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Worcester State College Campus News
Item Released 9/12/07 2007 – 2008 Faculty Mini-Grant Program The Worcester State College Mini-Grant Program offers faculty with an opportunity to seek college-funding for scholarly and/or creative activities that they wish to be involved in. Each year the Mini-Grant Review Committee is established. This group consists of seven faculty and senior administrative officers who have volunteered to take on the task of reviewing proposals and making recommendations to the Academic Vice President. With the mini-grant program entering its tenth year, this task has become more and more difficult. To illustrate the competitive nature of this program, this year’s committee was responsible for reviewing 59 quality proposals, requesting over $236,000 in financial support. From that initial list, thirty-four mini-grant projects were recommended for approval enabling 43 faculty members an opportunity to work on individual and/or joint projects. Through the combined efforts of both the College and the Office of Institutional Advancement, this year we are pleased to announce that $100,000 has been made available to provide financial support for the following projects: The following projects have been funded for the 2007-2008 academic year: Dr. Lynn Bloomberg, Dr Ellen Fynan, Ellen Rearick “An Interdisciplinary Public Health Seminar Series and Career/Internship Symposium Program for Undergraduate Students” Dr. Corey Dolgon, Dr. Lori Dawson, Carrie Rice “Risk and Liability Issues in Service Learning and Civic Engagement” Dr. Sue Fan Foo “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Hidden Burden in School” Dr. Joanne Gallagher, Dr. Catherine McNeil “Learning to Ride a Bike”- A Childhood Occupation Community Event” Dr. Anne (Shiko) Gathuo “Bi-Annual Survey of Innovative Programs by Central and Western Massachusetts Nonprofit Organization” Dr. John Goodchild “A New Way of Making Nucleosides” Dr. Aldo Garcia Guevara “Justice and Social Control in a Military Dictatorship: El Salvador 1930-1960 Dr. Charlotte Haller “Taking Liberties: Household, Race and Black Freedom in Revolutionary North Carolina” Dr. William Hansen “Sustainability and Survivability in Modern American Agricultural; A Curriculum for Worcester State College” Professor John Hood “Lightbox – A Pedagogical Breakthrough for Lighting Design and Technology” Dr. Eihab Jaber “Nanotechnology – Development of a New Class of Magnetic-Susceptible Smart Materials” Dr. Bonnie Kanner “Cultural Variations in College Student’s Understanding of the Nature and Purposes of Marriage” Dr. Frank Lamelas “Raman Spectroscopy at High Pressure” Dr. Linda Larrivee, Dr. Susanna Meyer, Dr. Emily Soltano “Predictors of English Language Development in Internationally Adopted Children” Dr. James Lyons, Dr. William Hansen “Integration of Physical Geography Field Methods and Geotechnical Data Analyses into the Earth Science Curriculum” Dr. Kyle Martin “Apple IPOD in the Classroom” Dr. Susanna Meyer “Hearing Conservation in Preteens” Professor Dennis Moore “How is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 affecting the Accounting Profession as a whole within Worcester County?” Dr. Jeffry Nichols “Hemoglobin Kinetics of Scapharca Mutants” Dr. Christie Nigro “Cello Recital at Worcester State College for Spring 2008 after Cello Study with a Master Teacher” Dr. Juan Orbe, Dr. Guillermina Elissondo “Creation of a Language & Society Program in Mexico (Graduate, Undergraduate and Community)” Dr. Bonnie Orcutt “Microfinance: Prospects for Prosperity” Dr. Josna Rege “South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive: Building Community in and Across Nations” Dr. Beth Russell “Reliability of the Parental Interview of Caregiving – Infancy” Professor Amaryllis Siniossoglou “Digital Art, Digital Printmaking and Book Arts” Dr. Champika K. Soysa “One year Post-Tsunami: PTSD in Two Ethnic Groups in Sri Lanka (Northern & Southern Sri Lanka)” Dr. Sudha Swaminathan, Dr. Frank Lamelas “Physics in Art: An Interdisciplinary Course” Dr. Antonieto Tan “Survey of Bioluminescent Marine Bacteria from Fresh Marine Organisms” Dr. Henry Theriault (Declined by Professor Theriault) “International Association of Genocide Scholars 7th Biennial Meeting – Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina” Dr. Randall Tracy “Quantifying Animal Diversity in Worcester County: Continued Undergraduate Student Research at Worcester State College” Dr. Karen Woods Weierman “Writing at Worcester State: A Professional Development Series for Composition Instructors” Dr. Catherine Wilcox-Titus “London Art Tour” Dr. Sharon Yang “Book Project: Goddesses, Mages and Wise Women: The Female Pastoral Guide in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century British Drama” Dr. Barbara Zang “Archival Research, Analysis and Writing: Access to the Papers of the Project on Public Life and the Press”
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