External Grants Funded

External Grants Funded:

• "NIRT: Nanoparticle Fe as a Reactive Constituent in Air, Water, and Soil", NSF Nanoscale: Interdisciplinary Research Team (co-PI with Professor Michelle Scherer (PI), University of Iowa; Professor Clark Johnson, University of Wisconsin; Professor Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa; Professor John Coates, University of California, Berkley), 2005-2009

• "Integrating Introductory and Advanced Laboratories in Chemistry Through Shared Experiments", NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement - Adaptation and Implementation (PI, with Maria Dean and Steve Singleton) 2005-2007.

• "Ecological Assessment of Compensatory Wetland Mitigation", Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 grant to Iowa Department of Transportation, (co-PI), 2005-2007

• "Cedar River Tributary Study", City of Cedar Rapids in 2001-2006; additional in-kind support from Iowa Department of Natural Resources in 2002 and 2004-2006.
• "A Scanning Probe Microscope for Undergraduate Research at Coe College", National Science Foundation-Major Research Instrumentation (co-PI with Professors Mario Affatigato, Maria Dean, Steve Feller, and Steve Singleton); 2004-2006
• “Acquisition of a Raman Spectrometer for Undergraduate Research at Coe College”, National Science Foundation-Major Research Instrumentation (co-PI with Professors Mario Affatigato, Steve Feller, and Steve Singleton); 2003-2004.
• “Exploring the Relationship Between Iron Surface Speciation and Heterogeneous Iron Catalysis”, American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund (co-PI with Professor Michelle Scherer); 2003-2005.
• “Integration of Electrochemistry into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum”, NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement - Adaptation and Implementation; 2002.
• “Spectroscopy at Coe: Unifying Student-Faculty Research in Physics and Chemistry”, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (co-PI with Professors Mario Affatigato, Steve Feller, Jim Cottingham, Steve Singleton, and Scott Stoudt; 2001-2003; renewed 2004-2006.
• Sabbatical support, American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund and National Science Foundation –Research at Undergraduate Institutions, 2001.
• “Cedar River Nitrogen Study”, City of Cedar Rapids, Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation, and McElroy Foundation; 2000.
• “Chlordane Bioaccumulation in Cedar Lake”, Iowa Science Foundation Research Proposal; 1999.
• “FTNMR in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum”, NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement - Adaptation and Implementation (PI, with Peter Wickham); 1999.
• “Travel Grant to Attend GC-MS Workshop”, Dorothy and Moses Passer Education Fund (ACS); 1997.
• “Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph and Field Equipment for Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry”, NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant; 1996.
• “Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph”, Johnson Wax Foundation; 1996.
• “Introduction of GC and GC-MS into First and Second Year Chemistry Courses”, NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant (co-PI with Pete Wickham);1995.
• “Synthesis of Novel Mo-Te Oxides as Models for Ammoxidation”, ACS-PRF Grant; 1995-97.
• “Supplemental Award of the Dreyfus Foundation Grant Program in Chemistry for Liberal Arts Colleges”; 1993
• “Renovation of Environmental Engineering Water Plant Laboratory at the University of Iowa”, NSF Facility Renovation Grant (PI, with Gene Parkin and Jerry Schnoor, University of Iowa); 1993.
• “Enhancement of an Undergraduate Engineering Laboratory with GC and IC”, NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant (PI, with Gene Parkin and Jerry Schnoor, University of Iowa); 1993.