06/18/2024
By Anne Maglia

The Office of Research Development is pleased to announce the award recipients under the Researchers and Scholars Investment (RSI) Fund for Spring 2024. This fund supports faculty in their professional trajectory by investing in their research, scholarship and creative works.

The call for applications for the Fall 2024 cycle will be announced in September 2024.

Congratulations to each of the 18 awardees:

Nishant Agarwal, Associate Professor, Physics and Applied Physics
Kennedy College of Sciences
Project Title: Fisher forecasts on the local primordial bispectrum
Award Amount: $3,000

Elizabeth Altman, Associate Professor, Management
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Pricing Model Variation on Labor Platforms
Award Amount: $3,000

Todd Avery, Professor, English
College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Project Title: The Crucifixion of Lytton Strachey
Award Amount: $3,000

Elizabeth Bifuh, Associate Professor, School of Education
College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Project Title: Fund Copy-Editing Work for Book Manuscript Titled: Designing Education Policy for Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Global Systems, with Focus on Southern Cameroons
Award Amount: $3,000

Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, Assistant Professor, Political Science
College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Project Title: The LGBT Voter in Mexico
Award Amount: $3,000

Michael Ciuchta, Associate Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Experiments in Entrepreneurial Decision Making
Award Amount: $3,000

Tao (Tony) Gao, Associate Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Addressing Major Disruptions in Host Market Environment: On Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies’ Strategic Responses to Volume-Based Procurement in China
Award Amount: $3,000

Hsien-Yuan Hsu, Associate Professor, School of Education
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Examining STEM College Students’ Reactions to Faculty Feedback
Award Amount: $3,000

Ann Kronrod, Associate Professor, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Manning School of Business
Project Title: How Can Questions Encourage Financial Planning? A Good Question
Award Amount: $3,000

Kimberly Merriman, Professor, Management
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Nature at Work: Unraveling the Psychological Valuation of Biophilic Work Environments
Award Amount: $3,000

Samantha Miadich, Assistant Professor, Psychology
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Graduate Student Support for the Health Advancement and Wellbeing in Kids (HAWK) Study
Award Amount: $3,000

Chad Montrie, Professor, History
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Modern Minstrels: A History of ‘Blackface’ in the Twentieth Century
Award Amount: $3,000

Luvai Motiwalla, Professor, Operations and Information Systems
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Gamification in ERP Systems
Award Amount: $3,000

Joselyne Nkogo, Assistant Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: What is in a Name? An Exploratory Study on Name Discrimination among Immigrants in the Merrimack Valley
Award Amount: $3,000

Yuko Oda, Associate Professor, Art and Design
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: 3D Printed Splints
Award Amount: $3,000

Aaron Smith-Walter, Associate Professor, Political Science
College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Project Title: The Shield: Captain America and the Marvel Cinematic Universe - A Narrative Study of U.S. Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
Award Amount: $3,000

Kristen Stern, Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Title: Performative Authorship: 21st Century Francophone African Novelists in French Spaces
Award Amount: $3,000

Julie Zhang, Professor, Operations & Information Systems
Manning School of Business
Project Title: Fraud Detection in Fintech
Award Amount: $3,000