News From The Hedge

As I wind down my current duties here, I want to say how gratified I have been to serve an interim year as the VP for

Research; it has been a genuine pleasure to renew old friendships and acquaintanceships and to meet many very impres-

sive new faculty scholars in all sorts of disciplines. I have been made to feel most welcome by faculty and staff alike, and I

thank you for your mid-western hospitality.

As we continue to advance on a number of fronts as a university with a greater emphasis on scholarly work, the issue of

faculty time, so directed, comes to the fore. The FRCE Committee members, faculty advisory groups, deans, VP’s and

other administrators have been examining ways to enable faculty scholars to spend a greater portion of their time directly

on research and related activities. Financial support at both the front end (time assigned to prepare an external grant) and

post award (time assigned to carry out the work for which a grant was received) are currently being used by the FRCE, the

ORSP and college deans to assist in moving an enhanced research agenda forward. The Cohort Hiring plan that Ian Da-

vison created is beginning its third year and appears to be helping achieve some strong focal points of work – it is aimed at

building on current intellectual strengths. In addition, I believe some form of the University Scholars Program proposed

by the Priority III Research Committee as part of the Vision 2010 initiative, which is also aimed at building on areas of

current scholarly strengths but ones for which limited external funding is available, is very worth considering as part of

CMU’s overall strategy to enhance research.

Internal grant support also reflects our commitment to fostering scholarship at CMU. This past April ORSP received and

evaluated a total of 39 applications for EC, NRI and CSS (Early Career, New Research Initiatives and Creative and Scholarly

Support) internal grants; we awarded $573,273 to support these three programs. Final decisions on proposals to be funded

were made by me and were based primarily on internal comments from faculty peers, academic deans and written com-

ments from many external reviewers, in the case of the EC grants. Of the 39 grant proposals received (of which 28 were for

EC grants), a total of 24 proposals received some level of funding (of which 18 were EC grants). The number awarded in

each college was in close proportionality to the number submitted by members of the colleges. One primary requirement

of both the EC and NRI grants is that the recipients will submit a major external grant within two years because it is only

through the receipt of some level of F&A (“indirect”) cost recoveries that these and related internal programs can be sus-

tained or enhanced. Thus, it is crucial for the tenure track faculty to continue to seek external funding not only for their own

scholarly advancement but for that of their fellow faculty and our many students. The table below shows the impressive and

varied array of interesting work being undertaken by some of our faculty and their students. These give me hope for the

future intellectual life of Central Michigan University.

All best wishes,

Jim Hageman

Wednesday, August 22-

Due at 5:00 p.m. EST

Faculty Research & Creative

Endeavors (FRCE) Applications

Due for September 5 Commit-

tee Meeting. Submit to ORSP,

Foust 251.

RFP issued for its Early Career

(EC), New Research Initiative

(NRI), and Creative and Schol-

arly Support (CSS) Awards.

Wednesday, September 19-

Due at 5:00 p.m. EST

Faculty Research & Creative

Endeavors (FRCE) Applications

Due for October 3 Committee

Meeting. Submit to ORSP,

Foust 251.

Important Dates

Research@CMU Promoting Scholarship and Creative Work Throughout the University Volume 1, Issue 12 June 11, 2012

Office of Research and

Sponsored Programs ORSP@cmich.edu

Compositor: Anthony Smith

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Early Career, New Research Initiatives and Creative and Scholarly Support Grants 2012

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Volume 1, Issue 12

June 11, 2012

Department Name Title

BCA Heather Polinsky Michigan Soapbox Radio Program

BIO Cynthia Damer/Michelle Steinhilb A Novel Tauopathy Model Using Dictyostelium

BIS Mark Hwang Disentangling the Effect of Top Management Support and Training

CDO Kirsten Weber Patient, Caregiver and Practitioner Exchanges in Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions

CPS Qi Liao Smarter Network Management through Visual Anomaly Analysis for Dynamic Graphs

CPS Patrick Seeling Investigation of Mobile Power Saving Potentials Using Mobile SockX Proxy

E&T Tolga Kaya Activity Sensor Development with Built-in Energy Har-vesting and Storage Devices

E&T Kumar Yelamarthi Design and Implementation of a Portable RFID-based Object Identification and Localization System

E&T Adam Mock Metal Infiltrated Microstructured Optical Fibers

EL Frimpomaa Ampaw Understanding a Career Life Cycle Model for Women with STEM Doctorates

Foundational Sci-ences Daniel Griffin/Robert Fleischmann

Developing a Whole-Cell Prostate Cancer Vaccine Utiliz-ing IL-15 Overproduction

Foundational Sci-ences Janet Miller

Are Huntington Protein Levels Down-Regulated in the H-Tx Hydrocephalic Rat

Foundational Sci-ences Julien Rossignol

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Transplantation in Hun-tington's Disease Mice

HEV Su Kyoung An/Tanya Domina Thermal Differences Between Male and Female Wear-ing Body Armor

HS Stephen Nkansah-Amankra Longitudinal Data Analysis of Contextual Determinants of Adolescent Health

JRN Maria Marron/Sean Baker Lori Brost

Telling Stories: A History of the Mt. Pleasant Indian School and the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe

MGT Van Miller Proposal for Study of the Las Conchas Wildfire and Pro-spect Theory

MTH Leo Butler The Differential Topology of Integrable Convex Hamilto-nians

MTH Susan Cooper Algebraic and Combinatoric Invariants of Fat Points

MTH Meera Mainkar Geometry and Dynamics on Nilmanifolds

Music Neil Mueller Recording Project: New Works for Trumpet

PHL/REL Hope May

The Lubanga Trial: Lessons Learned: An International Student Conference and Proceedings on the First Case of the International Criminal Court

PHY Veronica Barone Optimizing Carbon Materials for Li-ion Battery Applica-tions

PSY Kyle Scherr/Jane Ashby Improving the Effectiveness of the Intended Safeguards of Miranda

SASW Rebecca Hayes Understanding Sexual Violence in St. Lucia

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As a result of favorable comments

received on a paper presented re-

cently on the history of political vio-

lence, the Red Terror, in Ethiopia

which he presented at a conference

at Erasmus University through sup-

port from FRCE, Dr. Solomon

Getahun determined to seek exter-

nal funding to further support this

work. He recently received the

great news that he was awarded a

US Fulbright Scholar Program

grant for 2012-2013. Consequent-

ly, he will be leaving for Ethiopia at

the beginning of September 2012.

During his sojourn in Ethiopia (in

the cities of Addis Ababa and Gon-

dar), he will examine archival

sources and conduct oral interviews

of victims of the Red Terror: people

who were imprisoned, tortured and

families who lost loved ones as the

result of extra-judicial killings.

Writing a monograph on political

violence is Dr. Getahun’s ultimate

objective of his Fulbright-sponsored

research.

Dr. Getahun received his Ph.D. in

African History from Michigan State

University in 2005. Previously, he

taught African, American and World

Civilization courses at the Addis Ab-

aba University, Michigan State Uni-

versity, and Lansing and Seattle

Community Colleges. He joined the

faculty at Central Michigan Univer-

sity in 2004, and his work here has

focused primarily on the history of

Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Diaspora

in the US and Israel and on the

Politics and History of the Horn

of Africa in general. His research

projects have included the histo-

ry of the Trinbuli, Italian colonial

soldiers in Libya; the secession of

southern Sudan and its politico-

military implication on Ethiopian

-Egyptian relationships and the

Jasmine Revolution and its im-

pact on political developments in

Ethiopia. So far, his completed

scholarly works include two

books: The History of Ethiopian

Immigrants and Refugees in Amer-

ica (2007) and A History of the

City of Gondar (2006); and more

than a dozen articles and book

chapters which have been pub-

lished in noted national and in-

ternational journals and book

chapters in edited volumes. In

addition, to having made numer-

ous presentations at national and

international conferences, Dr.

Getahun has been invited to pre-

sent papers at Harvard in 2008,

at Oxford University (UK) in

2009, Erasmus University (the

Netherlands) in 2011, the Univer-

sity of San Diego in 2011 and Uni-

versity of Hildesheim, (Germany)

in 2012. In 2008, CMU recog-

nized his impressive scholarly

achievements by awarding him

the Provost Award for Outstand-

ing Research.

Research@CMU

Volume 1, Issue 12

June 11, 2012

Post Award Tip

Scholarship for Understanding:

Dr. Solomon Addis Getahun Explores the History of Political Violence