PSC-CUNY 49 Grant Recipients
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Biological Sciences & Sciences Department
Dr. Michael J. Altimari
Examining the effect of Valerian Root extracts on neurite outgrowth and differentiation of PC12 and SH-SH-SY5Y cells
Dr. Mohammad Javdan
Permethrin and Alzheimer's Disease: Role of HMGB1 and toll-like receptors on Microglial dysfunction
Dr. Susan McLaughlin
Investigating the role of calcium-sensing receptors in Hydra
Dr. Andrew Nguyen
Examining developmental and functional differences between male and female osteoclasts and their association with Stat3 signaling
Dr. Anuradha Srivastava
Epigenetic Modifications of Regulatory Genes Responsible for Brain Development in Fetuses Exposed to Intra-Uterine Tobacco Smoke
Chemistry Department
Dr. Tirandai Hemraj-Benny
Magnetic Fe3O4-Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Nanocatalysts for the Degradation of Azo Dye Pollutants
Dr. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine
Dissecting the Mechanism by which Ether Side Chains Lower Ionic Liquid Viscosity
Dr. Paul Sideris
Sol-gel Synthesis and Characterization of LiMPO4 (M=Fe, Mn) Cathode Materials
Dr. Sujun Wei
Synthesis & Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy Studies on Gating of Carbazole Molecules
Engineering Technology Department
Dr. Merlinda Drini
Power and Channel Aware Routing in Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Dr. Dugwon Seo
Estimation of the voltage from solar Photovoltaic power and utility grid in the grid-tied solar power system under the various solar radiation conditions
English Department
Dr. Kathleen Tamayo Alves,
Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth Century Comic Novel
Dr. Aliza Atik
Lost World Stories and New World Rhetoric: Fantasy, Sexology, and the Politics of Empire
Dr. Magdalena Bogacka-Rode
" 'A Single Plot in War': Martha Gellhorn and Gerda Taro's Spanish Civil War Documentaries"
Dr. Melissa Dennihy
Becoming Readers: Fostering Student Engagement and Agency in Community College Literature Classrooms
Dr. Noelia Diaz
"Invisible Maids: Reclaiming Agency in Lola Arias' Mucamas/Maids (2010-2011)"
Dr. Robin R. Ford
Critical Pedagogy and Common Read Programs
Prof. Susan Lago
What We Inherit: A Collection of Linked Stories
Dr. Robert McAlear
Seeing and Not-Seeing: Burkean Rhetoric and Blindness in Native Son
Dr. Vartan Messier
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous and Misguided Masculinities Across the Atlantic
Dr. Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
"Spontaneous Utterances and Wordy Bombs: The Female Lecturer as Labor Reformer"
Dr. Ilse Schrynemakers
Dr. Cary Lane
Assessing College Readiness from Faculty Observations at Urban Community Colleges
Dr. Elizabeth Toohey
9/11 and the Collapse of the American Dream: Imbolo Mbue's "Behold the Dreamers"
Dr. Agnieszka Tuszynska
The Prisoner, The Man, The Writer: Unveiling the Enigma of Clarence Alexander Rea
Prof. Irvin Jr. Weathersby
Finding Crazy Horse: An Exploration of the Crazy Horse Memorial in Search of Self
Dr. Tanya Zhelezcheva
Reinventing the Commentaries Genre: Thomas Traherne's Commentaries of Heaven and the Early Modern Science
Foreign Languages & Literature Department
Dr. Aranzazu Borrachero
Stolen Motherhoods: Traffic in Minors during the Francoist Dictatorship and the Spanish Democratic Transition
Dr. Wei Lai
Needs analysis of a Mandarin course for healthcare professionals
Dr. Maurizio Santoro
L2 Acquisition of English Anaphoric Pronouns by Adult Chinese Speakers
Health, Physical Education & Dance Department
Prof. Aviva Geismar
"Urge"
History Department
Dr. Tim Keogh
Suburbs in Black and White: How Jobs Created Inequality in Affluent America
Dr. James Nichols
"A Dollar's Worth of Exciting Amusement": The Fandango in the Age of the US-Mexico War
Mathematics & Computer Science Department
Dr. Andrew Bulawa
Maximal Hypersurface Foliations of Einstein-Rosen Waves
Dr. Daniel Garbin
Eisenstein series at marked points approaching a cusp. Bounds on coefficients of certain j-invariant analogs
Dr. Wenjian Liu
Spectral Methods and Ross Recovery
Dr. Azita Mayeli
Classification of Gabor Orthogonal Bases
Dr. Biao Wang
Annulus type asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space of Dimension Three
Dr. Haishen Yao
A Mean Field Game Approach to the Optimization of Coupled Queues
Dr. Fei Ye
Geometric and Algebraic Properties of Adjoint Line Bundles
Music Department
Dr. Mirna Lekic
Intercultural Concert Series: A Musical Exchange
Physics Department
Dr. Raul Armendariz
Design and Construction of the CUNY Cosmic Ray Detector Array for Undergraduate Research in Applied Physics
Dr. Jillian Bellovary
Gravitational Wave Signatures of Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Dr. Vazgen Shekoyan
Critical thinking in a conceptual physics course: Identifying assumptions and multiple possibilities
Social Sciences Department
Dr. Julia Rothenberg
Repurposing Utopian Energy for the Urban Growth Machine
Speech Communication & Theatre Arts Department
Prof. Allison Crutchfield
Only Yesterday: An Exploration of Mod Fashion and the emergence of the Modern Rock Star
Prof. Heather Huggins
Bearing Witness: Listening as Radical Action
Prof. Christopher (Julian) Jimenez
Nico Was a Fashion Model - A Young Adult Novel
Dr. Jodi VanDerHorn-Gibson
Expressionistic Protest Legacies in 21st Century Theatre; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Surreal
