{"id":20021,"date":"2019-10-07T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/?p=20021"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:13:45","slug":"featured-awards-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2019\/10\/07\/featured-awards-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards \u2013 August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join us in congratulating the following MSU faculty and staff who received awards this month.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Amanda Birnbaum <\/strong>\u2022 Public Health
\nPaterson Grow Healthy<\/em>
\nUS Environmental Protection Agency
\n$5,000
\nThis award from the Paterson Grow Healthy project will provide paid internship opportunities to five MSU undergraduate public health students to be food waste educators. Their work will support the main project goal: to increase awareness about the food cycle and food waste as an environmental issue in Paterson Public Schools, to prompt students to make food choices that will reduce waste. The interns will work in Paterson elementary schools, with students, science teachers, and food service\/maintenance workers.<\/p>\n

Pankaj Lal<\/strong> \u2022 Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center (CESAC)
\nTo Perform RGGI Related Economic and Energy Dispatch Modeling<\/em>
\nNJ Board of Public Utilities
\n$231,865
\nCESAC will assess the impacts New Jersey rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) through economic and energy dispatch models. This work will assess the potential size of that leakage, the economic impacts of that leaking potential in terms of energy prices\/cost, and methods to mitigate the leakage potential including the value of any offsetting benefits.<\/p>\n

Douglas Larkin<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Secondary and Special Education
\nSandra Adams<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Biology
\nStudying the Retention of Novice Science Teachers by Learning from School District Induction and Mentoring Programs \u2013 Year 2<\/em>
\nNational Science Foundation
\n$368,602
\nIn year two and the second phase of a five-year grant, Dr. Douglas Larkin and Dr. Sandra Adams will investigate the five-year science teacher retention rates in four U.S. states (New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), and then examine and describe high-quality induction and mentoring programs in identified school districts through a set of case studies that will promote best practices in design and implementation.<\/p>\n

Bryan Murdock<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Center for Community Engagement
\nKrystal Woolston<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Center for Community Engagement
\nRandall FitzGerald<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> NJ School of Conservation
\n精品成人福利在线 University EECO Project \u2013 Year 1<\/em>
\nNJ Commission on National and Community Service
\n$229,541
\nThe thirty-one AmeriCorps members in this program will: assist students in Orange, New Jersey; serve at 精品成人福利在线 University recruiting volunteers for local communities; and serve at the New Jersey School of Conservation providing conservation education. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for improving academic achievement for four hundred students in Orange Public Schools, providing environmental education and conservation methods to three thousand middle school students and teachers, and leverage two thousand volunteers throughout local communities.<\/p>\n

David Rotella<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nJohn Siekierka<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>Chemistry and Biochemistry
\nDevelopment of Inhibitors of P. falciparum cGMP Dependent Protein Kinase (PfPKG) for Malaria Chemoprevention \u2013 Year 3<\/em>
\nNational Institutes of Health
\n$253,047
\nIn the final year of this three-year grant, Dr. Rotella and Dr. Siekierka\u2019s collaborative research with Rutgers University will support the design, synthesis, and characterization of potential inhibitors of P. falciparum<\/em> Protein Kinase G (PfPKG) as antimalarial agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please join us in congratulating the following MSU faculty and staff who received awards this month. Amanda Birnbaum \u2022 Public Health Paterson Grow Healthy US Environmental Protection Agency $5,000 This award from the Paterson Grow Healthy project will provide paid internship opportunities to five MSU undergraduate public health students to be food waste educators. Their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20028,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions\/20028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}