Oklahoma colleges and universities
are obtaining grants to help make their programs and research better. See what grants have been awarded to Oklahoma higher
education campuses in July!
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RCC Serves Oklahoma Veterans
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Redlands Community College in El Reno has received a $1million Veterans
Upward Bound grant to help veterans make the transition from the military to
the classroom.
The Redlands Veterans Upward Bound Program will serve 120
veterans per year through three offices around the state. Autry and Caddo Kiowa Technology Centers
will be partners with Redlands
to provide office space. The program will serve Canadian,
Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Garfield,
Kay, Caddo, Kiowa and Blaine
counties. Penny Coggins, Redlands
vice president of grants development and applied research proposed the project.
The program will provide some training and
services specifically for the veterans.
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CASC Receives Title III Grant
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Dr. Brandon Webb, President of Carl Albert
State College, is proud to announce that Carl Albert State College received $1.7 million from the US
Department of Education for Title III Strengthening Institutions over 5 years. The
project will strengthen student services, technology and data management to
improve student retention at Carl Albert State College. The project was
written by Deborah Herr(pictured) , the Grants Department Director.
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CASC Receives Carl Perkins Grant
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President Brandon Webb announces $20,000 in funding for Carl Albert State College's
Career Guidance and Advisement project through the federal Carl D. Perkins Career
and Technical Education Act of 2006. This project will enhance our recruitment and retention of
students, as well as the promotion of the applied or technical programs
at CASC. Rachel Kardokus, Coordinator of the Carl Perkins grant
program (pictured), will be in charge of this new Carl
Perkins project at CASC.
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ECU Grant - Veterans in Green Jobs
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East
Central University
has received $500,000 from the US Department of
Labor's Veterans' Workforce Investment Program to provide Oklahoma veterans with job training in green careers. Employment will focus on
energy efficiency and renewable energy, the latest electric power development
and clean vehicles. C.J. Vires, Associate Vice President for Sponsored Programs and Research (pictured)
said that the project classroom work along with skill learning, and students will
be certified. Because of issues such as physical disabilities,
homelessness, past drug and alcohol problems or those with felony backgrounds
may need extra help to get a job.
The program is available for any veteran in the state. The plan is to start with 25 veterans in the initial session,
and build up to 45 per class.
The classes will include training that will qualify workers
to perform home energy audits, install solar panels, remove and clean up
asbestos, in addition to energy-efficient construction positions, and wind farm
jobs.
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OCU Grants for Nursing Program
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Oklahoma City
University students will soon have additional space to study health and nursing. With $1.3 million from the Inasmuch Foundation and $100,000 fro SSM Health Care of Oklahoma and other funds, the Kramer School of Nursing with add 50,000 square feet of labs and rooms to the facility. The labs will feature mock hospital rooms and patient beds
where students can gain hands-on experience.
The university also received $24,834 from the Advanced
Nursing Education Traineeship to provide scholarships to nursing students.
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Cameron Research on Miscarriage
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Research being done at Cameron University
may help prevent miscarriages in livestock and eventually aid scientists in
understanding why humans miscarry, too.
Frankie White, assistant professor of agriculture at CU, is
heading up a project to study the effects of endocrine disrupters - chemicals
that mimic the effects of estrogen - on pregnant pigs. Exposure to estrogen too early in a pregnancy causes sows
to lose their embryos. In pigs, about 50 percent of the embryos don't survive, and early pregnancy in all mammals is very similar. Most of embryo loss occurs when the embryo has to attach to the uterus. The second goal of the research is to decrease pregnancy loss in women.
Working on the project as a summer intern is Elaine Harder,
a Cameron junior majoring in animal science. She received a grant from the Idea
Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) to help fund the research. The research project is being conducted in a
partnership with Oklahoma State University,
the University of
Missouri and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
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Cameron Campus Compact Grant
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Cameron University
Department of Education faculty members Debbie Stoll and Stephanie
White have been awarded service-learning
incentive grants for the fall 2009 semester by the Oklahoma Campus Compact.
Service-learning programs involve students in organized community
service that addresses local needs, while developing their academic skills,
sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community.
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CU Receives Technology Funds
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Cameron
University received $15,000 from Stanley Inc. to support
Cameron students by enhancing capabilities in computing and technology,
specifically in the areas of software engineering and systems training. More than 100 of Stanley's
employees in the Lawton
area are graduates of Cameron.
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OU Transit System Stimulus Grant |
The transit system serving
Cleveland County
and the University
of Oklahoma will get $1.9
million in stimulus money to replace three buses and add two more. The stimulus
bill has provided $3.2 billion in grants so far for U.S. transit improvements, from the US Department of Transportation.
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OU's K20 Center Teacher Grants
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OU's K20 Center for Educational and
Community Renewal and Jean Cate received $300,000 for the Oklahoma Alternative Network (K20 alt) from the Oklahoma Technical Assistance Center through the Oklahoma Department
of Education. The Network will provide professional development for alternative education teachers
and to provide mentoring for them to become highly qualified. Jean Cate and the K20 Oklahoma Mentoring Network also received $95,000 from the Oklahoma Educational Association through Oklahoma Commission for
Teacher Preparation to provide mentor professional development to support and retain new
teachers.
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UCO Renews NSF Undergraduate Student Research Grant in Turkey
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Dr. John
Barthell, Professor of Biology and Dean of the UCO College of Mathematics and
Science, has received a 4-year continuation grant of $301,586 from the National
Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program for Ecology and Behavior of Honey Bees and Solitary Bees. The
summer program engages undergraduate students research involving collaborations
with scientists from Turkey
and its western bordering nations. Collaborators on the current project include Dr.
Charles Abramson, Oklahoma State University; Dr. Harrington Wells, Tulsa
University; Dr. John Hranitz, Bloomsburg State University (PA); Dr. Theodora
Petanidou, University of the Aegean (Greece); Dr. Ibrahim Cakmak, Uludag
University (Turkey); and Peter Nentchev, Trackia University (Bulgaria).
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UCO Yellow Rail Research |
Dr. Christopher
Butler, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Central Oklahoma, has received $6,400 from the
USDA Forest Service for Using Stable Isotope Analysis to
Examine Migratory Connectivity in the Yellow Rail (Coturnicops
noveboracensis). The study will
take place in the Ouachita
National Forest of southeastern Oklahoma.
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UCO Nursing Grant
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Dr. Linda Rider (not pictured), Chair of the UCO Department of Nursing, has received $19,271 from the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Program of the
Health Resources and Services Administration to provide
scholarships to nursing students based on financial need and academic
achievement.
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UCO INBRE PHOTOIMMUNOTHERAPY RESEARCH GRANT |
Dr. Wei Chen, Professor of Engineering & Physics and
Assistant Dean of the University of Central Oklahoma College of Mathematics and Science, received $64,040
from INBRE for research with MRI-Guided Photoimmunotherapy.
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UCO INBRE GRANT for DNA RESEARCH
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Dr. Daniel Endres, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Central Oklahoma,
received $25,000 from INBRE for Advanced Stochoastic Models for DNA
Microsatellite Somatic Instability.
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UCO INBRE Computer Science Grant
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Dr. Gang Qian, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, received
$28,905 from the OUHSC INBRE project for research on Incorporating Substitution Matrices into the NSP-tree
for Efficient and Sensitive Pair-wise Alignments in Large Biological Sequence
Databases.
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UCO INBRE JR. INVESTIGATOR GRANT
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Dr. Jaehoon Seong, Assistant Professor of Engineering &
Physics at the University of Central Oklahoma, received $302,030 for an INBRE Junior Investigator grant for investigation into MRI Flow
Study in the Silicone Replicas of Human Cartoid Bifurcation with Age.
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UCO INBRE MALARIA RESEARCH
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Dr. Jeremy Thibodeaux, Assistant Professor of Math and Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, received $25,000 from OUHSC INBRE for his project Seeking Optimal Treatment Strategies
for Malaria Infection.
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OSU Entrepreneur Education Center |
The new Riata Center
for Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University will open soon thanks
to $29 million from Malone and Amy Mitchell. The university's thrust
into entrepreneurship education is
two-pronged: The Riata center will offer experiential outreach programs
to fledgling entrepreneurs and OSU will offer undergraduate and
graduate entrepreneurship
studies. The complementary combination should allow OSU to reach deep
into the
business community. OSU has chosen eight top students who will be
interning with start-up companies this fall and a
campus-wide business plan competition will be held with $40,000 in
prize
money for three winning teams. An entrepreneurship program-specific
dorm on
campus will provide 50 rooms for students or those involved in the
center's
projects.
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OSU WATER RESEARCH GRANT
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Chris Zou, assistant professor with the OSU Department of
Natural Resource Ecology and Management and Oklahoma State University's
Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources received $226,890
from the U.S. Geological Survey through the Oklahoma Water
Resources Research Institute to study an eastern red
cedar encroachment and the water cycle in the tallgrass prairie. Oklahoma is one of the key U.S. locales where woodlands meet
grasslands.
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SWOSU RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
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In a collaborative effort, Southwestern Oklahoma State University faculty were also awarded a
$35,000 INBRE Equipment Grant to purchase a fluorescent microscope. Dr.
Holgado, Dr. Jimena Aracena and Dr. Muatasem Ubeidat, Department of Biology,
and Dr. Arden Aspedon, Allied Health, will use the microscope for biomedical
research and teaching at SWOSU. Pictured are Dr. Blake Sonobe, Senior
VP, Dr. Arden Aspedon, Dr. Mutaseum Ubeidat, Dr.
Andrea Holgado, and Dr. Peter Grant.
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STUDENT MENTORING IN AERONAUTICS AT SWOSU
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Ms. Madeline Baugher (pictured), Department of Accounting,
Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, received $4,777 from Precision Design, Inc. to support an undergraduate student mentoring internship program involving
aeronautics professionals. The program will enhance and develop Oklahoma's economic and
workforce development in aeronautics and space while providing applied learning
experiences for students and faculty.
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SWOSU SUPPORTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Dr. Marvin Hankins, SWOSU Center for Economic and Business Development, received $42,000 for the Southwestern Manufacturing Consortium from the U.S.
Dept. of Commerce through Oklahoma Alliance for Manufacturing
Excellence to support a
manufacturing extension and fiscal agent to work with small to
medium-sized manufacturers to improve their ability to compete in
the international market place. Pictured are Anita Blankenship, Marvin Hankins, Paul
Walenciak, President John Hays, and Provost Blake Sonobe.
Dr. Hankins also received $97,850 from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce-Economic
Development Administration to support an Economic Development
Administration University
Center at SWOSU for technical
assistance and promotion of economic development for
southwestern Oklahoma businesses. Hankins received another $208,891 from the U.S.
Small Business Administration to enhance economic development in the southwestern region of Oklahoma through
counseling and training to small business clients.
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SWOSU INBRE GRANT
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Dr. William Kelly, SWOSU Chair and Professor of Chemistry &
Physics, received $59,094 from INBRE to support
biomedical research for faculty and undergraduate students at SWOSU.
Pictured are Provost Blake Sonobe and Dr. William
Kelly.
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SWOSU INBRE GRANT
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Dr. Timothy Hubin, SWOSU Dept. of Chemistry &
Physics, received $126,216 from INBRE for research in Development and Screening of Transition Metal Complexes as
CXCR4 Antagonistsbiomedical. The project will involve faculty and undergraduate students at SWOSU.
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SWOSU FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAVEL GRANT |
Ms. Kelli Litsch received a FAR and FARA Travel Grant of $933 from the National Collegiate Athletic Association
through the Lone Star Conference to help attend associational and professional conferences.
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SWOSU UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM FOOD SUPPORT |
Ms. Jamie Novey received $6100 from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture through
the Oklahoma State Department of Education for the Upward Bound Summer Food Services Program for Children to support summer food for Upward Bound participants.
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SWOSU ADVENTURE PROGRAM GRANT
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Dr. Ken Rose, College of Professional
& Graduate Studies at Southwestern Oklahoma State University received over $4.4 million from the Office of Juvenile Affairs to to support
five male juvenile residency treatment programs utilizing outdoor education
experiences to encourage possible behavioral changes for youth in the Office of
Juvenile Affairs custody. The experiences are
in Foss Lake, Tenkiller, Lawton, Salt Fork, and Cedar Canyon.
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SWOSU HOSTS MATH & SCIENCE CAMP |
Southwestern Oklahoma
State University was one of 30 locations across the nation for summer math and science camp funded by the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp fund for two weeks in July on the Weatherford campus. 60 middle schoolers from Oklahoma and Texas attended the camp which had the theme of "The Search for Life."
The residential camp gives students a first-hand experience
conducting experiments, role models and innovative programs to encourage their
continued participation in math and science courses in school. Citizenship and leadership skills are fostered with opportunities to work in teams and think creatively while in a
college campus environment. The ultimate goal is to raise their awareness
of career possibilities in science, technology, engineering and
mathematics. Wayne
Trail was the camp director.
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SWOSU FACULTY AND STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS |
Southwestern
Oklahoma State
University and Dr. Andrea
Holgado, assistant professor in the SWOSU Department of Biological Sciences,
were awarded an INBRE Basic Research grant for $25,000 to investigate Molecular Analysis of Vesicle
Exocytosis involving undergraduate
students at SWOSU. Under the direction of Holgado, students will
investigate the molecular mechanism underlying vesicle-mediated secretion in
neurons. Research of this type may reveal target molecules and strategies
for the treatment of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
disease.
Holgado also received a
Research Opportunity Award from the INBRE project, funded by the
National Institutes of Health and dispersed through the University of Oklahoma
Health Sciences Center, for a summer research project in the laboratory of Dr. Bing Zhang,
assistant professor at the University
of Oklahoma in Norman with two SWOSU biology students,
Melanie Graham and Ariana Eakle. Pictured are
Bing Zhang, Chelsea Springer, Melanie Graham,
Andrea Holgado, Ariana Eakle, Leah Henry, Philip Vanlandingham, Hong Boa, Tyler Gunter and John Tauber.
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NSU NSF ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION GRANT
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Dr. Jody Buckholtz received $36,127 from the National Science Foundation through Oklahoma State University's Alliance for Minority Participation Grant to increase the number of represented minorities receiving
Bachelor of Science degrees in science, engineering and mathematics.
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NSU STREAM BIOASSESSMENT
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Dr. Amy Smith received $51,100 from the Oklahoma Conservation Commission for Stream Bioassessment to select,
preserve and deliver the selected biological samples (fish & macroinvertebrate) to
representatives of the commission. This is Year 7 of this award.
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NSU ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION GRANT
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Ann Wilkins received $92,711 from the Oklahoma Supreme Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution to provide mediation according to the Dispute Resolution Act and other directives provided by the courts for disputes in northeast Oklahoma. This is year 16 of this agreement.
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NSU POWWOW 2010 GRANT
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Dr.
Phyllis Fife, Director of Tribal Studies for Northeastern Oklahoma State University, received $2000 from the Okahoma Arts Council for the NSU PowWow 2010 and related events.
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NSU GALAXY OF STARS GRANT
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Megan
White, Director of the Sequoyah Institute for Northeastern Oklahoma State University, received $19,400 from the Oklahoma Arts Council for Galaxy of Stars 2010, to assist with artist fees. |
NSU GREEN COUNTRY JAZZ GRANT
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Dr.
Arthur White received $5000 from the Oklahoma Arts Council to help with artist fees for the Northeastern
State University's
Green Country Jazz Series 2009-2010 season.
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If you would like us to know about your grant and how it impacts your campus, send the information to [email protected] along with a jpeg photo. Thank you for your contribution to improve Oklahoma higher education!
Sincerely,
Dr. Linda Mason, Coordinator for Grant Writing Assistance
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
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OKLAHOMA CAMPUS COMPACT |
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Oklahoma Campus Compact won $2,500
from the NC Campus Compact to distribute to Oklahoma Campus Compact
members in support of activities and events on Martin Luther King Day. Pictured are 875 students from SWOSU who volunteered for
projects. They are wearing t-shirts which say on the
front: MLK Week - The Dream
Continues. The grant was written by Debbie Terlip, Assistant Director of Campus Compact for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
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EDGE PRELIMINARY SELECTIONS
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EDGE Policy Board members approved 14 proposal
applications from a field of 65, which are the second round in the funding
process of Oklahoma's
economic development programs. This step is part of the process
from an endowment that backers hope eventually to reach $1 billion. Economic Development Generating Excellence has $7.5 million for its second round of funding, according to Paul
Risser, Executive Director of the EDGE Policy Board.
University projects: - Alfred Stritz, OU, Research, Development, Testing, and Production of Modular Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles named M-UAVs, along with Turnkey Mod Unmanned Aircraft Systems
, or M-UASs, based on product platform and product
- Jeffrey
Harwell, OU, Boosting Oklahoma Oil Production with Next
Generation Surfactant
Sensor Technology
- Nick
Materer, OSU, Commercialization of Passive Wireless Corrosion Sensors
Information Technology/ Telecommunications
- David
Kendrick, OUHSC, Greater Tulsa Health Access
Network (Greater THAN)
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