Centers and Institutes

FRANK VAN GRAAS (Avionics Engineering Center) "Fellowship -- Dustin Bates: Navigation Using Active Optical Tracking of Objects at Unknown Locations," Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute, $48,510.

MICHAEL BRAASCH (Avionics Engineering Center) "Free Flight GPS/WAAS Software," Free Flight Systems, $10,000; Free Flight Systems, $20,000; "Dulles International Airport 4th Runway," CH2M Hill, Inc., $6,455; "Delfin L29 Flight Testing: June 2008," Athena Technologies, Inc., $22,000; "Support of the FAA's ADS-B (Automated Dependent Surveillance and Broadcast) Program Office," ITT Corporation, $75,805.90; "Delfin L29 Flight Testing: June 2008," Athena Technologies, Inc., $22,000.

GERALD KRZIC (Ohio Program of Intensive English) "Services Agreement: Indonesia Undergraduate English Language Study Program (IELSP)," Institute for International Education, $71,952.

TAEIL KIM, HEATHER STEPHENS and DAVID SIMON (Voinovich School) "Wind Supply Chain Web Site," Westside Industrial Retention and Expansion Network, $66,856.

SUSAN ISAAC (Voinovich School) "Local Government Administration and Rural Development," Ohio North East Health Systems, Inc., $5,500.

KEVIN ASPEGREN (Voinovich School) "New Markets Operational Assistance," Adena Ventures, $55,950.

LESLI JOHNSON (Voinovich School) "Southeast Ohio CARE Consortium Evaluation," Southeast Ohio CARE Consortium, $1,500.

ROBIN STEWART, CINDY POOLE and DARREN COHEN (Voinovich School) "CAN Network," Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, $15,000.

ROBERT GORDON, ROBIN STEWART and ZACHARY HOLL (Voinovich School) "Ohio Skills Bank Region 11 Coordinator," Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, $20,000.

MARSHA LEWIS (Voinovich School) "Ohio Appalachian Educators Institute: Rural People, Rural Policy Initiative," W.K. Kellogg Foundation, $20,000. 

 

College of Arts and Sciences

KEVIN HAWORTH (English) "Jewish Studies Expansion Project - Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies," Foundation for Jewish Culture, $74,000.

SARAH WYATT (environmental and plant biology) "MRI: Acquisition of Equipment for a Core Genomics Facility at Ohio University," $7,625.

ALLEN SHOWALTER and AHMED FAIK (environmental and plant biology) "Biochemistry and Function of Fucosyltransferases for Glycosylation of Arabinogalactan-Proteins," $397,000.

WENDY PARKER (philosophy) "Ensemble Climate Prediction: Key Questions and Controversies," National Science Foundation, $73,356.

ALEXANDER GOVOROV (physics and astronomy) "Plasmon Enhanced Circular Dichroism of Bioanomaterials," General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., $30,000.

HORACIO CASTILLO (physics and astronomy) "Fluctuations in the Dynamics of Glasses," $82,061.

DOUG CLOWE (physics and astronomy) "Beyond the Bullet: Direct Detection of Dark Matter in Merging Galaxy Clusters," Space Telescope Science Institute, $53,440.

THOMAS STATLER (physics and astronomy) "The Hydrodynamic Histories of Elliptical Galaxies," National Science Foundation, $91,058.

JULIE ROCHE and PAUL KING (physics and astronomy) "Study of the Electro-weak Structure of the Nucleon," National Science Foundation, $121,215.

HARRY KOTSES (psychology) "Project on TRAC: Improving Asthma Control in Children," University of North Carolina at Charlotte, $17,274.

LAURA FOX (psychology) "Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities: Southern Alcohol Prevention Initiative," Southern Local School District, $30,000.

MARY DE GROOT (psychology) "Interdisciplinary Rural Mental Health Training," Ohio Department of Health Training Program, $20,000.

EUGENE AMMARELL (sociology and anthropology) "Southeast Asian Studies Today: Fostering Understanding, Building Relationships," U.S. Department of Education Center for International Studies, $221,002. 

 

College of Education

GREGORY FOLEY (teacher education) "Building the Capacity of Ohio's High School Mathematics Teachers in Data Analysis, Probability and Statistics and in Advanced Topics in Geometry (The Advanced Teacher Capacity Project)," Ohio Department of Education, $283,654.

 

College of Health and Human Services

THOMAS MURRAY (WellWorks) "Heartworks—A Partnership between Ohio University WellWorks and O'Bleness Memorial Hospital," O'Bleness Memorial Hospital, $174,153.

CHARLES STARKEY (recreation and sports sciences) "Athletic Training Services for Area High Schools," Various High Schools, $128,350.

JAMES KAHLER (recreation and sport sciences) "Center for Sports Administration," Sports Careers, LLC, $8,000.

MICHAEL KUSHNICK (recreation and sport sciences) "Functional Foods Containing Novel Carbohydrates for Energy Balance and Improved Health," Purdue University, $150,000.

 

College of Osteopathic Medicine

SUSAN WILLIAMS (biomedical sciences) "Collaborative Research: Ecological and Functional Morphology of Feeding in Free-Ranging Mantled Howling Monkeys," National Science Foundation, $41,242.

KATHLEEN TRACE and SUE MEEKS (community health programs) "Well Child/Well Family Development," Athens County Family and Children First Council, $14,250.

KATHLEEN TRACE and NANCY SCHELL (community health programs) "Ohio Benefit Bank Capacity Building," Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks, $9,900.

JAY SHUBROOK and JOSEPH BIANCO (family medicine), THOMAS MURRAY (College of Health and Human Services) and ANDREW WAPNER (pediatrics) "Take Action: 'Teamwork with Age-Appropriate Kid's Exercise in Appalachia with Interventions for Overweight and Nutrition,'" American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, $5,000.

DEBORAH MEYER (geriatrics) "Geriatric Education Centers," Western Reserve University, $53,877.

DANNY SMITH (information and planning) "COM Information and Planning," Ohio Department of Mental Health, Ohio Behavioral Telehealth Network, $49,920. 

 

Russ College of Engineering and Technology

GERARDINE BOTTE (chemical and biomolecular engineering) "Third Frontier: A Facility for the Development and Commercialization of an Ammonia Based Fuel Integrated Power System (AIPS)," Ohio Department of Development, $189,052.

ISSAM KHOURY (civil engineering) "Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) Testing," Resource International, Inc., $1,210.

GAYLE MITCHELL, SHAD SARGAND and GLEN JACKSON (civil engineering) "Exfiltration Trenches for Post Construction Storm Water Management for Linear Transportation Projects," Ohio Department of Transportation, $143,128.12.

SHAD SARGAND (civil engineering) "Monitoring and Modeling of Pavement Response and Performance," Ohio Department of Transportation, $50,000; Ohio Department of Transportation, $100,993.65.

CHANG LIU and DAVID CHELBERG (electrical engineering and computer science) and TERESA FRANKLIN (Educational Studies) "Track 1, GK-12: Science and Technology Enrichment for Appalachian Middle-schoolers (STEAM)," National Science Foundation, $561,381.

JOSEPH ESSMAN (electrical engineering and computer science) "TEAMS Test Development," The Junior Engineering Technical Society, $17,175.

DALE MASEL, DUSAN SORMAZ and ROBERT JUDD (industrial and systems engineering) "Cost Model Development and Maintenance," General Electric, $175,000.

SRDJAN NESIC (chemical and biomolecular engineering) "Corrosion Inhibition at 300Pa Shear Stress," Clariant Oil Services, $15,000; "Corrosion Center Oil and Gas Section," BP America Production Company, $40,000; Champion Technologies, $40,000; PTT Exploration and Production Public Company, $35,000; Teikoku Oil Company, $45,000; Siderca S.A.I.C., $35,000; Columbia Gas Transmission, $35,000; "Corrosion Under Condensing Conditions in Upstream and Downstream Processes – A Literature Review," BP America Production Company, $10,000; "Water Wetting Joint Industrial Project," Total, $50,000; Shell Global Solutions, $50,000; Petrobras, $50,000; "ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Water Wetting Joint Industrial Project," $50,000; ENI S.p.A. Exploration and Production Division, $50,000; ConocoPhillips Company, $50,000; BP America Production Company, $50,000. 

 

Scripps College of Communication

ROGER COOPER, BETH NOVAK, ROGER GOOD, ERIC FARRAR, JOHN BOWDITCH and BENJAMIN SCHNEIDER (School of Media Arts and Studies) "Emergency Responder's Immersive Video Imaging Network," Franklin County Office of Homeland Security and Justice, $702,000. 

 

Regional Campuses and Centers

PAULA MCMURRAY-SCHWARTZ (ORC Belmont Eastern Campus) "OU Eastern Early Language and Literacy Specialist," Ohio Department of Education, $69,000.

JEFFERY HANDLEY (ORC Ironton Southern Campus) "Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) – Lighthouse Communities," Ohio Board of Regents, $10,000.

DONALD BAKER (ORC Ironton Southern Campus) "Expanded Enrollment for Tech Prep," Shawnee State University, $5,000.

CATHERINE BURNS (ORC Ironton Southern) "Southern Empowerment Zone," Huntington Ironton Empowerment Zone, $18,509.

SHAHROKH GHAFFARI (Zanesville Campus) "Wendy's Biodiesel Research," Wendy's International, Inc., $3,000. 

 

College of Fine Arts

EDWARD PAULEY (Kennedy Museum of Art) "Kennedy Museum of Art Operating Support," Ohio Arts Council, $14,233.

 

University Advancement

HOWARD LIPMAN (vice president) "Ohio Can! Go To College," Inter University Council of Ohio, $70,000.

 

Center for International Studies

W. STEPHEN HOWARD (African studies) "Role of Radio in Peace Building in Sudan," US Department of Education, $36,424.