Recent/Current SDSU College of Nursing Faculty
Grants, Contracts and Projects

• Sandra Bunkers, Project Director. Advanced Education Nurse Traineeships. Funding Source (2006-2007, $42,847): USDHHS, HRSA, Division of Nursing. 
   

• Sandra Bunkers. Project Director. MaryLou Mylant: Project Director; Marge Hegge: Internal Evaluator.  New PhD Program for Nurse Scientists. Funding Source (2005-2008, $753,622): USDHHS, HRSA, Division of Nursing. 
   

• Nancy Fahrenwald, Principal Researcher.  Sharing the Gift of Life:  A Multi-State American Indian Tribal College Intervention to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation.  Principal Investigator:  Christine Belitz, Executive Director, SD Lion’s Eye Bank.  Funding Source (2006-2009, $449,129): USDHHS, Division of Transplantation.
   

• Nancy Fahrenwald, Principal Researcher.  A Culturally-Competent Intervention to Increase Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation on South Dakota Indian Reservations.  Principal Investigator: Christine Belitz, Executive Director, SD Lion’s Eye Bank. Funding Source (2003-2007, $454,000): USDHHS, Division of Transplantation. 
   

• Nancy Fahrenwald and Howard Wey, Co-Investigators. (Principal Investigator, Bonny Specker). National Children’s Study, Vanguard Site for the Four County Area of Brookings Co., SD; Pipestone Co., MN; Yellow Medicine Co., MN; and Lincoln Co., MN. Funding Source (2005-2010, $13.1 million):  USDHHS, National Institutes of Health (NICHD, NIEHS), the CDC and the EPA.
   

• Nancy Fahrenwald, Principal Investigator.  Outcomes of the South Dakota Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.  Funding Source (2006-2007, $30,000): SD Dept. of Health, flow-through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
   

• Nancy Fahrenwald, Principal Investigator, with Roxanne Lucchesi (Journalism and Advertising) and David Davis (Economics), Co-investigators. Outcomes of the South Dakota Tobacco Cessation QuitLine.  Funding Source (2005-2008, $169,747):  SD Dept. of Health. 
   

• Marge Hegge, Project Director. Sandra Bunkers: Project Coordinator; Lois Tschetter: Faculty; Thomas Stenvig: Cultural Competency advisor and faculty. Statewide Project to Prepare Nurse Educators. Funding Source (2005-2008, $773,077): HRSA Division of Nursing.
   

• Barbara B. Hobbs, Principal Investigator,  Carter Kirk (SD School of Mines and Technology), Co-investigator.  The Effectiveness of Exercise and Naps as Countermeasures to Night Shift and Post Shift Sleepiness.  Funding Source (2006-2007, $30,000):  University of Iowa, Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety and CDC.
   

• Amy Jones and Venita Winterboer, Trainees.  Three-Day Intensive Training on Simulation. Funding Source (2006-2007, $3,400): South Dakota State University, Office of Academic Affairs. 
   

• Cristina Lammers, Project Director. Kendra Kattlemann, Thomas Stenvig, Implementation of the South Dakota Diabetes Prevention and Control Plan (DPCP). Funding Source (2007-2008 $83,934.00). SD Dept of Health
   

• Thomas Stenvig, Project Director, Susan Rosen, Project Manager and Academic Advisor, and Janet Lord, Undergraduate Nursing Liaison. Wokunze: Life Pathways in Nursing. Funding Source (2003-2008, approximately $1,400,000).USDHHS, PHS, Indian Health Service.

• Haifa Samra, Principal Investigator. Reexamining the Child Vulnerability & Protection Scales. Funding Source (2007-2008, $30,158.00)