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):
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Date Submitted
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Agency
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Title of Project
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Amount Funded
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2003
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American Association of Teachers of French
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Community and Diversity Presentations in
Honor of National French Week
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$500
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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:
- DIRECTED INQUIRY IN A LARGE GENERAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY;
National
Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Instruction program;
$35,272; July 1, 1995-June 30, 1997.
- 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.
- REU SITE IN CHEMISTRY AT SUNY STONY BROOK; National Science
Foundation REU program; $197,916; May 1, 2002-April 30, 2005.
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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).
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