{"id":3232,"date":"2013-07-31T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:46:38","slug":"featured-awards-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/sponsored-programs\/2013\/07\/31\/featured-awards-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awards – July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nNASA awarded Mark Chopping<\/strong> (Earth and Environmental Studies, CSAM) a $22,001 supplement for \u201cForest and Shrub Mapping with MISR\u201d which uses a geometric-optical model inversion approach to allow the large area mapping of forest and shrubs in grasslands. Dr. Chopping is using data from NASA\u2019s Earth Observing System Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer. \n<\/div>
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\nAnna Feldman<\/strong> (Linguistics, CHSS & Computer Science, CSAM) and Jing Peng (Computer Science, CSAM) were awarded $176,514 by the National Science Foundation for \u201cRI: Small: RUI: AIR: Automatic Idiom Recognition.\u201d\u00a0 Idioms present great challenges for many Natural Language Processing applications, such as machine translation, automatic text summarization or sentiment analysis.\u00a0 The goal of this research is to develop a language independent method for automatic idiom recognition. \n<\/div>
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\nThe American Psychological Association awarded Jamaal Matthews<\/strong> (Educational Foundations, CEHS) $7,467 for \u201cClassroom Processes and Academic Identity Formation: How Young Adolescents Come to Think of Themselves as Mathematicians in Urban Schools,\u201d which will examine the role classroom social processes play within Mathematics identity formation during the first year of high school. \n<\/div>
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\nBryan Murdock<\/strong> (Research Academy for University Learning) was awarded $1,000 by the Association of American Colleges & Universities for \u201cThe Community-Based\/Participatory Action Research Think Tank.\u201d In collaboration with the CUNY Graduate Center, the program will serve as a study\/action team project where participants discuss their projects while learning more about the best practices and tenets of community-based\/participatory action research. \n<\/div>
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\nRuth Propper<\/strong> (Psychology, CEHS) received a $53,070 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award\u00a0for \u201cInvestigation of a Neurocognitive Biomarker and of Methods to Mitigate Biases in Cognitive\/Perceptual\/Emotional Processing.\u201d It will fund the purchase of a neurocognitive monitoring system in support of a research program examining the predictive potential of a neurocognitive biomarker, investigating factors and conditions underlying emotional, cognitive and perceptual biases that impact negatively on spatial and memory task performance, and identifying techniques that mitigate the negative impact of biases on performance. \n<\/div>
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\nRebecca Swann-Jackson<\/strong> and Eden Kyse<\/strong> (Center for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services, CEHS) and Lisa Lieberman<\/strong> (Health and Nutrition Sciences, CEHS) were awarded $10,000 by the NJ Department of Education for \u201cTechnical Assistance on Surveying Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Professionals in New Jersey.\u201d CREEHS will provide survey development and analysis services to the Council for Young Children to inform the statewide mapping of educational, consulting and clinical professionals and agencies that can offer professional development, consultation and clinical services in the fields of infant and early childhood mental health. \n<\/div>