{"id":9532,"date":"2012-09-13T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T02:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=9532"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:11:15","slug":"research-and-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/research-and-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2014\/04\/sartec2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2014\/04\/sartec2.jpeg\" alt=\"sartec2\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Augsburg\u00a0University has been successful in securing grants and funding from a wide array of government and public funding sources, including the U.S. Dept. of Education, National Institute of Justice, National Science Foundation, Hartford Foundation, and the Kemper Foundation. Augsburg has been ranked consistently as <a title=\"Augsburg Ranks #3 in Funding\" href=\"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2013\/04\/30\/augsburg-ranks-3-in-minnesota-for-nsf-funding\/\">one of the top recipients of funding from the National Science Foundation in Minnesota<\/a>. To find out more about grants and research at Augsburg, visit <a title=\"Grants at Augsburg\" href=\"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/grants\/\">our grants page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Augsburg&#8217;s faculty work with students on a wide range of research projects each year. Faculty and students receive support from the <a title=\"URGO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/\">Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Nanoparticle Student Summer Research Project<\/h2>\n<p>Working with Vivian Feng, associate professor of chemistry, Yemissrach (Yemi) Melka spent a summer studying the efficiency of nano-partials as catalysts within a model chemical reaction.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u202aAugsburg College URGO Summer Research:\u202c Yemissrach Melka\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTB1S2TTC0s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>History Department receives $82,486 for Historyapolis Project<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post-date\"><strong>February 20th, 2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<p>Dr. Michael Lansing, Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, and Dr. Kirsten Delegard, Scholar-in-Residence, were awarded $82,486 from\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">the\u00a0Minnesota Historical Society through the State of Minnesota\u2019s Historical and Cultural Heritage\u00a0Fund\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">for their Historyapolis Project. This is the first time that an academic department of history has received funding from this\u00a0program for such a project.\u00a0<span id=\"more-493\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis currently has no central clearinghouse where citizens can discover the full history of\u00a0the state\u2019s largest city. The Historyapolis Project seeks to remedy this situation. Animated by the\u00a0belief that history is a powerful tool for community-building, this initiative will use digital tools\u00a0to make the city\u2019s history more accessible, catalyzing community dialogue around some of the\u00a0most challenging aspects of the past in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The Historyapolis Project seeks to make Augsburg\u00a0University the leading center for Minneapolis\u00a0history. It also plans to give Augsburg students practical opportunities to do local history and\u00a0learn digital skills.<\/p>\n<p>The award funds cover the cost of one year of research for a team of faculty and student\u00a0researchers. Historyapolis researchers will work work in local and national repositories to gather\u00a0material. The team will share the results of this work through the project Facebook page and website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyapolis.com\">www.historyapolis.com<\/a>. At the end of the year, the project will publish an annotated\u00a0bibliography that will serve as a roadmap for future researchers looking to explore the history\u00a0of the city. The team expects that this document will be used by teachers, students, citizen\u00a0researchers and professional historians looking to explore aspects of the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about this project, please feel free to contact Dr. Lansing at lansing at augsburg.edu or Dr. Delegard at delegard at augsburg.edu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Engebretson and MACCS team receive $425,919 grant from National Science Foundation<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post-date\"><strong>February 24th, 2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The National Science Foundation has awarded a new three-year $425,919 research grant (NSF AGS-1264146) to Augsburg\u00a0University\u2019s Physics Department for continued operation of the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS), a longitudinally-extended array of 8 magnetometers located in Arctic Canada, and for space science research based on MACCS data.<span id=\"more-498\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to funding for field operations and scientific analysis, this new grant will continue to support undergraduate research.\u00a0 Two undergraduate students will work each summer with members of the MACCS team, which includes: Mark Engebretson, Professor of Physics and Principal Investigator; David Murr, Associate Professor of Physics and Co-Principal Investigator; Viacheslav Pilipenko, Visiting Faculty and Co-Principal Investigator; Jennifer Posch, Assistant Scientist; Laura Simms, Physics Research Assistant; and Erik Steinmetz, Computer Science Instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Originally installed in 1992\/93, the MACCS array detects magnetic variations and electrical currents that originate near the boundary between Earth\u2019s magnetosphere and the solar wind and propagate along magnetic field lines that reach Earth\u2019s surface at high latitudes.\u00a0 High time resolution GPS receivers installed at two MACCS sites in the past 3 years augment these magnetometers, and make it possible to study motions of the high-latitude ionosphere.\u00a0 The MACCS array has provided data to space scientists worldwide: \u00a0since 2003, over 50 refereed research papers focusing on the dynamics of Earth\u2019s space environment have used MACCS data or were theoretical studies supported by MACCS grants.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about this project, please contact Mark Engebretson at engebret at augsburg.edu.<\/p>\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/i><i> <\/i><i>This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant\u00a0No. AGS-1264146.\u00a0Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg\u00a0University has been successful in securing grants and funding from a wide array of government and public funding sources, including &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44593,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9532\/revisions\/44593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}