Success Stories
Eastern Michigan University researchers receive major grant to develop web-based tool that seeks to predict risk for developmental disorders and psychopathology in infancy. The five-year grant from National Institutes of Health totals nearly $4.5 million. Learn more about the grant.
Awards
2021
- Carly Carrasco-Wyant - Investigation of the Contextual Self
- Ann Eisenberg - Cultural Enrichment for Low-Income Study
- Imelda Hunt - Enjoying Heritage: A Kwanzaa Celebration!
- Kimberly Pavlock - One-to-One Support for Improving Online Teaching
- Ken Saldana - Offering Bangor's Farmworker Children Nutrition Sessions About Healthy Snack Options on a Shoe-String Budget
- Kristi Teasdale - Wellbeats: A Virtual Fitness Program for EMU Faculty and Staff
2020
- Michael Dailey - Cultural Experiences for Low-Income Honors Students
- Molly Dixon - Are Urban Snakes Eating Invasive Species? Analyzing Snake Diets with DNA Barcoding
- Ann Eisenberg - Presidential Scholars Program Expansion
- Matt Jones - Out of the Margins: Voices from 1279
- Phil Rufe - Additive Manufacturing for Innovation Design and Production
- Ken Saldanha - Teaching Migrant Farmworker Children About Healthy Snack Options on a Shoe-String Budget
- Karen Saules - Psychology & Eagle Nutrition Services Partnership
- Solange Simones - Global Learning at the UN CSW64/Beijing + 25
- Lauren Soli - Human Centered Design Training Supporting Innovation and Creativity
- Shiri Vivek - InventEMU
- Dorothy Zahor - Lead (Pb) in Worms and Soil of Flint, MI
2019
- Desmine Robinson - Active Minds Winter 2019
- Elena Sanchez-Vizcaino - EMU Disability Awareness Symposium
- Jose Vites - Gamification of Evening Chemistry Tutoring
- Jamie Lawler - Integrated Preschool Mental Health Collaboration
- Le'Shay Webb - Removing Roadblocks to Success with a Little MAGIC
- Batoul Abdallah - Solve-A-Thon EMU
- Audrey Farrugia-Bernard - Talk Totes: Preschool Communication Toolkits
- Jaycob Yang - The COE's Student Organizations Unite: A Conference for Students, by Students
- Amy Johnson - We're All in This Together: A Multi-disciplinary Pop Up Learning Community to Address Climate Change as a Global Human Challenge
- Peter Higgins - Women of Color Feminisms and Leadership (WOCFL) Symposium
2018
- Allison Boone Green - Women, Leadership, and Change: Experiential Learning in Washington, D.C.
- Margaret Hanes - Creating a community-building, science-based meal event
- Naomi Hashimoto - Phonological Vocabulary Learning in Older Adults: Do Phonological Short Term Memory Abilities Play a Role?
- Jeromy Hopgood - Creating an EMU to Broadway Projection Design Pipeline
- Spencer Jennings - Helping the Community through Tax Returns - Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
- Kasim Korkmaz - Workshop Series for Women on Opportunities in Construction Management
- You Li - Enhancing Digital Media Education at EMU
- Rebecca Martusewicz - Supporting the EcoJustice and Activism Conference
- Deborah Pae - The Formosa Quartet Residency at Eastern Michigan University
- Ken Saldanha - Three-day summer camp for children of migrant farmworkers in Western Michigan
- Leah Van Landingham - Children's Institute Sustainability Project
2017
- Sara Acton - Heeding the Words of Elders: Translation for Community Action
- Ethriam Brammer - Closing Racial and Gender Degree Attainment Gaps through STEM-based Living Learning Communities
- Alexis Braun Marks - Collections as Data: Digitizing the Salary Records of EMU
- Nancy Bryk - Creating a World-Class Exhibit
- Anne Casper - Authentic Research in Intro Bio I Labs
- Raul Leon - The Sisterhood Initiative: Fostering Dialogue to Create Living Learning Communities
- Michael McVey - The Seventeen-Acre Classroom
- Christina Mirtes - Concepts to Go!
- Calvin Orr II - Discovering and Developing LEADership through Alternative Breaks
- Sarah Walsh - BIKEMU: Fostering a Culture of Health and Sustainability at EMU through Bicycle Infrastructure
2016
- Ruth Ann Armitage - Dating and Chemical Analysis of Textile Fragments from Seip Moud Group
- Ann Blakeslee - Faculty-Peer Coaching Across the University Curriculum
- Margaret Crouch - Faculty Development Seminar: Sexism and Sexual Violence Curriculum Infusion
- Chiara Hensley - EMU TRUtalks and Leadership Lunch
- Renee Lajiness-O'Neill, Judi Brooks, and Angela Lukomski - Interdisciplinary Statistical Training for Complex Survey Data Analysis
- Harriet Lindsay - Enhancing ACS Project Seed by Partnering with McNair Scholars
- Megan Moore - Estimating Age of Menarche from an Early Medieval Population from Northern France
- Haley Moraniec - Swoop's Student Food Pantry
- Derek Mueller - Developing and Leading a Life Skills Workshop for Native Yourth
- Corrie Navis - Understanding Urban Birds: a Research and Outreach Project
- Carly Slank and Mitchell DeVore - Survey of the Role of Gender in Community Attitudes Towards Language Documentation and Revitalization in the Ixhil Maya Grammar Project
2015
- Anne L. Balazs - The Finishing Touch: A Resource for Job Seeking Students
- Andrea Binz and Ellen Collier - 1girl
- Ashley Falzetti - Woman to Woman: Algonquian Grammar in the Home
- Michelle Gaines - Early College Alliance@EMU-Girls Group
- Jacqueline Goodman - Unpacking the Moroccan Feminist Movement's Success
- Jill Hunsberger - Faculty Ambassadors Program
- Christine Lancaster-Professional Readiness Exam Preparation Pilot (PREPP)
- Lynn Malinoff - Helping At-Risk Students Persist: A Conference for EMU, Local Educators, and School Districts
- Kate Pittsley - Making a 'Dent" in the Textbook Problem: Library E-Books for Course Readings: A Collaboration Between Department Faculty and the EMU Library
- Melissa Robinson, Molly Peabody, Jason DeCamillis, and Janet Fisher - Connecting the Dots Conference 2015
2014
- Kryn Ambs - The Influence of Cockpit Automation on Pilot Decision-Making in Severe Weather Conditions
- Megan Connolly - The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Mentorship Program (SMP)
- DeAnna Gapp - Removing Road Blocks in High Attrition Classes
- Heather Kahn - Local Tourism Initiatives as Strategies for Economic Development: Examining the Catalytic Role of Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs)
- Hannah Keener and Emily Kent - EMU Women's Rowing
- Taylor Kirchoff - French Medieval Bioarchaeological Research Experience for EMU Undergraduate Collaborators
- Peggy Liggit - Internationally Accredited Certificate Program for Teaching in Higher Ed for EMU Faculty/Lecturers/GA’s
- Jacinda Lisi - EMU STEM-athon!
- Valerie Polakow and Marjorie Ziefert - Voices of Student Parents
2013
- Chris Aris - Bringing Nature Into Children's Lives: Children's Institute Outdoor Classroom
- Reggie Barnes - Brotherhood (Helping Others Obtain Degrees) Initiative
- Elise Buggs - Keys to Degrees Student Parent Awareness Day
- Kevin Dorn - Ann Arbor Learning Community at Leslie Science and Nature Center doing Annie's Big Nature Lesson
- Gabriela Dumitrascu - EMU Math Summer Camp
- Amy Johnson - Collaborations between Preservice and In-service Teachers to Support the Implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards
- MeeAe Nam - Recording of songs of Théodore Gouvy, the great French composer of 19th Century
- Kathy Orscheln and Bethany Fort - EMU's First Teaching-Learning Academy: a pilot project
- Caroline Sanders - Educating Our Future-Girls Mentoring
- Martin Shictman - Becoming Jewish in America: an Extended Programs Course
- Sherry Jerome Wilkinson - Ballet Project
2012
- Betty Brown-Chappell - Memories and Memorabilia: A Teaching Model
- Elisabeth Daumer - Muriel Rukeyser Website
- Robert Duke - Women in Michigan Agricultural History Exhibit at Tillers International
- Suzanne Gray - Supporting Communication Across the Curriculum through the Academic Projects Center
- Amanda Lefeld - Addressing the Need for Women's Healthcare
- Robin Lucy - EMU Inside Out - Women's and Gender Studies and Language and Literature
- Julia R. Myers - Detroit's African American Artists 1926-1986: From the Pen and Palette Club to Gallery 7 and the National Conference of Artists
- Lorinda Rausch - The Travels and Teaching of Ms. Clara Janet Allison: Professor of Classics at Michigan State Normal College 1918-1940
- Sarah Schrader - Social Behavior in Two Species of African Tarantula
- Lois Vasquez - Go Green: A Year of Sustainability at Eastern Michigan University
- Marilyn Wedenoja - Gaining a Global Worldview through Service Learning in Jamaica
2011
Lisa Andrews - Bridges to Understanding
Leslie Atzmon - Open Book catalog and Intensive Summer Workshop at EMU Parsons Center
Becky Boog - Creating a World of Active Citizens: Alternative Spring Breaks
Maria Milletti - Building a Summer Research Experience in the Chemistry Department
Claudia Petrescu - Engaging Communities through Student - Led Philanthropy
Anita Rich - Let's Watch: Playing with and Learning Through our Stories
Martin Shichtman - Scholarship Funding for "Representing the Holocaust" a Study Abroad Course
Rebecca Sipe - Honors Diversity Ambassadors
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Leslie Atzmon - Open Book catalog and Intensive Summer Workshop at EMU Parsons Center
Becky Boog - Creating a World of Active Citizens: Alternative Spring Breaks
Maria Milletti - Building a Summer Research Experience in the Chemistry Department
Claudia Petrescu - Engaging Communities through Student - Led Philanthropy
Anita Rich - Let's Watch: Playing with and Learning Through our Stories
Martin Shichtman - Scholarship Funding for "Representing the Holocaust" a Study Abroad Course
Rebecca Sipe - Honors Diversity Ambassadors
- Leslie Atzmon - Open Book catalog and Intensive Summer Workshop at EMU Parsons Center
- Becky Boog - Creating a World of Active Citizens: Alternative Spring Breaks
- Maria Milletti - Building a Summer Research Experience in the Chemistry Department
- Claudia Petrescu - Engaging Communities through Student - Led Philanthropy
- Anita Rich - Let's Watch: Playing with and Learning Through our Stories
- Martin Shichtman - Scholarship Funding for "Representing the Holocaust" a Study Abroad Course
- Rebecca Sipe - Honors Diversity Ambassadors