Grants Received
Below are the grants that we have received in the current fiscal year.
Ohio Campus Compact/Learn and Serve America $2,000
Project Title: Cardinal Philanthropy Colloquium- Pay it Forward, Year 3
Dr. Melissa Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement
A student-led philanthropy project funded by Learn and Serve America administered by Ohio Campus Compact in partnership with Kentucky and Michigan Campus Compacts, serves as a community of practice for interdisciplinary scholars of philanthropy, both our students and community partners alike.
The Colloquium offers four service-learning courses. Students serve as advisory boards to assess community needs, provide direct volunteer services, evaluate funding priorities for specific non-profit organizations, assess funding requests, and make persuasive recommendations for funding allocations. Through the Colloquium Otterbein will maintain our on-going dialogue about campus/community relations, leveraging resources, and affecting significant social change.
Ohio Board of Nursing $199,671
Project Title: Linking Education and Practice Partnerships Program (LEAPPP)
Dr. Marjorie Vogt, Nursing
The purpose of this project is to increase the numbers of master’s or doctoral prepared post-licensure nurses in the role of Nurse Educator. The specific goals of this project include increasing the numbers of master’s or doctoral post-licensure student nurses by 10% through development of partnerships with select educational programs and healthcare agencies; collaborate with community partners to increase the number of post-licensure nurses prepared in the role of Nurse Educator; and provide opportunities for nursing staff of community partners by using distance learning techniques to promote nursing staff life-long learning.
Ohio Board of Nursing $199,685
Project Title: Nursing, Academic & Community Partnerships (NCAP)
Dr. Barbara Schaffner, Nursing
The purpose of this project is to increase the enrollment of pre-licensure nursing students by 10%; develop additional non-traditional community partnerships to allow increased access to healthcare training sites; revise the curriculum to include additional emphasis on targeted areas such as quality improvement, safety, culture, gerontology and informatics; and to provide lifelong learning for the post-licensure nurses of the community partners through continuing education offerings and simulations.
National Institute of Standards and Technology $16,216 –
Project Title: Calculating thermochemical and kinetic reference data for the study of monocyclic oxygenates as model compounds for second-generation biofuels.
Dr. Carrigan Hayes, Chemistry
Dr. Carrigan Hayes's research focuses on the chemistry of lignocellulosic biofuels; these are biofuels that are derived from non-edible plant material (and so are not otherwise involved in the food chain). Lignin and cellulose both have large structures consisting of several interconnected rings; these complex structures make their chemistry complicated.
Dr. Hayes is interested in examining the component individual rings present in lignin and cellulose, with the ultimate goal of better understanding the larger, interconnected systems. To this end, she and her research students use computational chemistry to calculate the energies and explore the reactions of these monocyclic (one-ring) compounds.
Columbus City Schools $8,000
Project Title: Ubuntu Mentoring and Leadership for College
John Kengla, Center for Community Engagement
The Ubuntu Mentoring and Leadership for College program educates urban youth through group mentoring. Guided by University and high school faculty and a carefully constructed curriculum, Otterbein students meet each week with students at two Columbus City Schools (CCS), Linden-McKinley STEM Academy and Mifflin High School. Together the students form a community of practice and learn to: 1) apply their own signature strengths in new ways; 2) increase their engagement in learning; 3) grow their college aspirations and understanding of college access; 4) employ resilience skills; 5) advance their active levels of self-control and self-discipline; and 6) practice civic responsibility—all of which are the foundations for strong character, life-long learning and, in the short term, are skills students can use to improve their chances for college access and success.
Ohio Humanities Council $15,000
Project Title: The Language of Nature: Reading the Earth
Dr. Terry Hermsen, English
“The Language of Nature: Reading the Earth” is a week-long institute for approximately 20 classroom school teachers held at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center and brings together three strands of interest and concern in the contemporary humanities: 1) the need to help teachers better connect their students to the world beyond the classroom; 2) the imperative to make best use of contemporary insights “how we think,” and finally 3) our pressing need as a nation and a culture to re-establish stronger bonds with the natural world. The grant was awarded by The Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
The Columbus Foundation $32,000
Project Title: Ubuntu Mentoring and Leadership for College
John Kengla, Center for Community Engagement
The Ubuntu Mentoring and Leadership for College program educates urban youth through group mentoring. Guided by University and high school faculty and a carefully constructed curriculum, Otterbein students meet each week with students at two Columbus City Schools (CCS), Linden-McKinley STEM Academy and Mifflin High School. Together the students form a community of practice and learn to: 1) apply their own signature strengths in new ways; 2) increase their engagement in learning; 3) grow their college aspirations and understanding of college access; 4) employ resilience skills; 5) advance their active levels of self-control and self-discipline; and 6) practice civic responsibility—all of which are the foundations for strong character, life-long learning and, in the short term, are skills students can use to improve their chances for college access and success.
The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio $10,000
Project Title: Women’s Leadership Network
Melissa Gilbert, Center for Community Engagement
The Otterbein Women’s Leadership Network will provide educational, networking, and transformational leadership opportunities for girls, students, and community leaders to cultivate a collaborative system of support that will increase women’s upward social and economic mobility.
Ohio Board of Regents $106,480
Project Title: Operation Physics for Central Ohio Middle Grades (OP2)
Dr. Wendy Sherman Heckler, Education
Now in its third year, Operation Physics develops an understanding of basic physics among teachers of students in grades 4-9. Teachers will enroll in 9 quarter credit hours (5 semester hours) of graduate coursework through Otterbein University that will provide them with sequences of inquiry activities, demonstrations, readings, and outside projects to be completed with their students. Teachers will learn to recognize and challenge some naive ideas in order to inspire student interest in physics concepts, encourage problem-solving, and improve student learning in areas of physical science specified in Ohio's Academic Content Standards. Teacher participants will receive approximately 90-100 hours of instruction between the summer of 2012 and spring of 2013.
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