FRC Grants Awarded

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Summer/Fall 2009 -- S pring 2009 -- Fall 2008 -- Spring 2008 -- Fall 2007

Fall/Spring 2009-2010
$15,542 requested, $13,643 awarded
70% of proposals were funded

Principal Investigator	Award Amount	Department	Project Title
Craig Conley	Research $5000	Natural Resources	Ecohydrological Characterization of Traditional Navajo Floodwater Garden Sites
Yongseek Kim	Travel $1200	Sports Administra- tion	Price Perception in the Selection of Golf Courses: a Case Study of Municipal Golf Courses in the City of Albuquerque
Peter Linder	Research $2200	History	Suscitándose Quejas Recíprocas: Labor, Social Conflict, and Politics in Cantón Zulia, Maracaibo, 1830-1858
Jennifer Lindline	Travel $1200	Natural Sciences	2 papers at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Abbas Manafy	Research $2000	Political Science	The United States Foreign Policy in Egypt: Theory vs. Practice
Michael Petronis	Travel $1200	Natural Sciences	2 papers at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Michael Petronis	25% Grant Release Time	Natural Sciences	CAREER: The Origin of Magnetic Fabrics and Their Relation to Rock Fabrics

Summer/Fall 2009
$19,536 requested, $16,857 awarded
100% of proposals were funded

Principal Investigator	Award Amount	Department	Project Title
Todd Christensen	Research $1971	Fine Arts	An Exploration of Subject Matter: Still Life, Portrait, Landscape
Dick Greene	Travel $1200	Biology	Arterial Distensibility in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Jean Hill	Research $2200	Behavioral Sciences	Cortisol Levels and Frontal Lobe Functioning During Depletion and Replenishment of Self-Regulatory Strength (continuation)
Mike Petronis	Research $3020	Natural Sciences	Emplacement Style and Fabric Development in Shallow Level Intrusions
Lori Rudolph	Research $2321	Education	Gender Dimensions of Conflict and Political Violence Among Palestinian Refugee Women: Trauma, Coping and Resilience (continuation, partial funding)
David Sammeth	Travel $1130	Chemistry	North American Luminescence Dating and Dosimetry Workshop
Verónica Saunero-Ward	Travel $1200	Humanities	Latin American Women's Writing and the Fantastic
Orit Tamir	Research $4015	Anthropology	Preserving Navajo Culture through Art - The Story of Victor Beck
Steven J. Williams	Research $2000	History	The Pope and the Philosopher: Gregory IX and the Study of Aristotle at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century

Spring 2009
$7,248 requested, $3,879 awarded
50% of proposals were funded

Principal Investigator	Award Amount	Department	Project Title
Tomas Corbin	Travel $1200	Humanities	Teaching Common Law in Uncommon Places: An Introductory Look at Two Programs and Courses Taught at Universidad Espiritu Santo and the University of Technology Papua New Guina
Lori Rudolph	Research $2679	Education	Gender Dimensions of Conflict and Political Violence Among Palestinian Refugee Women: Trauma, Coping and Resilience

Fall 2008
$39,392 requested, $24,176 awarded
69% of proposals were funded


Principal Investigator	Award Amount	Department	Project Title
Lourdes Bates	Travel $1200	Humanities	Immortal Matter: Word and image in Latin American Artists’ books
Jean Hill	Research $2200	Behavioral Sciences	Cortisol Levels and Frontal Lobe Functioning During Depletion and Replenishment of Self-Regulatory Strength
Warren K. Lail	Research $5000	Anthropology	Prehistoric Behavioral Regions in Northeastern New Mexico
Peter S. Linder	Research $2954	History	“Pasaron para no volver:” Elite Attitudes, Popular Culture, and Race, Class, and Gender Roles in nineteenth-century Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1830-1900”
Michael S. Petronis	Travel $1200	Natural Sciences	New paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of the NE rift-zone and associated landslide, Tenerife, Spain
Maura Pilotti	Research $3671	Behavioral Sciences	Habituation as a Diagnostic Measure of a Healthy Brain
Richard M. Plunkett	Research $5000	Biology	Isolation and Characterization of Pyridazine-Utilizing Environmental Bacteria
Kristie R. Ross	Research $2000	History	Reconstructing Women: The Woolsey Sisters After the War
Steven J. Williams	Travel $951	History	Roger Bacon in Context: Empiricism in the High Middle Ages

**Spring 2008**
$8,535 requested, $5,752 awarded
57% of proposals funded
Principal Investigator	Award Amount	Department	Project Title
Eddie Tafoya	Research $2131	Humanities	Stand-up’s Infancy: Saloons, Medicine Shows, Burlesque Halls, Walkathons and the Chitlin’ Circuit
Arlie Tagayuna	Travel $1200	Behavioral Sciences	Community Need Assessment for Las Vegas Juvenile Justice
Verónica Saunero-Ward	Travel $421	Humanities	Autografía fantástica de una mujer: Un studio psicoanalitico de la obra de Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz
Donna Woodford-Gormley	Research $2000	Humanities	“Oh Brave New World”: The Tempest in Cuba

Fall 2007
$35,142 requested, $16,290 awarded
44% of proposals funded


Principal Investigator	Award Amount	Department	Project Title
M. Helvenston C. Linder	Research $5000	Natural Sciences	Synthesis and Mouse Screening of Potential Cancer Drugs (Phase II)
Peter Linder	Research $1919	Humanities	Facing the ‘National Project’: Elite Attitudes about Race in nineteenth-century Venezuela, 1830-1990.
Jennifer Lindline	Travel $1113	Natural Sciences	The Petrogenesis of Turkey Mountain Dikes, Mora County, New Mexico and Their Relationship to Regional Magmatism
Michael Petronis	Travel $566	Natural Sciences	Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility and Petrologic data bearing on Exhumation of Precambrian Gneiss in Gallinas Canyon (abstract)
Winona Sorensen	Research $3431	Communications & Fine Arts	The Honeybee Project – A Documentary Film
Steven Williams	Research $1861	Humanities	Aristotle in the Medieval Classroom: Students, Teaching, and Educational Change in the Schools of Paris in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Ian Williamson	Research $2400	Behavioral Sciences	Developing the Chinese Big Five Website