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Award winner Assistant Professor E. Earlynn Lauer, WIU Department of Kinesiology, is pictured with Interim Provost Kathy Neumann and CITR Director Roger Runquist.
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Award winner Professor Kishor T. Kapale, WIU Department of Physics, is pictured with Interim Provost Kathy Neumann and CITR Director Roger Runquist.
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CITR Announces Faculty Award Winners

April 18, 2018

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MACOMB, IL – The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Research (CITR) hosted the Faculty Research and Creative Activities Awards Thursday April 12 in the University Union Capitol Room.

This event highlights the innovations in research and creative activities from across campus and disseminate/share the same across disciplines. Current full-time faculty were invited to submit proposals in two research categories and the top three proposals in each category were invited to present. The WIU faculty member with the top-rated proposal in each track were awarded a $500 line item expenditure to further their research.

This year's winners are:

Research Development Activities -

• "Understanding Mental Toughness: From Investigation to Application in Youth Sport" – Assistant Professor E. Earlynn Lauer, WIU Department of Kinesiology


Professional Research and Creative Activities -

• "A Road to the Development of Ultra-Precise Sensors of the Future"- Professor Kishor T. Kapale, WIU Department of Physics


Finalists for this year's awards include:

Research Development Activities -


• "Suicidal Thinking Workplace Stress, Coping, Perceived Barriers and Support for Illinois Department of Corrections Employees" – Assistant Professor Kristy M. Keefe, WIU Department of Psychology and Associate Professor Katherine Perone, WIU Department of Health Sciences and Social Work

• "Evaluations of Interactive Learning Tools Among College Students in STEM Education:
Interaction of Student Grit and Gender" – Assistant Professor Eun Go, WIU Department of Broadcasting and Journalism, Professor Colin Harbke, WIU Department of Psychology, and Assistant Professor Il-Seop Shin, WIU School of Engineering


Professional Research and Creative Activities -

• "Timing Prediction Based System Reconfiguration on Many-Core Mixed-Criticality Platforms" – Assistant Professor Zheng Li, WIU School of Computer Sciences

• "Individual Differences, Traits, Motives Related to Caffeine Use in College Students" – Assistant Professor Kristy M. Keefe and Assistant Professor Jonathan J. Hammersley, WIU Department of Psychology

For more information about CITR, visit wiu.edu/CITR/.

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