Faculty Development Initiative - Internal Funding
The Montana Tech Faculty Development Initiative is an occasional funding opportunity established to enable and accelerate research and creative scholarship by growing the number of research-engaged instructional faculty and their research/creative productivity.
Tenured and tenure-track academic/teaching faculty (including Highlands College) are eligible. These six-month grants provide up to $7,000 each. Funding may be used for summer salary, adjunct course coverage, materials, supplies, equipment, and travel clearly related to enabling and accelerating research and creative scholarship by the applicant. Proposals are typically due in November, in the years the opportunities are open.
The Faculty Development Initiative proposals are reviewed by the Dean’s Council, chaired by the Provost.
Past Awardees and Projects
2017 | Department | Proposal Title for 2017 Report out in Spring 2018 |
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Autenreith, Dan | OSH | A Pilot Study Examining the Effect of Head Protection Weight on Muscle Loading in the Cervical Spine. |
Graff, Joel | Bio | Increasing the Amount of Internet Content Used in Biology Course |
Hailer, Katie | Chem | Metal Accumulations & Genetic Changes in a Human Population in an Open-Pit Mining Community |
Khalil, Mohamed | Geophysical | A Static Shift Correction for 2-D Resistivity Data Through Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Data |
Koontz, Brian | CS | Identifying & Developing User Interfaces to Efficiently Present High-Volume Real-time Data in the Electric Power Industry |
Pramanik, Brahma | Mech/Gen Eng | Developing an Efficient Model-Experiment Strategy for Predicting the Ability of Composite Material in Impact Energy Absorption |
Richards, Lee | Pet Eng. | Treatment of Produced Water Utilizing Flare Gas |
Stewart, Jerry | Highlands | Construction of Simulation Boards for the Automotive Technology Program |
Yang, Xufei | Env Eng. | Characterization of Carbonaceous Aerosols Emission from Wood Stoves. |
2016 | Department | Proposal Title for 2016 Report out in Spring 2017 |
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Campos, Isabel | LibStudies | The Sputnik & Fizzle Publishing Series. |
Cox, Alysia | Chem | Unraveling the Mudpot Mystique |
Elakovich, Denise | Highlands | Merging Psychology Concepts with Math Tereby Increasing Students' Retention and Math Success |
Hoffman, Todd | Pet Eng | An Improved History Matching Methodology |
Lovell, Elyse | Highlands | Merging Psychology Concepts with Math Tereby Increasing Students' Retention and Math Success |
Roos, Chris | Min Eng | Evaluating the Variability in Estimates of Loading Productivity |
Smith, Larry | GeoEng | Optically stimulated Luminescence Dating of Pleistocene & Holocene Lakes, Montana & California: Towards Climate Histories. |
Stack, Theresa | SHIH | Standing Up on the Job for Improved Health |
Wang, Lei | GenEng | Robust design Methodologies for Geotechnical Design of Geothermal Foundation |
Webb, Michael | Chem | Study of Small Molecule Therapeutics for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease |
Wesenberg-Ward, Karen | Chem | Incorporation of Aronia Berry Extract into an Edible Film to control Oral Multispecies Biofilm Formation. |
2015 | Department | Proposal Title for 2015 Report out in Spring 2016 |
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Amtmann, John | SHIH | Effects of Swim Strokes in Labor-Wear with and Without a Personal Flotation Device (PFD) over 25 Yards |
Apple, Martha | BioSci | Glacier National Park Snowfield Plants Project Completion and Developing a Grant Proposal on the Interactions of Treeline Dynamics with Snowpack and Snowmelt Hydrology |
Capoccia, Stella | Bio Sci | Manuscript Completion: Biodiversity of Amphibians, Flying Icon: Feral Pigeons and their Human Ecology & The Conceptualized Environmentalist; Perceptions. Grant Proposal to Study the Sustainability of Backyard Chickens. |
Gammons, Chris | GeoEng | Exploring New methods to Remove Nitrogenous Compounds from Mine Wastewater |
Hill, Bryce | ElecEng | Mining Telecommunications Network |
Kuenzi, Amy | BioSci | Climate Change and Ecological Processes Determining Sin Nombre Virus Activity in Montana |
Kukay, Brian | GenEng | Predicting the Wood Density and Flexural Properties of Pine-Beetle Infested Pinus Contorta (Pine Beetle Kill) in South-West Montana |
Miah | GeoEng | Design, Build and Test a Versatile Fiber-optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) System for the use in Seismic Applications |
Mitra, Atish | MathSci | Cohomological Asymptotic Dimension |
Nagisetty | EnvEng | Assessing the Effectiveness of Riverine Wetland in Processing the Nutrients for Blacktail Creek in Butte, MT |
Shaw, Glenn | GeoEng | Identifying Source Waters to the Boulder River, MT: Installation of Soil Monitoring Equipment |
Sorenson, Karen | PTC | Manuscript Completion: Cosmos and the Rhetoric of Popular Science |
Southergill, Glen | PTC | Serious Game Strategic Communications |