2023-2024 Faculty Research Grant Recipients Announced

The Office of the President and the Office of Academic Affairs are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 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 2023-2024 recipients, who are listed below by name, department, school/college, and title of the project:

· Lindsey Applegate, Biological Sciences, College of Science & Health, “Investigations Toward Organic Solvent Uptake into Metal-Organic Nanotubular (MONT) Materials”

· Marco Bocchese, History, Politics, International Relations & Religious Studies, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Webster University Vienna, “Justice in the Fog of War: Explaining State Cooperation with International Prosecutions”

· Dorian Davis, Communications & Journalism, School of Communications, “Are Social Media Still Social? A Cross-Generational Survey”

· Elsa Fan, Global Languages, Cultures & Societies, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, “How Cancer Travels: The Globalization of Breast Cancer in Chinese/American Women”

· Ryan Gregg, Art, Design & Art History, Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, “The Provenance of Aton van den Wyngaerde's Drawings”

· Ryan Groeneman, Biological Sciences, College of Science & Health, “Utilizing Halogen and Hydrogen Bonding Interactions to Achieve a Series of Photoreactions in Organic Co-Crystals”

· Sheila Hwang, English, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, "Curiosity and Pleasure: Geographies of Knowledge in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park”

· Nicole Miller-Struttmann, Biological Sciences, College of Science & Health, “Are Urban Gardens More Isolated than those in Suburban Environments?”

· Ece Tuncel, Management, George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology, "Nudging for Sustainability in Supply Chain Negotiations”