Presidential Faculty-Student Collaboration Grants
Presidential Faculty-Student Collaboration Grants are available annually to support collaborative research between faculty and students.
Guidelines
Grant monies may be used to support the following:
- faculty summer stipend
- student summer stipend
- student housing
- equipment needs, copying, etc.; transportation support
- Applications will be accepted for stipends and project costs, and for stipends only.
- Projects that complement the Academic Strategic Plan and Mission of the College are encouraged.
- One faculty member cannot receive both the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity grant and the Presidential Faculty/Student Collaboration grant in the same year.
- To distinguish among proposals that meet all criteria requested in the application, the committee looks for evidence of exceptional merit, compelling project design, impact on student experience, or feasibility of project. The committee encourages applications from all departments and disciplines, and from faculty at all stages. Priority will be given to quality proposals submitted by candidates who have not been funded through a Presidential Student/Faculty Collaboration grant in the past three years.
Applications must include the following:
1. A brief description of the proposed project;
2. A clear statement of anticipated outcomes
3. Names and brief bios for all participants;
4. An explanation of how this project fits into the careers of both faculty and student, and a description of how the project fits into the educational trajectory of the student;
5. A complete budget for the project should be submitted.
6. Likely placement for publication or performance;
7. Anticipated research completion date.
To Apply
- Application Checklist and Budget Form
- Submit electronically in a PDF format to The John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning (cblaukat@gac.edu).
- Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2014
Questions? Contact the Faculty Development Committee.
2013-14 Grants Awarded
Kristian Braekkan & Victoria Sowa (Economics and Management)
Global Engagement
Leila Brammer & Mariah Wika (Communication Studies)
Longitudinal Assessment
Jon Grinnell & Anthony Massaro (Biology)
Gather Bison
Behavior Data for Research
Lisa Heldke & Samantha Manick and Jens Thomsen (Philosophy)
Role of Food in the Educational Mission of Gustavus?
Sun Hee Lee & Brittany Knutson (English)
Gender in Post 9/11 Literature
Brandy Russell & Ciolleen Caldwell (Chemistry)
Study of Marine Worm Nereis Diversicolor
2013-14 Grants Awarded
Ana Adams & Avery Wallace (Spanish; LALACS; and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies)
16th century – early 17th
century colonial manuscript
Betsy Byers & Cameron Jarvis (Art & Art History)
Gallery Exhibition
Eric Dugdale & Laurel Boman and Karl
Grant (Classics)
Euripides’ Medea for the Oxford Greek and Latin
College Commentaries
Robert Kendrick & Justin Feit (English and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies)
Bureaucracy and Greek Tragedy in The Wire”
Stephanie Otto & Maggie King (Health & Exercise Science)
Bone Mineral Density
Sean Cobb & Abigail Huff (English)
Introductory Film Studies Textbook
2012-13 Grants Awarded
Julie Bartley & Tara Selly (Geology)
Fossilization Trajectory (termed taphonomy) of Modern (living) Organisms
Leila Brammer & Anna Morton (Communication Studies)
Public Discourse Students
Pamela Kittelson & Mike Howe (Biology)
Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystems
Micah Maatman & Jessica Van Kempen
(Theatre/Dance)
The Design of a new Production in Physical Theatre for the Minnesota Fringe Festival 2012
Kristian Petersen & Claire Curran (Religion)
Contemporary Islamic Movements Through The Media
2011-12 Grants Awarded
Priscilla Briggs & Blong Lor (Art/Art History)
Video and Photo-based Artworks
Jeff Dahlseid & Xiao Xiu (Biology/Chemistry)
Nereis Diversicolor
Dan Moos & Alyssa Ringdal (Education)
Supporting Self-regulated Learning in the Classroom: Past, Present, and Future
Amanda Nienow & Maja Johnson (Chemistry)
Photolysis of Imidazolinone Herbacides on Cuticle Waxes
Dwight Stoll & Tuan Tran (Chemistry)
Characterization of Carbon-laminated Silicas for use in Hydrophilic interaction Liquid Chromatography
2010-11 Grants Awarded
Thia Cooper & Dominic Xiong (Religion)
Chapter in Theologies of Immigration
Kate Knutson & Jaqueline Schwerm (Political Science)
Interfaith Advocacy: Minnesota's Joint Religious Legislative Coalition
Henry MacCarthy & Christian DeMarais, Michael Davison, and Samuel Grace (Theatre and Dance)
Thrill Me
Stephen Miller & Garrett Stoddard (Chemistry)
Spectroscopy and Characteristics of Transition Metal Complexes
Jessie Petricka & Daniel McDougall (Physics)
Production and Trapping of Molecular Ions via Laser Ablation
2009-10 Grants Awarded
Loramy Gerstbauer & Geoffrey Alexander (Political Science)
The US and Vietnam and the Limits and Possibilities of Forgiveness in International Policies
Martin Lang & Ethan Marxhausen (Communication Studies)
Sustainable Farming Documentary Film Project
Karla Marz & Kimberly Sukhum (Biology)
Protein-protein Interactions of the Circadian Clock Protein CRY
Daniel Moos & Elizabeth Marroquin (Education)
Teacher Education and Technology: A Literature Review of the Past, Present, and Future
Brandy Russell &Alysha Dicke (Chemistry)
Metal-Dependant Protein Folding
2008-09 Grants Awarded
Laura Behling & Chelsea Kramer (English)
Come On!: American Posters from World War I
Scott Bur & David Guptill(Chemistry)
Heterocyclic Compounds
Steve Mellema & Chen-Yu Yang (Physics)
Study of Optimal Imaging by Reflection through Random Media
Sanjive Qazi & Katherine Linstrand (Biology)
Bioinformatic Approaches to Understanding Gene Switching in the Model System Fruit Fly, Drosophila Melanogaster and the Hijacking of the Host T-Cell Machinery by HIV
Amy Seham & Maggie Sotos (Theater/Dance)
Miranda's Amazing Adventure
Mary Solberg & David Lick (Religion)
The German Christian Movement in Print
2007-08 Grants Awarded
Priscilla Briggs & Nicholas Hansen (Art/Art History)
Video Collaboration with Teens Rock the Mic
Linnea Wren & Erin Dinsmore (Art/Art History)
Research Ojibwe and Lakota Art
Paul Saulnier & Eva Cornell (Physics)
Studying Swarms in Nature: A Biophysics Project
2006-07 Grants Awarded
Charles Niederriter & Jared Sieling (Physics)
Energy Storage as a Partner to Wind Energy Production
Lois Peterson & David Goldstein (Art/Art History)
Creation and Installation of a Ceramic Wall Mural for Christ Chapel
Toshiyuki Sakuragi, Bao Xiong, & Lee Vang (Japanese Studies)
Cognitive Linguistic Study of Hmong Language
2005-06 Grants Awarded
Laura Behling & Patrick Jones (English)
Race, Anatomy, and the Metaphor of Habeas Corpus in American Literature
Margaret Bloch Qazi & Tanner Miest (Biology)
Female Determinants of Sperm Fate in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila Melanogaster Screen Fruit Fly’s (Drosophila Melanogaster) Second Chromosome for Genes Involved in Female Sperm Storage
Jill Locke & Kristen Nelson (Political Science)
Brides and Brothers: Marriage & Fraternity in Tocqueville’s France and America
Steve Mellema & Sharon Jaffe (Physics)
Study of Optical Imaging by Reflection through Random Media
2004-05 Grants Awarded
Scott Bur & Adam Langenfeld(Chemistry)
Heterocyclic Compounds and their Biological Activity.
Tom Huber & John Purdham (Physics)
Research in Ultrasound Stimulated Audio Range Excitation and Other Acoustics Problems
Scott Newstok & Marissa Wold (English)
Othello Unmoored: Racialized Readings of Shakespeare in America and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil
Bruce Wells & Drew Hougard (Religion)
Ancient Near Eastern Legal Tradition as a Source for the Covenant Code in the Book of Exodus
2003-04 Grants Awarded
Michael Ferragamo & Kimberly McArthur (Biology)
An Electrophysiological Characterization of Neural Adaptation in the Central Auditory System of Anurans
Jon Grinnell & Carrie Byron (Biology)
Vocal Learning by African Lions
Charles Niederriter & Andrew Konicek (Physics)
Enhanced Acoustical Imagine by Low-Coherence Reflectometry
Russell Shapiro & Alison Cordie (Geology)
Actualistic Paleoecology of Calcified Microbes: An Integrated Field and Laboratory Approach
Read about work done during some Presidential Student/Faculty Collaboration Grants (Quarterly, Fall 2006)