{"id":3144,"date":"2017-02-28T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:48:50","slug":"featured-awards-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2017\/02\/28\/featured-awards-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards – February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\u200cMousumi Bose\u00a0<\/strong>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Nutrition and Food Studies \nSTAIR II Consortium<\/em> \nNational Institutes of Health \n$62,678 \nDr. Bose was awarded a training grant from the Sterol and Isoprenoid Research (STAIR) Consortium of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. This will allow her to contribute to the research goals of STAIR by investigating rare diseases of sterol metabolism, including nutritional aspects of the peroxisome biogenesis disorders. \n<\/div>
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\n\u200c\u200c\u200cErin Krupa <\/strong>\u2022 Mathematical Sciences \nSteven Greenstein <\/strong>\u2022 Mathematical Sciences \nJennifer Robinson <\/strong>\u2022 Center of Pedagogy \n<\/strong>Noyce at Montclair: Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher – Years 1-3 \n<\/em>National Science Foundation \n$1,106,026 \n<\/strong><\/em> \nThe goal of the Noyce @ Montclair: Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher (PE2MT) Scholarship Program–a collaboration between ÌÇÐÄvlog and the County College of Morris, in partnership with Newark Public Schools–is to provide exemplary preparation to thirty pre-service teachers for effective elementary mathematics teaching in classrooms in New Jersey\u2019s high-need K-12 schools. Through their participation in the innovative degree program, these students will obtain an undergraduate degree in mathematics along with a K-6 elementary teaching certificate. \n<\/div>
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\nMeiyin Wu <\/strong>\u2022 Passaic River Institute \nStopping Trash Where it Starts<\/em> \nNew York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program \n$43,815 \n<\/strong> \nThis project, funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, will characterize and identify the sources of trash and floatables of the Passaic River and the Newark Bay, the local conditions contributing to trash dispersal, and community-specific actions for reducing trash at the source. Dr. Wu will fill data and information gaps on prominent sources and types of litter in the greater New York and New Jersey Harbor and Estuary so that pollution prevention measures can be targeted by material, by watershed, and\/or by key stakeholders. \n<\/div>