Senate Scholarly Activities Committee announces awards The Senate Scholarly Activities Committee received five research/creative activity grant applications, requesting a total of $9,832.20, and six publication applications, requesting a total of $3,350.00, in response to the October call for proposals. The following awards were made at the committee meeting. Research/Creative Activity Awards * Carenlee Barkdull (social work), “Qualitative Investigation of Practice Courses Offered Through Distance MSW Program,”$650 * Patricia Conway (Center for Rural Health), "Identifying Factors that Contribute to Student Career Paths: Expansion of Program to Track Outcomes of Students Participating in INBRE,” $1,709 * Frank Cuozzo (anthropology), “‘Dental Ecology’ of Madagascar’s Extinct Lemurs: Evidence of Evolutionary Disequilibrium?” $1,390 * Turk Rhen (biology), “Localization of Gene Expression Within Developing Gonads During Sex Determination,” $2,500 * Marcellin Zahui (mechanical engineering), “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Distributed Wing Vibration Sensors,”$2,500 Publication Awards * Sandra Donaldson (English), $832.85 * David Flynn (economics), $133.26 * David Lawrence (philosophy and religion), $523.03 * Patrick O’Neill (economics), $399.77 * Department of Art faculty, $677.83 * Ryan Zerr (mathematics), $224.87 -- Patrick A. Carr, Ph.D., Chair, Senate Scholarly Activities Committee, Anatomy and Cell Biology, pcarr@medicine.nodak.edu, 701/777-2576