As of 9/30/2007

**Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education FIPSE)**

## *FY 2007 United States-Russia Program -- New Grant Awards by Grant Number*

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### P116S070001

**U.S. Lead** **Russian Lead**

Indiana University Southern Federal University

**Total Funding:** \$399,093 (2 years)

**Project Title**: Advanced Russian/English Language Instruction and
Global Health Collaboration

**Project Director:** Dr. Ronald Feldstein; tel.: 812-855-2608; e-mail:
<feldstein@indiana.edu>

**Abstract:**

This consortium will establish a new partnership project entitled:
Advanced Language Learning/Global Public Health. The Indiana University
(IU) -Southern Federal University (SFU) partnership will support U.S.
students in attaining higher levels of Russian language ability and
Russian students in attaining higher levels of English language ability.
The strength of the language-training program will be integrated within
a joint IU-SFU research program focusing on the broad topic of Global
Public Health, a key issue demonstrating the growing interconnectedness
in virtually all aspects of human life. While introducing innovative
practices for instructing students in higher-level foreign language
skills, the program focus on public health will involve IU and SFU
faculty and students from many fields and disciplines such as
environmental science, biology, economics, and political science. U.S.
Department of Education funding will support the exchange of faculty and
students; the development of new foreign language and multi-disciplinary
curricular materials; the use of innovative technologies in teaching;
and the study of Russian language to achieve higher proficiency levels
by Indiana University students in humanities, social science, or natural
science fields.

The project comprises six main parts: (1) a "Global Public Health
Dialogue" course taught by interactive video to U.S. and Russian
students; collaborative student research projects on critical health
issues; dissemination of curriculum, best practices, and joint research
results on the Web; (2) a two-week summer study abroad course on "Public
Health" in Russia for U.S. students; and hosting of students from SFU
for a similar course in Indiana; (3) domain-specific language support
through development by the Slavic language department of two new courses
"Survival Russian" and "Content Russian", related to the two public
health courses listed above; the development of intelligent
computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) materials for Russian; and
dissemination of materials on the Web; (4) introduction of an IU degree
certificate in international health care policy; (5) faculty research
collaboration in a variety of fields related to public health; and (6)
student/faculty working groups, internship/field experience grants, and
language stipends.

**P116S070002**

**U.S. Lead Russian Lead**

University of Maryland College Park Moscow Engineering Physics Institute

# U.S. Partners

Lehigh University

Texas A&M University

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Oakridge National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy

**Total Funding:** \$416,969 (2 years)

**Project Title**: Joint U.S.-Russia Educational Program on Advanced
Energy Technologies

**Project Directors:** Roald Sagdeev; tel.: 301-405-8051; e-mail:
<rzs@umd.edu> ; Walter Sadowski; tel.: 240-838-2680; e-mail:
<sadowskiwl@comcast.net>

**Abstract:**

The University of Maryland and its U.S. partners will collaborate with
the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) on the development of a
joint United States-Russian Federation (RF) educational program in
advanced energy technologies.

The two-year consortium will develop common curricula and teaching
methods for the training of nuclear engineers. The management of the
project will be Internet-based. The consortium will send U.S. faculty
members to work with MEPhI faculty to transfer U.S. instruction and
student testing methods to the Russian Federation's educational system.
The consortium, in turn, will host MEPhI faculty members to observe U.S.
teaching and testing methods at U.S. universities. Distance learning
will be stressed to foster closer collaboration between the two
educational systems. Two U.S.-RF workshops are proposed to provide
feedback on the progress and problems encountered in the course of the
project.

Two training courses at U.S. national laboratories will be given to RF
students. The courses will give the consortium partners the opportunity
to judge the value of jointly developed curricula.

**P116S070004**

# U.S. Lead Russian Lead

University of Iowa Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics

# U.S. Partner

University of Northern Iowa

**Total Funding:** \$358,726 (2 years)

**Project Title**: Preparing Bilingual Cadres for the New Global
Economy: A Russian -- U.S. Initiative in Specialized Foreign Language
Training and Mathematics and Science Education

**Project Director:** Margaret Mills; tel.: 319-335- 2848 or
319-353-2206; e-mail: <margaret-mills@uiowa.edu>

**Abstract:**

This consortium will design and implement an innovative program to
bolster international cooperation through the mutual exchange of
advanced language students and expert teachers; increase the number of
U.S. professionals with specialized, advanced Russian language
proficiency; and foster greater understanding of U.S. values abroad by
creating new, advanced English-language modules for Russians studying
U.S. economics, education, and business. This consortium project
directly advances international teaching and learning with the following
activities: (1) the design and delivery of semester language modules to
University of Iowa (UI) and University of Northern Iowa (UNI)
undergraduates (non-Russian majors) at home institutions to achieve
professional proficiency in Russian for science and mathematics,
economics, and business; and (2) an intensive two-week seminars on
mathematics and science education, economics, and actuarial science by
UNI faculty (in English) held in Moscow for Plekhanov faculty and
undergraduates with parallel intensive two-week seminars offered by
these same faculty for selected Plekhanov undergraduates to study at
UNI; (3) the delivery of two-week seminars by Plekhanov faculty in
business, economics, risk management, and science and mathematics
education (in Russian) for UI and UNI undergraduates at Plekhanov; and
(4) an intensive two-week seminar for Plekhanov faculty teaching
content-based courses in statistics, mathematics, economics, and
business at Plekhanov (in English).