CURRENT GRANTS

Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Biological Sciences

Dr. Robert H. Fitts

Chair/Professor

GRANT: $58,686, National Institutes of Health, “Effects of Cyclic Testosterone on Muscle Function in Older Men”

GRANT: $37,140, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, “Combined Effects of Nutritional and Exercise Countermeasures on Bed Rest-Induced Alterations in Single Muscle Fiber Functions”

Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science

Dr. Ruta Bajorunaite

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $21,307, National Institutes of Health, “Techniques for Modeling Complex Longitudinal Studies”

Dr. Gary S. Krenz

Professor

GRANT: $6,728, Veterans Administration, “Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling Structure and Function”

Dr. John C. Moyer

Professor

GRANT: $303,907, 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. Andrew Kunz

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $72,000, National Science Foundation, “Studies of Magnetic Domain Wall Injection and Manipulation in a Magnetic Nanowire using Micromagnetic Simulation”

Department of Psychology

Dr. Debra Oswald

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $1,500, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues, “How are they doing?  A follow-up investigation of college women's implicit and explicit math identification and explicit math identification and intended major after the first year of college”

 

Department of Theology

Dr. Ulrich L. Lehner

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $30,500, Institute for Advanced Study, “Enlightened Monks:  The Benedictines of Southern Germany (1750-1800)”

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Peter A. Smith

Adjunct Assistant 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 M. Foley

Assistant Professor

Dr. Baolin Wan

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $1,090, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, “Deck-Truss Monitoring Workshop and Instrument Location Investigation”

 

Dr. Daniel H. Zitomer

associate Professor

GRANT: $30,000, Naulin Foundation, “Microbes for Enhanced Conversion of Waste to Methane for Combustion”

GRANT: $9,994, “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Sustainable Water Supply for La Garrucha, Guatemala”

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. John P Borg

Assistant Professor

Dr. George F. Corliss

Professor

Dr. James A. Rice

Associate Professor

Dr. Joseph M. Schimmels

Professor

GRANT: $50,000, Kern Family Foundation, Inc., “Student Transformation through Innovation Exercises”

COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Eva M. Soeka

Director, Center for Dispute Resolution Education

GRANT: $31,587, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, “Preventing Disputes through Cultural Competency”

 

LAW SCHOOL

Janine P. Geske

Distinguished Professor

GRANT: $7,286, U.S. Department of Justice, “Supplement to Safe Streets Initiative”

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Department of Clinical Services

Dr. Christopher Okunseri

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $100,000, Health Resources and Services Administration, “The Impact of a Policy Change in Wisconsin Authorizing Non-Dental Providers to Bill Medicaid for the Application of Fluoride Varnish to Children’s Teeth”

 

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology

Dr. Todd Campbell

Chair/associate Professor

GRANT: $78,750, Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Counseling Services and Management Oversight at the Guest House of Milwaukee”

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

Dr. Christine L Krueger

Associate Professor/Director of Core Curriculum

GRANT: $229,558, U.S. Department of Education, “Who Counts?  Math Across the Curriculum for Global Learning”

The Les Aspin Center for Government

Rev. Timothy O'Brien

Director

GRANT: $500,000, U.S. Agency for International Development, “Democracy and Governance Capacity Training for Kenya, Ghana, and Other African Countries”

 

COLLEGE OF NURSING

Dr. Kathleen L. Bobay,

Assistant Professor, and

Dr. Marianne E. Weiss,

Associate Professor,

Dr. Olga Yakusheva,

Assistant Professor

GRANT: $197,476, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “A Quality and Cost Analysis of Nurse Practice Predictors of Readiness for Hospital Discharge and Post-discharge Outcomes”

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

Division of Pediatric Dentistry

Dr. Cesar D. Gonzalez

Associate Professor

GRANT: $60,500, Wisconsin State Department of Health and Family Services, “Marquette University School of Dentistry Community Pediatric Dentistry Program”

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Institute for the Transformation of Learning

Dr. Howard L. Fuller

Director and Distinguished Professor

GRANT: $656,728, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, “Quest Milwaukee:  A Partnership for Quality in Education”

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

Educational Opportunity Program

Alexander F. Peete

Associate Director

GRANT: $486,617, U.S. Department of Education, “Student Support Services”

Haggerty Museum of Art

Ms. Mary Lee Coppernoll

Acting Director

GRANT: $5,950, Wisconsin Arts Board, “The Haggerty at Twenty Three”

2007 GRANT AWARD ARCHIVE


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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