{"id":4224,"date":"2014-07-22T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:54:18","slug":"grants-gain-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2014\/07\/22\/grants-gain-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Grants gain ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">How can you better predict the weather on Earth\u2014or in space? Why do elementary students learn the way they do? And what makes one person attracted to another?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Augsburg faculty and students are committed to asking difficult questions and seeking equally complex answers. Each year, the College\u2019s faculty, staff, and students apply for\u2014and receive\u2014prestigious grant awards to fund research, continued scholarship, and academic travel opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">There\u2019s tough competition among grant-seeking institutions, but Augsburg continues to gain ground and to obtain funding for new projects. That\u2019s because when Auggies recognize an opportunity to improve teaching, advance scholarship, or enhance the student experience, they ask another great question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Why not?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p7\"><strong>Here\u2019s a brief overview of Augsburg\u2019s recent grant achievements:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Augsburg ranks as top-tier NSF grant recipient.<\/strong> Augsburg College was ranked the top private college in Minnesota for the total dollar amount awarded by the National Science Foundation in 2012. With three grants totaling just more than $1 million, the College ranked third among all Minnesota institutions\u2014behind only the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of Minnesota-Duluth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Participation grows across campus.<\/strong> More and more departments and groups are seeking grants as a way to enhance students\u2019 educational experience, to build the hands-on problem-solving skills employers and graduate schools demand, and to propel Augsburg\u2019s research scholarship to the next level. This past year, 13 academic departments and groups\u2014up from just seven departments the previous year\u2014submitted grant proposals, including:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biology<\/li>\n<li>Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>History<\/li>\n<li>Interdisciplinary Collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics<\/li>\n<li>Management Information Systems<\/li>\n<li>Nursing<\/li>\n<li>Physics<\/li>\n<li>Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Social Work<\/li>\n<li>Sociology<\/li>\n<li>STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Faculty steer student involvement.<\/strong> Tremendous faculty dedication is part of the mix, too. More than 50 faculty and staff members are the driving force behind the College\u2019s 38 active grants. These teachers coach and guide 324 students in rigorous research related to climate change, human health, understanding addiction, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you better predict the weather on Earth\u2014or in space? Why do elementary students learn the way they do? And what makes one person attracted to another? Augsburg faculty and students are committed to asking difficult questions and seeking equally complex answers. Each year, the College\u2019s faculty, staff, and students apply for\u2014and receive\u2014prestigious grant <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-summer-2014"],"wps_subtitle":"Funding enhances the Augsburg experience","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10148,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/10148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}