Bragging Rights - Grants, Gifts, & Contracts
Scott Baier, $51,623 from the National Science Foundation, to study the causes and consequences of the trend toward regional agreements in international trade.
Angela Dills and Dennis Placone, $24,999 from the National Council on Economic Education, to study teacher knowledge and effectiveness in teaching economics.
The John E. Walker Department of Economics received a four year grant of $624,600 from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, to establish a joint bachelors degree program in Economics with the Universite' Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. The bulk of the funds will be awarded as student stipends to cover the cost of travel and housing while studying abroad in Europe. Raymond Sauer (Economics) and Mark McKnew (Management) are the PIs on this project.
Curtis Simon and John Warner are working on a grant valued at $157,428 from the U.S. Department of Defense. Along with graduate student Sebastian Negrusa, Simon and Warner are continuing their research program which examines how monetary and other incentives affect reenlistment.
John Leininger of the Department of Graphic Communications was awarded a grant by the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF). EDSF will sponsor an industry survey of vendors and printers in the commercial print industry. This survey is being done in conjunction with InfoTrends, an industry research company. The award is for $5,000.
Kathy Kegley is co-investigator for the $2 million SC LIFE project funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
June Pilcher, professor of psychology, is the Principal Investigator on 1) a Department of Defense Award through the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland: Stress, Fatigue, and Language Abilities (valued at $156,423); 2) an $80, 959 award from Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System for the State-of-the-Art Patient Room Design Research Program, and 3) an $47,884 award from ION Healthcare (Richmond, Virginia) Clinical Validation of Sleep Apnea Disease Management Program.
Sam Ingram and Jay Sperry, Graphic Communications faculty members, completed development efforts for printing conductive polymers, a key technology for enabling electronics printing. The project was a collaborative effort with Stephen Foulger and Moon Gyu Han of the Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies of Clemson University. A full patent titled “Flexographic Printing with Conductive Colloidal Inks Composed of Polyaniline Coated Poly(butyl methacrylate) Particles” has been applied for in place of the current utility patent.
David Bodde was awarded a $74,000 grant for fuel cell market research from the Savannah River National Laboratory through Clemson’s South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies.
William B. Gartner, Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Kelly G. Shaver, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the College of Charleston, were awarded approximately $150,000 for a three-year grant in support of the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.