2009 CURRENT GRANTS
HELEN WAY KLINGLER COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Department of Chemistry
Dr. Charles Wilkie
Pfletschinger Habermann Chair/Professor
GRANT: $260,000, United States Air Force, "Flame and Blast Resistant Materials for Force Protection"
Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology
Dr. Robert Fox
Professor
GRANT: $100,000, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, "Behavior Clinic: An In-Home, Parent Management Program for Low-Income Families"
Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science
Dr. John Moyer
Professor
GRANT: $164,442, National Science Foundation, "A Longitudinal Comparison of the Effects of the Connected Mathematics Program and Other Curricula on Middle School Students' Learning of Algebra"
Department of Physics
Dr. Christopher Stockdale
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $59,873, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, "An Archival X-ray Survey of Type IIb Supernovae"
Department of Psychology
Dr. Lucas Torres
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $16,106, National Institutes of Health, "Defining Latino Intercultural Competence and Its Relationship to Depression"
GRANT: $144,951, National Institutes of Health, "Defining Latino Intercultural Competence and Its Relationship to Depression"
Department of Theology
Dr. Patrick Carey
William J. Kelly, S.J. Chair in Catholic Theology/Professor
GRANT: $7,500, Catholic Community Foundation, "Summer Institute in Christian Doctrine"
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
Department of Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
Dr. Andrew Dentino
Associate Professor/Director
GRANT: $181,729, National Institutes of Health, "New Phosphated Polymers Prevent Microbial Colonization"
Division of General Dentistry
Dr. L. T. Johnson
Adjunct Professor
GRANT: $59,436, National Institute of Justice, "Three-Dimensional Quantification of Dental Characteristics"
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Mr. Brian Shoup
7Cs Community Counseling Clinic Chief of Operations
GRANT: $6,125, Wisconsin Department of Health & Social Services, "STAR-SI Quality Improvement"
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Gerald Harris
Professor
GRANT: $9,973, U.S. Department of Education, "Clinical Reliability and Validity of a Foot Model: Assessing Efficacy and Functional Outcome with Orthotic Intervention in Children with CP"
Dr. John LaDisa
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $26,000, American Heart Association, "Incorporating the Aortic Valve into Patient-Specific CFD Models using Phase Contrast MRI and Valvular Gating: Predoctoral Fellowship for David Wendell"
Dr. Kristina Ropella
Chair/Professor
GRANT: $44,024, National Institutes of Health, "General Anesthetics and Cerebral Cortical Sensory Integration"
Dr. Robert Scheidt
Associate Professor
GRANT: $29,800, National Institutes of Health, "Control of Arm Posture and Movement Following Stroke"
GRANT: $268,200, National Institutes of Health, "Control of Arm Posture and Movement Following Stroke"
Dr. Peter Smith
Professor
GRANT: $150,000, U.S. Department of Education, "Conservative and Surgical Clubfoot Treatment: Multi-Center Study"
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Christopher Foley
Associate Professor
Dr. Baolin Wan
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $99,678, Wisconsin Highway Research Program, "Study of Fatigue Risks in the Connections of Sign Support Structures - Phase II and III"
Dr. Charles Melching
Associate Professor
GRANT: $15,556, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, "Water Quality Simulation in Support of the Development of an Integrated Strategy to Meet Dissolved Oxygen Standards for the Chicago Area Waterways"
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Chung-Hoon Lee
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $102,544, U.S. Department of Defense, "Nano-DSC: An Absolute Temperature Sensor"
GRANT: $47,400, U.S. Department of Defense, "Nano-Optical Tether System for Precision Nanowires"
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. John Borg
Associate Professor
GRANT: $148,729, U.S. Department of Defense, "Penetration of Granular Earth Materials: A Multi-Scale Physics-Based Approach toward Developing a Greater Understanding of Dynamically Loaded Heterogeneous Systems"
Dr. Richard Marklin
Professor
GRANT: $29,204, Electric Power Research Institute, "Design of Electric Utility Substations - Site Visits to Hydro One and Duke Energy"
GRANT: $23,363, Electric Power Research Institute, "Site Visit to Hydro One -- Ergonomics Assessment of Fleet Vehicles"
GRANT: $23,363, Electric Power Research Institute, "Site Visit to Duke Energy -- Ergonomics Assessment of Fleet Vehicles"
GRANT: $23,363, Electric Power Research Institute, "EPRI Site Visit to Hydro One - Vegetation Management"
COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Allison Abbott
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $74,500, National Institutes of Health, "Genetic Analysis of Conserved MicroRNAs in C. elegans"
Dr. Edward Blumenthal
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $76,456, National Institutes of Health, "Characterization of a Mutation That Affects Feeding and Digestion in Drosophila"
GRANT: $132,939, National Science Foundation, "Characterization of Tyramine-Mediated Cell-Cell Communication in the Drosophila Malpighian Tubule"
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Dr. David Baker
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $19,000, National Institutes of Health, "Development of Compounds Targeting xc- for the Treatment of Schizophrenia"
Dr. SuJean Choi
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $29,800, National Institutes of Health, "Appetite: Serotonin and Corticotropin Releasing Factor"
Dr. John Mantsch
Associate Professor
GRANT: $223,500, National Institutes of Health, "THPB-Containing Herbal Preparations for the Treatment of Abuse"
Dr. Robert Peoples
Associate Professor
GRANT: $249,476, National Institutes of Health, "Alcohol Actions on NMDA Receptor Gating Domains"
Department of Physical Therapy
Dr. Lawrence Pan
Chair/Professor
GRANT: $26,040, National Institutes of Health, "Control of Breathing during Physiologic Conditions"
LAW SCHOOL
Dr. Natalie Fleury
Program Coordinator for Dispute Resolution
GRANT: $100,000, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "Conflict Resolution Education Consortium"
Ms. Janine Geske
Distinguished Professor of Law
GRANT: $50,000, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, "Safe Streets Milwaukee Community Engagement"
GRANT: $30,000, Faye McBeath Foundation, "Safe Streets Initiative"
GRANT: $88,579, U.S. Department of Justice, "Milwaukee Safe Streets Initiative"
Daniel Idzikowski
Assistant Dean for Public Service
GRANT: $35,000, Helen Bader Foundation, Inc., "Milwaukee Legal Initiative for Nonprofit Corporations (M-LINC)"
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Dr. Janet Krejci
Associate Professor
GRANT: $8,850, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "The RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows Program"
Dr. Carolyn Laabs
Assistant Professor
GRANT: $4,000, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation, "Developing a Consensus for Best Practice in Ethics Education for the Doctor of Nursing Practice: A Delphi Study Proposal"
OTHER AREAS
Institute for the Transformation of Learning
Dr. Howard Fuller
Director and Distinguished Professor
Dr. Robert Pavlik
Assistant Director
GRANT: $200,000, Annie E. Casey Foundation, "Comprehensive School Design, Development Center and Facilities Incubator for New Schools"
GRANT AWARD ARCHIVE
Quick Facts About Marquette
| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Undergraduate: | 8,048 |
| Postgraduate: | 3,500 |
| Campus: | Urban, 80 acres |
| Athletics: | 14 NCAA Division I teams (Big East Conference) |
| Colors: | Blue and Gold |
