YPSILANTI, Mich., May 20, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Eastern Michigan
University's emphasis on growing academic research and
scholarly activity is opening the doors to greater research
activity among the University's faculty. In a recent report to the
University's Board of Regents, Dr.
Steven Pernecky, associate vice
president for graduate studies and research, highlighted the most
recent data measuring the University's research activity.
According to the report, research activity sponsored by outside
organizations grew 63% from 2013-2023, from $10.9 million to $17.8
million. From 2022 to 2023, externally- funded research grew
20%, from $14.8 million to
$17.8 million. The University also
increased the number of sponsored research awards from 110 in 2022
to 127 in 2023. These include awards from federal agencies, the
state of Michigan, other colleges
and universities, business and industry partners, foundations,
local governments, non-profit organizations and state agencies
outside of Michigan.
The University's growth as a research institution was evidenced
by Carnegie's 2016 classification as a Research 2 (R2) institution.
Out of the 3,939 institutions recognized by Carnegie, 279 have
either a Very High (R1; greater than $50M annually spent on research) or High (R2;
greater than $5M spent on research)
classification, placing Eastern in the top 7%.
Recent research awards of significance include the
following:
- $8,900,000, Toyota
USA Foundation: Eastern Michigan University is establishing the EMU
Institute for STEM Education, Outreach, and Workforce Development.
Under a five-year commitment, Eastern
Michigan will work with area partners in the Washtenaw
Intermediate School District. There are three primary objectives
for the new STEM institute: 1) Promote STEM awareness across the
communities served by Lincoln Consolidated School District (LCS)
and Ypsilanti Community School
District (YCS). 2) Develop vertically integrated STEM curricula
throughout K-12. Establish stackable STEM credentials, leading to
industry-recognized CTE certificates and STEM degrees. 3) The
Institute aims to contribute to the community's STEM resources by
coordinating activities that build community knowledge and
strengthen STEM outcomes in education and workforce
development.
- $1,410,608, National
Institutes of Health: Research on Community Level Interventions
for Firearm and Related Violence, Injury and Mortality Prevention.
The five-year research project, under the direction of Professor
Tsu-Yin Wu, School of Nursing (lead
investigator), and Associate Professor Xining Yang, Geography and Geology
(co-investigator), identifies community-level resources to
understand the intersectionality and contexts between multi-level
risks and protective factors related to firearm violence. The
project will employ mixed methods and a participatory action
approach that includes photovoice and GIS to investigate these
risks and protective factors with a long-term aim of preventing
injury and mortality by developing an evidence-based effective
intervention that prevents firearm violence among Asian
Americans.
- $168,562, National Endowment
for the Humanities, American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past,
Present and Future program: Eastern
Michigan University, in partnership with Michigan State and Wayne State
University, will create and deliver a new two-week,
residential summer institute entitled, "Democracy and Education: A
View from Detroit." The project
director is EMU Assistant Professor Dr. Matthew Kautz, Leadership and Counseling.
Through a combination of scholarly presentations, conversations
with movement veterans, collaboration with local artists, students,
and parents, walking tours, and exploration of the unique archival
collections at Wayne State's Walter P.
Reuther Library, 25 middle and high school educators (grades 6-12)
will explore Black Detroiters' long struggle for access to and
equity in education from the 1860s into the present. The institute
will take place in downtown Detroit at Wayne
State's Reuther Library and Michigan
State University's Detroit Center, and it will offer walking
tours in Detroit's historic Black
Bottom and Old Westside neighborhoods.
- $164,415, National Science
Foundation: Collaborative Research: The Plurality of Police
Oversight: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Democracy, Race, and Power.
The three-year effort is led by Professor Kevin Karpiak, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Criminology. Recent narratives have called for
increasing civilian oversight of police departments as one approach
to reducing racialized police violence. This project asks: how can
ethnographic attention to the varied forms of civilian police
oversight commissions lend insight into the dynamics of racial
inequality, political critique and democratic practice in the
contemporary U.S. This project uses team-based multi-sited
ethnography to interrogate the untested assumption that instituting
civilian-led police oversight commissions automatically leads to
the types of reforms and social changes for which communities and
policing scholars have called. Selecting three U.S. sites at the
county-level that are in varying stages of forming or sustaining
civilian-led police oversight commissions, this project turns its
ethnographic attention to the varied histories, forms, successes
and failures of civilian oversight.
About Eastern Michigan
University
Founded in 1849, Eastern is the second
oldest public university in Michigan. It currently serves more than 13,000
students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, specialist, doctoral and
certificate degrees in the arts, sciences and professions. In all,
more than 300 majors, minors and concentrations are delivered
through the University's Colleges of Arts and Sciences; Business;
Education; Engineering and Technology; Health and Human Services;
and its graduate school. National publications regularly recognize
EMU for its excellence, diversity, and commitment to applied
education. Visit the University's rankings and points of
pride websites to learn more. For more information about
Eastern Michigan University, visit
the University's website. To stay up to date on University
news, activities and announcements, visit EMU Today.
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