connections on Children's Kindergarten Cognitive Growth

Nicoleta Bazgan, Modern Languages & Linguistics, The Paradoxes of French Stardom: Female Stars and Frenchness

Laura Hussey, Political Science, Diversity and Political Engagement among the Ideologically Inconsistent Public

Adele Kirk, Public Policy, Understanding the Growth in Federal Disability Programs: Who Are The Marginal Beneficiaries, and How Much Do They Cost

Zeynep Tufekci, Sociology & Anthropology, Social Influence and Networks: What Can Facebook Tell Us?

Matthew Baker, Geography & Environmental Systems, Assessing a Variable Effective Source Area (VESA) Modification of TOPMODEL to Support Water Quality Modeling

College of Engineering and Information Technology

A. Gunes Koru, Information Systems, An Empirical Investigation of Dependencies and Interface Defects in Software Modules

Dawn Bennett, Mechanical Engineering, Isolation and Analysis of Stem Cells Using Electric Field Gradients

Haijun Su, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanism and Robot Synthesis with Polyhedral Homotopy Alogrithms

College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Michelle Starz-Gaiano, Biological Sciences, Characterization of changes in cell adhesion during exit from an Epithelium

Elsa D. Garcin, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Structural Biochemistry of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase

Bradford E. Peercy, Mathematics & Statistics, Multiscale Modeling for Calcium Induced Calcium Release in a Cardiac Cell

Dohwan Park, Mathematics & Statistics, Modeling of Longitudinal Data with Informative Observation Times with Random Effect Models

Social Work

Jayshree Jani., Social Work, Latino Immigrant Internet Usage and Acculturation to US Society

Tiffany Baffour, Social Work, Barriers to Service Delivery Among Medicare Recipients Enrolled in Managed Care Plans