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Vice President of Academic Administration, Dr. John Fleckles,
announced in June the recipients of $31,800 in grants awarded
for spring 2004 by the Trustees’ Scholarly Endeavors
Committee:
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· Dr. Brian Bozlee,
associate professor of chemistry, received $2500 in support
of a research project, “Measurement
of Dimethysulfide in Kane‘ohe Bay” that involves
a time series study in Kane‘ohe Bay and the surrounding
ocean. |
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| · Dr. Grace Cheng, assistant professor of political
science, was granted $2700 toward the costs of a research project
in Vietnam during summer 2004 on “Ho Chi Minh Thought” that
involves the study of a critical aspect of party politics in
Vietnam since the end of the Cold War. |
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| · Dr. ReNel Davis, associate professor of nursing, received
a course release for fall 2004 to support analysis of data collected
in preparation of an article for a professional journal on “The
Chronic Illness Experience of Hawaiian Elders”. Her research
involved work with native Hawaiian elders and their families,
traditional Hawaiian health practitioners, nurses, and Hawaiian
spiritual leaders. |
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| · Dr. Stephen Dye, associate professor of physics, received
partial funding up to $2700 in support of preparation of a research
project on experimental particle physics and neutrino astrophysics.
Dr. Dye will be collaborating on the ASHRA (All-sky Survey High
Resolution Air Shower) project that is starting up in Hawai‘i
and that involves an international team of investigators from
Japan, Taiwan and Hawai‘i. |
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| · Dr. Russell A. Hart, associate professor of history,
received a course release for fall 2004 in support of ongoing
research and writing on two major studies of the German military
in World War II: a historical biography of Heinz Guderian entitled
Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Mythmaker and a co-authored monograph, “Ruins
of the Reich: the Collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945”. Dr.
Hart has received publication contracts already for both works. |
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· Dr. F. David Horgen, associate
professor of chemistry, received funding up to $5000 in support
of a team research project
on “The Culture of the Marine Cyanobacteria Symploca Laete-Viridis
and Symploca Hydnoides for Bioprocess Intensification of Metabolite
Production”. David states that the “scientific significance
of this project will be the culturing of two targeted species
that have not been previously cultured…At the same time,
known target compounds may possess unique structures that are
new to science.”
The collaborative project involves work by Dr. Horgen with
HPU graduate, Ms. Kristina Mojica, and HPU Visiting Assistant
Professor,
Dr. Catherine Unabia. |
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| · Dr. Linda Lierheimer, associate professor of humanities,
received a course release for fall 2004 in support of preparation
of a article that has been accepted for publication in a special
issue of the journal, Early Modern France on early modern Cloister
voices. The title of her article is “Une Voix Forte et
Eclatante: Ursuline Nuns and the Feminization of Eloquence.” |
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· Dr. Vicky Seiler, associate professor of advertising,
received a course release for fall 2004 in support of a research
topic on “Taiwanese Tourism: Travel Expenditures in Hawai‘i.” Dr.
Vicky Seiler states that the “objective of the research
is to develop a travel expenditure model using sociodemographic
and travel characteristics to identify the important determinants
affecting travel expenditure for Taiwanese travelers visiting
Hawai‘i.”
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| Dr. Saundra Schwartz, associate professor of history and classical
studies, received a course release for fall 2004 in support of
a project entitled “A Study of Trial Scenes in Ancient
Drama.” This will be a chapter for a book manuscript on
the representation of justice in the Roman Empire which Dr. Schwartz
is preparing for publication. |
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| · Dr. Houston Wood, associate professor of english,
received a course release for fall 2004 to support the preparation
of two articles “Countering Globalization’s Globalizing
Discourse” and “Provincializing Cultural Studies,
in Hawai‘i, For Example” and a book proposal entitled: “On
the Ground: Research for Specific Places”. The projects
will offer a “general explanation and defense of a place-based
research perspective while detailing how this perspective is
currently being implemented in Hawai‘i, the Solomon Islands,
and New Zealand”, according to Dr. Wood. |
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| · Dr. Christopher Winn, associate professor of oceanography,
received $2700 in support of a research project entitled “Development
of a time-series Monitoring Program at HPU” that involves
time series observation program in Kane‘ohe Bay and the
near shore waters off East O‘ahu. One of the members of
his research team will be Dr. Brian Bozlee whose research project
is mentioned above. The intent is to use TSEP funding as a stringboard
for developing additional funding from extramural sources for
a project that will be ongoing. This project also involves a
joint effort between Dr. Winn and Dr. David Ziemann, director
of Environmental Programs at The Oceanic Institute and is the
first research effort jointly conceived by HPU and OI. |
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