VANCOUVER WSU Vancouver today announced the recipients of its 2009-2010 research minigrants.
The purpose of the minigrant program is to stimulate research productivity by providing seed funds for projects that will lead to requests for external funding or exceptional scholarly activity. These grants have a $5,000 maximum limit and are generated from the campus research initiation fund, which is not part of the campus budget.
Faculty who were awarded minigrants for 2009-2010 are listed below:
- Dana Lee Baker, Experiences of Individuals with Autism with Health Care Systems
- Cory Bolkan, Personality and Mental Health Across the Lifespan: A Longitudinal, Multi-level Approach
- June Canty, Teacher Induction in SW Washington
- Cynthia Cooper, Melanophore adhesion in Danio rerio zebrafish
- Jane Cote and Claire Latham, The Internalization of Ethical Responses to Ethical Dilemmas
- Michael Dunn, Ask, Reflect, Text: Does the use of Art during Pre-Writing help Students write more elaborate Text?
- Stephen Kucer, Discourse Context and Its Impact on Word Identification During the Reading Process
- Tonda Liggett, Notions of diversity in a neoliberal context: The undermining of education in Chiapas, Mexico
- Nancy Sanders, Research-based Practices: Guidelines for Educational Leaders
- Yoshie Sano, Understanding the Interplay of Poverty and Health among Rural Low-Income Families: Pilot Data Collection for Rural Families Speak Phase Two
- Richard Sawyer, Education at the Crossroads of Tension and Change: An Investigation of the Impact of Globalization on the Educational System in Southern Mexico
- Mark Stephan, Public Participation Policy Survey Pre-test
- Clare Wilkinson-Weber, The matter of the dress: building a visual, verbal and textual record of costume production in Bollywood
