Research Grants At a Glance

Biology

Holt, Jack R., II (Professor) - Pennsylvania Space Grant/NASA/SU. “Saturday Science,” $10,000.00; Degenstein Foundation Grant. “Susquehanna River Research Program,” $12,500.00; Pennsylvania Space Grant/NASA/SU. “Saturday Science,” $10,000.00; CSIU Grant. “Science and Math in Motion,” $39,000.00.

Iudica, Carlos A., Ph.D. (Associate Professor) - Degenstein Foundation Grant. “River Group Research,” $7,000.00.

Keen-Rhinehart, Erin (Assistant Professor) - National Science Foundation Grant. “CAREER: Impact of Prenatal Nutrient Availability on Offspring Energy,” $653,359.00; Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Grant. “Effects of Changes in Maternal Food Supply During Gestation on Offspring Hypothalamic Feeding Circuits,” $8,000.00; Lehigh University Grant. “Effects of Prenatal Nutrition on GnRH Neuronal Function,” $25,000.00.

Niles, Jonathan M. (Adjunct Instructor) - National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant. “Susquehanna University’s Continued Participation in the PFBC Unassessed Waters Initiative,” $15,000.00; Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds Grant. “Support of Susquehanna University’s Participation in the PFBC Unassessed Waters Initiative,” $17,000.00; Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds Grant. “Impacts of Post Flood Stream Cleaning on Stream Biota and Nitrogen Retention in Central PA Streams,” $15,000.00; Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Grant. “Unassessed Waters Initiative,” $5,000.00; Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds Grant. “Susquehanna University’s Participation in the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Unassessed Waters Initiative,” $10,000.00; Loyalsock Creek Watershed Association Grant. “Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assessment of Loyalsock Creek,” $1,500.00; Degenstein Foundation Grant. “Unassessed Waters Initiative Research,” $7,405.00; Degenstein Foundation Grant. “Fish Electroshocker,” $10,225.00.

Packer, Alissa A. (Associate Professor) - CSIU Grant. “Science and Math in Motion,” $39,000.00.

Peeler, Thomas C. (Associate Professor) - National Science Foundation Grant. “Broadening Intensive Opportunities for Scholarship,” $586,500.00.

Tobin, Tammy C. (Professor) - American Society for Microbiology Grant. “Identifying Novel Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria in Hot Soils Overlying the Centralia, Pennsylvania Mine Fire,” $4,000.00; National Science Foundation Grant. “RCN-UBE Incubator: Transforming Undergraduate Education Through Increased Faculty Access to NextGen Sequencing Runs,” $49,449.00.

Chemistry

Basu, Swarna (Associate Professor) - Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Grant. “Raman Spectroscopy,” $6,000.00.

Johnson, Thomas W. (Associate Professor) - Grant from John Golbeck at Pennsylvania State University Through the National Science Foundation. “Sabbatical Funding,” $45,000.00.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Lachhab, Ahmed (Assistant Professor) - Degenstein Foundation Grant. “Marcellus Shale Flowback Water Monitoring,” $14,600.00; Degenstein Foundation Grant. “Middle Creek Water Quality/Susquehanna River Monitoring,” $14,543.00.

Straub, Katherine H. (Associate Professor) - National Science Foundation Grant. “Collaborative Research: Lagrangian Modeling of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden Julian Oscillation,” $61,045.00.

Economics

Rousu, Matthew C. (Associate Professor) - Rousu, M. C., Thrasher, J, & O’Connor, R. National Institutes of Health Grant. “Exploring Current Smokers’ Interest in Using Smokeless Tobacco Products,” $2,259,272.00.

English & Creative Writing

Sachdev, Rachana (Associate Professor) - NEH East West Center Grant. “NEH Institute Attendance,” $3,900.00.

History

Fourshey, Catherine C. (Associate Professor) - MacArthur Foundation, "HASTAC Digital Media and Learning", $150,000.

Mathematical Sciences

Graham, Jeffrey A. (Associate Professor) - National Science Foundation Grant. “Susquehanna Math REU,” $150,000.00.

Music

Davis, Joshua (Associate Professor) - PennPAT Grant. “Performing Artists on Tour Grants,” $1,000.00.  

Niskala, Naomi (Assistant Professor) - American Music Center Grant. “2010 Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording,” $4,000.00.

Philosophy and Religion

Radecke, Mark W. (Associate Professor) - Louisville Institute Grant. “We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning,” $11,900.00; Brother’s Brother Foundation Grant. “Medical Supplies for SU CASA,” $30,000.00; AmeriCares Grant. “Medications for SU CASA Community Clinics,” $30,000.00.

Note:  Some of the grants listed on this page have been awarded over multiple academic year reporting periods. In addition, some of the grants listed on this page have been awarded to multiple institutions, of which Susquehanna is one recipient.