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 2004
National Culture Wars: Samuel Johnson, William Shaw, and the Ossian Controversy, Thomas M. Curley
Writing Sections of My Book: Proving Mathematical Propositions, Ward Heilman
The History of Consciousness: Romanism Through The Middle Ages, Jonathan Holmes
Application of a New, Relativistic Gravitational Lensing Technique to RXJ1347-1145, Thomas P. Kling
Unraveling the Geologic History of the Blacktail Mountains, SW Montana, Michael A. Krol
Marion Lawrence Peabody Diary Project, Margaret Lowe
Tailoring Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Voice Recognition Software for Handling Multiple Languages: An Experimental Study, Roger Marshall
Performing in a Professional Production of a Major American Play, Suzanne Ramczyk
Foundations of Electrodynamics, Uma Shama
Joseph Brodsky – A Bilingual Journey, Julia Stakhnevich