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Arne Kil degaard, Associate Professor of Economics and Management, has been selected to receive a Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) grant for $12,214. His project focuses on the economics of
distributed electricity generation from renewable resources.
Kildegaard's research will investigate the pricing formulas that
electric utilities use to compensate non-utility producers, and whether
these formulas accurately reflect the value of the "green power" to the
utility itself and to the market as a whole.
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Gord on McIntosh, Associate Professor of Physics, has been awarded a $97,063 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "Research at Undergraduate Institutions: SiO Master
Studies." The project will determine the integrated flux density of the
emission and velocity shifts of maser features in four different
vibrational states from Mira and R Cassiopeia. The phase dependence and
vibrational state dependence of any variations will be examined to look
for the effects of the possible passage of a shock through the
circumstellar material or other mechanisms that could produce the
observed variations. |
Tom McRoberts, Director of Continuing Education, Regional Programs, a nd Summer Session, and Center for Small Towns (CST) has received a $202,109 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation.
The funds will be used for the development and implementation for the
"Faculty and Student Fellows" program. This three-year program will
further connect communities with UMM to enhance regional community
development activites across western Minnesota. With its more than
10-year history of working on community-based, locally identified
issues, CST will utilize its staff, methodology, and resources to
provide neede assistance to communities in the region.
In addition, he was also awarded a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant of $399,494 in the Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC)
program. The grant will establish a partnership with the City of Morris
on a project called Adapting to Change: Managing Urbanization in Rural
America (Adapting to Change). Outreach and research activities will
focus on housing, economic development, and community organizing and
neighborhood revitalization, including Geographic Information Systems
Parcel Mapping; City of Morris Habitat for Humanity Chapter; Energizing
Entrepreneurship and Business Mentoring Project; Adopt a Grandparent
Program; and Take Back the Night/Operation Neighborhood Watch, among
others.
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Ted P appenfus, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded $144,273 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) CCLI program for the project "Integration of Conducting Polymers Across the
Undergraduate Curriculum." Pappenfus will work with chemistry
colleagues Nancy Carpenter, Jennifer Goodnough and Timothy Soderberg to expand on established approaches ofcreating a chemistry curriculum
that is more interdisciplinary regarding both teaching and research. |
Engin Sungur, Professor of Statistics, is the UMM principal investigator
par ticipating in the University of Minnesota 's recent grant from the Bush Foundation for $990,000. The project, entitled Enhancing Student Learning through
Innovative Teaching and Technology Strategies , includes all campuses
of the University and focuses on the improvement of student learning
through faculty development and coordination, faculty/student
interactions, and the use of assessment to shape teaching. |
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Uni versity of Minnesota, Morris is one of only 11 sites selected to
receive funding for the Biomass Research and Development Initiative, a
joint effort of the USDA and the Department of Energy. The UMM award
will benefit the biomass gasification project, a comprehensive
demonstration of a community-scale biomass energy system. |
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