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2023-24 Research Council Members
Mustafa Gokcek (Humanities)
Kevin Blair (Social Sciences)
Ting Cao (Business/CoHST)
Michelle Ciminelli (Education)
Bill Edwards, Chair (Sciences)
Chris Nelson-Tuttle (Nursing)
David Schoen, Co-Secretary
Jill Shuey, Co-secretary
2022-23 Research Council Members
Alexander Bertland, Chair (Humanities)
Kevin Blair (Social Sciences)
Michelle Ciminelli (Education)
Bill Edwards (Sciences)
Scott Erdley (Nursing)
Hoontaek Seo (Business/CHTM)
David Schoen, Co-Secretary
Jill Shuey, Co-secretary
2021-22 Research Council Members
Harold Lobo (Education)
Cassie Marnocha, Chair (Sciences)
Hoontaek Seo (Business/CHTM)
Craig Rivera (Social Sciences)
Sabrina Schwartz (Nursing)
Alexander Bertland (Humanities)
David Schoen, Co-Secretary
Jill Shuey, Co-secretary
2019-20 Research Council Members
Harold Lobo (Education)
Cassie Marnocha, Chair (Sciences)
Paul Richardson (Business)
Craig Rivera (Social Sciences)
Stefanie Wichhart (Humanities)
David Schoen, Co-Secretary
Jill Shuey, Co-secretary
Download Grant Application: 2024 Summer Research Award (Word format)
Due Date: October 15, 2023
The application for 2025 hasn't been released yet.
The University funds 15 summer research awards in the amount of $5,200 each. An important aim of the program is to provide seed money for projects that can lead to external funding. One of summer stipends is reserved for a special theme:
Scholarship of Teaching Grant: This grant was established to recognize the importance of teaching at Niagara University.
Full-time faculty may apply for these awards.
Summer 2024
Dr. Maritza Branker and Dr. Kris Principe (CCTL Award)
Vincentian Leadership for Graduate Business Education
Dr. Alexander Bertland
Giambattista Vico on Jurisprudence and Anarchy
Dr. Michael Cassidy and Dr. Craig Rivera
Evaluating a Disability Awareness Training Program for Probation Officers
Dr. Amelia Gallagher
The Black Madonna of Istanbul
Dr. Carrie Glenn
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Marie Rose Poumaroux and Elizabeth Beauveau: A Story of Intimacy, Women’s Economies, & Family Betrayal in the Age of the Revolution
Dr. Derron Hilts
Examining the Relationship Between School Counselors’ Engagement in Transformative Leadership, Psychological Wellbeing, Coping, and Organizational Support.
Dr. Changjie Hu
Accountability and the Disclosure of Soft Information: Evidence from the Sarbanes- Oxley Act
Dr. Joel Louwsma
Critical Groups of Arithmetical Structures
Dr. David Peterson
Lorraine Hansberry's Unstaged Queer Drama
Dr. Caitlin Riegel
Discovering the Researcher Within: Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Role as Researchers
Dr. Todd Schoepflin
A Content Analysis of Indie Rock Music
Dr. Hoontaek Seo
Friendly Boards and the Cost of Debt
Dr. Kilho Shin
Strategic Decision Maker’s Temporal Orientation: The Effect of Hypertemporal Focus and Temporal Depth on Innovation Speed
Dr. Doug Tewksbury
Object Oriented Ontology (OOO) and Critical Sound Studies
Dr. Stefanie Wichhart
British Women's Auxiliary Organizations in the Middle East, 1941-1945
Summer 2023
Dr. Asma Ahmed
Ontario Preservice Teachers’ Preparedness for Enacting Responsive Pedagogical Practices with Muslim Students
Dr. Patricia Briscoe
Unauthorized Non-Government Organizations and Charity Groups Working in an Area of Poverty: Insights into Their Impact
Dr. Ting Cao
Does Digital Transformation Leadership in Banking Really Matter? A Mixed-Method Study
Dr. Shannon Dowd
Lithium in Latin America: Poison, Drug, Cure
Dr. Wen Feng
Stability for the Three-Dimensional Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) System
Dr. Dennis Garland
Effects of a Special Olympics College Course on Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Ataturk and Lenin: A Comparative Analysis of Revolutionary Leadership
Dr. Hsin-Yi Liao
Should Birds of a Feather Flock Together? A Person-Group Fit Perspective on Salespeople’s Ambidexterity in an Organization
Dr. Joseph Little
Harmful Hedging and the Cost to Low-Income Communities: A Rhetorical Reception Study of Maslow's Theory of Human Motivation
Dr. Cassie Marnocha
Microbe-Mineral Interactions in a Neoarchean Ocean Analog
Dr. Mary McCourt
Development of Model for Lead Removal from Neural Cells Using Chelators Encapsulated in Cholestosome Technology
Dr. Fernando Naranjo
Lean Supply Chain Management in the Agri-Food Sector: Multiple Case Studies
Dr. Steve Petersen
Abstraction by Patterns
Dr. Caitlin Riegel (CCTL Award)
Examining the Use of Online Formative Assessment to Address Concerns Related to Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Carolyn Shivers
Exploring Ableism: Development of a Quantitative Measure of Barriers and Attitudes Experienced by Disabled People
Summer 2022
Applicant | Department | Project |
Jennifer Beebe | Counseling and Applied Psychology | An Examination of the Impact of Perceived Stress During the Pandemic on Career-Related Coping Efficacy and Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Beliefs Among Trainees in the Helping Professions |
Zuhra Abawi | Education | Power and Privilege: Troubling the Racialized Relationship between Early Childhood Educators and Teachers in Ontario. |
Dennis Nsafoah | Finance and Economics | International Spillovers of Conventional versus New Monetary Policy |
Kilho Shin | Management | Managerial Temporal Disposition, Decision Making Style, and Firm Growth: The Case of Entrepreneurs |
Krieg Tidemann (CCTL) | Economics and Finance | Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Small Study Groups within Introductory Economics Classes |
Abigail Levin | Philosophy | What Do Parents Using Donor Conception Owe to Their Children? |
Ajitpaul Mangat | English | Pitchfork and the Making of “Indie Rap” |
Daniel Pinti | English | Play It Forward: Allusion, Improvisation, and the Lyrics of Robert Hunter |
Judith Merkle | Religious Studies | Toward the Future of Religious Congregations: Insights from Environmental Studies |
Robert St. Hilaire | Religious Studies | Finding God in Elfland |
Joel Louwsma | Mathematics | Milnor Forms of Algebraic Singularities |
Peder Thompson | Mathematics | Categorical and Higher Dimensional Intersection Theory |
Michael Cassidy | Criminal Justice | Examining Interjudge Punishment Disparities in Sentencing Departure Decisions |
Sevsem Cicek-Okay | Sociology | Does Spatial Assimilation Work for Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in the United States? |
Talia Harmon | Criminal Justice | Insanity is Smashing Up Against My Soul: An Empirical Analysis of Panetti Claims |
Summer 2020
Dr. Alexander Bertland
Poverty, Bare Life and The Spectacle: Giorgio Agamben on Guy Debord
Dr. Patricia Briscoe
How to Build a Community Leadership Group Plan an Area of Poverty
Dr. Kenneth Culton
On the Big Questions: How Young People Develop and Navigate Religious and Non-Religious Identities in a Denominational School Setting
Dr. Michael Durfee
STOP Mass Incarceration: S.T.O.P. and the Olympic Village Prison of 1980
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Women and Islamic Law in Central Asia
Dr. Talia Harmon
The Impact of Teacher Method of Delivery and the Marshall Hypothesis (CCTL Award)
Dr. Chang Huh
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship between Electronic Textbook Use and Computer Self-Efficacy: A Case of Students in Higher Education
Dr. Joel Louwsma
Arithmetical Structures on Graphs
Dr. Bridget Moriarty
Student Experiences and Perceptions of Voice Use in BFA Performance Programs
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Paneling Without Walls: Narrating Immigration and the Border in Comics
Dr. Shannon Risk
U.S. Women and the 1873 Financial Panic
Summer 2019
Dr. Michael Barnwell
How to Use Philosophy to Find Meaning at Work
Dr. Michael Cassidy
Analyzing the Influence of Judges’ Caseloads on Sentencing Outcomes for Drug and Sex offenders
Dr. Philip Collington
"An Enemy to Life": Attitudes toward Melancholia in Shakespearean Comedy
Dr. Virginia Glazier
Characterization of the Telomere-Associated Gene, TL010, in Candida Albicans
Dr. Robyn Goacher
ToF-SIMS Analysis of the Distribution of P-Hydroxybenzoate in Wood
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Islamic Law and Reform in Central Asia
Dr. Chang Huh
A Model of Factors that Influence Seasonal Employees to Return to the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
Dr. James Kling
Raising the profile of Inventory Accuracy in Supply Chain Management Education: A Content Analysis of Textbooks, Practitioner Publications, Syllabi, Professional Development Programs, and Scholarly Research
Dr. Dana Radatz
Criminogenic Needs: Domestic Violence, Recidivism, and ODARA
Dr. Steve Petersen
Explanations as Patterns
Dr. John Stranges
Robert Moses on the Niagara Frontier: Design, Technology, and the Public Good
Dr. Hai Ta
Shareholder Litigation and Earnings Management
Dr. Doug Tewksbury
The Mediaization of Pro-Pollution Culture through Rolling-Coal Videos and User Generated Media
Dr. Feifei Wang
Fundamental Stock Values and Macroeconomic Factors
Summer 2018
Dr. Alex Bertland
Machiavelli, Paolo Mattia Doria and Politics in the Neapolitan Enlightenment
Dr. William Edwards
Understanding the link of Invasive Zebra Mussels through Hydrodynamics to Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics
Dr. Todd Inouye
Does an Internal, Government-Wide Glass Ceiling Have and External Effect on Women Technology Entrepreneurs?
Dr. Abigail Levin
Ethical Considerations in the Use of Mindfulness Practices in Psychotherapy
Dr. Cassandra Marnocha
Sulfur Metabolism of Acidithiobacillus spp. from an Extremely Acidic Spring
Dr. Esteban Mayorga
Galapagos Origin: Imaginarios de Evolucion Textual en las Islas Encantadas
Dr. Judith Merkle
Charles Taylor, Secularity and the Modern Self: Implications for Christian Discipleship
Dr. Steve Petersen
Machines Learning Values
Dr. Victor Pimentel
Impact of Simultaneous Overbooking-Allocation on Explicit Revenue Management Methods for Hotel Environment
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Superheroic Haunts: Nostalgia in Black Hammer
Dr. Dana Radatz
Domestic Violence Offenders, Criminogenic Needs, and Recidivism
Dr. Carrie Teresa
"Re-stup-redicu-lame": How culture Wars Rock Heavy Metal Music in the Trump Era
Dr. Doug Tewksbury
Theorizing Creative Labor and the Information Economy
Dr. Stefanie Wichhart
Britain Egypt, and Iraq during World War II: Competing Visions for the Post-War Middle East, 1943-1945
Summer 2017
Dr. Michael Barnwell
Why Can’t He Get a Second Chance: Anselm and the Devil
Dr. Jennifer Beebe
Addressing the Need for Trauma Education in Counselor Education Programs
Dr. Jamie Carr
Composing Niagara: A Literary Tour of the Falls
Dr. Michael Cassidy
Examining the Correlates of Sentence Severity for Low-Level White-Collar Crime Offenders
Dr. Thomas Chambers
George Washington and the Northern Campaigns of 1775-1777
Dr. Philip Collington
“My Prison Never Can be Call’d My Country”: Slavery, Métissage and Hybrid Identity in John Dennis’s Liberty Asserted (1704)
Dr. Amelia Gallagher
Sacred Niagara: A Comparison of Four Communities
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
From Abdulhamid II to Erdogan: Historical Roots of Authoritarianism in Turkey
Dr. Han Lei
Internal Control Components and Earnings Quality
Dr. Joel Louwsma
Defects of Quasimorphisms
Dr. Cassandra Marnocha
Microbial Biogeochemistry of Oak Orchard Acid Springs
Dr. Timothy Osberg
The Impact of Writing a Brief Essay Against the College Drinking Culture on Freshman Alcohol Consumption and Its Consequences
Dr. Donna Phillips
Developing Mindful Readers: A Toolbox for Reading Teachers
Dr. Dr. Daniel Pinti
Disability and Masculinity in Matt Fraction’s and David Aja’s Hawkeye
Dr. Carrie Teresa
Can Hillary Clinton “Win the Day”? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gendered News Frames in Battleground Coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Summer 2016
Dr. Sherri Cianca
STEM A Practical Guide to Unpacking, Teaching, and Assessing Common Core Standards. Heat.
Dr. Michelle Ciminelli
Supporting Children's Play: An Investigation of Local Playgrounds
Dr. Philip Collington
"Smiling at Grief": Envy in Twelfth Night
Dr. Michael Durfee
Crack Era Reform: Race, Rights, and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Reformist or Traditionalist? A Late Ottoman Muslim Intellectual: Babanzade Ahmed Naim
Dr. Talia Harmon
An Empirical Analysis of the Causes of the Astounding Decline in Death Sentences in the United States
Dr. Chang Huh
Examining the Dimensions of Quality in Hospitality Management Education: A Student Perspective
Dr. John Keller
Cause, Choice, and Chance
Dr. Abigail Levin
Close Encounters in Mediated Nature: The Life and Death of Cecil the Lion
Dr. Joel Louwsma
Stable Commutator Length in Surface Groups
Dr. Chad Mangum
Fermionic Representations of Twisted Toroidal Lie Algebras
Dr. Esteban Mayorga
A Journey to the Galapagos: the Rhetorical Genesis of Paradise
Dr. Anna McNab
Strategic Agility: A Framework for Strategic Planning Built For Competitive Business Using Agile Methods
Dr. Steve Petersen
Superintelligence as Superethical
Dr. Doug Tewksbury
Online-Offline Collaboration, Participation, and Community-Building in Cooperative Makerspaces
Summer 2015
Dr. Sherriann Cianca
Developing a Framework for Educative STEM Curriculum Design
Dr. Michelle Ciminelli
Learning with iPads: High School Students’ Perspectives
Dr. Kenneth Culton
Exploring the Prepper Community
Dr. Dennis Garland
Virtual Feedback of Behavior Specific Praise to Staff of a Special Needs Summer Camp
Dr. Talia Harmon
Post-Furhman Death Row Exonerations and Publicity in the News
Dr. Jinyan Huang
Fairly Assessing P-12 English Language Learners’ English Writing: Implications for Classroom Teachers and Policy Makers
Dr. John Keller
Semantic Anti-Realism
Dr. Abigail Levin, Dr. Jamie Carr, and Dr. Timothy Osberg
Mindfulness Practices in The First Year Seminar (received the CCTL grant)
Dr. Amanda Mangum
Using Self-Organizing Maps to Detect and Classify Atherosclerosis
Dr. Steve Petersen
Artificial intelligence and Information Theory
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Theology and Identity in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese
Dr. Hoontaek Seo
Customer-Supplier Relationship and the Cost of Debt Financing
Dr. Carrie Teresa
A Theoretical and Historiographic Inquiry into Black Press Celebrity Journalism
Dr. Doug Tewksbury
Sharing-Together, Being-Together: An Ethnographic Study of Ferguson Protesters’ Social and Mobile Media Uses
Dr. Yonghong Tong and Dr. Donna Thompson
Automatic Infant Eye Tracking System Development in Mobile Devices
Summer 2014
Dr. Michael Barnwell
Soul-Making Theodicy and Its Internal Contradiction
Dr. Corey Bower
Social Policy and the Achievement Gap
Dr. Jamie Carr
How the Sciences Saved Literature: What Happened to Literary Studies?
Dr. Diana Falco
Assessing Comparative and Study Abroad Offerings in Criminal Justice Programs
Dr. Mark Gallo
Molecular Characterization of Staphylococci Isolated from Whitetail Deer
Dr. Robyn Goacher
Analytical Techniques for Detecting Degradation of Cellulose in Wood.
Dr. Mustafa Gokcek
Historical Roots of the Rift Between Islamic Political and Social Movements: the Turkish Case
Dr. Leticia Hahn
Beliefs about Math, the CCSS and Classroom Practices: Path Analysis of a Mediation Model
Dr. Sean Hsu
Synthesizing Micro and Macro Dynamics of Industry Change Research
Dr. Jinyan Huang
Examining the Factors Directly Affecting EFL Students’ English Pragmatic Competence: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Dr. Robert Kane
Negotiating with Allies in Wartime: the 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement
Dr. Rachel Madsen
Gender Role Expectations and the Prevalence of Women as Assistant Coaches
Dr. Jimmy Smith
Understanding Sport Ministry from a Management Perspective
Dr. Stefanie Wichhart
Propaganda and Intelligence in Egypt and Iraq during World War II
Professor Douglas Zschiegner
Writing/Adapting a New Cyrano De Bergerac
2011-2013
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