Recent Grants
The Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) has awarded Bentley two grants from two different programs. A four-year $200,000 grant from the U.S.- Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program focusing on undergraduate student exchanges has been awarded to Associate Provost of International Relations Nader Asgary, Professor Hans Thamhain and Associate Professor Joao Resende-Santos. In addition, a four-year $408,000 grant from the Atlantis Program has been awarded to Bentley, beginning September 1, 2007. Bentley will be involved in an effort to implement a four-year dual degree program by undergraduates at Bentley, Tilberg University in the Netherlands, and the University of Deusto in Spain. A second grant is being awarded to Tilburg University to support the efforts of the European schools. The project team includes Associate Provost Nader Asgary and Professor Mary Ann Robert.
The National Science Foundation has funded M. Lynne Markus, John W. Poduska senior professor of information management, for her project entitled “Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Information System Integration Through Industry-wide Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas.” This is a three-year grant of $252,208 starting July 1, 2007. Collaborating institutions are the University of Little Rock and Michigan State University.
Bentley College was the recipient of two research grants from PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of its first-ever PwC INQuires program, established to assist faculty and PhD students seeking
to increase the knowledge base that contributes to the practice of auditing and tax. Jean Bedard, Timothy B. Harbert professor of accountancy, and PhD student Kimberly Westermann received
a grant for their research entitled “Remediation of Internal Control Material Weaknesses.” A separate grant was awarded to
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi, John E. Rhodes professor of accountancy, William Read, professor of accountancy, and PhD student Kowadwo Asare for the project “Expanding Auditors’ Knowledge of Detailed Corporate Governance Factors Associated with Financial Fraud and Restatements.” Bentley received two of the thirteen grants awarded for 2007.
The Internal Revenue Service awarded Mark Nixon, associate professor and chair of the Accountancy Department, an additional grant of $93,000 to continue offering a long-standing Lower Income Taypayer Clinic during calendar year 2007. This program supports Bentley students to work under faculty guidance in order to provide free information to qualified individuals who seek help in complying with IRS income reporting requirements.
The National Science Foundation awarded Patricia Flynn, trustee professor of economics and management and David Schwarzkopf, associate professor of accountancy, a two-year award of $164,361 in September 2006. Their project is titled “Assessing State Science and Technology Reports: Lessons for Benchmarking Technology-based Economic Development.”
Funded by the Office of Health and Human Services, Children’s Hospital Boston awarded $43,336 to William Gribbons, professor of information design and corporate communication. His one-year project, beginning September 1, 2006 is titled “Health Literacy and Information Management in ADHD: Designing an Optical Record.”
Funded by a grant from the National Endowment of Humanities, North Carolina State University awarded Professor of English, Dennis Flynn, a $40,500 subaward. He will be working on “Letters of John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography.”
The National Science Foundation awarded Jane Fedorowicz, Rae C. Anderson Chair in Accountancy, a $458,413 grant for a three-year project which began on January 1, 2006. The project is titled "Collaborative Research: Design Principles for Effective Interorganizational Public Safety Response Infrastructures" and was awarded through the NSF Information and Intelligent Systems grant program. Christine Williams, professor of government, and M. Lynne Markus, John W. Poduska Senior Professor of Information Management, will serve as co-principal investigators along with a third co-principal investigator from Pennsylvania State University who also received a grant for the project.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded Professor of Management Joseph Weiss a $15,000 grant. The Contemplative Program Development Fellowship will fund his project, “Embedding Contemplative Practices into the Bentley College Curriculum,” supporting faculty interested in incorporating innovative methods into their teaching, such as quiet meditation, mindfulness in the creative process, and centering prayer. Joe plans to run three workshops over the course of the year offering faculty opportunities to learn how to build contemplative practices into their syllabi.
The National Endowment of Humanities has awarded a 12-month contract begining August 2005 to Joyce Malcolm, professor of
history, to serve as the Director of the Division of Research Programs. She will oversee the granting of Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards that support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contribute either to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.
The Institute for Women in Leadership awarded several grants, funded in part by the Patrina Foundation, to several Bentley faculty members. In April 2005, grants were awarded to Ruth Spack, Susan Adams for her RFP entitled “Study of Women and the CFO Role” that she is working on with Patricia Flynn; and the team of Atul Gupta, Susan Adams and Dominique Haughton for their RFP entitled, “An Analysis of Gender Differences in Executive Compensation.”
The National Science Foundation awarded Roland Hubscher, assistant professor of Information Design and Corporate Communication, two multi-year collaborative grants in August 2004. His $1.9 million IERI (Interagency Education Research Initiative) grant is a five-year collaboration between Bentley, University of Wisconsin, University of Connecticut, and Kansas State University. His $435,000 NSDL (National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library) grant is a three-year collaboration between Bentley and the University of Wisconsin.
The Davis Educational Foundation awarded Bentley a $204,320 three-year grant to support a new Arts and Sciences initiative: “Inspiring Intellectual and Civic Engagement: Integrating Liberal Learning Across the Business School.” For more information, click here.
The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Consumer Protection Division awarded a grant for the 16th consecutive year to the Bentley Consumer Action Line (BCAL). BCAL is operated on campus through the Law department and Bentley Service-Learning Center. For more information, click here.
