Summer Fellowship

Receive a summer fellowship to support research during the summer semester

Faculty of the University of Northern Iowa, holding a full-time (9 month) tenured or tenure-track with a current appointment except that recipients may not receive a Summer Research Fellowship in consecutive years. Through these awards, the University seeks to encourage, assist, support faculty research, creative activity, and grant applications. Joint applications that are collaborative or interdisciplinary are eligible. All Summer Fellowship recipients may be asked to serve on the University Research Committee upon the successful completion of their fellowship. Additionally, a PDA recipient is ineligible to receive a Summer Fellowship the summer prior to the academic year of the PDA and the subsequent summer of the PDA (subdivision 4.16c).

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Award Specifics

There are 12 four-week awards available for the month of May and June 2026. The compensation for a four-week fellowship will be $3800 plus fringe benefits.
As per the Faculty Handbook (Section 4.16 Summer Research Fellowships), “During the summer fellowship period, recipients cannot generally hold another assignment or receive additional compensation from the university. However, recipients may receive compensation from other sources up to a total amount equal to their standard 1/9 salary if the projects funded by other sources also relate to the focus of the Summer Research Fellowship proposal.” Faculty who have not received on-campus research or scholarship funding, or do not have course release for summer are eligible to receive an SRF award.
Accepting this internal funding requires you to agree either to return to the institution granting such an assignment for a period of not less than one year or to repay to the University such compensation as you shall have received during such assignment.

Required Actions

Electronic Application form submitted to workflow early enough to receive approvals.

Deadlines

Friday October 17, 2025: electronic application submitted by 4:30 p.m. Please note that forms may take some time to be fully processed.

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Procedure and Review Process

The submitted application will be reviewed and evaluated by the Committee on University Research, ten faculty representing all academic colleges. Applicants will be notified in writing of the Committee decision as soon as possible.

NOTE: A Human Participant Review Form must be filed and must receive approval from the UNI Institutional Review Board before the Summer Fellowship begins if the project involves human subjects, e.g., questionnaires, surveys, interviews, secondary data analysis. Allow at least fourteen days for the review process to be completed. Information and application forms are available on the RSP Website or by calling 273-6148. A copy of the IRB approval letter must either accompany the application or be submitted to the Division of Graduate Studies before the Summer Fellowship period.

Application Types and Requirements

Summer Fellowship projects may be: 1) research, 2) creative activity, or 3) grant application. All three categories are required to provide an electronic Summer Fellowship application, which includes previous UNI awards, a project abstract, and a current vita.

All submissions must adhere to the following format:

Limit to 1000 words including selected references.
Font size 12 (Times New Roman)
One inch margin on all sides.
Narrative must include three sections: 1. Context, Significance and objectives, 2. Methods and Timetable, 3. Dissemination and Long-Range Importance.
Proposals that do not conform to format guidelines will be automatically disqualified.

As you write your proposal, please address the questions below in each section. Make sure you write in a language understandable to readers from diverse academic fields who may not be familiar with the scholarly literature and terminology of your field. Letters of support are not appropriate and will be disregarded by the Committee, except for letters confirming acceptance of a manuscript or exhibition or confirming an arrangement for collaborating elsewhere.

Research Project

Context, Significance and objectives. What is the overall nature of the project? Specifically, what do you wish to accomplish? How does this project contribute to the scholarly discipline, your past research activity, and your career goals? How does your project fit within the established scholarly literature? Must mention how the project contributes to the improvement of the University and benefits the citizens of Iowa.
Methods and timetable. How will you accomplish the established objectives? What means will be used to evaluate completion of the objectives? Draw up a timetable that estimates your schedule during the assignment period. Indicate the status of Human Participant Review if needed for the project.
Dissemination and long-range importance. Describe specific plans for sharing the results of your research through scholarly presentations and/or publication. How will you build upon the results of your Fellowship work? Are there sources of external funding to expand the project?

Creative Activity Project

Art, creative writing, music, theater, film and multimedia.

Context, Significance and objectives. What is the overall nature of the project? Specifically, what do you wish to accomplish? How does this project contribute to the scholarly discipline, your past research activity, and your career goals? How does your project fit within the established scholarly literature? Must mention how the project contributes to the improvement of the University and benefits the citizens of Iowa.
Methods and timetable. How will you accomplish the established objectives? What means will be used to evaluate completion of the objectives? Draw up a timetable that estimates your schedule during the assignment period. Indicate the status of Human Participant Review if needed for the project.
Dissemination and long-range importance. Describe specific plans for sharing the results of your research through scholarly presentations and/or publication. How will you build upon the results of your Fellowship work? Are there sources of external funding to expand the project?

Grant Application

Four week Fellowship ONLY.

Nature of the research or creative activity. Describe the scholarly activities you will pursue leading to submission of a grant application to a major federal or private funding agency (National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Education, etc.). Describe the interrelationship between a Summer Fellowship, the grant application, and your long range plans to publish, exhibit, or perform the results of your research or creative activity.
External funding source. Describe the specific grant(s) you will pursue during the Fellowship period, the funding agency, timetable for preparing and submitting the application. Submission of a grant application within six months of the Fellowship period is mandatory.
Professional training experiences, such as returning to graduate school or attending seminars, symposia, or professional meetings unless tied directly to the project.
Curriculum development that is judged to be of a routine nature and thus an expected part of teaching responsibilities; eligible curriculum projects must be publishable and have a demonstrated impact beyond the University of Northern Iowa.
Travel whose primary purpose is to broaden an individual perspective or to enhance classroom presentations.

Follow-Up Report

Summer Fellowship recipients must prepare a written report describing the research, creative, or grant activities undertaken during the Fellowship period. The report will be submitted electronically as a Qualtrics survey by the end of September of the academic year following the Fellowship. Recipients will receive an email with a link to the Qualtrics survey in the first week of the fall semester. The report will include two components:

250 word (maximum) abstract that summarizes the completed project and its specific results, including two statements:
- one that describes how your work is of value to UNI
- one that addresses how your work benefits the citizens of Iowa.
- narrative in third person, past tense, and do not re-submit a copy of the original proposal abstract.
A (1000 words) narrative description of the project, major objectives accomplished, activities pursued, and the results, including publications, presentations, exhibits, grants applied for or received or future arrangements for any of these. Include a statement that all objectives, activities, or phases proposed in the original application have been completed.

If a Summer Fellowship recipient fails to accomplish any of the objectives, phases, or activities proposed in the original application, then the recipient must attach an additional page to the report detailing what was not accomplished and why. The Department Head is responsible for monitoring unfinished projects until they are completed. Failure to complete the project and/or submit the report will play a significant role in decisions on future awards. The Head of the recipient's department may use the narrative report as part of the annual evaluation of faculty performance. Recipients are strongly encouraged to submit their findings for publication, to present them at a professional meeting, to exhibit the results of their creative activity, or to submit a grant application. All published reports or exhibits aided by this program should include an acknowledgment that the project was supported, in whole or in part, by a Summer Fellowship from the University of Northern Iowa.

Previous Recipients

2024-2025


Recipient	Department	Title
John Burnight	Philosophy & World Religions	A Satirist Reads Scripture: Research on the Book of Job in the Collections of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jeff Byrd	Art	Archiving the Vertigo Performance Art Series
Zhengyang Chen	Economics	Modeling Inflation Expectations in Forward-Looking Interest Rate and Money Growth Rules
Heather Gallivan	Mathematics	Evaluating the Effectiveness of Data Science Curriculum on Preservice Mathematics Teachers’ Learning
Kimberly Hurley	Kinesiology & Athletic Training	Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention: Iowa Seniors' Mobility and Balance Responses
Julie Husband	Languages & Literatures	Frederick Douglass’s “Lessons of the Hour” for His Times and Ours
Wendy Miller	Art	Building a Global Community through Visual Storytelling
Hannah Porter Occena	Music	ConcerTEA for Two
Justin Peters	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Understanding Potential Factors Contributing to DNA Softening Inside Cells
Sherry Petty	Special Education	Iowa Early Writing Project
Aleksandar Poleksic	Computer Science	Improved machine learning models for predicting drug side effects
Amy Staples	Special Education	Big Paper, Big Data!
Sarah Vander Zanden	Special Education	Big Paper, Big Data!

2023-2024

Recipient	Department	Title
Jolene Zigarovich	Languages & Literatures	Victorian Necropolitics: Legislating the Dead Body and the Victorian Novel, 1837-1874
Joshua Gordon	Languages & Literatures	The Development of Speech Rhythmic Patterns in Second Language Learners
Laura Edwards	Curriculum & Instruction	Costeña Colombianas’ Resistance and Agency: Young Women’s Feminist Perspective in the Pluriverse
Nilda Rodriguez	Biology	Infection and Lipid Accumulation in Immune Cells of Male Versus Female Origin
Alexandra Kogl	Political Science	Grey Sex
Huishan Wan	Accounting	Influence of Capital Structure on Corporate Performance: Evidence of Dual-Class Firms during Financial Crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic
Randall Harlow	Music, School of	Hyper-Musical Art: International Symposium, Summer Academy and Hyper-Album
Wu-Ying Hsieh	Special Education	The Effects of a Self-Directed Telehealth Parent-Mediated Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Catherine DeSoto	Psychology	Stress, Social Interactions, and Associated Hormone Responses
Kelsey Bourbeau	Kinesiology & Athletic Training	The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Stair 'Snacks' on Psychological Burnout
Kyle Gray	Earth & Environmental Sciences	Rebuilding ROMME In A Summer: Research On Misconceptions of Mass Extinctions (ROMME)
Terence Moriarty	Kinesiology & Athletic Training	The Effects of Creatine Supplementation on Cognitive Function & Prefrontal Cortex Oxygenation in those with Dementia

2022-2023

Recipient	Department	Title
Alison Altstatt	Music	Music and Ritual at Kloster Preetz in Anna von Buchwalds's Buch im Chor (1471-87).
Andrew D. Berns	Computer Science	Design and Analysis of Self-Stabilizing Overlay Networks in the Hybrid Network Model.
David M. Schmid	Ed Psych, Foundation, Ldrshp Studies	How Faculty are Teaching Student Affairs Skills in Times of High Burnout.
Elise M. DuBord	Languages & Literatures	Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young Latinx Professionals in Iowa.
Hannah J. Porter Occena	Music	Duos by Women.
Heather Jeronimo	Languages & Literatures	"Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain."
John D. Burnight	Philosophy & World Religions	Intertextual Readings in the Book of Job, Phase V: Review of Collections Hebrew University, Ecole Biblique, and Albright Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
Justin Peters	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Characterizing the length dependence of a yeast DNA regulatory loop in vivo.
Kimberly Conner	Mathematics	Investigating the Use of Dot Talks to Establish Classroom Discussion Expectations and Practices.
Michael H. Walter	Biology	Characterizing Durable Phage Structural Proteins of ‘Stability-Selected’ vs ‘Non-selected’ Anti-Anthrax Bacteriophages.
Tilahun Adebe	Biology	Evaluation of the cereal crop, tef (Eragrostis tef), for adaptation to Iowa conditions.

2021-2022

Recipient	Department	Title
Mason Kun	Curriculum & Instruction
Michael Prophet	Mathematics
Ali Tabei	Physics
Fernando Calderon	History
Francesca Soans	Communication & Media
Laura Edwards	Curriculum & Instruction
Ben Roidl-Ward	School of Music
Hilal Ergül	Languages & Literatures
Terence Moriarty	Kinesiology
Kamryn Warren	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
Joshua Gordon	Languages & Literatures
Jesse Wilcox	Biology

2020-2021

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Erika Bass	Languages & Literatures	June	Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Schools and Communities
Samantha Goss	Art	June	Engrossment as Foundation for Care and Developing High School Art Student Opportunities
Wu-Ying Hsieh	Special Education	June	Teachers' beliefs about early math teaching and learning in the context of block play: Children's benefits and teachers' roles
Blair Izard	Mathematics	June	Cultural Learning within the Elementary Methods Block
Sei-Young Lee	Social Work	May	Economic Downward Mobility and Intimate Partner Violence among Korean Immigrant Women in the U.S
Amy Ostanski	Theatre	May	20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century
Justin Peters	Chemistry & Biochemistry	May	Role of HMGB proteins in DNA looping in vivo
David Schmid	Educational Psychology, Foundations	May	Group Self Study: Impacts on Pedagogy, Relationships, and Scholarship
Lixia Zhang	Social Work	May	The Impact of Family Physical Environment on Children's Behavioral Problems

2019-2020

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Eva (Yi-Ju) Chen	Educational Psychology, Foundations, & Leadership Studies	May	Developmental Trajectory of Depressive Symptoms: A Quantile Regression Analysis
Jiuging Cheng	Psychology	June	Perception of hyperchoice: The role of thinking disposition
Kimberly Conner	Mathematics	May	Assessing Student Understanding of the Scope of Mathematical Claims
Laura Edwards	Curriculum & Instruction	May	Opportunities to learn in tension: young Latinx children in the Midwest
Joshua Gordon	Languages & Literatures	May	Second Language Pronunciation and Task-Based Instruction: Effects of a Classroom Intervention
Jerreme Jackson	Biology	June	Characterization of intestinal mucin in the Spodoptera frugiperda midgut epithelium
Heather Kennedy	School of Applied Human Sciences	July	Marriage Equality in Taiwan: Implications for Same-Sex Couple Well-Being
Ashleigh Kysar-Moon	Sociology, Criminology & Anthropology	June	How to Save a Life: Establishing Links between Early Childhood Adversity, Family Social Capital, and Adolescent Suicide Risk
Scott McNamara	Kinesiology	May	Attentional focus cues impact on the prefrontal cortex
Terence Moriarty	Kinesiology	June	The effects of exercise on brain blood flow and both cognitive and motor function in stroke patients
Hannah Porter Occena	School of Music	July	Confluence
Brian Warby	Political Science	July	Cash for Equality: The Role of Money in Female Empowerment
Ai Wen	Biology	July	Genetic Diversity of the brown-belted bumblebees in restored prairie habitat in NE Iowa
Gunwoo Yoon	Marketing	July	Face typicality vs. atypicality: The facial appearance of communicators and persuasion

2018-2019

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Huishan Wan	Accounting	June & July	How does Shareholder Litigation Risk Impact Corporate Risk-Taking? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Julie Kang	Biology	May & June	Analysis Of Leaf Shape and Vein Pattern Development Through Micro-Computed Tomography (Micro-Ct)
Michael Walter	Biology	May & June	Structural and Genome-Linked Proteins of Selected Small Bacillus anthracis Soiled Bacteriophages
Tilahun Abebe	Biology	May & June	Analysis of proteome data from barley plants exposed to drought treatment
Justin Peters	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July	Investigating DNA supercoiling as a facilitator of DNA looping
Danielle McGeough	Communication Studies	June & July	Day Zero
Francesca Soans	Communication Studies	June & July	A River Speaks (working title)
Melissa Dobosh	Communication Studies	June & July	Communication Competence in Distributed Teams
David Surdam	Economics	June & July	Sports in America, 1946-64: Not-So-Happy-Days
Mark Hecimovich	Health, Recreation & Community Services	June	Development and assessment of a motor skill throwing protocol and device to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An international collaboration with Rissho University in Japan
Reinier Hesselink	History	July	The Suicide of Takenaka Uneme
Windee Weiss	Kinesiology	May & June	The impact of pride on motivation, perfectionism, and fear of failure in competitive sport
Elise DuBord	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Growing up Latinx: Pop Culture Representations of Spanish Language Maintenance and Loss
Heather Jeronimo	Languages & Literatures	June & July	"La Guinea Espanola: Religion as a Gendered Tool of Spanish Colonialism in Equatorial Guinea"
Leila Rod-Welch	Library	July	Information Literacy for Graduate Students: Tutorial Videos for Continuing and Distance Education Learners
Mohammed Yahya Rawwas	Marketing	May	The Conversation of Resources Theory: A Comparison of the Impact of Positivity and Negativity Resources on Intention Turnover
Chepina Rumsey	Mathematics	June & July	Conjecturing and Justifying in Grades K-2
Elizabeth Hughes	Mathematics	July	Study of preservice elementary teachers' knowledge of mathematics and mathematical knowledge for teaching
Olof Steinthorsdottir	Mathematics	July	Study of preservice elementary teacher knowledge of mathematics and mathematical knowledge for teaching
Ali Tabei	Physics	June & July	Mechanical interactions and far from equilibrium dynamics of cellular cytoskeleton structures
Andrew Stollenwerk	Physics	May & June	Growing Atomically Flat Gold Surfaces Using Quantum Size Effects
Pavel Lukashev	Physics	June & July	Half-Metallic Thin-Films
Timothy Kidd	Physics	June & July	Synthesis of Finite Layer Dichalcogenides via Metal Film Exfoliation
Donald Gaff	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology	July	Miami Land Loss: Richardville and Godfrey Land Records
Qingli Meng	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology	June	“Severity or Certain? A Triangulation Analysis of 186 Corruption Capital Punishment Cases During 1978-2018 in China
Qu-Ying Hsieh	Special Education	June & July	Teaching Practices that Promote Early Math Learning in Geometry
Jody Stone	Teaching	May & June	Developing Phenomena-based Science Units to meet the new Next Generation Science Standards for Middle School Chemistry
Nageswara Posinasetti	Technology	June	Introduction to nanotechnology for technologists textbook preparation
Rukmini Srikant Revuru	Technology	June	Introduction to nanotechnology for technologists textbook preparation
Amy Osatinski	Theatre	June & July	Songs We Shouldn't Sing
Jim Bray	Theatre	June & July	Songs We Shouldn't Sing

2017-2018

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Eric W. M. Lee	Accounting	May	Readability of Corporate Responsibility Reports: An Empirical Study
Elizabeth Sutton	Art	July	American Migration and the Art of Place
Nalin Goonesekere	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July	Confirming the status of novel candidate oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes in pancreatic cancer using patient tumor tissue samples
Laura L. (Gingrich) Pitts	Communication Sciences and Disorders	May & June	Intensive Swallowing Program for Persons with Parkinson's Disease
Aleksandar Poleksic	Computer Science	May	Computational prediction of side-effects induced by drug-drug interactions
Chad Heinzel	Earth and Environmental Sciences	May & July	The geology and natural history of the Cedar River
Louis Fenech	History	June & July	The Cherished Five in Sikh History and Tradition
Oksana Grybovych	Kinesiology, Allied Health, and Human Services	June & July	Assessing Convergence Between Online Brand Identity and Online Brand Image in a Developing Tourism Destination
Rodney B. Dieser	Kinesiology, Allied Health, and Human Services	June & July	Drs. William W. Mayo (1819-1911), Charlie Horace Mayo (1865-1939), and William James Mayo (1861-1939) as community park advocates: Understanding the role of community parks and recreation in the beginning and early development of the Mayo Clinic
Jim O'Loughlin	Languages & Literatures	July	Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900, 2nd Edition
Jimin Kahng	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Development of Second Language Fluency
Jeremy Schraffenberger	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Americanism and the North American Review
Jolene Zigarovich	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Preserving Clarissa, and other Morbid Curiosities in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Julie Husband	Languages & Literatures	July	Daily Life in the Industrial United States: 1870-1900
Siegrun (Bubser) Wildner	Languages & Literatures	June	Putting the Final Days of Mauthausen on Stage
Samuel L. Eskelson	Mathematics	June & July	Mathematics and Special Education Consultations
William Wood	Mathematics	June & July	Generalized Trigonometric Functions
Heather Peyton	Music	May & June	CD: Heirlooms for Oboe
Randall Harlow	Music	May & June	HYPERORGAN: Music Performance Ecologies and the Deconstruction of Baroque Cybernetics
John D. Walton Burnight	Philosophy and World Religions	June & July	Intertextual Readings in the Book of Job: Phase IV, Medieval to Modern Hebrew and Arabic Scholarship on Job in the Hebrew University Collections, Jerusalem, Israel
Yasemin Sari	Philosophy and World Religions	June & July	Equality at the Borders; A Philosophy of the Refugee
Pita Ogaba Agbese	Political Science	June & July	Vigilante Groups Versus Terrorists: Using Vigilantes to Combat Boko Haram Terrorism in West
Elizabeth Lefler	Psychology	June & July	Professor Perceptions of Academic Accommodations for Students with ADHD and LD
Kim MacLin	Psychology	July	Experimental Psychology Textbook Preparation
Seong-In Choi	Psychology	June & July	A Qualitative Study about Multicultural Competency among Mental Health Professionals in South Korea
Danielle Cowley	Special Education	May	"The Trouble with Love is": Educators Voices of Inclusive Change
Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July	Workplace Experiences of Iowa Probation/Parole and Residential Staff
Hong (Jeffrey) Nie	Technology	June & July	A Low Complexity High Reliable Technology to Measure Time-of-Arrival of Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band Wireless Signals for Indoor Positioning and Tracking Systems

2016-2017

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Julie Kang	Biology	May & June	Vegetative development of compound leafed species, N. arborea and L. guineensis, in the grape family (Vitaceae)
Michael H. Walter	Biology	June & July	Small Bacillus anthracis soil bacteriophage selection and size characterization from soil
Nilda E. Rodriguez	Biology	June & July	Effects of Testosterone in Leishmania chagasi Infection
Peter Berendzen	Biology	July	Establishing conservation unities of two species of native fishes in northeast Iowa
Jaimie Gilbert	Communication Sciences and Disorders	June & July	Speech perception in multi-sensory global milieus
Francesca Soans	Communication Studies	June & July	A River Speaks (working title)
Sarah Montgomery	Curriculum & Instruction	June	Creating Active Citizens via Elementary Social Studies: A Study of Iowa's Rural Schools from 1900-1940
David Surdam	Economics	July	Business Ethics Through the Ages book project
Elana Joram	Educational Psychology & Foundations	June & July	Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes about the Applicability of Educational Research to their Practice
Reinier H. Hesselink	History	June & July	The Suicide of Takenaka Uneme
Elise Dubord	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Crossing the Language Divide in Community-Based Learning: University and Community Outcomes in a Cross-Language Collaboration
Heather Jeronimo	Languages & Literatures	July	Inscriptions on the Female Body: Reclaiming the Discourse on Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Spanish Literature
Juan Carlos Castillo	Languages & Literatures	July	Positive Quixotism and Spanish Sports Heroes: Successful Strategies in Building National Identity
Joyce Milambiling	Languages & Literatures	May & June	A Pure, Bright Light: The Letters of Helen Schechter
Karthik Iyer	Marketing	May	Supply Chain Relational Resources: A Performance Framework
Chepina Rumsey	Mathematics	June & July	Incorporating Discussion and Argumentation in Mathematics Instruction at the K-2 Grade Level
Min Ho Lee	Mathematics	June & July	Quasimodular forms and Jacobi-like forms
Alison Altstatt	Music	May	Wilton Abbey in Procession
Cayla Bellamy	Music	June & July	Premiere Recordings for Bassoon Duo
John Wiles	Music	June & July	Vox peregrini: A Pilgrimage Choir
Melinda Boyd	Music	July	Dolly Parton: Image, Music, Text
Cara Burnidge	Philosophy and World Religions	July	Between God-fearing and God-less: Researching the Religious Landscape of Palestine & Syria in the Twentieth Century
Ali Tabei	Physics	May & June	How do defects in the cellular structure and multi-motor competition influence intracellular transport?
Pavel Lukashev	Physics	May & June	Effect of structural disorder and surface states on spin polarization of half-metals
Catherine DeSoto	Psychology	July	Vitamin K. Genes and Autism
Dilbur Arsiwalla	Psychology	June & July	The Role of Sleep and Personality on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes
Sophia Min	School of KAHHS	June & July	Examining the Moderating Role of Cultural Differences in Sport Consumer Behavior
Gowri Betrabet Guwaldi	School of Applied Human Sciences	May & June	The Experience of Nearby Nature: Cross cultural and everyday significance
Heather Kennedy	School of Applied Human Sciences	July	Legal marriage Recognition and Influences on Well-Being for Non-married Same-Sex couples in the Mid-West
Kimberly Baker	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July	Women in Addiction-Themed Reality Television Shows
Qingli Meng	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	July	"Typology of Rural Corruption in China"; "The Criminology Issues in Rural China"; "A Criminology of Rural China"
Amy Petersen	Special Education	July	A Qualitative Research Project Exploring the Outcome of the Professional Development
Jody Stone	Teaching & Science Education	July	Development of K-2 Next Generation Science Units for the Waterloo School District
Julie Zhang	Technology	July	Development of sustainable cutting fluids for machining titanium alloys
Rukmini S. Revuru	Technology	July	Development of sustainable cutting fluids for machining titanium alloys

2015-2016

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Kenneth Hall	Art	July	Investigation of patterns, including camouflage techniques, applied to new all paintings
Mark Myers	Biology	July	Bird, Butterfly, and Plant Community Dynamics in Experimental Plantings of Tallgrass Prairie Species Managed as Agroenergy Crops
Mark Sherrard	Biology	July	Productivity and resistance to weed invasion in prairie biomass feedstocks
Nathan Bird	Biology	May & June	Analysis of growth and evolution of the Weberian apparatus in cypriniform fishes
John Bumpus	Chemistry & Biochemistry	May	An Improved Approach for the Calculation of Very Accurate Head of Formation Values for New High Explosives and Other Energetic materials
Nalin Goonesekere	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July	Generating knockdown/knockout mutants of the candidate oncogene EEPK1 to examine its functional role in pancreatic cancer and to evaluate its potential as a therapeutic target
Sergey Golitsynskiy	Communication Studies	July	Kronofoto and Fortepan Iowa: Developing open source software for digital historical photo archives
Aleksandar Poleksic	Computer Science	June & July	A Novel Algorithm for Predicting Protein-Ligand Interactions
Xinhua Shen	Earth Science	May & June	Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Advanced Non-engineered materials
Brett Olsen	Finance	July	Free Cash Flows and Firm Finance Stability
Fernando Calderon	History	May & June	Memory Struggles and the Human Rights Revolution in Mexico in the Aftermath of the 1970's "Dirty War"
Disa Cornish	HPELS	July	Qualitative Exploration of Social Support in the Postpartum Period
Mark Hecimovich	HPELS	June	Quantifying Head Trauma in Australian Rules Football
Brooke Wonders	Languages & Literatures	July	Self-Erasure: Memoir of a Suicide
Jesse Swan	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Shakespeare's Gothicism and the Shakespearean Gothicism of Horace Walpole
Jolene Zigarovich	Languages & Literatures	June & July	TransGothic
Wendy Hoofnagle	Languages & Literatures	July	Trotula and the Secrets of Women Manuscript Commentary Tradition
Michael Prophet	Mathematics	June & July	Laguerre Polynomials and Shape-preservation Approximation
Shangzhen Luo	Mathematics	May & June	Stochastic Differential Games for Insurance Risk Processes
Ann Bradfield	Music	June & July	Filling a Void: Recording four College-level works for Saxophone that are not Widely Recorded
Jonathan Chenoweth	Music	June & July	Leonard Bernstein: Two Answers to Everything
Randall Harlow	Music	June & July	Transcendante: Recording a New New Frontier for Virtuoso Organ Technique Through Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes
John Burnight	Philosophy & World Religions	June & July	Intertextual Readings in the Book of Job: Phase III, Medieval to Modern Hebrew and Arabic Scholarship on Job in the University of Chicago Collections
Rui He	Physics	June & July	Optical Spectroscopy of Interlayer Phonons in van der Woals
Tim Kidd	Physics	June & July	Investigation of Nanocellulose Composite Materials
Scott C. Peters	Political Science	June & July	Regulating Judicial Elections
Elizabeth Lefler	Psychology	May & June	Evidence-Based Assessment of ADHD in College Students
Seth Brown	Psychology	June & July	The Effects of Prescription Medication Advertisements on Stigma Towards Mental Illness
Donald Gaff	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July	Richardville and Godfrey Genealogies
Cynthia Dunn	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	July	New Narratives, New Selves, Self Transformation
Amy Staples	Special Education	June & July	Big Paper Analysis: Examining the Process and Product of Young Writers
Hong Nie	Technology	May & June	A Novel Low Complexity High Accuracy Technology to Identify Multiple Targets from Video Signals for Video-Based Indoor Positioning and Tracking Systems
Cynthia Goatley	Theatre	July	Plays for Spectrum Youth with a Handbook for How to Devise Them
Gretta Berghammer	Theatre	July	Plays for Spectrum Youth with a Handbook for How to Devise Them

2014-2015

Recipient	Department	Term	Title
Elizabeth Sutton	Art	July	Rembrandt's The Visitation Beyond the Surface
JoAnn Schnabel	Art	June	Sculptural Investigations of Nature and Italian Architecture for Exhibition
Julie Kang	Biology	May & July	Development of Leaf Lobes in Ipomoea (Morning Glory) Mutants
Michael Walter	Biology	July	Improving Isolation Methods for Small Bacteriophages of Bacillus anthracis
Nilda Rodriguez	Biology	June & July	Effects of Testosterone in Leishmania chagasi Infection
Danielle McGeough	Communication Studies	June & July	Coming Clean: An E(co) Performance
Francesca Soans	Communication Studies	June & July	A River Speaks
Ryan McGeough	Communication Studies	June & July	The Essential Guide to Visual Communication
Mary Donegan-Ritter	Curriculum and Instruction	May	Effect of Blending Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education Practices on Preservice Teachers' Instructional Support of IEP Goals during STEM Learning
Nicole Skaar	Educational Psychology and Foundations	July	Replication and Further Validation of the Prosocial and Health Adolescent Risk Behavior Scale
Dennis Dahms	Geography	June & July	Geochronology of "Alpine Late-glacial' activity in the Central Swiss Alps
Leisl Carr Childers	History	July	From Pasture to Plate: The Art and Ecology of Raising Cattle
Fabio Fontana	HPELS	June & July	Gathering Validity Evidence for the Use of Psychological Questionnaires among Middle and High School Students in Brazil
Sophia Min	HPELS	July	Understanding Consumers of Women's Sport
Elise DuBord	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Collaborative Civic Engagement in Spanish: Measuring Student Outcomes in Community-Based Learning
Heather Jeronimo	Languages & Literatures	June & July	Forming Fam(other)hood: Queer Parenthood in 20th and 21st -Century Spanish Narrative and Film
Tammy Gregersen	Languages & Literatures	May	Decoding the Non-verbal Expression of Foreign Language Anxiety: An idiodynamic Perspective
Heather Gallivan	Mathematics	July	Elementary Prospective Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching Mathematics to Socio-Culturally Diverse Students in Urban, High-Needs School
Min Ho Lee	Mathematics	June & July	Modular Forms and Differential Operators
Dmitri Vorobiev	Music	June & July	Recording a CD of Beethoven's Variations and Others Smaller Compositions for Solo Piano
John Wiles	Music	June & July	Vox peregrine: A Pilgrimage Choir
Melinda Boyd	Music	June & July	Appalachian Troubadour: The Words and Music of Daily Parton
Cara Burnidge	Philosophy and World Religions	June	Between God-fearing and Godless: Religion and U.S. -Middle East Policies, 1919-1954: Research at NARA I & II
Andrew Stollenwerk	Physics	May & June	Achieving Charge Injection into Single Layered Molybdenum Disulfide
Pavel Lukashev	Physics	May & June	Voltage Control of Magnetization Direction
Sayed Tabei	Physics	May & July	Simulation and Stochastic Analysis of the Active Dynamics inside Insulin Secreting Cell
Catherine M. DeSoto	Psychology	June & July	Genetic Differences in VKORC1 and the Etiology of Autism
Nicholas Schwab	Psychology	May & July	Increasing Enrollment in Home Energy Audits Via Experimental Messaging Framing
Robert Hitlan	Psychology	June & July	Examining the Moderating Effects of Social Support and Personality on the Relation Between Social Exclusion and Health Using Psychological, Biological, and Physical Health Assessments
Kristin Meany-Walen	School of Applied Human Services	July	Effects of Adlerian Play Therapy on Children's Intrusive and Oppositional Behaviors
Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July	Burnout and Secondary Trauma among Iowa Probation/Parole and Residential Officers
Kimberly Baker	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July	"My Addiction Wants Me Dead": Images of Recovery in Reality Television
Marybeth C. Stalp	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July	Ethnographic Data Analysis

2013-2014

Recipient	Department	Term
Darcie Davis-Gage	Applied Human Sciences	July
Gowri Gulwadi	Applied Human Services	July
Michael Fleming	Applied Human Services	June & July
Mark Myers	Biology	June & July
Theresa Spradling	Biology	May
Eric Peterson	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July
Nalin Gooneskere	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July
Paul Siddens	Communication Studies	May
Sergey Golitsynskiy	Communication Studies	June & July
Aleksandar Poleksic	Computer Science	June & July
Benjamin J. Schafer	Computer Science	May
Audrey Rule	Curriculum & Instruction	May & July
Brett Olsen	Finance	July
Richard Followill	Finance	July
Disa Cornish	HPELS	July
Kathleen Scholl	HPELS	July
Travis Ficklin	HPELS	June & July
Windee Weiss	HPELS	June
Jolene Zigarovich	Languages & Literatures	July
Russell Guay	Management	July
Michael Klassen	Marketing	July
Jihwa Noh	Mathematics	June & July
Michael Prophet	Mathematics	June & July
Shangzhen Luo	Mathematics	June
Suzanne Riehl	Mathematics	July
Alison Alstatt	Music	May & June
Amanda McCandless	Music	June
Kevin Droe	Music	May
John Walton Burnight	Philosophy & World Religions	June & July
Rui He	Physics	May & June
Pita Agbese	Political Science	May
Elizabeth Lefler	Psychology	June & July
Augustina Naami	Social Work	June & July
Don Gaff	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology	July
Hong (Jeffrey) Nie	Technology	June & July
MD Salim	Technology	June & July
Cynthia Goatley	Theatre	June & July

2012-2013

Recipient	Department	Term
Elizabeth Sutton	Art	June & July
Mary Frisbee-Johnson	Art	June & July
Timothy Wilson Aaron Dooley	Art	June & July
James Demastes	Biology	July
Julie Kang	Biology	June & July
Marek Sliwinski	Biology	June & July
Michael Walter	Biology	June & July
Tilahun Abebe	Biology	June & July
Francesca Soans	Communication Studies	June & July
Melanie Landon-Hays	Curriculum & Instruction	May
Sarah Montgomery	Curriculum & Instruction	May & July
Chad Heinzel	Earth Science	June & July
David Surdam	Economics	July
Benjamin Forsyth	Educational Psychology & Foundations	May
Michelle Tichy	Educational Psychology & Foundations	June & July
Suzanne Freedman	Educational Psychology & Foundations	June & July
Wallace Hettle	History	June & July
Karthik Iyer	Marketing	July
Bin Liu	Mathematics	May & June
Atul Mitra	Management	July
Nikhil Mehta	Management	July
Jonathan Chenoweth	Music	June & July
Melinda Boyd	Music	June & July
Yu-Ting Su	Music	May
Andrew Stollenwerk	Physics	May & June
Joh Deisz	Physics	June & July
Ga-Young Choi	Social Work	May & July
Carissa Froyum	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology	July
Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology	June & July
Marybeth Stalp	Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology	July
Julie Zhang	Technology	June & July

2011-2012

Recipient	Department	Term
James Jurgenson	Biology	June & July
Mark C. Myers	Biology	June & July
Colin Weeks	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July
Angela Burda	Communication Sciences & Disorders	June
Jungmi Jun	Communication Studies	May & June
Aleksandar Poleksic	Computer Science	June & July
John Groves	Earth Science	June
Bryce Kanago	Economics	July
Bulent Uyar	Economics	June & July
Lisa Jepsen	Economics	July
Stephanie Schmitz	Educational Psychology & Foundations	June & July
Adam Smedema	Finance	July
Dennis E. Dahms	Geography	June & July
Gregory Bruess	History	May & July
Fabio Fontana	HPELS	July
Susan Roberts-Dobie	HPELS	July
Hong (Jeffrey) Nie	Industrial Technology	May & June
Adrienne Lamberti	Languages & Literatures	June
Haley O'Neil	Languages & Literatures	May
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure	Languages & Literatures	June & July
Marius Somodi	Mathematics	May
Mark Ecker	Mathematics	July
Min Ho Lee	Mathematics	May & June
Shangzhen Luo	Mathematics	June & July
Dmitri Vorobiev	Music	May & June
Michael Roth	Physics	May
Rui He	Physics	June & July
Timothy Kidd	Physics	June & July
Pita Agbese	Political Science	June & July
Helen C. Harton	Psychology	June & July
Katherine Van Wormer	Social Work	June & July
Anne C. Woodrick	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July
Donald Gaff	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	July
Tyler O'Brien	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July
Xavier Escandell	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July
Jody Stone	Teaching	July

2010-2011

Recipient	Department	Term
Elizabeth Sutton	Art	July
JoAnn Schnabel	Art	June & July
Soo Hostetler	Art	June & July
Tilahun Abebe	Biology	June & July
Francesca Soans	Communication Studies	June & July
Karen Mitchell	Communication Studies	July
Zhuojun (Joyce) Chen	Communication Studies	July
Thomas Hockey	Earth Science	July
David Surdam	Economics	May & June
Benjamin Forsyth	Educational Psychology & Foundations	June & July
Michelle Tichy	Educational Psychology & Foundations	June & July
Julie Husband	English Language and Literature	May & June
Tammy Gregersen	English Language and Literature	July
Louis Fenech	History	May & June
Jin Zhu	Industrial Technology	June & July
MD Salim	Industrial Technology	June & July
Mohammed Rawwas	Marketing	May
Adele Santana	Management	June & July
Bin Liu	Mathematics	June & July
Michael Prophet	Mathematics	May & June
John Deisz	Physics	June & July
Melinda Boyd	School of Music	June & July
Ruth Chananie-Hill	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	May & June
Tara Opsal	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	July
Cynthia Goatley	Theatre & Music	June & July
Rebecca Burkhardt	Theatre & Music	June & July

2009-2010

Recipient	Department	Term
Erica Voss	Art	July
Kenneth Hall	Art	July
Axel Schwekendiek	Biology	June & July
James Jurgenson	Biology	June & July
Jr. Steve O'Kane	Biology	June & July
Michael Walter	Biology	June & July
Theresa Spradling	Biology	June
Kirk Manfredi	Chemistry & Biochemistry	June & July
Nalin Goonesekere	Chemistry & Biochemistry	May & June
Aleksandar Poleksic	Computer Science	June & July
Paul Gray	Computer Science	June & July
John Groves	Earth Science	June & July
Jeremy Schraffenberger	English	June & July
Joyce Milambiling	English	June & July
Dennis Dahms	Geography	June & July
Fabio Fontana	Health, Physical Education, & Leisure Services	May
Barbara Cutter	History	July
Hong Nie	Industrial Technology	May & June
James Mattingly	Management	June & July
Min Ho Lee	Mathematics	May & June
Shangzhen Luo	Mathematics	May & June
Jennifer Cooley	Modern Languages	July
Andrew Stollenwerk	Physics	June & July
Michael Roth	Physics	June & July
Sunde Nesbit	Psychology	July
Allen R. Hays	Public Policy	July
Yu-Ting Su	School of Music	July
Katherine Van Wormer	Social Work	June & July
Marybeth Stalp	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July
Phyllis Baker	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July
Tyler O'Brien	Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology	June & July
Jody Stone	Teaching & Science Education	July