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Date	Title
13 Oct 2008	Catherine de Rivera and Mark Sytsma receive Pacific State Marine Fisheries grant Catherine de Rivera and Mark Sytsma, Environmental Sciences faculty, and others received a $100,000 grant from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Council for "Green Crab Control Methods, Phase 3: Expanding Capacity to Control European Green Crab Populations in the Northeast Pacific."
13 Oct 2008	Heejun Chang, Martin Lafrenz, and Miquel Figliozzi receive Oregon Transportation grant Heejun Chang and Martin Lafrenz, Geography faculty, and Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, were awarded a $87,002 grant from Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to study future flooding impacts on transportation infrastructure and traffic patterns resulting from climate change.
13 Oct 2008	Laurie Powers and Jo-Ann Sowers receive Research in Disabilities Education grant Laurie Powers and Jo-Ann Sowers, Social Work faculty, received a $690,000 grant from the Research in Disabilities Education, National Science Foundation to explore the impact of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) mentors with disabilities on students with disabilities.
13 Oct 2008	Sean Kohles receives Collins Medical Trust grant Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, received a one-year, $30,000 research grant from the Collins Medical Trust in Portland to conduct a study titled "Cell Biomechanics and the Study of Disease States." Co-investigators and collaborators for the grant include Portland State faculty members Derek Tretheway and Randy Zelick and students Nathalie Neve and Jeremiah Zimmerman.
6 Oct 2008	Amy Spring and Kevin Kecskes receive grant from Multnomah County Amy Spring and Kevin Kecskes, Academic Excellence faculty, received a $97,000 grant from Multnomah County for the Student Leader for Service/Educate, Dream, Give: Empower (EDG:E) program.
6 Oct 2008	Leslie Hammer receive $4.1 million National Institute of Health grant Leslie Hammer, Psychology faculty, was awarded a five-year, $4.1 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The grant will fund the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety, and Health. It is part of a $28 million initiative funded by the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to support research on workplace policies that reduce work-family conflict and improve the health of workers and their families.
6 Oct 2008	Rik Lemoncello receives Small Business Innovation Research grant Rik Lemoncello, Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty, was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant with colleagues at Life Technologies, LLC, in Eugene, to research and develop a television-assisted prompting program to assist brain injury survivors with completing daily tasks. This research will involve collaboration with the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center in Portland.
6 Oct 2008	Teresa Bulman receives National Geographic Society and Canadian government grants Teresa Bulman, Geography faculty, received a $50,000 grant from the National Geographic Society for geography education programs and a $2,500 grant from the Government of Canada for a Canada/Oregon geography conference for K-12 teachers.