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News From The Hedge
As I wind down my current duties here, I want to say how gratified I have been to serve an interim year as the VP for
Research; it has been a genuine pleasure to renew old friendships and acquaintanceships and to meet many very impres-
sive new faculty scholars in all sorts of disciplines. I have been made to feel most welcome by faculty and staff alike, and I
thank you for your mid-western hospitality.
As we continue to advance on a number of fronts as a university with a greater emphasis on scholarly work, the issue of
faculty time, so directed, comes to the fore. The FRCE Committee members, faculty advisory groups, deans, VP’s and
other administrators have been examining ways to enable faculty scholars to spend a greater portion of their time directly
on research and related activities. Financial support at both the front end (time assigned to prepare an external grant) and
post award (time assigned to carry out the work for which a grant was received) are currently being used by the FRCE, the
ORSP and college deans to assist in moving an enhanced research agenda forward. The Cohort Hiring plan that Ian Da-
vison created is beginning its third year and appears to be helping achieve some strong focal points of work – it is aimed at
building on current intellectual strengths. In addition, I believe some form of the University Scholars Program proposed
by the Priority III Research Committee as part of the Vision 2010 initiative, which is also aimed at building on areas of
current scholarly strengths but ones for which limited external funding is available, is very worth considering as part of
CMU’s overall strategy to enhance research.
Internal grant support also reflects our commitment to fostering scholarship at CMU. This past April ORSP received and
evaluated a total of 39 applications for EC, NRI and CSS (Early Career, New Research Initiatives and Creative and Scholarly
Support) internal grants; we awarded $573,273 to support these three programs. Final decisions on proposals to be funded
were made by me and were based primarily on internal comments from faculty peers, academic deans and written com-
ments from many external reviewers, in the case of the EC grants. Of the 39 grant proposals received (of which 28 were for
EC grants), a total of 24 proposals received some level of funding (of which 18 were EC grants). The number awarded in
each college was in close proportionality to the number submitted by members of the colleges. One primary requirement
of both the EC and NRI grants is that the recipients will submit a major external grant within two years because it is only
through the receipt of some level of F&A (“indirect”) cost recoveries that these and related internal programs can be sus-
tained or enhanced. Thus, it is crucial for the tenure track faculty to continue to seek external funding not only for their own
scholarly advancement but for that of their fellow faculty and our many students. The table below shows the impressive and
varied array of interesting work being undertaken by some of our faculty and their students. These give me hope for the
future intellectual life of Central Michigan University.
All best wishes,
Jim Hageman
Wednesday, August 22-
Due at 5:00 p.m. EST
Faculty Research & Creative
Endeavors (FRCE) Applications
Due for September 5 Commit-
tee Meeting. Submit to ORSP,
Foust 251.
RFP issued for its Early Career
(EC), New Research Initiative
(NRI), and Creative and Schol-
arly Support (CSS) Awards.
Wednesday, September 19-
Due at 5:00 p.m. EST
Faculty Research & Creative
Endeavors (FRCE) Applications
Due for October 3 Committee
Meeting. Submit to ORSP,
Foust 251.
Important Dates
Research@CMU Promoting Scholarship and Creative Work Throughout the University Volume 1, Issue 12 June 11, 2012
Office of Research and
Sponsored Programs [email protected]
Compositor: Anthony Smith
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Early Career, New Research Initiatives and Creative and Scholarly Support Grants 2012
Research@CMU
Volume 1, Issue 12
June 11, 2012
Department Name Title
BCA Heather Polinsky Michigan Soapbox Radio Program
BIO Cynthia Damer/Michelle Steinhilb A Novel Tauopathy Model Using Dictyostelium
BIS Mark Hwang Disentangling the Effect of Top Management Support and Training
CDO Kirsten Weber Patient, Caregiver and Practitioner Exchanges in Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions
CPS Qi Liao Smarter Network Management through Visual Anomaly Analysis for Dynamic Graphs
CPS Patrick Seeling Investigation of Mobile Power Saving Potentials Using Mobile SockX Proxy
E&T Tolga Kaya Activity Sensor Development with Built-in Energy Har-vesting and Storage Devices
E&T Kumar Yelamarthi Design and Implementation of a Portable RFID-based Object Identification and Localization System
E&T Adam Mock Metal Infiltrated Microstructured Optical Fibers
EL Frimpomaa Ampaw Understanding a Career Life Cycle Model for Women with STEM Doctorates
Foundational Sci-ences Daniel Griffin/Robert Fleischmann
Developing a Whole-Cell Prostate Cancer Vaccine Utiliz-ing IL-15 Overproduction
Foundational Sci-ences Janet Miller
Are Huntington Protein Levels Down-Regulated in the H-Tx Hydrocephalic Rat
Foundational Sci-ences Julien Rossignol
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Transplantation in Hun-tington's Disease Mice
HEV Su Kyoung An/Tanya Domina Thermal Differences Between Male and Female Wear-ing Body Armor
HS Stephen Nkansah-Amankra Longitudinal Data Analysis of Contextual Determinants of Adolescent Health
JRN Maria Marron/Sean Baker Lori Brost
Telling Stories: A History of the Mt. Pleasant Indian School and the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe
MGT Van Miller Proposal for Study of the Las Conchas Wildfire and Pro-spect Theory
MTH Leo Butler The Differential Topology of Integrable Convex Hamilto-nians
MTH Susan Cooper Algebraic and Combinatoric Invariants of Fat Points
MTH Meera Mainkar Geometry and Dynamics on Nilmanifolds
Music Neil Mueller Recording Project: New Works for Trumpet
PHL/REL Hope May
The Lubanga Trial: Lessons Learned: An International Student Conference and Proceedings on the First Case of the International Criminal Court
PHY Veronica Barone Optimizing Carbon Materials for Li-ion Battery Applica-tions
PSY Kyle Scherr/Jane Ashby Improving the Effectiveness of the Intended Safeguards of Miranda
SASW Rebecca Hayes Understanding Sexual Violence in St. Lucia
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As a result of favorable comments
received on a paper presented re-
cently on the history of political vio-
lence, the Red Terror, in Ethiopia
which he presented at a conference
at Erasmus University through sup-
port from FRCE, Dr. Solomon
Getahun determined to seek exter-
nal funding to further support this
work. He recently received the
great news that he was awarded a
US Fulbright Scholar Program
grant for 2012-2013. Consequent-
ly, he will be leaving for Ethiopia at
the beginning of September 2012.
During his sojourn in Ethiopia (in
the cities of Addis Ababa and Gon-
dar), he will examine archival
sources and conduct oral interviews
of victims of the Red Terror: people
who were imprisoned, tortured and
families who lost loved ones as the
result of extra-judicial killings.
Writing a monograph on political
violence is Dr. Getahun’s ultimate
objective of his Fulbright-sponsored
research.
Dr. Getahun received his Ph.D. in
African History from Michigan State
University in 2005. Previously, he
taught African, American and World
Civilization courses at the Addis Ab-
aba University, Michigan State Uni-
versity, and Lansing and Seattle
Community Colleges. He joined the
faculty at Central Michigan Univer-
sity in 2004, and his work here has
focused primarily on the history of
Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Diaspora
in the US and Israel and on the
Politics and History of the Horn
of Africa in general. His research
projects have included the histo-
ry of the Trinbuli, Italian colonial
soldiers in Libya; the secession of
southern Sudan and its politico-
military implication on Ethiopian
-Egyptian relationships and the
Jasmine Revolution and its im-
pact on political developments in
Ethiopia. So far, his completed
scholarly works include two
books: The History of Ethiopian
Immigrants and Refugees in Amer-
ica (2007) and A History of the
City of Gondar (2006); and more
than a dozen articles and book
chapters which have been pub-
lished in noted national and in-
ternational journals and book
chapters in edited volumes. In
addition, to having made numer-
ous presentations at national and
international conferences, Dr.
Getahun has been invited to pre-
sent papers at Harvard in 2008,
at Oxford University (UK) in
2009, Erasmus University (the
Netherlands) in 2011, the Univer-
sity of San Diego in 2011 and Uni-
versity of Hildesheim, (Germany)
in 2012. In 2008, CMU recog-
nized his impressive scholarly
achievements by awarding him
the Provost Award for Outstand-
ing Research.
Research@CMU
Volume 1, Issue 12
June 11, 2012
Post Award Tip
Scholarship for Understanding:
Dr. Solomon Addis Getahun Explores the History of Political Violence