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Current Funded Grants

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

Federal Grants

Primary (awarded to SDSU College of Nursing)

  • Impacting Models of Practice and Clinical Training for Registered Nurses and Students (IMPACT-RNS).
    • Funding source: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Nurse, Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Registered Nurses in Primary Care (UK1HP31729)
    • Amount Awarded: $2,751,222 (2018-2022)
    • Mennenga, Heidi, project director
  • Nurse Faculty Loan Program.
    • Funding source: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Nurse Faculty Loan Program (E01HP28782)
    • Amount Awarded $102,107 (2020-2022)
    • Mennenga, Heidi, project director
  • SDS-Registered Nurses in Rural and Medically Underserved Communities.
    • Funding source: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Scholarships for Disadvantage Students (T08HP39273).
    • Amount Awarded: $3,250,000 (2020-2025)
    • Emery, Karin, project director
  • Wicozani: A Place of Health and Balance.
    • Funding source: Indian Health Service, Indians into Nursing (NU11IHS0065).
    • Amount Awarded $1,349,364 (2020-2024)
    • Stenvig, Thomas, project director
  • Oyate Owanwaka: New Beginnings for Tribal Students.
    • Funding Source: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) NIFA New Beginning for Tribal Students (2021-7041-35208)
    • Amount Awarded $250,000 (2021-2024)
    • Emery, Karin, project director
  • Culturally Responsive Palliative Care Messaging for American Indians: An Efficacy Trial.
    • Funding source: National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) (E01HP28782)
    • Amount Awarded $401,939 (2022-2023)
    • Isaacson, Mary, co-primary investigator
  • Adapting an Early Palliative Care Intervention for American Indian and Rural Patients with Advanced Cancer.
    • Funding Source: Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
    • Amount Awarded $100,000 (2022-2023)
    • Mollman, Sarah, primary investigator

Sub-award or collaboration (awarded to another college at SDSU or an external entity)

  • Advancing Palliative Care in Northern Plains American Indians.
    • Funding source: National Institutes of Health sub-award from Columbia University.
    • Isaacson, Mary, co-investigator.
  • Advancing Palliative Care in Northern Plains American Indians-COVID funding.
    • Funding source: National Institutes of Health sub-award from Columbia University.
    • Isaacson, Mary, co-investigator.
  • South Dakota Early Childhood Mental Health Collaborative.
    • Funding Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded to SDSU Counseling and Human Development department, College of Education and Human Sciences.
    • Elverson, Cynthia, evaluator.
  • Upper Midwest Palliative Care Education Network.
    • Funding source: NRSA Rural Health Network Development sub-award from Avera Sacred Heart Hospital.
    • Mollman, Sarah, co-project director.
  • PREPARE-RNs: Partnering to Address the Critical Nursing Shortage in South Dakota
    • Funding source: HRSA NEPQR awarded to Avera Health
    • Garren-Grubbs, Theresa, education project director
  • South Dakota State University Foundation
    • Funding source: John T. Vucurevich Foundation
    • Amount Awarded $5280,000 (2021-2024)
    • SDSU Native American Nursing Education Center
  • Black Hills Special Services Cooperative
    • Funding source: South Dakota Department of Health
    • Workwell Mental Health Grant
    • Verley, Patrick, project director