Scholarly Excellence Funds Awarded for 2016-2017 (not including dissemination awards)
Last Name
First Name
Last
Name
First Name Last Name
First
Name
Last Name
First
Name
Last
Name
First
Name
Department
College
Project Title
Awarded
Seed/Start-Up
Born
Staci
Counseling & Human Resource
Education & Human Sciences
Ciarcia
Marco
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering
Ghabchi
Rouzbeh
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Engineering
Gunaje
Jayarama
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacy
Heo
Wookjae
Consumer Sciences
Education & Human Sciences
Huarte
Eduardo
Health & Nutritional Sciences
Education & Human Sciences
Janaswamy
Srinivas
Dairy & Food Science
Agriculture & Biological Sciences
Kolady
Deepthi
Economics
Agriculture & Biological Sciences
Li
Yanan
Geography
Arts & Sciences
Ni
Zhen
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering
Perry
Cydne
Health & Nutritional Sciences
Prasad
Shore
Anamika
Jay
Mechanical Engineering
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Cho
Soo Hyun
Van Guilder
Gary
Design and Pilot-test of Supportive Protocol for Women
Experiencing Infertility
A Motion Capture System for Indoor Robotics
Application
A Proof-of-Concept Use of Plastic Water Bottles as an
Additive in Asphalt Mixes
Targeting CDK1 enzyme with aspirin and salicylic acid
to arrest cancer cell growth
$2,000.00
$4,000.00
$4,500.00
$4,000.00
Financial Stress Measurement Development
A “2 steps” probiotic treatment for the Latino immigrant
community in South Dakota. Healthy guts to reduce
Colon Cancer rates.
$2,690.00
$2,000.00
Education & Human Sciences
Polysaccharide-based carriers of bioactive compunds
Adoption, Diffusion, and Impact Analysis of Precision
Agriculture Technologies in South Dakota
Recent Glacier Changes (1960s-2016) in the Borohoro
Range, Northern Tian Shan, China
A New Computational Intelligence Learning Control
Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
The effect of varied pork intake as a part of the DASH
diet on indices of muscular fitness in older adults: a pilot
study
Engineering
Arts & Sciences
Tissue Biomechanics and Biomaterials Lab Development
Development of an Improved ICECLES Device
$7,000.00
$3,000.00
Total Seed/Start-Up
$5,000.00
$4,500.00
$3,000.00
$2,000.00
$7,000.00
$50,690
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Spinney
Jamie
Geography
Arts & Sciences
Using Choice to Foster Student Engagement:
Undergraduate Perceptions of Assessment Empowerment
Total Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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$3,000.00
$3,000
Scholarly Excellence Funds Awarded for 2016-2017 (not including dissemination awards)
Last Name
First Name
Last
Name
First Name Last Name
First
Name
Last Name
First
Name
Last
Name
First
Name
Department
College
Project Title
Awarded
Humanities/Arts
Music
Walker
John
Stewart
Christine
Cutler
Kay
Wrightson
Graham
History
Chandler
Finneman
Laura
Teri
History
Journalism and Mass Communication
McKillip
Angela
Silvernagel
Craig
Lucchesi
Roxanne Letcher
Arts & Sciences
English
Teaching, Learning and Leadership; School of
Design; Economics; Journalisma and Mass
Todd Communications; Mechanical Engineering
Arts & Sciences
Chamber Music Concert of Arrangements and Original
Compositions of John Walker
The Scaffolding Work toward "Slips into Silence: A
Leterary Memoir"
Rich Normality Design Collaborative: Innovation,
Experiential and Authentic Learning
Education & Human Sciences; Arts & Sciences; Engineering
Reconstructing ancient weapons: the research and active
learning value of experimental archaeology
Arts & Sciences
Black Women and the World: African American
Women's Transnational Activism
Arts & Sciences
Press Coverage of the Suffrage Movement
Arts & Sciences
Total Humanities/Arts
$780.00
$1,830.00
$2,500.00
$3,000.00
$4,500.00
$7,000.00
$19,610
Undergraduate Research
Kemp
Phelps
Dan
Brady
Mathematics & Statistics
Psychology
Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering
Arts & Sciences
Kimn
Jung-Han
Mathematics & Statistics
Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering
Doom
Jeffrey
Michna Gregory
Mechanical Engineering
Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering
Perry
George
Gonda Michael
Animal Science
Agriculture & Biological Sciences
Zhou
Ruanbao
Biology & Microbiology
Agriculture & Biological Sciences
Mogck
Christina
Extending the Bocher-Grace Theorem
Assessment of the Risks from E-Cigarettes Use
Implementing Parallel Numerical Procedures for 3+1
Turbulence Simulations
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Arrays of
Impinging Jets
Impact of negative energy balance immediately postbreeding on production efficiency of the resulting calf
(Fetal Programming)
Creating a Faster-Growing Cyanobacterium by
Introducing a Presumptive Faster RubisCO
Total Undergraduate Research
$1,000.00
$1,500.00
$2,000.00
$2,200.00
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
$12,700
Center/Institute
Britt
Brian
Britt
Rebecca
Hunter
Karla
Lucchesi
Roxanne
Journalism & Mass Comm./Communication Studies
Arts & Sciences
Development of the Scoial Media Analysis, Research and
Teaching Center
Total Center/Institute
Total Awarded - 27 Proposals
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$4,000.00
$4,000
$90,000