Programs Listed Alphabetically by Investigator Name
Title: Subsurface Irrigation
Project Summary: This study will evaluate a controlled drainage system in Cape Girardeau county to determine the amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients entering Williams Creek because of tile-drain effluent and establish a best-management-practice protocol for the SI-CD system.
Project Director: Aide, Michael
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Title: Alternative Nitrogen Sources
Project Summary: Regularly used fertilizer becoming too expensive for producer. Will test poultry manure and urea as an alternative fertilizer using side-by-side tests, soil tests, plant tissue tests and four repetitions. Testing to be done in Dr. Aide's laboratory and some will be done commercially. Budget covered rice, plot layout, fertilizer, herbicide, harvesting and testing.
Investigators / Program Directors: Aide, Michael; Beighley, Donn
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council
Title: Rice Nutrient Uptake
Project Summary: The increasing cost of N fertilizer is becoming a concern to the producer. We will conduct a Trial at the Rice Research and Demonstration Farm to compare the N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Na, Fe, Mn, B, Cu and Zn concentrations in rice paddy water and soil on a weekly basis during the duration of the rice growing season. Plant tissue analysis and biomass accumulation will be used to determine nutrient uptake.
Investigators/ Program Directors: Aide, Michael; Dunn, David; Beighley, Donn
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Rice and Research Merchandising Council
Title: Controlled Drainage
Project Summary: USDA-NRCS engineers designed a controlled drainage/irrigation system for a 98-acre parcel of land at the new Southeast Missouri State University Farm. Project will help develop a unique infrastructure that will augment technology incorporation into the bottomland regions of the Bootheel and Ozark Border regions of Missouri. Installation of these systems will create jobs, boost agribusiness and will support and contribute to agricultural technology in these regions.
Investigators / Program Directors: Aide, Michael
External Funding Source / Partners: USDA Rural Development
Title: U.S. India Summer
Project Summary: The project will allow two professors of chemistry to mentor 12 students who will travel to India to also conduct research at the partner institution, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata, Wet Bengal, India.
Project Directors: Ali, Mohammed; Olesen, Bjorn
External Funding Source / Partners: National Science Foundation
Title: Energy Efficient Workshops
Project Summary: A partnership between the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri and Southeast Missouri State University to implement and sustain energy efficient workshops for Southeast Missouri.
Investigators / Program Directors: Athinarayanan, Ragu; Gupta, Deepak
External Funding Source / Partners: WIRED/ Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: Robotics Competition
Project Summary: The objective of the project is to stimulate interest in mathematics, engineering, technology, and science by engaging high school students in mentor-supported robot-building competitions.
Investigators/Program Directors: Athinarayanan, Ragu
External Funding Source/Partners: WIRED / Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: Improving Green Economy
Project Summary: Project includes development of educational programs at Southeast Missouri State University to train current and future workforce in green energy technologies relevant to the economy of the 14-county region served by WIRED.
Investigators/Program Directors: Athinarayanan, Ragu
External Funding Source/Partners: WIRED/ Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: Project Lead The Way
Project Summary: The objective of the project is to develop students with skills and competencies that are applicable to the 21st Century Workforce.The capstone experience developed by Southeast Missouri State University in collaboration with local industries and Cape Career & Technology Center is designed to expose students to advanced technical and soft skills in areas of need as identified by industries local to the Southeast Missouri region.
Investigators/Program Directors: Athinarayanan, Ragu
External Funding Source/Partners: WIRED/ Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: SEMO Tobacco Prevention
Project Summary: Project will use existing school and university infrastructures to mobilize student leaders who will influence communities' health agendas to reduce the use of tobacco. Will promote smoking prevention programs in schools and will help reduce workplace smoking. Oversight from a team of professionals from the University of Missouri System. Will use educational outreach, marketing, surveys and multi-institution collaboration.
Investigators / Program Directors: Barnes, Jeremy; Williams, Ronald; Maginel, Jim
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Foundation for Health
Title: McNair Scholars Program
Project Summary: The mission of the McNair Scholars Program is to encourage academically promising students to complete their baccalaureate degrees, and to pursue graduate education. The program provides academic support, enhancement workshops, faculty mentoring, a summer research experience, and preparation for graduate school for eligible students during their sophomore, junior and/or senior years. Requested funds for faculty and staff labor, operating expenditures and indirect costs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Barnes, Monica
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Education
Title: Rice Variety Trials
Project Summary: Project will annually conduct performance trials of new rice varieties being developed and released by both public and private institutions.Will evaluate these new varieties and make the conclusions available to producers in an unbiased, reliable format. Will plant, evaluate and harvest the rice varieties at the Missouri Rice Research Farm and the Delta Center Research Farm.
Investigators / Program Directors: Beighley, Donn
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council
Title: Effects of Continuous Rice
Project Summary: Project will determine the effect of continuous rice production on yield, milling quality and agronomic traits. Literature indicates that rice yield decreases after the first year when planted in the same field. Trials will be conducted at the Missouri Rice Research Farm. Results will be made available at the Missouri Rice Outlook Conference and posted on the Missouri Rice website.
Investigators / Program Directors: Beighley, Donn; Aide, Michael
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council, University of Missouri
Title: Effect of Planting Date Study
Project Summary: Will evaluate the performance of lines representing the major rice varieties grown in Missouri when planted at different planting dates extending from early-March to mid-June. The evaluation will determine if planting date effects seasonal types and what those effects are with respect to yield, quality and agronomic traits. Will evaluate the Spring, Trenasse, Cybonnet, Cocodrie, Cheniere, Wells, Francis and other proven varieties of rice.
Investigators / Program Directors: Beighley, Donn
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council
Title: Default Prevention
Project Summary: Project will provide services to students at risk of default and to improve the personal financial responsibility of Southeast Missouri State students. One graduate assistant will focus on the delivery of personal financial responsibility information to targeted groups. A second graduate assistant will provide one-on-one counseling to students who are on both financial aid probation and academic probation.
Investigators / Program Directors: Below, Debbie
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Higher Education
Title: Fulbright Scholar from Ukraine
Project Summary: The Fulbright program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’sBureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program. This year’s visiting scholar is Ukrainian and her activities are intended to foster a greater recognition and need for non-Western programs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Benton, Jean
External Funding Source / Partners: Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Title: International Leadership in Education
Project Summary: Brings 16 experienced high school teachers from Asia, North Africa and the Middle East to Southeast Missouri State University to study at the university and to teach in high schools in Sikeston, Jackson, and Cape Girardeau. Project will enhance participants’ ability to contribute to the improvement of their own teaching and play a role in their country’s national development, as well as create deeper understanding and knowledge of the United States and develop productive relationships and mutual understanding between the international participants and the American teachers and communities.
Investigators / Program Directors: Benton, Jean
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of State, International Research and Exchanges Board
Title: LPN to RN Bridge
Project Summary: Sought funds to underwrite the start-up costs of an LPN to RN Bridge program at the Kennett Area Higher Education Center in Kennett, Missouri. The program will integrate local recruitment, financial incentives, and employer partnerships to identify and recruit area licensed practicalnurses (LPN's) to participate in the two year bridge program and remain in the service area as practicing registered nurses. A collaboration between Southeast Missouri State University and Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Investigators / Program Directors: Blanchard, Marsha
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Foundation for Health; Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center
Title: Center of Excellence (Software Award)
Project Summary: The funding agency provides software that will be introduced to pre-service teachers to acquaint them with a computer program that will assess where students are academically, give prescriptive lessons, and post test. Grant recipients will use the software as a center for excellence.
Investigators / Program Directors: Bohannon, Larry
External Funding Source / Partners:American Education Corporation; The Learning System
Title: Sand Prairie
Project Summary: Survey will thoroughly document the native and exotic species of Sand Prairie Conservation Area (SPCA), a 200 acre remnant in Scott County, Missouri, under restoration management by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). One set of specimens to be housed at the Travis Brooks Herbarium and the other at MDC's Jefferson City, Missouri office.
Investigators / Program Directors: Bornstein, Allan
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Conservation
Title: Water Quality Workshops
Project Summary: To provide information to Southeast Missouri landowners, specifically those in watersheds, sensitive to erosion, nutrient loading, and/or flooding, regarding best management practices to improve water quality and wildlife habitat. This will be done in the form of face to face and electronic workshops.
Investigators/Program Directors: Braden, Indi
External Funding Source/Partners: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Title: Mosaic Fertilizer Research
Project Summary: This grant provides funds for personnel and supplies to work with research protocols for The Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC.
Investigators/Program Directors: Braden, Indi
External Funding Source/Partners: Mosaic Fertlizer, LLC
Title: Horizon Center
Project Summary: Provides a safe, nurturing environment for developmentally disabled adults living in or near Cape Girardeau who are not participating in adult habitation or employment situations. Supervised day program with many activities, excercise and basic life skills lessons. Sought funds to cover excess operational expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba; Schmoll, Cindy
External Funding Source / Partners: United Way of Southeast Missouri
Title: Hoover Eldercare
Project Summary: State licensed adult day care center, operated by Southeast Missouri State University. Supportive services for adults age 60 and older - seeks to prevent premature institutionalization and to increase independence. Sought funds to cover salaries, fringe and operations expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: United Way of Southeast Missouri
Title: MEHTAP (Missouri Elderly and Handicapped Transportation Assistance Program)
Project Summary:Requested funds to cover operations expenses. For transportation of seniors and adults to and from the Hoover Center and the Horizons Enrichment Center.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Transportation
Title: Educare
Project Summary: Educare funding improves the quality of care provided by the Department of Social Services subsidized child care providers and targets the DSS registered provider population. Requested funds to cover salaries, fringe and operational expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Social Services
Title: Start Up and Expansion
Project Summary: Promotes the growth and quality of early childhood care and education and school readiness for children. For infants and children of low-income working families and those involved in education and training programs. Requested funds to cover salaries, fringe and operational expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Community Caring Council - Missouri Department of Social Services
Title: Partnership Accreditation
Project Summary: The Accreditation Facilitation funding administered through the partnership is to focus on and support programs/individuals in the early/re-accreditation phases. Requested funds to cover salaries, fringe and operational expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Community Caring Council - Missouri Department of Social Services
Title: Stay At Home Parent
Project Summary: To identify and train 30 Stay at Home, low-income parents in Cape Girardeau County to improve the child's progress toward school readiness. Sought funds to cover salaries, fringe and operations expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Community Caring Council - Missouri Department of Social Services
Title: UCEC Food Program
Project Summary: Requested funds to cover operational expenses (food and supplies).
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Title: Stay At Home-Scott, Mississippi, Bollinger and Perry Counties (2 awards)
Project Summary:To identify and train Stay at Home, low-income parents in Scott, Mississippi, Bollinger and Perry counties to improve the child's progress toward school readiness. Sought funds to cover salaries, fringe and operations expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Department of Social Services
Title: Delta- OakRidge Fitness
Project Summary: Sought funds to cover salaries, fringe and operations expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Senior Citizens Services Fund Board
Title: Senior Alive
Project Summary: Requested funds to cover salaries and fringe expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Senior Citizens Services Fund Board
Title: Arthritis Fitness
Project Summary: Sought funds to cover salaries, fringe and operations expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Senior Citizens Services Fund Board
Title: Hoover Eldercare Center
Project Summary: State licensed adult daycare center operated by Southeast Missouri State university. Requested funds to cover salaries, fringe and operational expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: United Way of Southeast Missouri
Title: AT&T Mobile Technology Laboratory
Project Summary: The AT&T Mobile Technology Laboratory project will provide technology-driven, research-based instructional training to rural Missouri K-12 teachers and University instructors, enhancing the quality of education for area K-12 students and SEMO teachers-in-training. Budgeted for laptops, laptop cart, digital camera, scanner, printer, wireless print server and a SMART Board Interactive whiteboard. Perryville High School will host the lab.
Investigators / Program Directors: Bratberg, William
External Funding Source / Partners: Southeast Missouri University Foundation, Perryville High School
Title: Touring Subsidy
Project Summary: Funds to bring River North Chicago Dance Company to The Earl and Margie Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts. The touring company will present one public performance and also provide one
community engagement activity.
Investigators / Program Directors: Cerchio, Bob
External Funding Source / Partners: Mid America Arts Alliance
Title: Forensic Laboratory
Project Summary: This project will establish a laboratory facility for forensic science education and research at Southeast Missouri State University.
Project Director: Crawford, Phil
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Justice
Title: Detect Drugs in Blood
Project Summary: SEMO Regional Crime Lab requested funds so they could start testing blood for drugs and alcohol, instead of just urine and other bodily fluids. Testing blood shows current use, testing urine only shows prior use. Will shift over to the ELISA testing system.
Investigators / Program Directors: Crawford, Philip
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Transportation, SEMO Regional Crime Lab, Southeast Missouri State University
Title: Early Literacy
Project Summary: Purpose of program is to improve early literacy teaching and learning in the state of Missouri. Targets at-risk Kindergarteners and at-risk First, Second and Third-graders. Requested funds for faculty and staff labor, equipment and operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Dobbins, Jeanine Larson
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra Series
Project Summary: The funds will be used to enhance the Southeast Missouri Symphony’s subscription series with expanded programming and marketing. In addition, it will allow us to present a special guest artist, Neal Boyd, in concert with the Southeast Missouri Symphony, and to present a special guest artist –in-residency at the Department of Music.
Investigators/Program Directors: Edgerton, Sara
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Commercial Beef Facility
Project Summary: Funding is provided to establish an infrastructure which will serve to train and promote beef production in a region that is well-suited for it. Small agricultural businesses that can supply producers will benefit from this increased production.
Investigators/Program Directors: Ellis, William
External Funding Source/Partners: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Title: CDA Training
Project Summary: Will offer credit-bearing Child Development Associate (CDA) coursework through the Office of Extended Learning in one or more locations throughout the service area. Nights, weekends and convenient times. Offers a career path to higher educational levels in early care and education.
Investigators / Program Directors: Foltz-Schlegel, Kristen
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Workshop on Wheels
Project Summary: Purpose is to 1. provide quality, affordable training opportunities to early and school age care and education personnel; 2. provide a variety of multi-topic seminars that address competency goals set forth in the Kansas/Missouri Core Competencies and the Child Development Associate functional areas; 3. provide educational consulting to early and school-age care personnel to assist them in planning their vocational education goals.
Investigators / Program Directors: Foltz-Schlegel, Kristen
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Early Childhood Technical Assistance
Project Summary: Provides expenses for technical assistance site visits to child care facilities. Will provide information and suggestions to help the child care director/teacher utilize the Missouri Accreditation of Early Childhood Program Standards and work toward that certification.
Investigators / Program Directors: Foltz-Schlegel, Kristen
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, University of Central Missouri
Title: Mosquito Surveillance
Project Summary: Southeast Missouri State (the contractor) will provide a mosquito surveillance program. Based on the evaluation of data collected, arbovirus risk shall be assessed and communicated to the Missouri Dept. of Health and Senior Services, Bureau for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Vector-borne Disease Program (VBDP). Requested funding for operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Frazier, Christina
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Missouri Department Health & Senior Services
Title:Boosting Bootheel Mathematics
Project Summary: This program will serve school districts in the Missouri bootheel region that have shown the need for math teacher professional development. A cohort of 4-8 math teachers will participate in a five-day summer institute that will focus on strategies to boost student engagement/motivation, which in turn will increase student achievement.
Investigators/ Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Higher Education
Title: Professional Services Migrant Consortium
Project Summary: Funding from the grant will provide for the cost of professional development enabling one person to attend committee meetings and training sessions related to the Migrant Consortium Project. The focus of the training will be educating linguistically diverse students.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Turnaround Leadership Program
Project Summary: Through the Turnaround Leadership Program, Southeast RPDC will be working directly with five school districts encompassing six buildings with personnel participation in the University of West Viriginia’s Cohort 6 District Leadership Turnaround Specialist Program and faculty from Southeast Missouri State University. The focus will be on improving student academic achievement through the development of more effective leadership skills in both administrators and teachers.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Professional Learning Communities
Project Summary: This program will serve school districts, teachers, administrators, parents, colleges,
and universities throughout the region by providing technical assistance, educational materials, and training regarding the Accelerated Schools Project and the Professional Learning Communities model. The Regional Professional Development Center will provide facilities for the Center and for training, and will provide administrative support
for the project.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: SBIR Pilot Project
Project Summary: Requested funding for student labor, salaries and fringe, equipment and operational expenses for the Scientifically Based Reading Instruction Pilot Program - Reading First. Trial period - March 1, 2007 to September 30, 2007.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: US Dept. of Education, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Blindness Skills
Project Summary: Sought funds to cover student labor, salaries and fringe and operational expenses for the Blind Skills program. Assists teachers in coordinating services for students who are blind and VI and serves as a resource to the Southeast Missouri Region regarding blindness related issues.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Special Education Consultants
Project Summary: Requested funds to cover student labor, salaries and fringe, equipment, operational expenses and indirect costs. Function of program and consultants is to assist districts with the implementation of federal legislation concerning special education.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Us Dept. of Education, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: MAP
Project Summary: Requested funds to cover Faculty and staff salaries and fringe, operations and indirects for MAP 2008. The MAP Plus Program helps teachers adopt new instructional practices in all academic areas, provides professional development, increases the knowledge and skills of district personnel in MAP preparation and furthersthe use of appropriate assessment techniques.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Regional Professional Development Center
Project Summary: The Southeast Regional Professional Development Center provides a wide range of services and programs to meet the needs of teachers and administrators charged with the academic success of students. Serves as a conduit of higher education between higher education and K-12 school districts. Requested funds to cover student labor, faculty and staff labor and operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Reading First
Project Summary: Promotes Scientifically-Based Reading Research (SBRR) and Instruction (SBRI) in grades K-3 primarily in funded districts and schools, and in non-funded as time allows. Delivers training, consultation and coaching specific to these programs. Requested funds for student labor, faculty and staff labor, operational expenses and indirect costs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Fuemmeler, Cheri
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Cottrell Science Award
Project Summary: A two-year award to conduct nano-biotechnology research to investigate the feasibility of using specially designed nano-robots to enhance axon growth after a nervous system injury.
Project Director: Ghosh, Santaneel
External Funding Source / Partners: Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Title: APPLE Paperwork Services
Project Summary: The A.P.P.L.E. Project is a comprehensive paperwork service which supports the independence of senior adults by providing individuals age 60 and older with counseling, advocacy, education and direct assistance with their paperwork needs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Gooden, Jean
External Funding Source / Partners: SEMO Area Agency on Aging; United Way of Southeast Missouri; Senior Services Fund Board
Title: CLAIM Consultant Agreement
Project Summary: This agreement is to provide Medicare counseling on the following topics: enrollment and billing issues,
Medicare Prescription Drugs plans, Medigap and supplemental insurance, Medicare Advantage plans,
and assistance with appeals and grievances for people with Medicare.
Project Director: Gooden, Jean
External Funding Source / Partners: Primaris
Title: Early Childhood Mathematics
Project Summary: Funds to purchase learning materials and manipulatives to further develop the skills of teacher candidates with the conceptual understanding of mathematics at the early grades.
Investigators/Program Directors: Hanebrink, Tamela
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Title: The Cape Rock
Project Summary: Requested funding for the publication and distribution of two issues (Spring and Fall) of "The Cape Rock," the internationally known poetry journal published by Southeast Missouri State University since 1964.
Investigators / Program Directors: Hecht, Harvey
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Historic Resource Survey
Project Summary: The “Legal and Economic Principles of Historic Preservation” class will prepare an inventory of historic buildings by means of an architectural survey in several blocks in one of Cape Girardeau’s historic neighborhoods.
Project Director: Hoffman, Steve
External Funding Source / Partners: City of Cape Girardeau
Title: Dance A Palooza
Project Summary: Purpose of the project isto educate and introduce student dancers and the community to the work of choreographers Billy Siegenfield and Sean Curran. Exposure to New York and Chicago dance company structure and networking opportunities. Requested funds for operations and contractual expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Hummel, Lees
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship
Project Summary: Nurse traineeships, from a formula based award. Will provide financial assistance to baccalaureate-prepared nurses admitted to the MSN program. Goal is to prepare advanced education nurses who will practice in the region.
Investigators / Program Directors: Jackson, A. Elaine
External Funding Source / Partners: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
Title: Missouri NASA Education Program
Project Summary: The program is dedicated to the enhancement of K-12 science, math, and technology education and consists of three primary components: (1) The Missouri NASA Educator Resource Center which provides free NASA educational materials and products to schools, teachers, and students statewide; (2) The Missouri NASA Education Specialist Network, a system of six full-time educators scattered throughout the state whose purpose is to provide teachers and students in their regions with an array of NASA-based activities, presentations, and training workshops at local school sites; and (3) The NASA Mobile Exhibit aboard the Southeast Explorer which brings exhibit-based learning experiences directly to schools.
Investigators/Program Directors: Kern, Ernest
External Funding Source/Partners: National Aeronautics and Space Administration/NASA, SEMO U, Missouri DESE and its RPDC Program, U of MO at Columbia, U of MO at KC, U of MO at St. Louis, Truman St. U, MO State U, Godwin Center, Crisp Museum
Title: Asthma Trigger Training
Project Summary: This contract will provide in-door air quality training to school nurses and school staff using Tools for Schools and Environmental Asthma Trigger Training in six Southeast Missouri schools.
This contract will be used to assess effectiveness using pre-test/post-test methodology, evaluate in-door air quality using hand held instruments and to recommend methods to alleviate any Indoor air quality issues identified during the assessment.
Investigators/ Program Directors: Kraemer, John
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Title: Mobile GIS and GPS
Project Summary: HP Products and a faculty stipend. Will use the award package to facilitate field experiences for Southeast students in the use of mobile Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology for field data collection and mapping in relation to environmental and public health hazards. Requested funds for operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Kraemer, John; Starrett, David
External Funding Source / Partners: HP Foundation
Title: Pediatric Asthma
Project Summary: Project is intended to reduce or eliminate impediments to the success of an asthma trigger intervention program by improving physician participation through an educational and promotional program, increasing family awareness and promoting in-home intervention programs that affect exposure behavior. Requested funding for faculty and staff labor, operating expenditures and indirect costs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Kraemer, John
External Funding Source / Partners: US Environmental Protection Agency
Title: Addressing Asthma from a Public Health Perspective
Project Summary: Project provides in-door air quality training to school nurses and school staff using Tools for Schools and Environmental Asthma Trigger Training in eight Southeast Missouri schools.
Project Director: Kraemer, John
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Title: In-Home Investigation and Education Program
Project Summary: Asthma trigger intervention program with active physician participation, which includes an education program, promotes family awareness and in-home interventions that affect exposure behavior. The targeted areas are rural counties in southeast Missouri.
Investigators/Program Directors: Kraemer, John
External Funding Source/Partners: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Title: Southeast Regional Support Center
Project Summary: The mission of Southeast Regional Support Center is to promote and facilitate the development of community prevention initiatives concerning the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs by serving as a catalyst for mobilization and change in the communities of Service Area 21. Requested funding for student labor, faculty and staff labor and operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Leoni, Ed
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Title: Scott County Court G.A.
Project Summary: To employ a graduate assistant to assist in implementing programs to help the youth and residents of Scott and Mississippi Counties - through Scott County Drug Court.
Investigators / Program Directors: Leoni, Ed
External Funding Source / Partners: Scott County Drug Court, Southeast Regional Support Center
Title: Gear Up for College
Project Summary: Program's mission is to accelerate the academic achievement of middle and secondary school students so that increasing numbers will graduate from high school, enroll in and succeed in college. Requested funds for faculty and staff labor, equipment, operating expenses and indirect costs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Mays, Vida
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Education
Title: Plan Responsibly for Economic Power and Prepare for Academic Success (PREP and PAS)
Project Summary: The College Access Grant will fund college-preparation programs for students in all grades. The grant will fund a group trip for about 200 low-income, first generation college students in ninth and 10th grades to visit colleges and stay in dorms during the summer. Other programs will be available to students from lower grades and their families, including evening presentations on college awareness.
Investigators/ Program Directors: Mays, Vida
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Higher Education
Title: Strengthening Institutions (Title III)
Project Summary: Funds to strengthen the quality of critical science education programs through two components: 1) Integrate technology-rich, inquiry-based laboratory experiences into student coursework through course revisions and faculty development, and 2) modernize, reconfigure and improve the safety of several fifty year old teaching laboratories.
Investigators/Program Directors: McGowan, Chris
External Funding Source/Partners: U.S. Department of Education
Title: Southeast Missouri Health C.A.R.E. (Career Aptitude, Realities and Exploration)
Project Summary: The University will use the grant funds to offer intensive, hands-on experiential learning for second through seventh graders in the fall, a follow-up experience for fourth through sixth graders in the summer and ongoing support and tools for their school counselors throughout the year. The program, which will be free to participants, is designed to fill in gaps in the educational experiences offered to these youth.
Investigators/Project Directors: Mershon, Christy; Morgan Theall, Rachel; Bond, Marcus; McNew, Shannon
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Foundation for Health, Southeast Missouri Hospital, Marquand Elementary, Meadow Heights Elementary, Delta Elementary, Scott County Central Elementary, Warren E. Hearnes Elementary and A.J. Martin Elementary
Title: Discovery Corps Fellowships Program - Faculty Development Award
Project Summary:Funded under the National Science Foundation’s Discovery Corps Fellowships Program, this grant will be used to conduct research relating to attitudes and understanding of forensic science and teaching forensic science concepts. The funds will also be used to provide professional development workshops for area middle and high school teachers regarding inquiry-based laboratory activities that effectively relate the concepts of forensic chemistry to their students. Dr. Morgan Theall will build her southeast Missouri program on similar work she conducted at the University of Arizona in conjunction with the Flandreau Science Center, when she first developed the “Science in the City” project and several interactive science exhibits.
Investigators / Program Directors: Morgan Theall, Rachel
External Funding Source / Partners:National Science Foundation
Title: Pioneering Sweet Sorghum
Project Summary: This initiative will utilize findings of partners University of Missouri Delta Center, Memphis Bioworks Foundation, BioDeimensions, as well as data collected at the David S. Barton Agriculture Research Center to develop educational and training materials for potential regional producers of sweet sorghum.
Investigators/Program Directors: Mueller, Wes
External Funding Source/Partners: WIRED / Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri
Title: Save Our History Grant
Project Summary: Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Regional History and Franklin Elementary School will collaborate on a historic cemetery recording project ("Digging up Buried History") that will focus on documentation, preservation, and research ending the production of a publication serving as an educational and historical resource. Requested funds for operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Nickell, Frank
External Funding Source / Partners: The History Channel, Franklin Elementary School
Title: Southeast Health on Wheels (S.H.O.W.) Mobile
Project Summary: S.H.O.W. Mobile Project is a primary care, dental, wellness, health literacy, and educational program designed to serve geographically isolated residents in a rural, economically depressed region of the Mississippi Delta. Requested funding for faculty and staff labor, operating expenses and indirect costs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Ortiz, Sandy
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Title:Russian Ballet Performance of Cinderella
Project Summary: Funds underwrite the Russian National Ballet performance of “Cinderella” at the University’s River Campus.
Investigators / Program Directors: Peterson, Hilary
External Funding Source / Partners: National Endowment for the Arts
Title:DecaDance
Project Summary: The funds will be used to underwrite the “Decadancetheatre: artistic director, Jennifer Weber for her services during the week of January 17-23, 2010. Through open masters classes, rehearsals, and performances administered by the unique styles of “Decadancetheatre,” the purpose of this project is to contribute to the educational needs of our student body, and to the enrichment of local residents and students.
Investigators/Program Directors: Peterson, Hilary
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Directions in Art
Project Summary: The funds will be used to underwrite three art exhibits in 2010: “Ron Clayton Retrospective Exhibition,” “The 32nd Annual High School Art Exhibition,” and “Ansel Adams, Masterworks Exhibition.”
Investigators/Program Directors: Phillips, Jim
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: One in Four No More
Project Summary: The goal of the project is to provide a two-day conference of seminars and interactive workshops for the Southeast Missouri State University campus and wider community about sexual violence and stalking.
Project Director: Prater, Loretta
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Foundation for Health, Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence, SafeHouse for Women
Title: Let’s Talk About It
Project Summary: These funds will be used to present the Let’s talk About “IT” program to the students of Southeast Missouri State University in April 2010. The program will be delivered by Kelly Addington and Becca Tieder, who are experts on sexual assault awareness, prevention and sexual empowerment, and have been nationally recognized for their achievements in sexual asssult education and prevention.
Project Director: Prater, Loretta
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Title: Shuttle Service
Project Summary: For operation expenses, student labor and faculty and staff labor for the operation of the shuttle bus services at Southeast Missouri State University.
Investigators / Program Directors: Richard, Doug
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Transportation
Title: Distribution and Status of the Swamp Rabbit in Missouri
Project Summary: The main objectives of this contract are to determine occupancy of Swamp Rabbits in Missouri; to determine sizes of searched patches; to estimate density, mortality , recruitment; and to develop a standardized rapid assessment for presence/absence of swamp rabbits for managers to use to test management effectiveness and hunting effects.
Project Director: Scheibe, John
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Conservation
Title: Cultivating Agriculture
Project Summary: Provides training to potential non-traditional agricultural entrepreneurs in Southeast
Missouri Commerce Corridor to increase the capacity for alternative agriculture entrepreneurship.
The program goals are to establish more local specialty food, horticulture, and energy crop growers
in the region who have the basic entrepreneurial skills to sustain and grow their small agricultural businesses to improve the regional economy and create new jobs.
Investigators/Program Directors: Schnare, Paul
External Funding Source/Partners: WIRED / Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: A.A.S. Computer Technology
Project Summary: Requested funds for High Precision Metrology Equipment and accessories.
Investigators / Program Directors: Shaw, Randy; Athinarayanan, Ragu
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Cisco Regional Academy
Project Summary: Requested funds for the Cisco Regional Academy - Professional Development and local academy travel and communication. (Faculty and staff labor and operating expenses).
Investigators / Program Directors: Shaw, Randy
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title:Outdoor Nature Classroom
Project Summary: A child care development grant with funds for landscape design and set-up of an outdoor nature classroom located at the Sikeston campus. Requested funds for various types of outdoor equipment and toys in addition to accreditation fees for NAEYC.
Investigators / Program Directors: Smith, Tracie; Branscum, Shelba
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: SAHEC Food Program
Project Summary: Requested funds to cover operational expenses (food and supplies) for the Sikeston Child Development Center.
Investigators / Program Directors: Smith, Tracie
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Title: Missouri PreSchool Project
Project Summary: Funds will allow expansion of the existing child care center on the Sikeston campus to increase the number of slots for children ages 3 and 4. Funds will be used for salaries, equipment, operations.
Investigators / Program Directors: Smith, Tracie
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Outdoor Classroom
Project Summary: To underwrite the outdoor classroom at the Sikeston Campus Child Care Center. The scope of work will include: a concrete tricycle path, a wood state and climbing platform and irrigation. Any remaining funds to be used on additional landscaping.
Investigators / Program Directors: Smith, Tracie
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Little River Drainage District
Project Summary: A project to improve the current storage conditions and level of description of the Litter River Drainage District Corporation Records. Specifically, the project involves describing and rehousing 300 large ledgers in archival storage containers, and providing two dehumidifiers for the secure stacks area in which these records are kept.
Investigators/Program Directors: Speer, Lisa
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Historical Records Grant Program
Title: Summer Business Workshop
Project Summary: Conduct summer workshop for Business and marketing Educators in the area of
Innovation in Business and Marketing Education. Workshops are held at Southeast Missouri State University and St. Charles Community College.
Investigators / Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Computer Replacement Dempster Lab
Project Summary: To replace outdated equipment in teaching computer lab. Grant pay 50% of cost.
Investigators / Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Title: Building Entrepreneurial Skills Today for Tomorrow’s Leaders (BEST)
Project Summary: The Harrison College of Business partnering with the Southeast Innovation Center to implement
a project that will provide two elements: (1) Professional Development Training for all high school teachers in the 14 County WIRED region, and (2) Development of a hands-on, 75 hour, contextual entrepreneurship curriculum.
Investigators / Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source / Partners: WIRED/ Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: Missouri Real Entrepreneurship-Springfield
Project Summary: Funds to conduct a three day Entrepreneurship Teaching Institute in Springfield, Missouri.
Investigators / Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source / Partners: WIRED/ Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: Delta Leadership Institute
Project Summary: The mission of the Delta Leadership Institute is to recognize, train and develop the leadership Skills needed for the 21st Century and for the global challenges of the future in the eight state
Delta Region.
Investigators/Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source/Partners: University of Alabama
Title: Entrepreneurship Training
Project Summary: The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University will integrate entrepreneurship education into the program of study for technically trained individuals to provide them the general skills and vocationally-specific knowledge needed to become business owners.
Investigators/Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source/Partners: WIRED / Southeast Missouri Workforce Investment Board
Title: Revitalizing Rural Communities
Project Summary: Provides entrepreneurship training and workforce development in southeast Missouri. These services will be delivered in innovative ways which will serve to revitalize rural downtowns, help communities create an entrepreneur-friendly mindset and environment, create interest in entrepreneurship among youth, and encourage communities to “grow their own” jobs.
Investigators/Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source/Partners: U.S. Small Business Administration
Title: SBDC - Small Business Development Center
Project Summary: Provides pragmatic, individual counseling to small business firms throughout Southeast Missouri. Conducts conferences and workshops at a nominal charge on various topics of interest to the owners of small business. Provides special assistance to technology oriented firms and those considering exporting.
Investigators / Program Directors: Stapleton, James
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Small Business Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: Information Commons
Project Summary: Funds to be used to engage in technology upgrades to expand the reach of its Kent Library “Information Commons” to enhance services and provide direct, consistent access to web-based and main campus resources for three regional campuses in Kennett, Malden and Sikeston,Missouri.
Project Director: Starrett, David
External Funding Source/Partners: U.S. Department of Education
Title: Guest Director, Carousel
Project Summary: Funds will be used to hire a nationally known director/choreographer for the Spring 2010 performance of “Carousel”.
Investigators/Program Directors: Stilson, Kenn
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Big Muddy Publication
Project Summary: Southeast Missouri State University Press will print 100 extra copies Of its award-winning literary journal Big Muddy to give gratis to regional public libraries and high-school libraries in the southeast Mississippi River Valley region including Cape Girardeau county.
Investigators/Program Directors: Swartwout, Susan
External Funding Source/Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Status Survey of the Alasmidonta
Project Summary: The main objectives of this program will be to assess the current status of Alasmidonta viridis and Toxolasma lividus; conduct a baseline status survey of other Ozark mussels; and collect tissue for future genetic analysis.
Investigators/ Program Directors: Taylor, Michael
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Department of Conservation
Title: Student Support Services
Project Summary: Student Support Services is a federally-funded grant program designed to assist 200 Southeast students who are traditionally under-represented because of income, family educational background, or disability in completing a post-secondary education. The program is designed to assist students who are first-generation, and/or are income eligible and/or have a documented disability. All services are free of charge to participants and provided through Federal funding. This includes: Tutorial Services, College Success Plans & Seminars, Computer Lab, Equipment Loans, Supplemental Academic Advising and Career Planning, Graduate School Preparation and Information, and Supplemental Grant Aid for those who qualify. Successful program applicants must demonstrate potential to graduate as well as complete an interview process.
Investigators / Program Directors: Walling, Breanna
External Funding Source / Partners: United States Department of Education
Title: Geometry Manipulatives
Project Summary: Purpose is to use "manipulatives for three-dimensional geometry concepts" in the course, Geometry for Teachers, taught at Southeast Missouri State University. Requested funds for operations expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Walton, Candide; McAllister, Cheryl
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Title: Inquiry Based Class Notes
Project Summary: These funds are being used to develop IBL classroom material suitable for a three-credit hour Linear Algebra course in the Summer of 2010 and to use the IBL classroom material in the fall of 2010. Another objective is to increase the awareness of the efficiency and effectiveness of
IBL among faculty members at Southeast and other universities by presenting the project results
at conferences.
Project Director: Wang, HaoHao
External Funding Source / Partners: Educational Advancement Foundation
Title: RCN-UBE Incubator Case-Based and Problem-Based Learning Network
Project Summary: To bring together those working on Case-Based Learning to plan for a fully developed RCN in the area to allow communication among already successful groups, both U.S. and international, developing of new ideas and incorporating investigation and quantitative elements in associated investigations, and develop a sound plan for research on effects of CBL with undergraduates in STEM.
Investigators/Program Directors: Waterman, Margaret
External Funding Source/Partners: National Science Foundation
Title: Violence, Information, Counseling, Treatment, Outreach, Rights and You (VICTORY)
Project Summary: Violence, Information, Counseling, Treatment, Outreach, Rights and You (VICTORY) is a program aimed at educating University students and staff about the realities of sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking.
Investigators / Program Directors: Wilburn, Victor
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Justice; Safe House for Women; SEMO Network Against Sexual Violence
Title: Backup Generator
Project Summary: To purchase and install a stand-by power generator for the station's remote transmitter site. Requested funds for operating expenses.
Investigators / Program Directors: Woods, Danny
External Funding Source / Partners: U.S. Department of Commerce
Title: Radio Community Service
Project Summary: Funds for operating expenditures - radio station operation for KRCU-FM, 90.9, operated by Southeast Missouri State University.
Investigators / Program Directors: Woods, Danny
External Funding Source / Partners: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Title: KRCU Mo Public Broadcasting Special Fund
Project Summary: Southeast Public Radio requests MAC to pass through the Missouri Public Broadcasting Corporation funding appropriated in the state budget for local radio programs.
Investigators / Program Directors: Woods, Danny
External Funding Source / Partners: Missouri Arts Council
Title: Remotely Accessible Networking Laboratory for Education and Training
Project Summary: To improve quality and accessibility of NETLAB technology to students and instructors at the CISCO Local Academies, high schools, Career and Technology Centers, and Community
Colleges in the Southeast Missouri region. Using advance technological innovations the program
will improve student access to networking equipment which is otherwise unavailable at some
institutions.
Project Directors: Wu, Shuju; Hou, Xiaobing
External Funding Source / Partners: Southeast Missouri WIRED Initiative
Title: Development of Training Modules from an Advanced Manufacturing Technique
Project Summary: The training modules developed will allow the local mechanical manufacturers to build complex products with irregularly curved or helical surfaces using the available and more affordable 3-axis CNC machine. The training modules will be offered in three training sessions.
Project Director: Xiao, Angran
External Funding Source / Partners: Southeast Missouri WIRED Initiative
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