Building Leaders One Hour at a Time (GOLD Program Manual)
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Director Thomas Matthews, Leadership Education Development and Training Department: Student and Campus Life Funding Source: C. Charles Jackson Foundation Period of Funding: January 15, 2011 - January 15, 2012 Award Total: 5000 |
Project Description:
Development and publication of a manual on the management and operations of the award-winning GOLD Program at SUNY Geneseo.
Well Being in India
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Professor Steve Derne Department: Sociology Funding Source: US Dept of Education/Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program Period of Funding: July 1, 2010 – December 31, 2011 Award Total: 54213 |
Project Description:
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program opportunity. Dr. Derne will reside in India during the Summer and Fall of 2011. He will identify distinctive features of self-conceptions and emotions in India. Yet, to date, there are few studies of conceptions of well being in India.
Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Work with Medically Fragile Students in School
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Assistant Professor Annmarie Urso Department: School of Education Funding Source: NEA Foundation Period of Funding: January 14, 2011 - January 13, 2012 Award Total: 5000 |
Project Description:
This project will prepare Michael Rozalski and Annmarie Urso in SUNY Geneseo's School of Education to manage and respond to emergency situations in schools. Through a collaborative partnership with the Livingston County Emergency Medical Services Coordinator, additional training will be provided in First Aid, CPR/AED usage and dealing with medically fragile students.
Traumatic Stress Among Violence Exposed Youth
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Associate Professor Michael Lynch Department: Psychology Funding Source: National Institute of Mental Health Period of Funding: April 1, 2006-March 31, 2012 Award Total: 135016.5 |
Project Description:
This proposed research has two overarching goals. The first goal is to document the impact of exposure to violence in different contexts (home, neighborhood, and school) on traumatic stress reactions in children. The second goal is to examine additional signs of functional impairment in children exposed to violence.
Effect of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Flame Retardant Exposure on Osteogenesis
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Associate Professor Vincent Markowski Department: Psychology Funding Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Period of Funding: September 27, 2010 - August 31, 2012 Award Total: 59915 |
Project Description:
The polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) are added to many industrial and household products to retard the ignition and spread of fire. Unfortunately, these compounds are not permanently bound to products. With age and wear the PBDEs have been shown to enter the environment where they have become major contaminants. This grant examines the hypothesis that PBDEs impair osteogenesis (birth of bone cells) and/or osteoblast function by antagonizing thyroid hormone receptor-mediated gene expression. Previous research has shown that PBDEs can reduce levels of thyroid hormones, which are critical for early growth of the neuromuscular system.
Bringing Theory to Practice
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Associate Provost David Gordon Department: Provost Funding Source: Association of American Colleges and Universities Period of Funding: January 23, 2009 - December 18, 2011 Award Total: 17500 |
Project Description:
The funds supported President Christopher Dahl’s Commission on Diversity and Community. The Xerox Center for Multicultural Education and the Office of Multicultural Programs created two experimental courses: Real World Geneseo and Something in the Air. Both courses were exceedingly well received and were subsequently labeled situations of “extreme learning.”
SUNY Geneseo PhysTEC Targeted Site Proposal
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Professor Kurtis Fletcher Department: Physics Funding Source: American Physical Society Period of Funding: August 1, 2011 - July 31, 2012 Award Total: 74885 |
Project Description:
These funds will support the following project goals: (1) Double the number of physics majors at Geneseo recommended for certification in physics; (2) Develop and test a model of collaborative, Activity Teams; bringing together upper level teacher candidates, 1st and 2nd year physics majors, and area high school students as a way to encourage physics majors to understand and consider careers in high school teaching; develop two new courses that integrate physics content courses with physics pedagogy to support the new five-year masters program.
The Power of Physical Science (POPS)
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Professor Kurtis Fletcher Department: Physics Funding Source: National Science Foundation Period of Funding: September 1, 2009 through August. 31, 2011 Award Total: 295891 |
Project Description:
The Power of Physical Science (POPS) is an MSP-Start program designed to investigate ways to encourage middle and high school girls to study physics and geological science.
National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
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Distinguished Teaching Professor Stephen Padalino Department: Physics Funding Source: US Dept. of Energy/Subagreement with University of Rochester Period of Funding: October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2012 Award Total: 2000000 |
Project Description:
Research Scientists at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) and Physicists, Chemists and Computer Scientists at SUNY Geneseo have maintained a strong research partnership for approximately 17 years. This has resulted in the establishment of the Nuclear and Plasma Diagnostics Development Laboratory at Geneseo where 6 faculty and more than a dozen undergraduate students engage in research projects throughout the academic year on a part-time basis and full-time during the summer months. These projects directly support the Inertial Confinement, High Energy Density Physics and National Ignitions Campaign communities which perform research at the LLE Omega, Omega-EP, Multi Tera Watt and National Ignition Facility laser systems. Given that Geneseo is an undergraduate institution the projects undertaken are typically distributed over 1 to 3 years so that the faculty and students can have a minimum of one summer’s full-time effort on the project. Geneseo’s support of these research endeavors is especially effective for long-term projects given that the faculty have heavy teaching loads during the academic year while the undergraduate students are working full time on their course work. Over the years the Geneseo Nuclear and Plasma Diagnostics group has received in excess of 3 million dollars in support of this effort. These funds have been used to purchase scientific instruments, pay for travel, housing, registration and meals to attend national conferences and visit remote laboratory such as the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, pay student research assistant salaries and support faculty during the summer months. This research partnership between Geneseo and LLE has allowed our students to participate in cutting edge research and collaborate with scientists at world class premier ICF facilities and has motivated them to continue with their studies in graduate school.
Space Grant
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Assistant Professor Aaron Steinhauer Department: Physics Funding Source: NASA (Cornell) Period of Funding: April 1, 2005 – October 22, 2011 Award Total: 39000 |
Project Description:
This grant has been used to fund three main projects with three different project directors: Aaron Steinhauer has led several projects studying star clusters in the optical and infrared with the goals of determining cluster parameters such as age, distance, interstallar reddening, metallicity, and searching for brown dwarfs. George Marcus has supervised students who are helping to put together and commission a cavity ring-down spectrometer that can be used to detect very trace amounts of particulates in the atmosphere. Ed Pogozelski has led a project building an automated parasail that can launch high in the atmosphere off of data collecting weather balloons and return the instruments safely to a collection site.
Collaborative Research: A Phase II Expansion of the Development of a Multidisciplinary Course on Wavelets and Applications
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Associate Professor Caroline Haddad Department: Mathematics Funding Source: National Science Foundation Period of Funding: September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2011 Award Total: 70503 |
Project Description:
To build upon a successful pilot project entitled Wavelets and Applications: A Multi-Disciplinary Undergraduate Course With an Emphasis on Scientific Computing funded by the NSF's CCLI program. This pilot project enabled the development of an innovative course, together with a text, software, and related materials at the University of St. Thomas.
Library Instruction Leadership Academy (LILAC)
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Michelle Costello and Kimberly Hoffman Department: Library Funding Source: Rundel Library Foundation Period of Funding: September 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010 Award Total: 3500 |
Project Description:
LILAC is a collaborative professional development project designed, organized, and delivered by librarians and educators representing 8 comprehensive colleges (5 public; 3 private), 4 community and/or technical colleges, 10 schools within K-12 systems and 1 regional council dedicated to serving Rochester-area libraries. LILAC was developed to be a semester-long intensive learning experience for novice instruction librarians that incorporates a variety of learning experiences including: workshops, field experience, assigned readings, personal reflection, discussion, and a final culminating project. The academy was designed to provide librarians new to instruction the pedagogical trainign and practice necessary to effectively teach library and information literacy concepts and skills.
Do CFCs and SF6 Behave as Reactive Tracer in Low Carbon Content Sedimentary Aquifers?
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Assistant Professor Amy Sheldon Department: Geological Science Funding Source: National Science Foundation Period of Funding: June 1, 2009-June 30, 2012 Award Total: 105557 |
Project Description:
The overarching goal of this research is to enhance knowledge of the effects of thermally altered carbonaceous matter (TACM) on hydrophobic and moderately hydrophobic chemical transport in groundwater. The project will provide the first systematic assessment of the impact of different TACM forms on CFC and SF6 sorption.
Climate and Chronology of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition, North-Central Great Basin, USA
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Associate Professor Benjamin Laabs Department: Geological Science Funding Source: National Science Foundation (ARRA Funding) Period of Funding: June 1, 2009-August 31, 2012 Award Total: 247226 |
Project Description:
In determining the extent, timing, and chronology of glacier and lake fluctuations in the north-central Great Basin, this project will (1) fill a broad spatial gap in the understanding of glacial and paleoclimate history in the western U.S., (2) provide a much needed addition to climate records used to validate regional climate models, and (3) provide a framework for improving the understanding of natural variability of the Earth climate system in a terrestrial setting.
RUI: Collaborative Research - Glaciation and Climate Change in the Rocky Mountains During the Last Glacial Maximum and the Subsequent Deglaciation
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Associate Professor Benjamin Laabs Department: Geological Science Funding Source: National Science Foundation Period of Funding: September 15, 2010-August 31, 2013 Award Total: 89466 |
Project Description:
The research work applies physically based numerical modeling to the glacial record of the Rocky Mountains to examine regional climate patterns during and following the global LGM, and compares these local-proxy derived patterns to GCM predictions of the temperature and precipitation. This project provides close faculty mentoring for at least six undergraduate earth science majors at Colorado College and SUNY Geneseo. These students are involved in all aspects of the project, conducting field, lab, and modeling work.
Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses for Late Devonian Biotic and Climatic Events via High Precision CA-TIMS U-Pb Zircon Dating and Quantitative Correlation Tools
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Professor D. Jeffrey Over Department: Geological Science Funding Source: National Science Foundation Period of Funding: October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2013 Award Total: 80000 |
Project Description:
This research will impact STEM human resource development via participation of undergraduate students in a multi-disciplinary international science team; develop international scientific collaborations; support the science mission of the BSU EARTHTIME geochronology node, and its associated inreach and outreach programs; provide fundamentally improved chronologies for numerous other Paleozoic climate studies and improve our understanding of deep time climate state transitions potentially analogous to those leading to our current icehouse.
Dante's Commedia
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Distinguished Teaching Professor Ronald Herzman Department: English Funding Source: National Endowment for the Humanities Period of Funding: October 1, 2008 – September 1, 2011 Award Total: 60487 |
Project Description:
The funding supports a six-week seminar for school teachers on “Dante’s Commedia” to be team taught in Siena, Italy, building on the model provided by eight successful seminars since 1999. Dr. Herzman reviews all applications, selects the participants, and conducts several seminars and field trips as participants read Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Capturing Aggregates of Luminescent d8 Compounds in Homogeneous Solutions: Modeling Phosphrescent Dopans in OLEDs
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Assistant Professor James McGarrah Department: Chemistry Funding Source: Research Corporation Period of Funding: July 1, 2009-June 30, 2011 Award Total: 42583 |
Project Description:
These square planar compounds are flat and prone to aggregation via face-to-face stacking. Although models exist to explain the complex photophysics of the aggregate there is a lack of experimental evidence directly correlating the nature of intermolecular interactions to the aggregate and the corresponding photophysics.
Correlated Charge and Fluorescence Measurements of Single CdSe Quantum Dots
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Assistant Professor Jeffrey Peterson Department: Chemistry Funding Source: Research Corporation Period of Funding: July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012 Award Total: 35000 |
Project Description:
A novel experimental approach to simultaneously measure fluorescence and charge of individual CdSe quantum dots (QDs) by combining gel electophoresis and single QD microscopy.
Purchase of Equipment for the Establishment of a Molecular Structure Laboratory
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Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair David Geiger Department: Chemistry Funding Source: US Dept of Education Period of Funding: June 1, 2010 – November 30, 2011 Award Total: 500000 |
Project Description:
The funds are being used to purchase a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer and ancillary equipment, which will be used for molecular structure elucidation. The instrumentation is housed within SUNY Geneseo's Integrated Sciences Center (ISC). The equipment will be used to expand the research and educational efforts of the faculty and students at SUNY Geneseo and will be made available to neighboring educational institutions and business concerns.
Molecular Structure Laboratory: Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (FTNMR) Spectrometer and Ancillary Instrumentation at SUNY Geneseo
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Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair David Geiger Department: Chemistry Funding Source: US Dept of Energy Period of Funding: September 30, 2010 - September 29, 2015 Award Total: 500000 |
Project Description:
These funds were allocated to SUNY Geneseo by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 for the purchase of equipment to acquire an X-ray diffractometer, an LC-MS, and a pair of HPLC instruments to compliment the FTNMR spectrometer. An upgrade of our current HPLC is also included in the budget. All instruments are housed in the Molecular Structure Laboratory and will be made available to industrial and educational facilities in western New York.
Planning Visit to NIMS, Japan: To Establish Collaborative Research on Nanoscale Adsorption of Amyloid Beta Peptides
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Associate Professor Kazushige Yokoyama Department: Chemistry Funding Source: National Institute Of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan Period of Funding: October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2011 Award Total: 5763 |
Project Description:
Travel by Dr. Yokoyama to Japan’s leading science institution, NIMS, is to pursue long-term research collaboration between NIMS and SUNY Geneseo. The long-term goal of the planning visit is to establish an overseas research collaboration to conduct a high resolution electron microscopy study using the facilities available at NIMS and involving undergraduate research students of Geneseo.
Analysis of Tropomodulin Function During Endothelial Tube Development
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Assistant Professor Elisabeth (Abbi) Paulson Department: Biology Funding Source: National Institute of Health Period of Funding: February 15, 2009 – January 31, 2012 Award Total: 212862 |
Project Description:
This research investigates the role of Tropomodulin, an important regulator of the actin cytoskeleton, in Tube development. This research will create new knowledge of how biological tubes normally develop, which is a necessary first step towards developing better strategies to prevent and treat diseases that result from misregulation of tube formation.
Jeansee Cooperative Testing Agreement: Covert Combinatorial DNA Taggant Signatures of Authentication, Tracking and Trace-Back
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Professor Ming-Mei Chang Department: Biology Funding Source: Jeansee, LLC Period of Funding: December 22, 2009 - December 31, 2011 Award Total: 50217 |
Project Description:
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 and Phase 2 project. The objective of this research is to demonstrate that the combinatorial method can feasibly yield millions of synthetic DNA taggants that carry more item information, are more covert and are more layerable than any other covert taggants on the market horizon with similar potential applications.
Conesus Lake and Watershed Monitoring 2011
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Professor Isidro Bosch Department: Biology Funding Source: Livingtson County Board of Supervisors Period of Funding: Jun 9, 2011 -December 31, 2011 Award Total: 1429 |
Project Description:
Conesus Lake is an on-going research project. The research area covers McPhersons' Cove, Cottonwood Gully, and Sand Point Gully. These areas have been monitored over the last 10 years. This project is part of the USDA-funded watershed study and subsequent studies funded by Livingston County through the lake monitoring plan. Dr. Bosch, along with several undergraduate students, study limnological parameters and algal biomass in Conesus Lake.
Cytosine DNA Methylation and Transcriptional Repression in African Trypanosomes
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Associate Professor Kevin Militello Department: Biology Funding Source: National Institute of Health Period of Funding: April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2011 Award Total: 193376 |
Project Description:
There is an urgent need for new therapeutics to prevent and treat Human African Trypanosomiasis, as there is currently no effective vaccine and drug treatments are toxic and unreliable. Our studies of Cytosine DNA methylation in Trypanosoma brucei may reveal the mechanism by which the parasites regulate expression of surface antigens and evade the human immune system. Drugs that target cytosine DNA methylation could possibly eliminate parasite immune system evasion or transmission.