Senate Scholarly Activities Committee awards funds The Senate Scholarly Activities Committee received three publication grant applications requesting $4,876.60, and four research/creative activity grant applications, requesting a total of $8,175 in response to the February call for proposals. The following awards were made at the committee meeting in February. Publication awards * Mark Jendrysik (political science and public administration), $821.60 * Steven Light (political science and public administration), $1,000 * Min Wu (biochemistry and molecular biology), $645 Research and creative activity awards * Frank Cuozzo (anthropology), "Using Stable Isotopes to Assess ‘Ecological Disequilibrium’ in Madagascar," $2,475 * Kathleen Coudle King (English), "Attend Performance of St. Bette’s," $900 * Richard Van Eck (teaching and learning), "Design and Psychometric Properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Scale," $2,500 -- Patrick A. Carr, Ph.D., Chair, Senate Scholarly Activities Committee, Anatomy and Cell Biology, pcarr@medicine.nodak.edu, 701/777-4278