Campus grant awards received

At its fall meeting, the Campus Grants Committee (Faculty Senate Research Support Board) made the following awards:

Faculty Research Initiation and Seed Grants provide up to $6,000 to full-time faculty members 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:
Melissa Bowlin
Stein Brunvand
Francine Dolins
Dohoy Jung
Bruce Maxim
Taehyun Shim

Educational Enhancement Grants provide up to $1,500 to faculty members for projects that are designed to enhance the educational experiences of students through the development of new courses and curricula or the purchase of one-time course materials or equipment.

Awards were made to:
Melissa Bowlin
Jacob Napieralski

Small Grant for Faculty Research provides up to $800 to full-time faculty members for research and other scholarly activities that are of non-commercial intent.

Awards were made to:
Mahesh Agarwal
Thomas Fiore
Taehyung Kim
John Thomas
Jacqueline Vansant

The next deadline for Campus Grant submissions is Feb. 15, 2011. Proposal Guidelines and application forms can be found at http://www.research.umd.umich.edu/grants/campusgrants/.