Thanks to all who submitted proposals to the 2009 Faculty Research Grant and Creative Activity Grant Programs administered through the GDO. Thirty-five proposals were submitted to the two programs requesting over $68,000 (competing for approximately $29,000 in available funds). Twenty-two grant awards were made to faculty from across the disciplines. Congratulations to awardees:

Research Grant Awards

• Nancy Bachman (Biology): Guilt By Association: Determining a Protein's Function Using an Interacting Partner
• Devin Castendyk (Earth Sciences): Investigation of Sub-Ice Water Currents in New York Lakes
• Jeffrey Fortin (History): Paul Cuffe's Atlantic WOrld, 1756-1817
• Melissa L. Godek (Earth Sciences): Modes of Intra-Seasonal Temperature Variability During El Nino/Southern Oscillation Events in the United States
• Allan Green (Chemistry): Lipolysis in Adipocytes From Hexokinase II-Deficient Mice
• Brian D. Haley (Anthropology): The Hopi Messengers Project
• Salile Han (Anthropology): Making Babies Through Belly Talk: An Ethnography of a Pregnancy Practice
• Les Hasbargen (Earth Sciences): Dating Alluvial Stratigraphy in Otsego County, New York
• Jeffrey S. Heilveil (Biology): Indirect Effects of Urbanization on Natural Populations
• Miguel Leon (History): The Conquest of Peru: New Perspectives
• Yuriy Malikov (History): Cossack-Kazakh Conflicts in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Their Sources and Resolutions
• Florian Reyda (Biology/Biological Field Station): A Checklist of the Parasitic Worms of Otsego Lake Fishes
• Trudy Thomas-Smith (Chemistry & Biochemistry): Investigation of Photochemical Reactions of Triclosan, DEET and Other Compounds in the Natural Water Environment
• Kenneth Walters (Psychology): Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Among College Students: The Impact of Substance Abuse, Personality and Psychopathology on Self-Concept and Quality of Life

Creative Activity Awards

• Nathaniel Bouman (Communication Arts): The Spot
• Joseph Pignato (Music): All Over: A Composition for Distributed Ensemble
• Tim Sheesley (Fine Art Gallery): Lantern Slide Solar Plate Intaglio Print Project: People and Industry
• Katherine Spitzhoff (Art): Designing a Typeface and Making It Into a Usable Digital Font
• Caitlin Smith Rapoport (Theatre): Strong Coffee Stage Presents Sophocles' Antigone