Grants awarded during June 2007

COM Biomedical Science

MARIA GRIJALVA, Pilot Program for Chagas Disease Control in Loja Province, Ecuador, Children’s Heartlink, $17,215.

COM Student Affairs

PATRICIA BURNETT, MARIE BARONE and ANN BRIECK, FY08 Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (Osteopathic Medicine Discipline), Health Resources and Services Administration, $49,500.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

JANUSZ STARZYK, Behavioral Learning Analysis for Simulated Tactics (BLAST), General Dynamics and Information Technology, Inc., $8,000.

ORC Ironton (Southern) Campus

DAN EVANS, Southern Empowerment Zone, Huntington Ironton Empowerment Zone, $120,845; Technical Credit Transfer - Beta Test Site, Ohio Board of Regents, $10,000.

RENA ALLEN, Project Discovery: Grade 5-6 Math/Science Discovery Academy, Miami University, $33,450.

Industrial Technology

KEVIN BERISSO, Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technical Institute, Hand Held Products, $800.

Avionics Engineering Center

FRANK VAN GRAAS, LADAR EO GPS/INS Atomic-clock Navigation Demonstration (LEGAND) and Worldwide Accuracy Sensor Positioning System (WASPS), General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., $52,500; AFRL DAGSI Fellowship - Dustin Bates, Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute, $48,510.

MICHAEL BRAASCH, Cleveland Hopkins Airport (CLE) Runway 06 PAPI Flight Measurements, Jess Howard Electric Company, $7,776; Preliminary Flight Inspection at Birmingham, Alabama, Thales ATM Inc., $4,000.

JAMES RANKIN, FAA Contract DTFA01-01-C-00071, Federal Aviation Administration, $132,834; FAA Contract DTFA01-01-C-00071, Federal Aviation Administration, $272,000; Glide Slope Multipath Analysis at Moore County Airport, NC, Talbert and Bright, Inc., $22,473.

FRANK VAN GRAAS  and JAMES RANKIN, Local Area Augmentation System Research and Development, Federal Aviation Administration, $500,000.

Voinovich School

SHARON HOPKINS, Procurement Technical Assistance Center – State, Ohio Department of Development, $7,500; Procurement Technical Assistance Center – Federal, Ohio Department of Development, $38,000.

JENNIFER BOWMAN, Ohio EPA Credible Data Training Program, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, $20,925.

MARGARET HUTZEL, Project GATOR Evaluation Assistance, Highland County Community Action, $3,900.

Physics and Astronomy

JULIE ROCHE and PAUL KING,   Study of the Electro-weak Structure of the Nucleon, National Science Foundation, $141,199.

KENNETH HICKS, Strange Meson and Baryon Photoproduction, National Science Foundation, $140,002.

COM Information & Planning

DANNY SMITH, Southern Ohio Telepsychiatric Network (SOTN), Southern Consortium for Children, $32,400.00; Southern Ohio Telepsychiatric Network, Tri County Mental Health, $4,800.

Institute for Corrosion & Multiphase Technology

SRDJAN NESIC, Top of the Line JIP, ConocoPhillips Company, $10,000; Corrosion Center Oil and Gas Section, M-I Production Chemicals, $35,000; Corrosion Center Oil and Gas Section, Aramco, $35,000; Corrosion Center Oil and Gas Section, Aramco, $40,000; Water Wetting Joint Industrial Project, BP America, Inc., $50,000; Water Wetting Joint Industrial Project, BP America, Inc., $50,000; Volatile Inhibitor, Total, $6,600.

Electrical Engineering

CHANG LIU, Appalachian Ohio Second Life Learning Community, Shawnee State University, $3,000.

JOSEPH ESSMAN, TEAMS Test Development, The Junior Engineering Technical Society, $13,508.

Hearing, Speech & Language Sciences

BROOKE HALLOWELL, Second Annual Ohio State wide NSSLHA Conference (Nancy McKinley Award), National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, $1,000.

COM Family Medicine

JAY SHUBROOK, Athens County Tuberculosis Clinic Board, $3,000.

JANE HAMEL-LAMBERT, Southeast Ohio Reading Project, Athens County Family and Children First Council, $3,340.

Teacher Education

RALPH MARTIN, Program Models Project Coordination Team, Miller High School, Ohio Department of Education, $8,500.

JEFF FANTINE and SHARON REYNOLDS, General Educational Development (GED) Contract for Services, Ohio Department of Education, $5,000.

JEFF FANTINE, Ohio Initiative for Persons with Learning Disabilities (OIPLD), Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission, $1,000.

Biological Sciences

WILLEM ROOSENBURG, Fourth Symposium for the Ecology, Status and Conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin, Chelonian Research Foundation, $1,000.

Geography

BOB WALTER, Uploading Africa! How Technology and the Arts Can Inspire Our Fields, U.S. Department of Education, $234,609.

Recreation and Sport Sciences

JAMES KAHLER, Game Plan Sponsorship, Game Plan Technologies, Inc., $12,500.

Physical Therapy

AVERELL OVERBY, Therapy Associates Services Contract - FY07 Eastern Local School District - Physical Therapy, Eastern Local School District, $16.25.

Psychology

HEATHER ALVAREX andJULIE OWENS, Effective Practice Integration Council (EPIC) - Effective Practice Expert University-Community Partner, Miami University, $2,246.

Philosophy

ALYSSA BERNSTEIN, Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar in Ethics, Depauw University, $50,000.

Human and Consumer Sciences

ROBERT BRANNAN, Whey Protein Inhibition of Oil Absorption in Fried Foods, Diary Management, Inc., $21,420.

Environmental & Plant Biology

BRIAN MCCARTHY, Silvicultural Effects on Bryophyte Community Composition in Eastern Deciduous Forests, Ohio Biological Survey, $500.

HARVEY BALLARD, Survey of Orthoptera (Crickets, Grasshoppers and Katydids) at the Edge of Appalachia Preserve, Adams County, Ohio, Ohio Biological Survey, $500.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

MARCIA KIELISZEWSKI, Functional Analysis of Arabidopsis Formins: A Family of Actin-Nucleating Proteins, National Science Foundation, $42,848.

College of Arts and Sciences

BENJAMIN OGLES, Relationship of Parent and Youth Satisfaction to Treatment Outcomes: Does This Relationship Differ as a Function of Youth Diagnosis, Ohio Department of Mental Health, $2,000.