Cherry Banks, Professor and Interim Director, Education Program
"Using Evidence to Improve a Teacher Certification Program's Efforts to Prepare Teachers for a Diverse Society" through the Teachers for a New Era Exec Council funded by the Carnegie Foundation
Mary Baroni, Professor and Director, Nursing Program
1) "Johnson & Johnson Promise of Nursing Capacity Expansion for Washington Nursing School Grant Program" provided $25,000 to recruit nurses from underrepresented groups into the BSN program
2) Congressionally directed award of $287,000 for an initiative to increase the number of master's prepared nursing faculty available to teach in Washington State's community and technical colleges
Tom Bellamy, Professor, Education Program
Secured a third year of funding for "Leaders for Teacher Preparing Schools", a $1.7 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Education
Bill Erdly, Associate Professor, Associate Director, Computing & Software Systems
"Planning Grant: Building a Community to Revitalize Community College Undergraduate Computing Education" with Bellevue Community College and funded by the National Science Foundation
Dan Jaffe, Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
1) "Development of Speciated Mercury Measurement Capabilities for Use on Future NASA Aircraft Missions" $178,000 over one year from NASA
2) "Understanding the Influence of Global Air Pollution on US Air quality through Observations at the Mt Bachelor Observatory" $161,000 over three years from the National Science Foundation
Kelvin Sung, Associate Professor, Computing & Software Systems
"Incorporating Game-Themed Assignments into Introductory Computer Science Courses, Phase 2" an unrestricted gift of $125,000 from Microsoft Research
Selina Mohammed, Assistant Professor, Nursing Program
National Institutes of Health supplement to "Healthy Hearts Across Generations" (PI: Walters, UW School of Social Work) for $118,000 to research diabetes treatment among the Tulalip Tribes over three years
David Stokes, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
1) "Sonoma County California Tiger Salamander Meta-population and Exotic Predator Study" and
2) Conservation Professional Training and Development, both funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Michael Stiber, Associate Professor, Computing and Software Systems
National Science Foundation provided funding for 10 post and pre‑doctoral students, three reviewers and PI to attend a Joint US/Uruguay Workshop on Neural Dynamics Nov. 3-7, 2007
