Betsy
Bunner, College of health and human services,
received $36,290 from the Ohio Department of Health to
maintain a statewide network with Ohio's colleges and
universities on AIDS education.
Kim
Christensen, educational intervention
services, received $43,280 from the University of Dayton
Research Institute for the overall managing, planning
and coordinating of the training and related activities
for the three models of the Ohio SKI*HI Institute.
Christopher
Dunn, Judy
Adams and Glenn
Shields, College of Health and Human Services,
received $150,000 from the Ohio Department of Health to
facilitate systematic HIV-prevention program evaluations
for Ohio Department of Health, Health Education Risk Reduction
grantees.
Lena
Ballone Duran, educational teaching and
learning, received $86,678 from the Ohio Board of Regents
to focus on increasing science content and on effective
inquiry-based pedagogy in preparing K-3 teachers to become
confident and effective teachers.
Kathy
Farber and Jane
Rosser, Partnerships for Community Action,
received $13,500 from the Ohio Community Service Council
to promote and support service learning and philanthropy
through the development and/or enhancement of Youth Grantmaking
Councils across Ohio.
Patrick
Fitzgerald and
Tina Simon, WBGU-TV, received $105,000
from Ohio SchoolNet/Ohio Educational Television to initiate
a local Digital Delivery System and to provide content
for after-school enrichment programs for use by teachers/facilitators.
Rex
Lowe, biology, received $32,383 from St.
Johns River Water Management District to provide a detailed
plan describing quality assurance and methods for analysis
of phytoplankton sample, to quantify phytoplankton abundance
and biomass, and to provide an annual report interpreting
flunctuations in phytoplankton abundance and bio-volume.
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Robert Midden, Lena
Ballone and Stephen
VanHook, Partners in Context and Community,
received $499,814 to improve the teaching ability of graduate
students in mathematics and the natural sciences, with
the long-term goal of improving the teaching ability of
future faculty.
Kevin
Pang and Devin
McAuley, psychology, received $204,300
from the Department of Health and Human Services to study
on how attention and timing involve similar brain regions,
in particular, motor areas in the frontal lobe.
Kevin
Pang, psychology, received $804 from the
Department of Health and Human Services to study the relationship
between opiate-induced feeding and opiate-induced reward
in rats.
Scott
Rogers, biology, received $79,560 from
the Joseph J. and Marie P. Schedel Foundation to provide
strategic leadership for the foundation.
Donald
Scherer, philosophy, and Charlene
Waggoner, environmental programs, received
$7,667 from Green Energy Ohio to collect data from the
existing Bowling Green Wind Farm to determine the project's
output and to project the feasibility and scope of installing
additional wind turbines near the site.
Patricia
Sharp, psychology, received $136,200 from
the Department of Health and Human Services to discover
which brain regions are responsible for spatial path integration.
Sergey
Shpectorov and Curtis
Bennett, mathematics and statistics, received
$26,547 from the National Security Agency to develop the
theory of flips of geometrical structures known as twin
buildings.
Gary
Silverman, environmental health, received
$49,460 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
to help reduce childhood exposure to dangerous levels
of lead.
Gene
S. Trantham, College of Musical Arts,
received $1,500 from the Macro Analysis Creative Research
Organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to
assist his design of rule-based structures to assess music
theory students.
Sheri
Wells-Jensen, English, and Georgia
Adams received $9,000 from the Sociological Initiatives
Foundation to provide for a computer programmer who can
put the existing online dictionary of Mingo onto CDs along
with the texts and grammatical information on Mingo available
on the Web site.
Rich
Wilson and Stacey
Rychener, Center for Evaluation Services,
received
• $20,660 from Putnam County Educational Service
Center to evaluate the Reading Program for Special Needs
in Northwest Ohio.
• $8,463 from Putnam County Educational Service
Center to evaluate the Northwest Ohio Pilot Reading Tutors
Program.