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!