Fellowships are available on a competitive basis to provide support for faculty research during the summer. The fellowships provide a stipend for a summer research project with the expectation of a submission to a high quality, refereed journal or an equivalent standard of intellectual contribution. Listed below are the recipients of Summer Research Fellowships from the College of Arts and Sciences. Wasmer Fellowships are available to Boler School of Business faculty and will be announced in a subsequent issue.

Matt Berg, History
Research the political and social context that factored into housing reconstruction and new housing starts in post-World War II Vienna.

Maria Marsilli Cardozo, History
Collect the archival and bibliographical information needed to launch a book project on the history of cruelty and inhumane treatment of the body in colonial Chile.

Jeffrey Dyck, Physics
Measure and analyze the thermoelectric performance, specifically electron transport, of novel nanostructured materials.

Erin Johnson, Biology
Elucidate the impact of human diseases of iron metabolism on the immune response to bacteria.

Daniel Kilbride, History
Write the second chapter, covering the early national period, on American travelers to Europe.

Malia McAndrew, History
Research American gender ideals in Japan during the U.S. occupation of that country following World War II.

Naveed Piracha, Physics
Study rare gas atoms in an electrical discharge.

Debby Rosenthal, English
Write an 8,000-word chapter titled “Temperance Novels and Moral Reform” for volume five of The Oxford History of the Novel in English.

Elizabeth Swenson, Psychology
Write a chapter for a book on legal issues in clinical and counseling testing and assessment.

Peifang Tian, Physics
Examine how light propagates in the brain tissue by computer simulation. The results will guide the design of better optical camera systems to image a living brain.