Grants
Robert
Willey
2002 - 2012 awards totalling $474,740.07
- STEP Grant: "Computers for Technology Classroom" (1/12), $16,872.40.
- Equipment Donation: Alesis QX61 keyboard, AM mic set, Fireport (11/12), $310.
- STEP Grant: "Percussion Controllers"(1/12).
- STEP Grant: "Recording and Broadcasting System" (1/12), $5,956.
- Concert Committee: Bring kinetic sculptor / musician Trimpin to lecture and demonstrate (5/11), $1,500.
- Equipment Donation: Alesis VideoTrack (3/11), $180.
- STEP Grant: "Software for the School of Music" (1/11), $4,280.
- Instructional Improvement Grant: "Real World DVD Production and Promotion" (9/10), $750.
- STEP Grant: "Multimedia Studio Development" (6/10), $3,863.97.
- STEP Grant: "Software for School of Music" (6/10), $3,564.
- STEP Grant: "Hearing Testing Equipment" (6/10), $5,018.90, with Department of Communicative Disorders.
- STEP Grant: "Percussion Controllers" (6/10).
- STEP Grant: "Recording Microphones for Auditorium" (1/10), $6,940.
- STEP Grant: "Server for School of Music" (1/10), $5,303.
- BORSF Grant: "Multimedia Recording Facility" (10/09), $47,947, co-director.
- Instructional Improvement Grant: "College of the Arts DVD Showcase" (9/09).
- STEP Grant: "Music Postproduction System" (7/09), $24,611.
- Faculty Development: Workshop on Hearing Conservation (10/09), $100.
- Lyceum Committee: "Workshop on Hearing Conservation" (9/09), $600.
- STEP Grant: "Performing and Live Recording System" (1/09), $5,185.
- STEP Grant: "Pro Tools HD Mixing System", Spring, 2009.
- Instructional Improvement Mini-grant: "Recording at Dockside Studio", Spring, 2009, $750.
- STEP Grant: "Recording Studio Upgrade: Developing System Input and Output" (7/08), $11,881.80.
- STEP Grant: "UL Lafayette in Second Life" (1/08, 7/08).
- STEP Grant: "CD Recording System for Angelle Hall", (1/08) $1,350.
- Instructional Improvement Mini-Grant: Scores for jazz ensemble, (10/07), $750.
- STEP Grant: "School of Music Resource Center Upgrade" (7/07), co-investigator, $21,638.
- STEP Grant: "School of Music MIDI Studio Update" (7/07), co-investigator.
- STEP Grant: "School of Music Recording Studio Upgrade" (7/07).
- Faculty Development Grant: Concert / Workshop by Alfredo Cardim, visiting Brazilian Pianist (2007), $750.
- BORSF Grant: "Expanding School of Music Resources With a Digital Multimedia Recording Facility Integrating Audio and Video ", co-investigator, unfunded. Successful after revision and resubmition (10/09).
- Equipment Grant: "Performing Arts Department Technology Upgrade" (9/06), create student technology spaces in department office, stairwell, classroom, portable video recording, wireless connectivity, $4,200, with Performing Arts department.
- Course Support and Research Equipment: support multimedia research, podcasting, and recording (9/06).
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STEP Grant
: "School of Music Pro Tools Recording System" (7/06), major renovation of recording studio facility creating professional 24-track digital audio recording system, $41,338.
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STEP Grant
: "School of Music Resource Center Upgrade" (7/06), software to create web sites, piano instruction, software, wireless connectivity, administration software, ethernet cabling, Reason synthesis software, $4,657.
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Science Equipment Grant
: "Angelle Hall Audio Recording System Upgrade" (1/06), upgrade audio routing and monitoring in control room, $500.
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STEP Grant
: "School of Music Resource Center Upgrade"
(1/06), upgrade software and hardware, $6,055.
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Friends of the Humanities
: “Assistance in the distribution of ‘From La La to Zydeco’"
(9/05), promotional expenses.
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Friends of the Humanities:
“High Definition Camera to Record Lafayette Cultural Events"
(9/05), HD video camera.
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STEP Grant:
"School of Music Resource Center Upgrade"
(7/05), upgrade software and hardware, $4,055.
- Instructional Improvement Mini-Grant : "Student DVD Project" (2005), promoting School of Music Media Division, $750.
- Science Equipment Grant: "Auditorium Upgrade" (9/04), add video, surround sound
microphone array, multitrack recording, DVD creation, and DVD-Audio production
to School of Music auditorium, $9,500.
- LEQSF Regents Grant: "Redesigning the Music Education Curriculum to Incorporate Computing and
Multimedia" (2004-2005), co-investigator, $127,000.
- Friends of the Humanities: Video Camera (4/04), secured funds to buy a video camera
to record local festivals, $500.
- LEQSF Regents Grant: "Expanding the Media Arts Workshop to Include A Multiform Digital
Imaging Studio with facilities for interactive, acoustical & telematic
visualization" (2004-5), principal investigator, $81,830, with Visual Arts department.
- Outside Funding: Additional funds for producing and duplicating "From La La to Zydeco" DVD (6/04), secured from John Snyder,
Center for Culture and Eco-Tourism, Whitney Bank, and the Lafayette Visitors and Convention
Bureau, $1,080.
- Acadiana Arts Council: DVD Production Showcasing Music From Lafayette (4/04), published by Center for Louisiana Studies, distributed to
public libraries and cultural institutions, co-investigator, $1,352, with Karl Fontenot.
- STEP grant: Resource Center Upgrade (1/04), upgrade workstations, server, video transfer, add DVD
authoring, $4,902.
- Science Equipment Grant: DVD Postproduction Studio. Designed (1/04), implemented, and constructed new studio facility, $10,400.
- Surround Sound Spatialization - Summer research
grant (10/02), develop techniques to control position and motion of
sound in space, and use sound spatialization as an organizing principle in music
composition.
- Science Equipment
Grant: DVD Postproduction Studio (9/03), create an environment for multi-channel
audio mixing and DVD production, $9,000.
- STEP Grant: Multimedia Laboratory Development and Integration (4/03), develop multimedia laboratory and integrate with existing technology facilities in the School of Music.
- Equipment donations - secured donations (2002) from Alesis
Corporation of a HD24 (24-track digital recorder), drive caddies,
12R mixer, and Pro Active surround sound monitoring system, $2,500.