The European Union Center at the University of Missouri encourages multi-disciplinary research on the European Union and its concomitant institutions. In order to facilitate this end, the Center offers a number of grants to faculty and international scholars to encourage the production of original, scholarly research that produces publications or other creative accomplishments.

EU Starter Grant

Call for Proposal

EU Starter Grant Winners

Call for Proposal:


The European Union Center at the University of Missouri - Columbia, founded in 1998, announces a competition to assist faculty members interested in forming research, exchange or training partnerships with colleagues anywhere in the 27-member nations of the EU.

Eligibility: Any faculty, full or part-time, currently working on the Columbia campus, regardless of rank, tenure status or discipline may participate. Awardees will be considered fellows of the Center and receive its support in their projects.

Funding: Starter grants for a maximum of $3,500 are intended to be used for travel by either an MU participant or EU colleague or to fund preliminary work leading to a funding proposal to support further work by the partners.

Obligations: Faculty awardees will be expected to:

1) Make a presentation on their project as part of a series of informal brown bag luncheon seminars sponsored by the EU Center.

2) Write and submit an associated grant or contract application during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Applications: Should be submitted by electronic mail and contain

1) 500-750 word description of the proposed partnership project

2) Estimated budget to be covered by the starter grant

3) Current curriculum vitae

4) Note from the potential EU partner, indicating willingness to participate.

Applications will be reviewed by a committee of the Center's Academic Cabinet.

Deadline for applications: February 15, 2007.

Successful applicants will be notified in time to travel during the winter break in March 2007.

Submit questions and applications to:

Byron T. Scott

Director, European Union Center

57 McReynolds Hall

882-7792

scottbt@missouri.edu

EU Starter Grant Winners

Dr. Johann Bruhn, Research Associate Professor, Division of Plant Sciences
Prof. Jeanne D. Mihail, Director of Graduate Studies, Division of Plant Sciences
Proposal: Truffle Cultivation in North America and Europe

Prof. Edmund B. Lambeth, Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism
Prof. L. Marvin Overby, Professor, Department of Political Science
Proposal: An exchange program between the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Szeged in Hungary, focusing around their respective colleges of arts and sciences, as well as parallel creative and scholarly initiatives within the Missouri School of Journalism.

Prof. Thomas P. Quinn, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Radiology
Proposal: A research collaboration to develop novel radioimaging agents for the cell
surface enzyme ecto-5ĄŻnucleaotidase/CD73.

Prof. Charles N. Davis, Executive Director, Freedom of Information Center; Associate Professor & Chair, News-Editorial, School of Journalism
Proposal: A joint proposal between the National Freedom of Information Coalition and Access Info Europe for a comparative study of United States and EU freedom of information laws, as well as a proposal to fund a conference for EU access advocates.

Prof. Vladislav V. Glinskii, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry School of Medicine
Proposal: Crosstalk between Tumor Cells and Microvascular Endothelium in Hematogenous Cancer Metastasis

Prof. Lanis L. Hicks, Director, Graduate Program in Health Services Management
Proposal: Collaborative Cross-National Research on Health Care Systems. The goal of this proposal is to support faculty exchanges to expand opportunities for collaboration in the development of cross-national projects.

Prof. Laura M. J. McCann, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Proposal: Conduct comparative institutional analyses of agri-environmental policies in the United States and France.

Prof. Josephine Stealey, Sculptor and Professor Art, Department of Art
Proposal: Performance Art: A Collaborative Investigation in the Production of Multi- Media Performances About ManĄŻs Relationship to Nature in the Face of Global Environmental Degradation.

Prof. Jan Andrew Miernyk, Adjunct Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Proposal: How Agricultural Crop Plants Respond to Biotic and Abiotic Stress

Prof. Rose-Marie Muzika, Assistant/ Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, School of Natural Resources
Proposal: Developing attainable goals for restoration by quantifying natural communities and land use change in the Czech Republic.

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