Archived Proposals
Archives
To assist applicants in preparing their proposals, the archives include examples of prior successful applications. PLEASE NOTE: These are not being presented as models of THE right way to complete an application. As you will see, although all these were successful proposals, they differ one from another. Also, the application instructions for the current year may differ somewhat based on what we have learned in earlier years. Be sure to follow the instructions for the year in which you are applying. Having said that, it is hoped that these examples, along with the extensive application instructions, will help guide candidates in constructing clear, detailed, and compelling proposals.
2022
- Evaluating the Self-Reference Effect as an Encoding Strategy for Individuals Displaying Autistic Traits: An Eye Tracking Study
- Factoring out Racial Bias: Developing a Dual-Sensor System for Pulse Oximetry
- The Dark Side of Domesticity: Tracking the Evolution of the Female Gothic in Victorian Literature
- Data Justice: MENA Women, Preterm Birth, and Discrimination
- The Age of Uncertainty: Reconsidering Friedrich Nietzsche’s Place Within Modern European Intellectual History
- Clinic Closures and High School Dropouts: How Abortion Access Impacts Female Educational Attainment in Texas
2021
- Simulating Vibrational Soundscapes to Investigate the Effect of Vibrational Road Noise on Animals
- Policy Solutions Waiting to Be Seen: Applying Intersectionality Policy Process Analysis to State Anti-Poverty Programs
- Addressing Access and Equity in Mathematics Education: The Role of Technology in the Twenty-First Century Classroom
- Queer Theory and Arts Administration Practices: How Could a Queer Value System Change the Way Theatrical Organizations Operate?
- Secularism in Egypt After the Arab Spring: An Ethnographic Approach
2020
- The Reclamation: Stories from the Margins and the LGBTQIA+ Communities in El Salvador
- Mitigating Carbon Emissions: Four Strategies for Sequestering Atomospheric CO2 in Trees
- The Politics of Dancing: A Study of Ballet as a Political Tool
2019
- Impact of a Rural-Indian Adolescent Girls Program
- Female Identity and Intersectionality in Contemporary Speculative Fiction
- Effect of pH and Salt Concentration on the HER2 Pathway in Gastric Cancer Cells
- Searching for Situated Decoding of Gender in Forest Schools
- Cuerpo Talk: The Memoir of a Gringita
2018
- Internationally adopted children with PHIV
- Implications of the Cross Education Phenomenon on Rehabilitation and Training
- Transforming Social Studies- A Case Study of Place-Based Education at a Rural High School in North Carolina
- Analyzing the Representation and Influence of Nineteenth-Century Cultural Attitudes Towards Female Sexuality in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry
2017
- Creating Empathy: How Sensory Stimulation in Theatre Advances Audience Understanding of Holocaust Historiography
- “Speak I Must!” Historicizing a Feminist Linguistic Approach to the Bronte Novels
- Toward Interconnected Sustainability Education: A Case Study of Four “Green Schools of Excellence” in North Carolina
- Synthesis, Characterization, and Bioactivity of Vanadium Based Phosphonate Antibiotic Analogues
2016
- The Role of Ethiopian Midwives in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV: A Human Rights Framework
- Constructing and Performing Authority in Yoga Traditions: An Ethnographic Approach
- An International Transformation of Produce: The Marketing of Imperfect Produce in France and the United States
- The Importance of Neurotransmitter-Stabilized Amyloid Beta Oligomers in the Cell Death Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease