Saint
Mary's College encourages and assists faculty members in pursuing
their
personal development as teachers and scholars in diverse disciplines
and ranks by funding proposals for research usually carried out
over
the summer.
Grant Deadline is Friday, February 1, 2008
Documents must be submitted to the Center for Academic Innovation, 146 Madeleva Hall, no later than 5:00 p.m.
Application overview • The Application
Process • Guidelines for Evaluation
• Previous Award Recipients • Application
Form (pdf)
Application
Overview:
Eligibility:
1.
All full-time faculty are eligible. Part-time faculty who have taught
for five semesters are also eligible. Persons on terminal contracts
are not eligible, nor are faculty who resign their appointments.
2.
Faculty members of all ranks from all departments are encouraged to
apply.
3. Former recipients may apply. If the committee must choose between
two applications of equal merit, it will give preference to the applicant
who has not received monies in the recent past.
4. All forms of scholarly and creative work may be proposed, but an
award cannot be used to complete a degree.
5.
If applicants receive funding for the same project from other sources,
they must inform the committee. This may result
in a reduction
in funding. Receipt of SISTAR, COSTAR, or CWIL (Center for Women’s
InterCultural Leadership) grants for the same period of time
will result in the research grant being withheld. New Faculty
Scholars are eligible after their two-year appointment ends. Faculty members may
not apply for both a Faculty Development Research Grant and a
Faculty Development Teaching Grant in the same year.
6. An award
may not be used to finance travel to a professional conference.
Regular conference travel is funded through each academic department's
operating budget.
Up
to ten $2,500 grants will be awarded. The purpose of these grants
is to encourage
research and creative activity.
Grant
recipients may choose to receive their funds in one of two ways:
1.
Funds may be received in the form of a stipend. In this case, the
money is added to the recipient's paycheck and is taxed as income.
2.
The recipient may choose to set up an expense account. Funds in
the account are not taxed, and the recipient may access the funds
by submitting receipts for expenses incurred during the course
of the project. Some expenses (e.g., childcare) though legitimate,
cannot be reimbursed by the College.
The
funds are normally used during the fiscal year immediately following
that in which the awards are made.
Administration
and Review:
1.
Guidelines and application forms are reviewed annually by the Faculty
Affairs Committee in consultation with the Director of the Center for
Academic Innovation.
2. The Director of the Center for Academic Innovation shall distribute
these guidelines and the application forms, no later than October
31
to the faculty.
3. Grants are awarded by the Faculty Development Grants Committee composed
of the members of the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Director
of the Center for Academic Innovation. Any member of the Faculty
Affairs Committee submitting an application must withdraw from
the selection
process
for that
particular
grant, and the Executive Committee of the Faculty Assembly shall appoint
an ad hoc substitute from the appropriate academic area.
4. The award recipients will be announced at the March Faculty Assembly
meeting and at the President's Dinner.
5.
Grants are specifically awarded for purposes described in the proposal
and may not be used to support other activities. The grant will be
withdrawn if circumstances invalidate the proposed activity.
The Application Process
1.
Applicants should complete the form and forward seven (7) copies
with
appropriate signatures to the Director of the Center for Academic
Innovation. Proposals may be submitted electronically in pdf format
as an attachment, though the application form needs to be completed
in a hard copy format with required signatures.
2. If you are submitting a faculty development grant which proposes
research involving human subjects or laboratory animals, YOU
MUST
CONTACT THE CHAIR of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) (Kevin McDonnell)
for research involving human participants or the Institutional
Animal
Care
and
Use Committee (IACUC) (Don Paetkau). A Request for Protocol Approval must
be submitted to the appropriate committee. When your protocol is
approved,
you will
receive a letter from the chair of the IRB or IACUC which must be
forwarded to the Faculty Affairs Grants Committee. The grant
award
is contingent upon this approval.
Responsibility
of the Recipient upon Completion:
1.
Recipients must file a written report with the Vice President and
Dean of Faculty, and send a copy to the Chair of the Faculty Affairs
Committee within nine months after the proposed beginning day of
the
project. This report must indicate
what the recipient accomplished as a result of the grant.
2. The Faculty Development Research Grant awarded by Saint Mary's
College must be acknowledged in any published report, article, exhibit,
etc., made possible by the grant.
Guidelines for Evaluating Faculty Development Research Grant Proposals
Each
proposal is read and evaluated by all members of the Faculty Development
Grants Committee. The Committee emphasizes the following points during
discussion of a proposal's merit:
1.
Specific Aims
a.
How well conceived, defined and organized is the proposal itself?
b.
Are the project and its objectives clearly stated in language accessible
to the non-professional? Are the arguments for the needs and value
of the proposed work developed thoroughly? Remember that the members
of the committee will not be familiar with the methodology and technical
jargon of all the disciplines.
2.
Method
a.
Is the project methodology solid?
b.
Is the project design appropriately scaled for the proposed project
duration?
3.
Significance of the Project
a.
How significant is the project within the applicant's field of study?
4.
Previous Work
a.
Does the applicant's experience demonstrate a good foundation for
the proposed project?
5.
Pertinent References
a.
Does the bibliography identify the best sources for the proposed
project?
b. Is the bibliography up-to-date and clearly pertinent to the proposal?
6.
Outlet
a.
Does the proposed outlet (journal, exhibit, recital, etc.) seem
appropriate for the research project?
7.
Format
a.
Did the applicant adhere to the application guidelines?
8.
Recommendations
a.
The Committee must receive at least one letter of support for the
proposal from someone who can provide an informed judgment of its
merits.
b.
The applicant's department chair must also sign the proposal, indicating
that she/he endorses it.
Faculty Development Research Grant Awards
2007 – 08 Faculty Research Grant Award
Kurt Buhring, Religious Studies
Reinhold Niebuhr: A theological and Ethical Response to the Great Depression
Insook Chung, Education
A comparative study of U.S. and Korean fourth grade student conceptual understanding of multiplication and its real life applications
Kelly Harrington, Art Motherhood: A Reality Check
Jason Lahr, Art Spatial Fictions: Drawing as Installation
Joanne Snow, Mathematics
Crafting a Biography of Marston Morse
2006 Faculty
Research Grant Award
Mark Abram-Copenhaver,
Communication & Performance Studies
Profiles of Life After A Theater Major
Thomas Bonnell,
English
On the Trail of Boswell's Revisions of the Life of Johnson
Phyllis Kaminski,
Religious Studies
What Daughters Know: Thinking Women's Spirituality
2005 Faculty Research Grant Awards
Insook Chung,
Education
Preschool Education through the Eyes of Korean Mothers
Nancy D'Antuono,
Modern Languages
Andrea Perrucci Seventeenth-Century Italian Playwright and Acting Theoretician
John Fotopoulos, Religious
Studies
The Intertextuality of 1 Corinthians
Jerry Gingras, Modern
Languages
Lopez de Ayala and the Aristocratic Historiographical Tradition of Castile
Nancy Menk, Music
The Seventh World Symposium on Choral Music
Bill Sandusky,
Art
Bringing to a Conclusion Phase One of the Brancacci Project
Susan Vance, Business
Administration and Economics
Financial Literacy of College-age Women
2004
Research Grant Awards
Thomas Bonnell,
English
Retooling for Boswell's Life of Johnson
Clayton Henderson,
Music
Emma Wixom Nevada: Cultural Influences in a Silver-Mining Town
Jeffrey Jacob,
Music
A study of Contemporary Italian Piano Music at the Bari Conservatory
Mary Porter,
Mathematics
Creating and Using Examples, Nonexamples, and Counterexamples in Undergraduate
Mathematics
Sean Savage,
Political Science
Scoop the Lonely Hawk: Senator Henry M. Jackson and U.S. Foreign Policy,
1968 - 1972
Laurel Thomas,
Music
A Study of Asian and Asian-influenced Song Literature at the Hong Kong
Baptist University in Hong Kong, China
2003
Research Grant Awards
Insook
Chung, Education
Assessing Korean 9-year-old Children's Conceptual Understanding of the
Multiplication Basic Facts
Jason
Lahr, Art
Riding with Pike
Catherine
Pittman, Psychology
Loosening the Grip of Fear: Strategies for Overcoming Chronic Anxiety
Mary
Porter, Mathematics
Women in Mathematics-Based Careers
Sean
Savage, Political Science
Hawks, Doves, and Owls: 1968-1972
David
Sever, Biology
Updating the 1925 Developmental Biology Research of Inex Whipple Wilder
2002
Research Grant Awards
Clayton
Henderson, Music
Continued Research into Quotation in the Music of Charles Ives
Jeffrey
Jacob, Music
Premiere Performance and Recording of "Concerto for 2 Pianos And
Orchestra" in Prague,
2001
Research Grant Awards
Sandra
Ginter, Art
"Thresholds" - an art installation
Max
Westler, English
Endless Summer
2000
Research Grant Awards
J.
Philip Bays, Chemistry
A Specificity of Esterase Hydrolysis@ Reactions II
Mary
Porter, Mathematics
A Student Learning Strategies and Proof Schemes: A Collaborative
Research Project, Part II
1999
Research Grant Awards
Phil
Bays, Chemistry
A Specificity of Esterase Hydrolysis Reactions
Johnson
Bowles, Art
A Wearing a Woman' s Life B Phase II
Carmen
Garcia- Rasilla, Art
A Critical Edition of Salvador Dali' s Secret Life
Jeffrey
Jacob, Music
A Performance and CD Recording of My Composition, The
Carol of the Bells by the Moravian Philharmonic
Nancy
Menk, Music
A Meeting the Choral World: Fifth World Symposium on Choral Music"
Kathy
Ornish, Art and Donald Stikeleather, Dance
Vessels of Transformation: A Dance/Sculpture Collaboration
Mary
Porter, Mathematics
Exploring the Relationship Between Students' Learning Strategies and
their Views on the Nature of Mathematical Proof
1998
Research Grant Awards
Dale
Banks and Loretta Li, Education
What's Green About the 1996 Award-Winning School Districts:
A Comparison of Indiana's Districts Containing Blue Ribbon Winners with
Thirty Randomly Selected Indiana School Districts
Nancy
D'Antuono, Modern Languages
Calderon in Italy, 1642-1800
Kelly
Hamilton, History
Wittgenstein and the Mind's Eye
Ella
Harmeyer , Nursing
Community Collaboration to Enhance Clinical Experiences
Deborah
McCarthy, Chemistry
Analyses of Antioxidants on Carbon/ Carbon Composite Friction Materials
Catherine
Pittman, Psychology
"Assessing Change in Personality After Brain Injury"
Thomas
Platt, Biology
A Survey of the Helminth Fauna of the Freshwater Turtles of
Area de Conservacion de Guanacaste, Costa Rica: A Component of an Taxa
Biological Inventory
Sean
Savage, Political Science
LBJ's Party Leadership: The Texas Connection
Susan
Vance, Business Administration and Economics
The Americans With Disabilities Act: The Impact of Learning Disabilities, Attention
Deficit Disorder and Reasonable Accommodation on Accounting Firms and
Academe
1997
Research Grant Awards
J.
Phillip Bays, Chemistry
Computational Study of Onium Compounds
Clayton
Henderson, Music
Paul Dresser as Minstrel, Actor and Singer
Renée
Kingcaid, Modern Languages
Serge Doubrovsky: A life in Fiction and a Fictional Life
Sean
Savage, Political Science
LBJ and the Democratic Party
David
Sever, Biology
International Collaboration on Reproductive Biology of Salamanders
1996
Research Grant Awards
Clayton
Henderson, Music
Paul Dresser In Evansville, Indiana ca. 1882-84
Nancy
Menk, Music
Fourth World Symposium on Choral Music and World Choirs Festival
Sean
Savage, Political Science
JFK and LBJ: Analyses of Presidential Party Leadership
Sara
Sawtelle, Chemistry
Electrochemical Investigation of Gold, Tin and Titanium Compounds
1995
Research Grant Awards
Clayton
Henderson, Music
A Context for Paul Dresser Songs
Julie
Long, Library
Evaluating Presentation Software to Use in the Design of Modules for
Teaching Search Formulation/Commands in Computerized Resources
Donald
Miller, Mathematics
Mary Jo Regan Kubinski, Nursing
Barbara Wall, Nursing
Styles/Outcomes of Accelerated Nursing Program Students in Two Settings
Catherine
Pittman, Psychology
Change in Personality after Brain Injury
Joanne
Snow, Mathematics
Study of the Automorphism Group of a Compact Complex Homogeneous Manifold
Mary
Wood, Psychology
Qualitative Changes in Narrative Reports of Autobiographical Memories
1994
Research Grant Awards
Sr.
Kathleen Antol, Chemistry
Application of Non-Radioactive Methods of DNA Detection
Clayton
Henderson, Music
Paul Dresser and American Popular Song
Robert
Hohl, Library
An Exhibit on the History of the Printed Book in the West
Renée
Kingcaid, Modern Languages
The Catechism Lesson (a novel)
David
Stefancic, History
The Nation Builders: A comparative biographical study in the process
of nation building
1993
Research Grant Awards
Clayton
Henderson, Music
Paul Dresser and American Popular Song
Jeffrey
Jacob, Music
A Performance at the 1993 Seoul International Festival
Phyllis
Kaminski, Religious Studies
Blondel’s l’Action (1893): A Centenary Reading
Nancy
Menk, Music
The 1993 World Symposium on Choral Music
Sean
Savage, Political Science
The Presidential Leadership of Harry S. Truman: The Kentucky Connection
Douglas
Tyler, Art
Public Art/Public Eye
1992
Research Grant Awards
J.
Phillip Bays, Chemistry
Automated Development of Force Field Parameters
Kara
Eberly, Biology
Characterization of the Biochemical Mechanisms Involved in the Induction
of Cytokine Gene Expression in Murine Cell Lines of Flavone Acetic Acid
(FAA)
Nancy
Menk, Music
Oregon Bach Festival: Master Class in Choral-Orchestral Conduction and
Performance
Annette
Peacock Johnson
Barbra Wall, Nursing
Five-Year Plan: Study of Behavior Patterns and Learning Styles in the
Department of Nursing
Patrick
Pierce, Political Science
1992 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
Paul
Shore, Education
Jews at the University of Vienna 1780 — 1800
Lauren
Strach, Business
Undergraduate Women and Their Teachers: Analysis of Administration and
Economics & Perceived Gender Differences in Teaching
Karilee
Watson, Education
Jill Vihtelic, Business
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex and Finance Administration and
Economics but Were Afraid to Ask: A Survey of Women Survivors
JoAnn
Widerquist, Nursing
Correspondence of Florence Nightingale and Edwin Chadwicki: Their
Underlying Motivation for Sanitary Reform
1990
Faculty Research Grant Awards
Nancy
D’Antuono, Modern Languages
"Lope de Vega in Italy, 1620-1800: Performance, Translation, Adaption
H.
James Paradis, Art
Slide and Video Documentation in the Rain Forest, Costa Rica
Patrick
Pierce, Political Science
Revitalization of American Political Party Organizations and Strengthening
of Congressional Party Discipline
Catherine
Pittman, Psychology
Self-Punitive Behavior: An Animal Model of Self-Defeating Behavior
Rebecca
Stoddart, Psychology
Non-Verbal Assessment of Language-Delayed Children’s Emotion Skills
Richard
Tarara, Physics
Computer Animations and Simulations in Physics Instruction
JoAnn
Widerquist, Nursing
Analysis of Correspondence between Florence Nightingale and Mary
Jones
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