Grants Office

2022 GRANTS

Benedictine University encourages the efforts of faculty members and departments to secure funding for research and special projects that enhance teaching, learning and campus initiatives through grants and contracts. Grant funds received from governmental agencies, corporations and private foundations provide the University, its faculty, staff, students and community with program opportunities not ordinarily funded by the University budget.

• National Endowment for the Humanities
  Rafael. Iglesias, PhD – Creation of Undergraduate Minor in Spanish for Mental Healthcare for Psychology Majors
• National Science Foundation – ADVANCE
  Lee Ann Smith, PhD – Gender Leadership, Equity and Support
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  Kaveh Hemmat, PhD – Khataynameh (“Book of China”) Translation Project
• US Department of Justice – Office of Violence Against Women
  Peter Huff, PhD- Enhancing Awareness and Streamlining Education of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Date Violence and Stalking
• US Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  Catherine Arnold, PhD – Multicultural Scholars Grant Program
• Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation
  Sandra Gill, PhD – Schmitt Scholars Future Leaders, Outstanding Programming Award
• The Cuneo Foundation
  Adrian Gonzalez – Cuneo Foundation Scholarships
• The Council of Independent Colleges
  Greg Ott, PhD – NetVUE – Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education
• Illinois State Library
  Sarah Kurpiel – Expanding Digital Inclusion
• Interfaith Youth Core
  Peter Huff, PhD – Healing and Belonging
• American College Health Association
  Marco Masini – Campus COVID-19 Vaccination and Mitigation (CoVAC) Initiative
• Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
  Annie Lin, PhD – Cancer DietAssist App

Benedictine University collaborates with other institutions of higher education and organizations:

• National Institute of Health
  With Northwestern University
  Annie Lin, PhD – EAT – Reliable Eating Assessment Development and Testing of a Mental Health Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating

• US Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA)
  With Vidant Edgecombe Hospital
  Christopher Duffrin, PhD – Rural Health Project Evaluation

• Indiana Department of Natural Resources
  With Loyola University
  Leigh Anne Harden, PhD – Survey Copperbelly Water Snakes in Northern Indiana
• National Science Foundation
  With Occidental College
  Anthony DeLegge, PhD – Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics – CURM mini Grants
• National Science Foundation
  With Elmhurst College
  Lee Ann Smith, PhD – Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways Implementation – ONly Alliance: Promotion of Underrepresented Minorities in Academic STEM PUMA-STEM