ODU ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF SUMMER RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS
The 2011 Summer research grants totaling $6,000 each have been awarded to the following Engineering faculty. The grants, awarded in two categories - Summer Experience Enhancing Collaborative Research (SEECR) and Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) - were announced January 21.
Among the winners of the SEECR grants are:
Dimitrie C. Popescu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Stephan Olariu, professor of computer science, for their study "TRENDS: A Cyber-Physical System for Traffic-Related Event Detection and Dissemination."
SRFP grants have been awarded to:
- Yuzhong Shen, assistant professor of modeling, simulation and visualization engineering, for the study "Element Tetris: Cross Platform Serious Games for Learning Chemistry";
SEECR is a program that funds pilot projects involving collaboration of two ODU faculty members from 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.
Faculty may be in either full-time tenured or tenure-track positions. Faculty members are funded in pairs, and funding is based upon both the merit of the proposed project and cross-disciplinary breadth. The only constraints are that the project must constitute a new collaboration and that it must be multidisciplinary.
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 (such as a graduate or undergraduate student assistant).
The SRFP is for returning, full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty. The awards are designed to facilitate activities that will ultimately attract outside funding. Each award recipient will be expected to devote full time to his/her research for a continuous eight-week period during the summer. This program is sponsored by the Office of Research in collaboration with the Faculty Senate.
The award includes a stipend of $6,000 and up to $1,000 for justified expenses. These expenses may include travel to complete research during the period of the award. An additional $500 may be requested for post-award travel upon completion of the summer research.