Grants & You Spring 2021: External Grants Funded - Congratulations!

**Ann Boyle, DMD, MA, ATSU Academic Affairs, “A.T. Still University's Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA): Supplemental Institutional Funds,” US Department of Education, $561,102, December 2020 – July 2021.

**Deanna Hunsaker, DHEd, ATSU Enrollment Services, “A.T. Still University's Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA): Supplemental Emergency Financial Aid Grants to Students,” US Department of Education, $269,910,
December 2020 – May 2021.

**Marc Shlossman, DDS, MS, Rachel Duffy, DMD, MPH, and Ann Spolarich, RDH, PhD, FSCDH, ASDOH; and Inder Makin, MD, PhD, SOMA Basic Medical Science, “Salivary pH and Buffering Change Following Use of pHighter Mint,” CAO Group, Inc., $13,181, March 2021 – April 2021.

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**Deborah A. Hudman, MS, KCOM Microbiology, “Statewide Survey of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens,” Missouri Department of Conservation, $25,000, October 2020 – September 2022.

*Tim D. Ostrowski, PhD, KCOM Physiology, “Respiratory Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease and its Link to Oxidative Damage within the Brain Stem," National Institutes of Health – National Institute on Aging (R15), $387,403, February 2021 – January 2024.

*Romana Muller, MSDH, RDH, MOSDOH Clinical Education, “In Any Language, Improving Oral Health Translates into Better Lives,” Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, $53,000, March 2021 – February 2022.