President Hart’s allocation of her Excellence Initiative funds for this year to establish a competitive, internal program to support research and scholarship has resulted in 17 awards, covering a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, to faculty in all five colleges. By adding nearly $300,000 from an unanticipated increase in indirect cost recovery, and spreading spending over 2 fiscal years, the total amount awarded was increased to about $700,000. Despite these efforts, only 40% of the proposals could be supported.
What follows is a listing and brief description of the funded projects. I would like to thank all of the more than 100 faculty and staff that participated in the creation of a total of 46 proposals. It has been both rewarding and enjoyable to review the breadth and depth of scholarship exhibited in response to this opportunity, and I only wish we could have funded a greater proportion of proposals.
| Investigators | Title | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raina Ames | Imagination Quest | $20,000.00 | |
| Julia Bryce Karen Von Damm Jack Dib | Influence of degassing on models of magma ascent rates | $39,543.00 | |
| Gale Carey Anthony Tagliaferro Deena Small | Environmental Chemicals and Human Health | $50,000.00 | |
| Vaughn Cooper Philip Hatcher Thomas Kocher R. Daniel Bergeron W. Kelley Thomas | Integrating Comparative Genomics and Computer Science | $66,696.00 | |
| Rick Cote Karen Carleton | Comparative genomic analysis and protein structural modeling of different phosphodiesterase enzyme families | $19,624.00 | |
| Matt Davis Julia Bryce William McDowell | Hydrologic and geochemical Analysis of Flowpaths and Residence Times in the Headwater Lamprey Watershed, New Hampshire | $53,395.00 | |
| Emily Douglas Nina Glick Schiller | Refugee Resettlement in New Hampshire: A Study of Refugee Well-being | $55,654.00 | |
| Jenna Jambeck Kevin Gardner John Halstead | Environmental and Economic Issues With Recycling Construction and Demolition Debris | $50,000.00 | |
| Jeffrey Johnson Andrew Kun | UNH Autonomous Geophysical Observatory at Reventador Volcano | $27,370.00 | |
| Jill McGaughy Robert Mair | Influence of acetylcholine (ACh) and norepinephrine (NE) on memory-related activity of neurons in prefrontal cortex of the rat | $40,147.07 | |
| Sharyn Potter Toni Bisconti Victoria Banyard Heather Turner Reagan Baughman | The Ecology of Direct-Care Workers: Risk and Protective Factors | $49,108.00 | |
| William Saturno | The Origins of Maya Kings | $20,000.00 | |
| Michelle Sullivan | Early Markers: Early Developmental Markers for Autism Spectrum disorders in Infants | $55,000.00 | |
| Rachel Trubowitz | Performing and Reforming Death in Civil War England: John Milton, Anna Trapnel and Andrew Marvell | $18,300.00 | |
| Kerryellen Vroman Rebecca Warner | Emotional Intelligence and the Quality of Communication in Medical Interviews | $39,285.40 | |
| David Watters Valerie Cunningham Jerri Anne Boggis Blake Gumprecht | Black New England: An Interdisciplinary Research Project | $50,221.00 | |
| Barbara Prudhomme White Robert Drugan | A comparison of infants born to mothers under chronic stress: A pilot study that examines the potential effect of stress reduction interventions during pregnancy | $64,850.00 |