The Indiana Academy of Science offers three programs to support the research activities of its members.

The SENIOR RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM provides grants of up to $3000 for Academy members or the undergraduate or graduate students they sponsor to support the purchase of supplies, travel costs, salaries of research assistants, field costs, and limited equipment purchases.  While the selection process favors applications from investigators with limited resources, start-up projects, and those with special impact on Indiana, a wide variety of projects have been funded in the past.

SECONDARY SCHOOL SCIENCE RESEARCH GRANTS support work by students in the 9th-12th grades working with Academy member teacher-mentors by providing up to $300 for supplies and materials for their independent science projects.

Indiana Academy of Science Spring 2007 Senior Grant Recipients:

Carmen Salsbury, Butler University $1,200, Long-term monitoring of fox (Sciurus niger) and gray (S. carolinensis) populations living within a suburban/ urban landscape.

Susan McDowell, Ball State University $3,000, Investigating the inhibition of simvastatin of Staphylococcus aureus host cell invasion.

Diane Packett, Purdue University $1,000, Stopover habitat selection by migratory landbirds in a fragmented forest-agriculture landscape.

Yang Bai, Indiana State University $2,550, Transgenic manipulation in zebra fish by Cre-loxP recombinant system RNAi technique.

Youssef Aachoui, Indiana State University $1,275, The role of novel phyto-based compound as adjuvant in crosstalk between innate and acquired immunity.

Eric McClusky, Indiana State University $2,325, Population genetic structure of Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) in New York.

Amanda Jamison, Indiana State University $922, Is beauty only feather deep: the effects of parasites on the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicolsis).

Jennifer Bellany, Indiana State University $3,000, Reconstruction of contaminant history of Green Valley Lake: the impact of acid mine drainage.

Jennifer Latimore, Indiana State University $3,000, Roadway source of lead in urban soils: and example from Curtis Gilbert Park, Terre Haute, IN.

Mark Pyron, Ball State University $2,950, The current distribution of aquatic snails in Indiana.

John Pichtel, Ball State University $2,900, Permeable reactive barriers from removal of chromium from contaminated Indiana soils.

Lila Prichard, Ball State University $1,000, Distribution and foraging ecology of cerulean warblers in Indiana.

Danielle Whittaker, Indiana University $3,000, MHC and mate choice in an isolated songbird population.

Michael Finkler, Indiana University Kokomo $514, Endocrine and mitochondrial factors underlying sexrelated difference in the metabolism of spring-breeding spotted salamanders.

Songwen Xie, Indiana University Kokomo $3,000, X-ray single crystal structure study of chiral carboxylic acid interactions in the solid state.

Jennifer Akst, Indiana University $1,320, Sex differences in selection: sex-role reversal in Floridian lined seahorses (Hippocampus erectus).,

Patricia Oppor, Taylor University $2,379, The making of an environmentalist: lessons learned from the Indiana members of the Nature Conservancy and others.

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Winona Welch Award For Botanical Biodiversity Research Recipient:

Donald Ruch, Ball State University $500, Examination of the flora and floral communities of Bibler Nature Preserve, Jay County, IN.

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The WINONA WELCH AWARD FOR BOTANICAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH supports biodiversity research (e.g., surveys and systematics) of plants and their allies (e.g., algae and fungi).  One award of $400.00 is made each year for worthy proposals.  Application deadline:  22 January.

For more information about the Research Grants Program or the Secondary School Science Research Grants, contact the chair of the Research Grants Committee:

Sandra Brake
Department of Environmental and Ecological Sciences
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809

Phone: (812) 237-2270
Email: sbrake@isugw.indstate.edu

  

    Paul E. Rothrock

    Randall Environmental Studies Center

    Taylor University

    Upland, IN 64989-1001

 

    Phone: (765) 998-5152

    Email:  plrothroc@tayloru.edu