Grants

Professional Education Program - Administration

SUNY Teacher Education Program Assessment (TEPA), 2003-2007 -A US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant. The project creates a sustainable assessment system to document beginning teacher competency and performance and provide feedback for program improvement for each of 15 teacher education institutions collaborating within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Guided by an innovative and robust model of program assessment goals that applies to the full range of teacher education institutions in SUNY, it will systematically report and analyze aggregated teacher performance data and use the results to guide program changes designed to improve candidate performance at major checkpoints (admission, candidacy for student teaching, graduation, and post-graduation in the schools). A major outcome will be the creation of a database to support individual assessment by combining teacher certification examination results with other student data and eventually to include data on in-service from the New York State Education Department (NYSED). Such an approach will serve to create a holistic resource for assessing program effectiveness using replicable, systematic approaches to teacher program assessments based on standard, reliable data. Replication will be enhanced by producing a handbook of the processes and procedures followed during the implementation plan and making the information available on the university website.

Web-based curriculum and resources for multicultural diversity, 2003-2004 -A presidential mini-grant for departmental diversity initiatives is a collaboration among PEP, the Library, and the former Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

Liberty Partnership Program - This program, funded annually by a NYS Department of Education grant, recruits and provides academic year support services (tutoring, counseling, cultural activities, mentoring) and a summer residential academic program for junior and senior high school "at-risk" students in the Brentwood, Central Islip, Middle Country, and Wyandanch School Districts. This program is designed to increase the academic competence of the participating students, encourage post secondary education, and provide parents information and involvement. Candidates interested in field work opportunities and tutoring “at-risk” students click hereto complete and send in this application. Note: Tutors are appointed on the basis of requirements and credentials.

Dialogues Across Differences - "If Long Island Were a Village: The 100 People Model" - Roberta Richin, Director of the Center for Prejudice Reduction, and Sarah Nadeau, Director of the Tolerance Center, NYC, conducted an engaging and interactive workshop supported by a 2008 Stony Brook University Presidential Grant awarded to the PEP Outreach Office administrator on Dialogues Across Differences for Diversity and Internationalization on May 5, 2008 at the Stony Brook campus. P-16 Long Island educators and Stony Brook University students from diverse areas were invited to use the 100-person model to challenge their assumptions and reconsider practices regarding the 2.75 million people on Long Island. Participants explored surprising characteristics of our Long Island community, and considered how to use new insights to fulfill their roles as teachers, administrators, community leaders, and other professionals.

English

Recent grants awarded to Dr. Kenneth Lindblom include:

Cross Small Grant for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. $4000 (May 2003). Funds supported a teaching/research project entitled Supporting Grass Roots Response to Change in Teacher Education: Engaging Cooperating Teachers in the Improvement of Student-Teaching Experiences of English Education Majors at Illinois State University with Becca Chase and Susan Bloome.

Illinois State University College of Arts & Sciences Small Grant for Research $1,000 (Summer 2000). Funds supported research assistance and support for graduate student co-writers on a project entitled An Archival History of Writing Instruction at Illinois State Normal University 1857-1957.

Recent grants awarded to Lecturer Michael LoMonico include:

For his work with the Folger Shakespeare Library, a $69,023 grant from the National Endownment for the Humanities, supporting a summer 2007 Folger's series of three, week-long "Teaching Shakespeare" institues of English, humanities, or drama. Directed by Mr. LoMonico, one of their Master Teachers, in three locations: UCLA, the University of Tulsa, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Foreign Languages

Recent grant awarded to Sarah Jourdain and Monique Watts (lecturer in French):

On October 30, 2003, the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures launched French Week festivities by hosting Consul Général Harry Fouché, of the République d’Haïti, Nicole McKinnon, Director of Governmental Relations, and Dr. Maryalice Mazzara, Attachée aux affaires éducatives, the latter two of the Gouvernement du Québec, for a day of events on the Stony Brook campus. These events included an informative presentation by Consul Général Fouché on the history of Haiti and its ties to the French-speaking world. Director McKinnon then presented valuable information on “Living, Studying, and Working in Québec.” These presentations honored the 2004 AATF/FIPF conference theme “Diversity in the French-speaking world” by exposing students to some of the diversity of French found in such close proximity to our borders. These presentations were then followed by performances of French musical selections by students from Stony Brook’s Music Department and by local French artists.

We are pleased to report that these events were very well attended. Approximately 250 Stony Brook students and faculty, regional high school students and teachers, as well as community members participated. Our celebration concluded with a reception for all of the students, faculty, and guests.

Our promotion of National French Week was made possible by a generous $500 grant from AATF which allowed us to cover expenses related to the reception. Additional funding for posters and flyers was provided by the Office of the Provost of Stony Brook University. The Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of Stony Brook University funded mailing information about our event to all local French teachers and hosted a luncheon for our guests and for representatives of the faculty and student groups.

One of the unanticipated results of this event was a commitment on the part of Consul Général Fouché to return to the Stony Brook campus this spring semester to host an event in honor of Haiti’s bicentennial. We have a large population of Haitian and Haitian-American students here on the Stony Brook campus, so we are particularly interested in serving their needs.

Another unanticipated benefit of this event was an agreement to develop an exchange partnership through the Gouvernement du Québec to promote French study opportunities for our students and faculty. We have not, in the past, had a formal “study abroad” agreement with Québec. This exchange partnership will allow us to offer unique opportunities to our students to study in a Francophone context without leaving the North American continent. We believe that this will be especially appealing to students whose budgets do not permit travel to France. It will also facilitate French study by non-traditional students with families since possibilities exist for summer study in Québec including family housing and activities.

We believe that the event we were able to host has contributed in the broadest possible way to the promotion of the learning and teaching of French in our region. This event would not have been possible without the financial support of AATF nor could it have occurred without the determination and dedication of Monique Watts who sought out presenters, secured their participation, and made all necessary arrangements for the event.

We would like to thank AATF for helping us to promote National French Week, and we would like to encourage all AATF members to seek out ways to promote French during National French Week and throughout the year.

Irene Marchegiani, Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice for the Foreign Language Teacher Education Program, was awarded $5000 over a three year period in individual FAHSS (Fine Arts, Humanities, and lettered Social Sciences) grants during the summers of 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Mathematics

Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Mathematics Teacher Education Program, is Principal Investigator of the following grant: (2008-2009) (Award #46352), March 2008- March 2009, Strengthening Under-represented Minority Mathematics Achievement in Undergraduate Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America--Tensor-SUMMA Foundation, ($6,000). Co-PIs: Linda Padwa and Eileen Welsh. This grant received a one year extension (March 2009-March 2010) with an additional $6000 awarded for the second year.

Sciences

Dr. David Bynum, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology is the Founder and Director of The Center for Science and Mathematics Education (CESAME) – CESAME acts as a catalyst in creating research opportunities that link together students and science teachers at every level from kindergarten to college. The project, located in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook, is the recipient of a number of major grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), for providing research fellowships to students and for furthering Stony Brook's outreach efforts in the community and schools. The project has greatly enriched the science teacher education program, provided workshops, courses and resources for pre-service and in-service K-12 science teachers, attracted underrepresented minorities, and provided fellowships.

URL:http://www.stonybrook.edu/cesame/

Grant funding awarded to CESAME includes:
2009-2014  National Science Foundation    $1,593,092
GeoPREP Track 2: Expanding the Geoscience Pathway   
       
2009-2014    National Institutes of Health    $1,347,898
Minority Access to Research  Careers    
       
2009-2013    National Science Foundation    $592,911
S-STEM:  Success and Diversity in Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Geosciences   
       
2009-2010    Tensor-Summa Foundation/    $6,000
Mathematical Assn. of America   
       
2009-2010    OSI Pharmaceuticals Foundation    $15,000
OSI Protein Modeling Challenge   
       
2009-2012    Toyota Foundation    $493,875
Biotechnology and Beyond Teaching Laboratories   
       
2009-2012    National Science Foundation    $99,210
Robert Noyce Scholarship Program Supplement   
       
2007-2012    National Institutes of Health    $1,098,883
Partnership for Excellence in  Biomedical Sciences   
       
2006-2010    Howard Hughes Medical Institute    $1,800,000
Undergraduate Science Education   
       
2006-2009    National Science Foundation    $497,946
Robert Noyce Scholarship Program   
               
2006-2009    National Science Foundation    $999,999
CI-TEAM Implementation Project - Cyberinfrastructure via MARIACHI   
 

Distinguished Teaching Professor Robert Kerber, Department of Chemistry, was awarded the following Grants in Chemical Education:

1. DIRECTED INQUIRY IN A LARGE GENERAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY; National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Instruction program; $35,272; July 1, 1995-June 30, 1997.
2. SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN CHEMISTRY FOR UNDER-GRADUATES AT SUNY STONY BROOK; National Science Foundation REU program; $118,000; Feb. 1, 1997-Jan. 31, 2000.
3. REU SITE IN CHEMISTRY AT SUNY STONY BROOK; National Science Foundation REU program; $197,916; May 1, 2002-April 30, 2005.
4. REU SITE IN CHEMISTRY AT SUNY STONY BROOK; National Science Foundation REU program; $203,289; May 1, 2005-April 30, 2008.

TESOL

Dorit H. Kaufman, Director of the Professional Education Program and Professor of Linguistics is project director of the following ESOL related grants:

Recruitment, Selection, and Retention of ESOL Pre-service Teachers. New York State Education Department and the Intensive Teacher Institute in Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language. 2005-2006.

Recruitment, Selection, and Retention of ESOL Pre-service Teachers. Grant to support 24 ESOL teacher candidates. New York State Education Department and the Intensive Teacher Institute in Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language. 2004-2005.

Funding from New York State Education Department and the Undergraduate Institute in Bilingual Education/ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC) to increase recruitment of English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers provided tuition scholarships to a total of 29 TESOL teacher candidates in 2001-2003 and 21 additional TESOL teacher candidates in 2003-2004.

Developing web-based activities to raise cross-cultural awareness was funded by a grant for Diversity and Internationalization Dialogues Across Differences project. The goal of this grant is to promote deeper understandings of the academic and linguistic challenges of English Language Learners (ELL), 2002-2003.

Developing web-based partnerships among alumni and teacher candidates. New York State Education Department and the Undergraduate Institute in Bilingual Education/ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC), 2002.

Integrating Teacher Education, Curriculum Design, and International Teaching Assistants professional development. Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), Spring 2001.

A World of Opportunities: Literacy through Research. A 3-year Breakaways Partnership Program, New York City Board of Education (with 3 co-PIs from Science Education Program, School of Health Technology and Management and Presidents Office), 2000-2003.

Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching Projects: Raising Cross-Cultural Awareness Web-Based Instructional Modules for Teacher Education, 2000-2001.

Pamela Selzer, TESOL Lecturer, was awarded the following Longwood Central School District Superintendent's mini-grants :

2006-2009 Wal-Mart Grant for Parents as Reading Partners to Encourage Summer Reading
2005-2006 Wal-Mart Grant for Parent-School Connection Celebration
2004-2005 Wal-Mart Grant for a Kindergarten and First Grade Read-a-thon to Promote Summer Reading
1999-2000 Established an ESL Language /Reading Program. Also created a supplementary curriculum to this grant (1999-2001) including reading, writing and graphic organizers.

University Affiliates

Markus Maier, Assistant Professor of Psychology, has been awarded the following grant:

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007/II)
37,500,- € (+37,500,- € from the US Cooperation Partner)
(together with Prof. Reinhard Pekrun, University of Munich and Prof. Andrew Elliot, University of Rochester)

Additional grant submissions include:
National Science Foundation (2010-2014)
ES-TEAM: Elementary Science Team ($4,975,600). Status: Co-PI (Keith Sheppard, PI).
National Institutes of Health (2009-2011)
Efficacy of University-Based Biotechnology Laboratory Experiences in Promoting STEM Learning for Secondary School Students ($959,910). Status: PI (together with David Bynum, Keith Sheppard, and Andrew Elliot).