nGrants and Contracts
October 2002
From the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, $44,000 to Mark Mannie (Medicine) for "Role of CD4+ Cells in EAE."
From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center, $63,773 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for theSBTDC Federal and State Technology Transfer Partnership (FAST).
From the N.C. Foundation for Public School Children, $1,200 to Tarrick Cox (Education) for the North Carolina Teacher Cadet Program.
From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services: $218,271 to Edward Newton (Medicine) for the High Risk Maternity Clinic; and $1,215,594 to Dewane Frutiger (Medicine) for the Developmental Evaluation Clinic.
From the N.C. Arts Council, $4,000 to Patrick Bizzaro and Resa Bizzaro (English) for the Writers Reading Series of Eastern North Carolina.
From the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, $2,500 to Mary Jackson (Social Work) and Barry DuVall (Industrial Technology) for the Secure Digital Mobile Classroom Project.
From the Eastern N.C. Science Board, $15,000 to Richard Brockett (Regional Development Institute) for the Eastern North Carolina Science Center Feasibility Study.
From UNC Chapel Hill: $20,000 to Elaine Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) for the TEDI BEAR Regional Center for Child Maltreatment; and $28,334 to Herbert Garrison (Medicine) for the ECU/Pitt County Community Laboratory.
From the UNC General Administration, $22,128 to Marilyn Sheerer and John Swope (Education) for the N.C. Catalyst ECU program.
From Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, $150,000 to Kristen Borre (Agro-Medicine) and Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for "Growing up Fit! Building a Healthy Lifestyle for Pitt County School Children."
From the Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church, $8,750 to Doyle Cummings (Medicine) for the Evaluation of Community Diabetes Program.
From Beaufort County Health Department, $14,000 to David White (Health and Human Performance) for the Beaufort/Hyde County Healthy Carolinians Community Health Assessment.
From Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, $750 to Annette Peery (Nursing) for "Caring and Burnout in Registered Nurses: What's the Connection?"
From the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, $197,966 to Kristen Borre (Agro-Medicine) and Kathryn Kolasa (Medicine) for "Growing Up Fit! Building Healthy Lifestyles for Pitt County School-Aged Children."
From the Governor's Crime Commission, $135,284 to Dale Newton (Medicine) for BEAR PATCH (Better Abuse Response for the Prevention, Assessment and Treatment of Children."
November 2002
From the Health Resources and Services Administration, $13,919 to Linner Griffin (Social Work) for development of content for an Elder Abuse Training Module.
From the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, $15,000 to Herbert Garrison (Medicine) for N.C. Medical Journal Scientific Editor services.
From the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, $11,520 to Kathi Wilhite (Education) and from The Renaissance Group, $5,000 to Kathi Wilhite and Laura Frey (Education) for "Personnel Preparation in Special Education."
From the N.C. Small Business and Technology Center, $59,633 to Margaret Hackney (Regional Development Services) for the Federal and State Echnology Transfer Partnership (FAST), and $94,807 to Hackney for the N.C. Recovery and Redevelopment program (NC READE).
From UNC Chapel Hill, $5,000 to Charles Daeschner III (Medicine) for the Region IV North Prevention of Complications of Hemophilia through Hemophilia Treatment Centers.
From the University of Arkansas, $1,079 to Karen Elberson (Nursing) for "MI Symptoms in Women: Disparities in Women of Color."
From Florida Atlantic University, $5,000 to David Powers (Education) for "Applications of Knowledge-Based Models in Rural Settings: A Feasibility Analysis."
From the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs, $3,000 to Trenton Davis (Industry and Technology) for "Enhancement of Environmental Health Program Recruiting Strategies."
From Kent State University, $10,000 to Ken Flurchick (ITCS) and Sandra Huskamp (Education) for "Cell Modeling and Visualization."
From Martin County Schools, $7,496 to Betty Beacham (Education) for a consultant for West Martin Project SUCCESS.
From Bertie County Recreation and Parks Department, $6,500 to Robert Wendling (Health and Human Performance) for Recreation and Parks Master Plan for Bertie County, NC.
From Pitt County Memorial Hospital, $9,950 to Lauren Whetstone and Doyle Cummings (Medicine) for the Pamlic/Jones School Nurse Project; and $261,818 to Loretta Kopelman and John Moskop (Medicine) for the Bioethics Center.
December 2002
From the National Institutes of Health, $209,250 to G. Lynis Dohm (Medicine) for "Muscle Glucose Metabolism in Diabetes and Exercise."
From the U.S. Department of Energy, $33,873 to Larry Toburen (Physics) for "Modeling the Physics of Damage Cluster Formation in a Cellular Environment."
From the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, $20,650 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for the Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting.
From the N.C. Arts Council, $5,000 to Gilbert Leebrick (Art) for the Chair Show 4 Exhibition and Symposium
From UNC General Administration, $75,000 to Edmund Stellwag (Biology) for "Collaborative Genomics Research for Community Colleges."
From the Medical University of South Carolina, $35,146 to Kori Brewer (Medicine) for "Gene Expression on Profiling on CNS Regions Implicated in a Mouse Model of Spinal Cord."
From The Field Museum of Natural History, $26,307 to Jason Bond (Biology) for "The Diplopoda: Research Taxonomic Training and Computerization Project."
From the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, $40,000 to Rebecca Torres, Holly Hapke and Jeff Popke (Geography) and Mark L'Esperance (Education) for "'Los Puentes' Dual Language Immersion and Multicultural Education and Research Program."
From the Mathematics and Science Education Network, $50,000 to Karen Dawkins (Education), for CyberCampus K-8 Workshops Benchmark II and III.
January 2003
From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $26,003 to Larry Tise (History) for "The Private Papers of Wilbur, Orville, and Katherine Wright."
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, $10,000 to Roy Martin Roop (Medicine) for the Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting.
From the National Science Foundation, $122,353 to John Stiller (Biology) for "CAREER: Evolution and Constraint of the RNA Polymerase II C-Terminal Domain."
From the National Institutes of Health: $4,500 to Roy M. Roop (Medicine) for the Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting; $132,525 to Michael Hoane (Psychology) for "Vitamin B3 and Traumatic Brain Injury"; and $300,017 to James McCubrey (Medicine) for "Ras/Raf & P13K/Akt Induced Breast Cancer Drug Resistance."
From the American Museum of National History, $75,284 to Jason Bond (Biology) for "Tree of Life: Phylogeny of Spiders."
From UNC General Administration, $48,000 to Parmalee Hawk and Ann Bullock (Education) for NC Teach.
From the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, $10,000 to Shelia Bunch (Social Work) for "Addressing Family Violence During and Around the Time of Pregnancy."
From Florida Atlantic University, $43,570 to Michael Vitale (Education) for "Validation of a Multi-Phase Design for Scaling Up a Knowledge-Based Intervention."
From Pitt County Mental Health, Development Disabilities and Substance Abuse Center, $21,300 to David Dosser Jr. (Human Environmental Sciences) for delivery of Family Preservation Services.
From Celleration, $41,291 to Teresa Conner-Kerr (Allied Health) for "Comparison of the Effectiveness of Celleration Mist Ultrasound Therapy and Pulsa Lavage on Prevention of Necrotic, Yellow Slough in an Acute, Full Thickness Porcine Surgical Wound."
From Tideland Mental Health Center, $2,580 to Thomas Durham (Psychology) for an internship.
From Othro Clinical Diagnostics, $133,008 to Kathryn Verbanac (Medicine) for "Lymph Node Study."
From the Rural Economic Development Center, $15,000 to Kenneth Wilson (Sociology) for "Internet Access in North Carolina."
From the AAWC Scholarship Program, $1,250 to Teresa Conner-Kerr (Allied Health) for "Effects of Pulsatile Lavage with Concurrent Suction on Bacterial Numbers in Acute Surgical Wounds."