Annual Report

2009-2010

Prepared by: Marjukka Ollilainen, Chair

During the 2009-2010 academic year the RSPG committee met three times (once in the fall and twice in the spring) to evaluate faculty proposals and make recommendations for awards.  The attendance of committee members was good and most committee members attended all three meetings as well as in the Fall 2009 drop-in lunch sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Forum. In general, committee members came to the meetings prepared and provided valuable input.  Interactions were productive and constructive both in meetings and in short online discussions about acute committee issues.  I would like to thank all committee members for their hard work in reviewing proposals (no small feat as the number of proposals rose to above 40 in the spring RSPG call) and for their critical comments during meetings.  The RSPG members’ thorough review of applications ensures that the selection process is rigorous and based on established academic standards.

Fall 2009 Activities

During the Fall 2009 term, the RSPG committee issued a request for proposals in the funding categories of Research, Instructional Improvement, and Hemingway Faculty Vitality.   The deadline for applications was on October 19, 2009.   By that that date, the committee received 27 applications, representing six colleges on campus (no applications were received from the College of Health Professions).  The majority (21) of the 27 applications requested funding for travel to either conduct research or present scholarly work in a conference.  Eighteen applications requested funding from the Hemingway Faculty Vitality Fund ($25,997) and nine requests were for the RSPG/Instructional Improvement and Research funds ($20,171).  The total amount of funding requests was $46,168. 

The RSPG committee met on October 26, 2009 to consider the applications and had a total of $33,157 to grant (RSPG/$15,000; HMWY $15,657/OUR 2,500).  The meeting was well-attended, and each proposal received a thorough review with discussion and deliberation.  The committee awarded—either partially or in full—22 of the 27 applications, a total of $31,128 for faculty research, instructional improvement, and travel.  Details of the requests, awards, and the recipients with project titles are presented below.

RSPG Research/Instructional Improvement

·         Requests: 9 applications, total $20,171

·         Approved: 8 applications (89%)

·         Awarded:  $15,000 out of a possible $15,000

·         All funds spent

Hemingway Faculty Vitality

·         Requests: 18 applications, total  $25,997

·         Approved: 14 applications (78%)

·         Awarded $15,056 out of a possible $15,657

·         Remaining HFV balance – $601 

Office of Undergraduate Research

·         Approved: Partial funding for two applications (one funded also from RSPG, one funded also from Hemingway Vitality)

·         Awarded $1,126 out of a possible $2,500

·         Remaining balance: $1,374

Colleges Represented in the funding total:

College            # of applications          Funds awarded            % of total awarded

A&H                (7)                                $11,860                                  38.1

S&BS               (7)                                $9,768                                    31.4    

Education          (3)                                $3,655                                    11.7                

Science             (3)                                $3,183                                    10.2      

COAST            (1)                                $1,466                                      4.7

B&E                (1)                                 $1,250                                      4.0

After the  Fall 2009 funding decisions, the RSPG committee still had a total of $1,975 in remaining, available funds (RSPG/$0; Hemingway Vitality/$601; and OUR/$1,374).  These funds were carried over to the Spring 2010 funding cycle.

Spring 2010 Activities

In the spring semester, the committee published two calls for proposals.  The first call (deadline February 19) included proposals for the Hemingway Collaborative and Excellence Awards.  The second call for applications (deadline April 5) included the following award categories: RSPG (research and instructional improvement grants) and Hemingway Faculty Vitality and New Faculty Awards as well as the Adjunct Faculty Vitality Award (available for the second year in a row).  

Hemingway Collaborative and Excellence Awards (Feb 19, 2010)

The committee initially received 13 proposals (two of them were deemed inappropriate for the excellence and Collaborative categories and were moved to the second call).  The remaining 11 proposals (five Collaborative and six Excellence) entailed funding requests for  $65,257.   The proposals were rated and ranked by committee members and then discussed in a meeting on March 3.  The committee recommended nine (out of the 11) projects to be awarded and the committee’s recommendations were approved by the Hemingway Family on March 31, 2010.  The following chart displays the awarded Excellence and Collaborative projects by college. The total expended in this category was $39,607.   (Titles and amounts awarded for each project are listed below.)

HE and HC:

Awarded $39,607 (out of a possible $50,000). 

Awards by College:

A&H (1)                                        $7,090

Science (2)                                    $6,950                        

Ed (1)                                            $5,993

A&H/SBS (1- collaborative)         $5,950

Health Professions (1)                   $5,325

Library (1)                                     $5,250

COAST (1)                                   $1,955

S&BS (1)                                      $1,094

Total                                              $39,607

Research and Instructional Improvement and

Hemingway Vitality, New Faculty, and Adjunct Vitality Awards (Deadline April 50)

On April 5, the committee received 44 proposals, ten were RSPG proposals, 21 Hemingway Faculty Vitality proposals, eight Adjunct Vitality proposals, and five were Hemingway New Faculty proposals with a grand total of $78,514 in requests. The committee rated and ranked the applications and awarded 36 projects either in full or partially and spent altogether $51,106 (of the available $52,368). The average size of an approved grant was a $1,419, and the largest requested (and approved) category was Hemingway Vitality, which is mainly used for funding domestic and overseas conference travel.    

RSPG:  Awarded $15,440 (out of a possible $15,000). (Balance -$440)

Hemingway New Faculty: Awarded $8,298 (out of a possible $10,000) (Balance $1,702)

Hemingway Vitality: Awarded $20,994 (out of a possible $20,994)

Hemingway Adjunct Vitality: Awarded $5,000 (out of a possible $5,000)

OUR:  Awarded $1,374 (out of a possible $1,374)

Awards by College

A&H (17)              $18,941

Science (10)          $16,138

SBS (5)                 $11,151

Education (2)        $  2,482

COAST (1)           $  1,895

B&E (1)                $     499

                  Total                      $51,106

After the Spring 2010 funding cycle, the committee reports $1,702 in remaining, available funds in the Hemingway New Faculty category.  All other categories have been spent out. The balance in the New Faculty category will be added to the New Faculty pool in Spring 2011.   The negative balance of $440 (RSPG) will be paid from leftover funds that become available from closed projects each year.

The RSPG committee thanks Provost Vaughan and Betty Kusnierz for their support.  We look forward to a new productive year of funding allocations.  The deadlines for Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 will be announced on the committee web site in September.  

FALL 2009 GRANTS

Fall 2009 Hemingway Faculty Vitality grants

Bedford, Daniel (Geography) Paper presentation - Student opinion on global warming, $670

Buck, Julie (Criminal Justice)  Travel to present at the American Psychology-Law Society's Annual Conference, $1,367

Byrd, David (Teacher Education) Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages national conference, $945

Cai, Maomao (Mathematics) Travel to support presentation of papers at 2010 AMS/MAA joint meetings, $1,201

Clark, Jonathan (Zoology) Travel to the Third International Barcode of Life conference, $700

Fan, Yuhong (Business Administration) Pre-operating performances and IPO's after market returns, $1,250

Fital-Akelbek, Sandra (Mathematics) Investigating the upper bounds on the moduli subdominant eigenvalues of stochastic matrix by using scrambling index, $1,282

Fudge, Robert (Political Science & Philosophy)  Definitions of art: The rational justifiability approach, $316

Hamson-Utley, Jordan (HPHP) Conducting an invited, peer-reviewed workshop entitled "Using psychological skills with injured athletes: The what, when, how and why?” $1,250

Hansen, Cheryl & Mathews, Tom (Foreign Languages) Bridge Delegation to China, $900

Palumbo, Michael (Performing Arts) National string project consortium, $700

Priest, Thom (Performing Arts) Directing the creativity research special interest group session for the 2010 Music Educators national conference, $ 1,250

Stern, Erik (Performing Arts) Math dance at two European conferences, $2,960

Trentelman, Carla (Sociology & Anthropology)  Spring 2010 community meetings for disseminating of findings from research project, $265 (From Office of Undergraduate Research,  $150)

Fall 2009 RSPG Research/ Instructional Improvement grants

Banerji, Naseem (Visual Arts) The temples of Bishnupur, India, $2,600

Farner, Jeremy (MMET)  Green building educational needs, $490 (From Office of Undergraduate Research, $976)

Hansen, Rodney (HPHP) Comparison of amortization and interleukin (IL)-6 markers in aquatic and land plyometrics, $1,460

Josephson, Sheree (Communication) A first look into whether the cross-race deficit holds for Caucasian and Hispanic cross-racial eyewitness identification, $1,500

Lewis, Greg (History) Universal/Foo Shing Trading 1938-1945, $3,000

Little, Branden (History) Band of crusaders: American humanitarians, the Great War & the remaking of the world, $1,900

Schmolesky, Matthew (Psychology) A behavioral genetics approach to understanding personality traits and risk-taking behavior - Phase II, $2,100

Sowerby, Amanda (Performing Arts) Moving Company, $1,950

SPRING 2010 GRANTS

Spring 2010 Hemingway Faculty Excellence Awards

Armstrong, John  (Physics), Mobile outreach and research lab for monitoring air quality with HARBOR, $3,950

Bayley, Bruce (Criminal Justice) Ethical ideologies and ethics training within Utah law enforcement academies,$1,094

Inglefield, Colin (Physics), American Physical Society Four Corners Conference 2010, $3,000

Kinikin, JaNae (Library), HeLIOS - An information literacy tutorial for high school students, $5,250

Trujillo, Lisa (Respiratory Therapy),  Correlation between exposure to particulate matter and pulmonary function test results of subjects in Ghana, W. Africa, $5,325

van der Beek, Ralph & Yang, Yu-Jane (Performing Arts) Performing at the 35th Annual Classical Music festival in Austria, $7,090

Spring 2010 Hemingway Collaborative Awards

Fry, Richard (Computer Science), International collaboration to support the development of Martin Luther King Memorial Clinic and Allied Health College in Ghana, West Africa, $1,955

Hamson-Utley, Jordan (HPHP), Creating and implementing a bilingual orthopedic evaluation teaching and learning library to facilitate communication between Spanish speaking athletes and their care givers, $5,993

Lawrence, Joan (Performing Arts) & Rich, Julie (Geography), WSU Moving Company: Green Map project, $5,950

Spring 2010 RSPG (Instructional Improvement, Research)

Chung, Brian (Zoology), Undergraduate stipend for the analysis of intestinal peptide transport on growth and development, 2,808

Clark, Jonathan (Zoology), Analysis of chromosome telomeres in the model organism, Drosophila, $1,438

Clark, Stephen (Botany), Re-building the teaching plant collection for six botany courses, $2,276

Moloney, Karen (English), Archival research and interviewing in Northern Germany for journal articles and Ferryman's Daughter, an in-progress book of creative fiction, $2,054

Okazaki, Nicole (Zoology), Effect of Pramitol on the brine shrimp Artemia from the Great Salt Lake: Biological and biochemical effects, $1,800

Orr, Rick (MET), Advanced composites course development (MFET 3830), $1,895

Spring 2010  Hemingway Faculty Vitality

Amsel, Eric (Psychology), The International Society for the Study of Behavioral development (ISSBD): The Development of Scientific Reasoning, $2,484

Arnold, Michelle (Physics), Participation in the final workshop for research collaboration in the field of environmental lead, $1,170

Asensio, Isabel (Foreign Languages), "Women's search for identity in Helena Parente Cunha's novel Mulher no Espelho." Attendance, presentation, and chairing at the 64th annual Rocky Mountain MLA convention, $471

Bergeson, Craig (Foreign Languages), Fragmentation in a postwar Spanish film, $403

Giralt, Alicia (Foreign Languages), 2010 Rocky Mountain Language Association: Chairing and presenting, $403

Meyers, Ron (Zoology), Travel to 9th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology 26-31 July 2010, in Punta del Este, Uruguay, $2,460

Oberg, Craig (Microbiology), Presentation at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting, $1,250

Ollilainen, Marjukka (Sociology & Anthropology), Research paper presentation at the XVII International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010, $2,008

Palumbo, Michael (Performing Arts), Maurice Gardner Biennial composition competition at the International Viola Society Congress at the Cincinnati College Conservatory, $1,519

Priest, Thom (Performing Arts), Participation in the 39th Annual International Double Reed Society conference, $1,577

Ramirez, Vicki (English), Travel to perform self-authored play, Tristram Shandy, Gentleman at the 10th Annual Superior Festival: A Performance Event and Colloquium, Oct 11-14, 2010, Lake Superior State University, MI, $1,171

Shigley, Sally Bishop (English), Poetry and Medicine: A Campus and Community Project, $403

Singh, Mukhbir (Communication), Using social media to study binge drinking behavior, $200

Skopec, Michele (Zoology), Attendance and presentation at Comparative Nutrition Society biennial meeting, $942

Sowerby, Amanda (Performing Arts), Moving Company/World Dance Alliance Global Event, $1,377

Wang, Shi-Wa (Performing Arts), Music Performances in Taiwan, $1,970

Zwolinski, Michele (Microbiology), Presentation at the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting 2010, $1,187

Spring 2010 Hemingway New Faculty

Byrd, David (Teacher Ed), American Council on the teaching of Foreign Languages conference, $832

Guadagno, Luis (Foreign Languages), Film canon and audiences in Spain during the 1950s and 1960s, $1,800

Qui, Wei (Child and Family Studies), How do children of only children fare? Intergenerational effects of the one child policy, $1,650

Trentelman, Carla Koons (Sociology & Anthropology), Place dynamics related to the Marismas Nacionales, Nayarit, Mexico, $2,116

Winegar, Josh (Visual Arts), Capturing the West, $1,900

Spring 2010 Hemingway Adjunct Faculty Vitality

Akelbek, Mahmud (Mathematics), Travel to present at the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, $807

Bagchi, Shantanu (Economics), Optimal pension reform under demographic shocks and endogenous retirement, $499

Fielding, Electra G. (Foreign Languages), Presentation at the RMMLA 2010 Conference, $501

Jasmer, Dolores (Foreign Languages), Adjunct faculty- Oral proficiency interview training, $908

Pittman, Melissa (Foreign Languages), Oral proficiency interview training (for adjunct faculty), $908

Woodruff, Alicia (Performing Arts), Moving Company/World Dance Alliance Global Event, $1,377

Spring 2009 RSPG/Office of Undergraduate Grants (for student assistants)

Bigler, Mark (Social Work) Distracted learning: The effects of text messaging and Internet access (Wi-Fi surfing) on learning in the college classroom, $1,766 ($1,169 RSPG + $597 OUR)

Horn, Brent (Criminal Justice) Observational Frequency of Hopkinson Fractures in Tempered Glass, $2,777 ($2,000 RSPG + $777 OUR)