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From the 2000-01 Annual Report of the College of Arts & Sciences:
New grants from off campus agencies include the following:
- Faculty and staff in Computer Science, Mathematics, and the Provost's Office secured a two year, $250,000 CSEMS grant to support scholarships for financially disadvantaged students in Math and Computer Science.
- In collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Elaine Wenderholm received an EAP STAR grant of more than $1,000,000 to support student/faculty research for three years on "A toolbox for Assembling Spatially-Explicit Multimedia Ecological Models from Reusable Components."
- Doug Lea is the Co-PI, with colleagues at Purdue and the University of Maryland, for a four-year grant supported by DARPA under the PCES program to support student/faculty research on embedded systems; this grant is expected to bring over $700,000 to Oswego.
- Geraldine Forbes was awarded an American Institute of Indian Studies grant for research in India, summers 1999 and 2000.
- Leo Hernandez was awarded a Newberry Library short-term resident fellowship, 2001-2002.
- Joe Gaskin received a NASA/ASEE grant for Summer, 2001
- Several continuing grants: in Earth Sciences, grants from EPA/RPI, NASA/IDEAS, NSF/COMET
- The Psychology Department was remarkably successful in grant development this year, receiving in excess of $900,000 in grants from outside agencies:
- Laura Brown received $12,000 from Project Even Start to support internships for six students in a program to promote literacy in low-income families in Oswego County.
- Brooks Gump received a $183,000 grant from NIEHS to study the effects of prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls
- Tom Darvill, Ed Lonky, Jackie Reihman, and Paul Stewart received $437,000 to study the effects of prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls on cognitive development.
- Paul Stewart, Tom Darvill, Ed Lonky, Jackie Reihman, and received $177,993 from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to continue their study of the behavioral effects of the consumption of Lake Ontario fish.
- Paul Stewart, Brooks Gump, and Jackie Reihman received $100,000 from the New York Community Trust to study possible links between prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and abnormal brain development.
- Rice Creek Field Station received $6387 from the Natural Heritage Trust to support the interpretive Naturalist Program at Rice Creek.
- Andy Nelson received $1400 from the Oswego County Environmental Management Council to develop a Site Preservation Plan for Mud Pond (Regan's Silver Lake).