Killgore Faculty Research and Graduate Student Research Grant Program Each fall semester the Killgore Research Committee requests proposals for the Killgore Faculty Research (KFR) and Graduate Student Research (GSR) grant program. Generally, faculty awards are made in the amount of $5,000 or less. Student grants are limited to $3,500. Killgore Faculty Research grants are available for all disciplines and are geared toward the discovery of new knowledge leading to publication, performance or exhibition appropriate to the applicant's discipline. Including students in the project is encouraged. These proposals also impact the Panhandle of Texas directly and, secondarily, the state. International travel cannot be funded by this program. Graduate Student Research grants are open to all disciplines and are meant to educate the recipient in the philosophies, techniques and tools of research through the discovery of new knowledge leading to publication, performance or exhibition appropriate to the applicant's discipline. Funding may be used to support the recipient's thesis or dissertation research. Questions about applying for one of these grants may be directed to Grant Coordinator Steve McLean via email, by phone at 806-651-2983, or in person at his office in the Killgore Research Center, Room 184. The application process for our 2012-2013 program is closed. The guidelines below will be left for your perusal until they are replaced by the 2013-2014 guidelines in the summer of 2013. KILLGORE FACULTY RESEARCH CHOOSE ONE OF THE NEXT TWO, ACCORDING TO YOUR DISCIPLINE: 1) KFR Traditional Research Proposal and Assembly Instructions and Samples (PDF) 2) KFR Creative Arts Proposal and Assembly Instructions and Samples (PDF) FOLLOWING THE ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS, DOWNLOAD AND COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING: 1) KFR Coversheet, Research Narrative, Bibliography, and Budget Justification (WORD) 2) KFR Budget (EXCEL) FOR LATER USE: 1) KFR Final Report Form (WORD) GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CHOOSE ONE OF THE NEXT TWO, ACCORDING TO YOUR DISCIPLINE: 1) GSR Traditional Research Proposal and Assembly Instructions and Samples (PDF) 2) GSR Creative Arts Proposal and Assembly Instructions (PDF) FOLLOWING THE ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS, DOWNLOAD AND COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING: 1) GSR Coversheet, Research Narrative, Bibliography, and Budget Justification (WORD) 2) GSR Budget (EXCEL) FOR LATER USE: 1) GSR Final Report Form (WORD) For the 2012-2013 competition, there were 5 faculty awards and 12 student awards. FACULTY AWARDS Health Profile Differences between Sport and Exercise Science Majors and Nursing Majors: A Pilot Study Michelle Bartlett, Helen Reyes, Heidi Taylor - $1,345 Inflammatory Responses Indicative of Discomfort Following Castration of Beef Cattle John Richeson - $4,960 Hedonic Price Analysis: Cutting, Reining, and Cow, Horse Stallion Fees Mallory Vestal - $3,872 Heat Transfer Performance of Green Roofs in West Texas Climate Roy Issa, Kenneth Leitch - $4,790 Scandal and the Creation of Textual Community in Meiji Japan Paul Clark - $5,000 STUDENT AWARDS Eutrophication Reduction through Biodiesel Production Chris Topliff - $3,436 Luxembourg Archival Research Maureen Hubbart - $2,766 Potential Influence of Clay Slickensides on Subsurface Contaminant Migration Joshua Brownlow - $3,500 A Behavioral and Morphological Investigation of North American Solifugid Families Jen Rowsell - $3,480 Large Format Screen Print with High School Students Courtney Lang - $3,039 Landscape Genetics of Mesocarnivores on the Llano Estacado in Texas Imogene Davis - $3,500 Development of Multiplex Real-Time PCR of Bovine Respiratory Disease Pathogens Heidi Villalba - $3,482 Genetic Variation of River Cooter: genus Pseudemys Billy Pope - $3,498 Quantification of nagE Expression in Vibrio furnissii Sarah Brown - $3,441 Observation of Chemoresistance Using a Novel In Vitro Assay Alexandra Muniz - $3,500 Comparative Economic Analysis of Irrigation Systems in Texas Panhandle Oladipo Obembe - $2,500 Genotoxic Effects of Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Commonly Used Pesticides on the Texas High Plains William Mimbs - $3,496 |