An Evaluation of the Mandatory Drought Responses in Georgia, Focusing on Water Utilities
Analyst Hyun Jung Park   Timeframe 3/1/2008 to 2/28/2009

Due to continuous extreme weather conditions, North Georgia has suffered drought since 2007. During the drought, the Georgia government imposed mandatory drought responses and encouraged conservation practices among water utilities. The purpose of this study was to help improve the performance of water conservation and the effectiveness of drought responses by providing better understanding and analytical explanations of the drought responses. Through both qualitative and quantitative analyses, this research attempted to evaluate the performance levels of water conservation and identify key determinants. This research also explored how the Georgia water utilities complied with the mandatory drought responses, whether through self-improvement or customer-relations approaches. [Read More]

Sponsored by the Georgia Water Resources Institute

Doctoral Dissertation Research: International Collaboration and Research Capabilities
Doctoral Student Gonzalo Ordonez    Advisor Susan Cozzens    Start Date May 1st, 2007   NSF Award No. 0647126

Recent trends show that Colombian R&D performance is rapidly improving as compared to countries of similar economic characteristics in the region. This is presumably the result of two 'mega trends' characterizing the Colombian Science and Technology System: 1) the rapid professionalization of the R&D enterprise as materialized by the formation of research teams with the support of the Colombian government and the elite research institutions, and 2) the internationalization of its scientific community specially since the 90s after the opening of the economy to foreign trade. The purpose of this Science and Society Dissertation Improvement Grant is to provide funds for data collection that will contribute to the understanding of the ways international research collaboration can affect local scientific and technological capabilities as reflected by the performance of research teams in Colombia. [Read More]

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

Research Sample Profiling
PI Alan Porter   Start Date January 1st, 2007   NSF Award No. 636174

In this SGER proposal, the investigators propose to do some extensive research profiling on education research projects supported by ROLE, EREC, and the REESE program. [Read More]

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

U.S-European Commission Collaboration: Policies for Research and Innovation
PI Cozzens, Susan E.    Start Date September 1st, 2004   NSF Award No. 0409992

This two-year award supports US-European cooperative research activities on policies for research and innovation involving Susan Cozzens of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Philippe Laredo of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (ENPC) in Paris, France. The PI and US colleagues will participate in activities of a European Union Network of Excellence, "Science and Technology in the Knowledge-Based Society," called PRIME. Their participation is expected to lead to collaborative research. [Read More]

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation