Featured Awards – April 2017

Yasemin Besen-Cassino • Sociology
Gender and Society Book Review
Sociologists for Women in Society
$15,000
This award will support Dr. Besen-Cassino in the role of Book Editor for Gender & Society, which is ranked #1 journal in the area of gender studies. This grant will provide yearly funding for operational costs of the office. As a part of this grant, Dr. Besen-Cassino will select books for review, select reviewers, edit book reviews, and prepare book reviews for publication. This grant also provides funding for an MSU graduate student to serve as an office assistant.

Mark Chopping • Earth and Environmental Studies
Forest and Shrub Mapping with MISR – Supplement
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$22,330
This project–funded by a subaward from the California Institute of Technology–will map forest and shrub aboveground woody biomass and canopy structure for diverse environments, over both limited and larger areas and for multiple orbits and years, using data from the NASA/JPL Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer.

Jason Dickinson • Robert D. McCormick Center for Child Advocacy and Policy
Nicole Lytle • Robert D. McCormick Center for Child Advocacy and Policy
Web Based Training for Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect
NJ Department of Children and Families
$15,077
Dr. Dickinson, Dr. Lytle, and other personnel from the McCormick Center will be responsible for creating an interactive training website for NJ state law and policy regarding mandating reporting. It will serve as an educational and training resource, with a primary focus on teachers, day care workers, and others who work directly with children.

Holly Gera • Intercollegiate Athletics
NCAA Division III Ethnic Minorities and Women’s Internship Grant
National Collegiate Athletic Association
$26,660
This grant from the NCAA will support the creation of a full-time administrative internship to contribute to both sports information/publicity and general administrative duties in the Department of Sports Publicity.

Douglas Larkin • Secondary and Special Education
Sandra Adams • Biology
AAAS Regional Summit on Stimulating Research and Innovation for Preservice Education of STEM Teachers in High-Needs Schools
American Association for the Advancement of Science/National Science Foundation
$50,000
This award supports a regional conference to better understand the successful efforts to prepare, support, and retain science teachers, which has the potential to significantly reduce science teacher turnover, and ultimately provide higher quality science instruction to students.