December 2005

Grants and Contracts

At their October 21, 2005 and December 9, 2005 meetings, the MSU Board of Trustees accepted several grants and contracts grants received and led by principal investigators in the College. This list covers grants received August 31 through November 18. Information provided includes principal investigator, principal investigator’s primary department, co-principal investigators, amount (rounded to nearest dollar), title, and agency.

• William Allen (Political Science); $25,000; Bradley Research Foundation Program; Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• Erik Altmann (Psychology); $90,000; Managing the Disruptiveness of Interruptions; Office of Naval Research USDN
• Jeffrey Andresen (Geography); $9,500; Upgrade and Modernization of Weather Stations in the Grape Growing Regions of Michigan; National Grape Cooperative Association
• Alan Arbogast (Geography); $14,900; Investigating Alternatives to Coastal Dune Use in Auto Making; Lake Michigan Federation
• Michael Bratton (Political Science); $587,529; Afrobarometer Round 3; Swedish International Development Agency
• Michael Bratton (Political Science); $104,000; Afrobarometer Round 3; World Bank
• Holly Brophy-Herb (Family and Child Ecology); Hiram Fitzgerald; $2,500; Vulnerable Children and Families: Enhancing Children's Social Competence and Families' Community Engagement; Jackson Foundation
• Holly Brophy-Herb (Family and Child Ecology); Esther Onaga; Hiram Fitzgerald; Mildred Horodynski; Lawrence Van Egeren; Karen Shirer; $100,000; Enhancing Social-Emotional Functioning in Infants and Toddlers Using a Relationship-Based Infant Mental Health Approach; Administration for Children and Families
• Lawrence Busch (Sociology); Ewen Todd; Daniel Clay, Jeffrey Riedinger; $10,000; The Role of Third Party Certification for Food Safety in China; USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service
• Marsha Carolan (Family and Child Ecology); $1,855; Families in Transition; Ingham County Family Independence Agency
• Marsha Carolan (Family and Child Ecology); $2,147; Families in Transition; Ingham County Family Independence Agency
• William Davidson (Psychology); $154,393; Ingham County Adolescent Diversion Project; Ingham County
• William Davidson (Psychology); $30,000; 2005 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty; Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• Todd Fenton (Anthropology); $19,975; 2005-06 MSU Physical Anthropology Research Program in Albania, Butrint and the Tumulus of Kamenica; Butrint Foundation
• Anne Ferguson (Anthropology; Women in International Development); Sieglinde Snapp; $43,918; US Southern Africa Partnerships for Agriculture; Oregon State University
• Larry Hembroff (Institute for Public Policy and Social Research); $11,171; Special Cancer Behavior Risk Factor Survey; Michigan Public Health Institute
• Larry Hembroff (IPPSR); $16,030; Special Cancer Behavior Risk Factor Survey; Michigan Public Health Institute
• Deborah Kashy (Psychology); $25,454; Collaborate Research: Adapting and Evaluating Online Materials for Undergraduate Statistics Using LON-CAPA Technology; National Science Foundation
• Norbert Kerr (Psychology); $124,658; Group Processes and Motivation Gains; National Science Foundation
• Mark Kornbluh (MATRIX); $3,931; www.centerforthequilt.org; The Alliance for American Quilts
• Ellen Kossek (Labor and Industrial Relations); $179,161; Development and Pilot Testing of a Behavioral Measure of Supervisor Support for Work and Family: Implications for Health; Portland State University
• William Lovis (Anthropology); Alan Arbogast; $261,421; Dune Activation and Archaeological Site Formation: A Taphonomic Perspective on Site Preservation and Prediction; Michigan Transportation
• Audrey Martini (Criminal Justice); $46,913; Statewide Monitoring of Jails and Police Departments; Michigan Family Independence Agency
• Edward McGarrell (Criminal Justice); Timothy Bynum; $1,199,998; PSN Academy: Provision of Research Based Training and Technical Assistance to Project Safe Neighborhoods, Year Three Support; National Institute of Justice
• Joseph Messina (Center for Global Change and Earth Observations); Ashton Shortridge; $105,000; An Ontological Reliability Architecture for the Fusion of Context-Specific Geospatial Data; U.S. Department of Defense
• Joseph Messina (Geography); Richard Groop; Ashton Shortridge; $28,998; Review Standards for Hospital; Michigan Community Health
• Esther Onaga (Family and Child Ecology); $38,972; Freedom to Work Medicaid Program Evaluation; Michigan Disabilities Rights Coalition
• Jiaguo Qi (Center for Global Change and Earth Observations); David Skole; $25,000; Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/Gold and NEESPI Sciences; NASA
• Alison Rautman (Anthropology); $202,368; The Role of Corporate Groups in the Development of Early Pueblos; National Science Foundation
• Ann Marie Ryan (Psychology); $49,732; Sexual Orientation Harassment in the Workplace; American Psychological Foundation
• Randall Schaetzl (Geography); $30,002; Development of a Dryness/Wetness Index for Soils of the United States Based on Their Taxonomic Classification; USDA Forest Service
• V. Shlapentokh (Sociology); $246,848; Russia in the First Decade of the 21st Century: Adversary or Ally in an Uncertain Time; U.S. Department of Defense
• Karen Shirer (Family and Child Ecology); Jaime Dugan; $ 98,364; Special Improvement Project; Administration for Children and Families
• Cynthia Simmons (Geography); Robert Walker; Jiaguo Qi; $88,026; Collaborative Research: Brazil's Direct Action Land Reform Movement: Environmental Impacts and Socio-Spatial Dynamics, National Science Foundation
• Laura Smale (Psychology); $279,324; Psychobiology of Rhythms in Diurnal Mammals; National Institutes of Health/Public Health Service
• Patterson Terry (Family and Child Ecology); $6,250; Evaluation of Drug Court Program; District Court of Michigan
• Patterson Terry (Family and Child Ecology); $3,900; Human Services Planning; Washtenaw County
• Juli Wade (Psychology); $123,080; Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior Development; National Institutes of Health/Public Health Service
• Robert Walker (Geography); Jiaguo Qi; $156,698; A Basin Scale Econometric Model for Projecting Future Amazonian Landscapes; NASA
• Jerry Weinberger (Political Science); $40,000; Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy; Lynde-Harry Bradley Foundation
• Antoinette WinklerPrins (Geography); $11,975; Multi-Scalar Social and Ecological Complexity of Pastoralist Herding Strategies around Kenya's Massai Mara National Reserve; National Science Foundation
• Rose Zacks (Psychology); $229,015; Aging, Inhibition and the Contents of Working Memory; University of Toronto