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Who. What. How Much. A Sampling of Current Research and Funding
Lisa Bingham
$50,000 from the U.S. Postal Service to SPEA’s Indiana Conflict
Resolution Institute, to continue longitudinal research on the
world’s largest mediation program for workplace conflict.
Phil Cornwell
$183,094 as part of an $885,026 contract between the U.S. Department
of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) and SPEA’s Transportation Research Center, to provide
quality control of motor vehicle crashes investigated by participants
in the Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network.
Chris Craft
$142,148 from the University of Georgia, to investigate the effects
of the spatial and temporal variation in freshwater on tidal marsh
ecosystem processes. Because coastal marshes provide shoreline
protection and fisheries habitat, enhance water quality, and provide
refuge for rare and endangered species, it is important to know
how these ecosystems will respond to a rising sea level and climate
change now and into the future.
Ronald Drahos
$200,000 as part of a $1,357,409 contract between the U.S. Department
of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) and SPEA’s Transportation Research Center, to fund
research for the Special Crash Investigation program.
Bill Jones
$288,867 from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management,
to continue implementing IDEM’s Indiana Clean Lakes Program.
This includes three primary components: assessing the water quality
of 80 lakes each summer; running a citizen volunteer lake monitoring
program of over 100 lakes; and preparing a quarterlyinformational
newsletter called WaterColumn.
Steve McDonald
$394,182 as part of a $1,033,000 contract between the U.S. Department
of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) and SPEA’s Transportation Research Center, to provide
computerized quality control assurance and statistical support
services for three of its traffic crash data collection systems—the
General Estimates System, Crashworthiness Data System and National
Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study— as part of an effort
to reduce motor vehicle injuries and fatalities on the nation’s
roads and highways.
Flynn Picardal
$246,552 from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth
Sciences, to research the adaptive response of microbial communities
and Fe biomineralization pathways to anaerobic redox cycling of
Fe and N in sediments. This grant is part of a larger $500,000
collaborative effort with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin.
Maureen Pirog
$290,000 from the United States Agency for International Development,
to SPEA’s Institute for Family and Social Responsibility,
to establish a public policy partnership between SPEA and the
Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, to strengthen the
institutional capacity of the HSE by enhancing its capability
in applying policy analysis tools to real-life public sector problems.
David Reingold
$45,500 from the Carnegie Corporation, to support research that
will measure the effects of state-level civic education policies
on the civic engagement of young Americans. SPEA PhD student Becky
Nesbit is a co-principal investigator in this project.
Charles Wise
$500,000 in the form of a cooperative agreement from the United
States Agency for International Development to fund the Parliamentary
Development Project for Ukraine (PDP). The PDP will focus its
efforts to advance the role of parliament under Ukraine’s
new Constitution and proportional system of election set to take
place in January 2006. PDP staff will assist parliament in four
areas, including administrative reform, local government reform,
legislation to combat corruption, and legislation facilitating
integration into international protocols such as the World Trade
Organization, Palermo Convention, and European Union. This recent
cooperative agreement supplements a $4,980,000 five-year agreement
issued to the PDP in 2003.
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