STUDIES FUNDED AT UNIVERSITY

Ten faculty research proposals have received funding this spring from the Grants and Research Funding Committee of Southeast Missouri State University.

The committee's goal is to encourage scientific and humanistic research and literary or artistic projects related to academic or professional disciplines.

The largest award, $3,000, went to Jin K. Gong, assistant professor of chemistry, for a proposal titled "Activation of Carbon Dioxide by Transition Metal Complexes." The goal of the chemical research is to use transition metal complexes as catalysts to activate carbon dioxide into useful organic compounds or into a metal complex and diatomic oxygen.

Gary Lowell, professor of earth science, was awarded $2,696 for his proposal titled "Gold-Platinum-Palladium Mineralogy of the Salt Chuck Mine, Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska." The study will evaluate the use of detrital magnetite and chromite as a prospecting guide for "Salt Chuck type" bodies.

Robert Hamblin, professor of English, was awarded $2,382 for his "Faulkner at Warner Bros." proposal. Hamblin will research, edit and annotate three of William Faulkner's screenplays for publication.

Ann McConnell, associate professor of physical education, and Timothy Rademaker, assistant professor of physical education, have received $1,630 for their proposal, "Personality and the Ultramarathoner." They will attempt to determine if the personality profiles of ultramarathon runners differ from those of collegiate distance runners and non-athletes.

Christina Frazier, professor of biology, has been awarded $1,583 for her proposal, "Electrophoretic Studies on Culex Restuans and Culex Pipiens Complex Mosquitoes in Southeast Missouri." The project will develop a procedure to identify Culex restuans mosquitoes and will test mosquitoes for viruses.

Michael Devaney, associate professor of accounting and finance, and William Weber, assistant professor of economics, have received $1,503 for their proposal, "Dualism, Rural Bank Structure and Economic Development in the Lower Mississippi Delta." The study will examine the role that the private financial sector and government can play in fostering regional economic development. Their research also will measure the policies that further or hinder regional economic development.

B. Gene Ramsey, professor of history, has received $1,100 for his proposal, "Joseph Burke, Scientist-Explorer of Northwest America." Ramsey will use correspondence from Burke during an 1840s expedition to study the methodology and hazards encountered by scientists. He also will explore ways in which government corporations can both help and hinder scientific endeavors.

Michael Aide, chairman of the department of agriculture, received $845 for his proposal, "The Distribution and Fractionation of Aluminum and Phosphorus in Two Soils of the Salem Plateau." Two soils on the Salem Plateau in western Bollinger County will be characterized for their physical, chemical and mineralogical properties.

Alan Journet, professor of biology, was awarded $750 for his project, "Inventory and Host Relations of Lepidoptera Larvae in the Tropical Dry Forest of Costa Rica." Journet will work with tropical ecologist and entomologist Dan Janzen on a project being conducted in the tropical dry forest of northwestern Costa Rica.

Mary Ann Vogelsang, professor of communication disorders, and Robert Boissoneau, dean of the College of Health and Human Services, have been awarded $295 for their proposal "Clinical Supervision in Communication Disorders: Staffing Patterns and Practices." The study will determine if consistencies exist in staffing patterns and practices in communication disorders programs.