Four faculty members receive first College of Education Seed Grants
January 2009
After conducting a rigorous review of submitted research proposals, the College of Education and its Scholarship and Innovation Committee awarded a combined $9,773 in Seed Grant funding to four faculty members in December.
The faculty members who will use the inaugural COE Seed Grants are Dr. Annette Kluck, assistant professor in the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, Counseling/School Psychology (SERC), Dr. DaShaunda Patterson, assistant professor in SERC, Dr. Leah Robinson, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Dr. JoEllen Sefton, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology.
Kluck received $2,500 to assist with her proposed project, "Parental attitudes and behaviors: Do they hinder treatment progress?''
Patterson received $2,460 for her project proposal, "An analysis of parents' perceptions of their child's disability and their satisfaction with service delivery.''
Robinson received $2,313 to facilitate her proposed project, "Determining the relationship between cardiovascular disease, health and fitness behaviors in school-age children: A preliminary study.''
Sefton received $2,500 in funding toward her project, "Effect of massage therapy on peripheral blood flow and EMG in healthy adults.''
The seed grant program was established to assist new research projects that show promise for future funding. The College of Education made $10,000 available and will do so again in Spring 2009. Tenured, tenure-track, nine-month and faculty members with full-time academic appointments at the levels of assistant, associate or full professor are eligible to apply for up to $2,500 in seed grant funding. The college considers project design and procedures, the quality of the proposed research, the value of the project as it relates to the development of the applicant's progress as a researcher and the potential for the project to receive funding from external sources.
According to the seed grant guidelines, special consideration is given to projects that will ultimately result in applications for external support. The COE Seed Grant program provides financial assistance for faculty members to test ideas in their preliminary stages, before enough data has been gathered to support a request for external funding. The program also allows for the development of full proposals for major external funding of projects that are already at that stage.
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