Office of Vice Provost grants research funds

Ten IU-Bloomington faculty members have received 2010 Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Funding.

The awards are granted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research to help jump-start projects during the summer and provide up to $10,000 throughout a one-year period. 

“These awards provide crucial support for our faculty and research scientists to develop new collaborations,” said Sarita Soni, vice provost for research, whose office oversees a variety of research funding programs for faculty. “The goal for this funding is to encourage faculty on the Bloomington campus to identify collaborations with any center, institute or museum at IU that will help to expand their work or stimulate new ideas.”


Recipients and their work:

­— Solving the Mystery of Yankeetown; Susan Alt, anthropology, and Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest

— A Collaboration to Create an Online Oral History Training Workshop; John Bodnar, Institute for Advanced Study and Center for the Study of History and Memory

— Success Made Probable: Nurturing Future Statisticians through Project-based Learning; Dionne Cross, education, and Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration

— Cheminformatics Approaches to the Discovery of New CH Hydrogen Bond Donors; Amar Flood, chemistry, and Chemical Informatics Center

— Exceptional Citizens: Chinese Marital Immigrants, Contested Borders, and National Anxieties Across the Taiwan Strait; Sarah Friedman, anthropology, and Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business

— Learning the Executive Way: Men and Women of the B-School; Timothy Hallett, sociology, and Center for Evaluation and Educational Policy

— The Magic Web; Joss Marsh, English, and Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities

— Development of an Improved Land Cover Classification Scheme to Estimate Ecosystem Functioning in Southern Indiana Forests; Richard Phillips, biology, and Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change

— Heritage in the Heart of Crow Country; Laura Scheiber, anthropology, and American Indian Studies Research Institute

— Comparative Analyses of Reforestation Trends in Sao Paulo and Indiana: Factors Influencing Landowner Decisions; Catherine Tucker, anthropology, and Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change

— Lindsey Erdody