\nLora Billings\u00a0<\/strong>\u2022 Dean’s Office \nAihua Li<\/strong> \u2022 Mathematical Sciences \nGarden State LSAMP Phase II – Year 4<\/em> \nNational Science Foundation \n$71,802 \nThe fourth year of \u201cGarden State LSAMP Phase II,\u201d funded by a subaward from Rutgers University, will continue and extend the programmatic support for underrepresented students heading into \nthe sciences other than medicine. \n<\/div>
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\nMark Chopping<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Earth and Environmental Studies \nChanges in Shrub Abundance in Arctic Tundra from the Satellite High Resolution Record for the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment and Impacts on Albedo – Year 3<\/em> \nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration \n$67,476 \nThe project is part of NASA’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE; http:\/\/above.nasa.gov), a large-scale NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program study of environmental change in the region and its implications for social-ecological systems. The first year funding will support project set-up, with the remainder in the second and third years going mainly towards graduate student support. The project will use semi-automated interpretation of high resolution satellite imagery to assess the direction and magnitude of changes in shrub cover and aboveground biomass in Alaskan and Canadian Arctic tundra over a 10- to 15-year period. This will provide data that can be used to validate lower spatial resolution ABoVE remote sensing data products; initiate, drive, calibrate and validate ecological models; and assess the impacts of these changes on tundra summer albedo. \n<\/div>
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\n\u200cDomenica Dominguez<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Office of International Engagement \nSyria Consortium Top Up Grant<\/em> \nInstitute of International Education \n$25,000 \nThis award, which will support five Syrian students at ÌÇÐÄvlog, is the third grant received from IIE to directly support Syrian students.\u00a0 Montclair State is an active member of the IIE Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis. \nErasmus+ Call 2017<\/em> \nErasmus+ \nÌÇÐÄvlog, in collaboration with the University of Graz, Austria, will receive funding to support student and faculty mobility between the two institutions. \n<\/div>
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\nMargaret Freedson<\/strong> \u2022 Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education \nInternational Consortium for Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE)<\/em> \nUS Department of Education \n$10,530 \nFunded by a subaward from University of Nebraska Lincoln, Dr. Freedson will explore the content of available ICMEE e-workshops on second language acquisition and on ELL content area instruction in K-6 math and science. Dr. Freedson will then integrate appropriate eworkshop content into the in-service work and field experiences of approximately 40 students enrolled in MSU graduate and undergraduate courses with a focus on ELL supports, creating school- and university-based learning communities around the eworkshop use. \n<\/div>
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\nJinshan Gao<\/strong> \u2022 Chemistry and Biochemistry \nRUI: Glycan Characterization and Quantitative Analysis via Free Radical Induced Dissociation \n<\/em>National Science Foundation \n$176,000 \nThis project will develop a new approach for glycan characterization and quantitation by combining the merits of free radical chemistry and mass spectrometry. \n \n<\/div>
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\nSidney Gardner<\/strong> \u2022 Equity and Diversity \nInterfaith Youth Core Interfaith Innovation Grant<\/em> \nInterfaith Youth Core \n$5,000 \nThis award will allow the Center for Faith and Spirituality at ÌÇÐÄvlog to develop a more holistic approach to interfaith work by working with campus partners to develop a strategic plan, marketing plan, and opportunities for leadership and education that is inclusive of the entire campus community. \n \n<\/div>
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\nAmir Golnabi<\/strong> \u2022 Mathematical Sciences \n3-Dimensional Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Placental Volume Using a Novel Method \n<\/em>St. Barnabas Medical Center \n$16,924 \nThis award from St. Barnabas Medical Center will support an investigational study to determine the ability of medical imaging software to analyze ultrasonographic data and ultimately to create a semi-automated process for image segmentation and data analysis. \n \n<\/div>
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\nJanet Koehnke<\/strong> \u2022 Communication Sciences and Disorders \nMaris Appelbaum<\/strong> \u2022 Communication Sciences and Disorders \nNew Jersey Hearing Aid Project – Year 2 \n<\/em>NJ Department of Human Services \n$ 56,224 \nNow into it’s fifth year, 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. \n \n<\/div>
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\n\u200cPankaj Lal<\/strong> \u2022 Earth and Environmental Studies \nCAREER: Geographic Suitability, Socioeconomic Uncertainty, and Environmental Consequences: Exploring Place-based Opportunities for Bioenergy Sustainability – Year 4 \n<\/em>National Science Foundation \n$79,250 \nThis five-year project 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 US, will be studied. \nAssessing socioeconomic impacts of forest biomass based biofuel development on rural communities in the Southern United States (U.S.) \u2013 Renewal<\/em> \nUS Department of Agriculture \n$250,000 \nIn the continuation of this project led by Dr. Lal, stakeholder surveys will be conducted in thirteen Southern States in U.S. to assess perceived socioeconomic acceptability of woody biofuels. Direct, indirect, and induced impacts of woody biofuel expansion on stakeholders will be estimated through Input Output Analysis and Social Accounting Matrix approach. Region wide distributional impact will be assessed through computable general equilibrium model. Other institutions working on this project are Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, and Tuskegee University. \n \n<\/div>
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\nChristopher Leberknight<\/strong> \u2022 Computer Science \nAnna Feldman<\/strong> \u2022 Linguistics \nSaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: A Linguistically-Informed Approach for Measuring and Circumventing Internet Censorship – Year 1 \n<\/em>National Science Foundation \n$161,238 \nThis collaborative project with Princeton University will explore a linguistically-informed approach and system for measuring and mitigating Internet censorship. \n \n<\/div>
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\nJorge Lorenzo Trueba<\/strong> \u2022 \u00a0Earth and Environmental Studies \nManaging for biodiversity and blue carbon in the face of sea-level rise and barrier-island migration – Year 2 \n<\/em>National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration \n$70,000 \nFunded by the NJ Sea Grant Consortium, this collaborative project with the University of Maryland, the University of Delaware, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences is investigating the geologic and ecologic response of coupled barrier-backbarrier systems to relative sea-level rise and the implications for the backbarrier ecosystem services of biodiversity provision and blue carbon sequestration. \n \n<\/div>
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\nSarah Lowe<\/strong> \u2022 Psychology \nIdentifying Risk Factors for PTSD by Pooled Analysis of Current Prospective Studies – Year 2 \n<\/em>National Institutes of Health \n$23,641 \nThis subaward from Harvard University supports the creation of a consortium of principal investigators to combine their individual- and item-level data towards carrying out a pooled secondary analysis to synthesize information about the predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder. \n \n<\/div>
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\nBryan Murdock<\/strong> \u2022 Center for Community Engagement \nCity of Orange Proposal to the U.S. Department of Education: University Assisted Full Service Community Schools Program – Year 4 \n<\/em>US Department of Education \n$486,034 \nThis program allows MSU to work closely with the Orange Public School District to convert two low-performing Title I schools into University-Assisted Full-Service Community Schools. \n \n<\/div>
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\nLois Oppenheim<\/strong> \u2022 Modern Languages and Literature \nBenjamin Wolf<\/strong> \u2022 School of Communication and Media \n“Daniel, Debra, Leslie (and Maybe Drew)”<\/em> \nNJ Council for the Humanities \n$20,000 \nThe project, a 90-minute documentary entitled \u201cDaniel, Debra, Leslie (and Maybe Drew),\u201d will explore lived experiences of psychosis or, more precisely, the complex notion of being in \u201crecovery,\u201d a social construct with multiple meanings. \n \n<\/div>
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\nJennif<\/strong>er \u200cRobinson<\/strong> \u2022 Center of Pedagogy \nNewark Montclair Urban Teacher Residency – Year 4 \n<\/em>US Department of Education \n$1,424,793 \nThe fourth year of a $6.2 million project, in partnership with the Newark Public Schools (NPS), seeks to improve student achievement by applying rigorous research-based teacher preparation to the concrete needs of the NPS. The Newark Montclair Urban Teacher Residency is designed to recruit talented individuals, including those from underrepresented groups and other careers, into teaching math, science, and early childhood special education. The NMUTR also increases teacher quality and retention, which ultimately improves student achievement. \n \n<\/div>
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\nJoshua Sandry<\/strong> \u2022 Psychology \nThe Effect of Feedback Presentation on the Fronto-Striatal Network Activity and Fatigue in Individuals with MS \n<\/em>National Multiple Sclerosis Society \n$23,675 \nDr. Sandry\u2019s project, funded by a subaward from the Kessler Foundation, will examine the influence of monetary feedback presentation and performance-related feedback presentation on brain activity underlying the experience of fatigue in individuals with multiple sclerosis relative to healthy controls. \n \n<\/div>
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\nSteven Shapiro<\/strong> \u2022 Library Services \nStefan Robila<\/strong> \u2022 Computer Science \nRoboto-san: The contrasting visions of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Japanese and Western culture \n<\/em>NJ Council for the Humanities \n$20,000 \nThis award will support a series of free public activities from October to December 2017 that explore differing perspectives on artificial intelligence and robotics in Japanese and Western cultures. The program will also address related themes, including the philosophical questions posed by robotics, the history of \u201cintelligent machines,\u201d and New Jersey\u2019s role in the development of artificial intelligence. \n \n<\/div>
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\nRobert Taylor<\/strong> \u2022 Earth and Environmental Studies \nActionable Decision-Making for Flooding Events utilizing a small UAV Platform with LiDAR and Hyperspectral Instruments \n<\/em>US Department of Defense \n$195,953 \nThis award will provide the necessary instrumentation as an Initiative within the Center for Environmental Management & Analysis at ÌÇÐÄvlog to train students to complete the following activities: to pilot a UAV; to develop algorithms specifically designed to access housing vulnerability to flooding and evacuation planning; to process and analyze data from the LiDAR and hyperspectral instrumentation; and to develop a decision-making analytic that utilizes this data to recommend to governmental agencies appropriate voluntary relocation scenarios. \n \n<\/div>
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\nJennifer Urban<\/strong> \u2022 Family Science and Human Development \nMiriam Linver<\/strong> \u2022 Family Science and Human Development \nBoy Scouts of America National Character Initiative \n<\/em>Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation \n$780,000 \nThis subaward from the Boy Scouts of America will help the BSA research and understand how Scouting helps to build character. Dr. Urban and Dr. Linver will be working with a team at the National BSA office to develop a model of adult volunteer training and development as well as a model of character development in Boy Scouts youth members. The models will be validated by convening focus groups across the country and will also be compared against the research literature. Drs. Urban and Linver will also be developing measures of adult and youth character development. \n \n<\/div>