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
Wilbur Long. National Science Foundation (1997): "Collaborative Project: Embryonic Stem Cell Equivalents in Zebrafish To Study Early Development."
Jeffrey Marx. National Science Foundation (2010). Project: Collaborative Research To Improve Science Literacy in a General Science Course.
Randall Morrison. National Science Foundation (2000): "An Ultrastructural Analysis of the Development of Pigment Pattern in Zebrafish."
Chemistry
Richard Smith. National Science Foundation (1993): "Triazoline Hydrolysis: The Chemistry of Cyclic Triazenes."
—. National Science Foundation (1995): "Molecular Modeling in the Laboratory Environment."
—. National Science Foundation (1996): "Novel Triazene Cyclizations: The Chemistry of Haloalkyltriazenes."
—. National Science Foundation (2000): "Mono- and bis-Triazene Proteolysis: A Mechanistic Investigation."
—. National Science Foundation (2002): "Incorporation of Instrumentation into an Innovative Introductory Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum."
Brian Wladkowski. National Science Foundation (2000): "Computational Analysis of the Ribonuclease: A Catalyzed Phosphate Ester Hydrolysis Mechanism Using an Ab Initio Quantum-based Model."
Communication
Robert Lemieux: State of Maryland, Carroll County Health Department (2005-2006). Dr. Lemieux won $4,125 (2005) to conduct a study measuring student attitudes about moving toward a smoke-free campus and an additional $3,750 (2006) 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
Jill Burkert/Janet Medina and Victoria Russell: Maryland State Department of Education (2006, 2007, 2008). Dr. Burkert (2006) 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. Dr. Medina (2007) received $25,000 to pursue this initiative by establishing a dual certification program in Special Education/Teaching Content Area. Professors Medina and Russell (2008) successfully renewed the $25,000 grant to establish and develop the dual certification program in Special Education/Teaching Content Area.
Sharon Craig. 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.
Francis Fennell. Cisco Learning Institute (2009). Professor Fennell won $338,682 to develop concentrated leadership modules for the new, stand-alone Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders program in the Education Department.
—. Brookhill Foundation (2008). Professor Fennell won $400,000 to found a new, stand-alone Elementary Mathematics Specialists and Teacher Leaders Project in the Education Department.
—. Maryland State Department of Education (2004-2005). Project Higher Education Partner-McDaniel College and Washington County Public Schools' "Mathematics Science Partnership." This project provided $3,000 for comprehensive, job-embedded staff development for mathematics teachers, student achievement specialists, and special education teachers at the elementary and middle school level.
—. Maryland State Department of Education (2004-2005). Project Higher Education Partner-McDaniel College and Howard County Public Schools' "Mathematics Science Partnership." This project provided $18,000 to support the alignment of the Howard County Mathematics Curriculum to the Voluntary State Curriculum (VSC) and the Maryland State Assessments (MSAs). Additionally, this project, at ten feeder schools, provided a system of content-driven, job-embedded research-based professional development.
—. Maryland State Department of Education (2004-2005). Project Higher Education Partner-McDaniel College and Carroll County Public Schools' "Mathematics Science Partnership." This project provided $19,000 to support the math content and pedagogy of 72 teachers from grades 3-6.
—. Maryland Higher Education Commission (2002-2004). McDaniel College and Carroll County Public Schools' "LINKAGES Project." This project provided $87,000 to support the development of school-based mathematics teams within Professional Development Schools. The mathematics teams created and implemented mathematics blueprints based on school-based needs.
—. [Project Co-Director]. Research for Better Schools Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium (2002-2004). This project gave $6,500 to support the creation and hosting of two statewide conferences for mathematicians and mathematics educators involved with the preparation of teachers in Maryland.
—. EXXON/Mobil Foundation Project (1999-2003). Western Maryland College and Carroll, Howard, and Frederick Counties' "Elementary Mathematics Leadership Project." This project provided $50,500 to support the creation and support for elementary school mathematics teacher leaders.
—. EXXON Foundation Project (1997-1999). This project provided $10,000 to link Western Maryland College's cohort group masters degree program in elementary mathematics education with the Montgomery County Public Schools.
—. [Co-Project Director] National Science Foundation (1993-1997). A total of $2.1 million was provided to develop a television series—Numbers Alive!—and teaching activities on number sense for middle grade (gr. 4-7) learners in collaboration with Maryland Public Television.
—. United States Department of Education (1990-1002). One of 41 funded proposals of 472 applicants, this grant provided a total value approaching $345,000 ($145,000 for McDaniel's role) for the production of Number Sense Now!
—. Maryland Higher Education Commission (1990). This grant provided $115,00 for Reaching Higher-Title II (a Dwight David Eisenhower program).
—. Maryland Higher Education Commission (1989). This grant provided $53,000 for the Reaching Higher-Title II program.
—. Maryland Higher Education Commission (1985). The DEME Project provided $37,000 for the Reaching Higher-Title II program.
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.
Margaret Trader: Maryland State Department of Education (2010). Dr. Trader won a grant to fund a SMART classroom; the goal is to integrate the SMART teaching technology into the College's pre-service preparation program, providing meaningful training in the strategic use of technology to increase student learning.
English
Pamela Regis: Romance Writers of America (2010). Dr. Regis won an award to aid the research for her book, The American Romance Novel, 1742 to the Present.
Environmental Policy & Science
Scott Hardy. Margaret A. Cargill Foundation (2009). The Environmental and Policy Science Program won a major grant (estimated $260,500) to fund a program for the conservation or protection of natural animal habitat. This grant opportunity was a component of the 2009 launch of the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation.
Foreign Languages
Martine Motard-Noar: French American Cultural Exchange (2007, 2008, 2009). Dr. Motard-Noar won these grants to launch a French Film Festival at McDaniel College.
Mohamed Esa: Fulbright Scholar in German Studies (Spring 2006). Dr. Esa was 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 a fellowship to pursue advanced research on the historical and current events in Bosnia and the still volatile region of the former Yugoslavia.
—. 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.
—. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2008). Dr. Miller was a Research Scholar in the East European Studies Division, working on his book project on the memory of the Sarajevo assassination: "The Footprints of Gavrilo Princip: June 28, 1914, in History and Memory."
—. 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, to work on curricular development with the faculty of Islamic Studies, and to 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
Barabara O'Brien. Institute of Museum & Library Services/American Association of State and Local History joint “Connecting to Collections Bookshelf” Program (2009). These grants help raise the conservation IQ of museums, libraries, and archives. At McDaniel College, the “Bookshelf” collection of resources will expand and update the Archives’ capacity for preservation.
—. Institute of Museum & Library Services/Bank of America's "American Heritage Preservation" Program (2009). Archivist O'Brien won $3,000 to provide conservation treatment for seven fragile volumes of James Thomas Ward diaries, making the entire collection of 39 volumes available to the public.
—. National Endowment for the Humanities' Preservation Program (2002). Archivist O'Brien won a small grant to attend the Rutgers School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies' intensive Preservation Management Program.
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.
Institutional
Tom Falkner: Teagle Foundation (2009). Under the auspieces of the Provost, the College was one of five colleges that won $300,000 to form a five-college consortium to work on implementing and assessing diversity programming and curricula at small, liberal arts colleges. This major grant grew out of a $25,000 seed grant (2007) to collaborate with Goucher College and Washington College on a "Community Portfolio on Global Citizenship" project geared to develop and implement assessment of the College's multicultural efforts.
—. AmeriCorps*VISTA (2008-2009; 2009-2010; 2010-2011). Under the auspices of Provost, Dr. Tom Falkner, McDaniel College secured a total of $50,000 in two Supervisor grants to begin activity that could lead to a Maryland Campus Compact with the AmeriCorps*VISTA program. Through this umbrella award, Deans Sarah Stokely, Henry Reiff, and Karen Violanti received $25,000 to host 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.
—. Mellon Foundation (2007). In collaboration with Institutional Advancement, Tom Falkner, Provost and Dean of Faculty, secured a $200,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Officer's Grant to support implementation of the new curriculum college-wide.
Stokely, Sarah, with Henry Reiff. Bringing Theory to Practice Project (2008). Deans Stokely and Reiff won their second grant award ($10,000) to pilot across the College a program of service learning courses.
International Scholars
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.
Mathematics & Computer Science
Robert Boner. National Science Foundation (1998): "Mathematica Computer Laboratory Instruction in Calculus."
Linda Eshleman. National Science Foundation (1996): "Connection to NSFNET via SURANET."
Music
Robin Armstrong. National Endowment for the Humanities (2010): Dr. Armstrong won a Teaching Development Fellowship to find primary materials at the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago and integrate them into the College's African American Music course.
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 studied 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).
—. National Endowment for the Humanities' Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (1994–1995). Dr. Alles won this award to produce a volume of selected essays and begin writing a critical biography: “Between Scholarship and Public Life: Rudolf Otto’s Life and Work.”
—.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."
Peter Bradley. National Endowment for the Humanities (2010). Dr. Bradley won an Enduring Questions grant to develop and pilot a course that engages students in a critical inquiry of the value of higher education.
Physics
David Guerra. National Science Foundation (1997): "Laser-based Experiments in Chemistry and Physics."
Shabbir Mian. National Science Foundation (2004): "Incorporation of Hands-on Learning Activities into an Innovative General Science Optics Course."
Political Science & International Studies
Debora Johnson-Ross: U.S. Election Assistance Commission's "Help America Vote" program. Dr. Johnson-Ross won $35,000 to recruit and train 100 McDaniel students to serve as poll judges in the 2008 Presidential election.
—. Fulbright Scholar-in-Resident (2008). Dr. Johnson-Ross won this grant to bring colleague Dr. Molem from the University of Buea (Cameroon) to McDaniel College for one semester as a visiting scholar.
—. Fullbright Scholar to Cameroon (Fall 2006-Spring 2007). Dr. Johnson-Ross spent 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 (2007, 2008, 2009). Professors Dundes and Lemke, with Sgt. Flores, have won a series of grants, ranging from $1,230 to $36,883, over the years to found and to continue and expand at 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: 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
Joshua Selzer 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.
Elizabeth van den Berg: Professor van den Berg won a fellowship from the Japan Studies Association (2005) to spend three weeks at a seminar on Japanese culture.
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