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Committee Name:
Co-Chairs:
October 10, 2015
Faculty Grants Committee (FGC)
Alex K. Ruuska, Christi Edge1
Recommendation 1: The Faculty Grants Committee has ranked the Reassigned Time Awards as follows:
Reassigned Time Award Rankings for Winter 2016. Rankings 1-11 are eligible for funding.
1
Faculty Member
School
Project Title
Ranking
Josh Sharp
Department of Biology
“Relationship between MethicillinResistant Staphylococcus aureus Nasal
Colonization and Vaccination with a
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in
Adults”
1
Yu Liu
Department of
Chemistry
“Construct Supramolecular Catalyst with a
New Approach: Aromatic Donor-Acceptor
Interaction”
2
Sarah Mittlefehldt
Earth, Environment,
and Geographical
Sciences Department
“The Paradox of Local Power, A History of
Homegrown Energy”
3 tie
Christi Edge
School of Leadership,
Education and Public
Service
“Becoming Teachers in Field-Based
Methods Courses: A Phenomenological
Study”
3 tie
Brandon Canfield
Department of
Chemistry
“Secondary Metabolite Characterization in 4
Thimbleberry: Publication of Initial Results”
Elizabeth Monske
Department of English
“Writing and Composing in the Age of
MOOCS”
5
Christy Edge, Yu Liu, Cheryl Reed, and Josh Sharp did not vote on RTAs this semester as they had submitted RTA
proposals.
2
Yan Ciupak
Department of
Sociology and
Anthropology
“Chinese Higher Education and Actionable
Research”
6
Cheryl Reed
Department of English
“Map of Her Escape: A Novel”
7
Jennifer Howard
Department of English
“You are on Mars: Stories”
8
Wendy Farkas
Department of English
“Evaluating A Transitional Reading
Program”
9
Robert Goodrich
Department of History
“Development of “Reaching to the Past”
Role Playing Pedagogy- Democracy in
Crisis-Germany 1929-1932”
10
Derek Anderson
School of Leadership,
Education and Public
Service
“Rubric Norming with Pre-Service
Elementary Teachers”
11
Matthew Van Grinsven
Earth, Environment,
and Geographical
Sciences Department
“Influence of Soil Temperature and Water
Table on Black Ash Wetland Gaseous Soil
Carbon Efflux, and Response to a
Simulated Emerald Ash Borer Disturbance”
12
Gabriel Noah Brahm
Department of English
“Sublimated Anti-Semitism: Israel in
Theory”
13
Z.Z. Lehmberg
Department of English
“Winter Solstice: A Memoir”
14
Jaspal Singh2
Department of English
“Narrating the new nation: South African
Indian Writing”
15
Jaspal Sigh was deemed ineligible for the eight credit course reduction that she requested due to previous
awards.
Recommendation 2: The Faculty Grants Committee has ranked the Spooner Awards as follows:
Spooner Rankings for Winter 2016. Rankings 1-3 are eligible for funding.
Name
Department
Project Title
Ranking
Taylor Sharp
Department of
Chemistry
Identification and Quantification by SolidPhase Microextraction and Gas
Chromatography Mass Spectometry
(SPME/GC_MS)
1
Andrew Rankin
Department of
Biology
Molecular Evolution of the American Pika
(Ochotono princeps): in consideration of
adaptive mutant substitutions in an alpine
mammal
2
Andrew Ernst
Exercise Science
“7 Weeks of Yoga Training and Its Effects
on Flexibility, Rate of Force Development,
and Peak Power in Olympic Weightlifters
3
Daniel Brogren
Department of
Biology
“Utilizing a Bacterial Two-Hybrid Assay to
Identify Novel Transcription Factors in
Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
4
Nicole Pittoors
Department of
Biology
Maternal and paternal influences on
Lytechinus variegatus larvae survival and
size under varying water conditions
5
Travis Moe
Department of
Biology
Sub-lethal and lethal effects of three
common neon: cotinoid insecticides on
American bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)
tadpoles
6
Carol Kessel
Department of
Biology
Molecular Subtyping of Staphylococcus
Aureus Isolates from the UP Community
for the Presence of Toxin-Encoding Genes
7
Kayla Kurzawa
Department of
Biology
Mapping anatomical differences in TUF1
protein expression in the brains of Syrian
hamsters
8