2014-2015 FCC GRANT RECIPIENTS
Announced JULY 10, 2014
Achieve Improved Math (A.I.M.)$2,600 Dr. Mark Pousson, Staff
This award will offer incoming freshmen the opportunity to attend a math boot camp focusing on college math skills. This may increase students’ readiness for college math courses and academic success.
Alumni Professional Networking Event; Change is Inevitable… Growth is Optional
$5,000 Michelle Siegel, Staff
This award will allow the Alumni office to provide a Fall 2014 Alumni Professional Networking event.
Creating a Yunique Classroom
$14,480 Rogene Nelsen, Faculty
This award will allow Fontbonne’s Fashion Merchandising program to purchase Gerbers’ Yunique Lifecycle Management (PLM) system.
Early Identification of Hearing Loss in Belizean Children
$9,300 Dr. Gale Rice, Faculty
This award will support funding for audiometric equipment which can identify hearing loss in very young children in Belize.
Falling – Autism Education Project
$12,400 Dr. Deanna Jent, Faculty
This award will allow for the creation of an educational DVD and curriculum materials in collaboration with Fontbonne teachers and students.
KidsGROW: Gaining knowledge, reducing waste, opening minds & welcoming new flavors & tastes
$2,806 Andrea Puricelli, Student
This award will develop a collaborative network between undergraduate dietetics majors and graduate students in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Missouri Extension, and two non-profit agencies, Operation Food Search and Gateway Greening.
Leading the Legacy: Fontbonne Student Ambassadors
$6,395 Courtney Musial, Staff
This award will allow Fontbonne to implement a campus program that equips and utilizes our students’ to their highest potential to reach the common goal of making Fontbonne University a preferred destination.
One Day Workshop for Children Who Stutter
$1,600 Dr. Lynn Shields, Faculty
This award will allow Fontbonne to host a one day workshop that will provide activities for children who stutter and their families, direct experience for students, and continuing education for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the community.
Project ARCH: Accelerating Responsive Communication at Home
$12,250 Dr. Susan Lenihan, Faculty
This award will allow Fontbonne faculty and graduate students from the Communication Disorders & Deaf Education program to implement Project ARCH, a communication enrichment program for low-income families.
Robotics – A STEM Initiative
$4,500 Mary Abkemeier, Faculty
This award will allow the University to purchase robots for students who will enroll in CIS 365, Robotics, fall 2014.
Summer Research Program for Undergraduates at Fontbonne
$4,500 Yi Yang, Faculty
This award will allow Fontbonne Faculty to launch a summer research program for undergraduates, so that they can work with faculty members and be involved in hands-on research.
Viva Voice Camp
$5,350 Andrea Vargas, Student
This award will allow Fontbonne Faculty and students to host a tuition-free camp for ten 6-12 year olds with hearing loss in Costa Rica.
2013-2014 FCC GRANT RECIPIENTS
Announced JULY 11, 2013
Academic Excellence Meets Catholic Identity: A Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of an Exciting Vatican II Document$4,700 Mary Beth Gallagher, Staff
This grant project will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II document and create a forum for discussing its relevance to today’s church.
Achieve Science Knowledge (A.S.K.)
$8,075 Dr. Mark Pousson, Faculty
This grant will allow The Kinkel Center to hire a professional science tutor.
Always Moving Towards the More
$3,500 Kathy Kinney – Alumni Relations
This grant will allow the University’s Spirituality Committee to offer an extra event meant to further strengthen the bonds of all who participate.
Colors of Christmas Project
$1,000 Denise Mueller, Student
This grant will support the development and implementation of a puppet project used to communicate values to children while simultaneously illustrating to pre-service teachers the importance puppetry can have in supporting student achievement.
Digitizing and Indexing The Font (1963-1968)
$3,520 Catherine Lucy, Staff
This grant will allow the final six years of The Font to be digitized and indexed for referencing in perpetuity.
Let’s be FIRST Leaders
$4,404 Isabella Liu, Student
This grant will allow the University to develop a retention program that is specific to our international student population.
Monkey Bones: Teaching the Figure through Animal Anatomy
$6,900 Tim Liddy, Faculty
This grant will allow the University to add the study of animal skeletal and mechanical structures to its human anatomy drawing course to investigate comparative anatomy and better understand the human figure and its motion.
More Access for Success
$12,975 Dr. Deanna Jent, Faculty
This grant will elevate the visibility of the Fine Arts building by transforming it into a venue welcoming to guests and comfortable to all.
Photographic Expansion
$9,000 Mark Douglas, Faculty
This grant will support the purchase of sophisticated photography equipmentneeded toattract new students to the study of this particular medium.
Presentation Set-Up for Curriculum Resource Room
$1,500 Justin Megahan, Faculty
This grant will allow the library to acquire a large, flat screen television for the lower level of the library.
Raising the Count
$5,300 Maria Eftink, Staff
This grant will provide the Retention Think Tank hold an intensive brainstorming/planning retreat focused on increasing student retention.
Reflecting into the Future
$5,500 Dr. Sarah Huisman, Faculty
This grant will support the extension of a published research project and help develop a method for training pre-service teachers to regularly practice self-evaluation.
Service Learning Workshop
$3,500 Dr. Suzanne Stoelting, Faculty
This grant will allow Dr. Stoelting to engage Fontbonne faculty with those with a proven record of success applying the principles of Serving Learning in their classrooms.
Study Abroad in Berlin
$6,930 Margaret Gilleo, Faculty
This grant will allow students to tour a host of Berlin sites that will influence their personal perspective(s) on social (in)justices.
Fontbonne Technology Resource Room
$7,300 Amy Peach, Staff
This grant will help establish a room for students and faculty to experiment with cutting edge technology that may be encountered in the field.
2012-2013 FCC GRANT RECIPIENTS
Announced July 10, 2012
F.R.E.S.H. Greens Garden Project
$10,000Mary Beth Ohlms, M.Ed., RD LD, Faculty
This grant will help implement a garden on the Fontbonne University campus. The garden will be used as a training ground to teach health and promote dietary behavior in an effort to address growing rates of overweight and obesity among our nation’s children/adolescents.
Wheels for Ceramic Studio
$7,000Catherine Talasek, Faculty
This grant will provide a dedicated wheel to undergraduate and graduate Ceramics majors and be accessible to them at all times. Additionally, it will add enough wheels for each class participant to have a wheel during class.
Promoting Academic Excellence and Leadership in Undergraduate Psychology Research
$2,400Stephanie Afful, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will provide Fontbonne’s current psychology senior students, who are also members of the Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology, the opportunity to present their original research at a regional conference of Psi Chi.
Delivering the Best Financial Aid to Fontbonne Students
$2,000Keith Walker, Staff
This grant will allow a member of the Financial Aid Department to attend a key conference covering the most up-to-date information on Federal Financial Aid programs and ever-evolving federal policies and procedures impacting our students and institution.
Emerging Griffins Leadership Program
$5,000 Janelle A. Densberger, Ph.D., Staff
This grant will fund a pilot project, the Emerging Griffins Leadership Program, which will better prepare first year and sophomore students for more significant leadership roles and impact. It will provide students in the program a cohort group, participation in a Leadership Workshop Series, an advisor, and access to community leaders.
The students will develop, coordinate, and launch a project of their choosing within
the Fontbonne or St. Louis community.
Fine Arts Gallery Visiting Artist Series
$6,000Ellen Gochnour, Staff
This grant will help provide for visiting artists who will give presentations, conduct workshops and give critiques to our students and public artists. This project will continue to build on the momentum in the Fine Arts Department by increasing Fontbonne’s visibility in the art world and within our community.
Fontbonne-Bosnian Partnership Speakers Series
$5,000 Benjamin Moore, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will provide for a new Fontbonne University speaker series conducted in collaboration with the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS). It will feature Bosnian-American professionals and intellectuals from across the U.S. This interdisciplinary series will serve our university and the public by promoting academic and professional development.
Curricular Collaboration Creates World Premiere!
$18,420 Deanna Jent, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will help fund a project that will, through curriculum collaboration, creatively connect Fontbonne with those at St. Louis area faith-based high schools in the adaptation, performance and discussion of Mustard Seed Theatre’s world premiere of “Imaginary Jesus.”
Graduates of the Last Decade
$5,000Carrie Wenberg, Staff
This grant will allow Fontbonne to offer professional development programming targeted to the graduates of the last decade. The Alumni Office will collaborate with the Office of Career Development, as well as academic departments, to research and develop the programs.
Operation Early Literacy
$7,500 Katina Herbert, Student
This grant will provide Fontbonne pre-service teachers with the instruction and materials they need to participate in the Ready Readers program. This program is designed to help enhance early literary skills for low-income communities and make a difference in pre-school children’s lives.
Teaching and Learning Conference Attendance
$5,000 Suzanne Stoelting, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will help fund faculty attendance at professional conferences and workshops.
Aphasia Boot Camp
$10,000 Carmen Russell, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will allow Fontbonne, through its resources available in the Eardley Family Clinic, to provide an intensive therapy camp for people with chronic aphasia. While rehabilitation centers offer traditional aphasia therapy, no opportunities exist in the Saint Louis area for this type of specialized intensive treatment plan. This camp will benefit local people with aphasia and offer Fontbonne’s graduate speech-language pathology students the unique opportunity to learn how to administer this level of intervention.
Page2Stage: Adapting the Writings of Young Authors to the Stage
$2,500 Darrell Barber, Staff
This grant will conduct story writing workshops for K-6 students and then adapt the stories written into a show performed by local area actors. It will interest and excite students in reading and encourage them to write while giving many of them their first theatre experience.
Exploring the Role of Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Stuttering Treatment
$4,500Lynne Shields, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will help a member of the Fontbonne faculty, who is a board-recognized specialist in fluency disorders, attend a training program at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering in London. This Centre is renowned for clinical treatment, research and professional training in stuttering, particularly in incorporating Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) in treatment.
2011-2012 FCC GRANT RECIPIENTS
Announced on JULY 14, 2011
GREEN GRIFFINS: Ethical, Responsible, Environmental
$4,774 Marielle Counts, Student Organization
Provides a unified and campus-wide recycling effort by expanding the materials being recycled and publicizing the effort to increase involvement.
High School Honor Students Day at Fontbonne
$5,050Cameron Elliott, Student Organization
The members of Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD), a national honor society at Fontbonne celebrating academic achievement of first-year students will invite honor students from local Catholic high schools for a day on the Fontbonne campus in the fall, 2011 with a goal to attract more highly qualified students.
Sound System for Medaille Meadow and Arnold Memorial Center
$5,213Chris Gill, Staff
This grant provides a permanent weather-proof sound system to benefit events held in the Medaille Meadow and Arnold Memorial Center (AMC).
If only Someone had Taken the Time…
$1,225 Liz Glaser, Faculty
A ½-day training seminar taught by an OPTIONS faculty member teamed with an experienced facilitator to address how to take steps to reduce or eliminate bullying before it escalates to workplace or educational institution violence.
Digitizing & Indexing The FONT
$8,000 Jane Hassett, C.S.J., Staff
The grant allows Fontbonne to create digital copies of the 1947 – 1963 Fontbonne College student paper and to make these and previously digitized issues searchable, thus more easily accessed.
Student Athletes Thinking and Acting Responsibly and Safely (STARS)
$2,800Carla Hickman, Staff
Four student athletes and two athletic staff members will attend the NCAA annual conference that educates student athletes on ways to combat student drinking and will then establish a pilot peer educator program for Fontbonne’s athletic teams.
Cold Feat
$5,600 Dana SF Homsi, Ph.D., Staff
This will provide a scientific refrigerator which will allow Fontbonne to extend its laboratory activities into the low temperature range and will be used by biology, chemistry and physical science students.
Technology for Teaching
$8,367 Ruth Irvine, Faculty
This grant will equip three additional classrooms with Smart Boards and the Education Department Faculty will ensure that students will become proficient
in their use so that they are equipped to use the technology they can expect to encounter in their teaching careers.
Mustard Seed Theatre New Play Contest
$6,890Deanna Jent, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will allow the Mustard Seed Theatre to conduct an international competition for new plays exploring faith and social justice issues. The winning play will be presented in the spring of 2012.
Dedicated Semester:The Disability Experience:Quest forEmpowerment
$10,000 Susan Lenihan, Ph. D. and Margaret Gray, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will provide high profile speakers in support of the 2011 dedicated semester with the theme, The Disability Experience: Quest for Empowerment, exploring the contributions and challenges of Americans with disabilities.
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Curriculum
$6,480 Randy Rosenberg, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will provide for the development of two modules related to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for use by faculty from a variety of disciplines. These modules will include an introduction to the subject and will connect disciplinary themes to it.
Textbooks on Reserve
$4,000 Jane Snyder, Staff
This grant will provide some general education textbooks on reserve in the library and additional textbooks will be chosen based on students’ requests at the beginning of each semester. The availability of textbooks in the library has become increasingly important since textbooks are no longer funded by student aid.
Faculty & Staff Professional Development through Webinars
$5,000 Suzanne Stoelting, Ph.D., Faculty
This grant will provide for the participation in and purchase of Webinars and Webinar CDs which will allow faculty and staff to continue to grow as professionals and maintain Fontbonne’s commitment to academic excellence.
Oil Painting Medium Lab
$5,000Victor Wang, Faculty
This grant will provide for the development of an oil painting medium lab. This will allow Fontbonne to offer a workshop utilizing oil painting medium to create the painting effects and is the first step in the development of a minor of painting restoration.
Alumni Attitudes Survey
$8,000Carrie Wenberg, Staff
The Alumni Office will use an outside vendor that specializes in alumni feedback/research to conduct an alumni survey and analysis of their attitudes. This will allow the Alumni Office to understand components of alumni satisfaction make strategic decisions, set priorities and offer more meaningful programming.
2010-2011 FCC GRANT RECIPIENTS
Announced on JULY 15, 2010
Interdisciplinary Community Connections – Autism
$6,450Margaret Gray, Faculty/Education
The Education/Special Education and Communication Disorders/Deaf Education departments will explore interdisciplinary courses and possibly a full autism program.
Friends & Family Day: One-Day Workshop for Children who Stutter, Their Families, and the Professionals Who Serve Them
$1,600Lynn Shields, Faculty/Communication Disorders
Students will gain clinical and academic experience and professional pathologists will hear a nationally-recognized expert in stuttering.
Building Connections through Rural Social Work Field Education Experiences
$10,000Catharine Mennes/ Faculty, Behavioral Sciences
A Spring Break Internship Program in three rural social work agencies will help Fontbonne address the need for more rural social workers.
Executive Seminar Pilot Project
$9,500Jim Marchbank, Faculty/OPTIONS
Two (1.5) day seminars will boost the management skills of 50-60 key executives in the top 100 St. Louis companies.
Zebrafish Development Lab
$3,000Rebecca Foushee/Faculty, Behavioral Sciences
The Behavioral Science and Biological Physical Sciences will conduct collective and interdisciplinary faculty-student research projects.
Fine Arts Gallery Renovation Project
$10,000Ellen Gochnour, Staff/Fine Arts
The gallery will be enlarged and updated with more lockable wall space, increased security and improved lighting.
Grow a Show for Mustard Seed Theatre
$9,700Deanna Jent, Faculty/Fine Arts
A fourth show in the theatre’s production season will promote its commitment to addressing faith, social justice and racial diversity.
Increasing Information Access: Literacy Circles
$463Christina Tillotson, Graduate Student/Family and Consumer Sciences
This student in Fontbonne’s HES Graduate program will determine if literacy circles in a high school Family and Consumer Science classroomincrease student comprehension and interest in reading.
Collective Memory in St. Louis: Recollection, Forgetting and the Common Good – Academic Symposium
$5,000Randy Rosenberg, Faculty/History, Philosophy, and Religion
This symposium - in conjunction with the Missouri Historical Society - will link interdisciplinary study to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and raise community awareness about Fontbonne’s academic excellence.