Over the past seven years, CARSCA has provided support for approximately 35% of the proposals received. For the 2015-2016 academic year, 57 proposals were submitted to CARSCA — 18 proposals from the humanities and fine arts, 19 from mathematics and natural sciences, and 20 from the social sciences. 21 proposals were funded, fully or partially, with funding levels ranging from $1200 to $5000. A total of $75,000 was dispersed to the funded projects.
Funded Proposals
Fine Arts / Humanities
- Development of New Work for Percussion, Viola, and Electronics (Spring 2014)
- Visualizing Japanese American Internment and Beyond: The Epic Folk Art of Henry Sugimoto (Spring 2014)
- The Role of Women’s Exile in the Resistance against Dictatorship (Spring 2013)
- A Conversation Between Jazz Trumpet and Tap Dance (Spring 2013)
- On Tiptoe and Maintaining the Pace; An Exploration of Advanced Lithographic Techniques (Fall 2012)
- Shakespeare au/in Quebec (SQ): A Bilingual, Online Critical Anthology (Fall 2012)
Social Sciences
- Hear Here Alabama (Spring2014)
- Building the Inca Imperial Capital: Life and Labor in the Quarries of Cuzco (Peru) (Spring 2014)
- Social, Cognitive and Physiological Predictors of Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence (Spring 2013)
- Boon or Bust? Explaining the Motivations Behind US Free Trade Agreements (Spring 2013)
- Development and Preliminary Validation of a Light Exposure Scale in Older Adults (Fall 2012)
- Tornado Impacts on Home Mortgage Foreclosures Activity in Tuscaloosa County (Fall 2012)
Mathematics and Natural Science
- Does Invasion History Matter to the Establishment Success and Impact of Non-native Species (Spring 2014)
- Jaguar Conservation in Southern Belize: Prospects and Challenges in a Mayan Cultural Ecological Landscape (Spring 2014)
- A molecular construction set: template-directed synthesis of large macrocycles (Spring 2013)
- When are two operators ‘the same’ in a mathematical sense (Spring 2013)
- Design and application of nanoparticle matrices for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (Fall 2012)
- The Role of Dark and Normal Matter in Galaxies (Fall 2012)