2017WIS

Noami Shin Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: associate professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics Winning project: Minority language development: How do children acquire grammar when exposure to language is limited?   Project focus: Along with Jill Morford and Barbara Shaffer, the project examines children’s acquisition of two U.S. minority languages, […] Read More

Barb Shaffer Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: associate professor in the Department of Linguistics Winning project: Minority language development: How do children acquire grammar when exposure to language is limited?   Project focus: Along with Naomi Shin and Jill Morford, the project examines children’s acquisition of two U.S. minority languages, Spanish and American […] Read More

Kendra Koivu Honor: 2017 Women In STEM travel award winner Title: assistant professor in the Department of Political Science Winning project: European Consortium for Political Research Methods School: Advanced Course in Qualitative Comparative Analysis Project focus: Koivu will use the funding to travel to Budapest for a two-week intensive workshop on qualitative comparative analysis. Qualitative comparative analysis […] Read More

Ylva Pihlstrom Honor: 2017 Women In STEM travel award winner Title: associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Winning project: Estimating Distances to Dusty Stars. Project focus:  Pihlstrom will use the funding to visit the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles to survey stars that will help explore the structure of the galaxy […] Read More

Michelle Facette Honor: 2017 Women In STEM seed award winner Title: assistant professor in the Department of Biology Winning project: Development of Fluorescent Protein Marker Lines for Monitoring Cell Division in Maize. Project focus: Facette will further her work on the development of fluorescent protein marker lines for monitoring cell division in maize. Fluorescent proteins allow protein dynamics […] Read More

Jill Morford Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award  Title: professor in the Department of Linguistics Winning project: Minority language development: How do children acquire grammar when exposure to language is limited?   Project focus: Along with Naomi Shin and Barbara Shaffer, the project examines children’s acquisition of two U.S. minority languages, Spanish and American Sign Language, and investigates […] Read More

Jami Nelson Nunez Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award  Title: assistant professor in the Political Science Department  Winning project: NGO-collaboration in service delivery and Peru and Bolivia. Project focus: Nelson Nunez will investigate interactions between nongovernmental organizations and mayors in decentralized settings around challenges into service delivery. She also will look at the conditions under which collaborations […] Read More

Kristina Trujillo Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Winning project: Modulating mitchondrial function to alter insulin signaling in insulin resistant C2C12 cells. Project focus: Along with Christine Mermier, Trujillo will continue their work on understanding the link between mitochondrial function and insulin signaling. This […] Read More

Christine Mermier Honor: 2017 Women In STEM research award winner Title: associate professor in the Exercise Science Department   Winning project: Modulating mitchondrial function to alter insulin signaling in insulin resistant C2C12 cells. Project focus: Along with Kristina Trujillo, Mermier will continue their work on understanding the link between mitochondrial function and insulin signaling. This research […] Read More