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Four West Virginia Institutions To Receive Grants From WV EPSCoR
released: 12/08/03
West Virginia Wesleyan College is one of four local institutions receiving funding from the WV EPSCoR Instrumentation Grants Program, and is hosting the award presentation in Spring 2004.

Representatives from WV EPSCoR, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, Instrumentation Grants Program will be presenting awards to four area institutions: Davis and Elkins College, Glenville State College, Salem International University and West Virginia Wesleyan College.

The EPSCoR Instrumentation Grant is available to natural science and engineering faculty from all two- and four-year colleges in West Virginia except West Virginia University and Marshall University. The EPSCoR program, initiated by the National Science Foundation and supported by the state of West Virginia, directs research funding to states that do not receive as much research funding as other states.

Dr. Steve Johnson, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dr. Jeffrey Simmons, associate professor of biology and environmental science, were awarded $14,000 to purchase scientific instruments to improve ion chromatography systems. Ion chromatography refers to analytical instruments that are efficient at separating and determining ions in solutions. The new instrumentation will be combined with an electrochemical detector and ion chromatography columns that Wesleyan acquired in 1999 through the WV EPSCoR Instrumentation Grant program.

Davis and Elkins College’s Dr. Michelle Mabry was awarded one of two EPSCoR Innovation Grants given annually to a private college or university. Mabry received $27,000 for Implementing Undergraduate Research and Research-Based Experimental Systems into the Biology Curriculum.

Dr. Loralyn Hilton-Taylor of Glenville State College was awarded $14,000 for Undergraduate Research Experience in Environmental Science and the Little Kanawha Watershed Education and Research Center.

Dr. Bruce Edinger—Salem International University was awarded $14,000 for Instructional Enhancements in SIU’s Bioscience and Mathematics Programs.

For more information on the EPSCoR Instrumentation Grants Program, go to www.wvepscor.org.