The recipients of this year's Minority/Women Summer Grants have been announced by the Office of the Vice President for research. Of the 20 applications received, 11 were funded a total of $50,100.

Awardees are:

• Sherlylyn Briller, anthropology, "From Classroom to Community: An Examination of Career Beginnings of Funeral Service Professionals"
• Monica Brockmeyer, computer science, "Adaptive Coordination of Globally Replicated Data"
• Annmarie Cano, psychology, "Observing Marital Interaction in Chronic Pain Couples"
• Elizabeth Dorn, history, "Battling the Evil of Drink: Christian Reformers and the Temperance Movement in Meiji Japan"
• Thomas Fungwe, nutrition and food science, "Identification of cis-acting elements and transacting factors responsible for regulation of the LCAT gene by fatty acids resulting in elevation of high density lipoproteins"
• Lisabeth Hock, German and Slavic studies, "Child, Mother, Daemon: Bettina von Arnim as Cultural Icon"
• Tomomi Kumagai, economics, "Identifying the Inefficiencies in the Japanese Economy"
• Katherine Paesani, romance languages and literatures, "The Semantics and Syntax of the passé surcomposé in Modern French: Toward a Unified Account of an Elusive Verb Form"
• Mary Kay Pflum, chemistry, "Neuronal Gene Regulation and Basic Region-Leucine Zipper Proteins"
• Joanne Sobeck, social work, "Longitudinal Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Program"
• Linda Tillman, education, "Mentoring African American Teachers in an Urban School District: An Investigation of the Pathways to Teaching Program."
  

The program was established in 1995, and provides funding for the purpose of allowing release-time during the summer semester from teaching for minority and women faculty bargaining unit members and is intended to compensate in part for the reduced amount of research time available to such scholars because of their special obligations to underrepresented students and to their communities.

"I am pleased with the range of proposals submitted and funded this year, and anticipate many of these to lead to published scholarly works or future external funding opportunities," remarked George Dambach, Vice President for Research. "This program offers junior faculty the chance to enhance their research portfolio, particularly those in units where outside funding is difficult to secure."