December 2015
Volume 2, Issue 12
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Professor Anton Komar
Receives $240,000 NSF
Grant
Meet CSU's New Faculty
Featured Researcher
Video Series
CSU Scholar News
News from the Technology
Transfer Office
USRA, DRA, FRD, and FSI
Funding
EngagedScholarship@CSU
Joins SHARE Notification
System
Happy Holidays
Professor Anton Komar
Receives $240,000 NSF Grant
Prof. Anton Komar from the
Department
of
Biological,
Geological and Environmental
Sciences received a $240,000
grant from the National Science
Foundation for "A Racially and
Ethnically Inclusive Graduate
Education Model in Biology,
Chemistry and Engineering." Prof.
Komar's grant is part of a $3.5
million collaboration with Case
Western Reserve University, Kent
State University, the University of Akron, the University of
Toledo, Youngstown State University, and Bowling Green
State University. The grant includes strategic alliances with
Central State University and Tuskegee University to develop,
implement, and study a model to improve under-represented
minority student participation, preparation, and success in
graduate education, and to prepare them for entry into the
professoriate in biology, chemistry, or engineering. The grant
provides prestigious and generous scholarships to minority
graduate students.
Prof. Komar's project will contribute to foundational knowledge about the recruitment, retention,
and graduation of minority doctoral students. The emphasis on inclusive graduate education, an
umbrella of support for graduate students, and extensive diversity training for faculty and staff,
offers an exceptional opportunity for a regional group of universities with low minority doctoral
student enrollment to investigate the promotion of inclusive policies, practices and initiatives. The
lessons learned as the project progresses, and the ultimate results from the project, will provide
information that will be beneficial to educators, administrators, policymakers, and the general
public.
Meet CSU's New Faculty
Prof. Tushar Borkar, assistant professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, received his Ph.D. from the University of
North Texas in 2013 and joined CSU in fall 2015. Prof. Borkar's
research focuses on metallic and composite materials for aerospace,
energy, and biomedical applications. His research includes the
development of new types of materials, including metal alloys and
metal matrix composites. He develops these materials using novel
tools such as 3D printing (that is, additive manufacturing). His goal is
to understand the mechanisms and phase transformations that
govern microstructural evolution and property
complex, multi-phase, multi-component materials.
relationships in
Prof. Borkar's research focuses on the development of biomaterials and structural materials
using additive manufacturing, as well as the development of new methods to improve the
versatility of additive manufacturing. Unlike conventional manufacturing, which relies on material
removal methods, additive manufacturing uses incremental deposition. Additive manufacturing
involves layer-by-layer shaping and consolidation of powder feedstock using computer-controlled
lasers. Current research in additive manufacturing focuses on the production of complex shapes
of metals, alloys, and metal matrix composites to meet demanding requirements from the
aerospace, defense, automotive, and biomedical industries. Additive manufacturing is comprised
of a comprehensive integration of materials science, mechanical engineering, and laser
technology, and is an important revolution in the manufacturing industry.
Featured Researcher Video Series - Chris Mallett
Research by Prof. Chris Mallet is the focus
of the latest installment of the Featured
Researcher Video series.
Prof. Mallet is licensed in Ohio as a social
worker and attorney, and has a long history
of working with, advocating for, and
representing
vulnerable
children,
adolescents, and their families. His
research and scholarship focuses on
disability law, juvenile delinquency, young people in the juvenile justice system, school discipline
protocols, the impact of mental health disorders, substance abuse, special education disabilities,
trauma, and maltreatment. As a nationally-known consultant for juvenile courts, school districts,
and children's service agencies, Prof. Mallett has published two books and over 55 research
papers, book chapters, and technical assistance training briefs.
We encourage you to learn more about Professor Mallett's research, and to take a look at our
previous Featured Researcher Videos.
CSU Scholar News
Prof. Steve Taysom is an associate professor in the
Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion, where
he has taught since 2009. Prof. Taysom's research focuses
on the history of religion in America, with a special emphasis
on "marginal" religious groups in the nineteenth century. He
has published numerous articles on how groups such as
Mormons and Shakers benefited from maintaining "high
tension" with the broader American culture. Prof. Taysom's
first book compares and contrasts the boundarymaintenance strategies of Mormons and Shakers in the
nineteenth century. This research seeks to uncover why
marginal religious groups often choose to remain on the
fringes of American culture even when other options are available. He also edited a collection of
essays dealing with alternative American religions. Most recently, his article on the interplay
between Mormon rituals of exorcism and American culture from 1820-1977 was accepted in
Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, which is one of the top journals in the
field of American religious history.
Prof. Taysom currently has two book projects under contract. One is a scholarly/cultural
biography of Joseph F. Smith, a major religious figure in the American West in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prof. Taysom's other book project is a study of the
relationship among nativism, violence in antebellum America, and the 1844 murder of Joseph
Smith.
Prof. Taysom is a Fellow in the Young Scholars of American Religion program. This program,
sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University
and the Eli Lilly Foundation, brings together 10 of the most promising early-career scholars in
the field of American religious history for twice-yearly meetings on innovative scholarship and
teaching. Prof. Taysom's research agenda is driven by a commitment to study religion as an
academic subject rather than a strictly devotional subject, and to demonstrate the importance of
applying cultural study theories and methods to the historical data of religion in America.
News from the Technology Transfer Office
Lee Patent: The Patent Review Committee approved an invention disclosure by Prof. Moo-Yeal
Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. Prof.
Lee's invention is titled Microarray 3D Bioprinting for Miniaturized Tissue Engineering and
Disease Modeling. Prof. Lee's technology includes a method for bioprinting miniature 3D human
tissues, such as liver tissues, as well as a method for rapidly screening drug candidates in-vivo.
Prof. Lee's technology is also the subject of a recently-submitted NIH R01 proposal.
Start-Up Companies: I-Corps@Ohio will be offered on a
competitive basis to evaluate the commercial potential of the
innovations of Ohio faculty and graduate students. In addition
to receiving an award of $15,000, I-Corps@Ohio teams will
develop scalable business models to attract seed, angel, and
venture funding to support company formation and market
entry. Team registration and executive summary submissions will be accepted from January 4th
through February 7th, 2016. Applicants will then be selected to submit a formal proposal. For
additional information please review the recently released RFP or contact the Technology
Transfer Office.
USRA, DRA, FRD, and FSI Funding
The Office of Research is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the following 2016-2017
internal funding programs.
Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA)
Dissertation Research Award (DRA)
Faculty Research and Development (FRD)
Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI)
submission
submission
submission
submission
deadline
deadline
deadline
deadline
February 5, 2016
March 11, 2016
March 11, 2016
March 11, 2016
The DRA and FSI programs have significantly changed since last year and now allow summer
salary. In order to assist in the preparation of successful applications, the evaluation forms that
will be used to evaluate the proposals are included at the above web sites. For more
information, please contact Joy Yard, 687-9364, j.yard@csuohio.edu, or Dan Simon, 687-5171,
d.j.simon@csuohio.edu
EngagedScholarship@CSU Joins SHARE Notification System
EngagedScholarship@CSU has recently become a SHARE (SHared
Access Research Ecosystem) content provider. New research
deposited in EngagedScholarship@CSU can now be accessed
through the SHARE discovery layer alongside other digital
repositories such as those found at MIT, Duke, Kent State, PubMed
Central, ICPSR, and many others. SHARE currently includes about
80 content providers.
SHARE works with funding agencies to maximize research impact by
making a comprehensive inventory of research widely discoverable, accessible, and reusable.
The SHARE initiative aims to ensure the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research
output, and to enable the research community to build on those assets in creative and
unforeseen ways. To fulfill this mission, SHARE has developed a free, open data set of research
and scholarly activities.
Metadata from CSU's institutional repository, EngagedScholarship@CSU, is harvested nightly
into the SHARE database to allow broad access to CSU research publications, data, and other
research output. To learn more, visit the SHARE webpage or browse the SHARE database.
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and d.j.simon@csuohio.edu.
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