Recent Grants
The following is a list of recent ONU proposals that have been funded. If you have received funding for a project and it is not listed, contact the proposal development office at Ext. 2038 or r-watercutter@onu.edu, and provide the appropriate information.
| Funding Agency | Amount Received | Description | Program Directors |
| June 2009 - May 2010 | |||
| Allen County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management |
$21,994.56 |
To support a financial study on the feasibility of the creation of a centralized dispatch operation for Allen County. Funds are provided through a grant awarded to Allen County. ONU students will assist in the study. | Drs. Paul Govekar and Roger Young |
| Arts Midwest |
$3,500 |
To support the African Children's Choir at the Freed Center in April 2010. | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Heartlight Pharmacy Services |
$4,557.80 |
The Raabe College of Pharmacy is the recipient of in-kind donations to equip the Nuclear Pharmacy teaching laboratory and Tc-99m radiopharmaceuticals for hands-on student exercises. Heartlight also provided consumable resources for two research projects involving Dr. Christoff and ONU students. | Dr. Jeffrey J. Christoff |
| Kern Family Foundation |
$75,000 |
A KEEN III grant for "The ONU Engineering Experience: 2005-2015" will be used to saturate the College of Engineering with the entrepreneurial mindset. This is the third Keen grant awarded to ONU. The funds will be used to continue to support a summer faculty workshop, additional faculty incentives to encourage incorporation of entrepreneurship elements in courses as well as continue support of student pitch contests and student/faculty/staff travel to conferences. The grant will also support the development of program assessment tools, printing /publicity costs and travel to regional KEEN events. |
Dr. J.D. Yoder, Dr. Robert Kleine Dean James Fenton |
| Marathon Oil Copmpany |
$2,000 |
Funds to support the Accounting Program in the James F. Dicke College of Business will be directed toward faculty and student travel to professional conferences to present joint student/faculty research and to support student travel to the Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting Honorary) conference. | Dean James Fenton |
| National Collegiate Athletic Association |
$500
|
To support the performance of You the Man at the Freed Center. The play focuses on domestic abuse, dating violence and unhealthy relationships | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Ohio Arts Council |
$11,301 |
A sustainability grant for the 2009-10 season at the Freed Center to be used to provide professional arts experiences to Ohio Northern students and area residents. | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges |
$14,453 |
To support a minority recruitment program aimed at broadening the scope of the University's student diversity. Catch a Ride is a new program that targets schools in several major Ohio cities as well as area schools. Funds will be used to provide travel for interested students to experience a day at Ohio Northern. This is the third year in a row that ONU has received OFIC funding for minority recruitment programming. | Crys Latham |
| Ohio Pharmacists Foundation |
$2,000 |
To support the study, "Low dose vitamin K supplementation in patients taking warfarin with unstable INRs: assessment of appropriate doses and genetic predictors of response." The study will be performed in the anticoagulation clinic at Blanchard Valley Medical Associates in Findlay. |
Drs. Teresa Hoffmann and Kelly Shields |
| Pennsylvania Peforming Arts on Tour (PennPAT) |
$2,000 |
To support the performance of The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon at the Freed Center in January. | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Procter and Gamble |
$1,000 |
To support Turtle Day at the Freed Center in November. The day will combine storytelling, art, music and theatre for children, giving them the opportunity to explore the world of turtles. |
Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
|
Target |
$10,000 |
To establish a formalized to program to encourage pharmacy students and their respective student organizations to become active participants on the volunteerism front. The program will encourage students to develop and implement community outreach projects that provide unique patient care and education opportunities while providing for important professional development for current and future pharmacy students. |
Drs. Robert McCurdy, Tom Kier, Kristen Finley, Dean Jon Sprague and Scott Wills
|
| United Plant Savers |
$500 |
To enhance the teaching of medicinal herbs and herbal practices and raise awareness of medicinal herbalism. Funds will be used to purchase plants and materials for a new garden, maintenance of the existing garden located on the south side of Hakes-Pierstorf Family Pharmacy Center and to print self-guided tour pamphlets for the gardens. |
Drs. Vicki Motz, Dr. David Kinder, Dr. Linda Young |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
$24,144 |
These funds were made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be used to train health professionals. Scholarships will be directed toward disadvantaged students in the Raabe College of Pharmacy. |
Melanie Weaver Financial Aid |
| June 2008 - May 2009 | |||
| AIG Credit Counseling |
$1,500 |
Ohio Northern University Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) will utilize the funds to support a freshman credit seminar that helps first-year students recognize potential decisions that will impact their financial status and the For Debt or For Worse financial literacy campaign on campus. | Dr. Susan Schertzer and Dr. Christine North |
| Amercian Association of Colleges of Pharmacy |
$10,000 |
A New Investigators Program grant to support the research project: "Structure-based Design of Broad-spectrum Glutamate Rasemasse Inhibitors" | Dr. Tarek Mahfouz |
| Amercian Association of Colleges of Pharmacy |
$10,000 |
A New Investigators Program grant to support the research project: "Sex Differences in Beta-Amyloid Removal at the Blood-CSF Barrier" | Dr. Janelle S. Crossgrove |
| American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund |
$50,000 |
To support Dr. Jake Zimmeran's laboratory research program, "Stereoselective Tin-Free Radical Reactions", over the next two years. | Dr. Jake Zimmerman |
| American Trim and American Electric Power |
$10,000 & $3,500 respectively |
To fund a summer research project involving two ONU engineering students, which aims to access the technical feasibility of technology and processes developed by American Trim as they relate to applications that are important to American Electric Power. The students, under the direction of Dean Baumgartner, will develop formal reports regarding their findings and present the information to the companies at the conclusion of their summer work. | Dr. Eric Baumgartner, Ryan Brune and Philip Schneider |
| Arts Midwest |
$2,600 |
To support the children's performance of The Magic Tree House - The Musical in October, 2008. | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Barnes & Noble Inc. |
$5,000 |
To support the appearance of journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert at Ohio Northern in March, 2009, as part of the year-long celebration Polar Bear Nation: Under the Northern Lights, he's more than just a mascot. |
Carol Flax |
| Coleman Foundation |
$300 |
A Coleman Scholarship for partial support for six ONU students to attend the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (CEO) national conference in Chicago, Ill. | Daniel M. Ferguson |
| Grob Systems Inc. |
$75,000 |
The department of technological studies received two Siemens PLC Training Systems for use in classroom instruction. | Dr. Adam Stienecker and Professor Paul Nutter |
| Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. |
$7,000 |
To help fund the 2009 U.S.-Japan Camp at ONU. This is the second year for the two-week camp that brings students from high schools in Japan and America together for cultural and language courses and experiences. | Dr. Rob Alexander |
| Marathon Oil Company |
$13,000 |
The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration received two grants to support students majoring in accounting. Two $6,000 scholarships will be awarded to qualifying students. The remaning $1,000 will assist accounting students in atttending professional meetings, assist student chapters of professional societies and provide funds for teaching activities. | Dean James Fenton Jr. |
| National Endowment for the Arts |
$10,000 |
An American Masterpieces: Dance-College Component grant, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with Dance/USA will be used to reconstruct choreographer Donald McKayle's seminar work, Games, at ONU. The performace is scheduled for October, 2009. | Dr. Laurie Bell |
| National Institutes of Health - AREA |
$150,000 |
An Academic Research Enhancement Award (R-15) will support the research project Epac1 Signaling in Angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is the development of blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature. The development of new blood may be beneficial or detrimental in different diseases. This project examines the role of a protein known as Epac in growth and ordered assembly of endothelial cells that form the inner lining of blood vessels. ONU students will be working on this research. |
Dr. Mark Olah |
| Ohio Arts Council |
$11,994 |
A sustainability grant for the 2008-09 year. These funds are used to assist the Freed Center in providing professional arts experiences to Ohio Northern students and area residents. | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Ohio Department of Education - Office for Exceptional Children |
$79,044 |
For the fifth consecutive year, ONU will host Summer Honors Institute, (SHI) which will bring gifted and talented high-school students to campus over three weeks in July. Fourteen topics be offered in the following areas: theatre, crime scene investigation (both basic and advanced), chemistry, philosophy, robotics, mock trial, pharmacy, design, engineering, archeology, natural history, physics and business entrepreurship. Up to 174 gifted and talented upcoming sophomore and junior high-school students will stay on campus. | Dr. Dennis De Luca |
| Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges |
$5,700 |
To fund a second year of Vision Builders, a minority recruitment program aimed at broadening the scope of the University's student diversity. The mentoring program pairs ONU students with senior multicultural students from the MI Ready Program at the Lima Senior High School of Multiple Intelligences. | Tabitha Courtney |
| Ohio Space Grant Consortium |
$2,000 |
The grant supported a summer engineering research experience for two local high school students under the supervision of Dr. Marquart | Dr. Jed Marquart |
| Pennsylvania Peforming Arts on Tour (PennPAT) |
$1,500 |
To support the performance of The Velveteen Rabbit at the Freed Center in January 2009. | Cationa Macphie-Hynds |
| Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society |
$1,297 |
To the ONU chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha to support research on the 2008 Electoral College. | Dr. Robert Alexander and student Shaili Patel |
| Procter & Gamble, Lima |
$1,000 |
To support the Polar Bear Day at the Freed Center in February, 2009, as part of "Polar Bear Nation: Under the Lights...he's more than a mascot" | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Procter & Gamble, Lima |
$1,000 |
To support tutoring in language and math literacy for urban minority and disadvantaged students during the school year as part of the Summer Adventure 2009. | Dr. Patricia Freeman |
| Qualtrics | In-kind gift estimated at $150,000 | The grant awarded to The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration provides the University with a three-year license for use of the company's survey software. This license is the fully functional corporate version and is available for use by ONU students, faculty and staff to build, share, distribute and collect results from online surveys. | Dr. Rob Kleine |
| Teledyne Isco |
$5,000 |
To be used by the chemistry department toward the purchase of a CombiFlash Companion, a chromatography system that will be used to purify organic compounds and will be used in both teaching curriculum and research. | Drs. Jake Zimmerman, Tevye Celius, Brian Myers |
| Teton Aircraft and The Ohio Space Consortium |
$6,609 and $3,000, respectively |
To support a summer project to aid Teon with the analysis and design of their new Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). Junior engineering student David Walters and Dr. Marquart will be performing finite element and computational fluid dynamics analyses to support the design of the aircraft. | Dr. Jed Marquart |
| Third Frontier Full Cell Program |
$1 million (ONU portion - $50,000) |
ONU is collaborating with Crown Equipment in New Bremen, Ohio, on "Development of an Integrated Fuel Cell Forklift Truck." The T. J. Smull College of Engineering will provide simulation support under the direction of Dr. Al-Olimat. | Dr. Khalid Al-Olimat |
| Xilinx |
$74,950 in-kind gift
|
The T.J. Smull College of Engineering and its ECCS department received a gift-in-kind of Xilinx software, which will be used in classes taught in the areas of digital systems and embedded systems. | Dr. Srinivasa Vemuru |
| June 2007 - May 2008 | |||
| Advanced Illumination |
$6,460 |
A gift in-kind of a machine vision lighting system from Advanced Illumination of Rochester, V., for use in the Robotics Center of Excellence at Ohio Northern University. The package of linear lights, ring lights, backlights, spot lights and necessary lighting controllers is worth $6,460 and will assist Dr. Stienecker in the machine vision portion of his lab classes. | Dr. Adam Stienecker |
| American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy - New Investigator Program |
$10,000 |
To fund the study “Separating Analgesia from Abuse Liability by Deletion of RGS Protein Activity,” which will investigate the role of RGS proteins in determining the analgesic and addictive properties of prescription opioid drugs. The award is sponsored by grants from The American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) and was one of 14 grants awarded to support the research of investigators beginning their faculty careers at U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy. | Dr. Jeffery Talbot |
| American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education |
$5,000 |
A Gateway Research Scholarship to fund a student stipend and supplies to support Dr. Stockert's research proposal, "The Reaction of Benzontriazole-1-acetonitrile and xanthine oxidase." She will be assisted by ONU pharmacy major Patrick Schmees. | Dr. Amy Stockert |
| American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education |
$5,000 |
A Gateway Research Scholarship to fund a student stipend and supplies to support Dr. Rorabaugh's research proposal, "Differential Coupling of a1 - Adrenergic Receptor Subtypes to Transactivation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor." ONU pharmacy major Rachael Waterson will assist with the project. | Dr. Boyd Rorabaugh |
| Cardinal Health Foundation |
$15,000 |
To establish three $5,000 scholarships to assist minority students majoring in the newly established pharmaceutical business major in the James F. Dicke College of Business. | Dean James Fenton Jr. |
| Engineering Vision Award |
$3,500 |
An extension to the Engineering Vision award received last year, resulting in 30 seats of CATIA-V5 licenses, a savings of $3,500 for the technological studies department. The grants are awarded to engineering instructors and professors who demonstrate an ability to develop outstanding classroom and field educational aids that utilize advanced technology. This year, professor Nutter was one of the four judges. | Professor Paul Nutter |
| Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. |
$7,500 |
To help fund the inaugural Saitama-ONU camp at ONU, which brings Japanese and American high-school students together for three weeks of language and cultural interactions and classes during the summer. | Dr. Rob Alexander |
| Improvita Health Products Inc. |
$26,000 |
To perform a clinical study looking at the absorption of Fasprin®, a new dosage form of low-dose aspirin. Conducted at ONU as a collaboration between the Raabe College of Pharmacy and the department of nursing, the study will identify how fast aspirin from this dosage reaches the blood. Dr. Kisor is an associate professor of pharmacokinetics and chair of the department of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences. | Dr. David Kisor |
| Lubrizol Corp. |
$30,000 |
To support the construction of the Mathile Center for the Natural Sciences. | Office of University Advancement |
| Kern Family Foundation |
$50,000 |
To support the second phase of an original grant received from the Kern Family Foundation to assist ONU in taking entrepreneurship across disciplines on campus. The award is for $50,000. The Phase II grant will be used to expand upon the initial Phase I work to motivate and train faculty to incorporate aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset into a range of courses on the ONU campus. Funds will be used to cover travel costs to appropriate conferences and an intensive on-campus workshop. | Dr. Rob Kleine Dr. J.D. Yoder and Dean James Fenton Jr. |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
$247,500 |
To support Dr. Jon Sprague's study of the popular club drug Ecstasy and the cellular mechanism by which the drug increases body temperatures. Dean Sprague will be working with Dr. Edward Mills from the University of Texas and will be assisted here at ONU by Dr. Sandra Hrometz. An ONU pharmacy student will assist with the research during the summer. This is an extension of Dean Sprague’s previous NIH-funded research on Ecstasy and other drugs of abuse such as methamphetamine. | Dr. Jon Sprague |
| National Science Foundation |
$75,000 |
Dr. Bruce Berdanier, associate professor of civil engineering, is a co-principal investigator on a $75,000 Small Grants for Exploratory Research grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Pallaoor Sundareshwar of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is the principal investigator. They are evaluating the impacts of nutrient pulsing implemented by the South Dakota Games, Fish and Parks in Rapid Creek, a forested stream in South Dakota. The stream is poor in nutrients but rich in oxygen. The intent is to study how pristine ecosystems respond to external stressors. | Dr. Bruce Berdanier |
| National Science Foundation |
$29,664 |
Ohio Northern University is part of an international consortium of professors in mainstream universities in the United States, Mongolia and Jordan and Tribal Colleges and Universities, known as the International Assessment Containment and Treatment Group (ACT Intl.) The focus of ACT Intl. is to promote international science outreach, teaching and research efforts. The NSF award will fund travel costs for Dr. Berdanier and four additional professors in the ACT Intl., along with four graduate and undergraduate students (one from each school), for a planning visit to the Erdenet Mine in Mongolia. The mine is a regional source of heavy-metals contamination in Asia. The intent of the planning visit is to collect baseline data for at least two additional research proposals involving international research activities at the graduate and undergraduate levels. | Dr. Bruce Berdanier |
| Ohio Arts Council |
$12,992 |
A sustainability grant to support the Freed Center for the Performing Arts for the 2007-08 year. Once again, this represents an increase in support from the OAC over the past several years. These funds are used to assist the Freed Center in providing high-quality, challenging and entertaining professional arts experiences to Ohio Northern students and area residents. | Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Ohio Arts Council |
$7,000 |
An International Partnerships Grant to support the 6th International Festival, which takes place at the Freed Center from April 2-6, 2008. The project entitled Dissolving Borders explores current migration and immigration issues between USA and Mexico. The International Partnerships Program provides a limited number of small grants to assist Ohio non-profit arts and cultural organizations and universities and colleges to develop exemplary international arts projects and innovative partnerships in countries where the OAC has signed agreements or established collaborative partnership projects. |
Catriona Macphie-Hynds |
| Ohio Department of Education |
$74,910 |
For the fourth consecutive year, the Summer Honors Institute (SHI) will bring gifted and talented high-school students to campus over three weeks in the summer. Fifteen courses will be offered in the following areas: theatre, crime scene investigation and forensics, chemistry, philosophy, mechatronics, mock trial, pharmacy, design, math, aquatic ecology, engineering, business entrepreurship, Ohio natural history, clinical laboratory science, and photojournalism. Up to 149 gifted and talented upcoming sophomore and junior high-school students will stay on campus for week-long learning and interaction experiences. | Dr. Dennis DeLuca |
| AT&T and JPMorgan Chase through the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges | $13,953.50 |
To support Vision Builders, a minority student recruitment effort aimed at broadening the scope of student diversity at ONU. It features two components. The first is a mentoring program in which current multicultural students at ONU mentor multicultural senior high-school students in the MI Ready program and in Lima Black Achievers. The second component is Vision Builders Day, which brings approximately 50 minority students from four different high schools to campus for the day. |
Tabitha Courtney, Clyde Pickett and Curtis Ferguson |
| SolidWorks STEM Education Grant |
$6,000 |
SolidWorks STEM Education Grant provided software valued at $6,000 for use in classwork in the department of technological studies. SolidWorks is a leader in 3D CAD technology and high-performance software. | Dr. David Rouch |
| Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology |
$20,000 |
The grant supports "Pedagogies for Civic Engagement: Developing Strategies Within and Beyond the Religious Studies Classroom" and will fund two meetings of scholars of theology and religious studies to explore a range of strategies for civic engagement. Representatives from 18 universities will participate. Dr. Clingerman is the project director. The Center is located at Wabash College and funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc. | Dr. Forrest J. Clingerman |
| West Ohio Conference Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry |
$800 |
In support of Orange Noses, a clown ministry troupe created in 2006 by Chris Corrado, a sophomore marketing major from Cincinnati, Ohio. Orange Noses is one of the seven chapel outreach teams of the ONU chapel and is composed of ONU students who want to share their love, make people smile and draw them closer to Christ. They will begin this fall going out to churches and nursing homes to minister to people through clowning. The funds have been used to purchase clowning supplies and to cover the cost of registration fees at clown-ministry workshops.” | The Rev. Vern LaSala |
| June 2006 - May 2007 | |||
| Arts Midwest | $5,000 | To support the performance of the Peoria Ballet at the Freed Center in October, 2007. Arts Midwest connects the arts to audiences throughout the nine-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. They have supported programs at the Freed Center in the past. | Catriona Macphie |
| AT&T through Ohio Federation of Independent Colleges | $10,000 | To enable faculty members to produce engaging multimedia learning objects for web-based courses and to increase faculty awareness and use of WebCT course-management system and Real Streaming Media Server. The funds will be used to purchase digital video equipment and software to provide a central source for educational media production and provide faculty training. | George Gulbis, Heather Caprette and Nathan Oliver |
| Copeland Corp. | $25,000 | To develop a new corosion protection system that complies with regulatory requirements for future use in Copeland products. | Dr. Tarun Goswami |
| Christopher Reynolds Foundation | $10,000 | To provide stipends to students participating in the Environmental Management Program at the University of Havana in Havana, Cuba, during the spring quarter of the 2007-08 academic year. | Dr. Terry Maris |
| Eaton Corp. | $8,965 | To fund engineering support for quick-disconnect coupling and assembly problem. | Dr. Jed Marquart |
| Engineering Vision 2007 grant | $35M | A technological studies student project directed by professor Nutter involving the simulation of a timing belt assembly was awarded the Engineering Vison 2007 grant. The award as the top recipient includes a package of 30 seats of CATIA software education licenses, a Dell laptop computer, a $2,000 cash honorarium, 30 training manuals and CATIA training for the instructor. The estimated value of the award is over $35 million. The grant is awarded to engineering instructors and professors who demonstrate an ability to develop outstanding classroom and field education aids that utilize advanced technology. | Professor Paul Nutter |
| David Kriegel | $22,500 | To initiate a comprehensive survey of a wetlands-restoration project that provides hands-on research opportunities for ONU students. The work will take place at the Tidd-Oakes Farm. Funds will be used to cover the costs of two students and faculty members, including summer stipends, conference travel and fees for students and faculty members, summer housing and school-year work-study for students, research materials, and publication and presentation costs. | Dr. Robert Verb and Dr. Brian Keas |
| Martha Holden Jennings Foundation | $5,678.90 | For Project SMArts (Saturday Morning Arts) a month-long outreach program in the arts for 50 elementary students in Ada and Bath schools, using 20 ONU teacher candidates on the ONU campus. Project SMArts helps young students, grades K-6, develop skills and meet standards in the five areas of Ohio’s comprehensive standards-based curriculum in the visual arts. It also offers 20 University education students an opportunity for an optimal clinical experience in the arts under the supervision of their University professor. Funds will be used to purchase art supplies and materials for the enrichment program. | Linda Lehman |
| Metanexus Institute Local Societies Initiative | $15,000 | To establish The ONU Working Group on Religion, Ethics and Nature. WGREN is a local initiative whose purpose is to facilitate dialog between the academic disciplines and non-academic communities on issues that relate to religion, ethics and the natural environment. This will be accomplished through reading groups, round-table discussions, and an annual lecture series held both on campus and in local communities. Additional external support for the program comes from he Ohio Northern Environmentalists and the Tri-Moraine Audubon Society. | Dr. Forrest Clingerman and Dr. Mark Dixon |
| National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA | $1,000 | A Health and Safety Speakers Grant was used to fund the appearance of keynote speaker Elaine Pasqua, who spoke as part of the AIDS Quilt display.Pasqua lost her mother and stepfather to AIDS contacted through blood transfusions. This activity was a part of Unite for Awareness Week. | Tom Simmons |
| National Institute of Health | $144,749* | To support a research project "Electroporation and Transcutaneous Extraction of Drugs," the focus of which is to develop a non-invasive, rapid and reproducible method of sampling drug concentrations. Dr. David Kisor is co-PI with University of Mississippi professor Dr. S. Murthy. In the third year of the program Dr. Kisor and two ONU PharmD students will work with Dr. Murthy conducting research at Ohio Northern. ONU will receive $15,000. | Dr. S. Murthy and Dr. David Kisor |
| National Science Foundation | $120,000 over 5 years | To support Ohio Northern University's participation as one of five affiliate schools joining Case Western Reserve University in the newly-formed multimillion dollar Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS). Through CLiPS, based at the Case School of Engineering, initiatives will be undertaken in undergraduate classroom education to study and conduct research in polymer science, an interdisciplinary intersection of traditional chemistry, physics and engineering. The overall outcome is to train a diverse American workforce that can meet the challenges of the new nanotechnologies. As an affiliate school, Ohio Northern will receive up to $20,000 in 2006-07 and $25,000 for each of the remaining four years of the grant. Case Western and its affiliate partners will have the opportunity to apply for a second round of funding after four years. | Dr. Hui (Helen) Shen and Dr. Jeffrey Gray |
| New England Foundation for the Arts | $2,500 | To support Attack Theatre's "Games of Steel" performance in March 2007. This is in addition to a previous grant from PenPat for $5,076. | Catriona Macphie |
| Ohio Arts Council | $11,365 | A sustainability grant for the 2006-07 year to assist the Freed Center for the Performing Arts in providing high-quality, challenging and entertianing professional arts experiences to Ohio Northern students and area residents. | Catriona Macphie |
| Ohio Environmental Protection Agency | $14,125 | Dr. Berdanier, associate professor of civil engineering, is a partner in the Blanchard Watershed Multiple Facility SWAP Project, which involves education outreach to grade-school students and teachers, identification of probable contaminant sources in the Village of Ottawa’s corridor management zone, field sampling and laboratory analysis for water quality parameters, and community involvement in an effort to improve protection of the Village of Ottawa’s drinking water supply and to quantify impacts on water quality in the Blanchard River watershed. Dr. Berdanier will provide expertise in developing a monitoring plan, field sampling and laboratory analysis, statistical analysis, and final report preparation for the project. The $34,896 grant is funded by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Dr. Berdanier’s share of the grant is $14,125 ($9,000 in grant funds and $5,125 in matching funds). | Dr. Bruce Berdanier |
| Ohio Department of Education - Office of Exceptional Children | $63,509 | For the third consecutive year, the Summer Honors Institute (SHI) will bring gifted and talented high-school students to campus over two weeks in the summer: June 10-15 and June 17-22. Twelve courses will be offered in the following areas: theatre, crime scene investigation and forensics, chemistry, philosophy, mechatronics, mock trial, pharmacy, design, math, aquatic ecology, engineering, and business entrepreurship. Up to 99 gifted and talented upcoming sophomore and junior high-school students will stay on campus for week-long learning and interaction experiences. | Dr. Dennis De Luca |
| Ohio Department of Transportation | $10,000 | Dr. Reza, associate professor in the department of civil engineering, and a team of Ohio Northern civil-engineering students are currently working on a research project to investigate the structural health of a bridge in Hancock County. This involves reviewing literature, conducting tests, analyzing data and performing load rating to provide a report to the district-one ODOT office. Dr. Reza and ONU students have worked on two previous ODOT projects. | Dr. Farhad Reza |
| Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter of the National Political Science Honor Society | $2,000 | To allow for Dr. Rob Alexander, associate professor of political science, and several of his students to attend the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in April in Chicago. Students Adam Gallagher and Tina Loughry, under Dr. Alexander's supervision, prepared and submitted the proposal. It is the fifth straight year that Ohio Northern political-science students have earned the award. The students have proposed topics to present at the conference: "How to Sell a War: Lessons in Presidential Persuasion" - Melissa Mead, Jared Hardesty and Chris DiFrancesco; "Cultural Differences Help in Understanding Election Results" - Tina Loughry. | Adam Gallagher, Tina Loughry and Dr. Rob Alexander |
| The Presser Foundation | $25,000 | To purchase five new Yamaha pianos for the music department. | Dr. M.J. "Sunny" Zank and Dr. Becky Casey |
| Psi Chi The National Honor Society in Psychology | $750 | A $750 Undergraduate Psychology Conference Grant will be used to help underwrite expenses for the fourth annual Ohio Northern Undergraduate Research Colloquium, a regional conference for undergraduate students. The colloquium will be held at ONU on April 27. | Dr. Danny Benbassat |
| Rudolph Foods | $50,622 | To provide funds for a summer research initiative, Vision Driven Robotic Bin-Picking for the Pork Skin Processing Industry, with Rudolph Foods of Lima, Ohio. | Dr. Adam Stienecker |
| Timken Foundation and AT&T throught the Ohio Federation of Independent Colleges | $7,300 | For the second year, the Finding U at ONU program has received OFIC funding. This is a project that aims to improve the retention of multicultural students through staff and peer mentoring of first-year minority students. The program promotes social, cultural and academic-related activities for students, as well as financial support in the form of a book program. This year diversity programming aimed at faculty will be added in 2006-07. A core group of student participants will be directly involved in the preparation of a faculty workshop to be presented winter quarter aimed at creating a welcoming environment in classrooms for minority students. Once the program is developed, it will be offered to faculty members in the fall quarter of future academic years. | Clyde Pickett |
| June 2005-May 2006 | |||
| Arts Midwest | $1,987 | To support The Second City performance | Catriona Macphie |
| DePuy Spine | $9,000 | Collaboration with the University of Toledo to develop a long term wear rate prediction model development (Dr. Goswami has submitted his own proposal to DePuy Spine) | Dr. Tarun Goswami |
| Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. State Department | $700,000 | For the initial year of the Democratic Governance and Rule of Law LL.M. program in the Claude W. Pettit College of Law. It is a 10-month graduate program on the Ohio Northern campus, designed to provide young lawyers working in the government or non-profit sector of emerging democracies with the training and tools to implement law reform and democratization in their home countries. | Professor Howard Fenton |
| ERICO Inc. | $2,800 | Funds for research using finite element analysis to investigate exothermic welding | Dr. David Sawyer |
| NASA | $5,000 | To establish, implement and utilize a suite of benchmark test cases for use with the Phantom Code | Dr. Jed Marquart |
| NCIIA/Kern Family Foundation | $5,000 | Funds to develop full proposal to establish an entrepreneurship minor in The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration and an option in the T.J. Small College of Engineering | Dean James Fenton, Dr. J-D Yoder and Dr. Rob Kleine |
| NCIIA/Kern Family Foundation | $49,985 | To establish and entrepreneurship minor in The James F. Dicke College of Business Administration and an option in the T.J. Small College of Engineering | Dean James Fenton, Dr. J-D Yoder and Dr. Rob Kleine |
| Ohio Arts Council | $10,000 | Provide funds to assist in covering the costs of the International Play Festival | Catriona Macphie |
| Ohio Arts Council | $11.147 | A sustainability grant for the 2005-06 year to assist the Freed Center for the Performing Arts in providing high-quality, challenging and entertianing professional arts expereiences to Ohio Northern students and area residents. | Catriona Macphie |
| Ohio Department of Education - Office of Exceptional Children | $ 51,787 | Funding for a 2006 Summer Honors Institute that will bring 50 to 74 gifted and talented high-school students to campus over the summer. 10 courses were offered in the following areas: theatre, crime scene investigation and forensics, chemistry, philosophy, mechatronics, mock trial, pharmacy, design, math, and aquatic ecology. | Dr. Dennis De Luca |
| Ohio Department of Education | $65,000 | Allows for professor’s continued participation in ODE initiative, Reading First –The Ohio Center for Professional Development and Technical Assistance in Effective Reading Instruction. Dr. Kieffer brought this with him from previous post. | Dr. Ronald Kieffer |
| Ohio Department of Education - Center for Teaching Profession | $10,000 | This is Round II of funding for to advance assessment efforts in ONU's Center for Teacher Education. | Drs. Tena Roepke and Diana Garver |
| Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges - OFIC | $8,964 | Finding U at ONU is a program which involves staff and peer mentoring of first-year minority students through a variety of social, cultural and academic-related activities and provides financial support through a book program. Creation of a quarterly intercultural newsletter provides a voice related to diversity issues for these students on campus. Five first-year minority students are targeted for participation and two returning minority students will act as peer mentors. | Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw and Clyde Pickett |
| Ohio Sea Grant | $6,000 | Collaboration with Dennison University for an evaluation of migratory waterfowl habitat in Ohio's mitigation bank wetlands. | Dr. Jay Mager as Co-PI |
| PenPat | $5,076 | To support Attack Theatre's "Games of Steel" performance in March 2007 | Catriona Macphie |
| Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter Activity Grant | $1,810.87 | To allow for Dr. Rob Alexander and students Brittani Knisely, Tiffany Ferry, Steve Kochheiser, Adam Gallagher, Matt Oyster and Barbra Tate to present the paper "Presidential Electors and Voting Discretion" at the 2007 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in April, 2006, in Chicago. | Tina Loughry, Brittani Knisely, Tiffany Ferry and Dr. Rob Alexander |
| Rad Elec Inc. | $10,000 | Company-provided electret and related materials necessary for the study of Transdermal Drug Delivery using Electrets | Dr. S. Narasimha Murthy |
| Roxane Laboratories | $20,000 | To develop a component of the curriculum dedicated to drug development | Dr. David Kisor |
| Social Philosophy and Policy Center | $16,000 | For research to work on "The Origins of An Independent Judiciary: A Study in Early American Constitutional Development, 1606-1787." | Professor Scott Gerber |
| SolidWorks STEM Education Grant | $6,000 | Donation of the following software: SolidWorks Student Edition with COSMOS, Curriculum and Courseware CD and access to SolidWorks STEM Teacher Web site with additional lessons | Dr. David Rouch |
| Zimmer Inc. | $20,000 | Funds would be used for Development of a Wear Growth Model, a research project to develop an analytical wear damage predection model using data supplied by Zimmer Inc. | Dr. Tarun Goswami |
| Grants received prior to June 2005 | |||
| Accredidation Council for Pharmacy Education | $5,000 | Funds used to examine the inhibition of the metabolism of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and the effects on the heperthermic response in rats. | Dr. David Kisor, Meghan Davlin and student |
| American Lung Association | $5,500 | This grant was used to develop a school-based comprehensive tobacco prevention program School-Based Comprehensive Tobacco Prevention Program. | Dr. John Stanovich |
| Mid-Ohio Faculty International Network of Ohio State University CIBER | $2,500 | Seed money to establish the Center for Cuban Business Studies at ONU | Dr. Terry Marris |
| National Science Foundation | $64,448 | Adaptation and Implementation of Intelligent Systems Course & Lab | Dr. J-D Yoder |
| Ohio Department of Education - Center for Teaching Profession | $15,000 | Funds will be used to advance assessment efforts in ONU's Center for Teacher Education. A pilot test will be conducted, aimed at taking the CTE’s assessment system from a paper, hard-copy program to an electronic format using the Livetext program. | Drs. Tena Roepke and Diana Garver |
| Ohio Department of Education - Office of Exceptional Children | $51,997 | Funding for a 2005 Summer Honors Institute that brought 50+ gifted and talented high-school students to campus over the summer. Six courses were offered in the following areas: theatre, crime scene investigation and forensics, chemistry, geology, philosophy, animatronics, and mock trial. | Dr. Dennis De Luca |
| Ohio Department of Transportation | $10,084 | Funds will be used to develop a Composite Pavement Performance Index | Dr. Subhi Bazlamit and Dr. Farhad Reza |
| Ohio Medical Quality Foundation | $187,416 | Preventing prescription drug mistakes is the aim of "Partners In Technology To Improve Patient Safety." The grant funds Phase II of a project ONU is working on with Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. | Dr. Mark Sweeney |
| PSA-3 Area Agency on Aging | $16,000 | The Raabe College of Pharmacy provides medication teaching to congregate mealsites in the 7-county area surrounding Lima. Faculty and staff visit 12 sites, twice a year, and talk about one prescription category and one over-the-counter category. Grant money is used to support travel to each site, meals and some reimbursement for professors. | Dr. Kimberly Broedel-Zaugg and Dr. Jeff Allison |
| Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National Grants | $8,625 | The department of biological and allied health sciences received funding to purchase a digital imaging system to better utilize the department’s Labophot II Fluorescence microscope at all levels of student engagement. The imaging system - a Nikon DS5M-U camera and software system with a 30-inch public display monitor and an adaptor – will permit high-resolution viewing and capture of brightfield and fluorescent color images and will be utilized across the biology curriculum. | Drs. Linda Young, Nancy Woodley, Bob Verb |
| Turner BioSystems Luminometer Grants Program | Equipment worth $6,000 | This gift-in-kind of a 20/20n luminometer will be used in the forensic biology courses and molecular biology classes. This state-of-the-art piece of equipment can determine the amount of human DNA collected from samples acquired from sother extracted DNA samples used in the forensic biology courses and molecular biology classes | Dr. Dennis De Luca |
| U.S. Department of Energy | $121,000 | Funding for Hakes-Pierstorf Family Education Center | Office of University Advancement |
| U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | $10,000 | The grant will assist a team of ONU civil-engineering students and faculty members to participate in the Environmental Protection Agency’s P3 Award Competition, a national student design competition. The team will use the money for research and development of new concrete mixtures with higher solar reflectance than that of conventional concrete for use in pavement surfaces. | Drs. Fahad Reza and Kanok Bariboonsomsin |
| WebSurveyor Corp. | Software worth $60,000 | ONU was granted a two-year renewable license for online survey software, WebSurveyor 5.0 | Dr. Rob Klein |
