Year in Review 2016 SPONSORED PROGRAMS “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” - Chinese Proverb ARTS & SCIENCES ARCHAEOLOGY Bill Grantham, Clayton Johnson, Savanna Moore, Rebekah Ramirez, Whitney Spake, and Ashleigh Williams Harvard Semitic Museum and the Leon Levy Expedition * The Ashkelon Expedition – A Partnership with Harvard University, Wheaton College, and Boston College Jason Mann Southern Pride Land Services Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of a Dirt Pit in Township 04N and Range 22E in Coffee County, Alabama Jason Mann and Bill Grantham Troy University Artifact Curation Master Agreement Artifact Curation Master Agreement BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Alvin Diamond and Chelsea Smith Birmingham Audubon Society - Walter F. Coxe Research Fund * A Comparison of the Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) Species Found in Adjacent Mesic and Xeric Habitats within the Pocosin Nature Preserve, Pike County Beth Ensor Legacy Partners in Environmental Education * Earth Week: Troy and Troy City Recycling, Big Bend Wildlife Sanctuary, Montgomery Zoo, Native Species Plants Animal Identifications and Alabama River Resources Janet Gaston Choctawhatchee, Pea and Yellow River Watershed Management Authority, Legacy Partners in Environmental Education, City of Troy and Alabama Department of Environmental Management * 2016 Pike County Groundwater Festival Jacqueline Jones and William Byrd Tri Beta National Biological Honor Society * Foxi3 Ablation Retards Bone Derived Prostate Cancer Cell Growth * denotes projects with significant student engagement 2 3 Stephen Landers Jonathan Miller Georgia Sea Grant College Program Barry Moore Industries: Southern Prideland Services A Partnership with Skidaway Institute of Oceanography: Black Gill in Presence/Absence of Threatened and Endangered Species at Surface Georgia Shrimp: Causes and Consequences Mine in Enterprise, Alabama Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Kewei Yu Analysis of Continental Shelf Meiofauna from the Northern Gulf of Mexico National Science Foundation (A Partnership with the National History Museum of Denmark) Research in Undergraduate Institutions: CORE Biology: Quantification of Carrie Miller Soil Biogenic Greenhouse Gases Transported by Woody Plants in a Natural Coastal Forest with a Hydrological Gradient Alabama State University, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the U.S. National Science Foundation Environmental Protection Agency Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry: Impact of Rapid Sea Abiotic and Biotic Reactivity of Immobilized Hg Species Formed After In Level Rise on Succession of Soil Enzymatic Activities Controlling Carbon Situ Treatment Dynamics in a Gulf Coast Forest Alabama State University, the U.S. Department of Energy and the CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Remediation of Mercury and Industrial Contaminants Qurat UI Ann Ijaz UT Battelle, LLC Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jonathan Reichert Foundation Troy University Technical Support on Mercury Related Projects at Oak Advanced Physics Equipment Ridge National Laboratory Govind Menon and Danielle Hudson Joong-Wook Park and Callie Bennett National Science Foundation: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Tri Beta National Biological Honor Society * Partnerships * Bacterial Communities Residing in Core and Surface of Tar Balls on the The Greater Alabama Black Belt Region — Recruitment and Retention of Gulf Coast Beaches Minority Students in STEM: A Partnership with Auburn University Joong-Wook Park and Katrina Bokenfohr Zhiyong Wang Tri Beta National Biological Honor Society * Henry Dreyfus - Scholar Awards Program Effect of Crude Oil on Vibrio Parahaemolyticus: A Causative Bacterium of Exploration of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Catalysis Seafood Poisoning Zhiyong Wang, Govind Menon and Overtoun Jenda (Auburn Michael Stewart and Glenn Cohen University) Texas A&M University Partnership Agreement National Science Foundation Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Southeast Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM (SEAPD-STEM): A Partnership with Auburn University Michael Stewart and Jonathan Miller Shaoyang Liu United States Navy and Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Survey and Riparian Habitat Suitability Assessment for the Inflated SouthFresh Aquaculture Heelsplitter Mussel Chemical Analysis of Catfish Filets * denotes projects with significant student engagement 4 5 COMPUTER SCIENCE Jonathan Harrington, Terry Anderson and Cheryl Purvis Yanjun Zhao Department of State and the Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia National Science Foundation Tbilisi and Troy University International Affairs Partnership Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation: Michael Slobodchikoff Multimodal Deep Learning of Biomedical Image Data for Tumor Alabama Humanities Foundation * Phenotyping SUPER Institute: University Model United Nations High School Conference HISTORY SOCIAL SCIENCES David Carlson, Elizabeth Blum, Thomas Hagood (University of Christopher Bradley and Jenny Brooks Georgia), Tim Buckner, and Deidra Suwanee Dees (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) City of Dothan Mayor's Office Dothan Community Survey Project Alabama Humanities Foundation SUPER Institute: Alabama Fever: A Games-Based Discovery of Territorial WIREGRASS MATH AND SCIENCE Alabama Vijaya Gompa and Diane Porter MATHEMATICS Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) Robert Vilardi Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development: Wiregrass Math, Science and Technology Leadership Academy Best Buy Foundation * Geek Squad Robotics Tensor Mathematical Association of America: Under-represented Minority Mathematics * MultiMathematics: Engaging High School Girls in Hands on Mathematics Activities and Encouraging STEM Careers X2 GEOMATICS Steve Ramroop and Xutong Niu USDA Forest Service * Geospatial Support and Geospatial Products for the U.S. Forest Service POLITICAL SCIENCE Jonathan Harrington Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Program in Chinese Studies New Horizons in Chinese Intellectual History and Scholarship * denotes projects with significant student engagement 6 7 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AND FINE ARTS CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC ART AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Jerry Johnson Judy Callin Alabama State Council on the Arts University of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham Fellowship Application: Co-creation and Interdisciplinarity through Design Small Business Development Center — An Individual Alabama Artists Fellowship (funds paid directly to scholar) Alabama Public Service Commission Larry Percy Annual Gas Pipeline Safety Seminar Alabama State Council on the Arts * CENTER FOR WATER RESOURCE ECONOMICS 2016 Visual Arts Achievement Program Exhibition and Competition and Trojan Art Day Billy Turner and Marianne Michael U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: A Partnership with Columbus ENGLISH State University Kirk Curnutt Using Chattahoochee River to Support a Socio-Scientific Approach to K-12 Science Education Alabama Humanities Foundation Alabama Book Festival MANUEL H. JOHNSON CENTER FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY Sara Kosiba Daniel Smith * Beinecke Library Visiting Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship Institute for Humane Studies George Mason University The Life and Literary Career of John Herrmann Reading Group Discussing Books on Economics, Politics and Philosophy National Endowment for the Humanities RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE Summer Stipends: The Life and Literary Career of John Herrmann Ed Duett Priya Menon Spencer Education Foundation U.S. Department of State: Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Risk Manager in Residence Excellence Award The Absent Workers of Arabia: A Study of Gulf Emigrants in Postcolonial Literature from Kerala Ben Robertson National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends: The Plays of Elizabeth Inchbald Ben Robertson and Ekaterina Kobeleva National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Translations: The Travel Narratives of Nikolai Gretsch * denotes projects with significant student engagement 8 9 JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES EDUCATION Shari Hoppin and Susan Sarapin ACCESS The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Reba Davis, Jason Clifford, Brenda Dennis, Amy Dent, Brennan Ellis, Society, Villanova University Marianne Kellogg, Casey Mack, Kristin Martin, Savannah Mathews, Rejecting "Compromise": Can Legislators' Framing of a Word Predict Terri Miles, Jeff Ross, Kay Sanders, and Wanda Spradley House and Senate Productivity and Public Perceptions of Congress? * Steve Stewart, Jeff Spurlock, and Kate Rowinsky Alabama Department of Education ACCESS — Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Alabama Press Association Journalism Foundation * Statewide Alabama Press Association Journalism Foundation grant entitles High Covenant Christian School, Faith Academy and St. John Paul II Catholic School Journalism Workshop, Camp Trop and Advanced Reporting/ High School * Advanced Editing Lab Newspaper Production Private School Contracts for ACCESS — Alabama Connecting Classrooms, MUSIC Educators, and Students Statewide Diane Orlofsky ACCESS — eLEARNING Jazz Educators Network JAZZ@U * Reba Davis, Terri Miles, and Tom Dreilinger Frequency Workshop with Kerry Marsh and Julia Dollison Alabama Department of Education * eLearning for Educators and Education Technology THEATRE AND DANCE AMSTI Tori Lee Averett and John Galas (Guest Artist in Residence) Kim Dove and Sherrie Blackmon