NSF Award:

John Mecham and Susan Fisher have been awarded a $75,920 NSF award entitled "Life Science in Context: Sub-Saharan Africa" in collaboration with Erica Kosal, NC Wesleyan College; Michele Barker-Bridgers, Bennett College; and Pearl Fernandes, University of South Carolina Sumter Campus.

Submissions:

Alyson Colwell-Waber just submitted a pre-proposal to the Ford Foundation for Meredith College. The proposal seeks an investment of $100,000.00 over a two-year period from the Ford Foundation’s Difficult Dialogues initiative of the Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program to support critically important institutional reform efforts. 

Bill Landis has submitted a request to Whole Foods for 5% Day in order to sponsor his organic garden project.

Awarded:

The Math and Computer Science faculty at Meredith College have formed a partnership with Roanoke Rapids Graded School District and Asheboro City Schools District. This partnership is known as the STAMP partnership (Science, Technology and Assessment integrated with Mathematics Partnership).

This grant will impact several faculty members in science as well, providing them support and opportunities to work with teachers, as well as helping to fund some start-up activities for the Center for Women in Mathematics & Science.  The partnership proposed a three-year grant project of $1.496 million with the first year of funding at $499,493.  The Mathematics Science Partnership grants are awarded to partnerships between school districts and higher education institutions for providing professional development in mathematics and science for middle school and secondary teachers. 

Bill Schmidt and Charles Lewis have been awarded a collaboration sub-contract from NSF through UNC-Chapel Hill. They will have $15,455 over the next three years (summers) to spend on undergraduate research. The grant is a DMR Condensed Matter Physics grant with Yue Wu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jeane Joyner is the project director of the NSF grant "Teaching Excellence and Mathematics II (Team II) which has just been awarded $1,425,672 for a 5th year of this grant.