2022-2023 Faculty Research Grant Recipients Announced

The Office of the President and the Office of Academic Affairs are pleased to announce 16 recipients receiving the 2022-2023 Faculty Research Grants. The awards will fund faculty research and professional development activities that will advance academic excellence for the individual faculty members and for Webster University.

Congratulations to the 2022-2023 recipients, who are listed below by name, department, school/college, and title of the project:

• Kristen Anderson Morton, History, Politics, International Relations & Religious Studies, “A Cause Worthy of Sacrifice: German Americans Commemorate Their War Participation, 1865 – 1920”
• James Curtis, Math and Computer Science, Walker School of Business & Technology, “Triad of Disruption”
• Andrew Elvington, Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, “Characterizing Influence of Ambient Temperature on M1 versus M2 Polarization in Human Macrophage Cells in vitro”

• Elsa Fan, Global Languages, Cultures & Societies, College of Arts & Sciences, “How Cancer Travels: The Globalization of Health Among Taiwanese Americans”
• Allison Gorga, Law, Crime & Social Justice, College of Arts & Sciences, “Prison Health Care in a Time of Crisis”
• Ryan Groeneman, Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, “Investigation of Thermal Expansion Parameters Within Discrete Halogen-Bonded Co-Crystals”
• Stuart Chapman Hill, Music, Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, “How Songwriters Learn”
• Lindsey Kingston, History, Politics, International Relations & Religious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, “Weaponizing Citizenship: Research Collaborations in the United Kingdom”
• Shannon Kispert, Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, “Investigation of E-Cigarette Exposure on Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition, Transendothelial Migration, and Invasion in Breast and Bladder Cancer”
• Marc Mehu, Psychology, Webster University Vienna, “Emotional Impact of Discrimination in Computer-Mediated Interaction”
• Nicole Miller-Struttmann, Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, “Does Area Matter? Exploring How Pollinator Community Structure Scales with the Size of Residential Gardens”
• David Pennington, History, Politics, International Relations & Religious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, “Economic Crisis, Interest Groups, and Parliament in Early Modern England, 1558-1642”
• Mary Preuss, Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, “Microbiome Diversity in Duckweed Populations and Potential for Bioremediation”
• Warren Rosenblum, History, Politics, International Relations & Religious Studies, “From Confinement to Mass Murder: Developmental Disability in Europe, 1890-1945”
• Evangeline Rose Whitlock, Conservatory, Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, “With Love, Sarah/From Your Valentine”
• Dongling Zhang, Global Languages, Cultures & Societies, “A Gendered Pandemic: American Women Entrepreneurs’ Experience of Doing Business and Doing Gender During COVID-19”