• First in The World Grant- FIPSE, “Triple Crown Transformation of Excellence: The University Tapestry” (submitted, June 23, 2015, academic co-lead).
• DOD, Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant, “Kentucky State University S.C.O.R.E. Project for Concussion Education and Awareness” (submitted February 12, 2015, leadership team, unfunded).
• National Science Foundation, Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE) grant pre-proposal: “CREST Center for Interdisciplinary Forensic Research and Justice Studies” (submitted November 7, 2014 – Co-PI - unfunded).
• National Science Foundation LSAMP, grant proposal: “Broadening Participation of Minority STEM Students through Research Opportunities at Kentucky State University” (submitted October 17, 2014
• Kentucky Department of Education, Doctoral Data Fellowship Program, (data analyst consultant).
• National Institute of Health, Grant Proposal: “Advancing Biomedical Education Through Research Based Project/s for Minority Students at Kentucky State University, a Historical Black College and University” (Submitted May 10, 2013 – Co-PI: unfunded).
• National Institute of Justice, Grant Proposal: “Cognitive, Perceptual, and Physiological Processes in Forensic Document Examiner Authorship and Process Decision Making” (Submitted April 1, 2013 – co-PI: unfunded).
• Department of Educational Title III proposal, “Advancing Psychology and Related Fields” (Submitted February 15, 2012 – PI-unfunded).
• Kentucky Academic of Sciences, “Judicial Perceptions of Procedural Justice and the Use of Court Appointed Experts” (Submitted November 16, 2011 –Co-PI-Unfunded).
• National Science Foundation, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program Proposal: “Bringing Behavioral & Social Science Students out of the Twentieth Century” (Submitted April 6, 2011 – PI-unfunded).
• National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation Grant proposal, “Development of the Interdisciplinary Behavioral & Social Sciences Research Center.” (Submitted January 27, 2011 - CoPI - unfunded).
• National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Proposal: Procedural Justice and Judicial Use of Court-Appointed Experts.” (Submitted January 15, 2011 - Co-PI - unfunded).
• National Institute of Justice, Grant Proposal: “Validity, Reliability, Accuracy, and Bias in Forensic Signature Identification.” (Fall 2010 – Co-PI, $457,000).
• NCIPC/Center for Disease Control Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury: “Facilitating resiliency in urban schools: A multi-leveled intervention focused on educational and social climate change.” (January 2010-unfunded).
• University of Missouri-Kansas City, Faculty Research Grant proposal, Examination of the differences in students' sense of belonging across tertiary settings. (unfunded due to leaving).
• National Science Foundation, GK-12 Grant Proposal, Engineers Communicating Mathematics in the Classroom (E=MC2) project, Co-PI. Submitted Fall 2006. Resubmitted May 2007. (unfunded).
• H.R. Block Scholars Program Evaluation. September 2006 – May 2007 (Co-PI, $15,000).
• University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Nursing, Human Patient Simulation Curriculum Evaluation. January 2006- May 2008 (Co-PI, Summer funding).
• University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Education, Institute of Urban Education pilot teacher education program evaluation. August 2006 – May 2008t. (PI, community service)
• Technology Enhanced Active Physical Science for Middle School Teachers grant. May 2006 – May 2008 (funded collaborator).
• University of Missouri-Kansas City, Faculty Research Grant proposal, Examination of the relationships between multiple measures of resiliency and the instructional climates present in freshmen level college classes. Fall 2005, Spring 2006 – unfunded.
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