Previous Internal Grant Recipients
Cullen Grants
2013
| Dr. Frederick D. Aquino - The Epistemology of Theology |
| Mr. Jack Maxwell - Figurative Monumental Sculpture, the Creative Process and 3D Concept Design/Visualization Within a Digital Environment |
| Dr. Jason Morris - Examining Mattering, Spiritual Mattering, and First-Year Retention at a Private Religiously-Affiliated Institution of Higher Education |
| Dr. Rick Piersall - A world premiere of the music drama A New Nation |
2012
| Suanna Davis - Bringing the Classroom to the iBook |
| Ryan Jessup - Uncovering Factors Contributing to Gambler’s Fallacy Behavior |
| Steve/Alan Wages - An Evaluative Study of the Potential Impact of Curricular and Co-curricular Modalities of Learning on the Marital Readiness and Stability of College Study |
| Richard Beck - The Addictions of Connectivity: Psychological Correlates of iPhone and Facebook Usage |
| Penya/Macalusco/Bailey - Gender Role Attitudes in Religious Contexts Scale |
| Sara Blakeslee - Taking the Plunge: Using Experiential Methods on the Journey Toward Cultural Competency |
| Orneita Burton - Personal excellence: A Guide to Teaching & Mentoring African American students in Christian Education |
| Jeff Childers - The Aramaic Gospel for Today in Linear Syriac Matthew |
| Kenneth Jones - Art in the Age of Digital Representation |
2010 | Fredrick Aquino - The Philokalia and Regulative Virtue Epistemology |
| Caron Gentry - Beyond Complicity |
| Lloyd Goldsmith - The Principal’s Guide to Curriculum Leadership |
| Robert Green - Journeys |
| Jason Morris - Narratives from High Achieving Roma: Unlocking Success from Romani College Attending Students |
| Dan McGregor - Digital Storytelling: An Exploration of Painter X Software for Experimental Sequential Art |
| Paul Wertheim - Evidence on Cross-Sectional Differences in Auditor Conservatism Following Sarbanes- Oxley |
2009 | Terry Baggs - Joint study between Abilene Christian University and Arkansas State University looking at the personality temperament type of university students |
| Neal Coates - The successful attempt to implement a preschool E.S.L. program during cultural shift in Zambia's Kaonde Tribe |
| Robert Green - Five paintings that combine the esthetic flavor of Chinese landscape paintings on silk with the visual vocabulary of maps and mapmaking |
| Sheila Jones - The nutritional status of the children of South Nias, the efficacy of a children's feeding program, and the nutritional value of the local foods commonly eaten |
| Fortune Mhlanga - The development of a questionnaire aimed at establishing the status of the information technology sector in Abilene |
| Brad Reid - The importance of a public-private partnership when it comes to the growing demands of Elder care |
| Jennifer Shewmaker - Developing a new understanding of the psychological implications of giftedness and their relationship to parenting style |
| Paul Wertheim - Research submitted to the American Accounting Association to present at annual meeting |
2008
| Terry Baggs - Personality Type and Clinical Performance of Students in Speech-Language Pathology |
| Neal Coates - It Takes a Mumena Village: Implementing a Preschool E.S.L. Program During Cultural Shift in Ziambia's Kaonde Tribe |
Robert Green - Paintings in the Language of Maps |
| Richard Beck - Defensive versus Existential Religion: Is Religious Defensiveness Predictive of Worldview Defense? |
| Jamie Goff - Sexual Satisfaction: The Impact of Differentiation of Self and Spirituality |
| Sheila Jones - The Nutritional Status of Children in South Nias |
| Robert McKelvain |
Fortune Mhlanga - Survey of the Abilene Information Technology Industry: Responding to the "Re-Invent Abilene Initiative" |
| Brad Reid - Elder Care: A Private-Public Partnership |
| Jennifer Shewmaker - The Relationship of Perfectionism and Affective Variables to Parenting Style in Gifted Students |
Paul Wertheim - Measuring the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Has Increased Auditor Independence Really Led to Increased Audit Effectiveness? |
2007 | Fred Aquino - Thick and Thin: Personal and Communal Dimensions of Communicating Faith |
| Richard Beck - Why Have You Forsaken Me? : The Psychometrics of Lament |
| Jeff Childers - Humility, Knowledge, and Scholarships in Liber Graduum |
| Chris Flanders - Thai Conversion Narratives |
| Lloyd Goldsmith - Insights for Principals on School Personnel |
| Mark Hamilton - Justice as Practice: New Perspectives on Ancient Israel’s Pursuit of Equity |
| Monty Lynn - Faith at Work Scale: Measuring Vocational Belief and Practice |
| Jack Maxwell - The Dreamer of Jacob: 4 Centuries of Biblical Imagery Reinterpreted Through Digital Collage |
| John Neill - International Accounting Codes of Ethics: A Content Analysis |
| Ronnie Rama - Participation in Archeological Expedition to Khirbet Iskander (Jordan) as Site Architect (May 31-July 6, 2007) |
| Brad Reid - An Overview of Conservative Christian Religious Cultural Norms and Law |
| Olin Scott Stovall - Institutional Impediments to Voluntary Ethics Measurement Systems: An International Perspective |
| Jeff Wherry - Psychological Screening of Children Referred to Child Protective Services |
2006 | Fred Aquino - The Natural State of the Intellect: A Virtue Epistemology of Spirituality |
| Richard Beck - Losing Faith: Attachment to God, Quest, and Apostasy |
| Donna Gee - A Discourse Analysis of Policy Makers’ Beliefs Toward Quality Teaching |
| Kenneth Jones - Kinetic Sculpture |
| Monty Lynn - Abilene and West Central Texas Economic Data and Analysis Website |
| Dan McGregor - Innovations in Narrative Painting |
| John D. Neill - Recent SEC Rules to Increase Independence in the Mutual Fund Industry:Are They Effective? |
| Mark Phillips - The Corporate Blame Game |
| Brad Reid - Tasting the Tree of Life: Postmortem Reproduction, Publicity, and Dynasty Trusts |
| Edward Robinson - The Essential Writings and Speeches of Marshall Keeble |
| Tracy Shilcutt - First Link in the Life-chain: Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-1945 |
| Shaitaisha Winston - An Investigation into Factors Contributing to African-American Students’ Matriculation into the Completion of Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Programs |
2005 | Fred Aquino - John Henry Newman’s Idea of Practical Wisdom |
| Jeff Childers - Introduction to the Life of Porphyry of Gaza |
| David Dillman - Deconstructing Boundaries: The Journey from “Next Steps” to “Delivery and Values” in the British Senior Civil Service |
| Douglas Foster - Raising White Consciousness of White Privilege: A Beginning Curriculum for the Abilene Christian University Community |
| Donna Gee - Seeking Evidence of “Quality” Teacher Preparation |
| Robert Green - Creation of Conceptual/Expressive Paintings on Maps |
| Waymon Hinson - African American Farmers: Stories of Discrimination |
| John Neill - An Investigation of Ethics Officer Independence |
| Lynette Sharp Penya - When Less is More: An Investigation of the Effect of Message Detail on Counterfactuals, Causal Attributions, and Organizational Reputation |
| Scott Perkins - The Relation of Early-Treatment Estimates of Therapeutic Alliance to Client and Therapist Ratings of Psychotherapy Outcome: An Exploratory Study |
| Brent Reeves - Educational Technology Support for Student Assignments |
2004 | Richard Beck - The Function of Religious Belief: Defensive versus Existential Religion |
| Adam Hester - Acts of Faith – Duet Scenes by Playwrights of Faith |
| David Perkins - Does Character Matter? |
| Scott Perkins - Exploring the Relationship Between Hopelessness and Suicidal Ideation Among College Student Seeking Treatment |
| Brad Reid - The Tension Between Private Property and Public Purpose |
| Gregory Straughn - Sci-Fi Themes in a World after Beethoven |
| Jerry Whitworth - An Analysis of the Effectiveness of a Preparation Lab on the Certification Test Performance of Undergraduate Teacher Education Students |
2003 | Richard Beck - Depression and Anxiety: The Integration of the Tripartite and Cognitive Content-Specificty Models |
| Jackie Halstead - The Question of Gender: Examining the Dynamics Unique to Female Faculty at Christian Universities |
| Mark Hamilton - "Deuteronomy” in the Restoration Bible Commentary |
| John Neill - Cross-Sectional Differences in the Probability of Bankruptcy and Firm Value |
| William Rankin - “This is very Goddus Body”: Surface, Sententia, and Incarnationalism in Wycliffite Hermeneutics |
| Brad Reid - What is an Adequate Legal and Ethical Response to Enron? |
| Paul Wertheim - Is Arthur Andersen Alone?: A Study of Differences Among Audit Firms in the Failure to Issue Going Concern Audit Opinions for Companies Declaring Bankruptcy |
| Debbie Williams - Protean Pedagogy: Making Effective Choices in Teaching |
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Math-Science Grants
2013
| Dr. Joshua Brokaw - Genetic Barcoding and Rare Species: Mentzelia monoensis |
| Dr. Timothy Head - Investigation of phonon-quasiparticle scattering in superconducting tin using phonon-imaging |
| Dr. Bruce R. Hopkins - Distributed Drug Discovery: Medical Chemistry Research and Education |
| Dr. Michael Nicodemus - Carnivore Populations on Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas |
| Dr. Xu Qiang - The Study of Wolbachia Association in Horn Flies |
2012
| Jennifer Huddleston - Investigation of genes responsible for natural genetic transformation of members of the bacterial genus Aeromonas |
| Josh Brokaw - Efficacy of Bioremediation in Native Grassland Communities |
| Sarah Lee - Discovering new regulators of transcription |
| Qiang Xu - Cloning and Characterization of CYP450 Genes from Horn Flies |
| Tim Head - Investigation of AIN/Si delamination using phonon-imaging |
2010 | Timothy Head - A Feasibility Study of Phonon Imaging in Superconducting Tin (Sn) |
| Florah Mhlanga - Effects of supplementing a basal diet of Sorghum Bicolor hay with one of three tropical legumes (Lablab purpureus, Vigna unguiculata and Vigna radiata) on nutritional parameters of growing goats |
| Gregory Powell - Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Osmium Clusters |
| Michael Sadler - Partial Wave Analysis of Pion-Nucleon Scattering Data in the N*(1440) Resonance Region |
| Joshua Willis - Efficient Calculation of Generalized Hypergeometric Functions and Applications to Lorentzian 6J and 10J Symbols |
| Qiang Xu - Molecular Mechanisms of Pyrethroid Resistance in Texas Mosquito Strain of Culex Quinquefasciatus |
2009
| Timothy Head - Acquiring and assembling a phonon-imaging apparatus |
| Greg Powell - Eleven weeks of full time
work on analyzing the Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Transition Metal Clusters |
| Qiang Xu - Collection of many Culex mosquitoes from a number of Texas counties |
2008 | Timothy Head - A Feasibility Study of Phonon Imaging in Superconducting Tin(Sn) |
| Tom Lee - Mammal Faunal Analysis of Santa Anna and the Dry Forest of Ecuador |
| Greg Powell - Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Transition Metal Clusters |
| Autumn Sutherlin - The Effect of Double Mutations of Serine 308 and Alanine 110 of 3-Hydroxyl-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Synthase |
| Josh Willis - Efficient Algorithms for Lorentzian 10J Symbols and SL(2,C) Recoupling |
| Qiang Xu - Insecticide Resistance in Texas Strains of Culex Mosquitoes |
2007 | Alexander Karabegov - Index Theorem for Deformation Quantization with Separation of Variables |
| Tom Lee - Mammal Faunal Analysis of Volcan Sumaco, Ecuador |
| Tom Pirtle - Second Messenger Systems Mediating Cellular Changes During Swim Control in Clione limacine |
| Josh Willis - Developing Efficient Algorithms for Lorentzian 10J Symbols |
2006 | Kent Gallaher - Utilization of Composted Manure for Improving Sweet Corn Yield |
| Tom Pirtle - The Role of Cyclic Nucleotides in Regulating Locomotion of Clione limacine |
| Autumn Sutherlin - Effects of A110G HMG-CoA Synthase |
2005 | Kent Gallaher - Effects of Composted Cattle Manure on Sweet Corn Yield and Soil Properties |
| Jason Holland - On Equivalences to the Boolean Prime Ideal Theorem |
| Thomas E. Lee, Jr. - Biogeography of the Mammals in Ecuador |
| Thomas J. Pirtle - Neuronal Control of Nematocyst Discharge in Aeolid Nudibranch Mollusks |
| Autumn Sutherlin - Mutagenesis of the Active Site Residues of Enterrococcus faecalis HMG-CoA Synthase |
2004 | Brian T. Cavitt - Radiation Induced Photocycloaddition of Isopropylthioxanthone and Maleic Anhydride |
| Jason Holland - On an Embedding Problem in Lattice Theory |
| Alexander Karabegov - Formal Symplectic Groupoid for Deformation Quantization with Separation of Variables |
| Autumn Sutherlin - Mutagenesis of the Active Site Residues of Enterrococcus faecalis HMG-CoA Synthase |
2003 | Brain Cavitt - Photochemical Characterization of Ferrocene-Alkyl Halide Charge Transfer Complexes and Derivatives Thereof and their Potential Use as Photoinitiators |
| Alexander Karabegov - Intrinsic Description of Almost-Kahler Deformation Quantizations |
| Thomas E. Lee - Survey of Rodents in the Tandayapa Valley region Ecuador |
| Rusty Towell - The Structure of the Nucleon and Investigations of Quark Matter |
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Aging Studies Grants
2012
| Matt Garver - The K.N.O.W study. Knowledge Not Operationalized, Why? Is Exercise-Related Knowledge Predictive of Functional Ability and Fitness in Older Adults? |
| Carisse Berryhill - Pruett Fellows Oral History Project |
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Undergraduate Research Grants
2012
| Joshua Willis - Development of Advance-Detector Era Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Tools |
| Jennifer Huddleston - Investigation of genes responsible for natural genetic transformation of members of the bacterial genus Aeromonas |
| Josh Brokaw - Efficacy of Bioremediation in Native Grassland Communities |
| Sheila Delony - The role of reading response in elementary classrooms: A comparative case study |
| Sarah Lee - Revealing new players in the regulation of transcription |
| Suanna Davis - A Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Campaign Coverage in Media Online |
| Jennifer Shewmaker - Media Use and Attitudes Among Children and Adolescents |
| Qiang Xu - Cloning and Characterization of CYP450 Genes from Horn Flies |
| Ryan Jessup - Uncovering Factors Contributing to Gambler’s Fallacy Behavior |
| Matt Garver - Electrocardiographic Determination of Cardiovascular Responses to simulated Altitude Hypoxia |
| Tim Head - Investigation of AIN/Si delamination using phonon-imaging |
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Pursuit Grants
2012
| Joshua Willis - Development of Advance-Detector Era Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Tools |
| Jennifer Huddleston - Investigation of genes responsible for natural genetic transformation of members of the bacterial genus Aeromonas |
| Rick Piersall - Apprentice/Master Learning in a Global Professional Opera Setting. |
| Josh Brokaw - Efficacy of Bioremediation in Native Grassland Communities |
| Mikee Delony - Case Study on the Implementation of the Invented Classroom Teaching Approach in a sophomore English class |
| Sheila Delony - The role of reading response in elementary classrooms: A comparative case study |
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