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Graduate student Justin Meschler (pharmacological and physiological science) has received a five-year, $137,162 predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse. MeschlerÕs research will investigate the interaction of the dopamine neurotransmitter system and the cannabinoid neurotransmitter system and how this interaction may relate to diseases in the basal ganglia, a brain region responsible for the regulation and control of movement.
Laura Stuetzer (physician assistant education) has received a three-year, $494,400 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant will be used to train students and place graduates in rural and urban areas that need primary care health care professionals.
Doctoral candidate Helene Lutz (interdisciplinary studies) received $15,000 from the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Christianity for work on her dissertation, ÒSuffering Death and Human Freedom: A Christian Ethical Perspective on the North American Euthanasia Debate.Ó This is the first time a SLU graduate student has won this competitive award.
Graduate student Steve Klaus (earth and atmospheric sciences) received $294 in computer time from the National Center for Atmospheric Research for research on ÒStructure of Tropical Cyclones as Revealed by Scatterometer Data.Ó
Stuart L. Kaplan, M.D. (psychiatry) has received a 20-month, $214,204 contract from Eli Lilly and Co. Kaplan will use the funds to study the treatment of depression in children and adolescents with the drug Fluoxetine. The goal of KaplanÕs research is to establish the efficacy of the drug in the treatment of depression.
Dr. Mark Knuepfer (pharmacological and physiological science) has received a two-month, $5,000 grant from the American Physiological Society. Knuepfer will use the funds to look at the behavioral effects of marijuana and cocaine in laboratory animals. The goal of the research is to find out if there is interaction between the two drugs.
Martha Brennan and Dr. Lynda Campbell (communication disorders) have received grants to research speech development in infants and toddlers. Campbell has renewed a $115,474 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to study the preparation of speech-language pathologists to serve infants and toddlers with disabilities and those who are risk of becoming disabled. Campbell will work with Brennan (pictured at right) on a project to research speech, language and hearing impairments in low birth-weight infants. The project will involve performing a battery of tests of study participants to assess speech, language and hearing. An $84,800 grant was awarded to the project by the Missouri Department of Health.
Virginia Campbell (Small Business Development Center) received a $3,750 award from the St. Louis Small Business Development Center for the continuation of a satellite center at the Midtown Enterprise Center in cooperation with the St. Louis Small Business Development Partnership. An SBDC consultant will provide management assistance to the tenants of the business incubator. Types of assistance include business plans, marketing strategy and financial analysis and control.
David Crossley (earth and atmospheric sciences) has received $6,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project that analyzes high precision variations of the EarthÕs gravity field obtained by a global network of superconducting gravimeter. He will interpret this data in terms of the global dynamics of the Earth. This is a six-year-long project that began July 1.
Dr. Gerard Magill (Center for Health Care Ethics) has received $26,000 from the Daughters of Charity National Health System to fund an assistantship in the Center for Health Care Ethics.
Dr. William Shea (theological studies) received a summer research grant of $9,000 from the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion to support a research project on American evangelical critiques of Catholicism.
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