2007 University Extension Grant Winners

November 9, 2007

University Gives 17 Seed Grants to Assist NC State Personnel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Seventeen campus and extension faculty and staff at North Carolina State University received 2007-08 University Extension, Engagement and Economic Development Grants. The University Standing Committee on Extension, Engagement and Economic Development awarded a total of $169,666 in seed funds to assist NC State personnel in developing strategies that address critical issues facing North Carolinians. 

The principal investigators and their projects, listed below, represent nine of NC State’s 10 colleges as well as N.C. Sea Grant and NC State’s athletics department. Their proposed efforts will engage students, community partners and experts at NC State and other institutions in addressing critical issues such as affordable housing, small business development, educating farmers about herbicide resistance in invasive plants, health education in minority populations, and nonprofit advocacy. 

“These projects represent the diversity of ways NC State faculty reach out to audiences throughout the state,” said Dr. James Zuiches, vice chancellor of extension, engagement and economic development, “and we expect many of these innovative pilot efforts to grow as a result of future external funding.”

Grant winners, listed with units and project names, are:           

• Mark Beasley, College of Management, “Developing an Enterprise Risk Management Workshop for Small and Medium Size Enterprises”
  
  
• Georgia Bizios, College of Design, “Affordable Housing Internship Program”
  
  
• Mark Brooks, State Climate Office/ College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, “Developing a Text Messaging Service of Timely Weather Information”
  
  
• Timothy Clapp, College of Textiles, “Textile Complex Short Course Series Development”
  
  
• Nancy Creamer, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, “A Model Community-based Food System in Wayne County, N.C.”
  
  
• Karen DeBord, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, “Partnering to Prepare Youth for Success in the 21st Century Global Economy”
  
  
• Lisa Grable, College of Education, “Middle Grades in the 21st Century: Science and Mathematics”
  
  
• David Jordan, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, “Increasing Awareness and Management of Herbicide Resistant Weeds”
  
  
• Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, College of Veterinary Medicine, “Science Matters”
  
  
• Philip Mitchell, College of Natural Resources, “Developing Knowledge of Advanced Wood Products Manufacturing Among High School Teachers”
  
  
• Kathleen Patterson, NC Sea Grant/ Research and Graduate Studies, “Coastwatch on North Carolina Now”
  
  
• Fay Cobb Payton, College of Management, “Assessing Health Education Information Among African-American Youth”
  
  
• Alan Reiman, College of Education, “SUCCEED at Engaging Partners in Business Plan Creation and Outreach Development Strategies”
  
  
• Robert Richardson, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, “A Model System for Volunteer-based Invasive Plant Mapping
  
  
• Roby Sawyers, College of Management, “Engaging the Business Community in Comprehensive State and Local Tax Modernization”
  
  
•  Jocelyn Taliaferro, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, “Giving Voice to Mission: Nonprofit Lobbying and Advocacy Workshop Series”
  
  
• Tonya Washington, NC State Athletics, “Champions in the Community, NC State Student Athletes as Community Leaders”

Additional information about the 17 funded projects can be found at NC State’s Extension, Engagement and Economic Development Web site at www.ncsu.edu/extension/under “EEED News" or go under University Extension Seed Grants.