Pending Grants FY 2008
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
Cody Scott
Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (through Texas AgriLife Research)
Title: Screening for Monoterpene Tolerant Ruminants for Landscape Management & Brush Control
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Robert Dowler & Adam Ferguson
Agency: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Title: Inventory & Monitoring of Skunk, Weasel & Badger Populations in Texas
Agency: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Title: Conservation Management of Hog-nosed Skunks, Conepatus leuconotus, in Texas
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
David Carter
Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (through TTU)
Title: Characterizing Particulate Matter Generated from Different Land Uses
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
Won-jae Lee & Monica Koenigsberg
Agency: Texas PAC (through West Texas CSCD)
Title: Salary & Turnover Study Among Texas Probation Officers
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
R. Gary Pumphrey
Agency: National Science Foundation (through NCATU)
Title: Changing Societal Attitudes Towards Water Scarcity: Ethanol Production & Increasing Groundwater Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
David Huckaby (co-PI: Katherine “Kit” Blount)
Agency: National Science Foundation (through TEES)
Title: Preservice Teachers Learning to Engage Hispanic Parents in Mathematics & Science, Phase 2
Paul Swets
Agency: National Science Foundation (through TTU)
Title: The West Texas Middle School Math Partnership
Roger Zarnowski
Agency: U.S. Department of Defense (through the National Security Agency)
Title: The Inadequacy of Arithmetic Sequences as Sufficient Sets for the 3x+1 Problem
NURSING DEPARTMENT
Leslie Mayrand & Justin Louder
Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – HRSA
Title: Advanced Education Nursing Traineeships
PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
Andrew Wallace (co-PI: David Bixler)
Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Title: Physics Teacher Quality grant
PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
C. Allen Gorman
Agency: Society for Human Resource Management Foundation
Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Frame-of-Reference Scales for Improving Rating Accuracy