Post-Grant Reports
This collection contains abstracts from post-grant reports submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs at Linfield University after completion of a Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, a Faculty Development Grant, or a sabbatical leave. The abstracts briefly describe the activities that occurred during the grant or leave period. Since October 2011, Linfield University requires all abstracts from these reports to be included in DigitalCommons@Linfield. This collection is a work in progress.
Submissions from 2022
Telling her-story: recovering lost history of Linfield women’s athletics: searching NCWSA archives, Laura Kenow
Submissions from 2021
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Elizabeth Atkinson
Development and Optimization of Copper Catalyzed Alkylboron Homocoupling, Andrew Baggett
Investigation of Skin Cancer-associated Melanocortin-1 Receptor Gene Variants, Shanna Bowman
The Relationship between Fungi and Tree Recruitment in Urban Forests, Nancy Broshot
Contact Barriers and Doping in 2D Field Effect Transistors, Jennifer Heath
Peer-led Bystander Intervention Training: Best Practices and Application, Jackson B. Miller and Yanna Weisberg
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Joelle Murray
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Catherine Reinke
Profiling the Current Youth Athlete: The Measurement and Evaluation of Athleticism in Today’s Youth, Cisco Reyes
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Jeremy B. Weisz
Submissions from 2020
Synthesis and Testing of Azaindole Inhibitors of Arp2/3 Complex, Andrew W. Baggett
Beyond the Vines: The Second Generation, Sharon Bailey Glasco
Yeast Copper Proteins and Reactive Oxygen Species in Effecting Lifespan, Megan Bestwick
Soil Chemistry and Ground Cover in Urban Forests, Nancy E. Broshot
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Hillary Crane
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Michael S. Crosser
How Media Bias Subsidizes Political Learning, Dimitri Kelly
Sabbatical Leave Report, Mindy Legard Larson
Language and Literature in the Arab Diaspora in North America, 1965-2015, Rachel Norman
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Sreerupa Ray
Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Gene Silencing through the Genetic Analysis of Drosophila melanogaster: Characterizing Newly-Discovered Genes, Catherine Reinke
Linfield College Public History Project: World War II as Experience and Memory, Lissa K. Wadewitz
Me, Myself, and I: Narcissism and Identity in Emerging Adulthood, Yanna J. Weisberg
Sabbatical Leave Report, Joe Wilkins
Deborah and Melisandre: Pyromancers in the Bible and Game of Thrones, Jennifer J. Williams
Sabbatical Leave Report, Brian Winkenweder
Submissions from 2019
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Elizabeth Atkinson
Synthesis and Testing of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Arp2/3 Complex, Andrew Baggett
Pushkin in Exile: The Life of a Great Poet in Song, Anton Belov
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Megan Bestwick
Online Nursing Education in Post-Licensure Programs, Henny Breen
Sabbatical Leave Report, Nancy Broshot
Seedling Growth and Survival Relative to Soil Characteristics, Nancy Broshot
The Effects of Social Stress on Routine Voluntary Running in Female Mice, Sarah C. Coste
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Hillary Crane
Sabbatical Leave Report, Denise M. Farag
Using Simulation to Develop Clinical Teaching Competencies in Nurse Educators, Julie Fitzwater
We Got Grit: Arts, Music, and Community after the 2013 Boulder County Floods (Faculty Development Grant), Robert O. Gardner
We Got Grit: Arts, Music, and Community after the 2013 Boulder County Floods (Sabbatical Leave), Robert O. Gardner
Research into Early Economic Thought: Medieval Arab-Islamic Scholars and Enlightenment Philosophers, Randy R. Grant
Peru Ethnomedical Project: Survey of Urban and Rural Community Ethnomedical Practices and Ethnobotanical Knowledge II, Thomas Love
Faculty Development Grant Report, Lindsey Mantoan
Sabbatical Leave Report, Marie Noussi
Sabbatical Leave Report / Faculty Development Grant Report, Joan Paddock
Dietetics Credential and Exam and Metabolic Syndrome Manuscript Preparation, Janet T. Peterson
Sabbatical Leave Report, Jeff Peterson
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Sreerupa Ray
Professional Recording, Production, and Editing of Original Music Compositions, Andrea L. Reinkemeyer
Faculty Development Grant Report, Anna Song
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Chadwick V. Tillberg
Sabbatical Leave Report, Jackie F. Webb
College Student Well-Being: There Is More to Focus on Than Just Academics, Yanna Weisberg
The Role of Endogenous Opiates and Trait Affiliation in Social Bonding, Yanna Weisberg
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Joe Wilkins
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Tianbao Xie
Submissions from 2018
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Elizabeth Atkinson
Behavioral and Neural Pharmacology of Drug-Seeking Behavior and Addiction, Lee Bakner
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Kaarina Beam
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Megan Bestwick
The Effect of Urbanization on Forest Mycorrhizae, Worms, and Soil Respiration, Nancy Broshot
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Nicholas Buccola
Rosario Ferré: A Feminist Voice of Transgression in the Literary Canon of Puerto Rico, Tania Carrasquillo Hernández
Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship between Stress and Physical Activity, Sarah C. Coste
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Hillary Crane
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Michael S. Crosser
Sabbatical Leave Report, Thierry Durand
Faculty Development Grant Report, Leonard Finkelman
Sabbatical Leave Report, David Fiordalis
The Transgender Imaginary in Medieval Romance: The Case of Yde et Olive, Jamie Friedman
Sabbatical Leave Report, Michael Huntsberger
Sabbatical Leave Report / Faculty Development Grant Report, Kimberly Kintz
Sabbatical Leave Report, Kay Livesay
Sustained Studio Practice in Spain, Ronald Mills de Pinyas
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Joelle Murray
Measuring Fitness and Physical Activity in People with Visual Impairment, Janet T. Peterson
Online Nursing Education in Post-Licensure Programs, Melissa Robinson
Performing Librarianship: Exploring Alternative Modalities for Scholarship in Library and Information Studies, Kathleen Spring
Sabbatical Leave Report, Faun Tanenbaum Tiedge
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Chadwick V. Tillberg
Using In Situ Hybridization to Locate GABA Receptors in Zebrafish: Part II, Cecilia Toro
Three Decades of Information Seeking: What Has Changed and What Has Not?, Barbara Valentine
Sabbatical Leave Report, Gennie VanBeek
Sabbatical Leave Report, Yanna J. Weisberg
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Jeremy Weisz
Sabbatical Leave Report, Pamela Wheeler
Ever These Bull Mountains: A Novel, Joe Wilkins
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Joe Wilkins
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Tianbao Xie
Submissions from 2017
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Elizabeth Atkinson
Educating for Democracy in Bhutan: A Tocquevillean Study, Kaarina Beam
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Megan Bestwick
Effect of Urbanization on Soil: Structure, Chemistry, and Mycorrhizael Fungi, Nancy Broshot
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Nicholas Buccola
The Effects of Physical Activity on Stress-Induced Cardiac Fibrosis, Sarah C. Coste
Faculty Development Grant Report, Patrick Cottrell
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Hillary Crane
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Report, Michael S. Crosser
Sabbatical Leave Report, James J. Diamond
