2005-2006 Seed Grant Award Winners
Programs listed alphabetically by principal investigator(s)

Higher Education

Principal Investigator: Professor Charles W. Allport, Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio
Project Title: Student Satellite Program at Cedarville University
Grant Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Aaron Altman, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
Project Title: Continued Work on Development of a Programmable Flight Simulator to Provide "Hands-On" Feedback of Flight Dynamics and Aircraft Design Characteristics
Grant Award: $2,500

Principal Investigator: Dr. M. David Kankam, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Project Title: NASA Glenn Academy (Summer, 2005)
Grant Award: $20,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul C. Lam, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Project Title: Student Satellite Program at The University of Akron
Grant Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. P. Ruby Mawasha, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Project Title: Student Satellite Program at Wright State University
Grant Award: $7,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. P. Ruby Mawasha, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Project Title: Continuation of the Student Satellite Program at Wright State University
Grant Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Augustus Morris, Jr., Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
Project Title: Magnetic Field Investigation of Mars by Interacting Consortia (MIMIC) Program
Grant Award: $20,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Augustus Morris, Jr., Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
Project Title: Student Satellite Program at Central State University
Grant Award: $3,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Augustus Morris, Jr., Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
Project Title: Continuation of the Student Satellite Program at Central State University
Grant Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Trevor Williams, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Title: Student Satellite Program at the University of Cincinnati
Grant Award: $6,300

Principal Investigator: Dr. Trevor Williams, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Title: Continuation of the Student Satellite Program at the University of Cincinnati
Grant Award: $14,000

Precollege Teacher Outreach

Principal Investigator: Professor Charles W. Allport, Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio
Project Title: Engineers Club of Dayton Project
Grant Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Larry Cooper, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Project Title: Educational Liaison
Grant Award: $4,620

NASA Explorer School
Principal Investigator: Mr. Robert Reynolds, Alpha: School of Excellence for Boys, Youngstown, Ohio
Project Title: NASA Explorer School Challenge 001: Return to the Moon
Grant Award: $2,500

Principal Investigator: Ms. Connie Jensen, Ohio Education Outreach Foundation, Beavercreek, Ohio
Project Title: STARBASE in a Box
Grant Award: $2,500

Principal Investigator: Ms. Kathleen Levine, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Educational Outreach, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Project Title: The FIRST Lego League Robotics Mini Institute
Grant Award: $1,865

Principal Investigator: Mr. Tim Lewaren, Space Explorers, Inc., De Pere, Wisconsin
Project Title: Mission: Solar System (M:SS) (Moonlink®, NEARLink®, and Marslink®), Orbital Laboratory®, and K-3 Space® Programs
Grant Award: $4,000

Principal Investigator: Ms. Linda A. Neenan, iSPACE, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Title: Challenger Learning Center
Grant Award: $10,000

Principal Investigator: Dr. Theodore Williams, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
Project Title: B-WISER Institute (Summer, 2005)
Grant Award: $20,000

Public Outreach

Principal Investigator: Ms. Sandra L. Preston, McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Project Title: Stardate and Universo Disks in the Classroom
Grant Award: $1,200

Research Infrastructure

Principal Investigator: Dr. Abinash Agrawal, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Project Title: Assessing the Impact of Land-Cover Changes on Surface Quality within the Mid-Ohio River Watershed through Remote Sensing and GIS
Grant Award: $20,000

Principal Investigator: Mr. Nathan Watermeier, The Ohio State University Extension, Columbus Ohio
Project Title: Ohio Geospatial Extension Program for Agriculture and Natural Resource
Grant Award: $18,235

Principal Investigator: Mr. Nathan Watermeier, The Ohio State University Extension, Columbus Ohio
Project Title: Continuation of the Ohio Geospatial Extension Program for Agriculture and Natural Resource
Grant Award: $19,626