The Office of Institutional Advancement and Office of Research are pleased to announce the first recepient of the Dr. Ben F. Bryer Foundation Medical Research Fund award:

Dr. Joseph Sucic from the Department of Biology for his project “Subtilisin-like Proprotein Convertases and Metastasis.” Congratulations Dr. Sucic!

The Bryer fund was established by the family of Ben F. Bryer to encourage and support the medical research endeavors of University of Michigan-Flint faculty.  This research fund honors the accomplishments of Ben Bryer, surgeon, scientist, educator, author, and humanist, in his pursuit of medical knowledge.  Several excellent proposals were received and the Research and Creative Activity Committee selected Dr. Sucic’s proposal for the award ($6,795).  Special gratitude is extended to Dr. Bryer’s sister and foundation trustee, Bess Hurand, and her husband Arthur for making this fund possible. 

For more information about the Bryer award, please visit our website.

In response to the fall 08 Request for Proposals, the Research and Creative Activity Committee (RCAC) received 10 proposals requesting more than $155,000 in funding.  In total, 6 awards were made and nearly $65,000 was distributed.  Below is a list of the Principal Investigators and titles for funded projects. 

• Stephen Bernstein, English, Letters Home:  Alice Munro’s Poetics of Place
• Guluma Gemeda, Africana Studies, The Education of Freed Slaves and the Building of Public Schools on the Sea Islands, 1861-1878.
• Kazuko Hiramatsu, English, Preliminary Data Analysis of a Bilingual Child
• Nathan Oaklander, Philosophy, C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of Time
• Joseph Sucic, Biology, Metastasis as a Response to Environmental Stresses with a Tumor
• Cristen Velliky, Communication & Visual Arts, The Development of a Unique Slip-Casting Body that has a Compatible Coefficient of Thermal-Expansion and Viscosity of Billet Cast Glass

The Winter 09 RCAC Request for Proposals will be issued February 2, 2009 with an application submission deadline of March 13, 2009.

Congratulations to the recepients!