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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The National Science Foundation, through its
Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program, has awarded a grant of
$199,592 to the SUNY College at Oneonta to develop new meteorology
curriculum elements and substantially improve the meteorology program's
computing facilities. The project, which is entitled "Improving the Use of
Computer Data Analysis Skills in Undergraduate Meteorology," will be
coordinated by Earth
Sciences Department faculty members
Todd Ellis as principal investigator and
Jerome Blechman as co-principal investigator.
The new facilities develop through the grant will enable meteorology
students at SUNY Oneonta to learn new skills and will enhance the
educational experiences of students in other majors through the
incorporation of scientific inquiry into survey courses. Drs. Ellis and
Blechman will evaluate the effectiveness of the new curricular elements and
disseminate the results to the meteorology and education communities.
The CCLI grant from the National Science Foundation is the second that
SUNY Oneonta has received in recent weeks. The College announced last week
that it has received a grant of $164,753 for the "PREDICT" project in the
Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry. In the current round of CCLI grants, the
National Science Foundation expects to fund approximately 120 projects
nationwide, which will be selected from over 1,300 proposals.
More information about the National Science Foundation grant and the
project is available from Dr. Ellis at (607) 436-2309.
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