Grants

Searching for ways to engage their students and show the variety of applications for the Communication Studies and Professional Writing degrees at Oregon Tech, associate professors Dr. Franny Howes and Dr. Amber Lancaster created two unique summer research projects. While brainstorming ways to offer their students hands-on opportunities, they developed summer internships opportunities for a gender-neutral pronoun app and a video/print media project.

 

As part of assistant professor and co-director of Professional Writing at Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech), Amber Lancaster, Ph.D., tasked her students to partner with professional clients to pursue funding for a number of community projects. The result of two of those projects amounted to $9,500 in grant funding awarded to the Klamath Falls Blue Zones Project.

Natural Sciences Assistant Professor Dr. Kerry Byrne receives $41,080 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for “Demographic Monitoring of Naturally Occurring Applegate’s Milk-vetch.”

Faculty at Oregon Tech have received more than $700,000 in grant awards since July 1

Working with the Oregon Tech Sponsored Projects & Grants office, Dr. Saber’s work to obtain grant funding has allowed additional research opportunities and applied student project development in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Technology program.