Faculty Research Grant Program - Research and Sponsored Programs

Final Project Report: The recipient of a grant must file a final project report 24 months after the grant was awarded. If a grant recipient fails to submit a final report, s/he may not apply for a new grant for at least one year from the submission date of the belated final report, and a final report must be submitted to all necessary offices and individuals prior to filing a new grant application. 

Extension: If the project lasts more than 2 years, an extension request must be submitted describing the project activities, the reason for the extension, actual budget expenditures to date, and indicating an expected project completion date. 

Final Report Due Date: January 31st 2 years after the award was given. The date will be listed in the award letter. Persons failing to file annual reports are ineligible for grants in subsequent granting cycles.

All reports are to be sent to the Office of Sponsored Programs (grants@nmu.edu).

FINAL REPORT GUIDELINES FOR NMU INTERNAL GRANTS

The evaluation rubric used by the Faculty Grants Committee can be downloaded here.

• Evaluation Criteria: Proposals from eligible applicants will be evaluated on the following criteria: a) scholarly/creative significance, b) soundness of the project plan, c) qualifications of the investigator and  staff, d) strength of the budget and budget justification, and e) adherence to format and content requirements. 
• Procedures: Committee members will read each proposal, but one committee member will act as the lead reviewer for each.  The lead reviewer will give the proposal an especially thorough reading, and will present a short summary of the proposal to the full committee, along with the lead reviewer's analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the proposal.  Discussion of the proposal will follow.  Committee members will come to the grant review session with preliminary ratings of proposals, but may modify these based on committee discussions.

When all proposals have been presented and discussed as detailed above, the committee will begin a two-stage ranking process.  Any proposal that fails to adequately address one or more of the grant requirements (as determined by a majority of the committee) will not be ranked.  Some examples of reasons for not ranking a proposal include lack of an identifiable scholarly product, an ineligible faculty member applying for a grant, failure to include a copy of the most recent final report, failure to obtain letters of support from Dean and Department Head to reassign course time during the Fall or Winter term, lack of a CV, and gross violations of the formatting guidelines. All other proposals will be ranked by each committee member, with the highest being "1" and successive ratings receiving 2” and "3”.  The total of all committee members’ rankings for each proposal will be used to determine a final ranking.

Rankings and recommendations of the committee will be forwarded to the Academic Senate, with notation made of first-time applicants.  Notes concerning perceived strengths and weaknesses of each proposal will be kept by the lead reviewer during discussion of each grant.  The lead reviewer will forward a summary review to each grant writer after the Academic Senate has acted on the committee's recommendations.

• Voting Policy:  Each proposal must be read and evaluated by a minimum of five (5) voting members of the Faculty Grants Committee. In the event that less than five committee members are available for grant assessment, alternate committee members will be called upon to fill in. Committee members who have a grant under consideration will be excluded from any deliberations concerning the Faculty Grant Program.  Alternates will take the place of these members.  Ex officio committee members may contribute to discussions, but will not take part in the actual ranking of proposals.

Contact the Office of Sponsored Programs (grant@nmu.edu) for assistance with budget development.

• Salary: Remuneration for faculty time may be requested. Applicants may request up a maximum of four credits of reassigned time per semester, throughout the time period of the grant activities. Reassigned time during the fall or winter semester is calculated as the cost needed to hire an adjunct to replace the faculty member for the appropriate number of credit hours. Proposals planned for fall or winter semesters must contain a detailed description of how any request for reassigned time will be handled within the department. The department head and appropriate dean must approve requests (letter must be attached to proposal) for reassigned time when the proposal is submitted to the Office of Sponsored Programs.
  
  Remuneration requested during the summer session must not exceed the maximum amount per the AAUP master agreement exclusive of fringe benefits. Remuneration should be justified based on the estimated effort to be spent on the project.  Fringe benefits must be listed at the current blended fringe rate (Contact Kristin Beck or Kathy Frazier for additional budget information).
   
• Student Research Assistants Salary: Students not enrolled must be paid fringe benefits at temporary labor rates. Fringe benefits should be included in requests for student assistants where appropriate. Payment to graduate and undergraduate research assistants should be based on the current pay rates as defined in the Student Employment Handbook.
   
• Supplies and Services: Reasonable supplies and contractual services may be included. Office & lab supplies, postage, educational supplies, rentals, printing and duplicating, telephone, and professional services should be itemized. These are expenses over and above normal departmental support of the faculty member.
• Travel and Living Expenses: Travel and living expenses are allowable, but cannot exceed current University established rates. They must be itemized.
   
• Equipment: Each grant should justify the need for and cost of equipment relative to the project's objective and methodology.  Any equipment purchased through a Faculty Grant is the property of the University and must be registered with the Inventory Control Department.

2023

Jelili Abediyi

• Department: Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
• Title: Food Security and Nutrition Outcomes of Participation in Non-Certified Organic Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Nigerian Case Study

Matt Frank

• Department: English
• Title: At Depth: A Book-Length on the Amaeur Submersible Community and the Consequences of Our Obsession with the Deep Sea

Stephen Hughes

• Department: Art & Design
• Title: Re-Emergent: Solo Exhibition Development

Diana Lafferty

• Department: Biology
• Title: Covariation in mammalian microbiomes: assessing the species-specific role of phylogeny, diet, and environmental variation within a community context

Erich Ottem

• Department: Biology
• Title: Assessment of Mitochondrial Health in the Presynapse of Motorneurons using BNIP3 as a Marker of Mitophagy

Cory Toegel

• Department: Psychological Science
• Title: Investigating Laboratory Arrangements to Study Choice: Impulsivity and Self-Control

Robert Whalen

• Department: English
• Title: Textual Scholarship for Two George Herbert Editions:
• Manuscripts, Article, Grant Application

2022

Michelle Andriacchi

• Department: School of Nursing
• Title: Walking with the Wildpups

Josh Carlson & Lin Fang

• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Title: Using State of the Art Eye-Tracking and Neuroimaging Measures to Identify the Underlying Mechanisms of Attention Bias and Interpretational Bias to Emotional Information.

Maris Cinnelli

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Could This Noxious Weed be Medicine? Identification of New Alkaloids from Nightshades by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry-Based Profiling

Giuseppe Cortese

• Department: Biology
• Title: Identifying Synaptic Mechanisms of Neuronal Hyperexcitability in an In Vitro Genetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Ryan Stock

• Department: Earch, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
• Title: Left in the dark: a whole systems analysis of environmental injustices from solar photovoltaics in India

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2021

Jon Billman

• Department: English
• Title: Michigan's Roswell: The 1953 Knross Incident and the Cold War Over Lake Superior

Lin Fang

• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Title: The Relationship Between Cognitive Flexibility and Emotion Regulation: From Laboratory to Daily Life

Catherine Teeter

• Department: Biology
• Title: Molecular Evolution at Elevation: Adaptation in the American Pika (Ochotona Princeps)

Caroline Krzakowski

• Department: English
• Title: The Modern English Garden: Literature, Horticulture, and Empire

Christine Lenzen

• Department: School of Art & Design
• Title: On Death: Memento Mori in Platinum Palladium

James McCommons

• Department: English
• Title: Narrative Non-FicWion Book "The Great Crusade to Save Birds"

Evan Pratt

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Illuminating the distribution and dynamics of metals in living cells using fluorescent sensors

Alexander Wilson

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Drug Lead Compounds from Radical Radula and Other Leafy Liverworts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Philip Yangyuoru

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Turning G-quadruplex Nucleic Acid Structures into Biosensors for Biomarkers

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2020

Antony Aumann

• Department: Philosophy
• Title: The Art Museum Audio Guide: Essential Tool or Needless Distraction?

Matt Frank

• Department: English
• Title: Painting an Expressionless Boy: A Hybrid Book of Poetry and Micro Lyric Essays

Matt Kilgas

• Department: Heath and Human Performance
• Title: Upper-body Physical Conditioning Following Arm-Cycling with Blood Flow Restriction

Diana Lafferty

• Department: Biology
• Title: Managing mammals and their microbes: the new imperative of 21st Century conservation

Jill Leonard

• Department: Biology
• Title: Developmental biology and behavioral ecology of larval and early-juvinle burbot (Lota lota)

Yu Liu

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Magic Box: Development of New Nanocages for C60 Separation and Catalytic Reaction

Marguerite Moore

• Department: Health and Human Performance
• Title: Reliability and Validity of a Novel Sideline Concussion Test in Neurocognitive Normal 13-40 Year Olds

Erich Ottem

• Department: Biology
• Title: Assessing Differential Gene Expression as a Potential Compensatory Response in a Mouse Model of Neuromuscular Disease

David Wood

• Department: English
• Title: Debility, Disability, and Ethnicity in Fletcher and Massinger's A Very Woman

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2019

Yan Ciupak

• Department: Sociology
• Title: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Social Stratification and Class Identity Formation

Terry Delpier

• Department: School of Nursing
• Title: Poverty Simulation: An Interprofessional Experience Qualitative Analysis

Christi Edge

• Department: School of Education, Leadership and Public Service
• Title: Making Meaning with Teachers and from Teacher Education Practices

Hugo Eyzaguirre

• Department: Economics
• Title: Human Choice: Rationality and Emotions

Jill Leonard

• Department: Biology
• Title: Effects of winter variability on native age-0 brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) growth and survival

Russell Prather

• Department: English
• Title: And the Heart is Pleased by One Thing After Another/Against Nature: Visual Art and Exhibitions

Marcus Robyns

• Department: Library
• Title: Regional Digitization and Digital Curation Service: Data Gathering and Needs Assessment Project

William Tireman

• Department: Physics
• Title: Measuring the Neuron Electric Form Factor with a Novel Charge-Exchange Polarimeter

Maria Arenillas

• Department: Moderan Languages
• Title: Indigenous People of Austral Patagonia: Images, Memory, Activism

Gabriel Brahm

• Department: English
• Title: Anti-Anti-Zionism: In Defense of Jewish Nationalism

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2018

Jon Billman

• Department: English
• Title: The Cold Vanish: Missing Persons on America’s Wildlands and a Father’s Quest to Find His Son

Michael Broadway & Robert Legg

• Department: Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
• Title: Café Culture and Social Engagement in the Borderlands: A Comparison of Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC

Scott Demel

• Department: Sociology
• Title: Archaeological Analyses of Cultural Food Procurement Strategies at a Late Woodland Coastal Encampment on Beaver Island, Lake Michigan – The MPS-Isla de Castor Site: 20CX59

Kurt Galbreath

• Department: Biology
• Title: Expedition to the Intermountain West: Field Collections Supporting Research on Mammal/Parasite Biodiversity and Life History

Brandon Gerig

• Department: Biology
• Title: Use of Novel and Non-Traditional Tissue Types to Determine the Food Web Position and Energy Source of Brook Trout and Walleye in Michigan Waters using Stable Isotope Analysis

Marek Haltof

• Department: English
• Title: Screen as Battlefield: Contested Memories in Central European Cinema after 1989

Steven Hughes

• Department: School of Art & Design
• Title: Landscape Painting and the Upper Peninsula

Matthew Jennings

• Department: School of Clinical Sciences
• Title: Development of a Rapid, Colorimetric Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Determination of Mutational Status in Glioblastoma

Lesley Larkin

• Department: English
• Title: Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980-2020

Alec Lindsay

• Department: Biology
• Title: The JP Chickadee Project

2017

Gabriel Brahm

• Department: English
• Title: Intellectual terrorism and counterterrorism: Fighting antisemitism on the battlefield of ideas

Yu Liu

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Turning waste into wealth: Development of new catalysts for the production of plastics from carbon dioxide

Guomundur Oddsson

• Department: Sociology
• Title: Grasping our unequal world: The power of sociology

Kia Richmond

• Department: English
• Title: Mental Illness in young adult fiction in the 21st century

Jaspal Singh

• Department: English
• Title: Narrating the new nation and Violence and resistance in Sikh gendered identity

Josh Thompson

• Department: Math and Computer Sciences
• Title: Marquette Trial Study

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2016

Josh Carlson

• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Title: An Assessment of Prefrontal Cortex (De)Activity Following Concussion in Collegiate Athletes: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study (2 of 2)

Matt Frank

• Department: English
• Title: Plutarch’s Influence on the Contemporary American Essay

Marek Haltof

• Department: English
• Title: Polish National Cinema. Second Edition

Valerie Hedges

• Department: Biology
• Title: Determination of Sex Differences in Tuf1 Protein Expression and Function in Syrian Hamsters

Caroline Krzakowski

• Department: English
• Title: The Work of Diplomacy in British Fiction and Film 1935-1970

Marguerite Moore

• Department: Health and Human Performance
• Title: An Assessment of Prefrontal Cortex (De)Activity Following Concussion in Collegiate Athletes: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study (1 of 2)

Erich Ottem

• Department: Biology
• Title: Assessing Retrograde Transport Mechanisms in a Transgenic Mouse Model that Mimics the Pathology Associated with Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis

Russell Prather

• Department: English
• Title: The Cut Worm Forgives the Plow: New Visual Art Work Exhibitions

Eugene Wichenheiser

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Synthesis and Assessment of New MRI Cancer Contrast Agents

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2015

Robert Belton

• Department: Biology
• Title: Characterization of Basigin as a Potential Cancer Stem Cell Marker in Glioblastoma Mutiforme Tumors

Josh Carlson

• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Title: Fearless Minds! Measuring the Efficacy of Cellphone Based Anxiety Reduction Training with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Charles Ganzert

• Department: CAPS
• Title: Nautanki and the Carnatic Music of Sothern India

Thomas Getman

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Separation of the Isomers of B12H10(SMe2)2 by Selective Complexation with ß-Cyclodextrin

Valerie Hedges

• Department: Biology
• Title: Investigation of the Novel Neuropeptide, TUF1, Following Ovarian Hormone Administration and Sexual Experience

Jill Leonard

• Department: Biology
• Title: Development and Application of Larval Fish Culture Practices for Two Species of Native Fish at Northern Michigan University

Alec Lindsay

• Department: Biology
• Title: Common Loon Transcriptomics

Madison Ngafeeso

• Department: College of Business
• Title: Testing User Resistance to Electronic Health Records: Taking Healthcare Information Technology Adoption One Step Further

Rachel Nye

• Department: School of Nursing
• Title: Oral Health Literacy

Katherine Teeter

• Department: Biology
• Title: Molecular Evolution in the American Pika (Ochotona princeps): Adaptations to Hypoxia and Cold

Renxin Yang

• Department: Sociology
• Title: Poetry Collection: Light & Shadows

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2014

Dwight Brady

• Department: CAPS
• Title: Recording Upper Michigan’s Music

Brandon Canfield

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Secondary Metabolic Characterization in Thimbleberry

Josh Carlson

• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Title: Neuroplasticity mediates the efficacy of Attention Bias Modification training

Neil Cumberlidge

• Department: Biology
• Title: New Species from forests in East Africa enable a comprehensive study of Uganda’s freshwater crab fauna

Nathaniel Greenberg

• Department: English
• Title: New Narrative Dimensions of the Arab Uprisings

Yu Liu

• Department: Chemistry
• Title: Development of a Recyclable Catalyst for the Preparation of Chiral Epoxides

Jaspal Singh

• Department: English
• Title: Narrating the New Nation: South African Indian Writing

Katherine Teeter

• Department: Biology
• Title: An investigation of epigenetic disruptions in Mus Hybrids

Robert Whalen

• Department: English
• Title: The Complete Works of George Herbert: A digital Scholarly Edition

 

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2013

Renxin Yang

• Department: Sociology
• Title: Poetry Collection : The Native Spirit

Josh Sharp

• Department: Biology
• Title: Polynuceotide Phosphorolase in the opportunistic pathogen Psudomonas aeuriginosa: essential gene or virulence regulator?

Erich Ottem

• Department: Biology
• Title: Investigating the Influence of Exercise on the Neuroendrocrine Regulation of Feeding Behavior in Mice on a High Fat Diet

Rebecca Mead

• Department: History
• Title: Hiding in Plain Sight

Michael Loukinen

• Department: Anthropology
• Title: Winona, a Ghost Town Documentary

JIll Leonard

• Department: Biology
• Title: Linking Metabolic Physiology to Movement Behavior in Brook Trout

Kurt Galbreath

• Department: Biology
• Title: Diversity and Biogeography of Northern Michigan’s Mammals and their Parasites

Scott Demel

• Department: Sociology
• Title: Beaver Island Ethno- Historical Archival Research

John Anderton

• Department: Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
• Title: 20MQ140, The goose Lake Outlet #3 Site: Archeological Analysis of Cultural Remains