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Adam Voight Receives Awards from Dept. of Ed and Hewlett Fdn.
Dr. Adam Voight, an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum & Foundations (C&F) and director of the Center for Urban Education (CUE), has received a two-year, $299,641 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and has also been selected to receive a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program.
The Hewlett Foundation grant will focus on empowering and equipping urban K-12 students with the knowledge, skills, and mindsets necessary to achieve their goals. The work will be conducted via the Cleveland Alliance for Education Research (CAER), which is a research-practice partnership between Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), and the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The team will assist with the development and evaluation of four key vehicles to improve student outcomes: 1) personalized learning; 2) addressing learning loss from COVID-19; 3) whole child learning, including equity and justice; and 4) out-of-school learning.
For the Department of Education grant, Dr. Voight and Co-PI Dr. Molly Buckley-Marudas, an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education, will lead the development of an evidence-based, field-initiated, and student-led action research innovation to improve academic, social, and civic competencies for high-needs students. The team will work with high schools in 17 school districts in Northeast Ohio and 12 in Central Ohio to support students through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). YPAR engages groups of young people in a process of identifying a practical problem in their communities or schools that they wish to ameliorate, collecting data to better understand the problem, analyzing the data, and using the results as the basis for action. The intended outcomes of the research are to improve academic behaviors, increase teacher expectations of students, develop social and civic skills of students, and improve school climate.
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Meet CSU's Faculty
Michelle Graff, Urban Affairs
Dr. Michelle Graff is an assistant Professor in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. She received a Ph.D. in public affairs from Indiana University; an MA in environmental resource policy from George Washington University; and a BA in Economics from Colby College. Prior to joining academia, she worked on Capitol Hill and at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Graff’s research focuses on energy and society, specifically three domestic topics: 1) residential energy insecurity, 2) the efficacy of energy assistance programs and policies, and 3) the implications of the energy transition for vulnerable communities. Her research connects energy insecurity and the implementation of energy laws, policies, and programs. She aims to understand whom energy insecurity affects and how government efforts have addressed this material hardship. Her dissertation analyzed the applicants and administration of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), an unexplored block-grant program that helps between five to seven million households meet their energy needs each year.
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Research Funding
Final Reminder: Internal Funding Proposals Are Due February 1
The Office of Research is pleased to remind faculty that the call for proposals for the following 2022-2023 internal funding programs is currently open:
Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA)
Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA)
Faculty Research and Development (FRD)
Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI)
The deadline for applications is February 1. To assist in the preparation of successful applications, the forms that will be used to evaluate the proposals are included at the above web sites.
For more information, please contact Joy Yard, 687-9364, or Roman Kondratov, 687-5171.
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Research Proposal Guidance
NIH Guidance for Preparing Applications During COVID-19, Biosketch Materials
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has extended the guidance that while grant applications should not include contingency or recovery plans for problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, investigators may address effects due to the pandemic on productivity or other scoreable issues in the personal statement of the biosketch. Reviewers will be instructed to take these pandemic-related circumstances into account when assessing applicants’ productivity and other score-driving factors.
NIH has also created a consolidated table summarizing where to report information on professional preparation (e.g., educational degrees), organizational affiliations and appointments; academic, professional, or institutional appointments; in-kind contributions, consulting, and other activities.
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Inspired Creativity
CSU Alumnus Brendan Whitt Curates Blaque Cleveland Exhibit
Brendan Whitt, a CSU double alumnus with a BA in journalism and promotional communications (’14) and MA in english (’19) will guest curate the exhibit Blaque Cleveland at The Galleries at CSU. This exhibition showcases four Black artists who have lived in Cleveland and had their art influenced by the city and region.
Mr. Whitt, a former gallery student employee, has assembled this group of artists through personal friendship, admiration, and recognition of talent. The artists include Isaiah Williams (landscapes and the human form), Kiara Booker (exploration of Black women in acrylics), Dakarai Akil (collages examining society and purgatory), and Daivon Shepherd’s (visions of young Black lives through his camera lens). Blaque Cleveland will highlight some of Cleveland’s strongest voices in the Black Visual Arts community commenting on police brutality, inner-city life, and the metaphysical. The exhibit can be viewed Tuesday, January 18 - Thursday, March 19, 2022 at The Galleries at CSU, 1307 Euclid Avenue.
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News from the Technology Transfer Office
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Update: Patent Allowance
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has allowed a patent for U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 15/485,962 titled ACTUATING DEVICE FOR POWERED ORTHOSIS that names Dr. Jerzy Sawicki, the Bently and Muszynska Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MCE), and Curt Laubscher, Ryan Farris and Steven Etheridge from Parker Hannifin Corporation. The invention is a result of an ongoing collaboration between CSU and Parker Hannifin. The technology provides the motor and internal actuating device that will power an orthosis or external body suit for disabled users. In particular, the invention provides the powering mechanism for a pediatric exoskeleton that allows disabled children to move again.
Contact Jack Kraszewski for assistance with a disclosure to begin the process of protecting your invention or intellectual property. |
TeCK Fund Phase 3 Now Accepting Letters of Intent
The TeCK Fund, a joint technology commercialization and startup fund co-managed by Cleveland State University and Kent State University, is now accepting Letters of Intent for the opportunity to submit a full proposal. A successful full proposal will require the approval of the Selection Committee at which the PI will have to present. The TeCK Fund provides faculty pursuing applied research projects with funding to assist with commercialization activities, including prototype creation, third-party validation, and market research, which are required to successfully spin off technologies. Applicants who have participated in the I-Corps@Ohio program will be given priority.
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Scholarship of Note
Research and Scholarship News from Across Campus
| Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez Publishes New Article on Indigenous Central Americans |
Dr. Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez, an adjunct professor in the Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology (CAS) and a compliance officer for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program, has published a new article, titled 'The Deer and the Donkey: Indigenous Ritual and Survivance in Nicaragua’s El Güegüense.' The article, published in Latin American Research Review, discusses Indigenous resistance against colonization in both history and in modern days. The survival of the indigenous Chorotega culture and spirituality is an under-researched (and to some, controversial) topic.
| Kevin Mueller’s Urban Forestry Research Highlighted |
CSU’s Marketing division profiled the research of Dr. Kevin Mueller, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences (BGES). Dr. Mueller received funding from the Ohio Sea Grant to determine how tree selection can influence storm water management. He developed measurement techniques for water flow through 11 different tree species, and quantified how varying tree canopies intercept and divert rainfall. The research is intended to help urban planners plan forestry around development land in ways that reduce storm sewer inflow.
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Please share with us important news or updates on your research, scholarly, or creative activities. Updates may be related to a paper that has been accepted for publication in a high-impact journal, a book you've just published, your work that will be exhibited at a prominent institution, or other updates you wish to share with our office. Send details to j.yard@csuohio.edu and b.j.ward@csuohio.edu.
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