Minutes of the Committee on Research & Creative Activity
for March 7, 2000

The CRCA met on March 7, 2000 from 3:30-5:45 p.m. All members present except Susan Haller.

The CRCA discussed research funding proposals in order of professorial rank: Assistant Professors, Assoicate Professors, Full Professors. We had approximately $11,000 left to disperse which reflects an additional $5,000 from our original funding. Without this additional funding we would not have been able to fund as many proposals as we did. (We awarded just over $5,000, for example, to assistant professors this round.)

These final decisions also reflect discussion of proposals by full professors received earlier but put on hold by the CRCA in order to give first priority to junior faculty needs.

NOTE APRIL 13:
The Chair announced that the next CRCA sponsored Faculty Gathering is on April 13, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Union 104-106 at which Assistant Professors Fay Akindes (Communication) and Herbert Colston (Psychology) will make short presentations about their research and how CRCA has helped move them along in their work. Last semester Don Kummings gave an interesting talk about his 30 years of reasearch on Walt Whitman. Announcements for this event will go out at the end of the month. Refreshments will be served. CRCA committee members are asked to encourage all faculty to attend.

NEXT CRCA MEETING:
CRCA will meet again before the end of the term to discuss what to do next year to further faculty research support. Anne Statham, for example, has asked us to co-sponsor another faculty research symposium with emphasis on community-student-based research. We might also consider inviting NEH, NSF, and private foundation representatives to come and hold workshops and pep talks to promote faculty grantspersonship.

The following CRCA grants were awarded:

Assistant Professors (9 awards):
Julio Noriega (Spanish)	$800.00
James Crowley (Music)	500.00
Simon Akindes (TEDU)	255.00
Fred Monardi (Pol.Sci.)	560.00
Jonathan Olsen (Pol. Sci.)	328.00
Tasha Souza (Communications)	zero	(CRCA regrets that we had insufficient funds and could not support this worthwhile project)
Wei Song(Geography)	800.00
Ruth Becker (TEDU)	600.00
Carmel Ruffolo(Biological Sciences	800.00
Pat Goldsmith (Sociology)	tabled	(for consideration under next year's CRCA budget)
Daphne Pham (Biological Sciences)	500.00
Jo Anne Schneider (sociology)	zero	(We regret that we had insufficient funds to support this project)
Associate Professors (5 awards):
Greg Mayer (Biological Sciences)	$250.00
Roger Hudson (Business)	500.00
Angeline McArthur (Business)	500.00
Jeffrey Schmidt (Physics)	tabled	(request more complete breakdown of proposal costs in budget)
Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes (English)	500.00
Full Professors (11 awards)
Susan Takata (Sociology)	$250.00
Donald Kummings (English)	zero	(CRCA felt these expenses should be covered by the Department)
Alexander Lichtman (Math)	295.00
Siegfried Christoph (German)	150.00
Stephen Meyer (History)	500.00
Richard Keehn (Economics)	400.00
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (Communications)	688.00
Jay Sounderpandian (Business)	250.00
Donald Cress (Dean)	zero	(We regret that we did not have sufficient funds to help cover these expenses)
Roby Rajan (Business)	350.00
Vera Kolb (Chemistry)	250.00
George Perdikaris (Engineering)	400.00
Andrew McLean (English)	500.00