Resources and Infrastructure Meeting
Meeting Date: 4-Dec-15 Montgomery Hall Rm 316
In attendance: Joelle Ruthig, Adam Kitzes, William Sheridan, Bradley Rundquist (College of Arts &
Sciences’ non-voting representative)
Absent: Joshua Bronfman, Jefferson Vaughan (submitted rankings and comments)
Matters arising:
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss proposals submitted to three College of Arts & Sciences’
Research/Creative Activity Initiatives, namely the Faculty Grant Writing Initiative, the Applied Research
to Address the State’s Critical Needs Initiative, and the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fund.
The Committee’s input was summarized into funding recommendations that will be submitted to Dean
Storrs.
The Committee reviewed each proposal individually. Brad Rundquist took notes, answered questions,
and shared comments provided by Jefferson Vaughan.
Three proposals asking for $15,000 total (three course releases at $5,000 each) were submitted to the
Faculty Grant Writing Initiative. The Committee recommended that two of the three be funded:
PI/Dept.
Title
$ requested
Oncel/Physics &
Astrophysics
Graphene Plasmonics
$5,000
WeldtBasson/Languages
Translation and
Scholarly Edition of the
Novel El fiscal (1993)
by the Paraguayan
Novelist Augusto Roa
Bastaos (1917-2005)
$5,000
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Five proposals were submitted to the Applied Research to Address the State’s Critical Needs Initiative,
requesting $73,767. The Committee recommended that all five be funded:
PI(s)/Dept.
Title
$ requested
Berg Burin/History
Breaking the Demand:
How to Best Educate
the Public to Reduce
the Demand for Illicit
Commercial Sex in ND
Geographic Disparities
in Access to Emergency
Medical Services in ND
Analyzing Accessibility
to Employment, Social,
Health, Education, and
Business in ND
Forensic Response to
the Oil Boom
$6,000
Socio-economic
Dimensions of
Prescribed Fire
Management within a
Northern Grasslands
Landscape
$14,884
Niedzielski &
Jonk/Geography & CRH
Niedzielski &
Wang/Geography
Ovtchinmikov/Biology
Yurkonis &
Goodwin/Biology
$19,760
$13,179
$19,944
Four proposals were submitted to the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fund, requesting
$7,150. The Committee recommended that all four be funded. The Committee was informed that there
is a second round of Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity proposals to be reviewed in mid-January
2016:
PI/Dept.
Title
$ requested
Meberg/Biology
American Society for
Biochemistry and
Molecular National
Conference Poster
Competition
$1,150
Du/Chemistry
Direct Synthesis of
Polycarbonates from
Carbon Dioxide and
Diols
$2,000
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Kim/Communications
Publics’ Responses to
Sports Celebrity
Endorsements Gone
Bad: An International
Perspective
$2,000
Thomasson, Rhen,
Dhasarathy, Darland,
Simmons/Chemistry,
Biology, and
Biochemistry
The Ins and Outs of the
Polycomb Complex:
Modeling Epigenetic
Modifiers from Primary
Protein Sequence to
Tertiary Protein
Structure
$2,000
Meeting adjourned at 2:30.
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