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.
Funded Projects from 2010
Heirs to Tom Brown’s School Days: Ralph Henry Barbour, Arthur Stanwood Pier and the Elite School Hockey Story before World War I, Andrew C. Holman
Chimpanzee Behavioral Anomalies: The Effect of Sensory Integration Therapy, Enrichment, and Environment on a Captive Individual (Pan Troglodytes), Ellen J. Ingmanson
The Effects of Visual Enhancement on Novel Word Learning and Overall Comprehension, Ryan LaBrozzi
A Dialogical Self Analysis of Holocaust Survivors' Narratives, Michelle Mamberg
Love and His Love’s Jerusalem: Melville, Zionism, and the American Jewess, Molly Robey
Health Status and Health Service Utilization among Older Immigrants to the United States, Jing Tan
Funded Projects from 2009
to the East: Using Buddhist Meditation in Teaching Clinical Social Work Practice, Mark Brenner
Problems and Possibilities: Reading and Writing Genres in Context, Kathryn Evans
Crossing the Great Divide: Criminal Justice Content in Social Work Curriculum, Karen R. Fein
'Brain Circulation' and the American Chinese Diaspora, Martin Grossman
Telling Stories About Indigeneity and Canadian Sport: The Spectacular Cree & Ojibway Indian Hockey Barnstorming Tour of North America, 1928, Andrew C. Holman
Timing of Basalt Magmatism in the Ruby and Blacktail Mountains: Implications for the Sedimentologic, Geomorphic, and Tectonic Evolution of SW Montana, Michael A. Krol
The Marian Lawrence Peabody Diary: Digital Publication, Margaret Lowe
From Berber to Blueberries: Rhetoric, Design, and Martha Stewart, Melanie McNaughton
Predicting the Complexity of Generative Syntax from Measures of Working Memory in Younger and Older Adults, Suzanne Miller
Fashion: Its Relationship to Identity, Social Class, and Issues of Sustainability, Evelyn Pezzulich
Potential Attenuation of Cr(V1) in Hypoxic Water Using Fathead Minnow, Jonathan Roling
The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: Digital Photo-Documentation & Cataloguing of 16th - 20th Century Tiles, Beatrice St. Laurent
Font Design for an Optimal Reading Experience on Screen Displays, Donald Tarallo
Ternion: Dance, Community and Clean Energy, Jody Weber
Funded Projects from 2008
Out of the Closets and into Cyberspace: Simulating the Gay Ghetto in the Internet Age, Matthew Bell
Breast Cancer: The Orphan Disease, Barbara E. Bond
Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America, Benjamin Carson
Sign Language “Storyreading” for Children Who are Deaf, Sandra Ciocci
Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Truth, William J. Devlin
Problems and Possibilities: Reading and Writing Genres in Context (chapter 2), Kathryn Evans
Making Young Adult Literature with GLBT Content Accessible to Teens, Anne Hird
Hockey Despite Hitler: World War II and the Challenge to Hockey’s Global Divergence, Andrew C. Holman
The Influence of Body Image and Gender Roles on Health Behaviors, Teresa King
Geochemistry of the Dillon Granite Gneiss: Implications for the Nature of Magmatism in the Ruby Mountains, Montana, Michael A. Krol
Random Vectors in the Quadratic Sieve, Shannon Lockard
First Placement of Children to Special Education from Kindergarten through 6th Grade: Effects of Race, Class, and Gender, Emily A. Mann
Constant Creation, Occasionalism, and the Principles of Natural Philosophy in the Young Leibniz, Laura McAlinden
Making Sense of Video Data in Qualitative Research, Rebecca C. Metcalf
American Gardening: The Role of the Nineteenth Century Industry, Thomas Mickey
An Investigation into the Multi-Cultural Influences on the Piano Trio and Other Works for Piano in Ensemble by Maurice Ravel, Deborah Nemko
Video Sketchbook: Documenting the Impact of English Education on Cape Verdean Music, Magaly Ponce
Examining and Predicting the Use of Exercise as a Form of Punishment or Behavior Management: An Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action, Maura Rosenthal and Lydia Burak
In the Hand of God: Sanctuary, Sacred Space, and the Cult of the Saints, John P. Sexton
South African Teachers' Language Practices and Attitudes: Indigenous Languages in the English Language Classroom, Julia Stakhnevich
Using Tiered Graphic Organizers to Differentiate Instruction in the Early Childhood Classroom, Nancy Witherell
Funded Projects from 2007
A Protocol for Addressing Psycho-Socio-Emotional Needs of the Physically Active, Marcia K. Anderson
Biodiversity of Gastropod Assemblages in the Bridgewater Area, Christopher P. Bloch
Identifying Associations Among Surface Soil Properties and Site Characteristics in a Semi-Arid Agricultural Region, Darcy Boellstorff
Examining the Role of Narrative in Professional Development in KwaZulu-Natal, Ruth Farrar and Rebecca Corwin
Development of Knowledge around Female Recidivism - What Is Known And What Will Be Important To Examine?, Karen R. Fein
A Biodiesel Center for Southeastern Massachusetts: A Story of Grass Roots Innovation, Helene Fine
Imagining and Creating a Just World: Listening To Diverse People, Sabrina Gentlewarrior