WINTER 2008-09

A listing of grants of at least $10,000 received by CASE V institutions. Send items for Brief CASE to: advance@uwlax.edu.

Alma College (Alma, Mich.), $250,000 from the C.S. and Marion McIntyre Foundation for a new basketball court to be named The Charlie and Marion McIntyre Court. Also, $250,000 from the McGregor Fund for an emerging partnership between  the college and Equatorialis University in Quito, Ecuador.

Alverno College (Milwaukee), $475,000 from the National Science Foundation to help teams from U.S. engineering schools enhance curricula. Also, $234,000 from the Lumina Foundation for Education to help 14 U.S. community colleges strengthen their curricula, and $200,000 from the Freeman Foundation to expand Asian Studies curriculum. 

Ball State University (Muncie, Ind.), $1.8 million from the estate of Robert M. Hoffer  to attract and retain top business faculty. Also, $1.6 million from a former Anderson, Ind., couple for unrestricted funding for various programs; and $545,000 from a former local car dealer and his wife, William and Maudames Conner, to fund scholarships. And, 500 copies of GeoMedia Professional from Intergraph Corp., software valued at $4.2 million.
     
Bowling Green (Ohio) University, $1.7 million from Allen Schmidthorst for athletic facilities.
     
Bradley University (Peoria, Ill.), $30 million from Caterpillar Inc. for the Campaign for a Bradley Renaissance fundraising effort.
     
Butler University (Indianapolis), $1 million from the estate of Indianapolis resident James D. Esamann for scholarships.
     
Calvin College, (Grand Rapids, Mich.), $118,116 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to host a three-week summer institute on “Making Sense of the Reformation.” Also, $100,000 from the Vermont-based Freeman Foundation for an Asian Studies program, and nearly $100,0000 from the National Science Foundation a year-round science research program.
     
Researchers from Calvin College, (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health for a project called “Cultivation and Characterization of the Microaerobes from the Mucosa of the Gastrointestinal Tract.”
     
Concordia University Chicago, $123,290 from the National Science Foundation for science technology.
     
DePaul University (Chicago), $600,000 from the Polk Bros. Foundation to support the Campaign for Excellence in Science. Also, $565,721 from the National Institutes of Health to create supportive housing services for female African American ex-offenders; $375,000 from the National Association of Environmental Practices to support the editing and publication of Environmental Practice; $345,000 from The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust to improve math and science education in underperforming Chicago Public Schools; $250,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work on a new approach to software traceability; $245,068 from NSF to incorporate computational thinking; $100,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to fund nursing scholarships; $89,000 from The National Endowment for the Humanities for a four-week summer seminar for K-12 teachers; $80,600 from the Green Building Initiative Inc. to study “green” construction in residential markets; $65,000 from The Big Shoulders Fund to support the first year of the DePaul Catholic School Partnership; $50,000 from the McDougal Family Foundation to the School of Education’s Institute for Lesson Study; $40,000 from the Michael Reese Health Trust and $15,000 from the Field Foundation of Illinois to the Schiller DuCanto and Fleck Family Law Center’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Accountability Project; $30,000 from Chicago Community in Schools to help evaluate the effect of its work on students, partnering schools and the agencies recruited to work in the schools; and $19,965 from the Autism Speaks Family Community to the new Special Education Advocacy Clinic.
     
Dominican University (River Forest, Ill.), $50,000 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to repair the roof of Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home in Oak Park.
     
Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti), $167,000 from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation to help youngsters learn healthy lifestyle habits.
     
Elgin Community College and Roosevelt University (both Chicago), $891,000 from the National Institutes of Health to identify community college students in the health sciences.
     
Harold Washington College and Roosevelt University (both Chicago), $967,000 from the National Science Foundation to recruit Chicago Public High school students into science and math programs.
     
Illinois College (Jacksonville, Ill.), $98,395 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a seminar to help school teachers learn more about The Frontier Experience in the American Midwest: Greater Illinois to 1860.

Joliet (Ill.) Junior College, $55,956 from the Vera C. Smith Estate for Arthur G. and Vera C. Smith Sustaining Endowment Fund. Also, $37,000 from the Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity for Weitendorf Agriculture Education and Event Complex; $30,000 from Midwest Generation for technical department scholarships; $30,000 from Exelon Generation Co. for Process Operations Technology student scholarships; $25,000 from Silver Cross Hospital for allied health and technology student scholarships; $25,000 from Jean Finley for a blood analyzing machine; $21,009 from the Dr. Wylie Mullen Estate for a memorial endowed scholarship; $20,000 from Curtis Crawford for the Dr. Curtis J. Crawford Scholarship; $17,501 from Sheldon and Patricia Bell for an allied health endowed scholarship; and $12,500 from the Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity for the Weitendorf Agriculture Education and Event Complex.

Kettering University (Flint, Mich.), $225,000 from the Kern Family Foundation to develop a program focused on teaching entrepreneurship studies across the curriculum. Also, $26,000 from The UPS Foundation for scholarships and for four students to participate in the Academically Interested Minorities program.
     
Lawrence University (Appleton, Wis.), $2.5 million from an anonymous 1936 Lawrence graduate to support student scholarships. Also, $1.6 million from the estate of F. Stansbury Young to the F. Theodore Cloak Scholarship and $1.125 million from the trust of Amond “Ralph” and Marjorie Ballinger to create the Raymond C. Krueger Industrialist Scholarship.  
           
Lourdes College (Sylvania, Ohio), $50,000 from Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts to offset costs of the new academic building. Also, $10,000 from the Christ Child Society to continue the Life Lab and Theater Vision educational outreach programs.
     
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation (St. Paul), $225,000 from the Blandin Foundation for the northern Minnesota College Readiness Partnership pilot project. Also, $200,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation to support the Higher Education Anti-Racism Team initiative.
     
Moraine Valley Community College (Palos Hills, Ill.), $55,000 from the Illinois Secretary of State to continue providing services to low-literate adults in the area. Also, $13,720 from the Illinois Arts Council for theatre support and $10,000 from The Chrysler Foundation to help support the College Automotive Program.
       
Mount Mary College (Milwaukee), $80,400 from The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Burke Foundation Fund. Also, $53,600 from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Walter and Olive Stiemke Fund to support a high school pilot of its successful Urban Education Fellows Program; $25,000 from William Simpson for an Endowed Midtown Scholarship; $10,000 from the Brady Corp. Foundation for a Women’s Leadership Institute’s leadership program.
     
Olivet (Mich.) College, $1.2 million from the Kresge Foundation toward construction of the M. Gorton Riethmiller Art Building.
     
Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), $427,324 from The Corporation for National Community Service to fund the third year of a community service program for at-risk youth. Also, $35,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration to fund the fourth year of the Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Grant; $250,000 from The McGregor Fund for a project titled “Transformation Project: Supporting Students’ Ability to Integrate Learning”; $13,600 from The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges and $8,000 from Columbus City Schools to fund the Ubuntu College Clubs Mentoring and Recruitment Program; and $10,000 from The Ohio Department of Natural Resources for a scientific study called Reading Lampricide Treatment on Freshwater Mussels. 
     
Saginaw Valley State University (University Center, Mich.), $1,776,833 over five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title III Strengthening Institutions Program for online and distance education programs. Also, $335,203 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a Health and Human Services Building; $157,293 from the Office of Naval Research to formulate processing techniques for using grain refiners in the steel casting industry; $46,682 from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth for the King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professors and Future Faculty Fellowship programs; $19,975 from Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee to develop glycerin/oil emulsions glycerin as a fuel in oil burners; $15,340 from Mentoring Solutions to provide evaluation services for the Mentor Solutions/Winning Futures Program; $12,115 from the Ruth Mott Foundation for Enhancing the Local Food System of Flint/Genesee County; and $11,930 from Michigan Humanities Council for a community celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke’s centennial.  
     
St. Cloud (Minn.) State University, $1 million from the estate of alum Vera Russell for College of Education programs. Also, $120,000 to appoint assistant professor Richard MacDonald as senior adviser of program development for the National Council on Economic Education; $88,469 from MINITEX for an outreach coordinator position for the Minnesota Digital Library Project; $65,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Community Service Grant Program for programming and other station needs; $58,457 from the National Science Foundation to study bursts of electromagnetic energy from highly subatomic matter; $24,940 from Boston Scientific to study the aortic heart valve fatigue test system; $11,391 from RIE Coatings to study the molecular modeling of corrosion protection extension to purchase software; $10,525 from McGraw-Hill toward the department’s McGraw Hill Royalties account for department members who write laboratory manuals; and $10,000 from Packet Trap Networks to study their software license.
     
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.) College, $280,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. for the Initiative to Promote Opportunities through Educational Collaboration.
       
Southern Illinois University, $2 million Illinois Department of Transportation Highway Construction Preparatory Training Program to help ensure a diversified road construction workforce. Also, $1.6 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a study to understand environmental and genetic causes of common health conditions and disorders, and $1.5 million from the The Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation to make oral health care more accessible to the children.
     
Trine University (Angola, Ind.), $2.85 million from the estate of alumnus John W. Widmann for unrestricted funding. Also, $1.5 million from Larry and Judy Reiners of Tulsa, Okla., to  enhance the university’s civil engineering program, and renaming the department as the Larry and Judy Reiners Department of Civil Engineering, and $375,000 from the Lilly Endowment to expand relationships and implement new strategies to engage students in experiential learning assignments.
     
University of Evansville (Ind.), $7.85 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. for Phase II in the continued development of its Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana.
     
University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, Ind.), $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program to create the Southwestern Indiana Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Initiative.
     
The University of Toledo (Ohio), $15 million from Marvin and Judith Herb to the Judith Herb College of Education; $7 million from Charles A. Sullivan, $2 million for scholarships and $5 million for the Charles A. Sullivan Athletic Complex. 
       
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, $404,305 from the National Science Foundation to develop portable and customizable software for hands-on, computer-intensive educational workshops.
     
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, $599,817 from the National Science Foundation to support an Alternative Careers in Teaching program. Also, $300,000 from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to continue supporting students through services designed to improve their mental health and quality of life;  $296,842 for year two of a five-year U.S. Department of Education grant for “Excellent Schools, Teaching and Research for English Language Learner Achievement,” and $149,000 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Business and International Education program to support its new “Global Competency though Strategic Partnerships In and Out of the Classroom” program.
     
Western Technical College (La Crosse, Wis.), $67,000 in Workforce Advancement Training grants to upgrade the skills of workers at four manufacturers in western Wisconsin.

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