New grant awards

 The University Grants and Research Office announced nine new grants awards received Feb. 29-March 4, totaling $616,304.

Grants were awarded in the Division of Student Affairs (Office of University Migrant Services) and the colleges of Arts and Humanities, Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Health and Human Services, Engineering and Computer Sciences , and the Kremen School of Education and Human Development. UGRO acknowledges the commitment of the project directors and other faculty and staff who were instrumental in the process. Grants were awarded to the following :

Title: Central California Public Health Partnership: A Regional Approach to the Prevention of Diabetes
Agency: The California Endowment
Project director: Benjamin Cuellar
Amount of Award: $219,494
Purpose: Benjamin Cuellar will develop a public health infrastructure for collaborative health planning at the community, county, and regional levels in California, and will develop a multi-year plan for a regional diabetes prevention program.
College/School: Health and Human Services

Title: DPR Training and Task Force 2003/04
Agency: Department of Pesticide Regulations
Project director: Tim Jacobsen
Amount of Award:  $58,000
Purpose: Tim Jacobsen and the Center for Irrigation Technology will offer seminars, site evaluations, and field days for irrigators and irrigation dealers and continue with the chemigation task force in developing an administrative field manual.
College/School: College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Center for Irrigation Technology

Title: Renaissance Workgroup (Year 5 of 5)
Agency: USDE (subcontract with Western Kentucky University)
Amount of Award: $70,430
Project director: Susan Macy
Purpose: Improving teacher quality through partnerships that connect teacher performance to student learning
College/School: Kremen School of Education and Human Development, Literacy and Early Education

Title: Evaluation of Extraction/Maceration Enzymes
Agency:  DSM Food Specialties
Project director: Barry Gump
Amount of Award:  $6,500
Purpose: Barry Gump will be comparing different color extraction enzymes in red winemaking with "standard" maceration.
College/School: College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (CAST )

Title: Maglev Train Reproduction
Agency: NCIIA
Project director: Kausik Chatterjee
Amount of Award: $20,000
Purpose: Kausik Chatterjee will lead a team of three engineering students and one MBA student in the creation of a model Maglev train for the commercial market.
College/School: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Title: Digital Image Library Fund - 2004
Agency: Garabedian Foundation
Project director:  Robert Wample
Amount of Award: $2,000
Purpose: The Viticulture and Enology Research Center (VERC) slide database will be one of the charter collections of VERC digitization efforts, which Robert Wample hopes will grow to include images and documents that will be made available for teaching and research purposes.
College/School: Viticulture and Enology Research Center (VERC)

Title: Garabedian Scholarships
Agency: Garabedian Foundation
Amount of Award: $22,500
Project director: Raul Moreno
Purpose: To provide internships for upper division migrant students
College/School: Student Affairs, Office of University Migrant Services

Title: Water/Flow Technology
Agency: Fresno County Workforce Investment Board
Project director: David Zoldoske
Amount of Award: $168,105
Purpose: David Zoldoske and the Center for Irrigation Technology will provide the Water/Flow industry with career development and training in expansion, coordinate the manufacturer's referrals and training requirements, and assist and consult in the formation of new regional clusters.
College/School: Center for Irrigation Technology

Title: Data Driven Linguistic Ontology Development
Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount of Award: $49,275
Project director: William Lewis
Purpose: To enrich the computational infrastructure for linguistics , enabling researchers both to find the resources they need despite the incompatibility of encoding formats, and to make the results of their own work more widely accessible to others.
College/School: Arts and Humanities, Linguistics

For more information, contact Thomas McClanahan, associate vice president for Grants and Research 8-0840.