Minutes of the Committee on Research and Creative Activity
for November 27, 2006

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

1. Minutes of meeting on 10/9/06 were approved.

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

Jonathan Olsen – conference travel $603
Suresh Chalasani – conference travel $400
Daphne Pham – research $700
Dirk Baldwin – conference travel $400
Theresa Castor – conference travel $300
Carol Tebben – conference travel $362
Farida Khan – conference travel $386*

* We agreed to evaluate Farida Khan’s application by email, after the application is completed and forwarded to all CRCA members. This is an *exceptional* event since Farida will be gone for the spring semester and cannot collect the money after her trip. Therefore, the proposal evaluation cannot wait until our next meeting. Via email, we agreed to $386.

3. We agreed to do CRCA meetings Monday noon during spring semester, every 6 weeks. The dates are to be agreed upon by email. Farida announced she would be gone next semester so a replacement needs to be found for her position. She agreed to contact governance (and did).

The meeting adjourned at 4:30 PM.

Respectfully submitted by

Susan Lincke