RASP Celebrates Research Success

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

college of Allied Health and nursing

Total Awards: $37,050
    • Sarah Ogilvie - "Pond Clinic Mental Health Services"

    • Sonika Masih - "ADHA Mars Wigley Foundation Grant Giving Smiles"

Total Submissions: $860,614
    • Darcie Davis-Gage - "Project THRIVE: Training for Healthcare Resilience, Integration, Vitality, and Empowerment"
    • David Beimers - "Southern MN School Social Work Initiative"
    • Darcie Dais-Gage and Roy Kammer - "Embedding Behavioral Health: Expanding Rural Clinical Training and Access to Care"
    • Alyssa Wempen - "CDBG Public Service Grant"
    • Anitha Peddireddy - "Rural Dental Health"

College of education

Total Awards: $278,775
    • Karen Eastman - "Native American Special Education Teacher Candidates"
    • Teri Preisler - "Area School Districts Teaching Fellows (Faribault, LeSueur-Henderson, Madelia, Mankato, Owatonna, Tri-City United, Waseca)"
Total Submissions: $1,023,355
    • Tracy Peed, Laura Maki and Thomas Mitchell "Professional School Counseling Student Support Personnel Workforce"
    • Teri Preisler - "Area School Districts Teaching Fellows (Faribault, LeSueur-Henderson, Madelia, Mankato, Owatonna, Tri-City United, Waseca)"

College of Humanities and social sciences

Total Awards: $219,798
    • Ronald Schirmer and Andy Brown -"Archaeological Study of Grand Marais, Minnesota"
    • Justin Biel and Daardi Mixon - "University Archives Oral History Internship - Camp Robindel"
    • Ronald Schirmer - " Cannon Valley Trail Monitoring - Part 2"
Total Submissions: $669, 332
    • Robin Becker"Good Thunder Reading Series 25/26"
    • Dale Haefner - "FY2026 Flexible Support Grant - Tier 1"
    • Shawna Petersen-Brown, Allison Lundahl, Chip Panahon and Kevin Filter - "Student Support Personnel Workforce Pathway FY26 and 27-School Psychology"
    • Ronald Schirmer and Andy Brown - "Trinity Cemetery Geophysical Investigation"
    • Abigail Bakke - "Student Perceptions of Trust in AI-Generated Human Portraits"

College of science, engineering and technology

Total Awards: $519,826
    • Cecilia Noecker - "BRC-BIO: Evolution of nitrogen exchange and transformation in mammalian gut microbes"
    • Yikai Li - "Communication and signal processing for ZKA's photonics and EDA"
Total Submissions: $395,545
    • Jason Bruns and Melissa Huppert "2025 Siemens Engineering Design Teacher Training"
    • Elizabeth Pluskwik - "Entrepren Mindset in CSET - KEEN Annual Support Y4"
    • Yikai Li - "Communication and signal processing for ZKA's photonics and EDA"
    • Darcie Christensen - "Engineering Her Future: Empowering Rural Minnesota Women in Engineering through Work-Based Education"
    • Fatih Bektas -"Assessing the Chloride Impacts on the Pavement Structure"

Division of Marketing and Communications

Total Submissions: $156,979
    • Dwayne Megaw - "KMSU FY26/27 Community Service & Equipment Grant (General Fund Grant)"

Global Education

Total Submissions: $5,000
    • Kristen Odland and Paulina Camacho - "Mankato Area International Festival"

Library Services

Total Awards: $398,674
    • Margaret Hesser "Student Support Services"
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