Assumption College Research

The Mission of the Research Office
The mission of the Research Office is to promote scholarly and
creative activity at Assumption College by seeking and securing
funds from Federal agencies, corporations, and private foundations
in support of curriculum development, faculty research and other academic initiatives.

Honors Program Summer Fellowship Recipients for 2008:

• Dr. Paula Fitzpatrick and Cathryn Cortesa, Honors Program Summer Fellowship, "The effects of handwriting instruction methods on students transcription skill and automaticity"
• Dr. Michelle Lemons and Victoria Duke, Honors Program Summer Fellowship, "How do integrins, netrin-1 and cAMP impact growth cone motility?"
• Dr. Smritri Rao and Christina Presenti, Honors Program Summer Fellowship, "Studying the causes of sexual trafficking in women"

Grants for 2008-2009:

• Dr. Elizabeth A. Colby Davie, $50,000 from ACS Petroleum Research Fund, "Method for Ring Formation"
• Fr. Salvator Musande, $31,432 for the Augustinians of the Assumption from the Vatican Children's Missionary Fund, "Kindugu Social Center in the Congo"
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $19,500 from CT Dept. of Social Services for training of vocational rehabilitation workers, Renewal
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $92,492 from the U.S. Department of Education, "Rehabilitation Continuing Education"
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy $1,645,120 from the U.S. Department of Education, "TACE"
• A. Lee Pearson, $153,640 from the U.S. Department of Education, "Rehabilitation Counseling"

Grants for 2007-2008:

• Dr. Kathleen Fisher and Nancy Small, M. Div., $22,895, Teagle Foundation, with College of the Holy Cross and St. Anselm College, for measuring Spiritual Development, Press Release
• Dr. Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Dr. Leslie Choquette, $500,000 over 3 years (shared with other institutions), U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History, "Citizenship, Property, Identity and Representation: The Historical Journey of Southern New England's Native Peoples," Press Release
• Prof. Kevin Hickey, $1,000, Travel Grant from Northeast-10 Athletic Conference to attend National NCAA Convention
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $19,500 from CT Dept. of Social Services for training of vocational rehabilitation workers, Renewal
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $10,000 from Massachusetts Commission for the Blind for vocational rehabilitation personnel
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, additional $30,000 from Massachusetts Commission for the Blind for vocational rehabilitation personnel
• Dr. John McClymer, Dr. Deborah Kisatsky and Dr. Lucia Knoles, $1,000,000 over 3 years (shared with other institutions), U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History, "Preserving Our Democracy," Press Release
• Carole Myles, MSLIS, D'Alzon Library, $5,000, Academic Library Incentive Grant, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
• Nancy Small, M. Div., and Dr. Jeffrey Hunter, $5,000 matching grant from Margaret G. Jacobs Charitable Trust for the Lenten Campaign for the Congo
• Dr. Fang Zhang, $2,000, Psi Chi, The National Honor Society of Psychology, "Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Close Relationships"
• Several proposals are pending

Grants for 2006-2007:

• Dr. Christopher Beyers, $5,000, from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Announcement
• Tracey Pakstis-Claiborne, $39,850,Govenor's Highway Safety Bureau, Alcohol Prevention
• Prof. Kevin Hickey, $7,000 from The Trust for Mutual Understanding to pay for foreign professors to attend a conference of the Interdisciplinary Economics Association
• Prof. N. Johnson Smith, $92,345 with United Way, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $19,500 from CT Dept. of Social Services for training of vocational rehabilitation workers

Grants for 2005-2006:

• Prof. Patrick Corrigan, $10,000 over 2 yrs. Ernest Fortin Memorial Foundation, for the Foundations of Western Civilization Program
• Prof. Stuart Cromarty, $11,673 (shared with U. of Rhode Island)
  Rhode Island Sea Grant, for development of project on lobster shell disease
• Prof. David Crowley, $9,900, for National Science Foundation summer project on DNA repair in halophilic archaea at Portland State University
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $3,240 for U.S. Department of Education Vermont State Impovement Grant
• Dr. Thomas McCarthy, $78,704 for U.S. Department of Education Supplement
• Prof. John McClymer, $1,000,000 over 3 yrs. (shared with partner institutions) U.S. Dept. of Education, for training public school history teachers
• A. Lee Pearson, $750,000 over 5 yrs. U.S. Dept. of Education, for Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling program
• Mimi Royston, $171,885 over 3 yrs. (shared with College of the Holy Cross) National Science Foundation, for high performance networking connection with Internet2 (no-cost extension received)
• Dr. Dawn Thistle, $3,000 Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, for D’Alzon Library assessment project

Page Updated March 3, 2008