Previous Recipients

$400     Science Self-Study Resources in the Library     Jan Benjamin, Brian Shmaefsky, Jimmi Rushing, and Anne McGittigan
This grant will provide additional access to microscopes and slides for Anatomy & Physiology, General Biology, and Microbiology students.  The library will house purchased microscopes, slides, and charts for in-house check out.   Because of the additional hours the library is open, this plan offers greater access to students.  Future purchases are planned.

$250     Design-a-thon   Jason Ford and Donna Monteferante
This project will provide Kingwood Visual Communication students an opportunity to get ‘real world experience’ and service learning credits by offering area non-profits FREE graphic design services.  Ten or twelve students will participate in this one day Design-a-Thon, lasting from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.  The grant will help provide food for the students.  Jason and Donna are hoping this will be an annual event.  Jason reports that six non-profit organization have already signed on to have flyers, brochures, logos, posters, and even a CD cover created.

$500     Children’s Art Series.   David Ragsdale, the Visual and Performing Arts Department, and the English Faculty
The money for this grant will help buy supplies and food for participants in The Children’s Art Series.  Elementary and middle school children will  participate in a musical performance, hands-on art projects, an Interior Design session called I Hate My Room, and more.  The group’s primary goal is to enrich the minds of the children who participate by demonstrating and offering hands-on opportunities in the visual and performing arts.  A long term goal is to promote the artistic offerings and reputation of Lone Star College-Kingwood.  David and group want to ‘plant the informational seed’ about how diverse the college programs are.

$750     20th Anniversary of Lone Star College-Kingwood Oral History    Peggy Lambert
This grant will pay for a Web Designer to coordinate and create a website to house the oral history interviews of Peggy’s History 1302 Honors class.  In this Service Learning project, students will interview founding faculty, administrators, and staff members of Lone Star College-Kingwood.  Results will include a written document and a website containing interviews and photographs.  Students will interview as wells as consult on layout, graphics, and web development.  This project gives students an opportunity to act as historians and will lead to a greater appreciation of the history of Lone Star College-Kingwood.  Several interviews have been completed.

Jan Benjamin and Brian Shmaefsky - $600 - Modern Biology on the Move
This project will provide Lone Star College-Kingwood biology students with a service learning activity working with elementary school children. Kingwood Students will learn training techniques for working with children. K-5 Grant money will help buy supplies for college student led science workshops.

Mary Johnson - $500 - Project Dress Up
Many of our graduates go out into the world armed with a degree or certificate, but have nothing to wear during the interview for new jobs. Mary Johnson will coordinate an effort by Introduction to Computers Honors students to create and manage Project Dress Up, a room where students can get proper clothes and other assistance in the job interview process. (Watch for requests for suits and other proper interview attire.)

Debra Moore and Brian Shmaefsky - $250 - Project for the Hearing Impaired and the Sciences
This project will provide currently unavailable educational equity for hearing impaired students in biology and the allied health courses. Moore and Shmaefsky will develop new sign language symbols for teaching complex terms and concepts in biology for which specific terms do not exist. Grant money will pay for video supplies.

Steve Davis - $500 - Rock 'n Roll
Bring a local group to the campus to play and talk about their music careers.

David Ragsdale, English Professor - $895 for creating a display area within the library.  This will include a showcase for rare books, publications created by our faculty, and other special collections.

Mari Omori, Art Professor - $632.29 for creating a mural in the KC Café.  This mosaic-effect mural will be designed and executed by three design and drawing classes and will remain in the KC Café as a permanent piece of art.

Steve Davis, History Professor - $250 for a Punk/Alternative Rock concert featuring the Downtowns and the Fatal Flying Guilloteens.  These popular local bands include two Lone Star College-Kingwood graduates and two current students.  Music can help to bridge the gap between students and faculty, and incorporated into the curriculum of many courses.

Mari Omori, Asso. Professor of Art - $433.40 for supplies for the KC Café Mural Project. The mural was designed and painted by an entire class in a collaborative fashion. It is now on permanent display in the KC Café.

Lee Topham, Math Professor - $500 for supplies to build a bridge connecting the Evan’s Gully Trail and the Old Bus Trail. The trail will be a four mile loop once the bridge is completed. Much of the work will be done by Eagle Scouts under Lee's supervision.

Link Hullar, History Professor - $350 for a presentation on the Hidden Animals of Texas. This presentation, by Chester Moore, noted authority on Texas wildlife, will be open to all Lone Star College-Kingwood students as well as the public and will be videotaped for broadcast on the Lone Star College-Kingwood station.

Todd Miller, Music Professor - $420 to transport students selected for the Chamber Singers on a performance tour during the Spring 2003 semester. This tour would improve the students’ musical skills and promote Lone Star College-Kingwood’s reputation.

James Lance Frazior, Adjunct Instructor in Art -  $575 to purchase equipment for a slide taking workshop.  In this workshop, students and faculty will learn to take portfolio quality slides, and the equipment will remain available for future students.

Ron Jones, Drama Professor - $925 toward the production of the musical, Gypsy.  A musical of this magnitude is a big step forward for Lone Star College-Kingwood, involving the community as well as students in the summer drama course.

Donna Monteferante, Assoc. Professor of Graphic Arts - $500 toward the creation of an Interactive CD showcasing the technology department's high-tech programs and labs.  As a new initiative, this CD will be a prototype for other programs to replicate.

Marie Weichman, Art Instructor - $200 for materials for two ceramic benches to be constructed in her ceramic art class. These benches will become permanent public art displayed on the Lone Star College-Kingwood grounds.

Lee Topham, Math Professor - $400 for observation lookouts, benches and brochures for the Nature Walk from Sorters Road to the San Jacinto River. This Trail will make Lone Star College-Kingwood grounds more accessible to our students and the community, and is an asset to the Biology classes.

Margaretha Johnson, CIS Technology Asso. Professor - $500 for MOUS Certification for Adjunct Technology Instructors. This certification process will allow instructors to explore new and different approaches to achieving tasks using MS Office 2000 or XP and teaching students different and creative ways of working with the applications.

Debbie Adams, Marketing & Management Professor, and Vida Davoudi, Political Science Professor - $900 for the International Awareness Series. This series brings the whole student body, faculty and staff together to celebrate diversity and increase multicultural awareness.

Lee Topham, Math Professor - $500 for supplies to build a two-mile nature trail from Sorters Road to the San Jacinto River.  Lee plans to get local environmental groups to help with construction of the trail.  The trail will include signage and observer look-out locations, and loop back to the college property.

Rebecca Riley, Art Professor - $800 for materials for a Raku Kiln and a guest instructor.  Rebecca plans a three-day workshop in April to build the kiln with the help of ceramics students, local art teachers, and a Texas artist whose specialty is raku kiln construction and firing.  Once the kiln is built, it will remain in place for future students.

Ron Jones, Drama Professor - $500 to produce a musical, Ruthless!  Ron plans to include the talents of Lone Star College-Kingwood students, residents of the surrounding communities, and local theater professionals.  He will include a workshop for local high and middle school students.  Performances of Ruthless! will run fron April 26 - May 5.

Marc Nekhom, Computer Technology Professor - $500 toward the purchase of a network-ready laser printer for network technology students.  The printer will enable Novell and Windows students to learn state-of-the-art network management.  Marc is planning a summer workshop using this technology.

Denise Matos, Academic Advisor - $300 to support "LaNoche de Latinos – la educacion para su vida” (Latino Night – The Education for your life). Denise plans a major promotion for the Hispanic population concerning the importance of education. Denise will work with Una Voz members and student services to provide a speaker during a special evening focusing on our Hispanic community.

Donna Monteferante, Asso. Professor, Computer Graphic Arts - $600 to purchase a digital video camera for student projects in the Graphic Arts / Multimedia department. The department wants to provide students with equipment that meets industry standards. This camera will allow student work to transfer successfully from the learning environment to air time on KC3TV.

Peggy Lambert, Professor, History - $300 to pay a web designer to assist students with an Internet research project for History 1302, focusing on the changing roles of women during World War II. Peggy’s class emphasizes women and family. Creating a web site will provide an enhanced experience for students.

Todd Miller, Professor, Music - $300 to support the Kingwood Chorale and Chamber Orchestra in their interactive concert for the community entitled “Mozart Young and Younger.” The program is designed to educate the community, especially the young, about Mozart and 18th century Viennese Classicism.

Steve Davis, Professor, History - $500 to support his attendance at the Educator’s Institute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. The institute demonstrates ways to integrate rock and roll into the curriculum. Institute lecturers are some of the finest scholars currently working the area of popular culture studies. Steve will teach History 2341, The History of Rock and Roll, in the fall.