Office of the Provost
2024 PRIDE Fund Projects
Six projects were selected to receive PRIDE Fund grants in 2024. The President’s Research, Innovation, and Development toward Excellence (PRIDE) Fund provides Lindenwood faculty and students with grants to financially support projects promoting research, scholarship, community partnerships, and creative activity at Lindenwood University. The funding supports the growth of student experiences, community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Harry P. Cintineo, PhD
College of Science, Technology, and Health
The primary goals of this project are to identify and/or observe patterns of change in ROTC human performance parameters over an academic semester through prospective and/or retrospective analyses of ACFT data, identify significant areas to bolster current ROTC physical training based on results of SA1, and develop a field-based tactical strength and conditioning program and provide equipment to improve human performance outcomes.
Amy Estlund, PhD
College of Science, Technology, and Health
This project aims to increase student athlete knowledge on sexual health risk behaviors and prevention strategies. This project also aims to decrease incidence of sexually transmitted infections among the athletes. Finally, it will evaluate the first of its kind peer education model for sexual health at Lindenwood.
Brittany Goodman, PhD
College of Science, Technology, and Health
The purpose of the current study is to investigate factors associated with differential outcomes following perinatal loss. Specifically, the study will focus on outcomes such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) in individuals who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination of pregnancy due to fatal fetal diagnosis.
Catherine Shoff, PhD
College of Science, Technology, and Health
The goal of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intergenerational technology-training program on both seniors citizens in St. Charles county and Lindenwood college students. For 8 weeks students at Lindenwood participate in a reverse mentoring program, teaching seniors how to use computers, smart phones and tablets.
Chad Welsh, PhD
College of Science, Technology, and Health
This study will examine the effects of plant growth in the presence of exogenous plant hormones on the population of soil bacteria. By examining the multiple variables (i.e. hormone chosen, concentrations used, etc.), the researchers will determine if changes in the diversity of the bacterial populations correlates with the growth of the plant, the addition of the exogenous hormone treatments, or a combination of both.
Nick Wintz, PhD
College of Science, Technology, and Health
The main goal of this project is to introduce undergraduate researchers to control theory and its applications in the context of the use of chemotherapy and radiation in treating cancerous tumors. Using experimental data collect at Louisiana Tech University/Nanospectra Biosciences to study the real-time blood concentration of nanoparticles at a tumor site using non-evasive methods this team will include a time-weighted derivative that models the absorption of these nanoparticles.