{"id":19757,"date":"2018-08-01T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:24:32","slug":"featured-awards-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2018\/08\/01\/featured-awards-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards – August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPaul Bologna<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Biology
\nJohn Gaynor<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Biology
\nAssessment of Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus Vertens Populations in the Shrewsbury River Estuary and the Manasquan River Estuary \u2013 Supplement<\/em>
\nNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
\n$35,245
\nWith more support and supplemental funding in year three of this study, Dr. Bologna and Dr. Gaynor will provide data to identify and quantify the distribution and abundance of G. vertens–invasive clinging jellyfish–from the Shrewsbury Estuary and the Manasquan River Estuary.
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\nPaul Bologna<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Biology
\nJohn Gaynor<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Biology
\nRobert Meredith<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Biology
\nAssessment of the Impacts of OCNGS on Gelatinous Zooplankton and Planktonic Community Structure<\/em>
\nNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
\n$62,942
\nDr. Bologna, Dr. Gaynor and Dr. Meredith\u2019s study hopes to assess the distribution of gelatinous zooplankton and potential impacts of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS) on planktonic community structure and provide a Metagenomic Composition assessment of planktonic communities and impacts of OCNGS. They will be supported by undergraduate and graduate students of 糖心vlog.
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\nJaclyn Catalano<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nJean Dreyfus Lectureship: A Two Day Biophysical Seminar with a Leading Biochemist<\/em>
\nCamille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc.
\n$18,500
\nAwarded to the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the Jean Dreyfus Lectureship award provides an $18,500 grant to bring a leading researcher to a primarily undergraduate institution to give at least two lectures in the chemical sciences.\u00a0 糖心vlog will host Karen Anderson, Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Co-Director Developmental Therapeutics (Cancer Center) from Yale University to lead a two-day seminar for MSU\u2019s faculty and students.
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\nYeng Dang<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Earth and Environmental Studies
\nJunkui Cui<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Student
\nDevelopment of an Innovative and Resilient Emergency Water Treatment (EWT) for Natural Disasters<\/em>
\nNew Jersey Water Resources Institute
\n$5,000
\nWith a subaward from Rutgers Univeristy and under the guidance, assistance and supervision from Dr. Yeng Dang, MSU doctoral student, Junkui Cui, project will pursue a new EWT design with ferrate (VI), which has a potential to concurrently remove pathogens, toxic metals, and hazardous organic contaminants with multiple treatment mechanisms. The results of this study will have a deep impact on this country where a majority of citizens are living in the regions potentially impacted by different natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and landslides).
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\nNina Goodey<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nDavid Konas<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nInvestigation of Substrate Specificity, Mechanism, and Inhibition of IGPS<\/em>
\nNational Institutes of Health
\n$301,781
\nDr. Nina Goodey and Dr. David Konas\u2019 project\u2019s goals are to gain new understanding of various substrate-IGPS interactions and to develop new IGPS inhibitors which may have potential as anti-infective agents. Thus, this work is highly relevant to understanding and treating intractable and widespread resistant bacteria. Their project will be supported with work from undergraduate and graduate students at 糖心vlog.
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\nNina Goodey<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nAllyssa Angel<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Student
\nRapid, DNA-Based Test for Ranavirus Detection<\/em>
\nNew Jersey Water Resources Research Institute
\n$5,000
\nAs a subrecipient of Rutgers University, 糖心vlog graduate student, Allyssa Angel is working to identify aptamers that bind to either to the major capsid protein on the surface of ranavirus or to another ranavirus surface element under the guidance and supervision of Dr. Nina Goodey. These aptamers will then be used in a gold immunochromatographic lateral flow assay format. This format allows for rapid field testing of ponds and frog urine in real time to identify regions in New Jersey where frogs have been infected with ranavirus.
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\nSteven Greenstein<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Mathematical Sciences
\nEileen Fern\u00e1ndez \u2022 <\/strong>Mathematical Sciences
\nProspective Elementary Teachers Making for Mathematical Learning<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$422,195
\nDr. Steven Greenstein\u2019s project seeks to advance knowledge in the Teaching strand. This project incorporates a novel making experience into the preparation of prospective teachers of K-6 mathematics (PMTs) and documents its influence on their knowledge and identities. The experience will enable PMTs to use digital design and fabrication technologies to produce new tools that support mathematics teaching and learning.
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\nJanet Koehnke<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Communication Sciences and Disorders
\nMaris Appelbaum<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Communication Sciences and Disorders
\nNew Jersey Hearing Aid Project \u2013 Year 4<\/em>
\nNew Jersey Department of Human Services
\n$71,224
\nWith an additional funding of $15,000 starting in 2018, this project will continue to provide low income individuals access to needed hearing aid devices and related audiological services that otherwise are not available due to cost.
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\nPankaj Lal<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Earth and Environmental Studies
\nCAREER: Geographic Sustainability, Socioeconomic Uncertainty, and Environmental Consequences: Exploring Place-based Opportunities for Bioenergy Sustainability \u2013 Year 5<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$80,305
\nIn year five of this project, Dr. Pankaj Lal will explore place based solutions for cellulosic bioenergy sustainability, through a unique approach that coordinates three strands of research: fuzzy logic theory based geospatial suitability, stated preference survey and stochastic analyses based socioeconomic uncertainty, and life cycle assessment based environmental analyses. Two dominant cellulosic bioenergy feedstocks, namely switchgrass in Midwestern US and pine in Southern U.S., will be studied.
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\nDouglas Larkin<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Secondary and Special Education
\nSandra Adams<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Biology
\nStudying the Retention of Novice Science Teachers by Learning from School District Induction and Mentoring Programs \u2013 Year 1<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$431,398
\nIn year one and first phase of a five-year grant, Dr. Douglas Larkin and Dr. Sandra Adams will investigate the five-year science teacher retention rates in four U.S. states (New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), and then examine and describe high-quality induction and mentoring programs in identified school districts through a set of case studies that will promote best practices in design and implementation.
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\nDonna Lorenzo \u2022 <\/strong>Health Careers
\n糖心vlog Upward Bound Project \u2013 Year 2<\/em>
\nU.S. Department of Education
\n$275,155
\nFunding for year two of Montclair State\u2019s Upward Bound Project (UB) delivers educational opportunities for currently enrolled high school students, who come from low level income families and\/or who are potential first-generation college attendees. UB provides fundamental support for participants to succeed in their current level of education as well as preparing them in their pursuit of higher education.
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\nBryan Murdock<\/strong> \u2022 Center for Community Engagement
\nRandall FitzGerald<\/strong> \u2022 New Jersey School of Conservation
\nWilliam Thomas<\/strong> \u2022 New Jersey School of Conservation
\nKrystal Woolston<\/strong> \u2022 Center for Community Engagement
\n糖心vlog EECO Project<\/em>
\nNew Jersey Commission on National and Community Service
\n$365,518
\nSince 2014, the Center for Community Engagement at 糖心vlog, in partnership with the Orange Public Schools have been awarded with the first-ever University-Assisted Full-Service Community Schools grant in New Jersey to support the Orange Community School Initiative. With a renewed grant and two new faculty members included in this program, Dr. Murdock and his team will continue to engage twenty AmeriCorps members who will support the development and implementation of a full service university-assisted UACS community school project in Orange, NJ public schools.
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\nRobert Reid<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Family Science and Human Development
\nPauline Garcia-Reid<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Family Science and Human Development
\nPaterson Coalition against Substance Abuse (P-CASA) \u2013 Year 6<\/em>
\nU.S. Department of Health & Human Services\/SAMHSA
\n$125,000
\nIn year six of this program, Dr. Reid and Dr. Garcia-Reid seek to develop the infrastructure of an anti-drug coalition targeting at-risk racial and ethnic minority adolescents in Paterson\u2019s 1st Ward. As a collaborative effort between 糖心vlog and a diverse group of community stakeholders, P-CASA will introduce evidence-based environmental prevention strategies to meet the goals of the Drug Free Communities Grant Program, which are to increase community collaboration and reduce substance use among youth aged 12\u201317.
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\nDavid Rotella<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nJohn Siekierka<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nDevelopment of Inhibitors of P. falciparum cGMP Dependent Protein Kinase (PfPKG) for Malaria Chemoprevention \u2013 Year 2<\/em>
\nNational Institutes of Health
\n$253,047
\nIn year two of this three-year grant, Dr. Rotella and Dr. Siekierka\u2019s collaborative research grant with Rutgers University supports the design, synthesis, and characterization of potential inhibitors of P. falciparum Protein Kinase G (PfPKG) as antimalarial agents.
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\nJennifer Urban \u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Family Science and Human Development
\nMiriam Linver \u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Family Science and Human Development
\nEvaluating STEM Scouts: The Design of a Comprehensive Evaluation Plan and Feasibility Study<\/em>
\n<\/strong>National Science Foundation
\n$193,617
\nDr. Urban and Dr. Linver\u2019s project is a pilot program affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America. The aims of the study are to: (1) lay the groundwork for a future research project by developing a detailed theory of change for STEM Scouts that highlights the hypothesized interactions between STEM outcomes and Positive Youth Development\/Social-Emotional Learning outcomes; (2) pilot three new enhancements to the SEP (Systems Modeling, STEM Learning Ecosystem Modeling, and Model Verification); and, (3) determine the feasibility of conducting a national scale study of STEM Scouts by conducting a detailed analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) and a data inventory. The project will utilize an Evolutionary Evaluation approach and the Systems Evaluation Protocol.
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\nBradley van Eeden-Moorefield \u2022<\/strong> Family Science and Human Development
\nIjeoma Opara<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Student
\nBehavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research \u2013 Year 2<\/em>
\n<\/strong>National Institutes of Health\/ NIDA
\n$15,627
\nFunded as a subaward from New York University, pre-doctoral fellow Ijeoma Opara from NYU will engage in research in year two of this grant with a focus on producing multiple manuscripts each year of this study with Dr. Robert Reid of Family Science and Human Development as her advisor. The broad program of research covered across these manuscripts will seek to examine factors that reduce the likelihood of engaging in substance use and risky sexual behaviors among urban adolescents of color. Some of the mitigating factors will include empowerment, sense of ethnic identity, and other resiliency skills.
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