Past Recipients

2023-2024

  • Paula Saunders, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Digitizing Historic Plantation Maps, Plans, and Indexes from Deed Records in Grenada, 1834-1910”
  • Amber Yiu-Hsuan Liao, Music and Art. “New York Premieres of Piano Works by Asian Female Composers”
  • Jamal Ali, Science. “Near Infrared Spectral Polarization Fluorescence (NIR-SPF) Imaging Techniques for Non-Destructive Detection of Early Corrosion Underneath Paint on Bridges and Airplanes”
  • Christina Oney, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Last Year’s Model: Body Image and Aging in Mature Models”
  • Shoba Bandi-Rao, Academic Literacy and Linguistics. “Cultural Cultivation of Silence in Discourse Among Malay and Indian Ethnic Groups in Singapore”
  • Owen Roberts, Media Arts and Technology. “Seven Spider Myths”
  • Khushmand Rajendran, “Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Need for services among community college students with varying levels of inattention/hyperactivity and its impact on academic success”
  • Rochelle Rives, English. “The New Physiognomy: Face, Form and Modern Expression”
  • Man Wai Alice Lun, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “A review of resilience factors on young adult family caregivers of frail older adults”
  • Ling Luo, Modern Languages. “The Impact of Christian Universities on the Development of Higher Education in China: An Analysis of Localized Reform Processes and Results”
  • Henry Bulley, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Implications of Water Quality Complaints and Social Justice in New York City”
  • Lina Wu, Mathematics. “Energy Technical Breakthroughs for Sub-Solutions and Super-Solutions to A-Harmonic Equations with Applications to Biharmonic Maps on Curved Manifolds”

2021-2022

  • Judith Anderson, Ethnic and Race Studies. “Searching for Black People in a White Nation: Recovering the Archives of Black Activism in late 20th and early 21st Century Argentina”
  • C Ray Borck, Social Sciences. “Privileging Dysphoria: Medicalization and the Production of Transnormative Masculinities”
  • Sarah Madole Lewis, Music and Art. “The Use of the Moon and Star Motif on the Tombstones of Rome’s Elite Warriors”
  • Cara O’Connor, Social Sciences. “From Ambivalence to Clarity – Learning with philosophy students to think beyond the absolute/relative poverty divide”
  • Jessica Ramirez, Music and Art. “Self-Portrait: Identity through Chromadepth Tapestry
  • Lisa Sarti, Modern Languages. “Pirandello on Screen (1985-2020)”
  • Francisca Suarez-Coalla, Modern Languages. “Figueras: Remembrance of a Concentration Camp during the Franco Regime”
  • Terttu Uibopuu, Music and Art. “The Smile of an Alligator short film production”
  • Chiaki Yanagisawa, Science. “Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Artificial Intelligence”

2019-2020

  • Quentin Angus, Music and Art. “Arpeggios for Guitar: An Online Masterclass, Book and Lecture Presentation”
  • Joe Bisz, English. “Pedagogical Website for Teacher Professional Development (companion to book on game based learning)”
  • Jennifer B. Delfino, Academic Literacy and Linguistics. “Language and the Production of Race Among African American Children (Book completion)”
  • Jennifer Gilken, Teacher Education. “Infant-Toddler Teacher or Babysitter? The Role of Fieldwork in Developing Teacher Identity in Preservice Infant-Toddler Teachers”
  • Sarah Haviland, Music and Art. “Sculptural Migration: A Caravan of Cross-Cultural Bird-Figures” (invited for exhibition)
  • Christine M. Jacknick, Academic Literacy and Linguistics. “How Do Personal Electronic Devices Affect Student Engagement in Classroom Interaction?”
  • Adele Kudish, English. “‘Everything Must Be Paid For’: Women, Money, and Clothes in Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing and Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark”
  • Sophie Marinez, Modern Languages. “On Comegentes and Other Monsters in Dominican National Narratives (1791-1989)”
  • Siobhan McBride, Music and Art. “Korean Adoption Narrative: Portraits”
  • Agustin McCarthy, Media Arts and Technology. “They, Them & Theirs: Life Outside the Gender Binary”
  • Soniya Munshi, Social Science. “Genealogies of Public Health”
  • M George Stevenson, Media Arts and Technology. “Adapting Dawn Powell’s My Home is Far Away as an Audio Podcast (based on already written screenplay adaptation)”
  • Hao Tang, Computer Information Systems.
  • Hong Yuan, Mathematics. “Insights on Shanghai In-Service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Acquisition of Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Case Study”

2018-2019

  • Silvia Alvarez-Olarra, Modern Languages. “The Mexican Female Gaze: Experiments in Poetic Documentary”
  • Carlos Chaparro, Science. “Exploration of Critical Current Enhancement in Unconventional Superconductors”
  • Rebecca Garte, Teacher Education. “Community College Students of Key Psychological Constructs: a Within Culture Exploration”
  • Leigh Laberge, English. “The Effective Turn: Reading American Culture Economically, from the Great Inflation to the Great Recession”
  • Man W. Lun, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “College Students’ Lived Experience on Family Caregiving for Older Adults”
  • Cara O’Connor, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “A Conception of Respect Suitable for Non-Rational Lives”
  • Jennifer Pastor, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Effect of Pranic Healing on the Egg Laying Function of the C. Elegans Mutant SMA-3”
  • Marjan Persuh, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Pupil Size as a Measure of Visual Awareness”
  • Jessica Ramirez, Music and Art. “Tejano [te.xano] (Spanish for “Texan”): Identity through Sculpture”
  • Rochelle Rives, English. “Reading the Contemporary”
  • Silvia Roig, Modern Languages. “A Translation from Catalan to Spanish of Vent de Grop by Aurora Bertrana”
  • Shruti Sharma, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Pollution Abatement”
  • Alejandro Varderi, Modern Languages. “De aquí y de allá (From Here and From There). A Novel in Spanish”
  • Eugenia Oi Yan, Yau Music and Art. “A Diversity and Inclusion Project—A CUNY Virtual Choir”

2017-2018

  • David Allen, Mathematics. “Topological Structures Hidden Within Music”
  • Shoba Bandi-Rao, Academic Literacy and Linguistics. “Using Prosodic Notations to Help Unskilled Readers Read Fluently”
  • Jose Fernandez Romero, Science. “Anti-HIV Synergy and Broad-Spectrum of Different combinations of HIV Entry Inhibitors”
  • Elizabeth Fow, English. “The Female Face of the Hero”
  • Matthew Geddis, Science. “Elucidating the Effects of Native Hawaiian Plants on Neuronal Differentiation, Regeneration and Modulation.”
  • Shirley Leyro, Social Sciences. “Vulnerability to Deportation as Legal Violence Inflicted Upon Non-Citizen Immigrants”
  • Sarah Madole, Music and Art. “An Attic Battle Sarcophagus from Roman Syria in its Context”
  • Sophie Marinez, MLD. “Haitian and Dominican Diasporas in the United States: A Comparative Approach”
  • Chris McCarthy, Mathematics. “Mathematical Models of Column Filters”
  • Michael McGee, Health Education. “Antecedents to Romantic Relationship Formation: The Role of Sexuality Education”
  • Abel E. Navarro, Science. “Primping Solid Wastes as Eco-Friendly Filters for the Bioremediation of Antibiotics from Wastewaters”
  • Kibrewossen Tesfagiorgis. “Investigation of location error in satellite preciptation estimates using a radar-gauge product”
  • Kristina Varade, MLD. “European-Arab Intersections: An Examination of Hospitality”
  • Nettie Christine Vinsonhaler, English. “The Bardic Beowulf: Performance, Translation, and Scholarship”
  • Elizabeth Whitney, Speech. “Dangerous Realities: Transnational Performances of Queer Community”
  • Lina Wu, Mathematics. “Solving Liouville-type Problems on Manifolds with Poincare-Sobolev Inequality by Broadening Finite q-energy to Infinite q-energy”
  • Meryam Zaman, Social Sciences. “Transforming Discourses: Sacred Stories, Islamic Authority and Women”

2016-2017

  • Ainoa Íñigo, MLD. “A Gender Perspective on 2666 by Roberto Bolaño”
  • Jungah Kim, English. “Teaching Asian American Literature in the Multicultural College Classroom”
  • Kwasi Konadu, Center for Ethnic Studies. “Making African in the Modern World: Slavery, Spirituality and Racial Ideology in the 16th Century”
  • Hao Tang, CIS. “Accurate Indoor 3D Model Generation by Integrating Architectural Floor Plan and RGBD Images”
  • Bertha Ferdman, Speech, Communication and Theatre Arts. “Theatre in the White Room: How Dramaturgy and Curatorial Practices are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts”
  • Leigh LaBerge, English. “The Campus Novel and the Work of the Humanities in the Financial University”
  • Charles Post, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “The War at Home in Akron: The Impact of Opposition to the No-Strike Pledge in the United Rubber Workers: 1940-1960”
  • Rochelle Rives, English. “California All the Way: Nathanael West and the Expression of Age”
  • Claire Wladis, Mathematics. “Validation of the Elementary Algebra Concept Inventory”
  • Erik Freas, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Research for Completing the Manuscript: Exclusivity of Holiness”
  • Yolanda Martin, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Prescription to Opiods (PTO) in the South Bronx: Behavioral Patterns and Intersectional Profiles – A Pilot Study”
  • Jamie Warren, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Rethinking the Politics of Antebellum Slave Funerals”

2015-2016

  • Silvia Álvarez-Olarra, MLD. “Temporality and Identity in a Slide Motion Film: The Case of ‘Año uña’ (2007)”
  • Valerie Thiers-Thiam, MLD. “Resilient Women in Francophone Literature Resilient Women in Francophone Literature”
  • Soniya Munshi, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “From Exception to Center: Carceral Feminisms, Immigration Enforcement and the Figure of the Immigrant Domestic Violence Victim-Survivor”
  • Marjan Persuh, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “The Role of Automatic Processes in Behavior”
  • Paula Saunders, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “The History and Economy of Dougaldston Estate in Grenada”
  • Egit Esin, “Generation 1980: Self and Subjectivity among Middle-Class Women in Istanbul, Turkey”
  • Timothy Keane, English. “Defining the Ecstatic Autobiography”
  • Elizabeth Wissinger, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “The Gendered Dimensions of Wearable Tech”
  • Roger Foster, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Finance, Neoliberalism and Social Character”
  • Christine Jacknick, Academic Literacy and Linguistics. “Space for Learning: Examining Classroom Discourse”
  • Sarah Haviland, Music and Art. “Conference of the Birds: A Walk-In Sculptural Aviary”
  • Chiaki Yanagisawa, Science. “Development of Image Analysis Method for Super-resolution Microscope”
  • Shanti Rywkin, Science. “Confocal Raman Microscopy Studies of the Interaction of Phenothiazine Coated Gold”
  • Sarah Salm, Science. “Isolation and Characterization of Heavy Metal Tolerant: Bacteria from Contaminated Water”
  • Mariya Komolova, Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice. “Adolescent Autonomy Development in Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union”