RASP Celebrates Research Success

Congratulations to faculty and staff who SUBMITTED proposals & received AWARDS for June 2025:

 

college of Allied Health and nursing

Total Awards: $30,843
    • Marilyn Swan and Rhonda Cornell - "MERC Funding"
Total Submissions: $738,706
    • Tiffany Breckenridge - "Child Welfare Stipend Program (Title IV-E)"
    • Marilyn Swan & Rhonda Cornell - "Medical Education and Research Cost (MERC) Program"
    • Marilyn Swan & Rhonda Cornell - "MERC Funding" 
    • Anitha Peddireddy - "Improving Workplace Safety in MSU's Dental Clinic"

College of education

Total Awards: $78,224
    • Mwavita Mwarumba - "Preparing Older Adults: Communicating Threat Risk In Virtual Environments (PRO-ACTIVE)"
Total Submissions: $3,061,023
    • Laura Maki & Karen Colum - "Quantifying the Impact of Teacher Preparation on K-12 Students' Learning Experiences - PRE-PROPOSAL"
    • Ruby Owiny & Paolo Infante - "Creating Equitable Learning Opportunities in Tanzania: Developing Inclusive Classroom Environments to Meet the Educational Needs of All Maasai Students in Monduli District, Tanzania - PRE-PROPOSAL"
    • Aaron Deris & Diane Coursol - "Project COMPEL: Children, Professionals, and Families: Impacting Mental Health"
    • Dana Wagner, Shawna Petersen-Brown, Alexandra Panahon & Kiersten Hensley - "Project LEAP IT"

College of Humanities and social sciences

Total Awards: $43,000
    • Robin Becker - "Good Thunder Reading Series"
    • Daniel Sachau - "Parkland Survey 2025"
Total Submissions: $49,539
    • Andy Brown & Ronald Schirmer - "Grand Meadow/Chert Quarry (subcontract from Mower County Historical Society)"
    • Ronald Schirmer & Andy Brown - "South Dakota Model"
    • Shawna Petersen-Brown & Allison Lundahl - "School Psychological Services Provided to NRHEG Public Schools"

College of science, engineering and technology

Total Submissions:  $142,173
    • Jorge Mendez - "Insights into Volitional Respiratory Motor Dynamics Using Advanced Motor Unit Recording Techniques"

student success and engagement

Total Awards: $36,963
    •  Katie Jolicoeur & Kyle Nash- "Thin Film Income Contract CDC 2025"

Division of academic affairs

Total Awards:  $103,158
    • Michael Altomari - "Ponies to Mavericks: Expanding Concurrent Enrollment in Partnerships Between Stillwater High School and Minnesota State Mankato"

Division of student affairs

Total Submissions:  $38,965
    • Antonia Yenser - "Student Insurance 2026"