Minutes of the Committee on Research and Creative Activity
for December 10, 2004

The Meeting was called to order at 13:10.

Members present: Robert Sasso, Laurie Taylor, Fay Akindes, and Zhaohui Li.
Member absent: Tim Fossum, Dennis Bayuzick, and Joy Wolf, due to conflict of other commitment.

The minutes of November 12, 2004 meeting was approved.

The proposals from the following people were funded:

Name	Amount
Dapne Pham	$1000
Farida Khan	$475
Stu Hansen	$580
Karen Crooker	$600

During the meeting we discussed to invite several faculty members to give showcase presentations. The selections are K. Gregory, J. Skalbeck, and O. Elechi covering in different area of studies.

We also discussed using hardcopy of request for proposals to draw more faculty attention.

We discussed possible next meeting time. All present members agreed that Feb 4 at noon would be a good time depending whether there is a conflict with the absent members or not.

The meeting adjourned at 2:00 PM

Respectfully submitted: Z. Li