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ACADEMIC CONTRACTS AND GRANTS

The grants and contracts on the following list have been used to support graduate assistants, equipment purchases, conference travel and funded research during summer sessions. The creative works that resulted from the following contracts were submitted for peer-review in a variety of digital media conferences. A select number of projects are available for download, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

CONTRACTS

Spring, 2005, (Project lead) contract of $10,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to design, develop and program a CD ROM, and to support previous productions developed for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Spring, 2004, (Project lead) contract of $20,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to design, develop and program a CD ROM entitled "From Research to Remediation: Selenium, Arsenic and Lead," focusing on the work of Dr Lawrence Twidwell, the world's leading authority on mine waste. This production has been distributed to universities with environmental engineering programs and submitted to the Broadcast Education Association Faculty International Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts Competition in 2005.

This production was peer-reviewed
2005 International BEA Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts, Faculty Interactive Multimedia Division, education and inform category.

Spring, 2003, (Project lead) contract of $20,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and program a software application for non-programmers to facilitate the production of conference-related CD ROM titles. Since completion, this software application has been used to create three conference CD-ROM disks.

Spring, 2002, (Project lead) contract of $20,000 from the University of Montana technical Institute CD ROM in conjunction with the Environmental Protection This disk, "Activities In-Depth" is a compilation of the annual reports and research demonstration projects.

This production was peer-reviewed
2003 International BEA Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts, Faculty Interactive Multimedia Division, educate and inform category.

Fall, 2001, (Project lead) contract of $20,000 from the University of Montana technical Institute to develop a CD ROM in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency to outline the Superfund cleanup process and to outline technologies from the Hazardous Substances Research Centers. Production name " Hazardous Substances Research Centers Progress Reports.”

This production was peer-reviewed
2004 International BEA Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts, Faculty Interactive Multimedia Division, education and inform category.

GRANTS

Summer, 2008 (Principal Investigator) $750,000 phase II SBIR grant. My role is technical PI (instructional designer and lead software programmer) with a dedicated budget of $212,000. The goal of this research is to create object-oriented instructional modules to train Social Services specialists to work with patients suffering from dementia. Funding has been awarded as of June 2008.

Spring 2001, (Technical developer) participated in a $10,000 grant from the Boston University Instructional Technology Grant Program to develop "The Woburn Story," (see " A Civil Action") a CD ROM that documents the history of the environmental disaster that culminated during the 1970's in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Spring 2001, (Instructional designer, programmer) Participated in a $150,000 grant with The Institutes for Learning and Development and Research ILD, under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Grant # ED-99-CO-0125 and DOE Star Schools Grant # R203A70004) as a production team member working with a company named Fable Vision, located in Watertown, MA.. My role was to develop the software for a product named Brain Cogs: The personal interactive coach for learning and studying. (Note this product has won numerous awards, as noted in a previous section)

Fall, 2000, (Course Developer) grant of $6,000 from the Sloan Foundation to develop "Multimedia Instructional Design" an interactive online course for the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Fall, 2000, (Principal Investigator) $55,000 grant with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to design, develop and program interactive educational modules for a DVD and web site entitled "Cyber Safety." A link to the games is currently shipped with all new HP home computer systems, also viewable on the "Net Smartz" website at (http://www.netsmartz.org/resources/nsresources.htm). The suite includes game engines for web and CD ROM 'workshop" activities (Make-a Match, Comic Book, Coloring Book, Picture Puzzle, Where's Clicky? Webville Roundup, Clicky Creation and Cyber Safety

Spring, 2000, (Principal Investigator), $11,500 grant from the Boston University Instructional Technology Grant Program to develop a "Digital Video and Archive System" (Streaming Video research) website with an OSX server and related technologies.

GRANTS PROPOSED, UNDER REVIEW

Summer, 2008, Project Management International. $25,000 grant application has been submitted and is under review. This grant has been submitted with Dr. Anchalee Ngampornchai to study intercultural dymanics within project teams and the challenges that project managers face as a result of those dynamics.

GRANTS PROPOSED, NOT AWARDED

Summer, 2004, Northrop Grumman Foundation, $60,000. This grant proposed to fund two interactive Kiosks to be installed at the Tallahassee Challenger Center.

Spring, 2003, Environmental Protection Agency, $30,000. This grant proposed to develop an educational CD ROM specifically outlining the hazards of mine waste in three different settings; rural, suburban and urban (Brown fields).

Fall 2002, Fort Peck Indian Reservation $85,000. This grant proposed to design and develop a CD ROM to disseminate information about environmental hazards surrounding abandoned mining sites.

FUNDED PROJECTS

Environmental Protection Agency / mine-waste technology promotional CD ROM.
This is a disk that is intended to inform the public about mine waste technologies and the benefit that is gained by supporting these activities. Download the program (394 mb)

Game Files
This archive includes a number of games; blackjack, iSpy, a picture puzzle game and Lexicon. The game engines have been repurposed for many different productions, including National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, Hasbro, and e-Tractions Download the program (13 mb)

Montana Technical University Demo
This is a demo I created for Montana Tech. Features a panorama campus tour, a design based on the based on the 'Star Trek' CD ROM. Download the program (31 mb)

Understanding Community Health Problems
This is the so-called 'Woburn CD ROM,' the disk I created to highlight the impact of severe environmental consequences of pollution. Download the program (184 mb)

From research to remediation: Arsenic, Thallium ,Selenium
The majority of my works are 'technology transfer' CD ROMs for the Environmental Protection Agency. This disk focuses on three dangerous compounds that are commonly found in areas surrounding mines. Download the program (64 mb)