The UAB ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Award is open to all tenure-track faculty who hold the rank of assistant or associate professor within the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences (ADVANCE Schools and the Department of Finance, Economics, Quantitative Methods in the School of Business).
The purpose of this award is to sponsor research in any discipline by women faculty and research or service focused on gender equity by all faculty within the three ADVANCE Schools. Award recipients are expected to use the grant to conduct research within their discipline and to submit research findings for publication. Awardees will be required to present their findings at the UAB ADVANCE Symposium in 2006.
2008-2009 Junior Faculty Research Award Recipients
Stephanie Rauterkus, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Economics & Quantitative Methods, "Investor Agreement in Experimental Markets"
Chengcui Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Information Sciences, "Automated Bacterial Colony Counting"
Angela Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, "Making History: A Delegate's View of the First Potential Woman or African American Nominee for President"
Lisa Sharlach, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, "Women, War, and Ideology in the Horn of Africa"
Sharyn Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, "The Economics of Gender and Food in Everyday Life: Ethno-archaeological Explorations in Fiji" and "A Practitioner's Guide to Nonhuman Bone Identifications"
Elizabeth Gardner, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Nondestructive Resolution of Stereoismers of Illicit Drugs
2007-2008 Junior Faculty Research Award Recipients:
Yuhua Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering "Protein Interactions Underlying Fas-Mediated Apoptosis in Osteoclasts"
Brian Steele, Assistant Professor, Department of History
"Jefferson's Gender Frontier: The 'natural equality' of Women and the Projection of American National Identity""
Sylvie Mrug, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology "Neighborhood and School Influences on Deviant Behavior in Early Adolescence""
Sarah Parcak, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology "Satellite Remote Sensing at UAB: New Approaches and New Directions""
Erika Austin, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
"Lesbian Health and Well-being in the Deep South: A Mixed-Methods Exploration""
Chengcui Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences
"Abnormal Pattern Detection Using Semantic Clustering for Indoor Surveillance Videos""
Holly Brasher, Assistant Professor, Department of Government "Lobbying the U.S. Congress"
2005-2006 Junior Faculty Research Award Recipients:
Lisa Baker, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Social Work
"Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Preterm Infants"
"Community Development Grant Performance"
Sharyn O'Day, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Social Work
"Socioeconomics of Rank and Gender in Fiji"
Virginia Sisiopiku, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
"Dynamic Traffic Assessment Options"
Lynne Vieraitis, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Sciences
"Assessing the Impact of Changes in Gender Equality on Intimate Partner
Homicide: 1980-2000"
Chengcui Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information
Sciences
"Automatic Vehicle Classification for Video-Based Traffic Surveillance"
2004-2005 Junior Faculty Research Awards Recipients:
Dr. Donna Handley, Assistant Professor, Department of Government
"Intergovernmental Objective: Community Development in Policymaking & Implementation"
Dr. Angela Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Government,
"Black Conservatism: A New Reality in US Politics?"
Dr. Lucy Andrews, Instructor in the Department of Biology
"Altered Expression of the DNA Methyltransferases during Aging and Neoplastic Transformation in Fibroblasts and in Differentiating Cancer Cells" (transition award)
Dr. Becky Trigg, Instructor in the Department of Sociology
"The Grass is Greener Revisited: Gender Differences in Advantage/Disadvantage between Females and Males. (transition award)"
Dr. Jacqueline Nikles, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
"Biomagnetism in Nanomedicine: Synthesis of Ligands to Label Adenoviruses with Magnetic Particles" (transition award)
Award proposals should include:
- A UAB ADVANCE cover sheet with signatures from the applicant, department chair, and dean;
- Cover letter indicating willingness to participate in the ADVANCE program and a timeline showing how this proposed activity fits in with your teaching, research, and service for the academic year;
- A curriculum vita;
- A one- to two-page proposal specifying research design, methodology and outcomes;
- One-page budget with budget justification; and
- Statement from the department chair of support and any matching funds.
Monies from the ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Award can be used for release time from teaching to conduct research, summer salary, laboratory equipment or office supplies, salary for a research assistant(s), and travel to collections, laboratories, or academic conferences. Awardees are also expected to participate in the ADVANCE Faculty Development Workshops on campus. All funds are to be used within the award year and a final report will be required. All scholarship resulting from this award must acknowledge support from the UAB ADVANCE program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.