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Educational Technology Grants awarded

Published: June 29, 2006

By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor

The Educational Technology Center has announced the winners of Educational Technology Grants under the latest round of funding for the program.

The grants, which also are supported by the University Libraries, are designed to encourage research and development activities that use technology innovations to enhance teaching and improve learning outcomes.

In each grant cycle, faculty proposals are peer-reviewed to identify projects that aim to fulfill university expectations of information technology fluency among faculty and students. Priority in this grant cycle—the eighth round of funding for the program—was given to proposals that focused on developing technologies that align with UB 2020 strategic strengths.

More than 100 faculty awards have been granted for leveraging educational technologies in curricular redesign since the grant program was created in 1999.

Those receiving grants, which ranged from $4,000-$10,000, in the latest round of funding and the titles of their projects are:

  • Elie Akl, Department of Medicine, and Holger Schunemann and Sreenivasa Sarikonda, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine: "Development of an Educational Game for Teaching Clinical Practice Guidelines in Graduate Medical Education."

  • Douglas Clements and James L. Collins, Learning and Instruction, and Janice De Lucia-Waack, Counseling, School and Educational Psychology: "Transforming Simple Commenter into a Power Video Analysis Tool for Research and Teaching."

  • Diane Elze and Steven Sturman, Social Work: "Making It Real: Applying New Technologies to Engage Students in Social Welfare Policy and History."

  • Thomas Kalman, Chemistry: "3D Visualization of Drug-Target Interaction at the Molecular Level, Phase II."

  • Denise Krause, Maria Picone, Linda Dinger and Steven Sturman, Social Work: "Genograms: A Multidisciplinary Tool for Assessment and Treatment."

  • Frank Mendel, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, and Venkat Krovi, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: "Virtual Musculoskeletal Cadaver Case-Studies for Gross Anatomy."

  • Lorna Peterson and Christopher Brown-Syed, Library and Information Studies: "Creating a Web-based Asynchronous Library and Information Studies Foundations Course."

  • Christian Renschler, Geography, and Michael Sheridan, Geology: "Implementation of the Geospatial Project Management Tool" (GeoProMT)

  • Nancy Schiller, Arts and Sciences Libraries, and Clyde F. "Kip" Herreid, Biological Sciences: "Case Studies in Science Digital Library."

  • Michele Shular, Arts and Sciences Libraries, and Matthew Becker and Robert Jacobi, Geology: "The UB Geographic Information System (GIS) Repository and The New York State Geologic Mapping Project."

  • Jeffrey Stadelman, Music: "Flash Enhancement: Musical Themes in Short Fiction."

  • Shahin Vassigh, Architecture, and Gilberto Mosqueda, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering: "Building Performance in Seismic Design."

  • Lillian Williams, African American Studies, and Michael Frisch, History: "Beta-Testing a Large-Scale Video Database of African-American Oral Histories: UB's Role in a National Test of an Innovative IT Resource."