Indiana Academy of Science
Research
Grants Programs
The
Indiana Academy of Science offers three programs to support the research
activities of its members.
Click
on the appropriate link to learn more about each program for application
procedures.
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.
Application
deadline: 1 March or 15 September.
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.
Most
successful applicants describe projects they plan to present at the annual meeting
of the I.A.S. Junior Academy, Science Fairs, International Science Talent Search,
or other means of external presentation. Application deadline:
1 November.
Indiana
Academy of Science Fall 2008 Senior Grant Recipients:
- Jennifer McCreight, Purdue University, $1,500.00 Estimating historical
demography in the banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis).
- Zachary H. Olson, Purdue University. $2,944.00 Scavenging of mesocarnivore
carcasses: implications for disease transmission and energy flow in
a fractured landscape.
- David J. Hicks, Manchester College, $1,014.00 Leaf structure and life
span of Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra): an experimental approach.
- Kent Williams, Indiana State University $2,940.00 In vivo analysis
of potentially pro-angiogenic factors.
- Brandon Cooper, Indiana State University $2,554.00 Towards a quantitative
theory of physiological acclimation.
- Benjamin
H. Williams, Indiana State Univ. $2,960.00 Environmental
stochasticity and developmental responses: expression of heat-shock
proteins by fruit flies during unpredictable thermal conditions.
- Robert Brodman, Saint Joseph’s
College $2,752.00 The ecological effects of the timing of aquatic
herbicides application on wetland breeding amphibians.
- Daniel R.
Jones, Indiana Wesleyan Univ. $2,982.00 Characterization
of the effect of glucoluteolin, a favonoid, on estrogen-induced apoptosis
in osteoclasts.
- Shelby Ray
Kenney, Jr., Ball State Univ. $1,820.00 Investigating
changes in small GTPase associations due to simvastatin using 2-dimensional
gel eletrophoresis.
- Susan D.
Spenser, Indiana University $2,760.00 AMS Radiocarbon
dates for two Caborn-Welborn phase cemeteries in southwestern Indiana.
- Kristal
Cain, Indiana University $2,999.00 Individual variations
in female mating choices: relating yolk hormones to extra-pair behavior
in female songbird.
- Anna Larimer, Indiana University $1,285.00 The interactive
effects of multiple microbial symbionts on a common host plant.
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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
Geology Program
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
Phone: (812) 237-2270
Email: sbrake@isugw.indstate.edu
For
more information about the Winona Welch Award, contact the chair of the
Biodiversity and Natural Areas Committee:
Paul E. Rothrock
Randall Environmental Studies Center
Taylor University
Upland, IN 64989-1001
Phone: (765) 998-5152