Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2002

AmeriCheer ($1,500)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Ameritech/OFIC ($10,000)

Project Title: Digital Imaging and Data Investigations - Project DIDI
Dr. Jeffrey Smith - Department of Education
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Provides professional development to Central Ohio middle school teachers facilitating the integration of math and science via visualization technologies.

Ashland Chemical ($1,000)

Project Title: Science Lecture Series 2002
Dr. Noam Shpancer - Department of Psychology
Funding for SLS event focusing on Nature and Nurture in Child Development: The New Synthesis. More information is available on the Science Lecture Series site.

Borden Chemical, Inc. ($5,000)

Project Title: MBA Program
Dr. Shirine Mafi - Department of Business, Accounting and Economics
Purchases technology to be used by all business students and the MBA program.

Brewster Travel ($1,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Chemical Abstracts ($1,000)

CMACAO Head Start ($5,000)

Project Title: T.H.E. Consortium Project Community Partner
Dr. Harriet Fayne - Department of Education
Enables pre-service teachers to serve as technology partners in ten Head Start classrooms for one term per project year. (Year 2 of 3 year project.)

The Columbus Foundation ($60,000)

Project Title: COR-CHEC: Columbus Public Schools, Otterbein College and Riverside Methodist Hospitals: Collaborative Health and Education Clinic
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing
Dr. Mary McKelvey - Department of Nursing
Provides funds to develop and run a nurse-managed clinic that will provide health education, health promotion, health screening and wellness services to over 1,000 medically underserved adult students who are enrolled at the North Education Center.

Columbus Medical Association Foundation ($75,000)

Project Title: Empowering Somali Families Through Health Education/Health Promotion
Dr. Judy Strayer- Department of Nursing
Dr. Patricia Hodge - Department of Nursing
Provides access to culturally-sensitive health care educational/promotional materials for Somali refugees in Columbus.

Community Technology Fund of Ohio ($50,000)

Project Title: Empowering Somali Families Through Health Technology
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing
Dr. Patricia Hodge - Department of Nursing
Provides funding to integrate and increase access of health care materials to low income, limited English speaking Somalis and build their capacity to use health technology.

Cybex International ($1,250)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Ernst & Young ($2,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Ingram-White Castle Foundation ($35,000)

Project Title: Summer Academy Institute Laboratory (SAIL)
Dr. John Swaim - Department of Education
The 4-week summer laboratory school will provide middle school participants the opportunity to participate in an exemplary middle school setting that will enhance their academic achievement and attitude towards learning. Read an overview of this project here.

John A. Hartford Foundation ($90,000)

Project Title: NEED (Nursing Education for Elders Demonstration) Project
Dr. Judy Strayer- Department of Nursing
Dr. Eda Mikolaj - Department of Nursing
Funding to develop a Geriatric Nursing Education Curriculum that integrates innovative gerontological learning experiences within the existing baccalaureate curricula, enhances faculty expertise in gerontology and technology, enhances student learning, and promotes the recruitment of new students.

The Kresge Foundation ($450,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
This challenge grant, designated toward the new recreation and fitness center, stimulated new and increased giving to culminate the Fit for the Future Campaign.

Lithko Contracting Inc. ($2,500)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Modern Office Methods ($1,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital ($15,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

National City ($60,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Nationwide Foundation ($4,000)

Project Title: George H. Dunlap Scholarship 2002
Department of Business, Accounting and Economics
Department of Sociology
Supports continued annual scholarship for students majoring in Business Administration or Social Science.

National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program ($68,651)

Project Title: CCLI: Raman Microscopy throughout the Science Curriculum
Dr. Dean Johnston - Department of Chemistry
Dr. Joe Sachleben - Department of Chemistry
Funding to integrate Raman spectroscopy throughout all four years of the undergraduate sciences curriculum.

National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program ($72,000)

Project Title: Comprehensive and Coordinated Curriculum Development of Molecular Biology Majors
Dr. Simon Lawrance - Department of Life and Earth Sciences
Dr. Joe Sachleben - Department of Chemistry
Funding to acquire an Applied Biosystems Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer to support research and education in a variety of contexts.

Ohio Board of Regents ($44,803)

Project Title: Growing Up With Science: Basic Concepts for the K-5 Classroom
Dr. L. Thomas Moore - Department of Education
Provides a Summer Science Workshop for Central Ohio teachers around a series of seminar modules to enhance teachers expertise in science.

Ohio Campus Compact ($2,000)

Project Title: Community Service Director Fellows
Timeka Thomas-Rashid - Student Affairs
Develops the leadership of the Community Service Director Fellow to increase volunteer participation and strengthen citizen education and service learning on our campus and in the community.

Ohio Health ($1,000)

Project Title: Science Lecture Series 2002
Dr. Noam Shpancer - Department of Psychology
Funding for SLS event focusing on Nature and Nurture in Child Development: The New Synthesis.

Ross Products Division-Abbott Labs ($1,000)

Project Title: Science Lecture Series 2002
Dr. Noam Shpancer - Department of Psychology
Funding for SLS event focusing on Nature and Nurture in Child Development: The New Synthesis.

Roush Family Foundation ($150,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

The Bouma Corporation ($250)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Turner Construction ($15,000)

Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

U.S Department of Education ($204,952)

Project Title: Funding for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) AGE: NICE, Advancing Gerontologic Education: Nursing through International Collaborative Endeavors
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing
Dr. Sharon Carlson - Department of Nursing
Provides funding for a three year consortia implementation project that will exchange thirty students and twelve faculty from three European Community and three United States universities. The international curricula designed as a replication model will focus on cost effective quality gerontologic health care across cultures and will be taught jointly by interdisciplinary nursing and business faculty from partner institutions. More information is available here.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ($67,401)

Project Title: Professional Nurse Traineeship Year 8
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing
Dr. Eda Mikolaj - Department of Nursing
This eighth year support assists Masters of Science in Nursing students in Adult Health Care to prepare for advanced nursing practice in a variety of rural and urban health care settings that serve diverse populations.

United Healthcare of Ohio ($1,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Universal Fitness ($1,500)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.

Wood Dining Services ($10,000)

Project Title: Fit for the Future Campaign
Institutional
Funding to meet the goal of The Kresge Challenge and complete the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.