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Eight Ohio State Faculty Awarded International Affairs Grants PDF Print

Eight faculty members from The Ohio State University have been selected as recipients of the Fall 2007 Faculty Research Grants sponsored by the Office of International Affairs.  Faculty members were able to receive research grants up to $5,000 in the categories of "Interdisciplinary Lectures, Seminars and Conferences" or "International Research Travel."

Grants were awarded for research leading to publication that requires foreign travel, projects for publication based upon collaborate research with overseas partners, conferences on international themes, and participation in faculty-exchange programs between Ohio State and foreign education or research institutions.

Grants Awarded to: 

  • John Casterline (Sociology), for “Child Well-Being in Egypt: Developing the Research Protocol”. Grant Amount: $3,000 from International Affairs (additional $2,000 from the Middle East Studies Center).

  • Marjorie Chan (East Asian Languages & Literatures), for “The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics.” Grant Amount: $5,000.

  • Wondwossen Gebreyes (Veterinary Preventive Medicine), for “Antimicrobial Resistant Foodborne Pathogens and Impact on Public Health” in East Africa. Grant Amount: $4,000.

  • Jesse Kwiek (Center for Microbial Interface Biology, College of Medicine), for “Does Placental Viral Sequestration Promote HIV-1 Mother-to-Child Transmission in Malawi?”.  Grant Amount: $4,700.

  • Kazimierz Slomczynski (Sociology), for “Sociological Surveys of Public Opinion in Central and Eastern Europe: Cross-National Comparative Studies”.  Grant Amount: $4,000.

  • William Tyler (East Asian Languages & Literatures), for “OSU/Nichibunken Joint Research Project on the Japanese Novelist Ishikawa Jun”.  Grant Amount: $2,600.

  • Kwang-Kyoon Yeo (East Asian Studies Center), for “Unpacking ‘China’: Regional, Linguistic, and Cultural Diversities” Conference.  Grant Amount: $5,000.

  • Richard Yerkes (Anthropology), for “Patterns of Population Nucleation and Dispersal in Prehistoric Village Societies on the Great Hungarian Plain, and Collaboration on Bikeri Book Manuscript”.  Grant Amount: $3,285.

More information available at Grant Recipients 2007.