2009 Research and Creative Activities (RCA) Awards recipients
Most Promising Undergraduate Researcher
Karlie Knudtsen
Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, Bachelor of Arts in
Philosophy
Stephanie Wolff
Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry
Most Promising Graduate Researcher
Jared Hopkins
Pre-doctoral Master of Arts, Department of Psychology
Katrina Taylor
PhD candidate, Department of Politics and International
Affairs
Most Promising New Scholar
Ann Huffman
Assistant professor, Department of Psychology
David Wagner
Assistant professor, Biological Science
Honorable mention: Luis Fernandez
Assistant professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Honorable mention: Stephanie Hurst
Assistant professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Most Effective Research Mentor
Thomas Alcoze
Professor, School of Forestry
Susan Deeds
Professor, Department of History
Larry Stevens
Professor, Department of Psychology
Most Significant Creative or Artistic Work
Monica Brown
Associate professor, Department of English
My Name is Gabito/Mi Llamo
Gabito, Rising Moon, 2007.
Paula Rice
Professor, School of Art (Ceramics)
The Planet Series
(series of ceramic figures)
Most Significant Scholarly Work
Paul Dutton
Professor, Department of History
Differential Diagnoses: A
Comparative History of the Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United
States and France, Cornell University Press, 2007
David Schlosberg
Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs
Defining Environmental
Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature, Oxford University Press,
2007
Thomas Whitham, et al. (six
co-authors and five with current or past university affiliations)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
“Extending Genomics to Natural Communities and Ecosystems,” Science, Vol. 320, No. 5875,
(2008): 492-495
Honorable mention: Steven Barger
Associate professor, Department of Psychology
“Hypertension Labelling Was Associated with Poorer
Self-rated Health in the Third US National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey,” Journal of Human Hypertension,
(2006) 20:117-123
Honorable mention: Kristen Swanson
Professor, School of Communication
“Travel Motivations as Souvenir Purchase Indicators,” Tourism Management, (2006)
27:671-683