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Anthropology Professor Presents First 1999-2000 Distinguished Lecture |
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Sponsored Projects Total $4 Million in 1st Quarter |
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Fidelity Executive Discusses Business Ethics with MBA Students |
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With research projects ranging from a study of class size in a Boston elementary school to judicial reform in Central Europe, and funding awards varying in amount from $1,000 to over $300,000, the list of awards received by UMass Boston faculty and staff through the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (OSRP) during the first quarter of fiscal year 2000 is as diverse and distinctive as the scholarly community it reflects.
The statistics-52 awards totaling over $4,000,000 in funding-are cause for congratulation, but the variety and importance of research projects may be even more impressive. The physical, biological, social and health sciences are well represented, and a large number of awards have been granted to projects that reflect UMass Boston's longstanding commitment to research in education, public service, and public policy. The list includes studies as technical and abstruse as "InAs/GainSb Detectors Sensitive to Radiation beyond 16 Microns," for which Greg Sun of the Engineering Program received a $15,000 grant from Epitaxial Technologies, as well as projects rooted in everyday experience such as "Seatbelt Observations," for which Douglas Currivan of the Center for Survey Research was granted a $29,500 award from Boston University's School of Public Health. Several of the largest grants were awarded by the US Department of Education to Joan Becker of Pre-Collegiate and Educational Support Programs, whose "GEAR UP," "Student Support Services," and "Talent Search Program" projects all received awards of over $250,000.
Included among the grants are two from the Ford Foundation ($150,000 to Trinh Tuyet-Nguyen of the Asian American Studies Program for the "Youth Leadership Development Initiative" project, also known as CAPAY, and $100,000 to Deborah Hirsch of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education for the "Think Tank and Visiting Fellows Project"), as well as one from the Rockefeller Foundation ($250,000 to Kevin Bowen of the Joiner Center for "Constructing Identity and Place in the Vietnamese Diaspora"). Closer to home, among the more interesting grants are two funded by the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, which awarded a total of $15,866 to Stephen Mrozowski of the Anthropology Department for archaeological research at the Loring Greenough House, a Jamaica Plain landmark dating from 1760.