The 2003 CSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Competition recognizes excellence in on-campus faculty projects. Each year, it provides faculty members the opportunity to compete for funding in the form of one-time mini-grants or summer fellowships. The projects include:

  • Frances Payne Adlers, Diana Garcia, and Debra Busman, all of HCOM, will produce a proposal for a social action writing anthology/textbook
  • Dr. Terrence Ahern, ICST, will develop Red Pencil, a prototype for online asynchronous feedback of work. It will enable a professor to view a student's work and provide comments as if using a red pencil on paper
  • Dr. Rafael Gomez, IWLC, will prepare a prospectus for an online Spanish textbook. It will be submitted to four publishing companies
  • Dr. Babita Gupta, School of Business, will conduct a study to develop a model for understanding the effects of online consumers' privacy and security concerns on their purchasing behavior
  • Dr. Henrik Kibak, ESSP, will prepare a proposal to fund a revision, in Spanish and English, of the narrative and audio tracks of a science video originally produced by two Capstone students. Funds are also being sought for an associated lesson guide to support the science curriculum in local schools
  • Caitlin Manning, TAT, will undertake research and development work to produce a documentary on the life and work of her late grandfather, Al Capp, creator of "Li'l Abner." It will feature animated sequences of the comic strip
  • Dr. Elizabeth Meador, Institute for Advanced Studies, is the lead author completing a book on community-based teacher education, entitled "Teacher Education in Community: The Roaring Fork Teacher Education Project." The summer fellowship will enable her to complete the book by the end of summer
  • Dr. Ruben Mendoza, SBSI, is working on a project that synthesizes the results of a recent ground-penetrating radar survey and archaeological investigation of the Carmel Mission area by the CSUMB Institute for Archaeology. Anticipated results include historically accurate maps and 3-D visualization of the original mission, circa 1795
  • Gilbert Neri, VPA, is pursuing a project that is part of an ongoing body of multimedia artwork exploring the concepts of passage, migration, and the links between places and collective notions of "home"
  • Dr. Douglas Smith, ESSP, will study how rivers erode, sea cliffs retreat, gullies grow, and dams fail. Documenting the rates of landscape change drives policy concerning community and environmental risks. Trained student survey teams can provide highly precise estimates of landscape changes while learning a skill

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Posted on Sep 21, 2010 -