Research Conference Grant Competition

FY08 winners:

• Dr. Doug Hamman, College of Education

  $3,809 for a proposal entitled, “Educational Research with a Purpose: Improving Teaching, Learning and Assessment.”

  Co-Organizers:

  Dr. Sylvia Mendez-Morse, College of Education
  Dr. Eugene Wang, College of Education
  Dr. Comfort Pratt, College of Education

• Dr. Charles Klein, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Landscape Architecture

  $8,600 for a proposal entitled, “Urban Ecology and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Landscapes.”

  Co-Organizers:

Dr. Mark Wallace, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resource Management
Dr. Clint Boal, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resource Management
Dr. Gad Perry, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resource Management

• Dr. Stephan Maas, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Plant and Soil Science

  $2,000 for a proposal entitled, “22nd Biennial Workshop on Aerial Photography, Videography, and High-Resolution Digital Imagery for Resource Assessment.”

  Co-Organizers:

Dr. Aderbal Correa, ICASALS
Dr. Seiichi Nagihara, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geosciences

• Dr. Michael Parkinson, College of Mass Communications

  $6,000 for a proposal entitled, “Measuring the Hispanic Audience: A research colloquium sponsored by the College of Mass Communications and the Institute for Hispanic and International Communications.”

  Co-Organizers:

Dr. Kenton Wilkinson, College of Mass Communications
Dr. Jorge Zamora, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Dr. Debra Laverie, Rawls College of Business

• Dr. Bill VanPatten, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures

  $7,518 for a proposal entitled, “Second Language Processing and Parsing: State of the Science.”

  Co-Organizer:

  Dr. Andrew Farley, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures