Faculty Awards and GrantsGOVERNMENT GRANTS AWARDED TO CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGEJuly 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 Overview
As of January 1, 2011, the Office of Sponsored Research was restructured to separate out the CMC functions and the Keck Science functions. The W.M. Keck Science Department is now served by a new Keck Science sponsored research office that has been formed under the leadership of Dean Hansen and is directed by Dr. Bidushi Bhattacharya. Non-science grants continue to be handled within the Dean of the Faculty’s office by existing staff including Dianna Graves, Director of Academic Planning, and Cindi Guimond, Director of Academic Administration.
To date, in 2011-2012, CMC faculty have submitted nine grant proposals worth $1,451,947. Two grants were recently awarded totaling $74,999. Three grants are still pending with the National Science Foundation and five grants have been declined. Recent Faculty Awards • Professor S. Brock Blomberg of the Robert Day School was awarded an additional $35,000 as a sub-award recipient for his work on a grant awarded by the Department of Homeland Security to the University of Southern California Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (USC-CREATE). Professor Blomberg is collaborating with USC on a project titled “Modeling and Estimating the Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism.” His work provides an understanding of the underlying macroeconomic consequences of terrorism. • Associate Professor of Mathematics, Leonid Fukshansky, was awarded a $39,999 National Security Agency Young Investigators Grant. His project entitled, “Some problems in geometric lattice theory” is in the general areas of Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, and Number Theory, more specifically dealing with several closely interrelated problems in the geometric theory of lattices. Active Grants • Professor of Psychology, Diane Halpern, and Associate Professor Keith Millis of Northern Illinois University were awarded a grant from the Department of Education for $243,000 for their project “Acquiring Research Investigative and Evaluative Skills (ARIES) for Scientific Inquiry.” Developed and submitted in 2005-2006; awarded in 2006-2007. A no-cost extension for this award period was recently approved. • Professor of Psychology, Wei-Chin Hwang, received a grant for $270,589 from the National Institutes of Health for a project titled “Therapist Factors that Predict Treatment Outcomes Among Ethnic Minority Clients.” Developed, submitted, and awarded in 2007-2008. A no-cost extension for this award period was recently approved. • Professor of Psychology, Wei-Chin Hwang, received a grant for $226,568 from the National Institutes of Health as a subaward recipient on a grant from University of California, Davis. His project, “Therapist factors that predict treatment outcomes among ethnic minority groups” helps determine if therapists’ level of cultural competency is associated with client outcomes above and beyond other therapist factors, provide scientific support for the cultural competency movement and help researchers better understand how to improve cultural competency trainings. • Professor of Government, Minxin Pei, was awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his work entitled, “’Tombstone’” Translation Project.” This funding was provided for the English translation of an edited version of the book Mubei (Tombstone), published by Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng in Hong Kong in 2008. A no-cost extension was recently approved. Pending Grants • Associate Professor of Mathematics, Mark Huber, submitted a $217,155 proposal to the National Science Foundation for his project entitled, “Analysis of the Paired Product Estimator for approximating partition functions.” The purpose of the project is to find Monte Carlo methods for approximation of the partition function of Gibbs distributions and has wide applications in model selection, exact p values, posterior analysis, and approximation algorithms for NP and #P complete problems. • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Deanna Needell, submitted a $214,170 proposal to the National Science Foundation for her project entitled, “Generalized compressive signal processing.” The proposed research will generalize and extend the modern theory of compressive signal processing (CSP). The major goal is to develop a theory which broadens the scope of CSP to include many applications of interest. • Assistant Professor of Economics, Cameron Shelton, submitted a $26,197 proposal to the National Science Foundation in collaboration with colleagues at several liberal arts colleges to fund a series of annual workshops for macroeconomics at liberal arts colleges. These workshops will be held over a five year period to generate participant research and network building. • Assistant Professor of History, Albert Park, was awarded a $50,654 the Fulbright Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, Institute for State Governance Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2010-2011. His project is entitled, “Agrarian Modernism: Religion and Utopian Agrarian Movements in Colonial Korea, 1925-1937.” • Associate Professor of Mathematics, Mark Huber, was awarded a $115,176 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for his project entitled, “Perfect sampling techniques for high dimensional integration.” The proposal focused on perfect sampling methods, which are true algorithms for obtaining random variates exactly from a desired distribution.
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