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Faculty Research

Summer Experience Enhancing Collaborative Research (SEECR)

Purpose
SEECR (pronounced "seeker") is an intramural program that will fund pilot projects involving collaboration of  two (2) ODU faculty members from two (2) different colleges.  The goal of the program is to inspire greater numbers of collaborations among faculty and to assist pairs of faculty in obtaining pilot data as background for submission of proposals to federal funding agencies.

Eligibility
Old Dominion University faculty who are tenure-track or tenured are eligible.  Faculty will be funded in pairs, and funding will be based upon both the merit of the proposed project and upon cross-disciplinary breadth.  The only constraints are that 1) the project must constitute a new collaboration, and 2) the research projects must be multi-disciplinary.

Award Amounts
The award includes a stipend of $6,000 for the summer effort.  In addition, up to $5,000 will be available to the pair for supplies, equipment, or part-time assistance (e.g. graduate or undergraduate student assistant).

Proposal Submission Deadlines

  • Deadline for Submission of Proposals to Dean: Friday, October 26, 2012 
  • Deadline for College Deans to submit all proposals to the Office of Research: Monday, November 19, 2012

SEECR RFP

SRFP & SEECR Proposal Administrative Form (required) 

 SEECR Timeline for Fall 2012 Submissions

Monday, August, 20, 2012 - Call for proposals sent via e-mail to colleges/departments.

Friday, October 26, 2012 - Deadline for proposal submission to Dean.

Monday, November 19, 2012 - College Deans submit all proposals to Office of Research which forwards them to Committee D for review, complete with all college recommendations.

Friday, January 25, 2013 - Committee D recommendations submitted to the Office of Research.

Monday, February 4, 2013 - Announcement of awards.

Friday, August 30, 2013 - Final Reports and post-award travel budgets due.

  

 2012 SEECR Award Recipients

 Jin Wang (Mathematics & Statistics) and Gene Hou (MAE), “New Formulation and Algorithm for Fluid-Structure Interaction Study.”

 

Thomas Chapman (Political Science & Geography) and Cherng Jyh Yen (Educational Foundations & Leadership), “School Performance in Context: A Geospatial Framework for Understanding the Influence of Community Factors on Educational Achievement in Hampton Roads.”

 

Miguel Padilla (Psychology) and N. Rao Chaganty (Mathematics & Statistics), “Correcting Measurement Error in Psychometric Models via Multiple Imputation.”

 

Wu He (Information Technology & Decision Sciences) and Silvana Watson (Communication Disorders & Special Education), “Tracking Pre-Service Special Education Teachers’ Field Experience.”

 2011 SEECR Award Recipients

Sheri R. Colberg-Ochs (Human Movement Sciences) and C. Thomas Somma (Medical Laboratory & Radiation Sciences), "The Effect of Exercise Type on Postprandial Glycemia, Heart Rate Variability, and Mood in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes."

Yaohang Li (Computer Science) and Jiang Li (Electrical & Computer Engineering), "Large Scale Manifold Learning and its Application in Biomedical Research."

Dimitrie C. Popescu (Electrical & Computer Engineering) and Stephan Olariu (Computer Science), "TRENDS: A Cyber-Physical System for Traffic-Related Event Detection and Dissemination."

Hongwei Zhu (Information Technology & Decision Sciences) and Bruce Rubin (Finance), "Game-Based Financial Literacy and Computational Thinking." 

 2010 SEECR Award Recipients

Poornima Madhavan (Psychology, College of Sciences) and Michael Seiler (Finance, College of Business and Public Administration), 'Using Ocular Tracking Technology to Examine the Cognitive Dimensions of Residential Real Estate Sales."

 2009 SEECR Award Recepients

Tal Ezer (Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, College of Sciences) and Hua Liu ( Political Science, College of Arts and Letters), "Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Inundation Ocean Models to Map Coastal Areas and Improve Flood Predications."

Lesley Greene (Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Sciences) and Gon Namkoong (Electrical & Computer Engineering, Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology), "Application of Nanotechnolog to Study Amyloid Fibril Structure, Formation and Inhibition."

Anna Jeng (Community and Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences) and Guoqing Zhou (Engineering Technology, Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology), "Modeling and Analysis for Cervical Cancer Incidence with the Environmental Factors: A Case Study of Two Counties, China."

Jindong Mao (Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Sciences) and Yuzhong Shen (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology), "Characterization of Insoluble Organic Matter from Carbonaceous Meteorites by Advanced Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Computer Fitting."

 

2008 SEECR Award Recipients 

Margaret J. Pitts (Communication & Theatre Arts, College of Arts & Letters) and Kimberly Adams Tufts (Nursing, College of Health Sciences), "Barriers to and Facilitators of Effective Family Discussions and Decision Making about the State Mandated Hpv Vaccine." 

2007 SEECR Award Recipients

Gianluca DeLeo (Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences, College of Health Sciences) and Karen Kott (Physical Therapy, College of Health Sciences),  "Virtual Reality for Treadmill Training: Improving Functional Ambulation in Children with Cerebral Palsy."

Daniel L. Dickerson (Curriculum Instruction, Darden College of Education) and Craig O. Stewart (English, College of Arts & Letters), "Framing Sciences: Educational and Rhetorical Perspectives and Outcomes."

Russell Haines (Information Technology and Decision Sciences, College of Business and Public Administration) and Ivan Ash (Psychology, College of Sciences),  "Cognitive Impediments to Learning in a Dynamically Complex Environment."

Alfredo Urzua (English, College of Arts and Letters) and Edwin Gomez (Early Childhood, Speech-Language Pathology and Special Education, Darden College of Education),  "International Students in the U.S.: Exploring the Role of Sociolinguistic Acculturation, Social Networking and Leisure Involvement on Social Cultural Identity & Adjustment to University Life."

2006 SEECR Award Recipients

Tom Cash (Psychology, College of Sciences) and Rita DeBate (Community Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences), "Computer-Assisted Assessment of the Intra-Individual Variability and Level of Body Image Experiences."

Jie Chen (Political Science/GPIS, College of Arts & Letters), and Shaomin Li (Business Administration, College of Business),  "The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in the Democratizatin Process: A Cross-Country Study."

H. Anna Jeng (Community Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences), and James Swanson (Biological Sciences, College of Sciences),  "Teratogenic Responses to Nanoparticles in Mouse Embryos."

Yuping Liu (Marketing, College of Business) and Yvette Pearson (Philosophy, College of Arts and Letters),  "Direct to Consumer Marketing of Genetic Tests and Services: Moral Perils & Practical Solutions."