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National Science Foundation Issues Three New Grants to Separate Science Teams from Hofstra
$977,000 Grant to the NYSCATE Team
Congratulations to the team of Harold Hastings, Flavio H. Fenton, Sabrina G. Sobel, and Terry L. Brack, co-principal investigators on an equipment acquisition grant awarded to Hofstra by the National Science Foundation (NSF) - a grant of more than a quarter million dollars for the acquisition of a Beowulf super computer to be used in the physical sciences.
Dr. Hastings is also the lead investigator in a Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement award of $10,000 from NSF for Summer 2003 and a new research grant of $152,000 from the National Institutes of Health.
We would also like to congratulate the team of Beverly Clendening, Peter C. Daniel, Maureen K. Krause, and Robert W. Seagull, recipeints of a $200,000 grant from the NSF's Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program for a project titled "Combining Successful Models to Improve Learning in Biology Core Courses."
Finally, we would also like to salute the team of Margaret D. Weeks, M. David Burghardt and Michael Hacker, who have assembled a team of collaborators from across the state to earn a $977,000 grant from the NSF to carry out a state-wide professional development effort. Content is based on curricular materials being developed by the team as part of the current NSF Advanced Technology Education project known as NYSCATE or "New York State Curriculum for Advanced Technological Education," as well as other exemplary materials developed by well-known ATE projects and centers.
Hofstra Humanities Faculty Capture 6 NEH Fellowships in Three Years
Only 3 Private Universities Compile Larger Totals
Congratulations to John L. Bryant (Professor, Department of English), Hofstra University's most recent recipient of a Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This is the sixth NEH Research Fellowship award received by Hofstra faculty over the past three years. Only three other private universities across the country - Notre Dame, Boston and Harvard - have exceeded that total! Among public and private universities combined, Hofstra places 8th nationally. Dr. Bryant received his new NEH Fellowship award for a book project titled "Seeking Change: Fluid Texts and the Revision of Culture." Other recent NEH Fellows from Hofstra University include:
James A. Berger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, "Language Impairment in Modern Literature and Culture" (2002) Sharryn Kasmir, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, "The Saturn Corporation and the Production of Post-Fordism" (2002)Lisa Merrill, Ph.D., Professor of Communication, "A Volume of the Selected Letters of Charlotte Cushman, 1816-1876" (2002)
G. Thomas Couser, Ph.D. Professor of English, "Ethical Issues in Contemporary Life Writing from Antiquity to the 19th Century" (2001)
Daniel M. Varisco, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, "History of Yemeni Agriculture" (2001)
Asian Studies Program Receives $500,000 Grant
The Freeman Foundation (Stowe VT) has announced the approval of a $500,000 grant to Hofstra University to advance the University's undergraduate programs in Asian Studies. Dr. Patricia Welch of the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, who also serves as Director of the Asian Studies Program, assumed the leadership role in preparing this grant proposal last spring. The Asian Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program designed to further understanding of the traditional and modern societies of Asia through teaching, research and service. The grant will allow Dr. Welch and her colleagues to develop new courses and increase research opportunities for students and faculty alike. The four-year project supported by this grant is designed to achieve one central goal: to offer students, faculty and members of the community an opportunity to extend and deepen their understanding and appreciation of Asia. Dr. Bernard J. Firestone, Dean of Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, takes pride in pointing out that "Asian Studies is one of a number of interdisciplinary area studies programs in Hofstra College," noting that "Dr. Welch's successful initiative represents a major contribution to the future of Asian and GlobalStudies at Hofstra."
EventsThe Office for Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) regularly presents a variety of workshops and guest speakers. We will kick off Academic Year 2003-2004 with three introductory workshops tentatively scheduled for mid-October. Each workshop is expected to last a little over an hour. During these sessions we will describe how the Office for Research and Sponsored Programs can assist you in efforts to identify appropriate funding sources to suit your professional interests and goals. In addition, we will offer some tips on how to prepare a complete and responsive proposal and we will advise participants about the University's local approval processes associated with the submission of grant proposals. Invitations to participate in this workshop will be sent initially to all new faculty; remaining seats will be made available to other faculty and administrators. For further information, contact Sofia Kakoulidis at extension 3-6810.
The ORSP workshop calendar for Fall 2003 will also include a workshop on the Preparation of Proposals to the Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) Program of the National Institutes of Health. For further information on this workshop, tentatively scheduled for early November, contact Sofia Kakoulidis at extension 3-6810.
Photo left: Dr. Robert A. Lucas, Director of the Institute for Scholarly Productivity, San Luis Obispo, California conducts one of two all-day proposal writing workshops for Hofstra faculty in April 2002. Dr. Lucas is the author of The Grants World Inside Out (University of Illinois Press) and a nationally-known lecturer on this topic. Dr. Lucas spoke at the invitation of the Office for Research and Sponsored Programs.