What is the Summer Research /Publication Fellowship Program?
The Summer Research/Publication Fellowship Program at Canisius College exists to contribute to the professional development of the faculty, particularly in the area of research and/or publication. The funding of the application must be based on the mutual benefit to the individual faculty member and to the college. The fellowships are not intended to fund course preparation and curriculum development. Regulations regarding these fellowships are found in the current Faculty Handbook, 2007 Chapter 7 Section B.
This program is open to full-time faculty members who have completed at least two academic years of full-time service at Canisius College. Two summers must elapse between the awarding of one fellowship and that of another. Thus, a faculty member who received a summer fellowship for 2007 would not be eligible for another fellowship until the summer of 2010.
The Fellowship program is competitive.
Evaluation Criteria for Summer Research/Publication Fellowships
Intellectual merit – up to 40 points
How important is the proposed activity to advancing knowledge and understanding within its own field or across different fields? To what extent does the proposed activity suggest and explore creative and original concepts? How well conceived and organized is the proposed activity? Is there sufficient access to the necessary resources?
Clarity of presentation - up to 25 points
Past record of scholarly publication – up to 10 points
Probability of completion of the project within one year – up to 10 points
Dean’s Recommendation – up to 10 points
Chair’s Evaluation – up to 5 points
The maximum score for the proposal is 100 points.
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Michael Dolan, MA, ATC, CSCS Professor of Sports Medicine "Effects of High Voltage Pulsed Current on Balance" | |
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Timothy Gregg, PhD Assistant Professor of Chemistry/Biochemistry "Investigating the Effects of Substituents on Allene Cyclopropanation Rate" | |
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Leonid Khinkis, PhD Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics "Further Development of a Novel Statistical Methadology for Nonlinear Least Squares Regression" | |
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Jamie O'Neil Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts "Integration of Digital Media into Live Performance" | |
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Nancy Rourke, PhD Assistant Professor of Religious Studies & Theology "A Christian Enviromental Virtue Ethic: Retrieving Neglected Elements of Catholic Theology" | |
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Howard Stanger, PhD Associate Professor of Management & Marketing "The Intersection of Business and Play: Industrial Recreation in the Larkin Company, 1900-1930" |
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Corinne Kindzierski, PhD & Nancy Wallace, PhD Associate Professors of Education "The Reflector's Club: An Inquiry Based Professional Learning Community" | ||
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Jonathan DiCicco, PhD Assistant Professor of Political Science "War, Rivalries, and Third Parties" |
2009 Winners
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Debra Burhans, PhD Associate Professor of Computer Science/Director of Bioinformatics Program "The Hypothesis Set Representation for Biomedical Articles" | |
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Michael Gent, PhD Professor of Management/Marketing "National Survey: The Impact of Religion on Public Life in El Salvadore" | |
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Robert Grebenok, PhD Professor of Biology "The generation and selection of transgenic plants that contain altered sterol structures" | |
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Marjorie Harrington, PhD Associate Professor of Deaf Education "A Follow-Up Study of School Readiness Factors and Later School Achievement in a Group of Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing" | |
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John Kalb, PhD Associate Professor of Biology "The role of the intestinal-specific transcription factor ELT-2 in the control of genes involved in lipid metabolism and aging/longevity in the nematode C. elegans" | |
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Sara Morris, PhD Professor of Biology "Effects of audiolures on captire of Northern Saw-whet Owls" | |
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Harvey Pines, PhD Professor of Psychology "Situated Cognition and the Material Self" | |
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Nancy Rosenbloom, PhD Professor of History "From Greenwich Village to Hollywood: The Unscripted Life of Sonya Levien (1888-1960)." | |
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Kenneth Sroka, PhD Professor of English "Angles and Insects in Selected Twentieth-Century Literature and Film" |
2008 Winners
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Susan Aronica, PhD Associate Professor of Biology "Breast Cancer Metastasis: Exploring the Chemokine/Integrin Connection" | |
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George Boger, PhD Professor of Philosophy "Aristotle's ancient underlying logic - translating Prior Analytics A1-2, A4-6, A7, A23" | |
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Keith Burich, PhD Professor of History "Conceived in Hope, Born in Despair: The Thomas Indian School and the "Forgotten" Indian Children of NY" | |
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Robert Butler, PhD Professor of English "Richard Wright's Uses of His Religious Background in Uncle Tom's Children and Collected Haiku Poems" | |
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Kristin Finn, PhD Associate Professor of Adolescence Education "Adolescent Misbehavior in School" | |
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Judith Larkin, PhD Professor of Psychology "A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Understanding Student Retention" | |
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Ronald Rivas, PhD Associate Professor of Management and Marketing "A Study of Corporate Rejuvenation in the Global Biomedical and Genetics Industry: The Role of Speed Entry and Speed of Accumulation of Resources" | |
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Philip Sheridan, PhD Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry "Continuing Construction of a Molecular Jet/Laser Ablation Spectrometer for Studying Metal Containing Molecules" | |
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Steven Szczepankiewicz, PhD Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry "Light-Activated Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide" | |
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Timothy Wadkins, PhD Professor of Religious Studies and Theology |
2007 Winners
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M. Fernanda Astiz, PhD Assistant Professor of Adolescence Education "Education for Citizenship. An International and Comparative Perspective." | |
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Rene A. De La Pedraja, PhD Professor of History "The Insurgency in Venezuela, 1960-1980: Reasons for its Defeat and Permanent Disappearance" | |
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Michael G. Dolan, MA, ATC, CSCS Professor of Sports Medicine "Effects of analgesic balms on pain and function following delayed onset muscle soreness." | |
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Guy H. Gessner, PhD Associate Professor of Management and Marketing | |
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Raymond W. Vegso, PhD Associate Professor of Management and Marketing | |
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Linda A. Volonino, PhD Professor of Information Systems "Development of Assurance of Learning Assessment Tools for Busniess Ethics" | |
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Marya Grande, PhD Assistant Professor of Education "The Effectiveness of the 6+1 Traits of Writing on the Writing Performance of At-Risk Students in Urban Schools" |