The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2017-2018 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Fengxia Zhu
Monte Ahuja College of Business
Department of Marketing
$6,795.00

The power of brands: exploring the relationship between relative customer satisfaction, brand positioning strategy, and the performance of US consumer brands' performance in China

Irina Koukhanova
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Art
$7,500.00

The Contemporary Jester as Pied Piper of Hamelin

Cheryl Bracken
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Communication
$5,182.00

An Investigation of the Impact of Online News Affordances on Perceptions of Credibility

Cigdem Slankard
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Communication
$7,500.00

Dreamhood, A Documentary Film

Barbara Hoffman
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Criminology Anthropology & Sociology
$7,500.00

Historical Foundations of Innovations in Habitat and Culture Change in the West African City

Meghan Novisky
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Criminology Anthropology & Sociology
$5,822.93

Examining the Impact of Unmet Health-Related Needs and Exposure to Trauma during Incarceration on Ease of Reentry

Maksim Isakin; Phuong Ngo
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Economics
$7,435.00

Modeling Inflation: A New Approach

Adam Sonstegard
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of English
$1,830.00

The Grandissimes and the Tragic, Graphic Mulatta

Michael Baumgartner
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Music
$5,000.00

Music in Post-War European Cinema

Angelin Chang
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Music
$7,500.00

Merging and Emerging New Trends in Piano

Patricia Stoddard Dare
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Social Work
$7,475.00

Evaluation of SAFE PASSAGES, a Police-Assisted Addiction Recovery Initiative

Heba El Attar
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures
$4,575.00

Palestinian Chileans and Mass Media

Kelly Yu-Hsin Liao
College of Education and Human Services
Department of CASAL
$7,496.00

A Self-Compassion Writing Intervention to Reduce Internalized Racism among African American Students

Grace Huang; Eddie T.C. Lam
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Teacher Education;
Department of Health & Human Performance
$7,450.00

Qualitative Insights Into the Challenges of Parenting Practices among Asian Immigrant Families

Stephanie Ryberg-Webster
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Department of Urban Studies
$4,634.50

Restoring the Rustbelt: Histories of Historic Preservation in Cleveland, Ohio