Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the F.B. Heron Foundation for research titled “Wealth Building in Rural America,” and a one-year, $140,000 grant from the MetLife Foundation for research titled “Productive Engagement of Older Adults Through Volunteering.” …
Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering, has received a two-year, $373,599 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for research titled “GAAN Application in Civil Engineering Infrastructure.” …
Joseph Pickard, graduate teaching assistant in social work, has received a two-year, $40,000 grant from the Gerontological Society of America for being a “Hartford Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellow.” …
Richard J. Smith, Ph.D., the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor of Physical Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $9,081 National Science Foundation grant for a “Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Application of the Facial Action Coding System to Nonhuman Anthropoids.” …
Lester K. Spence, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement for the “The St. Louis Young Citizenship Study.” …
Jay Turner, Ph.D., associate professor of chemical engineering, has received a two-year, $225,000 grant from the Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium for a “Midwest RPO Grant for Regional Haze Program.” …
Michelle Putnam, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work, has received a one-year, $25,380 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Crossing Network Lines: Advancing Coalition Building.” …
David E. Pollio, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, has received a three-year, $419,780 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for research titled “Family Services for Runaway Homeless Youth.” …
Frank A. Podosek, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $115,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Isotopic Structures and Fine-Scale Chronology in Planetary Materials.” …
D. Tab Rasmussen, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $6,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Paleoecology of Ankilitelo, Southwestern Madagascar: Implications for Late Quarternary Megafaunal Extinctions.” …
Barbara A. Schaal, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $11,910 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Dissertation Research: Global Alpine Biogeography: Insights from Phylogenetics, Phylogeography and Population Genetics of the Trans-Pacific Alpine Plant Genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae),” and a two-year, $14,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Dissertation Research: Population Genetics and Historical Biogeography of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.”