CARS Small Grants enable faculty and librarians to pursue creative, innovative ideas for the enhancement of research, teaching and other scholarly activities, for which they would otherwise not have the resources.

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Funded Projects from 2015

Trauma Narratives-Testimonies of Structural Violence from Jamaican Victims of anti-GLBT Hatred - A Preliminary Study, Diana Fox

A Satellite Communication Link for Climate Change Monitoring in the Peruvian Andes, Robert Hellström

Foam and the Figure, John Hooker

An Investigation of Metacognition in Students, Tina Jameson

A Study of Cultural Factors Influencing Solar Photovoltaic Rooftop System Adoption in China, Xiangrong Liu

A Lively Experiment: The Shape and Shaping of the College and University in America, Stephen Nelson

Index for Edited Volume "Native American Nationalism and Nation Re-building: Past and Present Cases", Simone Poliandri

Perceptions of Human Sex Trafficking: Prototypes and their Effect on Juror Decisions, Nesa Wasarhaley

Perceptions of Human Sex Trafficking: Prototypes and their Effect on Juror Decisions, Nesa Wasarhaley

Funded Projects from 2014

Mirror World: Notable Psychological Studies Integrated Within a Young Adult Fiction Novel, John Calicchia

Culturally and Contextually Relevant Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CCR-PBIS): Developing the Teacher Self-Assessment Tool, Lindsay Fallon

Artful Lives: The Francis Watts Lee Family and Their Times, Patricia Fanning

Artist Residency at Vermont Studio Center to Create Artworks on Climate and Sustainability, Ivana George

Field Trips to an Upper-Class Homestead: Martha Stewart, Cultures of Home, and the Branding of Experience, Melanie McNaughton

2014 KoSA Cuba Drum and Percussion Workshop and El Fiesta del Tambor (Havana Rhythm and Dance Festival), Salil Sachdev

Mark of the Fire - a ceramic exhibition, Preston Saunders

Constructing Russian-American Identity in the Academy: George Grebenstchikoff, Julia (Yulia) Stakhnevich

Funded Projects from 2013

Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading, Kimberly Davis

Frank W. Birchall and Pictorial Photography in Boston, Patricia Fanning

"’Glacial Waters’ photography presentation at the New England Portfolio Reviews", Ivana George

Digital Handheld Microscope Camera for Numismatic Research and Publication, Michael Ierardi

Digitization and Virtual Representation of Three Iconic Twentieth Century Literary Figure's Manuscript Collections Recently Acquired by BSU's Special Collections, Orson Kingsley

Do Root-Knot Nematodes Turn Up the JAZ Family During Infection?, Heather Marella

Providence True Love Always (PVD-TLA) Group Art Exhibit, Magaly Ponce

Chlorine Tolerance in Bacteria Due to Triclosan Exposure in Massachusetts Watersheds, Jonathan Roling

Satin Slippers and Minarets: An Examination of Professional Ballet in Post-War Bosnia - Herzegovina, Jennifer Sarver

Funded Projects from 2012

Millions of Lightyears Away, Collin Asmus

Professional Photography of Artwork, Leigh Craven

Cyberbullying Behaviors: Correlating Prevalence and Socioeconomic Status, Elizabeth Englander

Examining Stone Features of the Eastern Seaboard, Curtiss Hoffman

Women to Whom God Has Spoken: Gender and New Right Politics, Margaret Lowe

Prevalence of Pain and Injury Related to Conducting, Donald J. Running

Crossing Boundaries and the Creation of African Consciousness: The Continental Influence of James Aggrey, Ethan Sanders

The Effects of Ethanol Vapor on the Circadian Rhythms of Drosophila Melanogaster, Joseph Seggio

Construction of Russian-American Identity: A Case Study of George Grebenstchikoff, Yulia Stakhnevich

Funded Projects from 2011

Here Live the Stories: Working the Land through Indigenous Knowledge, Joyce Rain Anderson

Many Miles Away: Exploiting Long Distance Viewing As a Theme in Art, Collin Asmus

Heritage Imagined: Tourists’ Reckoning with the Authenticity of Carcassonne, Jodi Cohen

Luscious Pate de Verre, Leigh Craven

Bringing Research, Community, and Public Engagement Together through Liberation Media: The Case of Fondes Amandes, Trinidad, Diana Fox

Photographic Print Exhibition Illustrating the Odonate Life Cycle, Frank Gorga

Middleborough Little League Archaeology Project, Curtiss Hoffman

Developing an Undergraduate Research Lab in Discursive Psychology, Michelle Mamberg

Decades of Chaos and Revolution: Showdowns for College Presidents, Stephen Nelson

World Premiere Performance of the “Mass, Ancestral Remembrances” for Chorus, Soloists, and Orchestra, Carol A. Nicholeris

InSight-s: A Multimedia Installation in Three Continents [National Natural History Museum in Lisbon, Portugal], Magaly Ponce

“Transcending Tradition”: An exhibition of ceramic work, Preston Saunders

Funded Projects from 2010

Immersion Course in Mandarin at Boston Language Institute, Benjamin Carson

Photographing God: An Examination of Sacred Sites as World Heritage in Northern Romania, Jodi H. Cohen

Staging Harold Pinter’s Old Times, Arthur Dirks