April 30, 2007

Congratulations to the recipients of the thirdround of IDRC mini-grants in 2006-2007!

Eighteen proposals with a total of $21,431 in requests were received. The amount of money available for this cycles $8,555. The budget was supplemented over this amount by a restricted budget of the Academic Affairs Office, which then requested that the recipients follow IDRC reporting guidelines. Fourteen proposals for a total of $10,576 were funded.

Applicants and project titles of successful grants to date are below. There has been over $71,000 in requests, with over $39,000 funded. All grants for the academic year will be summarized in greater detail in an annual report in August.

Applicant Name / Project Title
Mary Ellen Batiuk / Building Responsive and Responsible Communities using 360-degree evaluations: Presentation at Academic Chairpersons Conference
Mary Ellen Batiuk, Don Chafin, Don Troike, Michael Snarr, Neil Snarr, Paul Moke, Tim Hawk and Doug Burks / IDS125 in the new general education curriculum
Lisa Bauer and Barbara Loebach / Developing a reading clinic at Eastgate
Michele Beery / Teaching with technology
Doug Burks / Involvement of Students in Molecular Biology Using Toxoplasma gondiias a model system to study mRNA expression of mitosis regulators
Doug Burks, Terry Miller and Cathy Pitzer / Wilmington College Team presentation and attendance at FAHE, June 2007
Doug Burks and Doug Woodmansee / Presentation at International Congress on Toxoplasmosis
Kendra Cipollini / Restoration of forest communities after removal of invasive honeysuckle: Presentation at Ecological Society of America and Society for Restoration Ecology Annual Meeting
Kendra Cipollini, Don Troike, Doug Burks, Doug Woodmansee / Coordinating writing and critical thinking across the biological sciences
Al Conklin / Presentation at Soil Science Meeting
Al Conklin / Developing and testing solid-state micro-electrodes
Charlotte Fairlie / Learning Scots Gaelic language
Erich Fein / Personality predictors of self-regulation: Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Erich Fein / Initial Validation of a Five Factor Model Predictor Composite
James Fitzsimmons / How to create and assess meaningful mathematics writing assignments: Presentation at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Kathy Flynn / Participation in Human Resource Conference, Las Vegas, NV
Erika Goodwin / Presentation at National Athletic Trainers Association Athletic Training Educators' Conference
Erinn Green and Erich Fein / Junior Faculty Scholarship Circles
Esmail Hejazifar / Participation in Workshop for Department and Division Chairs
Martha Hendricks / Toward the Articulation of Poor Urban Parent’s Participation in their Children’s Schooling
Russell Kincaid and William Kincaid / Preparation of grant proposal entitled “Teaching mathematics through role-playing”
Barbara Loebach and Lisa Bauer / Participation in International Reading Association Annual Conference
Bernie Matt / Participation in Midwest Annual Business Administration Conference
James McNelis / Participation in International Congress on Medieval Studies
Dore Meinholtz / Participation in American Chemical Society Meeting
Angela Mitchell / Presentation at Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management
Angela Mitchell / Presentation at Fort Hays Leadership Institute
Cathy Pitzer / Teaching homelessness: Presentation at Northcentral Sociological Association Meeting
Michael Snarr / Global issues research with students
Stephen Spencer / Teaching identity, an organizational theme for multicultural literature courses: Presentation at Race and Pedagogy Conference
Steven Stovall / Organizational size and governance structure: effects on HRM: Presentation at AMA Conference
Jeff Stahley / Presentation at Congreso Anual de Literaturas Hispánicas
Steven Stovall / Hammarabi, Hawthorne Studies and Halicarnassuss: Using history to teach modern management principles: Presentation at IBAM Conference
Laura Struve / Research on the relation of novels to life
Laura Struve / The diamond trade: The economics of love and colonialism in the Victorian novel: Presentation at NAVSA Conference
Steve Szeghi / Research meeting for Quaker Institute for the Future: Building a moral economy
Linda Tecklenberg / Participation at National Athletic Trainers Association Conference
Don Troike / Participation in Grant Writing Workshop
Jennifer Walker / Participation in National Athletic Trainers Association Athletic Training Educators' Conference
Jennifer Walker / Participation in National Athletic Trainers Association Conference
Marta Wilkinson / Death by Corset: Presentation at American Comparative Literature Conference
Marta Wilkinson / Sexualizing Race in George Sand’s Indiana: Presentation at Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference
Doug Woodmansee / Continued analysis of transcriptional regulation of Toxoplasma gondiigenes affected by cell cycle blockade
Mary Rose Zink, Paul Moke, Laura Struve and Mary Ellen Batiuk / Development of Academic Excellence