School of Education

Two School of Education Centers, faculty member earn campus collaboration funding

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Assistant Professor of mathematics education Dionne Cross is among 10 IU Bloomington faculty members to receive 2010 Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Funding (CRCAF). Her project involves the Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration in the IU School of Education and the ongoing work the center is doing in Gary, Ind. schools. Additionally, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP), a center of the IU School of Education, is partnering with sociology faculty member Timothy Hallett on a project examining learning among university business school students.

The award formerly known as Summer Faculty Fellowships, is granted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research to foster collaborations and jump-start projects during the summer that involve IU Bloomington faculty and IU centers, institutes, and museums.Each award provides up to $10,000 over a one-year period for work done in collaboration with a center, institute, or museum.

Cross' project is called "Success Made Probable: Nurturing Future Statisticians through Project-based Learning." She is working with elementary-age African American girls from Gary, Ind., to develop their mathematical thinking and reasoning. Hallett's collaboration with CEEP is "Learning the Executive Way: Men and Women of the B-School," an ethnographic study exploring how MBA students learn the ins and outs of "the executive way." 

"These awards provide crucial support for our faculty and research scientists to develop new collaborations," Sarita Soni, vice provost for research at IU Bloomington said in an IU news release. Soni's office oversees a variety of research funding programs for faculty. "The goal for this funding is to encourage faculty on the Bloomington campus to identify collaborations with any center, institute, or museum at IU that will help to expand their work or stimulate new ideas. Center directors also are encouraged to identify IU Bloomington faculty outside of their centers who can collaborate to advance or generate new research or creative activity."

A complete list of faculty and the centers, institutes, and museums follows. To learn more about the CRCAF, visit the OVPR site here.

2010 Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Funding:

• Solving the Mystery of Yankeetown; Susan Alt, Anthropology, and the Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest
• A Collaboration to Create an Online Oral History Training Workshop; John Bodnar, Institute for Advance Studies, and the Center for the Study of History and Memory 
• Success Made Probable: Nurturing Future Statisticians through Project-based Learning; Dionne Cross, Education, and Center for P-16 Research and Collaboration 
• Cheminformatics Approaches to the Discovery of New CH Hydrogen Bond Donors; Amar Flood, Chemistry, and Chemical Informatics Center 
• Exceptional Citizens: Chinese Marital Immigrants, Contested Borders, and National Anxieties Across the Taiwan Strait; Sarah Friedman, Anthropology, and Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business 
• Learning the Executive Way: Men and Women of the B-School; Timothy Hallett, Sociology, and Center for Evaluation and Educational Policy 
• The Magic Web; Joss Marsh, English, and Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities 
• Development of an Improved Land Cover Classification Scheme to Estimate Ecosystem Functioning in Southern Indiana Forests; Richard Phillips, Biology, and Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change 
• Heritage in the Heart of Crow Country; Laura Scheiber, Anthropology, and American Indian Studies Research Institute 
• Comparative Analyses of Reforestation Trends in Sao Paulo & Indiana: Factors Influencing Landowner Decisions; Catherine Tucker, Anthropology, and Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change