Creighton University’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship has announced the 2018 Summer Faculty Research Fellowships. This award promotes scholarship for full time faculty and gives each recipient the opportunity to pursue individual research goals during the summer.  

The following faculty are recipients:

Margaret Doig, assistant professor of mathematics, for her work on “The Combinatorics of Grid Floer Homology.” 

Kevin Estep, assistant professor of cultural and social studies, for his work on “Long-Term Impact of Participation in Justice-Oriented Study Abroad.” 

Jack Gabel, associate professor of physics, for his work on “Testing Models of Black Hole Accretion and Outflows in Quasars with Optical Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.” 

David McPherson, assistant professor of philosophy, for his work on “The Meaning-Seeking Animal: A Re-Enchanted Aristotelian Perspective.” 

Amy Nelson, associate professor of fine arts, for her work on “Artist as Activist: Service.” 

Annemarie Shibata, associate professor of cellular neuroscience, for her work on “Identification of microglial pro-inflammatory long non-coding RNA as potential therapeutic targets in neuro-inflammatory diseases.” 

Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams, assistant professor of history, for her work on “Body Politics: Power, Pluralism, and Childbirth in Nigeria.” 

Jonathan Wrubel, assistant professor of physics, for his work on “Entanglement-enhanced interferometry using magnetic states of a potassium-41 Bose-Einstein condensate.”