OAR Report 2019

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A C A D E M I C R E S E A R C H

200 Years of Discovery and Inquiry

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP ................................................................. 2

Our mission is to encourage and support Norwich

VERMONT GENETICS NETWORK: A PROFILE .................................. 10

faculty and students to undertake original research,

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP .............................................................. 13

scholarship and creative projects, and to promote

APPRENTICE GRANT PROGRAM ................................................... 16

We strive to:of their results at all levels within the exchange

· Support faculty and students in their pursuit of extramural (sponsored) grants, scholarships, and fellowships · Support undergraduate research and the Undergraduate Research Program · Support the Honors Program

academia so as to contribute to global knowledge and further enhance our academic reputation.

RESEARCH CENTERS ................................................................... 19 EXTRAMURAL GRANTS AND CONTRACTS AWARDED IN FY19 .......... 23

· Support the Research Centers

ACADEMIC RESEARCH BY THE NUMBERS ..................................... 24

“For 200 years, exploration, leadership, and scholarship have been central to Norwich University’s mission. Inquiry, research, and creative engagement–in essence, asking novel questions to better understand the world around us is what makes Norwich unique among other institutions of higher learning.

There’s a natural synergy between inquiry, research and academic achievement, and the core values and characteristics at Norwich. Our faculty members and the students they mentor in research and creative works are true explorers.”

—Karen Hinkle, PhD, Associate Provost for Research and Chief Research Officer

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Stephan Wolfert’s “Cry Havoc!”

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FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

BY THE NUMBERS “The collaborative relationship of building the blueprint when creating

5 books published 8 faculty on Independent Study Leave (sabbatical) 12 juried creative works (exhibits, poems, plays, etc.)

dramatic plays is what drew Casey to playwriting and theater. ‘I think theater is crucial for Norwich,’ Casey said. ‘Part of it is just the students want something to do and something that’s a little different

Stephen Wolfert, a retired US Army medic and infantry officer, left a career in the military for a life in the theatre after seeing Shakespeare’s Richard III. Combining his own personal story of leaving the army and pursuing a career in the arts with Shakespeare’s writings on war, he created the solo piece “Cry Havoc!” which he has performed worldwide. It won a Berkshire Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play for its Shakespeare & Co. production and Wolfert received an award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor.

On November 30, 2018, the Pegasus Players hosted Wolfert for a performance of “Cry Havoc!” in Mack Hall Auditorium.

from what they’re doing otherwise.’”

—The Norwich Guidon, Oct. 27, 2017,

by Jim Black, “Pegasus players get a new theater director.”

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25 extramural grants awarded totaling $2.3M 32 peer-reviewed manuscripts or book sections 197 national/international conferences attended by faculty

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“No matter where they are working, our faculty serve as models of teacher-scholars striving to enrich their fields, the university, and their students’ intellectual lives.”

—Lea Williams, PhD, Coordinator, Faculty Development Program

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Laurie Grigg, PhD Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Science Laurie Grigg was awarded $132,000 RII-Track IV grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support her research on insights into the impacts of climate change on Vermont lakes.

“I’m writing about education in early America, and this [Norwich] is an institution that taught kids in early America,” Boonshoft says. “The questions I’m interested in about citizenship, about a republican government, and how it works, are at the very heart at what occurs at Norwich: training citizen soldiers and great leaders.”

—Excerpted from “Auspicious Beginnings,” by Diana Weggler, The Norwich Record, Summer 2018

Mark Boonshoft, PhD Assistant Professor, History Board of Fellows Faculty Development Prize, 2018-19 for his project, “The Rise and Fall of ‘Monarchical’ Education and the Making of the American Republic.”

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Grigg analyzes sediment cores from the bottom of a central Vermont lake in order to reconstruct how the aquatic ecosystems have responded to climatic changes during the last 10,000 years.

“Lake sediment, which accumulates in layers at the bottom of lakes through time, provides an opportunity to investigate the dynamics between past climate change and aquatic plant growth over longer time-scales and to gain insights into how aquatic ecosystems will be impacted in the future by climate change.”

Dr. Grigg and Dr. Elizabeth Gurian (Justice Studies and Sociology) received the Office of Academic Research Awards in Mentoring for 2019.

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Lasha Tchantouridzé Professor and Director, Master of Arts of Diplomacy and International Relations Publications: Tchantouridzé L., 2018, The Black Sea question in Russo-Turkish relations, Ali Askerov (Ed.) Contemporary Russo-Turkish relations: From crisis to cooperation, New York, NY: Lexington Books. p. 125-156.

“What does ‘modern’ mean? What is ‘religion’ and how may churches, mosques, or temples (and the people worshiping therein) relate to the surrounding world? What do we make of religious buildings that are emphatically modern as well as designed to express religious identity?...As a researcher I find these challenges thrilling.

When I teach would-be architects the history of their field, I am doing more than providing background context or an important component of professional literacy. I am also trying to convey something about the nature of the world in which they will be practicing.”

Timothy Parker, PhD Assistant Professor, Architecture + Art Parker’s work is supported by two curriculum development grants from Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC). Together with Associate Professor of History Emily Gray, Parker is the recipient of a curricular Campus Innovation Grant from IFYC, a leading national organization advancing interfaith understanding in higher education.

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Tchantouridzé L., 2018, Contending policies of Russia and Turkey: The Syrian crisis, Ali Askerov (Ed.), Contemporary Russo-Turkish relations: From crisis to cooperation, New York, NY: Lexington Books. p. 45-64.

“My research addresses contemporary Russo-Turkish relations. Within the last few years, these two countries have gone from close cooperation to violent conflict and back … my findings have confirmed the hypothesis that conflict and cooperation are not mutually exclusive in international politics.

Research and scholarship are necessary to stay relevant in my field, as the environment of international politics changes very fast, and without being engaged with current developments and trends, one cannot remain relevant in the discipline.”

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“I try to impress on the students that the words they read were written by other human beings. This doesn’t mean buying into what used to be called the ‘biographical fallacy’—the belief that what’s in a creative work necessarily represents the author’s own life—but it does mean having an awareness that writing is work that is done by people, and those people who do it struggle to succeed— artistically, financially, personally—just like everyone else. As do I. The fact that I can present myself as not only a teacher but as a working writer is all to the good.�

“I co-taught an interdisciplinary course on Literature and Criminal Justice for our Honors Program‌It was an amazing experience, yet one that is limited at Norwich as team-teaching has not been integrated into the curriculum. When I learned of this grant, I thought it would be the perfect way to begin a conversation about institutional support for teamteaching and a means to increase the visibility of the Humanities at Norwich.â€? —Amy Woodbury Tease, PhD

Amy Woodbury Tease, PhD Associate Professor of English

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“The End of All Our Exploring [by Brett

Cox] merits not just exploration, T H E Hbut UMANITIES focused scrutiny of its very vivid foray into American places, history, culture, childhoods, literature, music, psychic phenomena, and a host of other EXPLORING • DEFINING • DEVELOPING national obsessions.�

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Amy Woodbury Tease, Associate Professor of English, and Brian Glenney, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Connections PlanningPGrant R OJECT to create the Norwich Humanities Initiative (NHI).

Together with faculty from all the academic undergraduate colleges, the NHI team designed interdisciplinary courses on the theme of resilience.

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What is a Charles A. Dana Professor? Funded by the Charles A. Dana Foundation since 1974, this program supports the recruitment and retention of full-time professors with widely recognized scholarly attributes and a high level of teaching DEFINING & DEVELOPING competence.

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Dr. Brett Cox was awarded the Dana Professorship in 2018.

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V E R M O N T G E N E T I C S N E T W O R K : A

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2018-2019 VGN Award Recipients Brian Glenney, Assistant Professor, Philosophy – $5,000: “Heading off Helmet Interventions for Injury Prevention in Skateboarding” Joe Latulippe, Associate Professor, Mathematics – $75,000: “Mathematical Model for the Effects of Amyloid Beta on Calcium Regulation” Megan Doczi, Associate Professor, Biology – $25,000: “Pharmacological Isolation of Kv1 Channels During Hypothalamic Development”

Since 2005, Norwich has received approximately $5.7 million from the National Institutes of Health-funded Vermont IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence. In that time, 18 faculty members from biology, biochemistry, chemistry, engineering, nursing, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, and physics have received a total of 31 Project Awards, 21 Pilot Awards, and 12 Small Awards.

In addition, 24 undergraduate student researchers have received VGN funding for their research and to present at national conferences. Many other students collaborate on faculty members’ VGN projects with funding from the Undergraduate Research program or the NU Apprentice Grant program.

Tom Shell, Assistant Professor, Chemistry – $75,000: “Tissue Penetrating Photopharmaceutical to Head and Neck Cancers” Allison Neal, Assistant Professor, Biology – $5,000: Course release for Trematode Sequencing Method Refinement 10

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“The Undergraduate Research Program is part of Norwich’s ongoing dedication to enhancing and advancing a culture of research and collaboration. It provides rich, impactful, and transformative experiences that empower our undergraduates to view themselves as scholars. Students emerge from research experiences with fresh perspectives and a drive to ask more questions, to take more risks and to discover something new and meaningful in their field of study.“ —Amy Woodbury Tease, PhD, Norwich University Undergraduate Research Program Director

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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP

BY THE NUMBERS

5 Weintz Research Scholars 8 Norwich University Summer Research Fellows 26 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant

recipients totaling $16,700 in awards

16 Faculty/Student Apprentice Grant Teams (FY19) 20 Extramurally-Funded Student Fellowships

(Vermont Genetics Network, National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, NASA, WheelPad)

62 Oral & Poster Research Presentations at

the Student Scholarship Celebration

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Summer Research Experiences “It’s kind of a two-edge sword where I hopefully one day get to help millions of other people that face cancer, but it also allows me to prepare myself for my future endeavors.”

Vermont Genetics Network • At University of Vermont: Warren Yacawych VGN at-large student (Baliff) - Biology

—Excerpted from Stephen Mills, “NU student to present cancer research in DC,” Times Argus, April 24, 2019.

• Molly Alfond (Joe Latulippe) - Mathematics • Tom Wagner (Joe Latulippe) - Mathematics Norwich Undergraduate Research Fellow Angela Moore

• Mallory Dutil (Tom Shell) - Biochemistry

NASA

Undergraduate Research Fellowships

• Brendan Fraser (Danner Friend) - Mechanical Engineering

Weintz Research Scholars (and mentors):

• Kaitlyn Brielle King (David Feinauer) - Electrical Engineering

Anissa Garnsey (Gregory Jancaitis) - Athletic Training

• Heather Peterson (Danner Friend) - Mechanical Engineering

Elizabeth Gregory (Matthew Thomas) - Neuroscience

GenCyber (Huw Read and Matt Bovee)

Colter Sheveland (Thomas Shell) - Biochemistry

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Research Fellows (and mentors): Angelina Coronado (Mark Stefani) - Psychology Jillian Fortunati (Nadia Al-Aubidy) - Civil and Environmental Engineering Adam Loeffler (Richard Dunn) - Geology Michael Menn (Daniel Sagan) - Architecture Angela Moore (Addie Armstrong) - Mathematics Dillon Zites (Thomas Shell) - Biochemistry

Hannah Hughes - Mechanical Engineering Julia Munroe - CSIA Matthew Wright - CSIA Niklos Musial - CSIA Ryan Jasmann - CSIA

Dillon Zites ’20 Posters on the Hill, Washington, D.C. Dillon Zites ’20 presented his medical research on improving cancer treatments at the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Posters on the Hill event in Washington, D.C., on April 29-30, 2019.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Tom Shell mentored Zites’ research.

Says Zites, “I started working with him, and as the days went by, he mentored me in the whole process…He’s been allowing me to take his research and what he’s already learned and make it my own.”

WheelPad (Ed Schmeckpeper) • • • •

Aran Hird - Architecture Emmanuel Adu - Construction Management Gloria Patterson - Construction Management Robert Hood - Civil and Environmental Engineering

National Science Foundation (Karen Hinkle)

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• Kathryn Albretsen - Biology • Jacob Markwood - Biology

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“Creating the curriculum and delivering the lessons [to non-speakers of English] made me a better teacher. But it also gave me this experience with selfmanagement and project management that I don’t think I would have gotten anywhere else.”

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A P P R E N T I C E G R A N T P R O G R A M

—Isabelle Moss ’20

Tara Kulkarni, PhD

Elizabeth Ells ’19

Associate Professor

Apprentice

“Because the apprenticeship is like a job, and not an exercise for academic credit, students approach it differently…they’re often more invested in what they’re learning and bringing to the table.”

—Huw Read, PhD

What do serial killers, storm water, and smart appliances have in common? All three comprise just a small sampling of topics recently explored by teams of faculty and students as part of NU’s Apprentice Grant Program. Funded by the Provost Chase Scholarship Initiative, Apprentice Grants seek both to support faculty productivity and to engage students in high-impact learning experiences that prepare them for professional life.

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RESEARCH CENTERS

BY THE NUMBERS

• $7.3M announced by Senator

Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to fund cybersecurity interdisciplinary initiatives

• 250 people, including academics,

professionals, government officials, and community organizers attended the 2019 Resilient VT Conference to collaboratively advance Vermont’s progress toward building sustainable communities

“Our three Research Centers are individually and collaboratively making deep and transformative impacts not only in student and faculty engagement at Norwich, but on the global stage…It’s been a thrill to see how deeply engaged Norwich students and faculty are in helping understand and even develop solutions to real-world challenges.”

• 8 Norwich students awarded $20K in Olmsted

Overseas Cultural Immersion Fellowships to travel to Israel to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict firsthand

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Norwich University Research Centers

Norwich University Center for Advanced Computing and Digital Forensics Norwich University students provided cybersecurity support to Levi’s® Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., during the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship played on Monday, January 7, 2019, between the University of Alabama and Clemson University.

“The CGRS vision for the Dog River Conservancy is a gathering of these people, their voices, and dreams, to be true stewards of the water and land…We hope to capitalize on Norwich University’s hallmark leadership and experiential learning platforms and use this generous funding from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to engage our students, and neighbors, in a research-driven education and outreach effort, that allows us to share, preserve, and enhance the natural richness of this region.”

—Tara Kulkarni, PhD, PE, Director, CGRS

“The 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship was an overwhelming success, in a significant part due to the Norwich University team” said Huw Read, Director of NUCAC-DF. “George Silowash and the Norwich undergraduates worked seamlessly to secure the Levi’s® Stadium network and ensure a safe environment for college football’s biggest game.”

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CGRS presented “Environment, Climate, and National Security: Turning the Tide for a More Secure Planet”. The panel featured retired Army Chief of Staff General Gordon R. Sullivan ’59, Bill Lyons ’90, Casey Bertram and Paul Kostecki.

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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced a $499K Army Energy Resilience contract to CGRS and Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) to work with U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory to develop an energy-resilience research track to include issues of cybersecurity.

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CGRS received $9,900 from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to establish the Dog River Conservancy to promote protecting water resources and ecosystems.

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• The 2018 inaugural Peace and War Summit focused on North Korea’s nuclear and missile challenges.

• The Journal of Peace and War Studies (JPWS) aims to promote and disseminate high-quality research on peace and war throughout the international academic community. The inaugural issue, published in March 2019, seeks to provide policy makers with in-depth analyses of contemporary issues and policy alternatives. JPWS is an annual peer reviewed journal.

E X T R A M U R A L G R A N TS A N D C O N T R A C TS AWA R D E D I N F Y19 1. Kahwa Douoguih DOE - SBIR (Prime: Introspective Systems, Inc.) Amount: $12,912.75 Title: A Fractal Graph Approach to Peer-to-Peer Energy Transactions

8. George Springston VT Dept of Environmental Conservation Amount: $69,500 Title: Geologic and Physical Hazard Mapping of the Huntington quadrangle

2. Brian Glenney VGN Amount: $5,000 Title: Heading off Helmet Interventions for Injury Prevention in Skateboarding

9. Richard Milius 2019 Pittsburgh Conference Grants Program Application Amount: $10,000 Title: Magritek Spinsolve Carbon 60MHz Benchtop NMR Instrument

3. Joe Latulippe VGN Amount: $75,000 Title: Mathematical model for the effects of Amyloid beta on calcium regulation 4. Megan Doczi VGN Amount: $25,000 Title: Pharmacological Isolation of Kv1 Channels During Hypothalamic Development 5. Tom Shell VGN Amount: $75,000 Title: Tissue Penetrating Photopharmaceutical to Head and Neck Cancers

• Olmsted Foundation: Overseas Cultural Immersion Since 2005, the Olmsted Foundation has granted PAWC $20,000 to support the Peace and War Center’s Overseas Cultural Immersion Trip to Israel. The grant fully funds several Norwich students who are on a ROTC commissioning track to travel abroad. Students speak in person to the people and visit the places that illustrate a relevant international conflict.

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6. Allison Neal VGN Small Award Amount: $5,000 Title: Course release for Trematode Sequencing Method Refinement 7. Stewart Robertson IIE-Project GO Amount: $178,062.83 Title: Project Global Officer (Project GO) program for ROTC students

10. Huw Read NSA – GenCyber for Advanced High School students Amount: $85,889.30 Title: Norwich University Advanced Cyber Forensics Training Camp for High School Students.

11. Huw Read NSA – GenCyber for High School students Amount: $84,660.56 Norwich University Information Security and Cyber Forensics Training Camp for High School Students 12. Tara Kulkarni VT Lake Champlain Basin Program Amount: $9,999 Title: Dog River Conservancy Outreach 13. James Graves VT Department of Labor Amount: $15,000 Title: Secondary and PostSecondary Internship Program 14. Phil Susmann DoD Cyber Scholarship Program (CySP) Amount: $905,762.06 Title: DoD Cyber Scholarship Program (CySP)

15. Phil Susmann/ Tara Kulkarni DoD - Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Amount: $499,000 Title: Development of an Energy Track within the Norwich University Center for Global Resilience and Security 16. Stephanie Maass Virginia Department of Corrections/George Mason University Amount: $29,904 17. Amy Woodbury Tease/ Brian Glenney NEH Amount: $35,000 Title: The Humanities as Agents of Resilience: Developing an Interdisciplinary Co-Instructed Curriculum to Foster Citizen Scholars 18. Tim Parker/Emily Gray InterFaith Youth Core Grant Amount: $4000 Title: Advancing the Leadership Practices for Interfaith Excellence 19. R. Danner Friend NASA Space Grant Amount: $10,000 Title: Norwich University Space Grant 20. Ed Schmeckpeper WheelPad LC3 XL Amount: $24,154.75 Title: Construction of a WheelPad prototype: A universally accessible modular addition to existing home.

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ACADEMIC RESEARCH

BY THE NUMBERS

NU Research: Global in Character (5) International Faculty Research Conferences (30) International Student Research Conferences

Broad Impacts of Norwich Research Undergraduate Research Travel Totaled

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Extramurally Funded Student Fellowships (Vermont Genetics Network, National Security Agency, National Science Foundation, NASA, WheelPad)

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Undergraduate Research Travel Grant Recipients

“Our faculty and students, through their scholarly and creative work, are establishing global connections to build international awareness, cultural agility, and diverse points of view as a cornerstone of our democracy” —Sandra Affenito, PhD, Provost & Dean of the Faculty

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