SPRING 2012 ACTIVITIES

In the spring 2012 semester, the RSPG committee published two calls for proposals. The first call for proposals was for the Hemingway Collaborative and Excellence Awards. The deadline was February 13. An additional call for proposals for the Hemingway Collaborative and Excellence Awards was made for March 29 due to the small number of proposals received and the small amount of money initially awarded from money available (only 47% of available monies were granted).  In order to increase submissions in the future greater publicity will be conducted in the future. The second call for applications was for the award categories of RSPG (research and instructional improvement grants), Hemingway Faculty Vitality, New Faculty Awards as well as for the Adjunct Faculty Vitality Award. The deadline was March 19.

Hemingway Collaborative and Excellence Awards (Feb 13, 2012)

The committee originally received 6 Hemingway Faculty Excellence and Collaborative proposals amounting to $26,615.10. The committee received a total of 16 Hemingway Faculty Excellence and Collaborative proposals once the second round of applications were received, requesting a total of $73,371.10. The proposals were rated and ranked by committee members before the meetings and then discussed in two meetings; February 23 and March 29. The committee recommended that 10 of the 15 projects to be awarded in full. The recommendations were presented by the WSU Hemingway Trustees to the Hemingway family in a meeting on April 19, 2012 in Salt Lake City. All the committee’s recommendations were approved. The following chart displays the awarded Excellence and Collaborative projects by college. The total expended in this category was $49, 955. There was a remaining balance of $45. Award recipients with project titles are listed at the end of this report.

RSPG Research and Instructional Improvement, Hemingway Vitality,

New Faculty, and Adjunct Vitality Awards (March 19, 2012)

The committee received 33 proposals, of which 4 requested funding for research or instructional improvement projects ($5,523) ,14 for conference travel from the Hemingway Faculty Vitality funds ($17, 247.02) and 13 requests were from WSU tenure track faculty hired within the past two years for the Hemingway New Faculty funds ($22,338.68).  In addition, one proposal was submitted by an adjunct faculty member for the Hemingway Adjunct Faculty Vitality funding ($1,445). The total amount requested was $50,421.25. There was a total of $41,644.92 available to fund (about 77% of the total requested).

The committee reviewed and rated the applications before the March 19^th meeting. After carefully considering each proposal, 30 of the 33 were awarded either in full or partially. The total amount allocated was $39,992.70 of the available $41,644.92 (or 96%). The average size of an approved grant was about $.1,333.09. Given the unusually high number of applications from tenure track faculty hired within the past two years, the small amount of funding available under the Hemingway New Faculty funds ($5,000), and the desire to fund as many high quality proposals as possible, many of the Hemingway New Faculty proposals were funded through other appropriate grant categories such as RSPG or Vitality depending on the type of proposal submitted.

The final awarded proposals fell under the following categories:

16 HemingwayVitality, 5 Hemingway New Faculty, and 10 Research and Instructional Improvement.

RSPG Research/Instructional Improvement      

            Awarded $ 16,113 out of a possible $17,293.50 (remaining balance + $1,180.50).

Hemingway Faculty Vitality                             

            Awarded $ 18,879.70 out of a possible $19,351.42 (remaining balance +471.72).

Hemingway New Faculty                  

            Awarded $5,000 out of a possible $5,000 (All funds spent).

Hemingway Adjunct Vitality                        

No funds were awarded to any Hemingway Adjunct Vitality proposals, but money available was transferred to the Hemingway Faculty Vitality funds in order to fund more projects (All funds unspent- $2,969 transferred to Hemingway Vitality).

The RSPG committee thanks Provost Mike Vaughan, Betty Kusnierz, and Chris Millard for their continuing support. The committee looks forward to a new productive year of funding faculty projects. The deadlines for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 will be announced on the committee web site in the early fall semester.

Fall 2011 RSPG Research and Instructional Improvement Grant Recipients

Jackson, Justin (Engineering) ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, $1,200.

Kennedy, Kerry (Social Work) Mental Health Court: A participant's perspective, $225.

Kokai, Jennnifer (Performing Arts) Mermaids, pigs, and obscene octopi: The underwater spectacular

and the U.S. Imagination 1939-Present, $2,960.

Lawrence, Joanne (Performing Arts) Instructional development of a hybrid course: CA/DV DANC

1010, Intro to Dance, 2,533.

Meyers, Ron (Zoology) Syrinx muscle morphology in songbirds, 3,560 (of which $560 if from

Hemingway Vitality).

Okazaki, Robert (Zoology) Survey of Nemertean Predators on the Eggs of the blue crabs from Costa

Rica, $1,642.

Skopec, Michele (Zoology) The role of COMT in woodrat hoarding behavior, $1,460.

Speicher, Tim (Health Promotion) Comparison of positional release therapy, thermal ultrasound, and

patterned electrical neuromuscular stimulation on tissue compliance and pressure sensitivity threshold of upper trapezius trigger points, $1,640.

Szalay, Eve (Foreign Languages) Meeting the requirements of a changing German program with

continuing education through The Goethe Institute Online Business Course, $828.

Wolochowicz, Stephen (Visual Arts) Three Gallery Exhibitions, $1,620.

Hemingway Faculty Vitality Grant Recipients

Crimmel, Hal (English) The Way Rivers Are Supposed to Be, $1,395.

Chan, Julian (Mathematics) Travel to support research on a current project in time series with several

coauthors, $883.

Green, Diana (Engineering) Developing soft skills: Strategies and activities for the business

education curriculum, $660.

Johns, Becky (Communication) Travel expenses for conference to present paper, $567.

Little, Brandon (History) Archival research for a scholarly article: "The ties that bind: Australians,

Belgian relief, and the illusion of distant suffering, 1914-1919", $1,359.

Orr, Rick (Engineering Technology) ASEE CIEQ Presentation, $1,000.

Palumbo, Michael (Performing Arts) American String Teachers Association Presentations, $700.

Williams, Natalie (Teacher Education) Travel to make three presentations at Hawaii International

conference on education, $1,250.

Spring 2012 Hemingway Faculty Excellence and Collaborative Award Recipients

Clark, Stephen (Botany) Ethnobotanical Studies of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation and Northern Ute Tribes of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho, $5066.10.

Fry, Richard (Computer Science) International collaboration for the continued development of an Electronic Medical Records System for Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana, West Africa, $4025.

Clark, Jonathan (Zoology) & Sondossi, Mohamad (Microbiology) Assessing Great Salt Lake Microbial Diversity, $4025.

Lewis, Greg (History) and Ramirez, Victoria (English) Cauldron of Revolution: Visual Art, Literacy Culture and Business Enterprise in Shanghai, 1932-1986, $11,000.

Sowerby, Amanda & Hamblin, Michael (Performing Arts) The Dances of the Western Migration, $1,800.

Johnson, Gary (Political Science) Poll-worker Training Program for WSU Students in Weber County, $3250.

Wachocki, Barbara (Botany) Paustenbaugh, Michele (Chemistry), Ford, Rick (Geosciences), Ghoreishi, Afshin (Mathematics), Sondossi, Mohamad (Microbiology),  Johnston, Adam (Physics),  Mull, John (Zoology), Eaton, Linda (Anthropology) Schmolesky, Matthew (Psychology/Neuroscience),  Tuck, Garth & Rague, Brian (Computer Science)  Encouraging future scientists through Junior High after school science and math program, $10,000.

Parrilla de Kokal, Maria and Garza, Azenett (Psychology), Alicia Girlat and Asensio, Isabel (Foreign Languages) Evaluation of "Making a Difference" Program, $4,628.

Lisbonee, Jaren, Ota, Carrie, Qui, Wei (Child and Family Studies) Effective Student-Teacher Practices in Early Learning Training Programs, $5240.

Schvanaveldt, Shane & Malone, David (Business Administration) Faculty/Curriculum Development in Enterprise Resource Planning, $3,196.

SPRING 2012 RSPG Research and Instructional Improvement Grant Recipients

Brown, Fon (Engineering) A High Density Scan Code based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, $1,100.

Clark, Stephen (Botany). Studies in Scirpus maritimus: attempts to make the grain more readily available for human consumption, $2,7000.

Ellis, Ann (Teacher Education) Student Assessment Training Proposal, $2,800.

Fielding, Electra Gamón (Foreign Languages) On Site Research: Moros I Cristians in Eastern Spain, $1,400.

Garside, Colleen (Communications) Conflict Resolution Graduate Certificate Program, $2,000.

Griffiths, Sian (English) The Chum, a novel, $1,885.

Palumbo, Michael (Performing Arts) International Viola Congress - Baroque Viola Performance, $723.

Willard, Mary Beth (Philosophy) Game Called on Account of Fog: Metaphysics and Epistemic Dismissivism, $1,000.

Wolochowicz, Stephen (Visual Arts) Exhibition and Conference - Shared Timeline, $1,866.

Zagrodnik, James (HPHP) Heart Rate Monitors for Teaching and Research, $1,400.

Zahabi, Liese (Visual Arts) Information-Triage Ethnography, Interface Development and User Testing, $1,239.

Spring 2012 Hemingway Vitality Award Recipients

Ashley, Aaron (Psychology) The Representation of Literal and Figurative Uses of Spatial Language, $1250.

Birch, Dustin; McCulley, Juleanne; Leatherbury, Meg; Harward, Kelley (Engineering Technology) Multidisciplinary Renewable Energy Project, $1,175.

Campbell, Carey (Performing Arts) "Entirely Unoriginal": Finding Meaning in Popular Music Mash-ups, $708.66

Chan, Julian (Mathematics) Travel support for a conference on research related topics, $900.

Chung, Brian (Zoology); Ashley, Aaron (Psychology) Oral presentation at the 2012 Digestive Disease Week in San Diego, CA, May 2012, $700.

Cost, Patricia (HPHP) When Communities Know Better They Do Better, $853.96.

Giralt, Alicia (Foreign Languages) Presentation of Interdisciplinary Project, $1024.

Hamson-Utley, Jordan (HPHP) An investigation of concussion-related neuroproteins in collegiate athletes: A comparison of gender differences in high-risk sports and more, $1012.

Hill, Stephen (Business Administration) Development of a teaching case for delivery vehicle route planning, $1,240.

Hoagstrom, Christopher (Zoology) Presenting an oral presentation at the Society for Freshwater Science annual meeting, $646.

Jackson, Shaun (Library) The Multimodal Information Literacy Course: Providing Maximum Flexibility for Students AND Teachers: Presentation at the International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education, $2,050

Kinikin, JaNae (Library) Travel Funding for LILAC 2012, $1,884.40.

Leatherbury, Megumi (Engineering Technology) Multidisciplinary Renewable Energy Project, $1,175.

Marshall, Jon (Zoology) Speciation, hybrid zones, and species delimitation, $1,199.

Spring 2012 Hemingway New Faculty Awards

Glass, Pepper (Sociology) Immigration and the shifting color line in small town America, $1,124.68.

Nelson, Kristin (Teacher Education) Presentation at the American Educational Research Association, $2,100.

Ota, Carrie (Child and Family Studies) Preschool Conversation in Family Child Care, $2,306.

Steimel, Sara (Communication) Negotiating Knowledge(s) in Community-Based Partnerships, $679.

Willard, Mary Beth (Philosophy) Stop Over-Analyzing It: The Puzzle of Historical Inaccuracy and the Pragmatic Interpretation of Imaginative Resistance, $543.