Approved by FS 2/2/2010 FS020210 2.i

January 29, 2010

TO:                 Faculty Senate, Office of Sponsored Programs, Office of Academic Affairs

FROM:           Debra K. Japp, chair

                        Faculty Research Grants Committee

RE:                 Recommendations for Faculty Research Grant and Long Term Grant awards (FY11 money)

Faculty Research Grants Committee (attendance in bold): COB: Sohel Ahmad , Susantha Herath;  COE: Chaturi Edrisinha, Frances Kayona; CSE: Matt Julius, Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir; SSCI:  Orn, Bodvarsson, Stephen Philion;  FAH: Kathryn Gainey, Debra Japp; SpS: Cari Kenner

The committee met on January 22, 2010, to evaluate long-term and research grant applications. Thirty-seven (37) long term and research applications totaling $177,391.35 were submitted for review. The committee was notified that there was approximately $85,814.00 to award.

The following proposals are recommended for funding:

Proposal ID^1	T^2		Topic	Request	Funded	Note^3
Edrisinha	R	COE	Challenging Behavior in Children w/ Dev. Disabilities	5430	5430	$3000 stipend ($930 benefits)
Kim, C.	LT	CFAH	English Course: International Grad Students	4350	4350	$3000 stipend ($930 benefits)
Gulrud	R	COSE	Dev. MLVA DNA fingerprinting for strains of Bacillus cereus isolated from food	7192	4122
Muniz	R	COSS	Arch. Excavation of Hudson-Meng Site (NE)	8777	8777
Winter	LT	COSE	General Chemistry Lab Manual	2358	2358	$1800 stipend ($558 benefits)
Mahroof-Tahir	R	COSE	Anticancer Metal Complexes w/ DNA	6169	6169	$2900 stipend ($899 Benefits)
Gainey	LT	CFAH	Folk & Indian Art—Learning through Visual Arts	2331	2331
Karasik	R	COSS	Staff Retention in Special. Demenitia Care	5025	5025	$3000 stipend ($930 benefits)
Petitto	R	COSE	Control/Regulate Transport of Contaminants in Aquatic & Soil Systems	4500	3500	$763 stipend ($237 benefits)
Estrem	R	CFAH	Diff. in Ed Services among diff. student populations w/ Autism	3930	3930	$3000 stipend ($930 benefits)
Zuo	R	COSS	Work-Family Rel. in Post-Mao Urban China	3930	3930	$3000 stipend ($930 benefits)
Rovinsky	LT	CFAH	Study of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics	4500	2886	$600 stipend ($186 benefits)
Gorcica	R	CFAH	Interactive Sculpture/ Video Environment	5540	5540	$2400 stipend ($744 benefits
Mechelke	R	COSE	Design/Synthesis of Novel Geoniothalamin Analogue	6000	5648
Sivaprakasam	R	COSE	Mech. of dehydration of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate	3027	3027	$800 stipend ($248 benefits)
Lidberg	LT	COSE	Experimental Investigation	4500	4500
TOTAL				77559	71523

Remarks:

1. Grants are listed rank order with those receiving the highest score listed first. The total possible points available for both the long-term and the research grant proposal is 26. Scores are determined after deleting the high and low scores. Mean scores are available upon request. Members of the committee who submitted grants were not present for the evaluation of those grants.

2. Type of application: R=research grant; LT=long-term grant.

3. The committee declines to fund items on budgets that are not adequately justified or requested items not typically funded by the committee (e.g. computers).  However, if awardees receive a stipend, they can convert all or part of their Faculty Stipend [not including benefits] to fund requested budget items included in the application but not covered by the award.

The following proposals are not recommended for funding (score below 15.6, 60% of possible points):

Safonov	R	HCOB
Kurinski	LT	FAH
Van Mullem	R	COE
Lindsey	LT	COSS
Liu, Z	LT	COSE
Moorthy	R	COB
MacDonald	R	COSS
Guster	R	HCOB
Johnson, K	LT	COE
Lee, A	LT	COSE
Hossain	R	COSE
Cetkovic-Cvrlje	R	COSE
Mikolchak	LT	FAH
Woldeamanuel	RG	COSS
Ross	LT	FAH
Salk	LT	COE
Bigelow	R	COSE
Melgarejo	R	FAH
Abartis	LT	FAH
Jha	R	COSE

The following proposals fell outside of the timeline (the majority of the activity must occur between after July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011) and could not be funded:

Womack

LT

COSE