Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2004

Carolyn Williams - Institutional Advancement
The Cowan Hall Renovation Project seeks to upgrade the College's theatre by improving the theatre acoustics, enhancing the interior lobby décor and replacing aging seating. This project will fund the lobby renovation and replacement of the theatre seats to increase both safety and comfort of Otterbein's patrons.
 

NCCEP and SBC ($75,000)

Project Title: Linden Education and Aspiration Program (LEAP)
Melissa Kesler Gilbert - Center of Community Engagement
A grant from SBC Communications is helping Otterbein College to provide outreach to four Linden-area public schools with high populations of at-risk students. The grant will fund the Linden Education and Aspiration Program, or LEAP, which shows middle school students that attaining higher education is possible, no matter their race or income level. Press release. Westerville News & Public Opinion article.
 

Ohio Campus Compact ($2,500)

Project Title: Mapping the Revolutionary Patriots of Ohio's History
Patti Albaugh - Education
This collaborative project between Otterbein College's Educational Technology students and New Albany Plain Local Middle School students will map the gravesites of some of Licking County's revolutionary war patriots using global positioning systems (GPS) meeting the historic and genealogical goals of the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution and enabling a sister website to the current Knox County Patriot Graves website. Otterbein students will create educational modules emphasizing the obligations of freedom and the responsibilities of citizenship by integrating genealogical research and global information system mapping which will teach American history and the use of GPS.
 

Columbus Public Schools ($12,000)

Project Title: Otterbein Indianola Mentoring Program - Year 1
Melissa Kesler Gilbert - Center of Community Engagement
This initiative, a collaboration among Otterbein College, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Columbus Public Schools, will guide and nurture middle-schoolers academic progress and aspirations to attend college through the Otterbein Indianola Mentoring Program.
 

Chemical Abstracts ($1,500), The Scotts Company and Subsidiaries ($1,500), Ashland, Inc. ($1,500), and Roxane Laboratories ($1,000)

Project Title: Got Nano? The next BIG thing is small
Lavona See - Academic Affairs
This initiative will fund the 2004 Science Lecture Series which focuses on nanotechnology, its advancements and the importance of advanced nanotechnologies to the human condition (medicine), the future of the earth's environment, economic productivity and social change.
 

Cardinal Health Foundation ($2,500)

Project Title: Otterbein-Indianola Mentoring Program
John Kengla - Academic Affairs
This initiative will continue funding for transportation of Indianola Middle School students to Otterbein's campus for the Otterbein-Indianola Mentoring Program, an award-winning initiative that serves over 200 students by enhancing their academic success, developing responsibility and citizenship, and encouraging their interest and accessibility to college.
 

Department of Health and Human Services ($53,692 )

Project Title: Advanced Education Nursing Traineeships
Judy Strayer - Nursing
The accelerated RN to MSN track enables qualified students to progress through the BSN and MSN programs by the use of graduate level courses to meet selected BSN curriculum requirements.
 

Corporation for National and Community Service ($124,943)

Project Title: Otterbein College InVesting in Communities (O-CIVIC)
Bob Gatti and Melissa Gilbert
Year Two of this Learn & Serve project will continue to 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 (CPS) and Whittier Elementary, a neighborhood school located one mile from campus; 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.
 

Ohio Campus Compact ($2,500)

Project Title: Get F.I.T. (Families Improving Together) with the Eagles
Patti Wilson - Health & Physical Education
This collaborative project between Otterbein College's Department of Health and Physical Education students and Whittier Elementary School's 5th grade teachers addresses the community issues of physical inactivity and the obesity epidemic. Together, students will plan activities to improve the overall fitness levels of students, parents and teachers through service activities.
 

Bank One ($35,000)

Project Title: Project SAIL II: Summer Academy for Integrated Learning (SAIL)
Diane Ross - Department of Education
Project SAIL II, a three-week summer academy, will expand the impact of the pilot year of the project. Approximately 100 middle schoolers will have the opportunity to participate in an exemplary middle school setting that will enhance their academic achievement and attitude toward learning. Fourteen middle school teachers and eight pre-service teachers, through intensive professional development training, will integrate effective middle school practices (e.g. interactive learning, team teaching, and integrated curriculum). Read a profile of Sail I here. Read a newspaper article here.
 

USDA Forest Service, Wayne National Forest ($26,150)

Project Title: Wayne National Forest Grant
Michael Hoggarth - Department of Life and Earth Sciences
This cooperative project will increase the understanding of biotic communities in Ohio and in the Wayne National Forest through the collection of distribution and habitat information of the fishes, mussels and crayfish in the Symmes Creek and Pine Creek watersheds while providing Otterbein students valuable hands-on ecological field experience.
 

Research Corporation ($34,078)

Project Title: Non-perturbative Calculations in Supersymmetric Yan-Mills Theories
Uwe Trittmann - Physics and Astronomy
Through research carried out by the Project Director and his students, a greater understanding of low-energy QCD will be achieved. The method of research will be a supersymmetric version of discretized-light cone quantization.
 

Martha Holden Jennings Foundation ($20,975)

Project Title: Summer Academy for Integrated Learning (SAIL)- Phase II
John Swaim - Department of Education
SAIL - Phase II will empower Columbus Public School teachers to improve the educational climate of their schools and increase student academic success in low-performing schools. A secondary benefit is the continued establishment of meaningful urban field experience sites for pre-service teachers in Otterbein's Middle Childhood Teacher Education program that encourage them to consider a teaching career in an urban school. A Project Profile of Phase I is available here.
 

Ohio Arts Council ($5,250)

Project Title: Foreign Affairs Dresden Exhibition
Dr. Nicholas Hill - Department of Art
This initiative will support the implementation of Nicholas Hill's "Foreign Affairs" exhibition in the Fisher Gallery in Spring 2004.
 

Ohio Arts Council ($1,200)

Project Title: Science & Cinema
Lavona See - Academic Affairs
This initiative will support a community event that brings Laura Dunn, an award winning writer, director and ecological filmmaker to campus for an evening of film, public dialogue and discussion focused on Earth Day, environmental justice and community involvement.
 

The Columbus Medical Association Foundation ($47,600 )

Project Title: Empowering Somali Families Through Health Education/Health Promotion II
Dr. Judy Strayer - Department of Nursing
This project, a collaborative among Otterbein College Department of Nursing, the Somali Women and Children's Alliance, and Community Health & Life Skills Opportunities & Education, Inc. is a continuation of the first year grant to promote more cost-effective health education and promotion practices among Columbus Somali families. Project profile. Final report (pdf).
 

Cardinal Health Foundation ($2,500)

Project Title: Volunteer Leadership Grant
Timeka Rashid - Student Affairs
This initiative provides funding for transportation of Indianola Middle School students to Otterbein's campus for the Otterbein-Indianola Mentoring Program, an award-winning initiative that serves over 200 students by enhancing their academic success, developing responsibility and citizenship, and encouraging their interest and accessibility to college.
 

Louisville Institute ($8,000)

Project Title: There's never been a show like Veggie Tales: the market, media and evangelical message of Big Idea Productions.
Dr. Hillary Warren - Department of Communication
Funding for this project will support the development of a manuscript focusing on the children's Veggie Tale video series and the production and consumption cycles inherent in this evangelical media form. The focus of the research is to consider the evangelical media company as a religious institution in itself and highlight the unique tensions in this institution in a time of both religious restructuring and media consolidation.
 

Nationwide Foundation ($4,000)

Project Title: The George H. Dunlap Scholarship 2004
For continued annual scholarship support for students majoring in Business Administration and/or Social Sciences.
 

Ohio Campus Compact ($300)

Project Title: Raise Your Voice
Tamika Rashid - Student Affairs
This student-led initiative will fund activities to raise the issues of voting, diversity and other issues important to Otterbein's college students.