Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2012 Junwen Chen, a recent doctoral graduate in management information systems, investigates the role of mobile devices in blurring the temporal and geographic boundaries between work and personal life domains. Her work examines the ways in which mobile technology is both beneficial...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Haibao Tang, senior bioinformatics engineer, J. Craig Venter Institute, devised a novel ‘top-down’ computational method to clarify the evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants). His work set the stage for dramatic improvements in the precision of translational genomics, since his method can...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Yuchen Liu, postdoctoral candidate, Yale University, has made major contributions to scientists’ understanding of methanogenic Archaea. She investigated a regulatory histone-like protein in the methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus maripaludis, which required her to develop new methods and modify others specifically for the...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Darren Grem, postdoctoral research associate, Yale University, investigated the complex dialogue between conservative Christianity and business in the Sunbelt after World War II. Rather than accepting the old trope that conservative Christianity arose out of a grassroots backlash against the political...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Kaushlendra Singh, an assistant professor of wood science and technology at West Virginia University, developed novel technology for fractionating poultry litter to re-use in beneficial ways. Through fractionation, pyrolysis, and pelletization, Singh produced several value-added products from poultry litter. The smaller...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Brant Faircloth, a post-doctoral scholar in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California in Los Angeles, used molecular techniques to demonstrate a flexible mating system and social integration in Bobwhite quail. Contrary to the accepted dogma that the ground-nesting...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2009 Dennis Reidy, a psychologist now working as an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, conducted research in one of the most difficult areas to study in a scientifically controlled setting—the relationship between aggression and sexuality in modern...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2009 Noha Mesbah, a microbiologist who will soon be on faculty at Suez Canal University in Egypt, studies how some living micoorganisms survive, even thrive, in extreme environments—in particular, those that exhibit concomitantly high-temperature, high-salt, and high-pH. She has developed innovative approaches...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2008 Minchi Kim, educational psychology and instructional technology, explored the use of technology in Web-based learning environments at several educational levels. As a doctoral candidate, Kim studied how middle-school students use the Web to learn about general science; in much of her...
Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2008 Gino D’Angelo, a doctoral graduate in wildlife ecology, spearheaded a high-profile research project, funded by the Georgia Department of Transportation, to evaluate strategies for reducing deer-vehicle collisions. To establish a basic knowledge of deer’s sensory responses, D’Angelo first conducted a series...