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.

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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