News from the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

External Grant Awards

Tim Davis, Director of iLabs received a $193,065 award from the Michigan Department of Transportation.  He will evaluate the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and develop and implement an action plan to communicate the role, responsibilities and mission of the DBE program.

Oleg Zikanov, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering received $50,000 continuation funding from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for his project "Effect of Liquid-Phase Turbulence on Microstructure Growth in Solidification."

Campus Grant Awards

The Research Support Committee met in November and made the following Campus Grant Awards:

Faculty Research and Initiation Grants provide up to $6,000 to full-time faculty for research and other scholarly activities.  These grants are intended to provide funding to projects which will lead to future external grant support. Awards were made to:

Gargi Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering

Wei Guo, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Farah Kawtharani, Language Culture and Communication

Sang-Hwan Kim, Industrial and Systems Manufacturing Engineering

Faculty Research Support and Maintenance Grants provide up to $6,000 to full time faculty for research and other scholarly activities.  These grants are for significant projects that are unlikely to be considered for external grant awards.  Awards were made to:

Pamela Aronson, Behavioral Sciences

Pamela Pennock, Social Sciences

Jonathan Smith, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

CASL Faculty Summer Research Grants provide up to $7,000 to CASL faculty for projects that foster high quality scholarship and research, relate to the applicant’s professional career goals, and supports work that will lead to a proposal for external funding.  Awards were made to:

Paul Hughes, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

Liz Rohan, Language, Culture, and Communication

CASL Senior Faculty Grants to Encourage and Reward Scholarship consists of a course release to CASL faculty who commit to submitting a major external grant proposal, completing a manuscript to be submitted to a peer reviewed journal, or to make substantial progress on a book manuscript under contract.  An award was made to:

Sonia Tiquia, Natural Sciences

Small Grants for Faculty Research provide up to $800 to full-time faculty for research and other scholarly activities that are of non-commercial intent.  Awards were made to:

Richard Adler, Natural Sciences

Joy Beatty, Management Studies

Danielle DeFauw, School of Education

Jorge Gonzalez del Pozo, Language, Culture and Communications

Kamalesh Kumar, Management Studies

Eric Ratts, Mechanical Engineering

Qin Wang, Finance

Campus Grant Proposals are currently being accepted for the following programs:

Step-2 Grants for Research (Dearborn Rackham Replacement) $15,000 maximum award.

EIC Environmental-Sustainability Research Grants, $12,000 maximum award.

Educational Enhancement Grant, $1,500 maximum award.

The submission deadline for these programs is December 15.