Twenty-two University of Oregon professors will receive this year's Faculty Research Awards from the UO's Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education.

The recipients were among a total of 37 applicants for the annual awards, which will support research activities during the 2014 fiscal year than begins July 1.

“As in past years, the submissions we received for this award program are a testament to the breadth of scholarship at the UO," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, the UO's vice president for research and innovation.

“All applicants proposed important research, scholarly, and creative activities, and my office was pleased to support a record number of awards this year,” Espy said.

The Faculty Research Awards – previously called summer research awards – are an annual program that receives financial support from Research, Innovation and Graduate Education, and is administered through its research development services staff.

A faculty committee appointed by the UO Senate reviews all proposals and makes recommendations on the merits of the proposals to the vice president for research and innovation, who makes the final decisions.

This year's awards were distributed across the academic divisions: seven in the humanities, six in the social sciences, five in applied fields, two in science and two in the arts.

This year's Faculty Research Award winners (in alphabetical order) are:

• William Ayres, Professor, Anthropology, “Statuary and Archaeology on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), East Polynesia”
• Martha Bayless, Associate Professor, English “Building a New Model of Oral-Cultural Systems”
• James Crosswhite, Associate Professor, English, “Rhetorical Capabilities”
• Andre Djiffack, Associate Professor, Romance Languages, “Mongo Beti and his Critics”
• Melissa Donovick, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology, “Culturally Based Parenting Among Heterogeneous Latino families:  Feasibility of Prevention Science for Latinos”
• Hans C. Dreyer, Assistant Professor, Human Physiology, “Substrate and Metabolite Changes in Muscle During and after Tourniquet Use:  Piloting a Novel Pre-conditioning Double Therapy”
• Pedro Garcia-Caro, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, “Drama at the Rim of Empire:  the First Spanish Play Performed in California (1789)”
• James Harper, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, “The Barberini Tapestries:  Woven Monuments of the Roman Baroque”
• Kaori Idemaru, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Online Tuning of Speech Categories in Auditory Perception”
• Lamia Karim, Associate Professor, Anthropology, “Feminism Untangled:  Democracy, Religion and Legal Reform in Bangladesh”
• Tyler Kendall, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, “Dialect Diversity in Oregon”
• Atika Khurana, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology and Human Services, “Promoting Adolescent Self-regulation:  Using Brain Imaging to Evaluate Effectiveness of Individual and Family-based Interventions”
• Deanna Linville, Associate Professor, Couples and Family Therapy, “Dissemination of the "Body Project" in Primary Care”
• Kate Mondloch, Associate Professor, Art History, “Aural Sensation: Jane Cardiff’s “audio Walks”
• Kari Marie Norgaard, Associate Professor, Sociology, “Salmon Feeds Our People Book Project”
• Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Associate Professor, Physics, “Gut Fluid Dynamics”
• Roxann Prazniak, Associate Professor, Honors College, “Artistic Exchange/Mongol Empire”
• Gerald Lee Rosiek, Associate Professor, Education Studies, “Why are they doing this to us?  An Ethnographic Study of Racial Re-segregation in a Public School District”
• Deni Ruggeri, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, “From Transit Stop to Urbanity Node.  A Study of Perceived Livability, Access, Safety, and Socialization at the Transit Stop”
• Courtney Thorsson, Assistant Professor, English, “Revolutionary Recipes:  Foodways and African American Literature”
• Nelson Ting, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, “Enabling Population Genomics Across a Primate Community”
• Marsha Weisiger, Associate Professor, History, “Wild Rivers”

More information about the UO's Faculty Research Awards, including previous awardees, and other programming offered through research development services is available online.