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Kim Muller
Director, Grants Development Office
607- 436-2479
607-436-2786 (FAX)

Kathy Meeker
Senior Grantswriter
607-436-2632
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Grants Development Office

Research and Creative Activity
Grant Program Recipients
2006

Thanks to all who submitted proposals to the 2006 Faculty Research Grant and Creative Activity Grant programs administered through the GDO. Thirty-three proposals were submitted to the two programs requesting over $65,000 in funds. A total of $27,744 in funding was awarded to seventeen recipients from across the disciplines. Congratulations to awardees:

  • Gustavo Arango (Foreign Languages and Literatures) – A Series of Creative Writing Exercises at Representative Moments and Places in Manhattan

  • Marilyn Babcock (Communication Arts) – Common Patterns of Intrapersonal Communication in Light-hearted “Flash” Animation

  • Thomas Beal (History) – “Doomed to Death” in NYC: The Arrest, Trial and Execution of the African American Arsonist Rose Butler

  • Devin Castendyk (Earth Sciences) – Reconnaissance for the Development of Acid Mine Drainage Research

  • Paul Conway (Political Science) – Courage in the Face of Genocide: Stories and Explanations of Heroic Behavior in the Midst of Catastrophe

  • Charles B. Dahan (Music Industry) – Analysis of Today’s Independent Record Industry

  • Achim D. Koeddermann (Philosophy) – Ethical Implications of Restoration Ecology: Imperial Nature Refuges in Trebon, Pisek, Talin, the Czech Republic, Odenwald, Germany and the Gemeinalm Tradition in Styria, Austria

  • Paul R. Lilly, Jr. (English) – Cookbook: A Fictional Narrative

  • Bambi Lobdell (English / Women & Gender Studies) – Research on Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell

  • Brian Lowe (Sociology) and Richard P. Barberio (Political Science) – Branding: Symbols and Image Promotion in Political Communication

  • Nigel Mann (Biology) – Relatedness within Social Group of the Andean Plain-tailed Wren

  • Marjean McCaslin-Doyle (Communication Arts) – Blues Plexiglas

  • Maria Montoya (Foreign Languages and Literatures) – Words and Expression: A Reflection of Language Attitudes in Gender Interaction

  • Patrick Murphy (Communication Arts) – Cold Cash, Babies and Cambodia

  • Geoffrey O’Shea (Psychology) – Learning and Memory in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis

  • John C. Schaumloffel (Chemistry and Biochemistry) – Remediation Potential of a Reusable Solid-Phase Adsorbant

  • Gayane F. Torosyan (Communication Arts) – EARwitness Testimony: Applying Listener Perspectives to Developing a Working Concept of “Localism” in Broadcast Radio