04-05 Seed Grant Funded Project Abstracts
The purpose of this program is to provide the College of Agricultural Sciences faculty and field-based educators with the resources (research, extension and instruction) to develop collaborative teams and/or preliminary information in new or expanding arenas of granting opportunity. These grants are intended to permit faculty to develop the linkages and data to enhance competitiveness for additional external funding. Funding for this program came from research, extension, and teaching sources.
The College received 62 grant proposals, from which 28 projects were funded for a total of $372,357. Successful investigators will submit a progress report of their project activities by September 1, 2005, and they have also agreed as a condition of these grants to develop a proposal for external funding in 2004-2005.
Cooperative Extension
- Integration of Extension, Research and Teaching to Strengthen Connecting Families Plan of Work
Principal Investigator: Natalie M. Ferry, Director's Office - Use of Time-Lapse Video in Evaluating Cow Comfort
Principal Investigator: John T. Tyson, Central Region-Mifflin County - Family Fitness - Child Overweight Prevention Program
Principal Investigator: Lynn James, Central Region-Snyder County
Department of Ag and Biological Engineering
- Improvements in Teaching Agricultural Systems Management Students Through Quantification of Personality and Learning Attributes
Principal Investigaor: Paul Heineman, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering - Introducing Engineering Concepts to Youth Through a 4-H Engineering Science Curriculum
Principal Investigator: Dennis R. Buckmaster, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering - An Integrated Education, Demonstration, and Research Program for Stormwater Management in Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator: James M. Hamlett, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Department of Agricultural and Extension Education
- Pilot Outcome Evaluation of Clinton County's Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Program: Fork in the Road
Principal Investigator: Daniel F. Perkins, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education - Socially Responsible Prevention
Principal Investigator: Daniel F. Perkins, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education - Using Experiential Science Education to Increase Youth Literacy in an After-school Setting
Principal Investigator: Claudia Mincemoyer, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education - Pennsylvania Saves
Principal Investigator: Cathy Faulcon Bowen, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education
Deptartment of Ag Economics and Rural Sociology
- Enhancing Student Marketing Plans for Certified Organic Processed Apple Products
Principal Investigator: Jennifer S. James, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology - Multifunctional Attributes of Agriculture within Pennsylvania: Development of Concepts and Measures for Research and Extension Applications
Principal Investigator: Kathy J. Brasier, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
- Ufo1 and Chromatin Level Regulation of Gene Expression in Maize
Principal Investigator: Surinder Chopra, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
- Integration of High-Dimensional Rapid Analytical Techniques to Facilitate Research on Soil Biogeochemical Processes
Principal Investigator: Douglas D. Archibald, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
- Quantitative and Scalable Relationships between Preferential Flow and Soil Structure Using Advanced Computing Tomography
Principal Investigator: Henry Lin, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Department of Dairy and Animal Science
- Expanding Educational Opportunities for Students in Small Animal Sciences
Principal Investigator: Harold Harpster, Department of Dairy & Animal Science
Department of Food Science
- Survey of Food Safety Practices and Control Measures to Reduce Listeriosis at the Consumer Level
Principal Investigator: Catherine N. Cutter, Department of Food Science - Development of a Semester Abroad Program for Food Science and Food Engineering Majors
Principal Investigator: Robert Roberts, Department of Food Science
Department of Horticulture
- Assessing the Invasive Potential of Acer platanoides and Viburnum opulus Cultivars
Principal Investigator: James C. Sellmer, Department of Horticulture
Department of Poultry Science
- Adiponectin: A Novel Hormone for Growth Regulation in the Chicken
Principal Investigator: Ramesh Ramachandran, Department of Poultry Science
School of Forest Resources
- TMI and NMA: Coupling Agents to Improve Wood Adhesion
Principal Investigator: Nicole Brown, School of Forest Resource - Sustaining Rural Livelihoods and Enhancing Land Reforms in South Africa
Principal Investigator: Michael G. Jacobson, School of Forest Resources
Department of Veterinary Science
- LPS in Bordetella parapertussis Protective Immunity
Principal Investigator: Eric T. Harvill, Department of Veterinary Science
- Confirmation of Interactions between the V Protein of Paramyxovirus Simian Virus 5 (SV5) and Host Proteins
Principal Investigator: Biao He, Department of Veterinary Science
- Receptor Tyrosine Kinases and the Progression of Autoimmune Disease
Principal Investigator: Pamela H. Correll, Department of Veterinary Science
- Characterization of BMP4 Dependent Stress Erythroid Progenitors in Normal and Anemic Mice
Principal Investigator: Robert F. Paulson, Department of Veterinary Science
- PPAR Gamma Ligands and Allergic Asthma
Principal Investigator: Avery August, Department of Veterinary Science
