Athletics
Marjorie Bliss: NCAA Division III "Ethnic Minority and Women's Intership." Coach Bliss won $46,200 to support a two-year internship for an ethnic minority and/or female intern in the Athletics Department.
Biology
Environmental Policy & Science
Kevin Harrison: United States Department of Agriculture, National Research Initiative: $125, 015 for “The Impact of CO2 Fertilization on Soil Carbon Storage Below a Forest.” 8/01-11/04. [Boston College]
—. American Chemical Society: $30,000 for “Studies on the Paleoecology of the Bright Angel Shale.” In collaboration with Paul Strother [Boston College]. 2/00-8/02.
—. U.S. Department of Energy: $32,000 for “Soil Carbon Dynamics in a Temperate Forest and its Cultivated Counterpart.” In collaboration with Mac Post (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). [Boston College] 1/96-1/97.
—. U.S. Department of Energy: $120,000 for “The Effects of Changing Land Use on Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Storage in Mid-latitude North American Soil and Rice Paddies.” In collaboration with Wally Broecker [Columbia University]. 9/91-9/93.
—. National Science Foundation: $72,000 for Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1997.
—. Department of Energy: $65,000 for Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1993-1994.
—. NASA: $44,000 for Global Change Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1993.
—. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Study Program: $25,000 for Graduate Research Fellowship, 1990.
Kevin Harrison: External Grant Awards to His Students:
American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Grants in Aid: “Using 15N Measurements To Quantify Nitrogen Fixation in the Duke Forest FACE Site,” $1,500 to Lori Weeden, 2002.
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research: “The Impact of CO2 Fertilization on Soil Carbon Storage Below a Closed-canopy Forest,” $600 to Becky Heumann, 2001.
Geological Society of America Research Grant: “Using a FACE Experiment To Measure the Amount of Carbon Transferred from the Atmosphere to the Soil because of CO2 Fertilization,” $1,550 to Becky Heumann, 2001.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Grants in Aid: “Using a FACE Experiment To Measure the Amount of Carbon Transferred from the Atmosphere to the Soil because of CO2 Fertilization,” $1,225 to Becky Heumann, 2001.
Communication
Robert Lemieux: State of Maryland, Carroll County Health Department (2005-2006). Dr. Lemieux won $4,125 last year to conduct a study measuring student attitudes about moving toward a smoke-free campus and an additional $3,750 this year to assist in creating an informational campaign to promote a smoke-free campus.
Deborah Vance: Tokyo Foundation Joint Initiatives Program. (Summer 2006) Dr. Vance, plus 4 colleagues from her alma mater Howard University, won a $20,000 travel research grant from the Tokyo Foundation Joint Initiatives Program for their project "Crisis Communication and Cultural Constructions of Calamities: Preparedness in Guyana, Thailand, and the United States." They spent the summer interviewing individuals directly affected by natural disasters—the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, the 2005 flood in Guyana and the 2005 flood and hurricanes in New Orleans—focusing on respondents’ preparedness for and recovery during and after the calamities. Some of the research will be used in a training video.
Education
Craig. Sharon. Maryland Higher Education Commission (2008). Professor Craig secured $105,000 to launch the "Mentoring Young Writers" project to improve the quality of the teaching of writing in three Baltimore and Carroll County schools.
Janet Medina:Maryland State Department of Education (2008; 2007). Dr. Medina received $25,000 to establish a dual certification program in Special Education/Teaching Content Area.
Jill Burkert: Maryland State Department of Education (2006). Dr. Burkert received $25,000 to explore the possibility of developing a minor in Special Education and to revise the special program currently in place at McDaniel College.
Foreign Languages
Martine Motard-Noar: French American Cultural Exchange (Fall 2007). Dr. Motard-Noar won a grant, renewable for five years, to launch a French Film Festival at McDaniel College.
Mohamed Esa: Fulbright Scholar in German Studies (Spring 2006). Dr. Esa has been selected to participate in the 2006 Fulbright German Studies Seminar, “Muslim Minorities: Opportunities and Challenges in West European Societies: German and French Experiences.” Esa plans to use what he learns in future courses, presentations for the campus community, and outreach to German teachers in the United States.
History
Paul B. Miller: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2009). Dr. Miller won this prestigious fellowship to pursue advanced research on the historical and current events in Bosnia and the still volatile region of the former Yugoslavia.
Paul B. Miller: Fulbright Occasional Lecturer Program (2008). Dr. Miller secured travel funds to bring Bosnian Professor Lovrenovic, currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago, to visit the McDaniel College campus and participate in campus wide panels and lectures and class visits.
Paul B. Miller: Fulbright Scholar to Sarajevo (Fall 2004-Spring 2005). Dr. Miller headed to Sarajevo to teach a history course on the Holocaust and genocide at the University of Sarajevo, work on curricular development with the faculty of Islamic Studies, and help acquire resources for the library. Miller will also work on writing a book about the memory of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the event that ultimately led to World War I.
Hoover Library
Michele Reid: American Library Association (2007). Dr. Reid has secured a grant to run a "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature" series of reading discussions.
Ramona Kerby: Council for International Exchange of Scholars (2007). Dr. Kerby has been approved as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in her specialty of graduate education in School Library Media.
Institutional
Falkner, Tom: AmeriCorps*VISTA (2008). Under the auspices of Provost, Dr. Tom Falkner, McDaniel College secured a $20,000 Supervisor grant to begin activity that could lead to a Maryland Campus Compact with the AmeriCorps*VISTA program. Through this umbrella award, McDaniel College will also receive one of 20 Volunteers in Service to America (VISTAs) to be distributed to Maryland colleges and universities. The McDaniel VISTA will work to identify and implement service learning opportunities at the Boys and Girls Club in Westminster.
Falkner, Tom: Mellon Foundation (2007). In conjunction with Institutional Advancement, Tom Falkner, Provost and Dean of Faculty, has secured a $200,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Officer's Grant to support implementation of the new curriculum college-wide.
Falkner, Tom: Teagle Foundation (2007). Dr. Falkner has secured a $25,000 seed grant to develop and implement assessment of the College's multicultural efforts, "A Community Portfolio on Global Citizenship."
Harootunian, Gil: National Council of University Research Administrators (2006). Dr. Harootunian won a $1,000 Travel Award to attend the national conference in Washington, D.C. of the National Council of University Research Administrators.
International Scholars
Harootunian, Gil: U.S. Department of State Freedom Support Grant (Fall 2003-Spring 2006). Dr. Harootunian directed a $275,000 three-year exchange to introduce writing-intensive, democratic reforms at Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia (formerly Soviet Union) and to introduce U.S. graduate students to international teaching and research. [Syracuse University]
—: Fulbright Sr. Lecturer/Researcher (Fall 2001). Dr. Harootunian visited Yerevan State Linguistic University to lecture and research the introduction and role of Western-style writing practices in higher education in Armenia, a new nation and fragile democracy. [Syracuse University]
Muslih Tayo Yahya: Visiting Fulbright Specialist from Nigeria (Spring 2006). Dr. Yahya, of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria, came to McDaniel College through the Direct Access to the Muslim World initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Muslih introduced the McDaniel community to Islamic societies and cultures both in and out of the classroom, teaching a mini-course on Islamic culture, presenting public lectures, and leading a faculty seminar.
Philosophy/Religious Studies
Gregory D. Alles: Senior Fulbright Research Scholar to India (1988-1989 and 2009-2010). Dr. Alles has won two prestigious Fulbright awards to conduct research in India. In 2009-2010, Alles studies the oral literature of the Rathawas, a tribe in eastern Gujurat, focusing on epic tales. In 1988-1989, Alles conducted a project focused on the religion and rhetoric of the Valmiki–Ramayana at four Indian universities: M. S. University of Baroda, the University of Pune, the University of Rajasthan–Jaipur, and the University of Allahabad. That research, aided by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1994), led to his book, The Iliad, the Ramayana, and the Work of Religion: Failed Persuasion and Religious Mystification (Penn State Press, 1994).
---. 1994–1995: Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities: “Between Scholarship and Public Life: Rudolf Otto’s Life and Work.” Dr. Alles won this award to produce a volume of selected essays and begin writing a critical biography.
---. 1991–1993: Dr. Alles served as Project Director of “The Legacy of Columbus: Indigenous Perspectives” project at Western Maryland College. The work was co-sponsored by Carroll County Public Library, American Association of University Women–Western Maryland College chapter, Women’s Club of Westminster, and the United Church of Christ–Catoctin Association.
---. 1992. National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipend. Research project: "Scholarship and Politics, Rudolf Otto, 1886-1920."
Debora Johnson-Ross: Fullbright Scholar to Cameroon (Fall 2006-Spring 2007). Dr. Johnson-Ross will spend 10 months teaching at the University of Buea and conducting research on the political process in Cameroon. When she returns to McDaniel College, Johnson-Ross plans to use the experience to teach her course “Contemporary African Politics.”
Sociology
Lauren Dundes and Debra Lemke, with Sgt. Flores: Carroll County Health Department (2008). Professors Dundes and Lemke, with Sgt. Flores, won new and increased funding to expand to three sites their afterschool leadership program for at-risk middle schoolers.
Lauren Dundes and Debra Lemke: Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (2007). Professors Dundes and Lemke won a $22,000 grant to conduct a meta-analysis of research on current police work as a possible topic for a national conference.
Lauren Dundes and Debra Lemke: Maryland State Department of Health (2007). Professors Dundes and Lemke won a $20,000 grant to design and run an afterschool leadership program for middle school boys.
Lauren Dundes: Carroll County Public Schools' Field of Wings (2006). Dr. Dundes was awarded $28,000 run an after-school program for girls at risk. Dr. Dundes has for many years directed the increasingly successful programs at two schools in Carroll Country (West Middle and New Windsor Middle).
Theater Arts
Selzer, Joshua and Elizabeth van den Berg: Carroll County Arts Council (2007). Mr. Selzer and Professor van den Berg secured support for cultural activities related to Theatre on the Hill.
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