Recent Grant and Award Recipients
| Year | Name | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| University Research Professorship | ||
| 2024-2025 | Anne Raich, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Machine Learning for Infrastructure Systems: Worker Safety Violations and Other Safety Issues on Construction Sites |
| 2024-2025 | Paul Smith, Chemistry |
State of the Art Raman Imaging Spectroscopy at Valpo |
| 2023-2024 | Shahin Nudehi, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering |
Power Grids Stability Challenges and Integration of Renewable Energy Resources |
| 2023-2024 | Danielle Orozco-Nunnelly, Biology |
Exploring Medicinal Plants for Novel Antimicrobial and Anticancer Compounds: Bringing Primary Research Directly into the Undergraduate Classroom |
| 2022-2023 | Matthew Becker, Theology |
Edmund Schlink’s Doctrine of Baptism |
| Matthew Puffer, Christ College |
The Future of Human Dignity: Reimagining a Moral Anthropology for an Integral Ecology | |
| 2021-2022 | Julie Brandy, Nursing |
Development of an Instrument to Identify Depression in Freshman College Students |
| George Potter, English |
Liberal Islamophobia: Theater, the War on Terror, and the Limits of Resistance | |
| Philip and Miriam Kapfer Faculty Research Award | ||
| 2024-2025 | Julien Smith, Christ College |
Practicing the Good Life: Essential Practices for Christian Earthkeeping |
| 2022-2023 | Sara Danger, English |
In Their Own Words: Child Writers and the Nineteenth-Century Press |
| 2020-2021 | Michael Longan, Geography/Meteorology |
I’m Country: A Geography of Country Music Book |
| We Raise Foundation – O.P. Kretzmann Memorial Fund Grants | ||
| 2024-2025 | Zheng Li, Nursing |
Addressing Campus Hunger: A Comprehensive Investigation into Post-Pandemic Food Insecurity Among College Students and the Utilization of the CONHP Little Free Pantry |
| 2022-2023 | Masaru Nakamoto, Chemistry |
Supporting Long-term Neuronal Survival for Lifelong Wellbeing |
| 2020-2021 | Christina Cavinder, Nursing |
Effects of Low-Stress Care on Premature Infants in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit on DNA Methylation at the SLC1A2 Gene |
| John Fantuzzo, Education |
Educational Opportunity and Respect Advancing Equity and Wellbeing through Prison Education | |
| Danielle Orozco-Nunnelly, Biology Jeffrey Pruet, Chemistry |
Identifying and Developing Novel Compounds to Combat Infection and Cancer | |
| 2019-2020 | Sara Gundersen, Economics |
The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Study Exploring the Relationship between Membership in Ghana’s Pentecostal Churches and Attitudes toward Domestic Violence |
| Theresa Kessler, Nursing |
A Grounded Theory Investigation into Depression in Freshman College Students | |
| Julie Peller, Chemistry |
Filling in Knowledge Gaps on Air Contaminants in North Lake County, Indiana | |
| Summer Research Fellowships | ||
| 2023-2024 | Giosué Alagna, World Languages and Cultures |
Representations of Brazilian Identity through Music Performances in the Midwest |
| 2023-2024 | Patrice Bouyer, Biology |
Effect of Inflammatory Cytokines on IRBIT Expression in T84 and Caco2 Intestinal Cells |
| 2022-2023 | Caroline Ban, Social Work |
Advancing the Field of Police Social Work |
| 2022-2023 | Jeffrey Pruet, Chemistry |
Design and Synthesis of Novel Compounds to Combat Infection and Cancer |
| 2021-2022 | Melissa Desjarlais, Mathematics and Statistics |
History of Women in Mathematics Textbook |
| 2021-2022 | Paul Smith, Chemistry |
Energy Storage from Chemicals Dissolved in Water |
| 2019-2020 | Benjamin Boche, Selina Bartels, Education |
From University to Classroom and Back: Re-envisioning Elementary Education Teacher Preparation through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Approach |
| Masaru Nakamoto, Biology |
Cell-Cell Competition in Cancer Suppression | |
| Shahin Nudehi, Peter Krenzke, Mechanical Engineering Paul Smith, Chemistry |
Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Cobalt Oxide Oxidation in a Rotating Electrode Cell | |
| Jennifer Prough, Christ College |
Olympic Heritage: Soft Power and the Olympics through the Lens of Kyoto Tourism | |
| Matthew Puffer, Christ College |
On the Image of God in the City of God: An Ethical Analysis | |
| Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work | ||
| 2023-2024 | Reva Johnson | College of Engineering |
| 2022-2023 | Lara Pudwell | College of Arts and Sciences |
| 2021-2022 | Gretchen Buggeln | Christ College |
| 2021-2022 | Nola Schmidt | College of Nursing and Health Professions |
| 2020-2021 | Luke Venstrom | Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering, College of Engineering |
| 2019-2020 | Carmine Polito | Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering |
| 2018-2019 | Shahin Nudehi | Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering, College of Engineering |