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University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Office of Research and Graduate Education

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

Internal Program Support

The fundamental goals of internal program support are to enhance the research climate at the University of Connecticut by promoting faculty and graduate student research and to help faculty in all disciplines move into a better position to generate external funding for their scholarly activities.  The proposals are  peer reviewed by members of a panel.

Faculty Large Grant Awards.

Spring 2011 ‘Faculty Large Grant’ Awards|

For the spring 2011 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council received 48 proposals, and made 33 awards totaling more than $542,000.
College of Agriculture recipients include:

  • Joshua Berning, Agricultural & Resource Economics, A Pilot Study to Examine the Relationship of Economic Insecurity and Household Behavior as it Relates to Obesity, $15,890
  • Jane Kerstetter, Allied Health Sciences, The Effect of Amino Acids on Claudin-2: An Integral Tight Junction Protein, $9,940
  • Ji-Young Lee, Nutritional Sciences, Regulatory Mechanism for Adipocyte Fatty Acid Binding Protein Expression by Fatty Acids in Macrophages, $25,000
  • Lawrence Silbart, Allied Health Sciences, Mitigating the Harmful Effect of Carcinogens in Tobacco via Passive Immunity, $25,000

Click here for the complete list of Spring 2011 ‘Faculty Large Grant’ Awards

Fall 2010 ‘Faculty Large Grant’ Awards

For the fall 2010 Faculty Large Grant competition, the Research Advisory Council received 55 proposals, and made 37 awards totaling more than $657,000.
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources recipients include:

  • Bradley Bolling, Nutritional Sciences, Aronia ssp. (chokeberry) for the Prevention of Allergic Asthma, $20,000
  • Kristen Govoni, Animal Science, Effects of Intrauterine Growth Retardation (IUGR) on Fetal and Postnatal Development in Sheep, $22,000
  • Gary Kazmer, Animal Science, Reduction in Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 Cultures Subjected to Sub-Inhibitory Concentrations of Plant-Derived Antimicrobial Compounds, $18,000
  • Farhed Shah, Agriculture & Resource Economics, Economic Evaluation of Alternative Waste Management Practices in Livestock Agriculture, $2,634

Click here for the complete list of Fall 2010 ‘Faculty Large Grant’ Awards

Faculty Small Grant Awards (requests up to $1,500)

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources recipients include:

February 2011

  • Sylvain Deguise, Pathobiology & Veterinary Sciences, Immunotoxicity of PCBs in polar bears, $1,500.00

July 2010

  • Thomas A Hoagland, Animal Science, The Influence of PGF2a and PGE2 on Oxygen Consumption and Progesterone Synthesis in Isolated Mitochondria from Bovine Luteal Cells, $1,500.00
  • Susanne Beck Von Bodman, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture, Characterization of the WceJ Protein in Synthesis of Stewartan Polysaccharide by the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Pantoea Stewartii subsp. Stewartii, $1,500.00

March  2010

  • Jenifer Nadeau, Animal Science, Effect of Season on Travel Patterns and Hoof Growth in Horses Kept in Varying Sized Turnouts, $1,500.00 

January  2010

  • Steven A Zinn, Animal Science, Seasonality of Intake, Body Condition, and the Somatotropic Axis in Captive Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus), $1,500.00

 

News and Events

 

CANR 2011 Highlights of Research and the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

2011 Highlights of Research

Grant Reviewer Opportunities

15 AGENCIES SEEKING GRANT REVIEWERS

One great way to increase the likelihood of getting funding is to become a grant reviewer. Current research suggests that you can improve your odds by as much as 30% by serving first as a reviewer and then submitting a proposal to the agency for which you reviewer at a later competition cycle.  Many benefits exist for becoming a grant reviewer. You quickly learn what turns reviewers on – and off. Equally important, you become and “insider” and establish contacts and networks that will prove valuable later in your continued grantseeking efforts. Federal agencies are especially looking for grant reviewers because they receive so many proposals that must be critiqued. In our latest blog, we have identified 15 federal grantmaking agencies that are looking for grant reviewers – now. Which one is right for you?

15 Agencies Seeking Grant Reviewes

 

Recent Grant Awards

 

Congratulations to the Research Foundation’s spring Faculty Large Grant award recipients:

Maria-Luz Fernandez, Nutritional Sciences 

Reversal of Hepatic Steatosis by Manipulation of Dietary Carbohydrates and Fat in Guinea Pigs, $17,500

Huan-Zhong Wang, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Secondary Wall Formation, $21,000

 

Archived grant list

 

 

Current Multistate Proposals Inviting Participation

  • NE_TEMP2001, Project proposal entitled, "Ovarian Influences on Reproductive Success in Ruminants." Please submit Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012
  • NE_TEMP1921, Project proposal entitled "Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals."  Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012

Instructions to join a Multistate Project

 

 

USDA Integrated Grants and Logic Model

A logic model is a conceptual tool for planning and evaluation which displays the sequence of actions that describes what the science-based program is and will do.

 

 

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