CARS Faculty and Librarian Research Grants are available for substantial individual projects for full-time tenured or tenure track BSU faculty and librarians. These grants support activities for faculty and librarian research projects, scholarship, and creative activity, and to provide time for these activities. This grant is funded through the Office of Academic Affairs by the Bridgewater Foundation.
Funded Projects from 2010
To Whom God has Spoken: American Women in Word and Spirit, 1700-the Present, Margaret Lowe
Ecuadorian Domesticity: The Intersection of Tradition and Modernity, 1895-1950, Erin O'Connor
Pinter in Performance: A Study of the Stylistic Performance Demands Associated with the Plays of Harold Pinter, Suzanne Ramczyk
Landing Development: What to Expect from Children, Pamela Russell
The Modern and Contemporary Restorations of the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Beatrice St. Laurent
Funded Projects from 2009
Money in the Middle: Adult Children as Their Parents' Emissaries to the World of Personal Finance, Arnaa Alcon
A Generation at Risk: Prevalence of Multiple Addictive Behaviors Among Collegiate Athletes, Victoria Bacon and Theresa Coogan
Biogeography and Metacommunity Structure of Intertidal Invertebrates in Puerto Rico, Christopher Bloch
Digital Photographic Food Diaries for Weight Loss: A Pilot Study, Lydia Burak
Beyond the White Negro: Cross-Racial Empathy and White Audiences of African-American Culture, Kimberly Davis
Geography of Coffee & Tea Encyclopedia, James Hayes-Bohanan
Testing the Stepwise Growth of the Tibetan Plateau: A Sedimentologic and Stable Isotopic Study, Malinda Kent-Corson
Digital Photographic Food Diaries for Weight Loss: A Pilot Study, Theresa King
An Analysis of New Approaches to Weak Gravitational Lensing, Thomas Kling
Deco Rings, Rob Lorenson
College Presidents: The After Life of the Post-Presidency, Stephen J. Nelson
What is New is Old: Croatian Contemporary Chamber Music at the Crossroads of European Artistic Expression, Deborah Nemko
Services for Disabled and Deprived Vietnamese Children, Thanh Nguyen
Do Cell Phones Deter Crime? Evidence from 2000-2006 State-Level Panel Data, Matthew Parrett
InSight-s: A Multimedia Art Installation on Three Continents, Magaly Ponce
Sabbatical Residency at SODA, Preston Saunders
Development of Titanium Carbamate Compounds and Study of Their Reactivity, Stephen Waratuke
Eating on the Run: A Qualitative Investigation of Fast Food Student Employees and Social Network Influences on Eating Behaviors, Catherine A. Womack
Funded Projects from 2008
Effectiveness of Biosand Water Filters in Siem Reap, Cambodia: Expanded Support and Video Documentary, Jabbar Al-Obaidi and Kevin Curry