The Office of Research would like to thank members of the University Research Council for their review of all 2013-2014 Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) proposals – and congratulate the following faculty members on their successful FSI proposals:

Cheryl Bracken
School of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,608.00

Examining the influence of age on attention, usability, enjoyment, and sensations of telepresence in mobile media contexts

Kathy Curnow
Department of Art
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,635.00

At Home in Africa: Pleasing Irregularity in Non-Industrial Design; funding for research and existing photos for a 200-page exhibition catalogue in print and interactive iBook formats

Heba El Attar
Department of Modern Languages
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,635.00

The Rising Eye: The Christian Palestinian Diaspora in Latin America

Karla Hamlen
Department of Curriculum and Foundations
College of Education and Human Services
$4,635.00

Learning from Problem-Solving Styles in Video Games and in Academics

Raymond Henry
Department of Computer and Information Science
Monte Ahuja College of Business
$4,250.00

The Role of Cognitive Effort in Technology Use

Jennifer Jeffers
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,537.40

Samuel Beckett and the Archival Event: Rewriting the Beckett Canon

Wendy Kellogg
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$4,635.00

Transforming Sustainability: Social Ecology of a Blue-Collar City and Its Region

James Marino
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,635.00

Hamlet Unzipped: Role-based Revision in Shakespeare’s Playhouse

Haifeng Qian
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$4,635.00

Labor Market Knowledge, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy

Stephanie Ryberg Webster
Department of Urban Studies
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
$4,635.00

Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and Urban Development: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Cities

Robert Shelton
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
$4,622.70

Cotton, Fruit, and the Reconfiguration of Space and Citizenship In Galveston, Texas, 1865-1900