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Prepared by: Theresa Ford, Grants Administrator Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects Kent State University at Stark

September, 2015 (revised February, 2016)

Kazimir Malevich, Woman with a

Rake, 1928-1932, oil on canvas,

100 x 70 cm (State Tretiakov

Gallery, Moscow). Dr. Marie

Gasper-Hulvat, Assistant

Professor of Art, was awarded a

Kent State University Teaching

Council Summer Development

Grant for her project, “Creating

Smarthistory-style Videos for

Flipping a Class on Russian

Art.” She created a video series

in a conversational format,

describing 16 pieces of Russian

Art from the 12th century to the

present, which can be viewed by

clicking on the project title

above.

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Table of Contents

Preface 3

Grant Activity, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 4

Grant Submissions Faculty, Staff, and Administrators 5 Grant Statistics, FY 2014 and 2015 6

Grant Notifications

Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Awarded Grants 7 Grant Statistics, FY 2014 and 2015 9 Grant Award Statistics, FY 2014 and 2015 10 Composition of Awards: Internal and External, FY 2014 and 2015 11 Award Types, FY 2014 and 2015 12 Composition of Awards: Type, FY 2014 and 2015 13 Award Rates , FY 2014 and 2015 14

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Preface

Welcome to the first Annual Grants Report of Kent State University at Stark prepared by the Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects. The Annual Grants Report provides detailed and aggregate information on grant activity at Kent State Stark for fiscal year 2015 with comparative information for fiscal year 2014.

The Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects at Kent State Stark strives to

promote grant activity and facilitate grant seeking proactively among faculty and staff. The focus of the Office is on pre-award grant activity, but assistance is provided in directing faculty and staff to individuals who can help with post-award activity. Originating in 2013, the Office serves under the Dean and Chief Administrative Officer of Kent State Stark, Dr. Denise A. Seachrist.

A note about the data in this report:

Please note that grant submissions in fiscal year 2015 do not necessarily match grant notifications within the fiscal year. Notifications can occur from a few weeks to a year after a grant application is submitted. In this report, submissions for fiscal year 2015 reflect all grants that were submitted from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015, and notifications are made up of all grants in which the applicant received notification from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. Therefore, some notifications are the outcomes of grants that were submitted in the previous year, fiscal year 2014, and notifications for some of the grants that were submitted in fiscal year 2015 are still pending.

Dr. Chris Post, Associate Professor of

Geography, was awarded a Dominion

Foundation Higher Educational Partnership

Grant for his project, “Campus to Career

from the Liberal Arts to the Energy Sector,”

for the acquisition and installation of a

vertical wind turbine to serve as a cross-

disciplinary teaching and learning tool and

to promote energy conservation and

sustainability at Kent State University at

Stark.

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GRANT ACTIVITY, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 Table 1

Kent State University at Stark

Grant Activity by Fiscal Quarter and Year for FY 2014 and 2015

February 23, 2016 (revised)

Fiscal Year

By Submission Date Number by

Notification Date Dollar by Notification

Date Award Rate Average

Award Size

Number Dollar Awarded Denied Awarded Denied Number Dollar Dollar

FY 2014

Q 1 8 $254,463 3 3 $70,499 $117,050 50% 38% $23,500

Q 2 16 $619,178 8 7 $304,800 $59,649 53% 84% $38,100

Q 3 15 $517,835 7 4 $374,227 $240,500 64% 61% $53,461

Q 4 7 $340,833 3 8 $8,905 $192,000 27% 4% $2,968

Total 46 $1,732,309 21 22 $758,431 $609,199 49% 55% $36,116

FY 2015

Q 1 6 $699,685 10 2 $793,708 $30,000 83% 96% $79,371

Q 2 19 $1,008,500 5 7 $82,205 $847,747 42% 9% $16,441

Q 3 10 $1,252,700 7 6 $240,339 $385,243 54% 38% $34,334

Q 4 12 $784,336 4 5 $179,978 $215,871

Total 47 $3,745,222 26 20 $1,296,230 $1,478,861 57% 47% $49,855

Q u a r t e r l y a n d A n n u a l P e r c e n t a g e C h a n g e Percent

Difference % Change

FY 2015

Q 1 -25% 175% 233% -33% 1026% -74% 33% 59% 237.8%

Q 2 19% 63% -38% 0% -73% 1321% -12% -75% -56.8%

Q 3 -33% 142% 0% 50% -36% 60% -10% -22% -35.8%

Q 4 71% 130% 33% -38% 1921% 12% -27% -4% -100.0%

Total 2% 116% 24% -9% 71% 143% 8% -9% 38.0%

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SUBMISSIONS: Faculty, Staff, and Administrators At Kent State University at Stark, faculty from six colleges of the university and staff from Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management and Student Services, and the Office of the Dean applied for 46 grants in 2015. Several faculty and staff applied for multiple grants. Dr. Jennifer Cunningham in the Department of English submitted five proposals, the highest number of any faculty at the Stark Campus. Others submitted proposals with multiple Kent State Stark collaborators or with colleagues at the Kent Campus or other universities, including Purdue and Clemson Universities.

COLLEGE of the ARTS COLLEGE of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Sebastian A. Birch, School of Music Claudia Gomez, Management & Information Systems

Marie Gasper-Hulvat, School of Art Deepraj Mukherjee, Department of Economics Jack E. McWhorter, School of Art Lillian Prince, Management & Information Systems Brian S. Newberg, School of Theatre and Dance COLLEGE of COMMUNICATION and INFORMATION COLLEGE of ARTS and SCIENCES Mitchell J. McKenney, School of Journalism & Mass Comm. P. Bagavandoss, Department of Biological Sciences

Jennifer M. Cunningham, Department of English COLLEGE of EDUCATION, HEALTH, and HUMAN SERVICES Clarke Earley, Department of Chemistry Chih-ling Liou, Lifespan Dev. & Educational Sciences Kim Finer, Department of Biological Sciences Claudia Khourey-Bowers, Teaching, Learning & Curriculum Angela Guercio, Department of Computer Science Lori Wilfong, School of Teaching, Learning & Curriculum Robert Hamilton, Department of Biological Sciences Gro Hovhannisyan, Dept. of Mathematical Science COLLEGE of NURSING Matthew S. Lehnert, Department of Biological Sciences Debra S. Shelestak, Nursing Ann M. Martinez, Department of English

Mary A. Rooks, Department of English STAFF and ADMINISTRATION Carrie E. Schweitzer, Department of Geology Shaanette M. Fowler, Internship & Career Services James E. Seelye, Department of History Brian L. Gardner, Facilities and Sustainability Gregory A. Smith, Department of Biological Sciences A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Academic Affairs

Lindsay J. Starkey, Department of History Mary Southards, Enrollment Management & Student Serv. Eric S. Taylor, Department of Geology Victor Pavona, Small Business Development Center

Relja Vulanovic, Department of Mathematical Science Amber L. Wallace, Financial Aid & Scholarships

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SUBMISSIONS: Grant Statistics, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Faculty and staff at Kent State University at Stark submitted one additional proposal in 2015 compared to 2014, a total of 47 grant applications

(Table 2). Grants submitted to external foundations and government agencies increased by 3 and grants submitted internally declined by 2 in 2015

from 2014 (Figure 1).

Kent State University at Stark faculty and staff more than doubled the dollar value of their grant proposals from $1.7 million in fiscal year 2014 to

$3.7 million in fiscal year 2015, an increase of 116% in the dollars requested in grant proposals (Table 2). Again, the growth occurred in external

grants from foundations and government agencies from $1.5 million in 2014 to $3.5 million in fiscal year 2015 (Figure 2). Grant dollars for internal

submissions declined from $276,049 in 2014 to $244,989 in 2015.

Table 2

Grant Submissions Figure 1 Figure 2

Fiscal Quarters 2014 and 2015

Fiscal Year

By Submission Date

Number Dollar

FY 2014

Q 1 8 $254,463

Q 2 16 $619,178

Q 3 15 $517,835

Q 4 7 $340,833

Total 46 $1,732,309

FY 2015

Q 1 6 $699,685

Q 2 19 $1,008,500

Q 3 10 $1,252,700

Q 4 12 $784,336

Total 47 $3,745,222 $0 $2,000,000 $4,000,000

Total Submissions

Internal

External

Grant Dollar SubmissionsFY 2014 and 2015

FY 2014

FY 2015

0 10 20 30 40 50

TotalSubmissions

Internal

External

Number of Grant SubmissionsFY 2014 and 2015

FY 2014

FY 2015

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NOTIFICATIONS: Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Awarded Grants The following faculty from the Colleges of the Arts; Arts and Sciences; Business Administration; and Education, Health, and Human Services and staff and administration from Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management and Student Services, External Affairs, and the Office of the Dean were awarded grants in fiscal year 2015. A total of 26 grants were awarded to 16 faculty and 4 staff and administrators of Kent State Stark. Seven faculty of the Stark Campus were awarded multiple grants. COLLEGE of the ARTS

Marie Gasper-Hulvat, Kent State University Teaching Council, Summer Development Grant, “Creating Smarthistory-style Videos for Flipping a Class on Russian Art,” $4,500.

COLLEGE of ARTS and SCIENCES

Jennifer M. Cunningham, Kent State University Teaching Council, Summer Teaching Development Grant, “College Writing I Online Master Course Project, $4,500.

Robert Hamilton IV, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Ohio Environmental Education Fund, “Introduction to Watershed Studies, with PI Nick Morris, Friends of Stark Parks, $41,832.

Matthew S. Lehnert, National Science Foundation, Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) “Mechanisms of Fluid Feeding in Insects, from Nanoscale to Organism, Subaward with PI Peter Adler and co-PI Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University, $177,514.

Matthew S. Lehnert, National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI), “Acquisition of an Intuitive Multi-Touch Scanning Electron Microscope to Enhance Research as well as Undergraduate Student Research and Natural Science Courses, with co-PIs Kim Finer, Jeremy Green, Carrie Schweitzer, and Eric Taylor, $161,039.

Christopher Post, Dominion Foundation, Higher Educational Partnership Grant, “Campus to Career from the Liberal Arts to the Energy Sector,” (for the acquisition and installation of a vertical wind turbine to enhance undergraduate courses and research), $28,000.

Carrie Schweitzer, Muskingum Watershed Conservation District, Partners in Watershed Management Grant, with co-PIs Robert Hamilton IV and Eric Taylor, $16,126.

James E. Seelye, Kent State University, University Teaching Council, Conference Travel Grant for the Ohio Academy of History Conference, $500.

James E. Seelye, Northern Michigan University, Grace H. Magnaghi Visiting Research Grant, “American Indian Catholicism in the 19th Century Great Lakes,” $1,500.

Gregory A. Smith, National Science Foundation, Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS), “Collaborative Research: Natural Selection on Growth and Locomotor Development in Eastern Cottontail Rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus), $17,513.

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NOTIFICATIONS: Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Awarded Grants (continued) COLLEGE of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Deepraj Mukherjee, College of Business Administration, Summer Research Grant, “Does Financial Development Improve Economic Transparency?” for research and a presentation at the Annual ISNIE Conference at the Harvard Law School, $2,100.

Deepraj Mukherjee, Kent State University Research Council, Conference Travel Grant, November, 2014 - $500, May 2015 - $500.

Lillian Prince, American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section Grants, Developing the Next Generation of Biostatisticians Grant, “Exposing African American and Latino males to statistics and data analysis research, $4,480.

COLLEGE of EDUCATION, HEALTH, and HUMAN SERVICES

Claudia Khourey-Bowers, Ohio Board of Regents, Improving Teacher Quality Program “Conceptual Chemistry for Teachers of Grades 4-9” with PI Christopher Fenk, $125,638.

Chih-Ling Liou, Kent State University Research Council, 2015 Summer Research/Creative Activity Appointment, $6,500.

Lori Wilfong, U.S. Department of Education, Project Astute – Improving Education for All Students Through Unified Teacher Education, co-PI, Subaward with University of Dayton Research Institute, with PI Andrew Wiley and co-PIs Brian Barber, Pena Bedesem, and Steven Turner, FY 2014 - $90, 187 and FY 2015 - $124,842.

Lori Wilfong, U.S. Department of Education, National Writing Project Subaward with NWP-KSU and Barack Obama School Partnership, with PI Alexa Sandmann and co-PI Kathryn Walley, $20,000.

STAFF and ADMINISTRATION

A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Ohio Department of Education, Straight A Fund, Young Entrepreneurs Consortium (YEC), Subaward with Stark County Area Vocational School District award of Stark County ESC, with PI Andrew Tonge and co-PI Jenya Soprunova, $169,878.

Victor Pavona, Stark County Regional Planning Board, $32,982 and multiple grants from the Ohio Development Services Agency, $178,082.

Faith Sheaffer-Polen, Great Lakes Guaranty Corporation, Career-Ready Internship Program, $150,000.

Amber L. Wallace, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Nursing Student Loan Program, $13,589.

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NOTIFICATIONS: Grant Statistics, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Figure 3

Figure 4

0 10 20 30 40 50

TotalNotifications

Internal

External

Number of Grant NotificationsFY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

$0 $1,000,000 $2,000,000 $3,000,000

TotalNotifications

Internal

External

Grant Dollar NotificationsFY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

At Kent State University at Stark, faculty and staff were notified of the outcomes of 46 grant proposals in fiscal year 2015, an increase of 3 from 2014. Notifications for external grants increased from 25 to 30 and for internal grants declined from 18 to 16 (Figure 3). The bold change occurred in the size of the grants for which faculty and staff applied. While the number of total grants rose 5% overall and 17% for external grants, the dollar value more than doubled from $1.4 million in 2014 to $2.8 million in fiscal year 2015 (Figure 4). All of the increase occurred in external funding – growing 130% in grant dollar notifications, as the number and dollar value of notifications for internal funding both declined in 2015.

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NOTIFICATIONS: Grant Award Statistics, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Figure 5

Figure 6

0 6 12 18 24 30

TotalAwarded

Internal

External

Number of Grants Awarded, FY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

At Kent State University at Stark, the total number of grants awarded increased 24% from 21 awards in 2014 to 26 awards in 2015 (Figure 5), with the dollar value of awards increasing 71% from $0.8 million in 2014 to $1.3 million in 2015 (Figure 6). All of the growth in the number and dollars of grants can be attributed to an increase in external grants, as the number and dollars of internal grants remained unchanged.

Dr. James Seelye, Assistant Professor of History, was awarded a

Northern Michigan University, Grace H. Magnaghi Visiting

Research Grant for his project, “American Indian Catholicism in

the 19th Century Great Lakes.” Pictured here with Marcus

Robyns, the Archivist at the Central Upper Peninsula and

Northern Michigan University Archives, Dr. Seelye visited and

conducted research during summer 2015. He was also awarded a

Kent State University Teaching Council travel grant to attend the

Ohio Academy of History Conference. $0 $500,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000

Total Awarded

Internal

External

Grant Dollars Awarded, FY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

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NOTIFICATIONS: Composition of Awards: Internal and External, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Figure 7

Figure 8

Internal External: Foundations

External: Government

Composition of Grant Dollars Awarded, FY 2014

Internal External: Foundations

External: Government

Composition of Grant Dollars Awarded, FY 2015

2015 marked a shift in grant funding for Kent State University at Stark, which diversified its grant portfolio with new revenue sources particularly from external foundations. In 2015, grants from external foundations grew from 3.1% in 2014 to 13.8% (Figures 7 and 8) of total grant dollars, sharply contrasting internal funding that declined from 3.8% in 2014 to 1.5% of total funding in 2015. Most of the grant funding has been awarded by external government agencies, making up 93% in 2014 and 84% in 2015.

As part of his research project, “Collaborative Research: Natural Selection on Growth

and Locomotor Development in Eastern Cottontail Rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus),

funded by a National Science Foundation - Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)

grant, Dr. Gregory A. Smith, Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences, places a radio

collar on a cottontail rabbit and then releases the rabbit.

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NOTIFICATIONS: Award Types, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Figure 9

Figure 10

0 4 8 12

Research

Teaching

Public Service

Student Success

Number of Grants Awarded by Type of Grant FY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

$0 $200,000 $400,000 $600,000

Research

Teaching

Public Service

Student Success

Grant Dollars Awarded by Type of GrantFY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

Most of the grants awarded to Kent State Stark faculty and staff are research grants. The growth in the number of grants occurred in teaching grants, increasing from 1 to 4 grants in 2015; public outreach grants, increasing from 7 to 8 grants; and research grants, increasing from 10 to 11 (Figure 9). The number of student success grants remained unchanged at 3 each year. The majority of grant dollars are dedicated to research, followed by public outreach, student success, and teaching (Figure 10). Grant dollars for all types of grants grew from 2014 to 2015, more than double for student success and teaching grants.

The American Road Machinery

Company in Canton, Ohio was

the site of one of Kent State

University at Stark’s Career

Ready Internships, a paid

internship program funded with

a grant from the Great Lakes

Guaranty Corporation. Faith

Sheaffer-Polen, Director of the

Corporate University, grew the

program, which created

41internhsips during the 2014-

2015 academic year and

summer of 2015.

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NOTIFICATIONS: Composition of Awards: Type, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Figure 11

Figure 12

Research

Teaching

Public Service

Student Success

Composition of Grant Dollars Awarded, FY 2014

Research

Teaching

Public Service

Student Success

Composition of Grant Dollars Awarded, FY 2015

In 2015, student success and teaching grants grew as a percent of total grant dollars from 2014 with the share of research and public outreach grant dollars shrinking as a percent of total grant dollars from 2014 to 2015 (Figures 11 and 12). In 2014 research grant dollars made up 52% of all grant dollars, and in 2015 they comprised 40%.

With a Career-Ready

Internship grant from the

Great Lakes Guaranty

Corporation, Faith

Sheaffer-Polen managed

and grew an internship

program at Kent State

University at Stark that

placed junior- and senior-

year students in paid

internships in their major

field of study. One intern

completed a marketing

internship at Rebecca’s

Bistro in Ohio’s Amish

Country in Walnut Creek,

Ohio, and several interns

worked on creative

projects at The

Wilderness Center in

Wilmont, Ohio.

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NOTIFICATIONS: Award Rates, Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Figure 13

Figure 14

0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%

Total Awarded

Internal

External

External:Foundations

External:Government

Award Rate - Number of Grants, FY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%

Total Awarded

Internal

External

External:Foundations

External:Government

Award Rate - Grant Dollars, FY 2015 and 2014

FY 2014

FY 2015

In 2015, the award rate for the total number of grants rose from 49% in 2014 to 57% in 2015, although the award rate for the number of external government grants declined from 92% in 2014 to 75% in 2015 (Figure 13). However, in 2015, faculty and staff submitted 20 grants to federal agencies compared to 16 in 2014. The increase in the award rate for the total number of grants was the result of an increase in the award rate for the number of internal grants and external grants to foundations. The award rate for grant dollars declined from 55% in 2014 to 47% in 2015 in every category, except for the award rate for external grants from foundations, which grew from 9% to 51%, another indication of the growing success of securing grants from external foundations by Kent State University at Stark (Figure 14).

Dr. Gregory A. Smith,

Assistant Professor in

Biological Sciences,

takes measurements of a

red-tailed bat before

tagging and releasing

it.