Fall Open Houses 2026

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EMERGE Research Grants

2024-2025

  • Natheer Alatawneh (Adjunct Instructor, Computer Science & Engineering) “Development of an Electromagnetic Sensor for Measurements of Magnetic Anisotropy”
  • Stephanie Carnes (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work) “Exploring the impact of initiatives to welcome newcomer immigrant students”
  • Sally Drew (Associate Professor, Teacher Education) “Writing to Learn and Knowledge Building Convergences and Divergences”
  • Emily Lucille Mane (Assistant Professor, Chemistry) “Synthesis of Substituted Pyridine-Alkoxide Ligands and Metal Complexes”
  • Deirdra A. Preis (Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership) “Assistant Principals’ Inclusive Excellence Fellowship”
  • Anna Elizabeth Price (Professor, Health Science) “Climate Change Impacts on Health Supporting Environments”
  • William Zhou (Assistant Professor, Management) “Manager Temporal Focus and Newly Public Firms’ Non-GAAP Financial Reporting”

2023-2024

  • Bronwyn Cross-Denny (Associate Professor, Health Science) “Integrated Social Work Practice: A Global Imperative for Social Action”
  • Tolga Kaya (Professor, Computer Science & Engineering) “Analysis of Collegiate Basketball Data for Performance Improvement”
  • Tricia Lewis (Assistant Professor, Health Science) “Collateral effects of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on violence against women in the United States, January 2019 to December 2020”
  • SW Ryu (Assistant Professor, Management) “The Impact of Job Rotational Programs on Employee Career Outcomes” 
  • Christine Susienka (Assistant Professor, Philosophy) “Hope and Meaning in Life”
  • David Thomson (Associate Professor, History) “Dubious Debtors: The United States Debt Default Crisis of the 1840s”
  • Alyssa Woronik (Assistant Professor, Biology) “Investigating Honeybee Health: An International Undergraduate Research Exchange”

EMERGE Teaching Grants

2024-2025

  • Natheer Alatawneh (Adjunct Instructor, Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Marian Leal (Assistant Teaching Professor, Biology)
  • Kelly Marino (Associate Teaching Professor, History)
  • Erika Pichardo (Assistant Teaching Professor, Sociology, Criminology, & Criminal Justice)
  • Anna Price (Professor, Public Health)
  • Bethany Wade (Assistant Professor, History) 

2023-2024