Recent Grant Awards

The ESU Faculty Research and Creativity Committee awarded the following seed grants in January, 2011:

  • Bailey, Melissa. Biological Sciences.  The Effects of Green Tea Extract on Fetal Hydantoin Syndrome.  $11,819.
  • Crupper, Scott. Biological Sciences.  Sorangium cellulosum Taxonomy. $12,137.
  • Edds, David. Biological Sciences.  Potential Impacts of Zebra Mussel Invasion into the Neosho River Basin.  $11,960.
  • Follo, Giovanna. Sociology, Anthropology and Crime and Delinquency Studies. Oral Histories of Female Martial Artists: The Search for Women in Martial Arts.  $7,059.
  • Koerner, Brenda. Biological Sciences. The Success of Invasive Legumes: the Role of Symbiotic Rhizobia.  $12,534.
  • Mallein, Darla.  Social Sciences.  Using the Multiple Intelligences to Teach Primary Sources – A Field-Based Project.  $1,980.
  • Simons, Kim. Physical Sciences. Investigating the Activity of Cdc14p, a Phosphate Required for Mitotic Exit.  $3,000.
  • Sundberg, Marshall. Biological Sciences.  The Role of teosinte branched 1 in Ear Development of Primitive Land Race Maize and its Implications for the Evolution of Maize.  $14,065.
  • Thierer, Joyce. Social Sciences.  Grace in the Flint Hills: History, Geology, and Identity.  $3,000.
  • Yang, Yixin Eric.  Biological Sciences. Effects of Zerumbone at Physiological Concentrations on the Proliferation and Invasion of Human Malignant Melanoma Cells.  $13,479.

Prior awards made by the Faculty Research & Creativity Committee.