Current Funded Grants

This list includes grants with faculty serving as key personnel in research grants and contracts, program grants, and student assistance grants.

Arends, Robin, Project Director; Nicole Gibson, Project Manager. Rural Telehealth: Enhancing the Academic-Practice Partnership for APRN Education. Funding Source: USDHHS, HRSA, Bureau of Health Workforce. (2015-2018).

Burdette, Linda, Evaluation Director; Victoria Britson, Evaluation Manager. Good and Healthy South Dakota Communities: Utilizing Community-Based Wellness Coalitions to Create Healthy Rural Communities in High Need Counties. Project Director, Suzanne Stluka (South Dakota State University, Program Director for Food &Families Programs). Funding Source: Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014-2017).

Fahrenwald, Nancy, Project Director; Robin Peterson-Lund, Co-Investigator; Howard Wey, Co-Investigator. Culturally Targeted Education on Living Kidney Donation, Principal Investigator, Amy Elliot (Sanford Research, SD). Funding Source: DHHS/NIH/NIMHD. (2012-2017).

Fahrenwald, Nancy, Principal Researcher. A Circle of Learning for American Indians, Education on Living Kidney and Deceased Organ Donor Education, Principal Investigator, Barbara Danielson (Hennepin County Medical Center, MN). Funding Source: HRSA, DoT Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ Donation. (2012 –2016).

Fahrenwald, Nancy, Principal Investigator; Jennifer Kerkvliet, Project Manager. Outcomes of the South Dakota Tobacco Cessation Quitline. Funding Source: South Dakota Department of Health (Recurring).

Fahrenwald, Nancy, Principal Investigator; Jennifer Kerkvliet, Project Manager. Outcomes of the South Dakota Comprehensive Cancer Control Program. Funding Source: South Dakota Department of Health, flow-through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Recurring).

Hendrickx, Lori, Project Director. Nursing Student Retention of Diabetes Knowledge: The Diabetes Camp Experience. Funding Source: South Dakota State University Scholarly Excellence Fund. (2015-2016).

Hobbs, Barbara, Project Co-Director; Robin Peterson-Lund, Co-Director. Wokunze Wicaske Alliance for Native American Nursing Students. Funding Source: Bush Foundation. (2015-2017).

Hobbs, Barbara, Project Director. Native American Nursing Student Emergency Fund. Funding Source: Partnership with Native Americans. (2015-2018).

Hulme, Polly, Principal Investigator. Pilot Study on Self-reported Childhood Sexual Abuse and HPA Axis Regulations in Adults in Residential Treatment for Substance Use. Funding Source: South Dakota State University, Office of Research Assurance and Sponsored Programs, Research and Support Fund. (2015-2016).

Isaacson, Mary, Evaluation Director; Mary Minton, Evaluation Mentor; Polly Hulme, Dissemination Manager; Jennifer Kerkvlient, Evalution Coordinator. South Dakota Cancer Survivorship Program. Funding source: South Dakota Department of Health. (2015-2018).

Isaacson, Mary, Principal Investigator. Wakanki Ewastepikte –Care for our Elders. Funding Source: South Dakota Comprehensive Cancer Control Program. (2015-2016).

Isaacson, Mary, Principal Investigator;Mary Minton, Co-Investigator. Nurse Attitudes Toward Palliative Care Certification: A Rural and Urban Assessment. Funding Source: Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation. (2015-2016).

Isaacson, Mary, Psychometric Evaluation of Hope and Resilience Measures in Native American Youth Wellness: A Preliminary Study. Funding Source: South Dakota State University Scholarly Excellence Fund. (2015-2016).

Kerkvliet, Jennifer, Project Director. Youth Tobacco Survey Administration 2015. Funding Source: South Dakota Department of Health. (2015-2016).

Mennenga, Heidi, Project Director, Linda Burdette, Investigator. Assessment of Tobacco-Free Policy in Healthcare Facilities. Funding Source: South Dakota Department of Health. (2015-2016).

Minton, Mary, Project Director. Jonas Scholar Program. Funding Source: Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare. (2014-2016).

Minton, Mary, Project Director. Jonas Scholar Program. Funding Source: Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare. (2016-2018).

Minton, Mary, Project Director. Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship. Funding Source: USDHHS, HRSA, Division of Nursing. (2014-2016).

Minton, Mary, Project Director. Nurse Faculty Loan Program. Funding Source: USDHHS, HRSA, Division of Nursing. (Recurring).

Minton, Mary, Evaluator. Nurses Leading Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Innovation: Interprofessional Teams Improving Access and Care for the Underserved. Principal Investigator, Gwenneth Jensen (Sanford Health, SD). Funding Source: USDHHS, HRSA, Division of Nursing. (2014-2017).

Mylant, MaryLou, Principal Investigator; Mary Isaacson, Co-Investigator. American Indian Pilot Study on Caregiving, Attachment, and Health of Young Children. Funding Source: Collaborative Research Center on American Indian Health. (2014-2016).

Mylant, MaryLou, Project Director; Heidi Mennenga, Project Manager. Implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Education for Health Professionals in South Dakota. Funding Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2015-2018).

Wey, Howard, Biostatistician. Innovation and Collaboration: Creating a Transdisciplinary Childhood Obesity Prevention Graduate Program. Principal Investigator, Teri Kemmer (South Dakota State University, Health and Nutritional Sciences). Funding Source: USDA/NIFA. (2011-2016).

Wey, Howard, Co-Investigator. Voices for Food: Utilizing Food Policy Councils to Bridge the Gap Between Food Security and Healthy Food Choices. Principal Investigator, Suzanne Stluka (South Dakota State University, Food and Families Program). Funding Source: United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture. (2013-2017).