Grant Awards
Barbara Boone: SPDG Family & Community Engagement for Early Language and Literacy FY22 $100,000
Barbara Boone: Coordination of Regional Family-Community Engagement Network: IDEA Parent, Community, and Educator Collaboration FY 22 $141,948
Richard Bruno: Integrated Collaborative Studies Between Drexel University and The Ohio State University to Improve Gut and Liver Health in a Mouse Model of Atherosclerosis $115,580
Rachel Kopec: The Role of Micronutrient Encapsulation in Influencing Bioaccessibility and Intestinal Cell Uptake $69,487
Bridget McHugh: Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center $85,085
The Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center supports publicly-funded two and four-year colleges with programs in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R), controls, building automation, and energy/facilities management. Sponsored by Advanced Technological Education grants from the National Science Foundation, this national collaborative promotes state-of-the-art building technician education and dissemination of the latest research, technology, and industry collaborations in energy efficient buildings. This work involves creating a certification scheme and an assessment for a “technical level” of certification in High Performance Building Operations (HPBO), as well as providing a recommended passing score by performing a rigorous standard setting process. The assessment content will focus on the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to manage modern buildings that permit substantial cost savings and efficiencies (e.g., water/energy consumption, environmental quality, safety-health) when operated under the supervision of qualified professionals.