VANCOUVER, Wash. – Washington State University Vancouver faculty members have been awarded mini-grants to stimulate research productivity. A total allocation of $50,000 was awarded to 14 faculty members for projects that started June 1, 2011. The mini-grants act as seed funds that will lead to exceptional scholarly activity. The grants have a $5,000 maximum limit and cover the costs of the research in part or in full. The money for mini-grants is generated from academic administration funds.
Recipients include:
Avantika Bawa, College of Liberal Arts, fine arts, “Break - A Site-Specific Installation”
Art Blume, College of Liberal Arts, psychology, “Relationship of Racial-Ethnic Microaggressions, Mental Health Variables, and Academic Outcomes among Students of Color”
M. Jahi Chappell, School of Earth & Environmental Science, “Rural Livelihoods and Effects on Biodiversity in a Fragmented Landscape: Examining Belo Horizonte, Brazil's Acclaimed Food Security Program”
David Chiu, School of Engineering & Computer Science, “A Self-Tuning Bitmap Compression Framework for Fast Data Processing”
Deanna Day, College of Education, teaching and learning, “Effectiveness/Non-Effectiveness of Online Graduate Literacy Courses”
Karen Diller, Library, “Contributing to Student Learning: Study Spaces in Libraries”
Alexander Dimitrov, College of Sciences, mathematics, “Advanced Signal Processing to Clarify Mechanisms of Drug Addiction”
Michael Dunn, College of Education, teaching and learning, “Response to Intervention: A Professional Development and Implementation Model for General Education Teachers”
John Harrison, School of Earth & Environmental Science, “Quantifying Temperature Effects on Dentrification in River Sediments”
Sarah Kooienga, College of Nursing, “Electronic Health Records and the Small Rural Family Practice: An Ethnographic Analysis”
Wendy Olson, College of Liberal Arts, English, “On Language and Value: Political Economies of Rhetoric and Composition”
Brian Tissot, School of Earth & Environmental Science, “Development of a Comparative Analysis of Marine Spatial Planning Efforts on the U.S. West Coast”
Jie Xu, School of Engineering & Computer Science, “Control and Acoustic Excitation of Micro Bubbles for Hearing Study”
Wei Xue, School of Engineering & Computer Science, “Integration of Nanosensors and Microfluidics for Lab-On-A-Chip Devices”
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CONTACT:
- Robert C. Bates, Ph.D., Director of Research and Graduate Education, 360-546-9254, bates@wsu.edu
- Brenda Alling, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360-546-9601, brenda_alling@vancouver.wsu.edu