COST Grant Recipients

The following  grants were awarded to COST faculty by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education  (PASSHE) Faculty Professional Development Council.  Bloomsburg University faculty received 9 of the 48 awards given.  The following are the recipients from COST.

Lauri Green, BAHS: "Differences in the nest success and foraging behavior of Tree Swallows (Tachycienta bicolor) across natural and artificial wetland sites", $9999

Angela Hess, BAHS: "Connecting human melanoma tumor cell plasticity with resistance to the clinically relevant drugs: vemurafenib, dabrafenib, and trametinib", $8000

John Hranitz, BAHS: "Faculty Research and Development of Insect Pollen Load DNA Analysis Techniques to Investigate Plant-Pollinator Interactions", $9578 

Ellen Kehres and Co-PI Michael Borland, Chemistry and Biochemistry: "Evaluating Selenium Replacement within a PPARB/D Activator Towards the Development of Novel Malignant Melanoma Therapeutics", $10,000

Philip Osburn, Chemistry and Biochemistry: "Catalytic alchemy: coaxing platinum-level rewards from Earth-abundant base metals", $10,000

Mohsin Shaikh and Co-PI Shelley Scarpino, Communication Sciences and Disorders: "Contralateral Suppression of Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions in Children with Language Impairment", $9967

Adrian Van Rythoven, EGGS: "Establishment of an Introductory Field Course Situated in the Black Hills", $6438
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The following Research and Scholarship Grants were awarded to COST faculty from the Bloomsburg University Office of Research and Sponsored Programs for the Spring 2019 cycle. 


Cindy Surmacz and co-applicant John Hranitz, BAHS : "Assessing Sublethal Stress in Honey Bees Exposed to "Bee-friendly" Neoniciotinoid Pesticides", $3500

Kristen Brubaker, BAHS: "Expression study of acute alcohol tolerance-associated genes jwa and hangover in Apis mellifera (Western honey bee)", $2680

Lauri Green, BAHS: "Differences in the foraging and reproductive success of Tree Swallows (Tachycienta bicolor) across natural and artificial wetlands", $3132

Jennifer Venditti-Roadarmel, BAHS: "Evaluating alpha-L-fucosidase Activity and its Potential Role in Reproduction Using Zebrafish (Danio rerio)", $3500


Daniel McCurry, Chemistry and Biochemistry: "High Surface Area Electrodes for Interrogation of Droplet Microfluidics", $10,000


Erik Larsen, Chemistry and Biochemistry: "Synthesis and Design of Novel Enzyme Probes for Mycobacterial Hydrolases", $10,000