Grant Funding

  1. National Institutes for Health. Co-I. (2022). “Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research.” $11.3 million (Award number P42ES030991).
  2. WSU Presidents Research Enhancement Program (REP) Arts & Humanities. PI. (2021, deferred 2022). “Trans-media Oral Histories of BIPOC Creative Entrepreneurs Resilience during COVID-19” $37,705.50
  3. Environmental Protection Agency. Co-PI (2020). “GSI-Informed Urban Groundwater Monitoring Networks.” P3 Award: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability. $25,000 (Award number SU840160)
  4. Great Lakes Protection Fund. Co-I (2019). “Smart Management of Microplastic Pollution in the Great Lakes.” $929,000 (Award number 1151).
  5. Waterhouse Family Institute. Lead PI. (2018). “Public sense-making of sustainable water access in urban communities: “Uneasy” story-telling and story-making through collaborative transmedia ethnography.” $10,000 (Award number 18190054).
  6. WSU Presidents Research Enhancement Program (REP) Arts & Humanities. Lead PI. (2018). “Public Sense-making of Sustainable Water Access in Urban Communities” $33,445.
  7. WSU Dean’s Creative/Research Grant, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts. (2018). “Organizing/Communicating for Urban Sustainability: The Detroit Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.” $5,000.
  8. WSU BEST & Graduate School Mini Grant (2018). “Holistic career development for 21st century PhD students: Research skills for Nonacademic careers.” $4,300.
  9. WSU Dean’s Creative/Research Grant, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts (2014). “Communicative complexities of ‘Integrated Arctic Management’: Environmental resource management and development in Alaska.” $7,000.
  10. Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant (2012). “Accomplishing sustainability from local networks to global transformative policies: The work of sustainability professionals.” $2,635.
  11. Purdue Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion, Faculty Seed Grant. Co-PI. (2012). “Performances of Meaningful Work by Sustainability Professionals.” $500.
  12. Central States Communication Association Federation Prize. Co-PI. (2012). “Performances of meaningful work by sustainability professionals.” $3,000.
  13. Projects that Advance the Discipline of Communication, National Communication Association. Co-PI. (2011). “Changing face of communication studies: Majority and underrepresented minority millennial graduate students’ reported quality of life and meaningfulness of work.” $5,000.