Stauffer-Flint Hall, home of the School of Journalism

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

NEW HEALTH COMMUNICATION GRANTS

Rick Musser is PI on a $106,000, 3-year grant from the Kansas Health Institute (2007-09): “Midwest Health Journalism Program.” A consortium of six health foundations in Kansas and Missouri provided funding for reporter training to improve the depth and amount of coverage on critical state and local health issues.  Musser’s team will evaluate the annual fellowship project and its results. 

Mugur Geana is PI on a $7,600 grant from the New Faculty General Research Fund Program, University of Kansas (2007-08): “Identification of Key Communication Channels/Messages for the Efficient Delivery of Health-Related Information to the Baby-Boomers Generation.”

Barbara Barnett is PI on a $500 research grant, the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Scholarship, from the Commission on the Status of Women, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2007-08): “Good Sports? A Feminist Framing Analysis of the Duke Lacrosse Crisis.”

NEW RISK COMMUNICATION GRANTS

David Perlmutter is Co-PI on a $227,000 grant from the KU Transportation Research Institute (2007-08): “Driver Safety and the Boomer Dilemma: ‘Advanced Driver Training’ as Addressing the Attention Challenge.”

David Perlmutter is Co-PI on an $180,000 grant from the KU Transportation Research Institute (2007-08): “Improving Highway Workzone Safety.”

David Guth is PI on a $65,514 grant from the KU Transportation Research Institute (2008-09): “Nationwide Study of the Effectiveness of State Emergency Management Agency Web Sites.”

Mugur Geana is co-PI on a $82,538 grant from the KU Transportation Research Institute (2007-08): “Driver Safety and the Boomer Dilemma: A Pilot Study for Advanced Driver Training.”

OTHER NEW COMMUNICATION GRANTS

David Perlmutter is PI on a $9,200 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (2006-08), as part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education: “Can Blog Usership Increase Newspaper Readership?”