Midwest Faculty Seminars
| Name |
Seminar |
| Kathy Krynski |
The Future of Higher Education, April 24-26 |
| Jeff Bowman |
The Future of Higher Education, April 24-26 |
| Juan DePascuale |
On the Genealogy of Morals, Jan 23-25 |
| Pierre Dairon |
Digital Humanities, Nov 14-16 |
Newton Chun Award
Wade H. Powell for "A frog model of dioxin-induced thyroid disease"
FACULTY TEACHING GRANTS
| Faculty |
Project Title |
Amount Awarded |
| Sarah Blick |
Travel to Italy and Greece to Study Byzantine Monuments to Improve Survey and Intermediate Classes |
$4570.00 |
Jennifer Smith
also Gillen and Kerkoff |
Introducing DNA Barcoding Technology into an Introductory Biology Laboratory Exercise |
$5000.00 |
| Rebecca Wolf |
Visual Storytelling - Cinematography Course Development |
$2645.60 |
| Total |
|
$12,215.00 |
Labalme Research Grants
| Faculty |
Project Title |
Amount Awarded |
| Micah Myers |
Attend British Epigraphy Society Workshop and Undertake Research at TLL Library |
$4,965.00 |
| Marcella Hackbardt |
Collaborate and Participate in a research trip to Peru with Biology and Geography Professors |
$4,825.00 |
| Total |
|
$9,790.00 |
Faculty Research Grants
Round One
| Faculty |
Project Title |
Amount Awarded |
| Marta Sierra |
129th MLA Convention. Fiction in Flux: Genre and Transmission in Recent Latin American Narrative. |
$1,530.00 |
| Micah Myers |
Chair Panel and Present Paper at Annual Meeting of American Philological Assoc. |
$1,215.00 |
| Sarah Blick |
Trip to England to Study Medieval Parish Church Baptismal Font Covers |
$1,700.00 |
| Total |
|
$4,445.00 |
Round Two
| Faculty |
Project Title |
Amount Awarded |
| Melissa Dabakis |
Hybrid Republicanism: Italo-American Cultural Relations, 1760-1918 |
$1,500.00 |
| Juan DePascuale |
Japanese Culture, Philosophy, and the Crisis of Modernity |
$2,000.00 |
| Claudia Esslinger |
Dominion: Human Control and the Natural World |
$2,500.00 |
| Laurie Finke |
Communing with Ghosts: Heritage, Tourism and the Romance of the Middle Ages |
$2,000.00 |
| Tom Giblin |
Non-Linear Dynamics: Collaborative Meetings |
$2,000.00 |
| Katherine Hedeen |
Lecturing on translation and leading a translation workshop at two Latin American international poetry festivals (Quito, Ecuador and Buenos Aires, Argentina), presenting a translation into English of Jorgeenrique Adoum’s Disinterred Love, and researching and translating a commissioned anthology of contemporary Spanish American Poetry. |
$1,000.00 |
| Wendy MacLeod |
American premiere of THE BALLAD OF BONNIE PRINCE CHUCKY |
$1,050.00 |
| Jesse Matz |
"Big Oil and Modernist Art: Vanessa Bell's Alfriston and "See Britain First"' |
$1,300.00 |
| Pashmina Murthy |
Archive Fever: From the Colony to the Metropole |
$2,500.00 |
| Jennifer Nichols |
Conference Presentation for the International Society for Language Studies in Akita Japan |
$2,700.00 |
| Sam Pack |
"If It's Korean, It Must Be Good:" The National Branding of South Korean Popular Culture in the Philippines |
$2,000.00 |
| Frank Peiris |
Implementing an Experimental Technique to Study Adsorption in Porous Structures |
$2,700.00 |
| Kora Radella |
Choreographic Research, Creation, and Performance |
$1,500.00 |
| Victor Rodriguez-Nunez |
Travel to Quito, Ecuador and Buenos Aires, Argentina ... |
$1,000.00 |
| Marta Sierra |
Anarchist Passions: A novel |
$1,470.00 |
| Gregory Spaid |
Lighting Up the Night |
$2,000.00 |
| William Suarez-Potts |
The Establishment of Labor Justice in the Americas |
$1,364.00 |
| Van Holde |
Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference |
$2,700.00 |
| Total |
|
$33,284.00 |