Faculty Development Grant Awards 2025-2026 Recipients

Faculty Development Grant Awards 2025-2026 Recipients
Name FDG Proposal
Dr. Abel Ayele From Planar to Spatial Dynamics: A Full-Car Mathematical Modeling Framework for Railway Vehicle-Track Interaction
Dr. Jacquetta Ayewoh From Race Men to YN’s: Literary Rejections of Race Man Tropology Illustrated by Wright’s Black Male Protagonists: Bigger Thomas (Native Son), Dave (“The Man Who Was Almost a Man”), and Saul (“The Man Who Killed a Shadow”)
Dr. Karen Baskerville Building Open Neuroscience Tools in Brazil for C: elegans Research and Teaching
Dr. Denise Brown Interactive Board Game Project
Dr. Wayne Edge Comparing the Emergence and Impact of Developmental States of Southern Africa and Latin America
Dr. Shannon Feliciano Maternal Incarceration and Adolescent Depression: Neighborhood Disorder and the Conditional Role of School Connectedness
Dr. Cora Firkin Promoting Personalized Park-Based Exercise for Adults with Development Disabilities
Dr. James Gallagher Preparation of an NSF implementation grant to establish VR STEM education experience at Lincoln University
Dr. Nora L. Gardner I Knew that Spain once belonged to the Moors – Afro descendants in Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Literary Canon and International Spanish Civil War Archives
Dr. Saurabh Gayen Designing Experiments and Writing Lab manuals for Upper-level Physics Courses
Dr. Christopher Gonzalez Meaning as Payoff: Cultural Interpretation and Consumer Valuation of Marketplace Signals
Ms. Ava Hassinger Continuing The Legacy of Noah Purifoy
Dr. Eve Humphrey Establishing Vertebrate Research at Lincoln University
Dr. Emmanuel Ihejirika A Quantitative Analysis of Leadership Styles and Organizational Financial Success
Dr. François Kodena Akoma MBA: Toward the Rebirth of Pan-Afrikan Leadership
Ms. Ashley Kuhn Material Spirituality: Feminist Abstraction and Esoteric Lineage in Contemporary Painting
Dr. Carmen Lesesne Measuring the Impact of Self-Paced Cultural Awareness Training Modules on Educators’ Instructional Practices
Dr. Sakil Mahmud Statistical Modeling for Optimization of Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles: A Full Factorial Design
Dr. Lukas Pelliccio Analyzing Italian-American Podcasts and Social Media Accounts Working to Reclaim Ethnicity and Culture
Dr. Teresa Powell Development of an NSF Robert Noyce Capacity Building Proposal to Establish a 4+1 STEM Teacher Preparation Pipeline at Lincoln University
Dr. Ray K. Saunders Characterization of an Unknown Bacterium’s Antibacterial Activity against ESKAPE Pathogens in Simulated Body Fluids
Dr. Camille Warner Course Development: Psychology of Learning
Ms. Trejha Whitfield Summer 2026 Faculty Writing Retreat for Dissertation Chapter Completion
Dr. Michael Wilson Book Project: Between Here and There: Visualizing the Afterlives of Danish and U.S. Empire
Dr. Vesna Zeljkovic Nanostructure Microscopic Image Analysis