CARS Summer Grants are available for full-time tenured or tenure track BSU faculty and librarians. For librarians, release time is substituted for the stipend. This grant enables faculty and librarians to pursue creative, innovative ideas for the enhancement of research, teaching, and other scholarly activities during the summer. This grant is funded through the Provost and Vice President, Office of Academic Affairs.
Funded Projects from 2013
Poetry and Politics against Language in Shelley, Stuart Allen
The Body of Adonis: Royalist Marvell and the Villiers Elegy, Gregory Chaplin
Skepticism in Classical Indian Philosophy, Matthew R. Dasti
Using the NCANDS Dataset to Test Three Theoretical Models of Fatal Child Maltreatment, Emily M. Douglas
Exemplar or Empire: Articulating America's Role in the World in the 1900 Presidential Election, Jason A. Edwards
Indirect Data Migration in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Storage Systems, Chadi El Kari
Les Russes et Nous: The 1972 Summit Series and the Birth of Hockey Sovereignty in Quebec, Andrew C. Holman
A New Translation of Selected Greek Texts Attributed to Ephrem the Syrian, Kevin Kalish
Which Galaxies Are Making Stars? Star Formation in Three Super-Clusters of Galaxies, Thomas P. Kling
Conscientious Objection in Medicine, Gal Kober
Analysis of the Effectiveness of Pedagogical Tools Targeting Student Engagement in BIOL200/Cell Biology, Boriana Marintcheva
Simulating Realistic Psychological Response Data, Brendan J. Morse
Wavelets and Frames, Vignon Oussa
Modeling a Community Resources Mapping Project for Strategic Community Development and Civic Engagement, Yongjun Shin
Webs and Scapes: Cultural Applications of a Web Model of GeoGenerational Communication, Nancy L. Street
The Bishop's Law Book: The Creation and Use of a Canon Law Codex in the Tenth Century, Jeffrey R. Webb
Expanding Pathways Research: Learning from Women Formerly Incarcerated for Violent Crime, Judith S. Willison
Funded Projects from 2012
Practitioner Guidebook: Promoting Wellness and Facilitating Psychosocial Referral for Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers, Victoria L. Bacon
Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Invertebrate Diversity in Southeastern Massachusetts, Christopher P. Bloch
The Six Systems of Classical Hindu Philosophy, Matthew Dasti
Children's Death by Abuse vs. Neglect: A Comparison of Case, Child, and Family Characteristics, Emily M. Douglas
State, Development, Democracy, Conflict and Terrorism, Erica Frantz
Catholic Charity and Civic Performance in the Years before Quebec's Quiet Revolution: The Depression Hockey League, 1932-60, Andrew Holman
The Effects of Study Abroad and Working Memory on Processing Subject-verb (Dis)Agreement, Ryan LaBrozzi
Establishing Cross-Cultural Measurement Equivalence of a Popular Body Attitudes Questionnaire Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Brendan J. Morse
Convergence Properties of the Aluthge Sequence of Shift Operators, Kevin Rion
Reasoning about Steepness; Strategies of Fifth through Eighth Grade Students when Solving Steepness Tasks, Polina Sabinin
Clinical Expertise, Scientific Knowledge and Trust: Epistemic and Ethical Challenges to Managing the Public's Health, Catherine A. Womack
Funded Projects from 2011
Variable Stars, Martina Arndt
Institutionalizing Poet’s Theater: The Cambridge Poets’ Theatre in the 1950s, Heidi R. Bean
Free Will, Agency and Selfhood in India’s Nyāya Tradition, Matthew R. Dasti
Child Welfare Workers' Experiences with Client Fatality and Trauma Symptomatology, Emily Douglas
Early American Foreign Policy Rhetoric: An Analysis of John Quincy Adams July 4, 1821 Oration, Jason Edwards
Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Use of Science Notebooks, Nicole J. Glen
“Nación en el hielo: Hockey, History and the Troubled Construction of Identity in Canada, 1875-2010”, Andrew C. Holman
The Effects of Instruction and Study Abroad on the Use of the Historical Present in Advanced Spanish Learners, Ryan LaBrozzi
Selling Alcohol as Medicine: Women, Health, and Public Relations in 1900, Thomas Mickey
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Self-Efficacy - Performance Relationship in University Classes, Brendan Morse
Cyclic Behavior of Vectors with Non-Zero Orbital Limit Points, Irina Seceleanu
Teachers’ Perception and Use of Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Middle School Physical Education, Deborah A. Sheehy
Immigration stress and adaptation: the resilience of the older immigrants, Jing Tan
X-phi Meets Ronald McDonald: An Experimental Philosophical Investigation into the Phenomenology of Eating Fast Food, Catherine A. Womack
Funded Projects from 2010
A Mathematical Study of M.C. Escher's Path of Life III, Heidi Burgiel
Child Maltreatment Fatalities: Perspectives from the Child Welfare Field, Emily Douglas
The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism: Champions and Challengers, Jason A. Edwards
Problems and Possibilities: Reading and Writing Genres in Context (chapter on food), Kathryn Evans
Asbury Park: Race, Gender, and Gentrification on the Jersey Shore, Sandra Faiman-Silva
Transnational Metropolism: A Gender Analysis of Caribbean Migrant Experiences in Paris, France, Diana Fox