Baker Fund Committee
Charge and Membership
The Baker Fund Awards Committee invites proposals in support of research, scholarship, and creative activity at Ohio University. The committee seeks to support projects that are near completion and hopefully can be brought to full completion with the assistance of an award. All projects on which progress has been made are eligible for consideration. Requests for funds to initiate projects are more appropriately directed to the Ohio University Research Council (OURC). The scholarly, technical, or artistic merit of a proposed project is the primary criterion for evaluation.
All projects are eligible for award consideration. Further detail and deadlines are provided here.
Composition
• One representative from each of the following colleges: College of Business, Scripps College of Communication, Patton College of
Education, College of Fine Arts, College of Health Sciences and Professions, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, College of
Arts and Sciences, Russ College of Engineering and Technology, and the Voinovich School.
• One faculty member from a regional campus.
• Additional representatives will be selected to ensure expertise across the four mail subdisciplines: Arts and Humanities, Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering and Life and Biomedical Sciences.
1 Administrator
1 Ex-officio – The Vice President for Research and Creative Activity or designee.
Committee Roster
Administrator
Karen Collins
collink3@ohio.edu
Assistant Director of Research Administration
Ex-Officio
Carma West
westc@ohio.edu
Research and Technology Center
Faculty
Charles Buchanan
buchanac@ohio.edu
Interdisciplinary Arts
Ahmed Faik
faik@ohio.edu
Environmental Biology
Laeeq Khan
khanm1@ohio.edu
Associate Professor, Media Arts & Studies
Greg Kremer
kremer@ohio.edu
Matthew Morris
morrism4@ohio.edu
School of Music
2021
Holly Raffle
raffle@ohio.edu
Voinovich
Candice Thomas-Maddox
thomas@ohio.edu
Professor | Communication Studies
Jessica Weeks
jessica.weeks@ohio.edu
Marketing
Eric Williams
williae2@ohio.edu
Professor, Information & Telecommunication Systems
Yuchun Zhou
zhouy@ohio.edu
Educational Studies
All University committees follow the academic-year calendar.
All students serve one-year terms. Faculty, administrators, and staff generally serve three-year terms. Ex-Officio appointments have voting privileges unless otherwise noted.