Join the Office of Academic Affairs in congratulating the faculty members who have secured grants and fellowships to further their research and scholarship endeavors.

2019-20 Student Success Grants

• Jennifer Greenburg (Fine Arts) – “Digital Photography and Video Equipment for Classes in the School of the Arts”
• Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford (Fine Arts) and Jonathyne Briggs (History) – “Center for Rustbelt Futures”
• Crystal Shannon (Nursing) – “Impact of Simulated Nursing Response Activities on Improved Student Learning”

2019-20 Summer Faculty Fellowships

• Yllka Azemi (Business) – “The Automated Customer Relationship Model (CRM) for Businesses in Gary: Attracting Lifelong Customers”
• Anita Benna (Education) – “Sustained Professional Development for Urban Kindergarten Teachers Implementing Problem-Based Learning Tied to Engineering Design's Component STEM Teaching and Learning Throughout One Year”
• Jenny Fisher (Biology) – “Analysis of Antibiotic Resistant Plasmids from Human, Animal and Environmental Sources” – postponed upon request until Summer 2021
• Katherine Gustafson (English) – “Novel Marketing, Novel Writing, and the Development of the Adolescent, 1740-1815”
• Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford (Fine Arts) – “League of Nations”
• Patrick Michael Johnson (Communication) – “Invisible Heterosexuality: The Perceived Politicalness of LGBTQ characters in the CW's Arrowverse”
• Glenn Lauzon (Education) – “Exploring the 'Higher Education' Origins of Vocational Education in Secondary Schools” – postponed upon request until Summer 2021
• Cara Lewis (English) – "Blind Spots and Holding Space: Teju Cole and the Art of Description"
• Chidiebele Constance Obichi (Nursing) – “Continuing a Program of Research at Indiana University Northwest”
• Margaret Pollak (Anthropology) – “Health Care in Native Chicago”
• Daniele Rosso (Mathematics) – “Exotic Partial Flag Varieties”
• Maureen Rutherford (Psychology) – “Early Life Cannabidiol (CBD) Exposure: Impact on the Physiological Stress Axis”

2019-20 Grants-in-Aid of Research Awardees

• Karl Besel (School of Public and Environmental Affairs) – “Nonprofit Sustainability During Times of Uncertainty Revisited”
• Jenny Fisher (Biology) – “Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance”
• Jennifer Greenburg (Fine Arts) – “Revising History & Colored Stories”
• Glenn Lauzon (Education) – “Exploring the 'Higher Education' origins of Vocational Education in Secondary Schools”
• Hannah Lee (Psychology) – “Personality and Health Study”
• Cara Lewis (English) – “Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism”
• Eva Mendieta (Spanish) – “Loud, Scandalous, and Disruptive Speech as the Target of Early Modern Insults”
• Margaret Pollak (Anthropology) – “Health Care in Native Chicago”
• Daniele Rosso (Mathematics) – “Exotic Partial Flag Varieties”
• Maureen Rutherford (Psychology) – “Early Life Cannabidiol (CBD) Exposure: Impact on the Physiological Stress Axis”

2019-20 Trustees’ Teaching Award

• Vesna Balac (Radiologic Sciences)
• Chae Young Chang (School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
• Garin Cycholl (English)
• Hannah Lee (Psychology)
• Tin-Chun Lin (Economics)
• David Parnell (History)
• Sharon Pratt (Education)
• Dorinda Sattler (Health Information Management)
• Jie Wang (Computer Information Systems)