Funded Proposal Abstracts
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
2007-2008
Sue Alborn-Yilek - U.S. Department of Education - Due to a shortage in Wisconsin for classroom teachers who are certified as English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers. The funding from this grant will be used to develop/revise curriculum for a program using alternative delivery system and a combination of on-campus face-to-face summer courses and off-campus online courses throughout the year. Some funds will also be used as stipends to teachers who have successfully completed courses within the program leading to licensure as an ESL teacher.
Dale Bernhardt - U.S. Department of Education: -Student Support Services- The purpose of the program is to increase the retention and graduation rates of eligible students.
The program offers an array of basic skills courses, tutoring and counseling. The basic skills courses include reading, writing, computer science, mathematics and science, and study skills. Individual subject area tutoring is provided to meet the participants needs. In addition the program provides personal counseling, academic advice and assistance, career counseling, and cultural enrichment programming.
Known as Student Support Services, UW Platteville has had support for this program since 1977. It is perceived as part of the institutional mission and is integrated into the academic mainstream.
Dennis Busch - U.S. Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service - These funds will be utilized to continue the data collection from the monitoring stations to improve conservation practice technical standards within the NRCS Field Office Technical Guide, produce scientific data that can be used to develop environmental protection legislation by WI-DNR, and provide needed input for the enhancement and/or improvement of existing conservation cost share programs at the local, state and federal levels.
Tom LoGuidice - U.S. Department of Education (collaboration) - This grant money will be used for implementing ACCESS-ed on the UW Platteville campus with new content, products, resources and other tangible documents.
Roberts, Matthew, Parker, Philip, & Thompson, Michael - Infrastructure at the Forefront: Development and Assessment of Two Pilot Courses - Funds from this grant will help with piloting two courses: “Understanding Infrastructure” and “Introduction to Infrastructure Engineering.” “Understanding Infrastructure” will be a course for non-engineering students and “Introduction to Infrastructure Engineering” will be a course taken by college engineering sophomores. This course will help the students begin to develop a broad understanding of the issues with regards to improving the infrastructure. It will be simultaneously taught with the “Understanding Infrastructure” course with significant teaming experiences between the classes to give the engineering students experience in multi-disciplinary teams. Both courses will participate in a service learning activity where the students will evaluate infrastructure in local communities and make recommendations to local leaders.
Jeffrey Huebschman - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Funds from this grant will purchase the Anabat unit that will be used to record bat echolocations.
Robert Schmitt, Performance Evaluation of Open Graded Base Course with Doweled & Nondoweled Transverse Joints on USH 18/151 - Funds from this grant will be used to complete the Phase II investigation for the Wisconsin Highway Research Program (WHRP). The purpose of this work plan is to provide details for Phase II of the investigation with focus on achieving the following objectives: (1) Investigate the minimum limiting temperature at which required density of HMA can be achieved with commonly used compaction effort; (2) Investigate the effect of density achieved “as-built” on water and air permeability and measure how density and permeability (as-built) affect asphalt pavement performance in Wisconsin; (3) Understand the inter-relations between HMA mixture properties (aggregate gradations and volumetrics), temperature and in-place density and permeability; (4) Establish target minimum temperatures that are needed to achieve permeability and density values suitable for use within contract specifications; (5) Develop temperature-stress profiles to provide guidelines for field compaction; (6) Quantify the effects of Warm Mix additives on the minimum temperature and the temperature-stress profiles.
Duane Ford - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation - This is a standard research agreement in which several participants will design, make and test a prototype of an ozone badge plastic holder suitable for use by children. The participants included, Dr. Duane Ford, Mr. Gregory Nelson and students, Mr. Jerry Johnson, Mr. Alan Minter, colleagues, and fifth grade students along with Mr. Bernie Harris and an undergraduate research assistant.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - Alliant Energy Foundation - Funds will be used to help fund the ArtsBuild education project.
Kyle Metzloff - American Foundry Society, Inc. -
Elmo J. Rawling, 3rd - American Chemical Society - These summer funds will be used to pay for a student research assistant in association with his grant that was funded for 2006-2009 from the American Chemical Society.
Kerie Wedige - Alliant Energy Foundation - The money from the Alliant Energy Foundation is for the Early Childhood Conference: “Celebrating & Creating Connections.” The 21st Annual Early Childhood Conference was held on the UW-Platteville Campus on Saturday, March 29, 2008. This conference is one of the largest conferences for childcare providers in southwest Wisconsin. It was founded 21 years ago to meet the needs of the community and local childcare providers so they wouldn’t need to travel to meet their continuing education requirements. The conference meets the requirements set forth by The Registry for child care providers for state certification.Out-of-state participants can earn CEU’s.
Diana Trendt - Target 2007 Campus Grant Program - Funds from this grant will be used to update the current student computer stations located in the Career Center Resource Center; which serve the needs of UW-Platteville’s student client base.
Hisham Abdel-Aal - WiSys Technology Foundation - Funds from this grant will be used to help complete the four following milestones: 1) Devising an optimal coating sequence based on studies, 2) Feasibility demonstration of wear reduction through optimal coating, 3) Presentation of enhanced tool concept based on studies, and 4) Development of initial prototype.
Hisham Abdel-Aal - WiSys Technology Foundation - These extra funds will be used to purchase supplies for the above research.
Chris Baxter - Consortium for Extension & Research in Agriculture & Natural Resources (CERANR) - Funding will be used for collection and analysis of manure samples and the effects of manure treatment on N availability. Second and final year of this grant.
Wendy Brooke - CIBER - Funding will supplement travel expenses for a trip to Guatemala to complete arrangements for a Short Travel Seminar to be offered at UWP. The trip will specifically focus on making arrangements for a course to be offered during Pre-Session. The course will highlight both the role of Multinational Corporations in Central American as well as Domestic Companies.
James Hamilton - WiSys Technology Foundation (Bridge Funds) - Funding from this grant will support a post doctoral position for further research on his applied research grant funded in 2007.
James Hamilton - WiSys Technology Foundation (Bridge Funds) - Funding from this grant will support a research assistant position for further research on his applied research grant funded in 2007.
James Hamilton - Applied Research - WiTag - Funding from this grant will be used to pay the PI for continued research on strip coatings, protectants, electrodes and decontamination films. Still needing to expand on its capabilities.
Sharon Klavins, Shane Drefcinski & Michael Penn - Office of Professional and Instructional Development - The proposed study creates an opportunity for interdisciplinary activities. The UWP faculty is currently revisiting its General Education plan for the campus. One idea for change is a series of general education courses which are team taught wit an interdisciplinary flavor. In particular, the campus has a very strong presence of Engineering and Technology. The combination of applied science with the natural sciences is a unique opportunity for students that will be further enhanced by integrating the humanities and social sciences. This study provides an opportunity for a first step toward interdisciplinary teaching of General Education. Assessment of the project should provide valuable information to faculty regarding interdisciplinary approaches to General Education. In particular, we will assess whether students are receptive to an interdisciplinary approach and whether this method of teaching provides an additional opportunity for professional development for the faculty.
Roger Meyer - Office of Academic & Student Services AODA Grant - Funding will be used for supplies, this will be a collaboration including students in the Intro to Marketing class. They will be looking at the social norms campaigns that exist on college campuses, evaluate how effective they are and making some decisions on how to make the campaign more effective.
Leigh Monhardt, David Braun y Harycki and William McBeth - Lesson Study - This funding will be used as a great opportunity to systematically reexamine our practices, with the goal being to attain more effective results during Admission Portfolio development in the School of Education Introduction to Education course. They plan to work collaboratively planning, teaching, observing and critiquing lessons about portfolio development that they predict will have a significant impact on the School of Education program.
Mesut Muslu & Philip Sealy - Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion (COBE) Grant - The main outcome of the project is an increase in availability of BSEE degrees to working adults and place-bound residents of Wisconsin. Funding will provide training for UWP Electrical Engineering staff on the use of educational equipment such as streaming video hardware and software, a smart-board, computers, document camera and others used for distance education.
April Schmidt - Office of Professional and Instructional Development - Funding will provide a conference with the goal of opening a dialogue between area high school English teachers and college writing and composition instructors on how to prepare high school students for college level writing instructions. Develop an awareness in secondary teachers the expectations of First-Year Composition programs and a means by which they might better prepare their students. Increase the success rate of first-year college students at UWP and other UW campuses.
Kristopher Wright - UW Consortium for Extension and Research in Agriculture and Natural Resources - Funds will be used to support student hourly pay for work performed in the field and in the laboratory for all the aquatic sampling of each riparian vegetation study plot.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - Southwest Wisconsin's Regional Economic Development Coalition (SWREDC) - Funds from this grant will support the “New Vision” project of the Southwest Wisconsin Regional Economic Development Coalition (SWREDC). Through this program, UW-Platteville will take a leadership role in reestablishing a regional economic development partnership to serve the six county region around Platteville. This one time funding is designed to help UW-Platteville rebuild the partnership with a new model for sustainability that will enable UWP to create synergies among the partners in support of economic development.
Chris Baxter - North Central Region - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - The primary outcomes of this project are 1) increasing awareness of farmers and agronomists on the effects that manure treatment can potentially have on nitrogen (N) availability, and 2) improving the precision of N-based manure recommendations based on laboratory analysis. An incubation study will be conducted using three soils representative of Wisconsin surface soils and 22 manure samples that represent untreated and treated manures. Rates of inorganic N release from the various manures will be evaluated and cumulative N released will be correlated to various compositional factors. Outputs will include fact sheets, scientific publications, and presentations aimed at producers, agronomists, and the scientific community. Outcomes will be evaluated through audience questionnaires and by quantifying the increased use of manure treatment and manure analysis for predicting available N.
Dale Bernhardt - U.S. Department of Education: -Student Support Services- The purpose of the program is to increase the retention and graduation rates of eligible students.
The program offers an array of basic skills courses, tutoring and counseling. The basic skills courses include reading, writing, computer science, mathematics and science, and study skills. Individual subject area tutoring is provided to meet the participants needs. In addition the program provides personal counseling, academic advice and assistance, career counseling, and cultural enrichment programming.
Known as Student Support Services, UW Platteville has had support for this program since 1977. It is perceived as part of the institutional mission and is integrated into the academic mainstream.
Louis Nzegwu - U. S. Department of Education - The funds from this grant will help with a new initiative titled Strengthening International Business with Emerging Markets in Africa-Global Partnership Program. This initiatives objectives are: 1) Enhance student global education competency and awareness, 2) Expand business curriculum through faculty development in international business, and 3) Strengthen services to local businesses through training, seminars, trade missions, and courses.
Michael Penn - U.S. Department of Agriculture - This is a collaborative grant that was first funded in 2001-2002. There were seven UW Madison faculty and two Wisconsin DNR scientists along with Mr. Penn involved in this. The funding for UWP will be used for continued field sample collection and quantification of sediment and phosphorus within the study watershed. Two undergraduates will be retained as research assistants.
Timothy Zauche collaboration- U.S. Department of Agriculture - The goal of this project is to develop and test a value-added structural building material from anaerobic digester solids. That is, to use the cellulosic material left after digestion of dairy manure as a substitute for wood pulp to make materials such as particle board. Properties such as particle size and moisture content will need to be determined and addressed as necessary. This new engineered biocomposite material will also need to be tested for strength and to determine optimal process condition for various uses and in different environmental conditions.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - Wisconsin Arts Board Challenge America - These funds will be used for salary for the ArtsBuild staff.
Jeffrey Huesbschman, collaboration with David Redell, Wisconsin DNR - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, State Wildlife Grant Program - This grant is a continuation of the development of Wisconsin's Bat Conservation & Management Plan that began in 2005 using guidelines developed by the North American Bat Conservation Partnership (NABCP). Specifically, they need to 1) identify bats to species and track their activity patterns in a dynamic landscape, and 2) monitor environmental conditions and population numbers within major hibernacula.
Kristopher Wright - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources State Wildlife Program - Funding from this grant will be used to; determine the current distribution and abundance of the Ozark Minnow in SW Wisconsin; identify suitable habitats for them where they are currently not found; investigate their hardiness for transplanting; determining if there are adequate quantities of existing populations for transplanting; and monitoring a reintroduction of the Ozark Minnow into select suitable habitats, should the potential for successful transplanting exist.
Private Funded:
Charles Cornett - Midwest Forensics Resource Center - This project assesses the potentially large impact that Fast Gas Chromatography (Fast GC) may have on the determination of ignitable liquids. Forensic Sciences: Review of Status and Needs clearly defines a need for further advances in this field; and current analytical literature appears to support Fast GC as a separation technique capable of comparable resolution to conventional GC in less time per sample. This research compares resolution capabilities of the two techniques in separating a wide range ignitable liquids in an array of matrices With sufficient resolution, Fast GC may help clear casework in a timelier manner.
Charles Cornett - Wisconsin State Crime Lab - This is a collaboration with WI State Crime Lab and funds will be coming from Midwest Forensics Resource Center. This project will address the need for the development of rapid, sensitive multi-elemental methods for the analysis of metal toxins in whole blood, which expands the range of inorganic analysis in toxicological investigations.
James Hamilton - Photonic Cleaning Technologies - Funding will be used to pay for student labor for writing a report on metrology of selected polymer behaviors and residues left on surfaces.
Randy Mentz - Lafayette Bio-Ag - These funds will be used to conduct odor research around the proposed project site of the Belmont Bio-Ag LLC about two miles south of Belmont. With the large number of animal units that will be a part of the operation, odor generation is a concern. A Nasal Ranger will be used to collect baseline odor data before construction begins. This data will allow them to discern existing odors from odors generated on-site once the project is underway.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - Alliant Energy Foundation - Funds from this grant will be used for instruction, project management, printing, postage, travel, facilities, refreshments, materials and supplies for ArtsBuild.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin - These funds will be used to pay for the printing and distribution of the ArtsBuild brochure, posters and bookmarks.
Elmo J. Rawling, 3rd - American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund - These funds will be used for a summer research fellowship with UW-Whitewater.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens - Dubuque Racing Association - Funding will be used to for the continuation and possible expansion of the workshops that have been so successful.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens - Alliant Energy Foundation - Funding will be used to for the continuation and possible expansion of the workshops for girls in grade 7-12 at local schools, these funds will be used to either purchase more tool kits or pay for travel.
Amanda Trewin & Jeffrey Huebschman - Arkhe Will, Co., Ltd - The funds will be used to testing of a new rodent repellent that is purpoted to be safe, effective, easy to apply, and that acts as a deterrent-thereby keeping the native fauna in the ecological community but limiting their damage. Primarily, our objective is this study is to test the effectiveness of the repellent of rodents from food.
UW System Funded:
Chris Baxter - Consortium for Extension & Research in Agriculture & Natural Resources (CERANR) - Funding will be used for collection and analysis of manure samples and the effects of manure treatment on N availability.
Gwen Coe - ESEA Title II Higher Education - Wisconsin Improving Teacher Quality (WITQ) - Participants will attend college courses on best practices in early literacy and early math integration Pre K-Grade Three, using data to scaffold and differentiate instruction. Participants will return to their school districts to provide inservice and mentoring to other teachers in their buildings. Participants will learn the best practices for assisting their students to achieve higher mental competencies in reading, writing and math. The number of pre-service participants is 180 indirectly and the number of in-service participants will be 50-80 directly and 100-160 indirectly with 31 administrators directly involved.
Kevin Concannon & Kory Wein - Institute on Race & Ethnicity - Campus Reading Seminar - The funds will be used to purchase 15 copies of the book, The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger. Discussion will be held between faculty and students regarding relationships between white identity, racism, class struggle, and institutional and cultural oppression.
JoDean Grunow - ESEA Title II Higher Education - Wisconsin Improving Teacher Quality (WITQ) - The workshops designed from this grant will help the participants gain knowledge of authentic assessment of students' conceptual understanding and interpretation of resultant data, to facilitate interpretation of large-scale assessment results gleaned from the WINSS Web site, and, through lesson study and analysis of effective instructional strategies, to formulate ways to address identified needs with prompt and effective interventions to, first of all, inform best practices in their own classrooms and, then, to share those findings with colleagues in mentoring/collaborating venture. The number of teacher participants is 50-80 directly, 100-160 indirectly; administrators, Pre-service/student teachers is 300 indirectly.
James Hamilton - Prototype Development Fund - These funds will be used for prototype conductive film development, surface residue evaluation, material testing of conductive polymers and an upgrade to the Atomic Force Microscope.
James Hamilton - Applied Research - WiTag - Funding from this grant will be used to pay the PI for continued research on strip coatings, protectants, electrodes and decontamination films. We have just broken through the surface on the uses of our findings and need to expand on its capabilities.
Greg Imbur & Tom LoGuidice - Institute on Race & Ethnicity - Campus Reading Seminar - The funds from this grant will be used to purchase two books, 1) Zora Neale Hurston: Zora Neal Hurston: A Life in Letters and 2) Dick Gregory: Callus on My Soul. There will be thirteen participants in this seminar.
Tom LoGuidice, Tom Hunt & Mark Zidon - Office of Professional & Instructional Development Conference Development Grant - This grant will be used to fund a conference used to involve new faculty to SoTL into practical classroom involvement about the Chancellor's priorities regarding the Stewardship farm and to engage faculty in Pioneer Farm curriculum and programming development.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - UW Extension Continuing Education - Funding from this grant will be used to link a new industry cluster that includes small organic farmers and others who grow and market agricultural products that are fresh, wholesome and marketed to consumers, retailers and restaurants within the immediate region with businesses.
Adam Stanley - Institute on Race & Ethnicity - Campus Reading Seminar - The funds will be used to purchase 15 copies of Leo Lucassen's book, The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850. The books will be read and discussed by a variety of faculty, staff and possible community members.
Laura Wendorff - Institute on Race & Ethnicity - Campus Reading Seminar - Funds from this grant will be used to obtain two chapbooks of poetry by Lisa Suhair Majaj, titled What She Said and These Words. There will be 10 female participants from the university for this reading seminar.
2005-2006
Federal Funded :
Dale Bernhardt - U.S. Department of Education: -Student Support Services- The purpose of the program is to increase the retention and graduation rates of eligible students.
The program offers an array of basic skills courses, tutoring and counseling. The basic skills courses include reading, writing, computer science, mathematics and science, and study skills. Individual subject area tutoring is provided to meet the participants needs. In addition the program provides personal counseling, academic advice and assistance, career counseling, and cultural enrichment programming.
Known as Student Support Services, UW Platteville has had support for this program since 1977. It is perceived as part of the institutional mission and is integrated into the academic mainstream.
Wei Li - National Science Foundation-RUI- The objective of the proposal is to apply in-depth trainings on advanced topics such as nanotechnology, photonics, and computer aided design/engineering. Undergraduate students will develop research interests in the future hi-tech endeavors in industry and /or academia. Some research results and simulation tools developed in this research program will be incorporated into two upper-level courses. The project will enhance our institution/s undergraduate engineering curriculum and benefit the planning MEM/Nanotechnology program directly.
Louis Nzegwu - United States Department of Agriculture - This pilot project is designed to build on the efforts and successes targeted to this important region of the world to date and further enhance the expected outcomes consistent with the mission of the Emerging Markets Program and related agricultural business and economic development initiatives.
Philip Parker - National Science Foundation - This research is clearly exploratory in nature, as it represents a preliminary study on an untested and innovative process. However, it has the advantage of drawing on and combining two established research areas: zone refining of industrial crystals and freeze concentration of aqueous solutions. The proposed work has the potential to catalyze a new area of research, with applications to be found in drinking water purification, chemical analysis of aqueous solutions, purification of industrial wastewaters, and the food preservation and storage industries.
Anthony Schaumburg, student - National Institute of Standards & Technology SURF Program/Gaithersburg, MD - Received an internship position at Gaithersburg, MD where he will be working with Ms. Terrie Wheeler from May 22 - August 11 of 2006 on the "Making the On-Line Catalog Intriguing to Millenials" project.
Gary Smith - USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service: Business outreach professionals from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) and University of Wisconsin-Extension will continue their work at the UWP Rural Business Enhancement Center. The center is guided by an advisory board of leaders from the public and private sectors. The center will identify strategic, high-growth industry clusters and develop an action plan that utilizes the region's comparative advantages within the clusters. Agribusiness will be an initial focus, specifically food and fiber conversion operations and related business services. The center will provide in-depth, comprehensive, business analysis, concept development, project management and general business management assistance to firms and individuals in all economically distressed regions, currently being underserved.
UW System:
Tameaka Bryant - UW System Institute on Race & Ethnicity - Funding will be used for the Ebony Weekend Conference hosted by the Black Student Union. The conference will focus on bridging the generation gap particularly in the African American community. Distinguished lecturers are also invited to speak with breakout sessions covering important issues in the Black community.
Kevin Concannon - UW System Institute on Race & Ethnicity - The funding of this proposal will be used to design an introductory course in contemporary US-Latina/o Literature. The course will be aimed at English and non-English majors and will be designed to encourage a greater awareness of US-Latina/o culture and history. This class will be the first of its kind here and will be considered part of its growing commitment to ethnic studies and the internationalization of its student body. To this end the course will be organized around a comparative ethnic focus and will examine issues of immigration, national identity and racism.
Petrina Eger - Philip Parker, Supervisor - UW System Solid Waste Research Program/Undergraduate - The purpose of this project is to determine the feasibility of expanding the recycling program at the Milprint facility located in Lancaster, WI. Milprint has four plants in Wisconsin and the Lancaster facility created 6.5 million pounds of landfill waste in 2004. This project will assess the amount of recyclable wrapper material which is being wasted, the option for separating the recyclable material from the non-recyclable material and methods for compacting the recyclable material so that it is in a suitable form for recycling. If feasible, this project would divert large amounts of waste from landfills and save landfill space. The program could also be applied to the other Milprint facilities in Wisconsin.
Carmen Faymonville - UW System Campus Reading Seminar - Funding will be for 19 participants to read and discuss Mae Ngai's "Impossible Subjects."
Thomas Hunt, Chris Baxter, & Dennis Busch - UW Consortium for Extension & Research in Agriculture & Natural Resources-CERANR - The objectives of this grant are to identify nitrogen recommendation strategies that produce optimum yields with lower risk to groundwater contamination, estimate the micro-economic implications of current nitrogen management scenarios at Pioneer Farm, and to promote/demonstrate the use of PSNT.
Tom Lo Guidice - UW System Campus Reading Seminar - Funding will be for 13 participants to read and take part in discussion regarding the book by Toni Morrison "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination."
Tom Lo Guidice - UW System - Lesson Study Training Grant.
Tim Zauche & Mike Compton - WiSYS Prototype Development Fund - The proposal is for developing a new formulation of digestor solids-based growing media that can be certified as an organic product. The funds will be used to determine the best material to use to adjust the pH and carry out growth studies.
State Funded:
Christina Curras - Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation - These funds will provide part-time paid internships to undergraduates in cooperation with Madison Area Technical College.
Rick Morgan - Wisconsin Environmental Education Board - Funding will be used for hands on experience with sampling, collecting, observing and describing individual habitats. Documentation provided to insure usefulness in the classroom for extended investigation. Participants will be provided with specific knowledge of the living "players" (producers, consumers and decomposers) within each habitat type, how the players interact with the non-living components and how they have adapted to survive.
Robert Schmitt - Midwest Regional University Transportation Center - WI DOT - The first objective of this study is to develop a database template, using the existing WisDOT pavement management system, from which to perform pavement performance analysis using design, construction, and performance data for Hot-Mix Asphaltic Pavements (HMA). The second objective of this study is to investigate appropriate numerical or statistical methods that have the potential of quantifying and establishing relationships between design, construction, and performance data. The research objectives will be achieved methodically with a work plan involving three tasks: (1) literature review, (2) review of pavement management systems, (3) database template development, and (4) final report.
Private Funded:
Kevin Bernhardt - North Central Risk Management Education Center - For three years a coalition of private and public organizations under the name of the Regional Dairy Modernization Task Force has coordinated educational events and one-one follow up with the mission of being a catalyst for dairy producers in the region to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to make and implement a modernization decision. This project will fund 1) a series of ten on-farm workshops titled "Pathways to Success", and 2) develop and implement a "Change the Attitude" campaign directed at the non-agricultural public.
Derek Dachelet - Anonymous - These funds will be used to help with Hurricane stricken Lakeshore Baptist Church in Mississippi for reconstruction.
Benjamin Shapira - The Liberace Foundation- Support from this grant has enabled us to create a very noticeable impact, indeed revolutionize, our entire orchestral program. In addition, by presenting our Liberace Artists on a high profile both on campus as well as in high school orchestral programs, it has enabled us to encourage and influence orchestral education throughout the K-12 system in the state of Wisconsin.
2004-2005
Federal Funded:
Max Anderson, Philip Parker & Michael Penn - National Science Foundation - The objective of this proposal is to revise the civil engineering curriculum by infusing an infrastructure theme throughout. The new curriculum will include a new class, "Introduction to Infrastructure," at the beginning of the second year which will specifically address infrastructure needs and the non-technical issues (such as financing, political process, etc.) that are often crucial to successful engineering projects. The objectives go far beyond adding a single class, the infrastructure concepts from the new class will be interwoven throughout the remainder of the curriculum to provide students with a better understanding of the challenges to be faced in improving, securing, and maintaining the national infrastructure. These are just a portion of what was proposed through this proposal.
Dale Bernhardt - U.S. Department of Education: -Student Support Services- The purpose of the program is to increase the retention and graduation rates of eligible students.
The program offers an array of basic skills courses, tutoring and counseling. The basic skills courses include reading, writing, computer science, mathematics and science, and study skills. Individual subject area tutoring is provided to meet the participants needs. In addition the program provides personal counseling, academic advice and assistance, career counseling, and cultural enrichment programming.
Known as Student Support Services, UW Platteville has had support for this program since 1977. It is perceived as part of the institutional mission and is integrated into the academic mainstream.
Alison Bunte - U.S. Department of Education- This Congressional Award will be used to support the development and delivery on an on-line teacher preparation curricula which will provide licensure for persons either employed with emergency licenses in schools or seeking an alternative method for obtaining licensure because they are time and place bound.
Thomas Hunt - U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service- This Congressional Award will be used for support and further development of the Rural Business Development Center at UW-Platteville. The Center's mission is to identify strategic, high-growth industry clusters for and within the Southwest Wisconsin region and to develop an action plan that utilizes the region's assets to further the region's comparative advantages within the clusters. Agribusiness is the initial focus for the Center, specifically food and fiber conversion operations and related business services.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)- Funding from this grant will be used to hold the eleventh annual, Women in Engineering Exploratory Career Camp in July of 2005.
Robert Schatz & UW Extension - USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service: Second year. Business outreach professionals from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) and University of Wisconsin-Extension will establish a new center at UWP for rural business enhancement. The center will be guided by an advisory board of leaders from the public and private sectors. The center will identify strategic, high-growth industry clusters and develop an action plan that utilizes the region's comparative advantages within the clusters. Agribusiness will be an initial focus, specifically food and fiber conversion operations and related business services. The center will provide in-depth, comprehensive, business analysis, concept development, project management and general business management assistance to firms and individuals in al economically distressed region, currently being underserved by private sector business development service providers.
Mark Zidon & Duane Ford with UWRF & UWSP - USDA Challenge Grants: The funds will be used to integrate service-learning across the colleges of agriculture, life sciences and natural resources to have our faculty and students planning and working together to enhance their curriculum while meeting community needs.
State Funded:
Christopher Baxter - UW Consortium for Extension & Research in Ag & Natural Resources (CERANR) - The funding will be used to find the effect of a potentially significant pool of mineral P in the sub-soil of southwest/western Wisconsin. There is a definite need to do a comprehensive evaluation of both the soils and the vegetation growing in high sub-soil P areas to determine if there is a long-term effect--Does the presence of the Rountree Fm. affect soil-vegetation P dynamics in the DA? These and other questions will hopefully be answered with this research.
Kevin Bernhardt - WI Department of Agriculture - The funds from this grant will be used to encompass four primary centers of activity: Dairy Summit III, Pathways to Success On-Farm Workshops, Communications, and Management of the Regional Dairy Modernization Task Force.
Amy Burbach - WI Department of Workforce Development - The money from this grant to pay for various accreditation fees, contractual & consultant fees and fees for a conference to be held at UWP on April 15 & 16.
Thomas Hunt - UW Consortium for Extension & Research in Ag & Natural Resources (CERANR) - The purpose of this project is to gain insight into field-scale nitrate and pesticide groundwater impacts of agriculture in the region represented by the Pioneer Farm, and to file this insight into WASI's research and outreach efforts directed toward agricultural practice improvement. Project goals are to (1) provide an initial assessment of hydrogeology at the Pioneer Farm, and (2) describe nitrate and pesticide impacts on Pioneer Farm groundwater.
Thomas Hunt & Christopher Baxter in collaboration with UW-Madison - UW Consortium for Extension & Research in Ag & Natural Resources (CERANR) - The goal of the proposed research is to characterize the effectiveness of new polymer technologies in reducing soil and phosphorous losses from agricultural fields. The specific objectives are to: 1) Evaluate the effectiveness of four polymer formulations using tap water and deionized water in laboratory tests, 2) Choose the most effective polymer formulation(s) from laboratory tests and perform rainfall simulation experiments on conservation till and no-till field plots, and 3) Evaluate the longevity of the polymer formulation(s).
Robert Schmitt & Samuel Owusu-Ababio - Wisconsin Highway Research Program - The objectives of this study are to: (1) determine the in-place permeability and density of HMA pavements that have documented performance records; (2) use this information to enhance the understanding of the inter-relations between HMA mixture properties, in-place permeability and pavement performance; and (3) establish target permeability and density values suitable for use within contract specifications.
Rob Snyder - Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation - The funds from this grant will be used to provide for the purchase of a 146GB SCSI drive for UW-Platteville's new Avid Express Pro non-linear editing system. The Avid is used in our Post Production course, an advanced field production class that is required of all broadcast majors. The Avid will also be used by the university's Television Services support unit for student produced projects such as our university's annual telethon for Wisconsin Badger Camp. The Avid is already receiving heavy use, thus the need for increased storage.
Carlos Wiley - WI Department of Public Instruction - Bike-A-Rama will be a one-week residential camp in July. The objectives of this event is: work toward closing the achievement gap between economically disadvantages students, students of color and their peers; encourage students to take an interest in mathematics and science; encourage pursuit of goals through higher education and develop their self esteem; make career connections with professionals in mathematics and science careers; and reduce barriers to student success.
Carlos Wiley - WI Department of Public Instruction - Leadership and Career Exploration will be a two-week residential camp in June including Saturday and Sunday. The students will be housed in one of our residence halls and they will participate in workshops about college life. The objectives of this event is: work toward closing the achievement gap between economically disadvantages students, students of color and their peers; create strong student leaders; encourage pursuit of goals through higher education and develop their self esteem; make career and technical connections; involve students in becoming active leaders in their community and to better understand their role in their family, society, and the world; and reduce barriers to student success.
UW-System:
Max Anderson and Ben Wood - UW-System Solid Waste Undergraduate Research Program- This project is intended to analyze the food the food waste generated at the Pioneer Student Center on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Campus. The primary objective is to research the possibilities for reusing food that would otherwise be discarded. This food could either be reused within the Pioneer Student Center or be donated to local charities. If practical reuse strategies are implement, the Pioneer Student Center would ultimately be reducing their solid waste production.
Gary Smith - UW Extension- UWP Small Business Development Center will partner with other WEN Outreach Centers, WEN Regional Directors, and other entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) in order to better serve the needs of nascent, start-up and established small firms in the state. The goals of WEN Outreach Centers are to: reduce the number of forms and offices for an entrepreneur to work with; act faster, be more transparent, and be more flexible in delivering services; coalesce the services of WEN into a more unified resource for entrepreneurial technical assistance, education and training; encourage regional collaboration and regional leadership in entrepreneurial development; increase survival rate for business start-ups over the current Small Business Administration (SBA) average survival rate of 50% of all small businesses after three years; increase requests for assistance from both emerging and existing business owners; create new businesses and jobs; and identify economic impact generated for services in support of WEN.
James Hamilton - UW System Applied Research- Most of the funding from this grant will be used to purchase a Wyatt Technologies Mini Dawn Scattering detector, the new standard for determining absolute polymer properties. Surface cleanliness is of paramount importance in semiconductor fabrication, satellite and telecommunications manufacturing as well as in the biotech, laser, and photonics industries. The industries prefer to be able to see the material on the surface and color is required, but residue left by dyes and other colorants is unacceptable to all. To be able to consider moving into consumer and other large markets aside from high end astronomical telescopes, it turns out to be absolutely essential in the commercialization of this polymer strip coating to incorporate color. Student researchers will work to synthesize polymers and then analyze them on instrumentation within the department.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW System Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant - The funding from this proposal will be used for developing a Cadre of SoTL faculty, including sixteen faculty and a workshop speaker to come in.
Marian Maciej-Hiner and Heidi Dyas-McBeth - UW Continuing EDvantage & UW-Extension Outreach & E-Learning- Arts Build is a targeted economic development project for southwest Wisconsin artists that began in April 2004 through a Continuing EDvantage grant from UW-Extension. The program has exceeded all expectations, and this supplement funding will allow expansion to serve additional entrepreneurs and also add all new program components in response to participant feedback received from over 165 Arts Build entrepreneurs.
Fahmida and Abulkhair Masoom - UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity for Campus-Based Reading Seminars - With the world being in so much turmoil these days and religion being used so frequently by the media to explain the roots of most conflicts, there is a strong need for understanding and tolerance between people of different faiths and ethnic origins. The funding from this grant will be used to conduct a series of six two hour seminars based on three books- one each on Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The Complete Idiot's Guide series has well-researched and comprehensive books on all three-subject areas, which are easy to follow for the non-believer of that faith. Two sessions will be devoted to each of the three faiths, with the panel of ten participants to include a student from Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, faculty and academic staff from engineering, education, and agriculture representing the Sunni and Shi'a viewpoint of Islam, Judaism and Catholicism, academic staff from the Children's Center who have to accommodate the needs of children of different faith, a Jewish elementary school teacher who is married to a Catholic, a Lutheran Church pastor, and a community volunteer who is a Quaker.
Roger Meyer - UW-System AODA Phase II of DOT Grant- The funds from this grant will be used to implement two programs. These programs include: Designated Driver Program with the goal to reduce drinking and driving by UWP students and the Safe Spring Break Party Challenge whose goal is to illustrate to students that alcohol is not necessary to have fun at house parties. Two UWP students will be hired to assist in implementing these programs.
Roger Meyer - UW-System AODA Environmental Assessment Grant- The grant funds will be used to provide salaries and training expenses for the Project Coordinator and the Project Assistant. In addition, training expenses for one member of the Coalition will also be included. A digital camera will be purchased to assist in documenting the results of the screening exercises. Remaining costs involve duplicating of materials and general office expenses.
Philip Parker & Teresa Brunner - UW-System Solid Waste Undergraduate Research Program- The United States currently recycles approximately 28 percent of solid waste. One problem that could contribute to a higher recycling rate would be more adequate and available recycling receptacles. The proposed sixteen-week, two-phase project will use questionnaires and observations to assess and compare student attitudes and behaviors concerning recycling. The surveys will be distributed before and after alternative recycling containers are implemented. The analyses will determine the correlation between recycling receptacle availability, visibility, and ease-of-use and the improvement of student attitudes and behaviors toward recycling. Additional information for comparison regarding the recycling behaviors of students at UW-Platteville will be investigated by interviewing building custodians and the local waste management company.
Timothy Zauche & Michael Compton - WiSys Prototype Development Fund - The goal of this proposal is to experiment with the percentage of manure digester solids and coarse aggregate to develop a new horticultural growing medium specialized for container production of terrestrial orchids, they will be using Yellow Lady Slipper, Cypripedium pubescens and Showy Lady Slipper, Cypripedium reginae.
Private Funded:
Timothy Deis - Mathematical Association of America - Funding from this grant will support the TTM network at two meetings at UWP from December 15, 2004 - 2006. This grant is for the Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers project. Funding for this mini-grant comes from the National Science Foundation Grant DUE-0230847.
Duane Ford - Blackhawk Technical College & Southwest Wisconsin Technical College - Both colleges have committed to $10,000 each to help fund the position of Director of the southwest Wisconsin Southwest Business Development Center. In exchange for Blackhawk Technical Colleges support, they will look forward to having the new director provide small business consultant services at their campus in Monroe, WI on the average of one day a week. Southwest Wisconsin Technical College will also benefit with the director spending one day a week on their campus in Fennimore, WI.
Kyle Metzloff - Cast Metals Institute - The money from Cast Metals Institute is for a training session that will be held at UWP from June 20th - 24th of 2005. The training session will be for approximately 24 students on "Gating and Rising Design-Ferrous". Funds will provide for a faculty member and a graduate student.
J. Elmo Rawling - American Chemical Society - This project will provide the first numerical age control of strata from the central sands of Wisconsin and will include significant undergraduate participation. These strata likely hold the key to understanding the arid middle Holocene, a time so dry it is typically marked by the absence of terrestrial eolian landforms on the Great Plains. This robust understanding of eolian deposits in the central sands will be achieved by mapping, stratigraphic description, sedimentology and numerical age estimates. Specifically, this project will test the hypothesis that eolian modification in the humid Midwest occurred during similar times in the Holocene as extensive eolian activity in the Great Plains.
Robert Schmitt and Samuel Owusu-Ababio - Midwest Region University Transportation Center - The funds from this proposal will be used to (1) develop a comprehensive guide to statistics for use in maintenance quality assurance (MQA) programs, and (2) synthesize case studies of agencies with effective MQA programs (as a severable deliverable).
John Simonson - Alliant Energy & Clare Family Foundation - The money from this grant will help with the publishing of the bi-monthly CAPP (Center for Applied Public Policy) newsletter.
Majid Tabrizi - SPE Foundation - The funds provided by the SPE Foundation along with matching funds from UWP will be used to purchase a MAAC Sheet-Fed Thermoformer. The addition of the Thermoformer will enhance the educational experience of the students in the plastics program by providing unique opportunities to use and work with new, state-of-the-art industrial equipment.
Timothy Zauche - American Chemical Society - These funds will be used to to study the catalytic reactivity of rhenium and the exploitation of Moco's primary coordination sphere with a rhenium metal center, instead of molybdenum or tungsten metals.
2003-2004
Federal Funded:
Dale Bernhardt - U.S. Department of Education: -Student Support Services- The purpose of the program is to increase the retention and graduation rates of eligible students.
The program offers an array of basic skills courses, tutoring and counseling. The basic skills courses include reading, writing, computer science, mathematics and science, and study skills. Individual subject area tutoring is provided to meet the participants needs. In addition the program provides personal counseling, academic advice and assistance, career counseling, and cultural enrichment programming.
Known as Student Support Services, UW Platteville has had support for this program since 1977. It is perceived as part of the institutional mission and is integrated into the academic mainstream.
Gwen Coe - Wisconsin ESEA Title II: Funds for this 3 year proposal will be used for 60 direct and 240 indirect participants to attend workshops on best practices in early literacy and mentoring and will return to their districts to provide inservice and mentoring to other teachers in their district. The participants will learn the best practices for assisting their students to achieve higher competencies in reading and writing.
Alison Bunte & Jodean Grunow - Wisconsin ESEA Title II: These funds will be used for 90 direct and 450 indirect participants to attend workshops on writing constructed responses in math and mentoring and will return to their districts to provide inservice and mentoring to other teachers in their district. The participants will learn the best practices for assisting their students to achieve higher competencies in mathematics. This is a 3 year proposal.
Thomas Hunt - United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service: Funding will be used to compile various chemical analysis of runoff, finalize a research protocol of specific requests, develop an engineering design for a low input manure composting pad, modify existing terraces to create upland runoff infiltration basins, develop a highly detailed Digital Elevation Model for the riparian managed grazing pasture and other specifics including create and post a web site consistent with the WASI format to make Pioneer Farm research available on the web for review.
Robert Schatz & UW Extension - USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service: Business outreach professionals from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) and University of Wisconsin-Extension will establish a new center at UWP for rural business enhancement. The center will be guided by an advisory board of leaders from the public and private sectors. The center will identify strategic, high-growth industry clusters and develop an action plan that utilizes the region's comparative advantages within the clusters. Agribusiness will be an initial focus, specifically food and fiber conversion operations and related business services. The center will provide in-depth, comprehensive, business analysis, concept development, project management and general business management assistance to firms and individuals in al economically distressed region, currently being underserved by private sector business development service providers.
State Funded
Sam Owusu-Ababio - Wisconsin Highway Research Program: This funding will be used for a research study is to recommend the most economical and efficient design procedure for concrete pavements subject to heavier-than-normal truck loading.
Robert Schmitt - Wisconsin Highway Research Program: This funding will be used to research and evaluate non-nuclear density gauges as an alternative to nuclear density gauges to measure asphalt pavement density. This is a two year grant.
Private Funded
Charles Cornett - Midwest Forensic Research Program: These funds will be used to address the need for method development in the recovery of ignitable liquid residues from a variety of matrices outlined in Forensic Sciences: Review of Status and Needs (1) by assessing the novel screening application of SPME in the analysis of polyaromatic compounds (i.e. naphthalene) from gasoline residues. Project objectives include: a) development of optimal SPME protocols for assessing the aromatic analogs of interest, b) comparison of SPME methodologies with activated carbon strip (ACS), and c) a partnership with Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory-Madison to assess the effectiveness of SPME in detecting gasoline residue in complex arson debris matrices.
Kyle Metzloff - Superior Graphite Co: The intent of this study is to determine the differences that exist among six different types of recarburizers commonly used in the production of iron castings. This was a standard research agreement.
J. Elmo Rawling III - The Geological Society of America: This grant will support transportation, logistic costs, and undergraduate assistance for field collection of sediments and lab analysis at the UW-Platteville Pioneer Geomorphology Laboratory (PGL). Sampling will be taken in and around Badlands National Park.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens & Clyde Holverson - Dubuque Racing Association: Funding from this proposal will go towards Phase II of the Women in Engineering Program "Engineering a Girl" Tool Workshops. Phase II will include expanding the current workshops to include three additional schools and to provide all four schools the necessary tools, curriculum, supplies and training to sustain the educational effort at each individual school. The target schools are Platteville, Belmont, Lancaster, and Darlington. The DRA funds will be used to support the equipment needs of the program for the Platteville and Darlington school districts.
Benjamin Shapira - The Liberace Foundation: This grant will be used for four scholarships to help attract outstanding international string students to the campus, thus forming a Liberace String Quartet. The impact these student may offer to our sting and orchestra programs can only be described as potentially dramatic. We expect to be able to attract future solo and chamber music performers of the first rate, indeed the cream talents, by recruiting in countries such as Mexico and Brazil. Being placed as section leaders in the orchestra, they would provide examples to our students and increase dramatically the level of our orchestra program.
System Funded:
Christopher Baxter - UW Consortium for Extension and Research in Agriculture and Natural Resources (CERANR): This proposal is in collaboration with Dr. Larry Bundy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The funding for this proposal will be used for testing and evaluation of the phosphorus concentrations in runoff from plot and watershed scales in Wisconsin. This is a two year grant.
Alison Bunte - UW-System PK-16 Initiative: Teacher Quality Initiative: The purpose of this planning grant is to allow broad-based collaboration between the UW-Platteville School of Education and various partners from within the university and from outside the university. The purpose of the collaboration will be planning for the implementation of PI-34 and activities related to the initial preparation and the on-going professional development of teachers.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW-System Institute on Race and Ethnicity: Campus Based Reading Seminar: This grant will purchase the books: Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, by Marian Wright Edelman and Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, by Rebecca Walker. These books will be read and discussed by thirteen faculty and staff from UWP.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW-System Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) Conference Development Grant: Funding will provide for a keynote speaker from Wisconsin via teleconference with Platteville and two other sites, based on the interests of Agriculture, Business, Industrial Studies, Communication, School of Education, Criminal Justice and selected departments in Engineering. This will be a one day conference on the professional studies/SoTL theme.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW-System Office of Professional and Instructional Development: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: This funding will support the previous year funding for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The focus of the second year of funding will be to increase the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Cadre work and to continue the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning/Scholarship of Engagement (SoE) projects with funding provided by the OPID grant. The outcome of the project will be (1) an increased number of SoTL/SoE products and (2) SoTL Cadre case studies so that the Scholarship of Engagement (SoE) will continue to grow and that faculty groups will be able to repeat the Cadre process for the foreseeable future.
Philip Parker & Leon Scott Downing (student) - UW-System Undergraduate Research: Funding from this proposal will be used to carry out research to determine if an indicator measurement of bioavailable carbon and nitrogen can be used as a design criteria to produce more efficient composting piles.
2002-2003
Federal Funded:
Kevin Bernhardt - United States Department of Agriculture: Funding from this proposal will help put on a Dairy Summit in Platteville this coming January.
Louis Nzegwu - Global Competencies Project (GCP) Expanding International Education in Southwest Wisconsin: Funding will be used to: 1) Provide opportunities for faculty, student and business people from Southwest Wisconsin to engage in study tour and attend trade missions, in order to facilitate trade expansion toward a global economy, 2) Develop a "Global Competencies" International Business Certificate Program for K-12 educators and business in Southwest Wisconsin, and 3) Enhance the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum and expand the collaboration of business and Liberal Arts faculty and students as it relates to International Business and the Global Economy.
Philip Parker, Alison Bunte, Jill Clough, Jason Thrun, & Joanne Wilson - National Science Foundation: Funding from this proposal is to help enhance the development of the U.S. Science and Engineering workforce by increasing the engineering literacy of pre-service teachers and to improve the teaching skills of Engineering faculty. The two primary objectives of this proposal are to: 1) Increase understanding of science and mathematics applications by University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) pre-service teachers, and 2) Improve pedagogy of UWP Engineering faculty as a result of interaction with Education students and faculty. This grant will fund the planning and organization of the program along with the costs to carry out the pilot program. The pilot program will be used towards a proposal for further funding towards grant monies.
Valerie Wetzel - NCAA: The funding from this proposal will bring Will Keim to UW-Platteville for three programs on September 10, 2002. He will do a speech on "This is Your Life Now," for the general campus population. The second program will focus on "Incorporating Diversity at a Predominately White Campus," and the third is for our student athletes on alcohol education.
Private Funded:
Chad Kelsey - Dubuque Racing Association: Funding from this grant will be used for the purchasing of two Automated External Defibrillators (AED) for use by the Sports Medicine team. Along with the purchasing of the AED machines, proper training is also required. It is the intention of the professional staff to become CPR/First Aid/AED certified to teach the student athletic trainers and thus provide them with yearly certification in the domains listed above.
David Krugler - Organization of American Historians: Funding will be used to support two months of research in Washington, D.C. so that I may study White House emergency planning and the structure's symbolic significance.
David Krugler - National Endowment for the Humanities: Funding will be used to examine Washington's three interlocking identies-capital, city, symbol-through the prism of nuclear security, spanning 1940-62.
Marian Maciej-Hiner - Dubuque Racing Association: Funding will be used to address a critical community leadership void in the rural communities of Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette Counties in Wisconsin. The Community Leadership Alliance (CLA) was established in the year 2000 by a coalition of education, business and community organizations to establish an intensive educational program targeted to individuals interested in becoming more effective in helping their communities adapt to the changes and challenges facing them.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens - John Deere: John Deere and the Women in Engineering Program at University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) have developed a strong partnership to increase the number of women and minority students who are enrolled in the engineering programs at UWP and in turn to recruit more women and minorities who are employed at John Deere. This partnership began in 1994 and continues to be an important part of the Women in Engineering Program at UWP. This money will be used for support in the Women in Engineering Program, support of minority programming and scholarships for minorities and women in engineering.
Tammy Salmon-Stephens - American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Diversity and Women in Civil Engineering (CDWCE): Funding will be used for the expense of college student counselors during the summer institute, for travel expenses to John Deere Dubuque Works, Governor Dodge State Park, the Rollo Jamison Mining Museum, and several companies such as Miller Brewing, Rockwell Automation, G.E. Medical System, Harley Davidson, Alliant Energy, and Waukesha Engine. This will also be used for laboratory session expenses.
State Funded:
Kathy Iselin - Department of Workforce Development/OCC Funds will be used for re-accreditation of the UW-Platteville Children's Center.
Jay Weber - WMMB/Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board: The Pioneer Agricultural Stewardship Farm will be designed to be the environmental farm that scientifically monitors the flow of nutrients and evaluates how projects and practices affect the environment, economic and social aspects of production agriculture. It will work with component research and the Discovery Farms to evaluate agricultural practices and report findings with regards to how these practices impact the environment, productivity, farm profitability and local communities. Several concepts are integral to the development of the Systems Farm:
- The program must be producer-driven by including producer participation, input and guidance for all phases of the program.
- Input and direction will be gathered and considered from all sources, not just the agricultural community.
- Well-defined data collection system will be developed, by working teams, to provide accurate documentation and communication.
- Creation of extensive and integrated partnering relationships that will ensure the successful development and implementation of the Systems Farm (including but not limited to federal, state, county, university system, and dairy industry resources).
System Funded:
David Braun y Harycki, William McBeth, & Karen Thomas - ESEA Title II Higher Education: This project is the second year of a two-year project that was funded from the Eisenhower Professional Development Program in 2001-2002. This is designed to meet the ongoing professional development needs for teachers in the core academic areas in school districts in the CESA #3 area. It is designed to provide pre- and in-service teachers with the opportunities to gain experience, confidence, and support in implementing hands-on, integrated, and standards-based instruction within the context of environmental education. It will incorporate information from the teachers about areas in which they feel a need for assistance. The focus will be on pedagogical content knowledge and will integrate mechanisms for feedback once the participants take this information back to their classrooms and continue to build a network of involved teachers.
Alison Bunte - ESEA Title II Higher Education: Funding from this grant will be paid to teachers from high need LEA's and to UW-Platteville faculty for summer development of proposals. There will be a meeting held on April 28th and on-line discussions will be held in April and May of 2003.
Carmen Faymonville - UW System Faculty Reading Seminar (2): Nikki Giovanni, author of The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995 will be read and discussed by 15 participants in a one-day retreat plus one 3-hour evening session.
Evelin Shakir, author of Bint Arab will be read and discussed by 10 participants in a one-day retreat plus one 3-hour evening session.
Thomas Hunt - UW Consortium for Extension & Research in Agriculture & Natural Resources (CERANR): The overall goal of this study is to assess the suitability of low relief earther catchment to function as an in-field treatment structure for non-point source pollution control. Specific objectives are to: 1) Determine the reduction in sediment and phosphorus load achieved with the installation of low relief earthen catchment under natural runoff conditions. 2) Characterized the particle size distribution of the sediments transported in runoff and quantify P load associated with each fraction. 3) Evaluate the extent of saturation fringe, sediment accumulation characteristics and P build-up within the low relief earthen catchment.
Thomas Hunt - UW Consortium for Extension & Research in Agriculture & Natural Resources (CERANR): This project is to initiate collaboration between UW-Madison and UW-Platteville Scientists to work on a system's approach to nutrient balance and losses from dairy herd and manure storage. We propose to develop a sampling protocol of TMR, milk, feces, urine, and manure and the use of markers to establish nutrient balance for the dairy herd, the losses of nutrient during manure collection and during storage.
Kenneth Killian in Collaboration with UW-Madison- University of Wisconsin Consortium for Extension and Research in Agriculture and Natural Resources: The objectives for this proposal are as follows: 1) Determine the effect of manure consistency (liquid vs. semi-solid) and placement (unincorporated injected) on dissolved and total P losses in runoff. 2) Determine the effect time of over winter manure application (applied to unfrozen ground with and without incorporation, applied to frozen ground, applied to snow covered ground) on dissolved and total P losses in runoff. 3) Use this information to assist with calibration of P-index values for dissolved and total P losses in runoff. 4) Use this information to assist with identification of P-index levels at which more intensive management is needed based on dissolved or total P losses in runoff. 5) A secondary component of this research will be to simultaneously determine N in runoff thus providing additional information on these management practice effects on N losses in runoff.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development: The funds will be used in Advancing the Practice of Teaching Through Scholarly Inquiry into Student Learning project. The goal of this project is to increase the integration of SoTL/SoE in the curriculum at UW-Platteville and to expand working partnerships across disciplines. This goal will be achieved by providing small grants to faculty for integrating SoTL/SoE into their courses, then studying the effects of that integration.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development: Funds will be used for a campus-wide symposium in the context of the Scholarship of Engagement. Two speakers will address the faculty. One will be from UW-Milwaukee or a person with similar knowledge of SoTL. The second speaker will be a representative of the Scholarship of Engagement (SOE) Clearinghouse and Review Board.
Thomas Lo Guidice - UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Faculty Reading Seminar: The funding will be used for the purchase of Patty Loew's 'Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal'. This book will be read, reviewed and discussed by 15 faculty and staff from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. This book will serve as an excellent discussion tool on Wisconsin's great history of Native Americans and the trials and tribulations that they endured along their existence.
Fahmida & Abulkhair Masoom - UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Faculty Reading Seminar: Funding will be used for the purchase of Michael Anthony Sells 'Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations'. There will be a series of four three-hour seminars held at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus, revolving around this book. The participants will consist of UWP faculty, staff, student, and members of the community who are involved in the Platteville School District and interfaith activities. It is hope that by participating in these seminars, we could only broaden our knowledge base and reach out better to ALL our students.
Louis Nzegwu - UW System Institute for Global Studies: The primary objective of this proposal is to produce a profession development-training program for Wisconsin businesses interested in doing business with China.
Carlos Wiley - UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Faculty Reading Seminar: Funding will purchase the book 'Caucasia' by Danzy Senna. With the growing number of biracial children in the world today it is felt that this would be a good book to discuss. It is felt that this book will give some of the staff on campus an insight into the world of biracial students, as well as students of color. It is with hope that this book will allow UW-Platteville to better serve the needs of students of color.