Fellowships and Grants

   
  Exchange Student, University of Munich, 1974 - 1975.
  Fulbright Fellowship, University of Bremen, Germany, 1978 - 1979.
  Faculty Development Grant, Marshall University, 1981.
  Faculty Research Grant, Wichita State University, 1983, 1984. (In 1983 the grant was to study at the University of Edinburgh.)
  Faculty Research Grant, Kansas State University, 1984 - 1985.
  Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant DCR-8604080, Applications of Galois Connections to Programming Language Semantics, 1986 - 1988 ($121,358).
  Co-Principal Investigator (added to NSF Grant DCR-8604080) twenty hours of supercomputing time at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  Principal Investigator, Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-88-K-0455, Applications of Galois Connections to Programming Language Semantics, 1988 - 1992 ($225,963).
  NATO Grant for joint work with Software Engineers (Software Measures Research) at Kansas State University, Colorado State University, Iowa State University, City University London, and South Bank Polytechnic (London), 1988 - 1991.
  Principal Investigator, Ohio Board of Regents Priorities in Graduate Education, 1997 - 2000 ($1,860,000 plus $930,000 in matching funds from Kent State). The four public Ph.D. computer science programs in the state -- Kent State, Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, and Wright
State - worked together on this proposal; each institution has received similar funding (i.e., each institution with its institutional matching funds received over $2,790,000).  Much of the original development of this proposal was done by Johnnie Baker, who was then the Assistant Chair of Kent State's Computer Science Department.
  Participant in SUSTAIN Phase 2, Ohio Systemic Initiative-Discovery Project. Principal Investigator was Michael Battista, College of Education; Jay Jahangiri, Michael Mikusa, and Olaf Stackelberg were co-PIs, 1999-2000 ($65,000).
  Project Coordinator, Discovery Principals' Institute (Agreement No. 26-B-5148-29), funded by the Ohio Systemic Initiative-Discovery Project. Doris Simonis was the Project Director. 2000 ($60,560).
  Participant in SUSTAIN Phase 3, Ohio Systemic Initiative-Discovery Project. Principal Investigator was Michael Battista, College of Education; Jay Jahangiri, Michael Mikusa, and Olaf Stackelberg were co-PIs. 2000-2001. ($65,000)
  Co-principal investigator with J. Charles Walker, Kent State University--Interdisciplinary Grant awarded to Develop an Interdisciplinary Minor in Web Communication. The main participants were Professors Sanda Katila (VCD) and Paul Wang (CS). 2000-2001 ($20,000).
  Principal Investigator with Chris Woolverton and Laura Bartolo co-PIs, Kent State University--Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge Grant entitled A Model for Sharing Multidisciplinary, Multi-Institutional Scientific Information through Information Management, Adaptive Data Streaming and Electronic Publishing. February 2001 -- June 2002 ($50,000).
  Principal Investigator, Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC) Cluster Awards. This proposal involved fifteen researchers from KSU and Case Western Reserve University. The proposal, which was entitled "Scientific Visualization and Modeling'', was for a cluster of work stations.  OSC combined our proposal with another from KSU and jointly awarded us a thirty-two node cluster consisting of eight machines each with four 550 Megahertz Intel Pentium III Xeon processors.
  Participant in congressionally-authorized grant for the Institute for Computational Science for interdisciplinary research and K-12 outreach. Principal investigators are James Blank and Michael Lee. 2002 (\$1,200,000)
  Co-Principal Investigator with PI James Blank and co-PI Roger Gregory, "Research and Education in Cell Systems Biology'', U.S. Department of Education, 30 September 2003 -- 29 September 2006 (\1,241,875).
  Co-principal Investigator for KSU's part in Wright State University's and business leaders of Dayton's $11,000,000 Wright Center of Innovation
for Advanced Data Management and Analysis. Paul Farrell is KSU's Principal Investigator. KSU's part is $400,000 for visualization equipment to be part of a state-wide visualization project.
 

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