{"id":3098,"date":"2017-11-30T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:28:53","slug":"featured-awards-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2017\/11\/30\/featured-awards-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards – November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\u200cSarita Eisenberg<\/strong> \u2022 Communication Sciences and Disorders \nBetter Together: Using Drill to Increase the Efficacy of Embedded Therapy for Grammatical Forms<\/em> \nAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association \n$75,000 \nDr. Eisenberg\u2019s project will determine whether combining Clinician-Directed Drill and Child-Centered embedded therapy would work better than using only one of these approaches or using the two approaches sequentially for targeting grammatical forms in preschool children with language impairments. \n<\/div>
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\nLaurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo<\/strong> \u2022 Modern Languages & Literature \nA Colony in Crisis in Haitian Creole: Digital Scholarship and Activism through Translation \nNew Jersey Council for the Humanities \n$4,920 \nThis project will involve MSU students creating written and oral Haitian Creole translations of 18th century French archival sources on political life, commerce, the lives of people of color, and the moments leading to the Haitian Revolution. The creole translations will be part of a larger digital humanities project called “A Colony in Crisis.” \n<\/div>
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\nTamara Leech<\/strong> \u2022 Public Health \nPockets of Peace: Investigating Urban Neighborhoods Resilient to Adolescent Violence \nWilliam T. Grant Foundation \n$46,804 \nPockets of Peace is a study that conceptualizes neighborhoods themselves as potentially resilient.\u00a0 The project focuses on resilient communities rather than individual resiliency in communities. The intention of the work is to augment the body of research on neighborhood rates of violence such that it can be more easily translated into actionable policies and programs. \nSAMHSA Young Adult Survey<\/em> \nSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration \n$32,414 \nThis project addresses the lack of available data on young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years old in support of a program designed to address two of the nation\u2019s top substance abuse prevention priorities: underage drinking among persons aged 12 to 20; and prescription drug misuse and abuse among persons aged 12 to 25. Supported by a subaward from Indiana University, Dr. Leech will maintain, analyze and report results from the database containing responses to the 2017 phone survey portion of the project. \n<\/div>
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\nJorge Lorenzo Trueba<\/strong> \u2022 Earth and Environmental Studies \nExploring the Role of Organic Sediment Dynamics on Channel Clustering and Alluvial Architecture<\/em> \nAmerican Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund \n$110,000 \nThis award will support the development of models to explore whether internal (autogenic) processes in sediment transport systems can partially explain self-organization in alluvial architecture. \n<\/div>
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\n\u200c\u200cJoshua Sandry<\/strong> \u2022 Psychology \nMathematical\u00a0Models\u00a0of\u00a0Motor\u00a0and\u00a0Mental\u00a0Speed \n<\/em>Consortium\u00a0of\u00a0Multiple\u00a0Sclerosis\u00a0Centers \n$39,083 \nDr. Sandry\u2019s study aims to use mathematical modelling and behavioral experimentation to differentiate between motor and mental processing speed and identify how measures derived from mathematical modelling relate to traditional clinical assessments. By doing this, the study will potentially transform the understanding of disease-related motor and cognitive changes. \n<\/div>
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\n\u200cMeiyin Wu<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Passaic River Institute \nAmy Ferdinand<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 University Facilities \nDevelop a Geodatabase for Essex County, NJ – Part 1 \n<\/em>Essex County Department of Parks \n$2,169 \nDr. Wu and Dr. Ferdinand will work with the Essex County Department of\u00a0Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs on creating a geodatabase of the Park system. The geodatabase will be populated with available data to investigate and manage complex environmental challenges such as pollution and contamination, pollution reduction, flooding, sediment remediation, ecosystem restoration, etc. \n<\/div>