CARS Summer Grants are available for full-time tenured or tenure track BSU faculty and librarians. For librarians, release time is substituted for the stipend. This grant enables faculty and librarians to pursue creative, innovative ideas for the enhancement of research, teaching, and other scholarly activities during the summer. This grant is funded through the Provost and Vice President, Office of Academic Affairs.

Follow

Funded Projects from 2007

Deaf Criminal Offenders-Examining the Role of Deficient Socialization Due to Linguistic Developmental Delay, Aviva Twersky Glasner

An Investigation of University-Industry-Government Linkages in the High Tech Sector in Singapore, Martin Grossman

Children's Perceptions of Their Neighborhoods and Safety: Analysis of Data from a Study of Working Families in Northern Ireland, Ruth Hannon

Social Coordination and Gestural Communication in Captive Gibbons, Ellen J. Ingmanson

The Development of Online-Writing Intensive Physics Laboratories, Thomas P. Kling

Geochemical Constraints on Basaltic Magmatism in the Sweetwater Mountains, SW Montana, Michael A. Krol

“What Happened to Tom?” A Socially Constructed “Automentary”, Arthur Lizie

Restorative Justice: A Cross-Cultural Look at its Effects on Young Offenders, Kim MacInnis

The Public Domain of Domesticity: Preliminary Research in Ecuador, Erin O'Connor

Law and Freedom in Tragedy and Philosophy, Aeon J. Skoble

The Reliability and Validity of a Measure of Chronic Self-Focus, Elizabeth R. Spievak

Dome of the Rock: Research of Photographic Collections, Beatrice St. Laurent

Conceptual, Institutional and Physical Infrastructure: Understanding the role of China’s Higher Education in its “Second Cultural Revolution”; Alternative title: China from the Four Modernizations to Globalization through Higher Education, Nancy Lynch Street

Images of America: Chinese in Boston, 1870-1965, Wing-kai To

Miriam Winslow: Educating Dancers and Articulating the Essence of Her Art, Jody Weber

Funded Projects from 2006

A Search for Dust Around Our Sun, Martina B. Arndt

The Development of a Joint Research Project: Bridgewater State College and Acadia University, Victoria Bacon

The Human Side of Managing for Results – A Book Proposal and Partial Manuscript, Brendan Burke

Problems and Possibilities: Reading and Writing Genres in Context, Kathryn Evans

Disease and the Politics of Community: Norwood, Massachusetts and the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918, Patricia J. Fanning

Beyond the Abuse: Helping Incarcerated Women Deal with Their Abuse Experiences, Karen R. Fein

Linguistic Attitudes of Heritage Language Learners, Fernanda Ferreira

Gendered Lives: Spinning Personal Narratives - A Book Chapter Research and Writing Proposal, Diana Fox

Strategic Interaction Among School Districts: A Spatial Analysis of Education Expenditures in Massachusetts, Soma Ghosh

'Kill-the-Dammed-Irish' and 'Poland Shall Be Free': The Catholic Conundrum in 1830s New York City, Joshua R. Greenberg

Mshanets Local History, Leonid Heretz

Gestural Communication in Captive Gibbons: A Preliminary Investigation, Ellen J. Ingmanson

A Sociology of Educational Late Blooming, William C. Levin

A Dangerous Romance: Spain, France, and Orientalist Cultural Spectacles, Leora Lev

'Why Must I Be the Only Woman to Lose My Birthright?’ Gender and Modernity in Upper-Class Twentieth-Century American Life, Margaret Lowe

DNA Sequencing for Teaching and Research: Mastering the LiCor® 4300 DNA Analysis System, Patricia E. Mancini

Leibniz and Suarez on God's Role in Natural Causation, Laura McAlinden

A Field Guide to Wetland Plants: Specimen Collections, Donald Padgett

Assessing Whether Strategic Typologies Exist Within Publicly Held Firms in the Financial Service Industry, Stanley C. Ross

Hydrothermal Fluid Chemistry in Back Arc Basins, Peter Saccocia

The Creation of a Digital Archive in Tangier Continued!, Beatrice St. Laurent

Chinese American Education and Culture in Boston During the Exclusion Era, 1870s to 1950s, Wing-kai To

Collapsible Dance, Jody Weber

Visualizing Physics, Jeffrey Williams

Funded Projects from 2005

British Poetry, 1603-1660: Final Proofs, Gregory Chaplin

Knowledge Management System Metrics (chapter 10), Martin Grossman

Children’s Perceptions of Parents’ Work in a Context of Sectarian Conflict, Ruth Hannon

Bright-Line Rules Versus Individualized Assessments: The Gratz and Grutter Threat to Equal Treatment in College Admissions, Mark Kemper

The Role of Crystallins and Fas Ligand in Protection versus Ocular Destruction in Endophthalmitis, Merideth Krevosky

Geochemical Comparison Between the Price Creek and Dillon Volcanic Rocks, Blacktail Mountains, Montana: Petrogensis of Cenozoic Volcanism, Michael A. Krol

Oaths and Vows in Islamic Law, Keith Lewinstein

Divine Concurrence in Leibniz, Laura McAlinden

Study of Dutch Jewish Composers of the Holocaust Period Including Contemporaries of Leo Smit, Deborah Nemko

Pursuing a Women’s Agenda in the State Legislatures, Tracy L. Osborn

Hayek and the Common Law, Aeon J. Skoble