2023-2024 Award Cycle
Request for Proposals, Guidelines and Application for 2023-24 Award Cycle
We are pleased to announce that proposals are now welcome for submission for the 2023-2024 CSU-AAUP Faculty Research Grant Competition.
Please be advised that there is a different submission process unique to our campus. Rather than submit in the manner described in Item #6 under “Proposal Components and Rules for Submission” (p.4 of the Guidelines posted above), you are asked to submit via the Kuali Build portal. Please read the instructions on how to submit via Kuali carefully and should you have any questions on submitting through Kuali or need troubleshooting, please contact Sponsored Programs and Research at spar@southernct.edu.
Deadline is Friday, January 27, 2023, no later than 5:00 p.m.
As of 2018, Southern Connecticut State University is a subscriber to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program. CITI offers free educational training to all SCSU faculty, staff and students in the areas of best practices for responsible conduct of research, ethics, conflict of interest and regulatory oversight.
The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the Office of Research Integrity and in light of our institution’s continued adherence to the Federal Research Misconduct Policy, highly recommends that all institutional members conducting any type of research establish an account with CITI and complete the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course(s) that are best suited to their discipline.
The options currently available are:
- Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research
- Responsible Conduct of Research for Engineers
- Humanities Responsible Conduct of Research
- Physical Science Responsible Conduct of Research
- Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research
All educational courses in RCR contain modules on authorship, collaboration, conflicts of interest, data management, mentoring, peer review, research misconduct and plagiarism. CITI Certifications are valid for three years. Faculty are also encouraged to use CITI training materials with students in relevant classroom instruction and for mentoring.
It is required that all faculty members with research funding from both external and internal sources will maintain RCR training (including AAUP-CSU Research and Creative Activity Grants). We strongly encourage faculty members to familiarize themselves with CITI and the SCSU ORI Policies and Procedures and to contact the SCSU Office of Research Integrity at ORI@southernct.edu or 392-5243 with any questions or concerns. Information on these policies can be found here: https://inside.southernct.edu/rpp/educational-resource
Information on the SPAR website (including information on the CITI login procedures) is located here: https://inside.southernct.edu/spar/citi
Researchers engaged in activities involving human subjects, vertebrate animals, or bio-hazardous materials are required to complete additional CITI training per requirements established by the IRB, IACUC or IBC Committees, respectively.
Submission of Grant Reports
A final report describing the results of the research along with a detailed account of fund expenditures must be filed with Faculty Development no later than September 30, 2023 for the 2022-23 award cycle. The Project Report Form should be used as the template for all final reports. The Request for an Extension Form should be used as the template in the event extenuating circumstances hinder progress on the project. All extensions are subject to administrative approval. Please Note: Any funds unaccounted for shall be returned to the university and be added to the allocation for the competition in the following year.
2023-24 CSU-AAUP Faculty Research Grant Award Recommendations
The following projects have been recommended for funding for the 2023-24 award cycle.
Please Note: Work on these projects may not begin until the BOR approves the recommendations at a future meeting. Date TBA.
(If any information is incorrect, please notify Faculty Development at facultydevel@southernct.edu.)
Abe, JoAnn. Psychology. Varieties of Kindness
Antonios, Imad. Computer Science. Power Loss Estimation in Electrical Grids in the Presence of Incomplete or Noisy Measurements
Axon, Stephen (Environment, Geography, & Marine Sciences) and Robert Smith, Jr. (Management & International Business). International variations of socio-cultural sustainability: A just transitions analysis of Japan
Badr, Kauther and Robert Smith, Jr. Management & International Business. Business Succession for the Entrepreneur or Family Business
Baraw, Charles. English. Chapter 2 of Tracing Hawthorne’s Path, “From Sunnyside to The Wayside: Authors’ Homes and the Invention of American Literary Culture.”
Barboza, Meghan. Biology. Extracting RNA to identify specialized immune cells in Florida manatee respiratory epithelium
Bordner, Kelly (Psychology) and Rachel Jeffrey (Biology). Effects of early prenatal THC exposure on subsequent addiction, anxiety and social behaviors in the rat model
Bower-Phipps, Laura. Curriculum & Learning. Supporting Teachers through the Development of a Culture of Practitioner Research
Brady, Steven and Mikolaj Sulkowski. Biology. De novo sequencing and assembly of the wood frog (Rana sylvatica) transcriptome
Brownell, Mia. Art. Autumn Sun
Chandler, Jeremy. Art. Terra Incognita: Creating and Exhibiting Photographic Artwork
Chen, Qu. Counseling & School Psychology. Mastering Course Content through Online Quizzes in Teaching Assessment in Counselor Education: A Mixed Methods Case Study
Chung, Hanyong. Accounting. Product Market Competition and Audit Fees: New Evidence
Coca, Adiel. Chemistry & Biochemistry. Antimicrobial Assessment of Organoboron Compounds and Expansion of the Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction
Coleman, Kelly (Health & Movement Sciences) and Amanda Strong (Healthcare Systems and Innovations). Development of a Professional-Self Concept Scale for Athletic Trainers
Crawford, Sarah. Biology. Preclinical Drosophila Blood Brain barrier (BBB) Model to Assess Role of Infection/Inflammation in Brain Tumor Etiology and Therapy Efficacy
Cross, Emma. Environment, Geography, & Marine Sciences. Site suitability analysis of bay scallop aquaculture in the northeast U.S.
Ding, Shibiao. Marketing. Consumer Financial Decision Making: An Investigation of Cultural and Pricing Factors
Dodson, Joel. English. The Sonnet, Like Poverty: On the Resources of the Shakespearean and Seussian Sonnet
Dunbar, Miranda. Biology. Vampire Bat Physiology
Enjalran, Mathew. Physics. Quantum Monte Carlo study of the partially ordered state of the Hubbard model on the triangular lattice
Fedorchuk, Nicholas. Earth Science. Sedimentology and paleoweathering trends of putative late Paleozoic glacial strata in the Appalachian Basin, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Ferraro, Marisa. Curriculum & Learning. Dual language schooling in global contexts: An ethnographic case study examining program design, pedagogy, and community partnerships
Fisher, Michael. Biology. Investigating the Role of the Host Microbiome on Bacterial Pathogenesis in C. elegans
Fluhr, Nicole. English. Museums, Violence, and Silence in Vernon Lee's "A Wedding Chest"
Furey, Rachel. English. Traversing Trails: The Paths We Carve
Gusewski, Svenja. Communication Disorders. Longitudinal changes in disfluent speech patterns of bilingual school-aged children
Harry, Chelsea. Philosophy. Expanding the Canon: Women in 19th Century Philosophy
Haylon, Lisa. Accounting. An Investigation of the Tactics Used to Create Collusive Fraud Teams
Hossain, MD. Computer Science. Cost-Effective Indoor Positioning Using Smart Devices
Huerta Buitrago, Belinda. Chemistry & Biochemistry. Determination of concentrations of PFAS in the Housatonic River
Islam, Mohammad. Computer Science. Fight Fire with Fire: Using Discriminative AI to Detect AI-Generated Content Plagiarism in Academia
Jacobs, John. Psychology. Predictors of Reverse Social Mobility: A Longitudinal Analysis
Jayawickreme, Dushmantha. Earth Science. Assessing Watershed Responses to Urbanization, Seasonal Climates, and Extreme Weather Events
Kalbfleisch, Elizabeth. English. Anti-Scientism and the Politics of Literacy Instruction
Kearns, James. Chemistry & Biochemistry. Does Heavy Metal Contamination Affect Agave Fluid Products and Create Potential Health Problems?
Kim, Hyoseok. Marketing. Exploding Deals and Shopping Behavior
Kim, Young and Melvin Prince. Marketing. Perceived Discrimination, College Disidentification and Stress Levels Among Community College Transfer Students to a Four-Year College: Continuation and Completion of Meritorious Research
Kwak, Lynn and Melvin Prince. Marketing. Reactance Effects of Public Service Announcements
Lavin, Terrence. Art. Digital/Traditional: New Technologies in Contemporary Metalworking
Lee, Younhee, Braxton Carrigan and Yulei Pang. Mathematics. Fostering diversity in STEM by empowering youth to experience contemporary mathematics by means of discovery and exploration in the MaPP Challenge
Lesley, Melvin. Chemistry & Biochemistry. Novel Tamoxifen Derivatives Derived from 4-HydroxyPyridyl-1-butyne
Liu, Yan. Information & Library Science. Undergraduate Teaching with a Virtual Laboratory
Marsoobian, Armen. Philosophy. Updated and Expanded Edition Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia (2015)
McDaniel, Marie. History. Grievous Sin: Limits of Toleration in the Middle Colonies, Part II of Sex in the Belfry
McEachern, Robert. English. Metaphor Use in the Personal Writing of Oncologists
Muthuraj, Birasnav and Danny Franklin. Management & International Business. Improving School Safety and Student Engagement with Learning among Connecticut Schools: The Roles of Stakeholders and Leaders
Nguyen, Khoa. Finance & Real Estate. Firm Performance in the U.S. Travel and Tourism Industry during Covid-19 Pandemic: Does a diversified board of directors matter?
Njoku, Anuli. Public Health. Environmental Injustice and COVID-19: Challenges and Recommendations
Nosheen, Shaneela (Chemistry & Biochemistry) and Christine Broadbridge (Research & Innovation). To Capture Atmospheric CO2 using 2-, and 3-dimentional Porous Zeolites
Palma, Pina. World Languages & Literatures. Pontano and the Renaissance at the Court of Aragon
Pang, Jiong Dong. Chemistry & Biochemistry. Identification of Compounds for Butyrylcholinesterase and Potential Applications in Age-Related Neurode-generative Diseases
Pang, Yulei. Mathematics. S-MART: Machine learning enabled Automatic, Rapid Tool for Sustainable transition of agricultural systems
Patalinghug, Jason. Economics. Unanticipated Money Growth and Unemployment in the Philippines
Perouse-Harvey, Ebony. Special Education. Managed, Mark, & Misunderstood: Uplifting the Advocacy Practices of Black Mothers of Students Identified with (Dis)abilities
Perumbilly, Sebastian. Marriage & Family Therapy. Facilitating Therapeutic Change in Couple Therapy: Results from a Mixed Methods Research Study with Exploratory Sequential Design
Pittman, Adam and Cassie Meyerhoffer. Sociology. Navigating Town-Gown Dynamics in New Haven, CT
Randall, Regine. Curriculum & Learning. Empowering Pre-Service Teachers in an Era of Increasing Online University Education
Richmond, Andrew. English. Expanding a Digital Model for Reading Medieval Environments
Roe, Sarah. History. Remembering Abandoned Places: Belonging through Informal Commemoration and the Human-Land-scape Connection
Rogers, Michael. Anthropology. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeology at Gona, Ethiopia—A Continuation
Ryder, Todd. Chemistry & Biochemistry. Multicomponent Reactions of 2-Hydroxyacetophenone Derivatives
Savelli, Melanie. Communication, Media, & Screen Studies. Put Out the Fire
Schmitt, Elena. World Languages & Literatures. Lessons Learned: A Reflection on the Technology-Mediated Transformation of a Graduate Program
Serchuk , Camille. Art. Mapping Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern France, 1300-1600
Singh Amitkumar and Atul Kulkarni. Marketing. Sustainability Marketing- Understanding Sustainability from Consumer Perspective and Its Effect on Consumer Judgments and Decision-Making
Skoczen, Kathleen. Anthropology. Talking to the People: Local knowledge and participation in the implementation of recycling programs
Slomba, Jeffrey. Art. Digital Spolia and Reimagined Tondos: historical forms and contemporary tools for new sculpture
Smith, Julian. Communication Disorders. Reliability of Lingual Pressure During Active Swallowing Tasks
Sorokina, Anastasia. World Languages & Literatures. Language Loss and Autobiographical Memory in Trilingual Speakers: Data Collection
Swartz, Daniel. Health & Movement Sciences. Youth Sport Specialization: A comparison between the United States and Israel
Trombly, Christopher. Educational Leadership. The Bible and Natural Language Processing: Building a Corpus for Digital Scholars
Vu, Thuan. Art. Translating Vietnamese Imagery.
Wang, Zheni. Management & International Business. The Dynamic Model of the Motivation on Psychological Health: Examining Time Pressure as a Boundary Condition in Acculturating Individuals
Wang, Junhong. Marketing. How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) impact Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Systematic Literature Review
Wasiuk, Peter (Communication Disorders) and Julia Irwin (Psychology). Speech Recognition in Competing Speech and Noise for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Weng, Miaowei. World Languages & Literatures. Anger, Performance, and Second-Generation Chinese in Spain
Wieland, Alice and Carol Stewart. Management & International Business. Perceived Soft Skills Deficiencies of Emerging Women Leaders
Wu, Hao. Computer Science. Virtual Reality Safety Training Framework for STEM Laboratory
Yang, Chulguen. Management & International Business. Fostering Contemplative Leadership in Management Education
Yavuz, Olcay. Educational Leadership. Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Refugee Students in Schools
Yoon, Sang and Younjun Kim. Economics. Which Countries Receive Bilateral Environmental Aids Improving Energy Efficiency? Evidence from Text Mining