Twenty Eastern Michigan University faculty have received the Graduate School Research Support Fund Awards for 2004-2005.
These awards are intended to encourage and support the research, creative, artistic, and scholarly endeavors of EMU faculty by providing small cash awards for outstanding proposals. The normal range of awards is $300-$2,000.
"Faculty like this award because, even though it's a relatively small amount of money, the application process is minimal and award notification is prompt — often within a week or two," said Robert Holkeboer, associate vice president for graduate studies and research. "Many of these awards have enabled faculty to collect the preliminary data they need to be competitive for outside funding."
Although a wide range of proposals are sought, the following activities are most constant with the goals of Graduate Studies and Research: preliminary data collection or initial, experimental stages of research that is likely to result in proposals for external funding; travel to archives and research sites when the data collection is likely to result in scholarly publications or grant proposals; supplies and materials needed for a master's thesis or dissertation (applicant must be the student's thesis/dissertation adviser); costs associated with survey research; and specialized software not conveniently available elsewhere.
"A Graduate School Research Support Fund Award can be used for many purposes — a piece of needed equipment, supplies, a student employee to enter and crunch data, even release time from a course in order to finish a book and meet a deadline," Holkeboer said.
Awardees for 2004-05 and their proposals are:
Catherine E. Bach, biology, "Effects of Ant Mounds and Trampling on Prairie Fen Plant Communities."
Colin Blakely, art, new printer for digital photographic output.
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Brake |
Mary Brake, College of Technology, "Plasma Processing of Environmental Waste."
Timothy Brewer, chemistry, chemical supplies for preparation and analysis of fluorescent-based metal complexes.
George Cassar, history and philosophy, "Lloyd George as War Leader."
Kathy Chu, mathematics, bioinformatics workshop, Institute for Genetic Research, Woods Hole, Mass.
Heather Holmes, chemistry, "Construction and Testing of a Sorbent-Trap Inlet System for the Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds in Biological Matrices."
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Kuehn |
Kevin Kuehn, biology, student registrations for the annual meeting of the North America Benthological Society.
Harriet Lindsay, chemistry, "A Model for the Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Sugar Mimics with Biomedical Applications."
Michael McGuire, music and dance, familiarity with music therapy literature.
Maria Milletti, chemistry, "Molecular Modeling of Large, Biologically Relevant Systems."
Mansoor Moaddel, sociology, anthropology and criminology. "Youth, Emotional Energy and Political Violence."
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Motschall |
Melissa Motschall, English language and literature, on-line survey research.
Russell Olwell, history and philosophy, "Filling in the Moat Around the Ivory Tower."
John Palladino, special education, "Understanding School Social Workers' Experience with Special Services."
Diana Pancioli, art, wood-burning kiln.
Valerie Polakow, teacher education, "Who Cares for the Children?"
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Shichtman |
Martin Shichtman, English language and literature, "Middle Ages at the Movies," research in London and Winchester.
Edward Sidlow, political science, freshman orientation, "Adaptation to Life in Congress."
Donald Snyder, chemistry, acquisition of interdigitated electrode array microchips.
For more information, visit www.gsr.emich.edu.
