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2006

Steven Bachrach, Department of Chemistry, has received a renewal of funding from the Welch Foundation to support his research project Solvent Effects on Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions and Host-Guest Systems.  He will work with two student summer researchers each year through 2008 computationally examining a number of organic reactions to evaluate the role of solvents. The students will present their results at Trinity’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium and at regional and national meetings.  $150,000.   

Robert Blystone, Department of Biology, has received a grant from the Department of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a project entitled Thermal Modeling of Millimeter Wave Energy and Heat Transfer in Skin.  In this two-year project, he will work in his laboratories at Trinity and Brooks Air Force Base studying how energy from millimeter wave-based hardware (used increasingly in both military and public sectors) is converted and moved as heat through mammalian skin, to gain a better understanding of potential hazards of millimeter wave-based exposure. Two Trinity undergraduates will work with him during the summer and academic year.  $350,000.

Mark Brodl, Frank Healy, Jonathan King, Kevin Livingstone, James Shinkle, Department of Biology, and Michelle Bushey, Nancy Mills and Laura Hunsicker-Wang, Department of Chemistry, have received funding from the Merck and American Association for the Advancement of Science Undergraduate Science Research Program to support five undergraduate summer researchers in five multidisciplinary projects every year through 2008.  The students will present their results at Trinity’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium and at regional and national meetings.  $60,000.

Michelle Bushey, Department of Chemistry, has received an award from the Undergraduate Fellowship Award Program of GlaxoSmithKline.  This summer an undergraduate researcher in synthetic organic chemistry will investigate the phosphorylation sites on endogenous ZO-1, and present results at Trinity’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium and at regional and national meetings.   $5,000.

Bert Chandler, Department of Chemistry, has received a renewal of funding from the Welch Foundation to support his research project Dendrimer Templates for Supported Pt, Au, and Pd Bimetallic Catalysts.  He will work with a student summer researcher each year through 2008 to develop a new method for preparing compositionally controlled model catalyst systems.  The student will present results at Trinity’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium and at regional and national meetings.  $150,000.

Saber Elaydi, Department of Mathematics, has received funding from the National Science Foundation to coordinate a U.S.-Japan Workshop on Dynamical Systems.  In July 2006, he will travel to Okayama University of Science with 15 U.S. scientists and graduate students and meet with mathematicians from Europe and Japan to discuss recent developments in discrete dynamical systems and their applications to mathematical biology, particularly in epidemiology and ecology.  $27,000.

Mark Lewis, Department of Computer Science, will collaborate with colleagues at University of Colorado at Boulder on a project supported by funds from the NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program entitled Dynamical Models of Planetary Rings.  They will look at different aspects of Saturnian ring material that is close to a moon.  $177,000.

Mark Lewis, Department of Computer Science, will collaborate with colleagues at University of Colorado at Boulder on a project supported by funds from the NASA Outer Planets Research Program entitled N-Body Simulations of Density Waves in Planetary Rings.  They will perform unprecedented computer simulations of density waves in Saturn’s rings.  $283,000.

Barbara MacAlpine and Bea Caraway, Trinity University Library, received a Campus-Community Partnership Grant from the Associated Colleges of the South Environmental Initiative to support a service learning component of  their First Year Seminar, Making a Difference for a Livable Planet.  Students spend two hours a week volunteering at the San Antonio Botanical Garden and take a field trip to the Bamberger Ranch Preserve.  $560.

Michelle Millet, Trinity University Library, has received support from Nextbook and the American Library Association for a lecture and discussion series on Jewish Literature entitled A Mind of Her Own:  Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World, to be facilitated by Victoria Aarons, Department of English, in fall 2006.  $1,500.

Nancy Mills, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation for her research project, The Role of Bond Localization in Antiaromaticity:  Aromaticity/Antiaromaticity Continuum for Indenyl Systems. She will work with five undergraduate summer researchers during the next three years to develop ways to identify aromatic species.  They will present their findings at regional and national meetings of the American Chemical Society meetings.  $216,500.

Sarah Pinnock, Department of Religion, has received a Fulbright Teaching Award, sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  She will spend the academic year 2006-2007 teaching in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Latvia in Riga.   

Dante Suarez, Department of Business Administration, has received an award from the JP Morgan Chase Foundation to extend funding on his successful Financial Literacy Program to teach basics of financial literacy, mainly to Hispanic students. The program will continue to be staffed with student-instructors from his Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) course, Doing Business in Latin America. They will answer questions on general banking and how to buy a home, and make presentations at a host of community centers in San Antonio.  $7,500.

Mary Ann Tetreault, Department of Political Science, has received supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation in support of her research project awarded last fall, Collaborative Research on the Dissent /Repression Nexus in the Middle East.  The supplement will provide support for an undergraduate to devote summer 2006 to researching transformative changes associated with democratization and globalization, and collaborating with undergraduate colleagues at Ohio State University.  The student will present his findings at Trinity’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium and the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Boston.  $6,000. 

Adam Urbach, Department of Chemistry, has received an award from the Welch Foundation to support his research project Self-Assembling Modular Receptors for Peptide Recognition in Aqueous Solution.  He will work with a student summer researcher each year through 2008 on a new approach to the design of artificial receptors capable of recognizing specific peptides with high affinity in aqueous solution. The student will present results at Trinity’s Undergraduate Research Summer Symposium and at regional and national meetings.  $150,000.

Wen Xing, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, has received a grant from the ASIANetwork   Four undergraduates will collaborate with Dr. Xing on the revision of Tombs, Texts, and Transcriptions;  An Introduction to Excavated Chinese Texts, an upper level Chinese major course textbook.  During summer 2006, they will travel to Shanghai, Changsha, Xi’an, Dunhuang, and Beijing, China, where they will observe original manuscripts, visit archaeological sites, and conduct research with leading scholars at local universities, institutes, and libraries.  $27,500.

2005

Interdepartmental 

Trinity University, in a collaborative effort led by Diane Smith, Associate Vice President for Budget and Research and Professor of Geosciences, with Harry Haines, Robert Huesca, Department of Communication, Alida Metcalf, Department of History, Arturo Madrid, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, Modern Languages and Literatures, Sussan Siavoshi, Department of Political Science, Ruqayya Khan, Randall Nadeau, Sarah Pinnock, Department of Religion, Meredith McGuire, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Stephen Nickle, University Chaplain, has been awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for the program entitled Difficult Dialogues: Promoting Pluralism and Academic Freedom on Campus. The goal of the project is to develop four dialogues that will focus on the specific issues of Culture and Civil Status, Religious Particularism, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Islamophobia to bring forward reasoned discussion about people of diverse religious, ethnic, sexual, and cultural backgrounds.  Each dialogue will encompass a series of activities, including distinguished speakers, seminars, artistic presentation, films, discussions, and receptions, to promote genuine engagement, mutually respectful listening, and getting to know others as individuals,.   The four dialogues will take place, one each semester, during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years.  Two early summer workshops will lay foundations for the dialogues by educating a team of faculty, students, and staff, who will lead the activities associated with each dialogue.  $100,000. 

Diane Smith, Associate Vice President for Budget and Research and Professor of Geosciences, along with the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Physics & Astronomy, and the program in Neuroscience, has been awarded a grant from an anonymous foundation to fund stipends for summer research students in the sciences. These funds will allow the university to offer research opportunities to fifteen students in each of the next three summers for science projects in interdisciplinary fields such as nanotechnology and neuroscience, and increase the number of students working in underrepresented research areas.  The engagement of students in active research is at the center of the science program’s mission to provide majors with a thorough understanding of scientific principles and processes, and inspire them to further study.  $220,500.

Peter Kelly-Zion, Department of Engineering Science, and Chris Pursell, Department of Chemistry, have been awarded support from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund for their project Experimental Study of Transport Phenomena and Film Instabilities of Evaporating Multicomponent Fuel Films.   They will investigate fuel evaporation with student researchers over the next four summers.  $50,000.

Biology

Frank Healy, Department of Biology, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research project on Gamma-butyrolactone autoregulatory signaling in thaxtomin and naphthoquinone polyketide-producing Streptomyces.  His genetic, physiological and biochemical project will provide training and research experience opportunities for undergraduates in experimental design, execution and presentation of research at scientific meetings.  $135,000.

Jonathan King, Department of Biology, has received an award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to study the effects of inflammation in tissues by investigating protein interactions at the junctions between cells in a project entitled Proteomics of Inflammation at the Epithelium.  Trinity University undergraduate student researchers will work together with Dr. King on the four-year study of how neighboring cells interact. $168,600.

 Denise Pope, Department of Biology, has received a grant from the Associated Colleges of the South to collaborate with departmental colleagues Kevin Livingstone, Kelly Lyons, David Ribble, and James Shinkle in a significant restructuring of the curriculum built around issue-based modules.  The new Integrative Biology course and laboratory will promote greater literacy in science by teaching non-science majors to understand the fundamental nature of science, and will serve as a curricular model for other ACS institutions.  $20,000.

Business Administration

Dante Suarez, Department of Business Administration, has been awarded funds by Bank One to develop a Financial Literacy Program to teach financial literacy, mainly to Hispanic students. The program was staffed with student-instructors from his Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) Doing Business in Latin America class. They were trained to answer questions on general banking and how to buy a home, and made presentations about it in a host of community centers of San Antonio. He plans to continue this program next semester. $3,500.

Chemistry

Michelle Bushey and the Department of Chemistry have received an award from the National Science Foundation – Major Research Instrumentation Program to acquire an automated capillary electrophoresis instrument and a nanospray mass spectrometry interface.  This equipment will be used by faculty and undergraduate research students in interdisciplinary projects involving both the Biology and Chemistry departments.  $128,000.

The Department of Chemistry, Michelle Bushey, Chair, has won an award from the Welch Foundation to support twenty-three undergraduate students on research projects with faculty over the next three summers.  Funding will be provided for the students to travel with their faculty mentors to present their research results at national meetings.  Students will be involved in research for ten weeks in the summer, culminating in an undergraduate research symposium.  $120,000.

Bert Chandler, Department of Chemistry, has received a prestigious Career Award from the National Science Foundation for his project Chemical and Catalytic Characterization of Dendrimer Templated Bimetallic Nanoparticles.  Over the next five years he will work with post-docs and undergraduates to build a database of knowledge on nanoparticle particle properties that will allow for their more effective use as building blocks for new nanostructured materials or in the design of new catalysts and catalytic technologies. Because catalytic technologies are so prevalent in U.S. industries, improvements in the fundamental understanding of the synthesis and catalytic properties of bimetallic nanoparticles have the potential to positively impact both the American catalysis industry and the national economy by providing cheaper materials and consumer products, and reducing pollution and industrial waste.  $415,000.

Bert Chandler, Department of Chemistry, will collaborate with colleagues at Iowa State University in a National Science Foundation funded research project entitled Design of Nanostructured Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Catalysts for Biorenewable Conversion.  Two Trinity University students will spend the next three summers researching new catalyst technologies.  Travel funds include support for the students to spend time during the summers in Iowa State University laboratories.  $57,400.

Laura Hunsicker-Wang, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund to study the Modulation of Reduction Potentials of 2Fe-2S Iron Sulfur Clusters.  During her two-year project she will analyze biochemical and structural changes in iron sulfur proteins to more fully understand how proteins tune reduction potential.  Two student researchers each summer will be supported by the grant.  $35,000.

Chris Pursell, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded funding from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund for a sabbatical leave.  He will spend the academic year 2005-2006 at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand performing laboratory studies examining Gas-Liquid Interface.  His experience will benefit the undergraduate interdisciplinary research program at Trinity and lay the foundation for long-term collaboration with colleagues at Canterbury.  $50,000.

Adam Urbach, Department of Chemistry, has received an award from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund for his study High-Affinity Reversible Complexes in Water.  He will spend the next two years working with research students to develop a molecule-based multivalent system for the storage, release, and capture of homogenous catalysts.  $35,000.  

Adam Urbach, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the Research Corporation to support his study of Cofactor-Mediated Peptide Recognition in Water by a Synthetic Host.  His two-year project will involve three undergraduate researchers each summer.  $39,000.

Communication

Robert Huesca, Department of Communication, has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in Communications and Journalism at the University of the Frontier, Temuco, Chile.  He will spent two and one-half weeks leading seminars and lecturing to graduate and undergraduate students, evaluating academic curricula and faculty, and developing research guidelines on the topic of Communication for Social Change. $3,000.

Engineering Sciences

Diana Glawe, Department of Engineering Science, has received funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to support a Knudsen cell reactor.  Students in the Senior Design Capstone project will be responsible for the design and fabrication of the reactor which will be used for catalyst research related to hydrogen technologies.  Two of the students will travel to Washington, D.C. in late spring of 2006 to represent the group at the National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet.  $10,000.

Wilson Terrell, Department of Engineering Science, has received funding from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers to support the Trinity Senior Design Project Design and Construction of a Refrigeration Testing Laboratory Unit.  He and five seniors will build the refrigeration testing laboratory on campus to be used subsequently in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer as well as thermal fluid elective courses.  $5,000.

English

Richard Newhauser, Department of English, has been awarded funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities to teach a 2006 summer seminar at Darwin College, Cambridge University, England, called The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages.  This seminar for college and university teachers will examine the cultural construction of medieval moral thought using the categories of the Seven Deadly Sins, critically review scholarship on the sins, and make maximum use of the unique manuscript, research, and human resources available in Cambridge.  This is a renewal of Dr. Newhauser’s highly successful 2004 summer seminar. $93,000. 

History

Donald Clark, Department of History, Director of International Studies, has received funding from the AsiaNetwork Freeman Foundation for his May 2005 Research Seminar Religious Ideas in Korean Daily Life.  He and five Trinity students traveled to South Korea and spent two weeks in Seoul working with students at Yonsei University.  For an additional week they traveled to Kwangju to represent the City of San Antonio at the annual commemoration of the 1980 Democracy Movement hosted by the Kwangju-San Antonio Sister City Committee.  Back home in San Antonio they presented exhibits and lectures on their experiences.  $32,000. 

Political Science

Mary Ann Tetreault, Department of Political Science, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation in support of a project entitled Collaborative Research on the Dissent /Repression Nexus in the Middle East.  She will join researchers from the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, and the University of Kansas in developing research models and databases to promote international interdisciplinary partnerships among faculty and students in the fields of sociology, political science, and international relations.  The project aims to advance our understanding of the transformative changes associated with democratization and globalization in a strategic region of the world that has major implications for world order and development.$62,000.

Sociology and Anthropology

David Spener, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has received a Research and Writing Grant from the MacArthur Foundation to support the completion of research for his book titled Migrant-Smuggling on the Tex-Mex Border: Slave Trade or New Underground Railroad?  He will spend spring 2005 on leave as a visiting scholar in the Departamento de Estudios Socio Urbanos at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico conducting field interviews and analyzing data.  His book will be of interest to Mexican and U.S. policy-makers, officials of government migration and security agencies, human rights activists, legal professionals, and migration and borderlands scholars.  $40,000.  

External Grants Awarded to Faculty in 2004

Trinity University, in a collaborative effort led by Mark Brodl, Brackenridge Distinguished Professor of Biology, with Eugene Clark, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Allen Holder, Department of Mathematics, Nancy Mills, Department of Chemistry and Jonathan King, David Ribble, Jim Shinkle, Department of Biology, with the participation of the Departments of Psychology and Education, has been awarded a 4-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to transform undergraduate science education to emphasize interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The overall project includes a systemic revision of the introductory curricula in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics; fundamental change in science student culture so that students work together in interdisciplinary study and research groups; the creation of undergraduate programs in scientific computation and in neuroscience; professional development of current faculty, future faculty, and, through outreach programs, high school teachers, so that they will be prepared to participate in interdisciplinary teaching and research. A major component will be the establishment of the HHMI Center for Peer Learning (CPL) to be the central site for student-to-student assistance and small group cooperative learning for students in introductory science classes. Peer Tutors will staff the CPL and will join with science faculty and postdoctoral fellows to form interdisciplinary curriculum teams. Each year the science program will designate and support ten students as HHMI Research Fellows who will participate with an interdisciplinary research team on an ongoing research project during the summer.  $1,000,000.

 Dr. Donald Clark and Dr. John Donahue, International Programs, have received an award from the Freeman Foundation for a project entitled Teaching About Asia.  High school teachers will come to Trinity in the summer 2005 for a series of classes on the history and culture of Asia to expand Asian studies in their own teaching. This will be the third year Trinity has been selected for the program. $84,500.

 Christine Drennon, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, received funding from the Southern Education Foundation for the Summer Internship Program for 2004. She and a student researcher spent the summer working in the deed restriction archives of the Bexar County Courthouse for her research on school districts.  $1,000.

Brooks Hill, Department of Speech and Drama, received a grant from the Ann Bradshaw Stokes Foundation to support the purchase of lighting equipment for the Stieren Theater. $5,040.

Glenn Kroeger, Department of Geosciences, has received an award from the Association of Southern Colleges to redesign an inquiry-based studio format geoscience course entitled Exploring Earth.  He will significantly improve the student experience in the  course through the restructuring the sequence of topics and major projects. $7,900.

Glenn Kroeger, Department of Geosciences, was the Director of a summer 2004 project sponsored by the Keck Geology Consortium entitled “Geophysical Survey of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.”  $21,400.

 The Departments of Biology and Chemistry, in a collaborative effort led by Mark Brodl, with Michelle Bushey, Jonathan King, Bill Kurtin, Kevin Livingstone, Nancy Mills, David Ribble, Jim Shinkle and John Spence, have been awarded a 5-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to establish the Keck Center for Macromolecular Studies. The W. M. Keck Foundation is one of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations, established in 1954 by the late William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Company, the supporting the areas of medical research, science, and engineering in liberal arts colleges. The Keck Center will house new equipment selected to optimally enhance the collaborative research capabilities of faculty in Biology and Chemistry.  The Foundation will also support student summer research fellowships to provide an array of new opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in research and learning across disciplinary boundaries. The Keck Center will serve as a focus of faculty research collaboration, student interdisciplinary research participation, and interdisciplinary curricular development throughout the sciences.  This major grant provides support for the first element of Trinity University’s overall plan for developing interdisciplinary science education. $500,000.

Scott Chapman, Department of Mathematics, has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled Trinity University Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Mathematics.  This 3-year program will provide support for 36 students doing summer research projects with Professors Chapman, Julio Hasfura, Allen Holder and Vadim Ponomarenko. $188,444.

Nancy Mills, along with Steven Bachrach, Michelle Bushey, Bert Chandler, Bill Kurtin, John Spence, Mark Brodl, Lawrence Espey, Jonathan King and David Ribble of the Departments of Chemistry and Biology, has received an award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to establish 5 undergraduate Beckman Scholars over the next 3 years.  Each student will receive funding for two summers and one academic year to support research in the sciences. $88,000. 

Nancy Mills, Department of Chemistry, has received a renewal of support from the Welch Foundation for a project entitled An Extension of the Aromaticity/Antiaromaticity Continuum; Indenylidene Dications as Sensitive Probes of Antiaromaticity.  This 3-year program will provide funds for post-docs and 9 undergraduate students to participate in summer research. $150,000.   

External Grants Awarded to Faculty in 2003

Biology

Lawrence Espey, Department of Biology, has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation.  His project, entitled Gonadotropin-Induced Gene Transcription Associated with Ovulation, involves post-docs and undergraduates. $350,000.

David Ribble, Department of Biology, received an award from the Association of Southern Colleges to support two student researchers in the summer of 2003 working on environmental monitoring in the San Antonio area.  The purpose of the project was to survey the terrestrial mammals, except bats, at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (National Park Service) in San Antonio, Texas. This research is part of a larger project of documenting the mammals in Bexar County and how their distribution and abundance have changed since surveys were conducted in the San Antonio area in the late 19th century. $3,000.

Chemistry

Steven Bachrach, Department of Chemistry, has received a 3-year grant from the Welch Foundation to pursue research with a post-doctoral associate and undergraduate students.  His project is entitled Solvent Effect on Nucleophilic Substitution at Sulfur and Selenium. $150,000.

Steven Bachrach, Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support a Research in Undergraduate Institutions program entitled Solvent Effects on Organic Compounds.  $265,300.

Michelle Bushey, Department of Chemistry, has received a 3-year grant from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund. With her undergraduate students, she will pursue research in chemistry and bio-chemistry; her project is entitled Porous Polymer Monoliths for Capillary Electrochromatography.  $50,000.

Bert Chandler, Department of Chemistry, has received a 3-year grant from the Welch Foundation to pursue research with a post-doctoral associate and undergraduate students.  His project is entitled Dendrimer Templates for Compositional Control of Bimetallic Catalysts. $150,000.

Christopher Pursell, Department of Chemistry, has received a 3-year grant from the Welch Foundation to pursue research with a post-doctoral associate and undergraduate students.  His project is entitled Chemistry on Hydrogen-bonding Solids. $150,000.

Christopher Pursell, Department of Chemistry, with Peter L. Kelly-Zion and Diana D. Glawe, Department of Engineering Science, has been awarded a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support their project entitled RUI: Acquisition of a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer and Other Instrumentation for the Study of Multicomponent Fuel Film Vaporization at Trinity University. $163,154.

Nancy Mills, Department of Chemistry, has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation.  She will work with undergraduates and post-docs on a project entitled RUI-Antiaromaticity of Indenylidene Dications and the Aromaticity/Antiaromaticity Continuum. $253,000.

Education

Laura Allen, Department of Education, has received a 2-year grant from the San Antonio Area Foundation.  She will work with undergraduates to install new software at Jackson Middle School in a project entitled A Trinity University-Jackson Middle School Partnership to Improve Writing.  $6,300. 

Paul Kelleher, Department of Education, has been awarded support for the Robert Noyce Scholarship program, a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation to recruit and train new science and mathematics teachers for the San Antonio school system.  Twenty $10,000 scholarships will be awarded to seniors and post-baccalaureate candidates in Trinity’s M.A.T. program to support the introduction of ten science and math teachers to the San Antonio school system each year.  The project will be jointly directed by David Ribble, Department of Biology, Edward Roy, Department of Geosciences, Fred Loxsom, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Nancy Mills, Department of Chemistry.  $500,000.

Joy McQueen, Department of Education, has received a 5-year grant from the United States Department of Education to support the Upward Bound Program, which prepares San Antonio area at-risk high school students for college education.  $1,785,630. 

Engineering Science

Peter L. Kelly-Zion and Diana D. Glawe, Department of Engineering Science, with Christopher Pursell, Department of Chemistry, have been awarded a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support their project entitled RUI: Acquisition of a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer and Other Instrumentation for the Study of Multicomponent Fuel Film Vaporization at Trinity University. $163,154.

Kevin Nickels, Department of Engineering Science, has received an award from the Texas Space Grant Consortium for a Trinity University project entitled Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge. He will direct four Engineering Sciences seniors who will design an Unpressurized Manned Rover for use on the Lunar or Martian surface and compete against teams from other universities.  $2,900.

English

Richard Newhauser, Department of English, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to teach at Cambridge University, England in the summer of 2004.  His five-week seminar for 15 university professors is entitled The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages. $74,773.

Claudia Stokes, Department of English, has been awarded the 2003-4 William Dean Howells Memorial Fellowship in American Literature (1860-1920) by Harvard University’s Houghton Library. She will pursue research for a project entitled Wendell vs. Howells: Realism and the Writing of American Literary History. $2,500.

Health Care Administration

Mary Stefl, Department of Health Care Administration, has received an award from the Department of Health and Human Services to support student training and special projects.  $37,157.

History

Eve Duffy, Department of History, has received a 1-year fellowship from the The Remarque Institute at New York University to study European and American museums of science.  Her research and teaching activities will be related to a project entitled "Responsibility and Its Discontents": Museums, Modernity, and the Modern Citizen. $30,000.

Geosciences

Thomas Gardner, Department of Geosciences has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support tectonic studies related to the subduction process and recent rapid uplift and shortening of the Earth’s crust in Costa Rica.  He will collaborate with Donald Fisher of the Pennsylvania State University on a three-year project entitled, Crustal Thickening, Shortening, and Uplift in the Forearc of an Erosive Convergent Margin, Pacific Coast, Costa Rica. $103,574.

Trinity University, on behalf of the Associated Colleges of the South, has been awarded a grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a 3-year project entitled Reform of Science Education for Non-Science Majors.  Edward Roy, Department of Geosciences, will coordinate Trinity’s participation in the project to develop new curricula in the sciences.  $500,000.                                        

Mathematics

Jeff Lawson, Department of Mathematics, has received a Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation to allow him to participate in a research project with colleagues at Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. This research is part of larger project entitled Reduction by Symmetry in Multisymplectic and n-symplectic Geometries. $16,000.

Jeff Lawson, Department of Mathematics, has received an award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom, to serve in a visiting faculty position in Geometry and Mechanics at the University of Surrey during the spring and summer semesters of 2004. Dr. Lawson will engage in a project entitled Multisymplectic Structures, n-Symplectic Geometry, Relative Equilibria, and Nonlinear PDEs. ₤7,200.

Philosophy

Ewing Chinn, Department of Philosophy, has received a grant from the Matchette Foundation to support a national symposium on the work of Texas philosopher David Hall. This symposium was held at Trinity in May 2003 and will feature many prominent philosophers, including Richard Rorty, Roger Ames, and Henry Rosemont.  $1,000.

Judith Norman, Department of Philosophy, has been awarded an American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.  She will spend the year in Europe researching and writing her book project entitled Nietzsche's Affinities: Nietzsche in the 19th Century. $30,000.

Psychology

Jane Childers, Department of Psychology, has received a 3-year Academic Research Enhancement Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institute of Health.  She will work with graduate laboratory coordinator, undergraduates and post-docs on her research project entitled Children’s Use of Comparison During Verb Acquisition. $218,820.

Religion

Randall Nadeau, Department of Religion, has been awarded a grant from the AsiaNetwork  (supported by the Freeman Foundation) for collaborative faculty-student research in China.  Dr. Nadeau and five undergraduate students will pursue three weeks of research and field study for a project entitled Chinese Gender (Trans)Formation.  $32,976.

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