Minutes of the Committee on Research and Creative Activity
for October 9, 2006

The Meeting commenced at 3:40. Present:  Christoph, Evans, Gurtman, Holmes, Khan, Lincke, Taylor

 

1. Minutes of meeting on 9/20/06 were approved.

2. The CRCA Guidelines were approved in their amended form.

 

3. The CRCA Application Form was agreed to be modified as follows: 1) Description of project or activity.  2) Dropped.  3)  Left as is.  4)  Dropped.  5) Previous grant submissions and awards applied for and/or received by the applicant over the past three years (include funding agency, project title, year of submission/award, status of application [funded; pending; not funded], and amount of award if funded).  Exclude: CRCA, FASPOF, and Provost Fund.  On the submission checklist: A Curriculum Vita is included with this application; abbreviated preferred.

4. The following proposals were examined, discussed, and funded in the following order (in order of receipt):

Roby Rajan – conference travel $440

Vera Kolb – conference travel $640

Susan Takata – conference travel $640

Helen Rosenberg – conference travel $640 (withdrawn due to family problem)

Andries Schutte – conference travel $640

Norm Cloutier – conference travel $530

Herb Colston – conference travel $555

Zhaohui Li – conference travel $510

John Skalbeck – conference travel $641.18

Oko Elechi – conference travel $654

Anne Statham – conference travel $640

Lisa Marie Barber – conference travel $775

Susan Funkenstein – conference travel $430

Jay Sounderpandian – conference travel $640

Anne Gurnack – conference travel $403

Mike Manion – conference travel $605

Zhemin Wang – conference travel $640

Joy Wolf – conference travel $640 + research $160

The following proposals were tabled pending further information Suresh Chalesani, Jonathan Olsen (Laurie will bring budget)

 

5. We discussed the CRCA showcase for this fall.  The first showcase will be held Nov. 10 at 3 PM.  Invited speakers are Paul Mohazzabi and John Skalbeck.  Each speaker will be allocated 40 minutes with 15 minutes for questions and a break in between speakers.

 

6. We reviewed our agreement that the next meeting would be held on Nov. 6 and Nov. 27, at 3:30 PM in Moln D135.

The meeting adjourned at 5:25 PM.

Respectfully submitted by

Susan Lincke