April 2005

Grants and Contracts

At its April 8 meeting, 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 January 26 through March 24. Information provided includes principal investigator, principal investigator’s primary department, co-principal investigators, amount (rounded to nearest dollar), title, and agency.

• Anne Bogat (Psychology); Denise Holmes; $234,994; Psychology UME; MI Community Health
• Timothy Bynum (Criminal Justice); $110,999; Evaluation Services for the Byrne Memorial Grant Program; MI Community Health
• David Carter (Criminal Justice); Ed McGarrell; $3,000,000; Law Enforcement Intelligence for Managers: a Quick Start Training Program; U.S. Department of Justice
• Mark Cochran (Center for Global Change and Earth Observations); $101,757; the Synergism of Fire, Forest Fragmentation, and Selective Logging in the Brazilian Amazon; NASA
• Maureen Conner (Criminal Justice); $310,038; The Judicial Education Reference, Information and Technical Transfer Project (JERITT); State Justice Institute
• Fernanda Ferreira (Psychology); $235,463; Effects of Disfluencies on Language Comprehension; Public Health Service
• Steve Haider (Economics); $16,945; Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior; Rand Corporation
• Larry Hembroff (Institute for Public Policy and Social Research); $16,500; Tobacco Control Survey; MI Community Health
• Cynthia Jordan (Neuroscience Program, Psychology); $248,544; Androgen Targets in a Simple Behavioral System; National Institutes of Heath/Public Health Service
• Kelly Klump (Psychology); $40,394; Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa; University of Pittsburgh
• Ed McGarrell (Criminal Justice); $12,000; American Polygraph Association Research Project; American Polygraph Association
• Ed McGarrell (Criminal Justice); Jerome Boles; $14,451; Executive Leadership for Challenging Times; MI State Police
• Arthur Melzer (Political Science); $100,000; Right Brain and Left: Reconnecting the Humanities and Social Sciences; National Endowment for the Humanities
• Joseph Messina (Center for Global Change and Earth Observations); $100,887; Simulating the Effects of Plan Colombia on Land Use and Land Cover in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Complex Systems Approach; NASA
• Merry Morash (Criminal Justice); $300,000; Integrity and Public Trust Initiative; U.S. Department of Justice
• Joel Nigg (Psychology); $56,652; Family Study of Neuropsychological Risk for Alcoholism; University of Michigan
• Phil Schertzing (Criminal Justice); Scott Tobey; $18,830; Michigan’s Statewide Smallpox Tabletop Exercise; MI Community Health
• Neal Schmitt (Psychology); $24,750; Non-Cognitive Criteria for College Student Success: Satisfaction and Persistence; College Entrance Exam Board
• David Skole (Center for Global Change and Earth Observations); Jiaguo Qi; Mark Cochran; $63,040; What is the Global Rate and Extent of Tropical Deforestation, Forest Regeneration, Selective Logging, and Fragmentation; NASA
• Harold Spaeth (Political Science); $126,931; The Addition of the Blackmun Papers to the Supreme Court Databases; National Science Foundation
• Juli Wade (Psychology); $134,495; Neuroendocrine Regulation of Behavioral Differences; National Science Foundation
• David Wiley (African Studies Center, Sociology); Anne Ferguson; $150,000; Compton Africa Peace Fellowships at MSU; Compton Foundation, Inc.