Old Dominion Seven faculty members have been awarded $5,000 each in this year's Summer Faculty Fellowship Program competition.
The grants provide funds to conduct research or creative projects for an eight-week period during the summer. The funds are generated by overhead dollars of grants and contracts managed through the Old Dominion University Research Foundation. The program provides the set stipend of $5,000 plus extra expenses of up to $1,000 for certain projects. "The quality of proposals submitted this year was quite high," said Robert L. Ash, associate vice president for academic affairs. "Since this program uses a selection process that approximates national grant competitions, we hope that the faculty members who have participated in the process feel that they have gained a better understanding of how to put together a competitive research proposal. We have already begun to work with a number of applicants to help them begin to develop research proposal submissions to agencies or foundations. "It is our hope that this relatively small number of awards is a temporary problem that will be overcome by increases in our research funding base. An important element of the Summer Faculty Fellowship Program is the sense of collegiality that occurs when funds generated in research areas which can attract external support are used to help our younger faculty become significant scholars in their own right. "Not only do many of them produce substantial returns on these investments, but virtually all of the recipients begin to develop their own distinctive research programs which represent the future strength of Old Dominion University." The following faculty are the recipients of this year's awards:
awards 7 grants
to faculty for
summer research
JIE CHEN, associate professor of political science and geography, "Political Apathy in Post-Deng China: A Public Opinion Survey in Beijing, China."
SHERI COLBERG, assistant professor of exercise science, physical education and recreation, "The Diabetic Athlete's Guide to Blood Sugar Control During Exercise: A Practical Approach."
JUANITA R. COMFORT, assistant professor of English, "Critical Studies in Rhetoric: Contemporary African-American Women Essayists."
JAMES P. JOHNSON, assistant professor of business administration, "The Effects of Economic Liberalization on the CompetitiveMABLE H. SMITH-PITTMAN, associate professor of nursing, "Clinical Nurses' Perceptions of Legal Issues in Practice."
CHARLES I. SUKENIK, assistant professor of physics, "Experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics."ness of Latin American Multinational Enterprises."
THE COURIER ONLINE