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Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2003
Lavona See - Office of Academic Affairs This funding supports the 2003 Science Lecture Series which focuses on green chemistry, a field of science that advocates for the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing Dr. Mary McKelvey - Department of Nursing Through a nurse managed clinic, this initiative provides health education, health promotion, health screening, and wellness services to over 1,000 adult medically underserved students who are enrolled in the Department of Adult and Community Education Program.
Robert Gatti - Student Affairs This project will meet critical community needs, enhance student learning, engage over 1,000 program participants (faculty, students, staff, alumni, and K-12 teachers and students) through two goals: 1) develop core partnerships with the Columbus Public Schools and Whittier Elementary; and 2) create a Center for Community Engagement that will stay attuned to community needs and bring together the three spheres of community engagement at Otterbein College: volunteerism, academic-based community service and community-based action research to meet the needs of core partners.
Dr. Patricia Hodge - Department of Nursing Dr. Simon Lawrance - Department of Life and Earth Sciences This grant supports the costs associated with integrating genetics content into our graduate curriculum.
Dr. Dean Johnston - Department of Chemistry Dr. Simon Lawrance - Department of Life and Earth Sciences This award provides matching funds for two National Science Foundation Course Curriculum and Laboratory Instrumentation grants: Dean Johnston's Raman Spectroscopy and Simon Lawrance's Molecular Biology and Biochemistry projects.
Dr. John Swaim - Department of Education This project will empower Columbus Public School teachers and students to improve the educational climate within their schools and to increase the academic success of these low-performing schools.
Dr. Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens - Center for Teaching and Learning This project supports the establishment of three professional learning communities within the Center for Teaching and Learning. Each learning community will offer a cross-disciplinary group of faculty, staff and student participants the opportunity to meet regularly to study pedagogical topics of shared interest. On an annual basis, a professional development institute devoted to cutting-edge research about teaching and learning will be held for the entire campus.
Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing This initiative will provide funding for the Hispanic, Asian and Somali Women Conference which will incorporate culturally sensitive health educational materials, translators and panel discussions for Hispanic, Asian and Somali women.
Marjorie Vogt - Department of Nursing Trudy Mason - Department of Nursing Senior level undergraduate and graduate nursing students will provide primary health care services to the people of Nuevo Progresso, Mexico through a two-day medical clinic.
Dr. Barbara Schaffner - Department of Nursing In collaboration with Pilgrim Elementary School, a nursing class will plan, implement, and evaluate a health fair directed to the wellness needs of the second and third grade target populations.
Dr. Michael Hoggarth - Department of Life and Earth Sciences Dr. Halard Lescinsky - Department of Life and Earth Sciences This project will adapt "Stressed Stream Analysis" an NSF funded approach to three core Environmental Science courses and to field exercises in two core curriculum courses for non-science students.
For continued annual scholarship support for students majoring in Business Administration and/or Social Sciences.
Lavona See - Office of Academic Affairs This funding supports the 2003 Science Lecture Series which focuses on green chemistry, a field of science that advocates for the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
Patricia Wilson - Department of Health and Physical Education Students at Otterbein College and Whittier Elementary will work together to assess each other's fitness levels, design and develop an instructional video and/or CD-ROM, and present their information to parents at Whittier Elementary and at the OhioHealth, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance State Convention in Dayton.
Lisa Kuhar - Department of Education This funding provides candidates quality technical assistance and support while undergoing National Board Certification.
Angela Harris - Student Affairs Funding will support a student organization designed to promote minority retention by providing outreach and education to the Otterbein community in the areas of ethnic/racial diversity.
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing Dr. Barbara Cornett - Department of Nursing This program will provide undergraduate and graduate distance learning courses to 60 nurses from 20 counties in rural depressed central and Appalachia Ohio through on-line course delivery thus increasing health care services to potentially one million people.
Dr. David Robertson - Department of Physics and Astronomy Dr. Joseph Sachleben - Department of Chemistry This initiative will support an 8-node (16CPU) Itanium cluster to support a developing effort in computational science at Otterbein College. The system will support ongoing faculty research in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, as well as provide a resource for teaching in all disciplines with an interest in computational science.
Dr. David Robertson - Department of Physics and Astronomy The project aims to connect the Coulomb gauge formulation of QCD to the CQM by making a transformation to a useful quasi-particle basis.
Lavona See - Office of Academic Affairs This initiative provides funding for the 2003 Science Lecture Series which focuses on green chemistry, a field of science that advocates for the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
Lavona See - Office of Academic Affairs This initiative provides funding for the 2003 Science Lecture Series which focuses on green chemistry, a field of science that advocates for the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
Dr. Eda Mikolaj - Department of Nursing Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing The accelerated R.N. to M.S.N. track enables qualified students to progress through the B.S.N. and M.S.N. programs by the use of graduate level courses to meet selected B.S.N. curriculum requirements.
Dr. Simon Lawrance - Department of Life and Earth Sciences These supplemental funds will support Dr. Lawrance's existing Great Ape project.
This funding will assist in meeting the goal of The Kresge Challenge and completing the campaign to build a new recreation and fitness center.
Dr. Nicholas Hill - Department of Art This funding will assist in the renovation of the Westerville home of Lillian Frank into an art museum for Otterbein's Department of Art. |
