51风流

Major grants, Picker Research Fellowships help to support discovery at 51风流

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Engda Hagos, assistant professor of biology, works with students in his lab.

Engda Hagos, assistant professor of biology, works with students in his lab.

and Picker Research Fellowship awards for 2014-15 are funding dozens of faculty research projects both on and off campus, with subjects ranging from Middle English punctuation to Russian climate science to the creation of an experimental documentary.

For biology professor , his major grant funding will help continue research into the workings of the cancer-suppression gene Kruppel-like factor 4, a known tumor suppressor that plays a major role in the prevention of colon cancer.

鈥淚鈥檝e trained more than 30 students so far in my lab, and many of them have gone on to medical school,鈥 Hagos said. 鈥淭he ultimate goal of this research is eventually drug discovery.鈥

Educational studies professor , who conducts research on the political economy of public education in the United States, is using his Picker Fellowship to help support new qualitative research that examines how teachers in Philadelphia are educating each other, organizing, and working together to resist current educational reforms.

鈥淭he fellowship is providing me with generous financial support to live in Philadelphia in the fall during my junior faculty leave,鈥 Stern said.

Economics professor , who works to understand the financial systems in the United States before the establishment of the Federal Reserve System, said his Picker Fellowship will help to digitize historical bank directories at the New York State Archive and Library of Congress.

鈥淭he data will be capable of testing how clearinghouses affected bank composition and stability across the entire nation and across all the various types of banks,鈥 Jaremski said. 鈥淚n this way, the project will illustrate whether private institutions were capable of protecting the market in the absence of a central bank.鈥

Here is a full list of recipients:

Picker Research Fellowships

, history:  鈥淐ontact Strategies: Independent Indians in the Brazilian Borderlands, 1700-1800鈥

, writing and rhetoric: 鈥淏esides the Point: Early Middle English Punctuation鈥

, art and art history: 鈥淗undreds of Pictograms and Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Hissing Roars, Bangs, Boom (The Futurist LoudSpeakers)鈥

Matthew Jaremski, economics: 鈥淒id Clearinghouses Reduce U.S. Bank Stability Before the Fed?鈥

Mark Stern, educational studies: 鈥淭eaching & Learning鈥rganizing and Agitating: Teachers and the Fight Against Neoliberal Education Policy鈥

, English and theater: 鈥淟ONEtheater and Patagonia Prince/ss鈥 and the Underwater Forest鈥

, political science: 鈥淎ssam and the Foreigner Within: A Study on the Experience of Bengali Muslims in India鈥

, political science: 鈥淗onor and Contentment: The Theory of the State in Early Modern England鈥

Major grant awards

, art and art history, Garrison Fellowship: 鈥淣uts鈥 (an experimental documentary film)

, biology, Carter-Wallace Fellowship: 鈥淲hole-Ecosystem Restoration through Liming of Acidified Tributary Streams and a Watershed in the Honnedaga Lake Basin鈥

, history, Hearst Fellowship: 鈥淢igration and identity: Swiss Colonies in 19th century Russia鈥

, biology: 鈥淚dentification of Variation in Novel Genes that Contribute to Body Size Determination in Small Dogs鈥

, East Asian languages and literatures: 鈥淪ensation and Satire: A Magazine History of Chinese Manhua, 1918-1960鈥

, biology: 鈥淓xperimental Study of Nutrient Addition and Water Exclusion on Canopy Ecosystem Processes and Epiphyte Community Structure.鈥

, geography: 鈥淩ussian climate science in a globalizing world: (de)constructing climate knowledge in an era of energy development on Sakhalin Island, Russia鈥

, biology: 鈥淓xploring new functions of circadian clock genes in C. elegans鈥

Engda Hagos, biology: 鈥淩ole of Kruppel-like factor 4 as a tumor suppressor in mouse embryonic fibroblast cells鈥

, economics: 鈥淯sing Contingent Choice Surveys for Environmental Evaluation: Two Applications鈥

, biology: 鈥淭he role of polyploidy and hybridization in shaping ecological, physiological, and evolutionary processes in fern gametophytes.鈥

, East Asian languages and literatures: 鈥淟ongitudinal development of second language speech: Will foreign accents be reduced through linguistic immersion?鈥