Foster and Josh Wormington,

Undergraduate Research Post-

er 2nd Place; Sean McCartney,

Undergraduate Research Post-

er 3rd Place. Category B:

Kyunghoon (Alex) Kim, Grad-

uate Research Presentation 1st

Place; Taylor Cunningham,

Undergraduate Research

Presentation 1st Place; Jordan

Boyd, Undergraduate Re-

search Presentation 2nd Place;

Melissa Nichols, Victoria Grif-

fith, and Matthew Gallagher,

Undergraduate Research

Presentation 3rd Place; Kori

Bower and Amanda Tomp-

kins, Undergraduate Research

Poster 1st Place. Category C:

Meiling Jin, Graduate Re-

search Presentation 1st Place

Category D: Jessica Criser,

Undergraduate Research Post-

er 1st Place. Congratulations to

all of the 2013 Research Collo-

quium winners!

More than seventy under-

graduate and graduate stu-

dents participated in the PSU

Research Colloquium on April

15, 2013 in the Overman Stu-

dent Center Balkans and Gov-

ernors Rooms. Thirty-two oral

presentations and thirty-one

research posters were present-

ed. There were projects from

Economics, History, Psycholo-

gy, Writing Center, Commu-

nication, Social Work, Sustain-

ability, Society and Resource

Management, Music, Mathe-

matics, Physics, Nursing, Con-

struction Management, Biolo-

gy, Political Science, Business

Administration, English,

Chemistry, Engineering Tech-

nology, Special Education,

and Psychology. Awards were

presented at the 2013 PSU

Graduate School and Research

Awards Banquet on April 24,

2013. An award was given for

every five entries to graduate

and undergraduate students

for oral and poster presenta-

tion in each of the following

categories: Category A: Sci-

ence and Technology, Catego-

ry B: Business, Education and

Humanities, Category C: Cre-

ative Works and Category D:

Literature Review Poster

Presentations. Thank you to

all the students who partici-

pated and faculty who men-

tored student research pro-

jects. Congratulations to the

award winners: Category A:

Kenneth Gouvion, Graduate

Research Presentation 1st

Place; Dennis Rosser, Gradu-

ate Research Poster 1st Place;

Samantha Young Undergrad-

uate Research Presentation 1st

Place; Brady Steinbock and

Samantha Meneely, Under-

graduate Research Poster

Presentation 1st Place, Sierra

Students Present Projects at the PSU Research Colloquium

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Faculty Scholar-

ship Award

2

EPSCoR First

Award

3

Teaching & Lead-

ership Grant

3

K-INBRE Research

Funding

4

Faculty Mentor

Support Contract

4

Student Travel

Funds Awarded

5

In the News 6

Federal

Announcements

7

The Grants and Research Review Pittsburg State University

M A Y 2 0 1 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2

S P E C I A L

P O I N T S O F I N -

T E R E S T :

Engineering Technol-

ogy awarded NSF

EPSCoR First Award

Teaching & Leader-

ship Receives Grant

PSU Faculty receives

Undergraduate Re-

search Project Funds

2013 Distinguished

Thesis Competition

winners announced

Pictured: Back row: Joy Brooker

Reed, History; Kenneth

Gouvion, Biology; Matthew

Gallagher, Communication;

Jordan Boyd, History; Josh

Wormington, Biology; Alex

Kim, Business Administration,

Brady Steinbock, Biology. Front

row: Meiling Jin, Music; Saman-

tha Young, Biology; Victoria

Griffin, Communication; Taylor

Cunningham, Sustainability,

Society and Resource Manage-

ment; Sierra Foster, Biology;

Samantha Meneely, Biology;

Kori Bower, Social Work.

P A G E 2

Faculty Receive Outstanding Scholarship Awards PSU faculty participate in a

broad range of scholarly activity

including basic research, applied

research, development of best

practices for teaching and learn-

ing and creative works to name a

few. In order to recognize faculty

who are engaged in outstanding

scholarship and outstanding

mentoring of students conduct-

ing research, the first Outstand-

ing Faculty Scholarship Award

and Outstanding Undergraduate

Research Mentor Award were

presented at the PSU Graduate

School and Research Awards

Banquet on April 24, 2013. The

nominees for the awards were

Dr. Julie Allison, Psychology, Dr.

Alex Konopelko, Physics, Dr.

David Hurford, Psychology, Dr.

Cheryl Giefer, Nursing and Dr.

Alicia Mason, Communication.

The winner of the Outstanding

Faculty Scholarship Award was

Dr. Cheryl Giefer. The winner of

the Outstanding Undergraduate

Research Mentor Award was Dr.

Alicia Mason. Thank you to all

faculty who conduct scholarly

activity that enriches the campus

for our students.

T H E G R A N T S A N D R E S E A R C H R E V I E W

Thank you to

all faculty

who conduct

scholarly

activity that

enriches the

campus for our

students!

Pictured above: Dr. Lynette Olson, provost and vice president for academic affairs; Dr. Cheryl Giefer,

nursing. Pictured bottom: Dr. Alicia Mason, communication and Dr. Lynette Olson, provost and vice

president for academic affairs.

Congratulations to the 2013 Distinguished Thesis competition winners:

Joy Brooker Reed, Department of History

Elizabeth Walker, Department of English

Engineering Technology Faculty receives Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2

Congratulations to Dr. Erik

Mayer, Associate Professor

in Electronics Engineering

Technology! Dr. Mayer is the

recipient of the Kansas Na-

tional Science Foundation

EPSCoR (Experimental Pro-

gram To Stimulate Research)

First Award for $34,000.

Kansas NSF EPSCoR helps

Kansas build its research ca-

pacity and competitiveness

in science and technology.

The First Award program

helps early career faculty

become competitive for

funding from the research

directorates at the National

Science Foundation by en-

couraging early career facul-

ty to submit proposals to the

NSF as soon as possible after

their first faculty appoint-

ment and by accelerating the

pace of their research and the

quality of their subsequent

proposals. Dr. Mayer’s pro-

posed activity is the develop-

ment of an intellectual prop-

erty core for a field program-

mable gate array that will

implement an adaptable,

peak current-mode control

for use in a buck power con-

verter.

Shawnee, Miami, Modoc,

Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw,

Seneca-Cayuga, Shawnee

and Wyandotte as well as

twelve school districts to

provide twenty-five Ameri-

can Indians and/or teachers

who work in partner school

districts scholarships to earn

a Master of Science Library

Congratulations to Dr. Sue

Stidham and Dr. Alice Sage-

horn in the Department of

Teaching and Leadership for

being awarded a Laura Bush

21st Century Library Alli-

ance Program Grant for

$487,000 titled, 21st Century

Alliance: Enhancing the

Workforce and Meeting the

Information Needs of Ameri-

can Indians. Dr. Stidham and

Dr. Sagehorn are collaborat-

ing with eight Native Ameri-

can Tribes/Nations- Eastern

Media degree at PSU. Stu-

dents in the program will

also be provided one year of

orientation and mentoring

after completing their degree

program. The Laura Bush

21st Century Librarian Pro-

gram supports projects to

recruit and educate the next

generation of librarians, fac-

ulty, and library leaders; and

to support early career re-

search. It also assists in the

professional development of

librarians and library staff.

Teaching and Leadership Awarded Laura Bush 21st Century Grant Did You Know…

PSU Grants

Administration

offers assistance in

preparing

proposed budgets.

Please contact

Brian Peery

for additional

information

(620) 235-4175

PSU Graduate and Continuing Studies Awards Undergraduate Research Project Funding

Congratulations to the facul-

ty who received PSU Under-

graduate Research Project

Funds. Up to $2,000 awards

have been provided to start

or enhance five undergradu-

ate research projects being

mentored by PSU faculty

during the 2013-2014 Aca-

demic Year. The awardees

are: Dr. Jamie McDaniel,

English; Dr. Aesha John, So-

cial Work; Dr. Ram Gupta,

Chemistry; Dr. Dilip Paul,

Chemistry and Dr. David

Gordon, Biology. PSU Un-

dergraduate Research Project

Funds are available to faculty

for the purchase of instru-

mentation or consumables

up to $2,000 to conduct an

undergraduate research pro-

ject. The deadline for appli-

cations is Feb. 1st annually.

Click here to

learn more

about support

offered in the

area of Under-

graduate Re-

search.

SAVE THE

DATE! Faculty Research

Brown Bag

Meetings

June 10 and July 10

from 12pm-1pm in

the OSC: Varsity

Room

Bring your lunch

and discuss re-

search activities

and needs with

other faculty.

P A G E 4

Faculty and Students Receive K-INBRE Research Funding Awards

Congratulations to Dr.

Jody Neef, Assistant Pro-

fessor, Chemistry and Dr.

Neal Snow, Assistant

Professor, Biology. Both

have received $25,000

awards from the NIH

Kansas IDeA Network of

Biomedical Research ad-

ministered by Kansas

University Medical Cen-

ter. Dr. Neef’s award is

titled Biosensors Derived

from Ferrocene Contain-

ing Polymers and Dr.

Snow’s award will pro-

vide start up supplies

and instruments for his

lab in the fall of 2014.

Four Biology undergrad-

uate students also re-

ceived K-INBRE Scholar

awards of $4,000 to con-

duct biomedical research:

Samantha Young, Trevor

Harris, Boya Abudu, and

Austin Price. Biology

student Chris Ward re-

ceived the K-INBRE Star

Trainee award of $10,000.

The objectives of K-

INBRE are to: •Bring

together institutions

within a state to establish

a network; •Provide

competitive funding to

the state-based network;

•Support institutional

alterations and renova-

tions; •Provide funding

for modern laboratory

equipment; and •Assist

in the recruitment of new

faculty. K-INBRE fund-

ing is also intended to

strengthen the basic sci-

ence departments of the

undergraduate institu-

tions in the network by

involving students in

research. The undergrad-

uate institutions also

serve an important

"feeder" role to the sci-

ence departments of

graduate schools within

the IDeA-eligible areas.

T H E G R A N T S A N D R E S E A R C H R E V I E W

PSU’s First Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Support Contract

Dr. Jody Neef, Assistant

Professor in Chemistry has

agreed to the first PSU

Undergraduate Research

Faculty Mentor Support

Contract. Dr. Neef will be

provided $1,875 in profes-

sional development funds

after mentoring the equiv-

alent of six students con-

ducting research through

the summer, spring and

fall semesters of the 2013-

2014 Academic Year. PSU

Undergraduate Research

Faculty Mentor Support

Contracts are available for

up to $2,500 of profession-

al development funds

which are awarded after

the equivalent of eight

students have been men-

tored. Contracts can be

prorated to serve fewer

students for less funding.

PSU Research and

Grants Administration

seeks to enhance dis-

covery and research at

Pittsburg State Univer-

sity by assisting faculty,

staff and students in

developing research

activities, searching for

external funding oppor-

tunities and assisting

with the development

and submission of fund-

ing proposals.

“Formula for

breakthroughs in

research: Take

young researchers,

put them together

in virtual seclu-

sion, give them an

unprecedented de-

gree of freedom and

turn up the pres-

sure by fostering

competitiveness.”

James Watson

1962 Nobel Prize

Winner

Click here to learn

more about support

offered in the area of

Undergraduate Re-

search.

Grantsmanship Center Funding Search Database

PSU Students Awarded Travel Funds to Present Research Findings at Conferences

P A G E 5 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2

Congratulations to the undergraduate students below who have been awarded funding

from Graduate and Continuing Studies after being selected by academic conferences to pre-

sent research findings.

Krystal Davis, Taylor Cunningham, Julie Adkins and Kayla Barbour from the Sustaina-

bility, Society and Resource Management Program will travel to the International Sym-

posium on Society and Resource Management to present The Impact of hedonic rele-

vance and green advertising appeals on consumer purchase intentions of “green” prod-

ucts.

Micah Black from the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences will travel

to the Midwest Political Science Undergraduate Research Conference to present The

Death Penalty Debate: Critical Legal Theory…

Heidi Kuehn from The Writing Center will travel to The Future of Writing Centers

Symposium to present Personality and Consulting Style.

Tim Boekemier from the Writing Center will travel to The Future of Writing Center

Symposium to present Revising the Close Vertical Transcription Process.

Kori Bower and Amanda Tompkins will travel to the 2013 Society for Research in Child

Development Biennial Meeting to present Stress and Coping Among Immigrant Indian

Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities.

PSU students who are selected to present research at a conference are eligible for up to $300

in travel funds from Graduate and Continuing Studies. For more information view the PSU

undergraduate research support webpage: http://www.pittstate.edu/office/grants/

undergraduate-research-program.dot

the Office of Graduate and

Continuing Studies. Faculty

Pittsburg State University

faculty and staff now have

access to the Grantsmanship

Center Funding Search Data

Base. Graduate and Continu-

ing Studies has purchased

three licenses to the data-

base. It can be accessed at the

Leonard H. Axe Library Ref-

erence Desk. The database is

also available at the College

of Technology Library and in

and staff can log in and

complete a funding search

related to their topic of

interest. The database con-

tains government, founda-

tion and corporate funding

information. The amount

of use the database gets

will be tracked throughout

2013 to determine future

university funding search

needs.

PSU’s First Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Support Contract

PSU Research and

Grants Administra-

tion also provides

research integrity

administration includ-

ing the protection of

human research sub-

jects approval pro-

cess and the investi-

gation of research

integrity violations.

For additional information regarding Research and Grants, please contact Mr. Brian Peery, research and grants coordinator, in the Office of Graduate and Continuing Studies.

112 Russ Hall

620-235-4175

bpeery@pittstate.edu

Research and

Grants

Administration

In The News... Six Pittsburg State University under-

graduate students presented posters

about research projects they have been

conducting this year at the Kansas State

Capitol. On April 3, 2013 the PSU stu-

dents joined undergraduate students

from other Kansas State Universities in

presenting their undergraduate research

posters to Kansas State Legislators. The

students participating from PSU were:

Sierra Foster, Biology; Josh Wormington,

Biology; Samantha Young, Biology;

Coleton Caldwell, Chemistry; Chris

Ward, Biology; Trevor Harris, Biology.

Dr. Cheryl Giefer, nursing, was the

guest speaker at the 2013 Graduate

School and Research Awards Ban-

quet where she also received the Out-

standing Faculty Scholarship Award.

Dr. Lynette Olson, provost

and vice president of academ-

ic affairs and Dr. Steve Scott,

university president discuss

the impact of research at the

2013 Research Colloquium.

The Colloquium was held

Monday, April 15, 2013 and

consisted of 32 oral presenta-

tions and 31 poster presenta-

tions.

P A G E 7

Federal Announcements Opportunity Title Agency Close Date

Investing in Innovation Fund, Scale- up Grants CFDA 84.411A DOE P:5/23/2013

F:7/2/13

Short Courses on Innovation Methodologies in the Behavioral HHS P:6/03/13

and Social Sciences F:7/03/13

Closing the Gap in Healthcare Disparities through Dissemination NIH P:6/14/13

and Implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research F:7/31/13

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) TRE 05/31/2013

Tax Counseling for the Elderly TRE 05/31/2013

Maternal and Child Health Workforce development Centers HRSA 06/07/2013

Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention Veteran’s HHS 06/07/2013

Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing Program

Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start ACF 06/28/2013

Innovative Measurement Tools for Community Engagement NIH Open

Research Efforts

Education Research and Special Education Research Grant ED 09/04/2013

Program

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources NEH 07/18/2013

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Medical SAMSA 06/05/2013

Professional Training Program

Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career DOL 06/18/2013

Training Grants Program (TAACCCT)

Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers NSF 08/26/2013

Education and Human Resources Core Research Program NSF 07/12/2013

Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research HUD 05/29/2013

Grant Program

Technical Assistance and Dissemination To Improve Services ED 06/03/2013

and Results for Children With Disabilities: Center on Dispute

Resolution

T H E G R A N T S A N D R E S E A R C H R E V I E W

For additional

information on

current federal

announcements

or other updated

grant information

available from the

U.S. Government,

please visit

grants.gov or con-

tact Mr. Brian

Peery at (620) 235-

4175.

Federal Announcements (cont.) Opportunity Title Agency Close Date

University Center Economic Development Program Competition DOC 06/17/2013

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program: Short-Term ED 06/13/2013

Projects

Collections in Support of Biological Research NSF 07/16/2013

Methods Development in Natural Products Chemistry NIH P:7/2/13

F:8/2/13

Research Career Enhancement Award for Established Investigators NIH Open

Collaborative Research in Integrative Cancer Biology NIH 06/18/2013

Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences NSF 07/02/2013

Water Sustainability and Climate NSF 09/10/2013

Hydrologic Sciences NSF 06/03/2013

Integrated Earth Systems NSF 11/14/2013

Supplemental and Alternative Crops Competitive Grants Program USDA 06/14/2013

Emerging Markets Program USDA 05/28/2013

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources NEH 07/18/2013

Bridging Cultures Through Film: International Topics NEH 06/12/2013

Grants for Arts Projects: Design: Art Works NEA 06/01/2013

Training and Information for Parents of Children With Disabilities: ED 06/10/2013

Parent Training and Information Centers

Science for Sustainable and Healthy Tribes EPA 06/25/2013

Conservation Innovation Grant USDA 06/07/2013

Mathematical and Statistical Methodologies for DOE Data- DOE 07/09/2013

Centric Science at Scale

Defense Sciences Research and Technology DARPA 05/02/2013

Physics Frontiers Centers NSF 08/05/2013

Instrument Development for Biological Research NSF 05/02/2013 .

Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder NIH 05/07/2016