{"id":3135,"date":"2017-06-30T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:45:16","slug":"featured-awards-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2017\/06\/30\/featured-awards-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards – June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMichael Boyle<\/strong> \u2022 Communication Sciences and Disorders
\nAdvancing Academic Research Careers Award<\/em>
\nAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
\n$5,000
\nThis award will support mentored activities for Dr. Boyle in both teaching and research.
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\nGerard Costa<\/strong> \u2022 Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health
\nProject LAUNCH 2016 – 2017 – Supplement<\/em>
\nNJ Department of Children and Families
\n$321,169
\nThis award provides supplemental funding for “Project LAUNCH”, which trains providers in Essex County in evidence-based curricula that aim to enhance the caregiver-child relationship and promote emotional and relational wellness.
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\nJonathan\u00a0Cutler<\/strong> \u2022 Mathematical Sciences
\nProblems related to the enumeration of independent sets in graphs<\/em>
\nSimons Foundation
\n$42,000
\nThis award will support Dr. Cutler’s efforts to improve our understanding of various connections between various enumerative extremal problems by identifying methods (e.g., entropy, containers, compression) that may apply in situations that have not yet used them.
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\nJonathan\u00a0Howell<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Linguistics
\nEstablishing a ground truth for focus placement in naturally-occurring speech<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$105,894
\nDr. Howell’s two-year project will develop a method of automatically detecting focus that is both computationally effective, e.g. for the purpose of representing focus in language technologies, and linguistically transparent, e.g. to understand how focus is realized acoustically and conditioned pragmatically.
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\nLaurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo<\/strong> \u2022 Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
\nLeveraging Quebec Expertise in Translation Pedagogy<\/em>
\nQuebec Government Office in New York
\n$3,500
\nThis award will support a conference on translation pedagogy to include preeminent academic experts from Qu\u00e9bec. Given Canada\u2019s unique situation as an officially bilingual country in North America, Qu\u00e9bec institutions have developed an invaluable expertise in the area of translator training and translation studies from which MSU and other institutions in the United States will greatly benefit.
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\nJamaal Matthews<\/strong> \u2022 Educational Foundations
\nCAREER: How Urban Adolescents Come to Think of Themselves as Mathematicians – Year 4<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$156,256
\nDr. Matthews’ five-year project studies how African American and Latino middle and high school students construct their sense of self-identity with and in mathematics and the role that teachers play in helping to shape those self-opinions. In conjunction with this project, Matthews has developed and implemented a mentorship program in Newark, NJ based on this research. This mentorship program (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0SmBNruQ4ZM<\/a>) aims to support character development skills and a value of mathematics among young males of color.
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\nEileen Murray<\/strong> \u2022 Mathematical Sciences
\nAmir Golnabi<\/strong> \u2022 Mathematical Sciences
\nAdjunct Mathematics Instructor Resources and Support: Improving Undergraduate Precalculus Teaching and Learning Experience<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$300,000
\nThis three-year project will measure the impact of course coordination and support on adjunct mathematics instructors\u2019 knowledge, instructional practices, and job satisfaction, and, ultimately, student academic success and retention.
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\nNicole\u00a0Panorkou<\/strong> \u2022 Mathematical Sciences
\nWhen counting cubes is not enough: Exploring volume measurement dynamically<\/em>
\nNational Academy of Education
\n$70,000
\nDr. Panorkou’s two-year project aims to resolve students’ difficulty in developing a conceptual understanding of volume measurement through Dynamic Measurement for Volume (DYME-V). DYME-V engages students in building 3D objects through dynamic experiences of \u2018sweeping\u2019 lengths and \u2018extruding\u2019 areas, constructing in that way a meaning of volume as a continuous structure that can dynamically change based on three linear measures: length, width and height.
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\nRobert Reid<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Family and Child Studies
\nPauline Garcia-Reid\u00a0<\/strong>\u2022 Family and Child Studies
\nProject C.O.P.E. – Year 3<\/em>
\nUS Department of Health & Human Services\/SAMHSA
\n$283,875
\nDr. Reid and Dr. Garcia-Reid’s five-year Project C.O.P.E. works to prevent substance abuse and the spread of HIV among African American and Latino youth in Paterson, NJ.
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\nStephanie Silvera<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Public Health
\nAmanda Birnbaum<\/strong> \u2022 Public Health
\nPrimary Prevention of Sexual Violence Program<\/em>
\nCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
\n$141,000
\nOn this project, funded by a subaward from the NJ Department of Children and Families, Dr. Silvera and Dr. Birnbaum will serve as epidemiologists to help the Division of Women in developing their ability to create and use data moving forward and to develop a tracking system for state-level sexual violence indicators from publicly available data housed in various departments.
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\nDirk\u00a0Vanderklein<\/strong> \u2022 Biology
\nCommunity Tree Inventory Pilot Study<\/em>
\nNJ Department of Environmental Protection
\n$10,000
\nMontclair Township and MSU will collaborate on this project to create a cost effective and sustainable approach for the Township’s first the pilot tree inventory, and eventually the complete tree inventory for the community.
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\nJedediah Wheeler<\/strong> \u2022 Arts and Cultural Programming
\nPresenting & Multidisciplinary Works: To support three productions in the Women at Work Season, a series of artworks celebrating women in the performing arts<\/em>
\nNational Endowment for the Arts
\n$40,000
\nThis award will support the creation and presentation of three multidisciplinary artworks with women as the central creative forces, along with related community and outreach activities. Focusing on a theater director, a choreographer, and a composer with very different esthetics, Peak Performances will use each work as a jumping-off point to have lively conversations about the evolving presence of women in leadership roles in the arts.
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\nMeiyin Wu<\/strong> \u2022 Passaic River Institute
\nEvaluating the Success and Monitoring the Usage of Wildlife Crossing Structures<\/em>
\nNJ Department of Environmental Protection
\n$1,500
\nThis project will investigate and the usage and success of five wildlife tunnels in Bedminster, NJ. The tunnels were installed in 2015 to provide a safe pathway for amphibian species to migrate from one side of the road to the other in order to mate and lay their eggs in nearby ponds or vernal pools.
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