Charles L. Cahill Grants

Fiscal Year 2023 Recipients

Thank you to the Faculty Senate Research Committee for reviewing these applications.

Tamatha Arms and Noell Rowan (School of Nursing, CHHS) “Older Adults and Healthcare professional's knowledge and Beliefs of Opioids”
G. Avery (Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS) “Concentrations and Speciation of Arsenic In Wet and Dry Atmospheric Deposition”
Raymond Danner (Biology & Marine Biology, CAS) “Non-invasive study of heat stress in birds using long-distance thermal imaging: Predicting species susceptibility to extinction based on morphology, anthropogenic disturbance, and seasonal acclimation”
Amrita Das (World Languages and Cultures, CAS) “A Digital Exhibit of Fe de erratas”
Devon Eulie (Environmental Sciences, CAS) “Climate change and storm impacts on coastal forested wetlands”
Gene Felice II (Art & Art History, CAS) and Catharina Alves-de-Souza (Center for Marine Science, CMS) “Development of educational digital games focused on aquatic ecosystems: Featuring Phyto Hero and Bloom Busters”
Sarah Gaby (Sociology & Criminology, CAS) “Collective Racist and Antiracist Action and Contemporary Racial Inequalities”
Kate Hinshaw (Film Studies, CAS) “Anonymous Camera Girl – Documentary”
Tahereh (Sima) Jafarikhah (Computer Science, CAS) “Energy efficient blockchain consensus algorithms: Turn-based proof of space”
Laurie Minns (School of Nursing, CHHS) “Methodological approach to measure inflammatory gene expression from cultured human immune cells using a probe-based quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction technique”
Kate Nooner (Psychology, CAS) “Brain and Behavioral Recovery Among Young Adult Heavy Drinkers”
Todd Peterson (Psychology, CAS) “Investigating microglia mediation of neuron death in a mouse model of post-traumatic stress disorder”
Deepak Rauniyar (Film Studies, CAS) “SHAH CHEF”
Ginger Rhodes (Mathematics and Statistics, ETEAL /Applied Learning, CAS) “Mathematics teacher leadership: Preparation, experiences, and challenges”
Candice Robinson (Sociology & Criminology, CAS) “YP Empowered: Black Young Professional’s Role in the Movement for Black Lives”
Laura Szech (Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Literacy and Special Education, WEC) “Understanding Community and Culture: Teachers Working to Better Know their Students”
Abigail Upshaw (Art & Art History, CAS) “Archival Research for Article: “Mulberry Trees and Textile Machines: The History of Leonardo da Vinci and Ludovico Sforza’s Automated Textile Mill”
Blake Ushijima (Biology & Marine Biology, CAS) and Wendy Strangman (Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS) “New biotechnology for old problems: using robotic automation to enhance drug discovery with marine microorganisms”
Amanda Williard and Stephanie Kamel, Biology & Marine Biology (CAS) “Impacts of fisheries bycatch on nesting populations of the critically endangered East Pacific hawksbill turtle”
Seoyoon Woo (School of Nursing, CHHS), Anastasiya Ferrell (School of Nursing, CHHS), and Jamy Chulak (Health and Applied Human Sciences, CHHS) “COPD Self-Management Using Technology in Daily Life”

Fiscal Year 2022 Recipients

Funded Charles L. Cahill proposals consisted of 14 traditional and 2 collaborative applications.

Thank you to the Faculty Senate Research Committee for reviewing these applications.

Sasha N. Canan, (School of Health & Applied Human Sciences), “Creating a Scale that Measures Attitudes Toward Comprehensive Sex Education: A 6-Step Psychometric Process”
Thomas A. Cariveau, (Psychology), “Developing a measure of working memory in minimally verbal children with autism”
Timothy V. Daniels, (Physics & Physical Oceanography), “Design and Assembly of a Beam-Entrace Window for Online Ba-Tagging Tests”
Christopher S. Elliott, (Sociology & Criminology), “Job Quality Measurement in the Craft Beer Labor Force of Wilmington, North Carolina”
Douglas Engelman, (Sociology & Criminology), “Making Our Classrooms Relevant Through Reflective Practices in Teaching Sociology (RPTS)”
Nadine Gibson, (Public & International Affairs), “Student Voting Habits in Light of COVID-19 Disruptions”
Sarah Hallenbeck, (English), “Archival Research Trip for Embodying Twentieth-Century American Rhetorics of Innovation”
Michaela Howells (Anthropology), “Does Maternal Marital Status Impact Stress Among Pregnant Women? A Pilot Study In Preparation for the Effects of Natural Disasters in South Eastern North Carolina”
Mariana Johnson, (Film Studies), “Rerouting Early Latin American Cinema: New Histories of Film Exchange in Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S.”
Aaron S. King, (Public & International Affairs), “Public Facing Political Science: Strengthening the Relationship between Academics, the Media, and Civic Society”
Shannon A. Klotsko, (Earth & Ocean Sciences), “Examining the evolution of submerged paleolandscapes on the Oregon continental shelf with sediment cores”
Chad S. Lane, (Earth & Ocean Sciences), “Assessing Potential Errors in Carbon Cycling Estimates due to Variable Biosynthetic Fractionation of Radiocarbon (14C) by Vascular Plants”
Lilit Martirosyan, (Mathematics & Statistics), “Symmetry and duality in mathematics”
Symphony D. Oxendine, (Educational Leadership), Carol McNulty (Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Literacy, and Special Education), “Scholar’s Opportunity for Academic Research (SOAR) Retreat”
Ruthanne Palumbo, (School of Nursing), Brandy Mechling (School of Nursing), Nancy Ahern (School of Nursing), “Emergency Department Discharge Planning and Education Procedures for Patients Presenting with Illicit Drug Overdose”
Zhangping Wei, (Physics & Physical Oceanography), “Development of a 3D coastal modeling system for the Cape Fear Estuary”