Cullen and Math-Science Grant Recipients

2008 Cullen Grants


-Terry Baggs:            Personality Type and Clinical Performance of Students in

                                  Speech-Language Pathology

-Neil 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?


2008 Math-Science Grants



-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 Cullen Grants

 

-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

2007 Math/Science Grants

 

-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 Cullen Grants

 

-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

 

2006 Math/Science Grants

 

-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 Cullen Grants

 

-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

 

 

2005 Math/Science Grants

 

-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 Cullen Grants

 

-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

 

 

2004 Math/Science Grants

 

-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 Cullen Grants

 

-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

 

 

2003 Math/Science Grants

 

-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