Office of Grants & Contracts Newsletter

May 2013

LCSC Office of Grants & Contracts

(208) 792-2460

www.lcsc.edu/grants

grantsoff@lcsc.edu

Grants at a Glance

New grants FY13: $3,646,388 (45)

Open grants: $7,325,195 (75)

*Figures provided in Grants at a Glance represent awarded

dollars whether the grant is single or multi-year. Paid dollars

are not reflected. In some cases, a grant will award a certain

amount of the total award per year; in those cases we reflect

the paid dollars instead of the total awarded dollar amount.

Closed out grants are removed from the final figures. If you

would like more in-depth information on a certain grant,

please send us an email.

Follow Your Bliss

This month’s newsletter acknowledges the invention, innovation, and ingenuity of our grant projects, their

personnel, and the positive impact they make at LCSC. Without the clever maneuvering of resources, our

adept faculty and staff, and keen eyes trained on possible funding sources, many of the services and

positions at LCSC would be severely limited or non-existent.

The Project Profile in this issue features Professor Bill Perconti’s latest project, Dragon. Through

ingenuity and determination, Prof. Perconti has financed several professional development projects

using grant funds, fundraising performances, and now a Kickstarter campaign. (pg. 3)

FY13 Grant Stats provides a breakdown of the ways grant funds support LCSC. For instance, of the

45 grants awarded in FY13, 27 provide personnel funding and/or support. (Many grants involve

more than one project type category.) (pg. 4)

This issue’s Items of Interest present a small selection of inventors and inventions throughout

history with links, pictures, and bits of information included to inspire and kick-start creativity.

(pp. 5 & 6)

The Grants Office applauds these efforts, and is available to provide the advice, support, and technical eyes

to assist with these projects that make our institution an asset to our students and community.

Requests for Proposals “We build but to tear down.” - Nikola Tesla

National Trust Preservation Funds National Trust for Historic Preservation

Deadline: June 1

FY13 University Center Economic Development Program Economic Development Administration

Deadline: June 17

Audience Engagement Grant Open Society Foundation

Deadline: June 18

Developmental and Learning Sciences National Science Foundation

Deadline: July 15

Science for Sustainable and Healthy Tribes U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Deadline: June 25

Social Action Project The World We Want Foundation

Planning Program and Local Technical Assistance Program Economic Development Administration

Various Funding Opportunities National Institute of Justice

The Pollination Project

Project Profile:

Music Patronage By Bill Perconti,

LCSC Professor of Music

From the state funding of the Greek and Roman cultures,

to the Church patronage of the Renaissance and

Baroque, to the financial support of nobility of Classical

and Romantic styles, and the addition of sources from

private grants and higher education since 1900, funding

for the Arts and Fine Arts Music has always been a part of

the profession. For saxophonist and LCSC Professor of

Music Bill Perconti, funding for his eleven compact discs

stretching back to 1994 has come from many sources.

The most numerous of these are twelve Faculty

Development Grants from LCSC. These grants support

faculty projects related to non-commercial research that,

for Perconti, has been the exploration into world-

premiere recordings of modern music. Since his

recordings are found on independent record companies,

Perconti has relied on a variety of financial sources to

meet the sponsorship required of such companies. The

record labels which have produced these recordings

include the largest independent record companies such

as Albany, Centaur and Crystal records. These companies

advertise and market the CDs worldwide, and have made

their recordings available on mainstream on-line sources

as well.

Other funding sources for Perconti’s CDs have included

the Bossak-Heilbron Foundation of NY, the Washington

Artist Trust, the Idaho Commission of the Arts (with his

pianist Kay Zavislak), the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (with composer Elena Ruhr), and the National

Endowment for the Arts. The latter grant, a Music

Recording Grant from the NEA, is no longer available, but

at the time was the most competitive grant of the NEA.

For his newest CD project,

Perconti is drawing on one of the

most notable recent additions to funding

for the arts: Kickstarter. His recent CD Dragon

contains solo and quartet world-premiere recordings

performed by him and the Alloy Saxophone Quartet. The

title piece “Dragon” has been described by composer

Joseph Waters as “Charlie Parker meets George Gershwin,

Super Mario Bros. II, and Lady Gaga.”

(Click on the picture to visit the Dragon Kickstarter page)

Kickstarter is a platform where artists run campaigns to

fund creative projects by offering rewards to raise money

from backers. Kickstarter has been recognized by such

news sources as The NY Times, CNN, and Time Magazine.

To complete the Dragon CD, funds are needed to pay for

the sponsorship fee of the independent recording

company. Depending on the amount and timing of the

donation, donors can receive free CDs and have their

names listed in the CD booklet. Perconti’s project on

Kickstarter is the first of its kind for the Lewiston/Clarkston

valley. Dragon will be open to donations until May 31.

The Kickstarter project was produced in partnership with

LCSC and its talented personnel, with Executive Producer

Sarah Reaves, Video Director Jason Goldhammer,

and Morgan Berg of the LCSC Graphic Design/Printing

Technology.

Visit the LCSC Music Program website to learn more

about the Music Program and Bill Perconti’s projects.

State, $825,085

Federal, $2,403,876

Foundation, $18,335

Other, $399,092

FY13 dollars by funding

source

Academic Programs Prof-Tech Programs Community Programs Student Services

FY13 dollars $477,177 $876,903 $1,802,229 $490,079

FY13 grant dollars by division

Personnel Costs 35%

Operating / General Support

13%

Service 11%

Student Support 7%

Conference 5%

Contracted Services

5%

Instructional Activity

5%

Materials / Supplies

5%

Training 4%

Event 3%

Exhibit 3%

Facilities / Equipment

3% Professional Dev.

1%

Other 14%

FY13 grant support by type

FY13 Grant Stats

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful?

He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.

Who is that? Nobody.” - Benjamin Franklin

Items of Interest

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does

not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”

- Mary Shelley

The comeback kid of the 21st century, Nikola Tesla, is now considered one of the most brilliant pioneers of electrical and mechanical engineering. His ventures into wireless energy transmission (aka the Tesla Effect), and other inventions (around 300 patents filed), has earned him the awe and respect of modern day scientists and a devout online following.

Some Inventors

Some Inventions

The Corpus Clock (or Grasshopper Clock) at Corpus Christi College in England, was hailed as the one of Time magazine’s best inventions in 2008. A tribute to traditional clockmaking, the clock itself is only accurate once every five minutes – a commentary on the perception of the passage of time. Seeing the clock in motion is both mesmerizing and unsettling, as can be the feeling of time itself.

Together with composer George Antheil, Hedy Lamarr invented a frequency hopping device that proved a boon to the US military.

Similar to the Theremin (think the high-pitched sound in “Good Vibrations”), the Moog synthesizer was used by the Beatles and, mostly famously, Switch-On Bach. Still in wide use today, the Moog continues to evolve and influence the musical landscape.

Her initial idea, to spread signals over several frequencies, continues to benefit to this day. Although revered for her Hollywood career as a screen siren, her legacy now defines her as a brilliant mathematician and inventor ahead of her time.

Items of Interest

“We have to continually be

jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the

way down.” - Kurt Vonnegut

This odd cog to the right

is a hypothesized

representation of the

Antikytherian Mechanism,

found off the coast of

Antikythera and believed

to date from the 1st or 2

nd

century B.C.E. It’s

believed to have served

as an astrological

computer.

Inventions from Antiquity

o Daedalus (“clever worker”) is prominent in

many Ancient Greek myths, the most

famous of which told of his tragic escape

with his son, Icarus.

o The Creators Project aims to inspire and

fuel innovations into art and technology.

o Enchanted Learning provides online

education materials for K-12 classrooms,

and boasts an impressive list of inventions

and inventors.

o U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

o U.S. Copyright Office

o 6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in

Science Fiction (contains strong language

and college humor)

The Viking sunstone has

been popping up in the

news lately; after three

years of research, it seems

the properties of the

crystals would have

allowed for solar

navigation on cloudy days.

Further Reading

Zhang Heng – astronomer,

mathematician, scholar,

statesman, artist, etc. –

invented the first

seismometer. This device

was extremely accurate and

enabled the Han

government to send aid and

relief to regions impacted by

an earthquake.