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  Recent Grants, Contracts, and Other Funding

  • Grid Blade Center/NetApp, Equipment grant from MCNC; Award for $12,200; November 2007.

  • Co-principal investigator, A Proposal for AVL Enhancements for the Cape Fear Public Transit Authority, with A. Rawls and C. Guinn, Wave Transit Authority Funding: $5000; Contract Period: July 1, 2007 – March 31, 2008.

  • Co-principal investigator, A Proposal for Continuation of UNCW’s Bus Tracking Initiative for the Business Affairs Division, with A. Rawls, UNCW Business Affairs Funding: $2,400; Contract Period: July 1, 2007 – December 31, 2007.

  • Co-principal investigator, A Proposal for a Bus Tracking Initiative for UNCW’s Business Affairs Division, with J. Brown, A. Rawls, and B. Shipman, UNCW Business Affairs Funding: $2,400; Contract Period: January 1, 2007 – May 31, 2007.

  • Co-principal investigator, UNCW Grid Computing Project, with J. Brown, N. Martin, and A. Stapleton, UNCW HPC Funds: $22,000; Grant Period: January 1, 2007 - June 30, 2007.

  • Co-principal investigator, Investigating Innovative Applications of Blogs and Podcasts in University Environments, with L. Patterson, UNCW Information Technology Award, Award for $4,485; Grant Period: July 1, 2006 – April 30, 2007.

  • Co-principal investigator, The Application of Blogs, RSS Feeds, and Podcasts to Online Instruction and Curriculum Development, with L. Patterson, UNCW Center for Teaching Excellence Summer Pedagogy Development Award, Award for $3,000; Grant period: June 2006.

  • Co-principal investigator, Increasing and Retaining STEM Majors through Virtual Learning Communities, with C. Ward, G. Lugo, R. Herman, J. Reeves, and D. Cohen, NSF CCLI-EMD Program; Proposal for $124,485; Grant period: May 1, 2005 - April 30, 2007.

  • Proposal to Implement a Professional Master's Degree Program in Computer Science and Information Systems, with B. Roer and A. Gowan, Council of Graduate Schools/Sloan Foundation Grant, Proposal for $25,000; Grant period: April 1, 2005 - March 31, 2007.

  • Principal Investigator/Project Director, Fostering Undergraduate Research Partnerships through a Graphical User Environment for the North Carolina Computing Grid, with L. Bartolotii, D. Berman, R. Boston, J. Brown, C. Ferner, T. Hudson, T. Janicki, N. Martin, M. McClelland, J. Porter, A. Stapleton, and A. Wilkinson, UNC Office of the President, Proposal for $557,634; Grant period: June 1, 2004 - June 30, 2007.

  • Co-principal investigator, The UNCW Grid Computing Project, with R. Tyndall, B. Miller, S. Cowdrey, J. Brown, N. Martin, A. Stapleton, and C. Ferner, UNC Office of the President: $82,723; UNCW HPC Funds: $65,000; In-kind Support: $59,097; Project total: $206,820; Grant period: March 17, 2004 - June 30, 2004.

  • Proposal to Plan the Development of a Professional Master's Degree Program in Computer Science and Information Systems, Joint effort by Computer Science and Information Systems faculty, Council of Graduate Schools/Sloan Foundation Feasibility Planning Grant, Proposal for $4,500; Grant period: January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004.

  • Co-principal investigator, Integrating Digital Libraries and Traditional Libraries: A Model for Sustaining NSDL Collections, with C. Ward, G. Lugo, R. Herman, J. Reeves, R. Dillaman, S. Cody, D. Pfohl, A. Hanerfeld, B. Heath, D. McArthur, NSF Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 4; Proposal for $425,093; Grant period: September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2005.

  • Co-principal investigator, The UNCW Grid Computing Project, with J. Brown and C. Ferner, UNCW Information Technology Award, Proposal for $23,760; Grant period: March 17, 2003 - October 31, 2003.

  • Co-principal investigator, Integrating Interactive Media in the Chemistry Laboratory with Pocket PC's and Wireless Networking, with D. Ward, J. Reeves, G. Lugo, and R. Herman, UNCW Information Technology Innovation Award, Proposal for $14,733; Grant period: January 16, 2002 - June 30, 2002.

  • Co-principal investigator, A Collaborative Proposal for E-Learning in Computer Science and Engineering, with J. O'Neal, C. Miller, T. Miller and M. Yoakan (NCSU), C. Ferner and J. Brown (UNCW), K. Williams and D. Yuan (NCA&T), M. Littlejohn and D. Brock (UNCA), UNC Office of the President's E-Learning Initiative, Proposal for $60,000; Grant Period: May 15, 2001 - June 30, 2001.

  • Co-investigator, Project Numina: Innovative Integration of Media into Science and Mathematics Curricula, with Charles R. Ward, David White, Jimmy Reeves, Gabriel Lugo, and Russ Herman, Funded by UNCW, Pearson Education, and Hypercube; Proposal for $156,257; Grant period: August 15, 2000 – December 31, 2001.

  • Co-investigator, A Digital Library of Reusable Science and Math Resources for Undergraduate Education, with W. Graves and D. McArther - Collegis Research Institute, C. Ward, G. Lugo, J. Reeves, R. Dillaman, and R. Herman - University of North Carolina at Wilmington, D. Knox - College of New Jersey, and G.S. Owen - Georgia State University; NSF Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2; Proposal for $1,143,282; Grant period: May 2000 - June 2003.

  • Instructional Technologist, Distance Learning Design/Model Project for the North Carolina Community College System, Contract funded by the NCCCS; Contract amount: $8,108; Contract period: December 1998 - May 1999.

  • Co-investigator, A Faculty Team Approach to Developing On-Line Courses, with C. Ward, G. Lugo, A. Baptista, D. Cohen, R. Dixon, R. Herman, K. Newlin, J. Reeves, P. Shotsberger, K. Smith, and J. Wilson, UNC-GA Faculty and Course Development in Instructional Technology Initiative, UNC-GA Award - $45,711; UNCW Match - $37,450; Project Total: $83,161; Grant Period: April 15, 1997 - July 31, 1997.

  • Co-principal investigator, Remotely Sensing Impacts of Cropping Systems on Water Quality, with R. Knighton, W. Perrizo, S. Panigrahi, and D. Franzen, USDA-CSREES, National Research Initiative Competitive Grants, Proposal for $194,441; Grant Period: August 1996 - December 1998.

  • Roger Maris Cancer Center/MeritCare Computer Research Fellow , with B. Gammill, A one-year graduate student fellowship for $10,000; Fellowship Period: January 1, 1996 - December 31, 1996.

  • Co-investigator, A Public Access Resource Center (PARC) Empowering the General Public to use EOSDIS, with W. Perrizo, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Part of the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium's (UMAC) Project Definition Phase, Proposal for $310,257; Grant Period: September 1, 1995 - July 31, 1996.

  • Project Director/Principal Investigator, A Co-laboratory for ATM Network Research and Development, with W. Perrizo, P. Juell, V. Soloviev, D. Ewert, V. Phaniraj, M. Ali, and W. White, National Science Foundation Experimental Systemic Initiative Program, NSF Request $470,833; US WEST match $80,337; EROS Data Center match $67,500; North Dakota EPSCoR match $104,936; NDSU ITS match $73,979; NDSU College of S&M match $7,866; NDSU Research Admin match $7,866; NDSU/UND match $289,204; Project total: $1,102,521; Grant Period: October 1, 1995 - September 30, 1998.

  • Co-investigator, World Wide Web Server for Faculty Development and Instructional Uses, with H. Ludwig, T. Barnhart, E. Borkowski, R. Collins, R. Harrold, P. Juell, A. Keogh, and V. Tareski, NDSU Planning, Priorities and Resources Committee, Proposal for $35,000; Grant Period: July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996.

  • Co-principal investigator, Collaboratively-Created Multimedia Modules for Teachers, US West Foundation, with R. Stammen, Proposal for $287,000; Grant Period: July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1997.

  • Co-principal investigator, Independent Architecture Study for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Core System, with G. Seielstad, W. Perrizo, and S. Reichenbach, Hughes Information Technology Company, Proposal for $346,590; Grant Period: March 3, 1994 - August 31, 1994.