Spring 2017 Grant Awards at JMU
Funding cycle
Awarded
Proposals funded
First-time 4-VA grant award recipients
Course redesign project
Collaborative research grants
Colleges
Departments
Selected projects demonstrated strength of collaboration which directly aligns with 4-VA’s mission to “promote collaborations that leverage the strengths of each partner university and improve efficiencies in higher education across the Commonwealth of Virginia.” We are proud to fund projects that increase JMU’s access to research and resources, engagement with the campus, community and across the state, capacity for innovation, and visibility here in Virginia and on a national scale.
4-VA at JMU is proud to announce its Spring 2017 Grant Awards to the following faculty:
Carissa Henriques
Course Redesign for “Social Entrepreneurship and Design for Social Impact”
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Justin Henriques, Assistant Professor of Engineering at JMU
- JMU X-Labs
Dr. Giovanna Scarel
Modeling charge density in infrared power generation
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Ilarion Melnikov, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at JMU
- Dr. Balsa Terzik, Assistant Professor of Physics at ODU
Dr. Erika Kancler
Radiology for Anatomists: Building Interactive Medical Images to Enhance Anatomical Learning
$7,000
Collaborators
- Carolyn Schubert, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences & Nursing Librarian at JMU
- Kevin Hegg, Director of Digital Projects at JMU
Dr. Joy Myers
In Search of Effective Practices and Pedagogies in Elementary Writing Methods Courses in the Commonwealth
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Judy Paulick, Assistant Professor of Education at UVA
Dr. Leontina Adriana Banu
Workshop on the Science, Instrumentation and Education Program at the Madison Accelerator Laboratory
$12,500
Collaborators
- Dr. Kevin Giovanetti, Professor of Physics at JMU
- Dr. Gabriel Niculescu, Associate Professor of Physics at JMU
- Dr. Ioana Niculescu, Professor of Physics at JMU
- Dr. Scott Pendleton, Accelerator Lab Manager at JMU
- Dr. Gail Dodge, Professor of Physics at ODU
Dr. Masoud Kaveh Baghbadorani
Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic/Plasmonic Nanowires Heterostructures
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Chenggang Tao, Assistant Professor of Physics at VT
- Dr. Oleksandr Kokhan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at JMU
Dr. Michael H. Renfroe
Developing Industrial Hemp Markets in Virginia: Academic and Industrial Partnerships
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Samuel Morton, Assistant Professor of Engineering at JMU
- Dr. John Fike, Associate Professor of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences at VT
- Dr. Michael Timko, Professor of Biology at UVA
Dr. Samy El-Tawab
Development of Transit Bus Performance Monitoring System using Low Cost WiFi Technology and Cloud Computing in/out of James Madison University Campus
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Byungkyu Brian Park, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UVA
Dr. Yonathan Admassu
Use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for slope stability studies
$3,500
Collaborators
- Dr. Lindsay Burden, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at UVA
Grant recipients not pictured
Dr. Kevin L. Caran
A Novel Multidisciplinary Approach to Combat Pathogenic Bacteria
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Kyle Seifert, Associate Professor of Biology at JMU
- Dr. Klebert Feitosa, Associate Professor of Physics at JMU
Dr. Roshna Wunderlich
Characterization of the intrinsic foot muscles using novel elastomer gel deformations and electromyography
$5,000
Collaborators
- Dr. Klebert Feitosa, Associate Professor of Physics at JMU
- VT
