Sponsored Research and
Internal Projects
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Room Schedule, internal project, Computing and Information
Technology, University at Buffalo, 2000; developed a database
to schedule rooms for events.
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Connections, internal project, Computing and Information
Technology, University at Buffalo, 1999-2000; created a database
to track logins at public computing sites, via residence hall connections,
and via dialin connections; resulting reports and graphs are displayed
on the web.
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Workshops, internal project, Computing and Information
Technology, University at Buffalo, 1999-2000; redesigned an existing database
to record and display workshop registrations.
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ListServ support, internal project, Computing and Information
Technology, University at Buffalo, 1999; developed a database
to generate ListServ instructions; developed a Perl script
for automating some of the tasks required to set up a ListServ.
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ITS Booking System, internal project, Computing and Information
Technology, University at Buffalo, 1997-98; revised an existing database
to provide greater flexibility in report generation.
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ResNet, internal project, Computing and Information Technology,
University at Buffalo, 1997; developed a PC-based database
to track Residence Hall Network connections.
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25E Implementation, internal project, Computing
and Information Technology, University at Buffalo, 1995-96, with continuing
maintenance responsibilities; coordinated replacement of paper methods
of space scheduling by 25E; participated in all subcommittees of the 25E
Implementation Group; act as 25E Manager for the University; manage the
development of local software to supplement the 25E software; provide user
training; create and maintain all campus profile data sets; this system
was released in 1996.
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Resource Reporting System, internal project, Computing and
Information Technology, University at Buffalo, 1989-96; managed the design
and development of software and command procedures to monitor the use of
the institution's computing resources; the system provided for substantially
automated collection, aggregation, analysis, and archival of data from
a variety of sources, on a monthly basis.
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Computing Use and Needs Assessment, jointly sponsored by
University Computing Services and Office of the Provost, University at
Buffalo, 1989-90; designed and managed a census of staff, faculty, and
graduate students, regarding both their students' and their own use of
computing, and their anticipated future needs.
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On-line VAX Cluster Users Survey, internal project, University
Computing Services, University at Buffalo, 1986; designed, implemented,
and analyzed data from an on-line survey of a sample of users of the University's
VAX cluster; the survey was designed to assess satisfaction with the services
provided by University Computing Services.
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Survey of Peer Institutions, internal project, University
Computing Services, University at Buffalo, 1982; designed, implemented,
and analyzed data from a survey of computing center directors in selected
major universities, focusing on funding sources and resource allocation
methods.
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Project Coordinator, Attitudes Toward the Nuclear Waste Issue,
U.S. Department of Energy, through the Environmental Studies Center, University
at Buffalo, 1979; coordinated sampling, instrument design, interviewer
training, data entry, and analysis.
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Study Coordinator, Survey of the Needs of Older Adults in Niagara
County, Niagara County Office of the Aging, 1978-79; coordinated
survey design and sampling.
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Co-Principle Investigator (with Dr.
Peter Greenwald), Acquaintance Network Studies, National
Institutes of Health, through the New York State Department of Health,
Bureau of Cancer Control, 1971-78; designed and directed two similar studies
in which the acquaintance group of non-ill controls; developed solutions
to special sampling and file management problems; developed several methods
of analyzing network data.
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Study Coordinator, Further Development of a Model Process for Incorporating
Perceptions of Environmental Quality and Problems into Local and Regional
Planning, Rockefeller Foundation, through the Environmental Studies
Center, University at Buffalo, 1977-78.
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Study Director, Evaluation of SUNYAB Student Health Insurance Program,
Central Administration, University at Buffalo, and Sub-Board I, Inc., 1977.
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Project Director, Development of a Shoreline Ownership Mailing List
for Western New York State, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo
District, 1977; designed data collection form and directed data collection
and data entry.
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Project Director, Fair Jury Study, National Jury Project,
New York, 1974-76; analyzed data from a survey of voters in Erie County
to assist the defense attorneys in the Attica cases in jury selection.
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Co-Project Director (with Dr.
Raymond G. Hunt),
Erie-Niagara Area Survey, multiple
sponsors, 1975; directed the design and implementation of a shared-time
survey of the general adult population of Erie and Niagara Counties, New
York, based upon the Master Sample of the Niagara Frontier (see below).
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Co-Project Director (with Dr. Joseph
Sedransk), Development of a Master Sample of the Niagara Frontier,
Institutional Research, University at Buffalo, 1975; designed and directed
the selection of an area cluster sample of households in Erie and Niagara
Counties, from which several multistage samples of the general adult population
in those counties were subsequently selected.
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Study Coordinator, Women's Political Attitudes, privately
sponsored dissertation study, 1975; managed data entry and analysis.
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Study Director, Computer-Based Archaeological Records, N.Y.
State and Federal funding, through the Department of Anthropology, University
at Buffalo, 1975; directed archival and analysis of archaeological data.
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Study Director, Alumni Attitudes Toward Alumni-Faculty
Center, Alumni Association, University at Buffalo, 1973-75; directed
survey and designed special techniques for analysis of preference data.
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Co-Study Director (with Dr. Raymond G. Hunt),
Survey
of Moving Desires Among Buffalo Inner City Residents, National
Science Foundation, through Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories, 1973-75.
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Study Director, Comparative Environmental Beliefs, Charles
F. Kettering Foundation, through the Social Science Research Institute,
University at Buffalo, 1974.
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Study Director, Lewiston-Porter School District Survey, Board
of Cooperative Educational Services, 1974.
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Study Director, Smoking Study, University Housing, University
at Buffalo, 1974.
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Co-Study Director (with Raymond Conjeski), Pap Test Awareness
Survey, American Cancer Society, N.Y. State Division, 1974.
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Co-Study Director (with Raymond Conjeski), Problems of the
Carless, Greater Buffalo Development Foundation and the N.Y. State
Department of Transportation, through the Department of Civil Engineering,
University at Buffalo, 1973-74.
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Study Director, Survey of Members of the Greater Buffalo Development
Foundation and the Society for the Promotion, Unification, and Redevelopment
of Niagara, Inc., GBDF and SPUR, 1973-74.
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Study Director, Survey of Residents of the WBFO Listening Area,
WBFO Radio, University at Buffalo, 1972-74.
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Study Director, Survey of Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Schools,
BOCES, through the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District,
1972-74.
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Study Director, Western New York Survey of Reading Materials,
BOCES, 1973.
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Project Director, Sample Size Tables,
internal project of the Social Science Research Institute, University at
Buffalo, 1973; developed tables of sample sizes required under varying
assumptions.
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Co-Study Director (with Raymond Conjeski), Attitudes and Practices
of Erie County Attorneys, National Science Foundation, through
the Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence, University at Buffalo, 1972-73.
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Study Director, Student Course and Teacher Evaluation, Faculty
of Law and Jurisprudence and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University at Buffalo, 1971-73.
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Study Director, Readership Survey, Sub-Board I, Inc., 1972.
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Study Director, Survey of Student Attitudes Toward the Use of Student-Sponsored
Activities, Sub-Board I, Inc., 1972.
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Study Director, Southwestern (High School) Survey,
BOCES, 1971-72.
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Study Director, Day Care Study, Appalachian Regional Commission,
through the Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, 1971-72.
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Study Director, University Community Survey, Central Administration,
University at Buffalo, 1970-71.
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Project Director, Computer Program Development for Analysis of Health
Related Data Gathered by the Survey Method, U.S. Public Health
Service, through Institutional Research, University at Buffalo, 1969-71;
developed a variety of general purpose programs for data management and
analysis.
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