Recent H&S Educational Grant Initiative Awards

Summary: Spring 2013 H&S Educational Grant Initiative Awards

Between December 2012 and February 2013, the Educational Grant Initiative (EGI) Review Panel awarded more than $8,000 in support of 17 projects.

Events

• Gabriella D’Angelo, lecturer, art history, to bring to campus Saleema Waraich, assistant professor of art history at Skidmore College, to give the lecture “Negotiating Private and Public Spaces, from the Harem to the Veil” as part of the Handwerker Gallery’s symposium “Rooms of Their Own: Humans and the Second Skin,” February 1, 2013
• Environmental studies and sciences department, to support a series of workshops as part of “Retirees in Service to the Environment (RISE),” a collaborative effort with the Gerontology Institute and IC Natural Lands (ICNL) to expand ICNL’s Volunteer Steward Program, further research in gerontology, and promote inter-generational transfer of environmental knowledge, March–May 2013
• James Pfrehm, assistant professor, modern languages and literatures, to bring linguistics professor and author Joseph Salmons to campus to give a public lecture on the implications of the past for contemporary language and usage, May 1, 2013
• Philosophy and religion department, to support the establishment of a lecture series by bringing to campus religion and film expert S. Brent Plate, who will serve as guest presenter to several classes and give a public presentation, April 2013

Course-based projects and department-based activities

• Carla Stetson, assistant professor, art, to support students in the spring semester course “Three-Dimensional Design” (ART 12100) participating in a hands-on workshop at the Corning Museum of Glass in order to enhance their understanding of the creativity, skill, technology, and sculptural and architectural applications of glass blowing, April 24, 2013
• Cheryl Kramer, lecturer, art history, to support the visit of two museum professionals and a practicum for students enrolled in “Museum Practices and Methods” (ARTH 39200), February 28 and March 7, 2013
• Itohan Osayimwese, assistant professor, art history, to support “Architecture across Cultures” (ARTH 11400) students’ research at The History Center and Historic Ithaca of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential architecture in small American cities, spring 2013
• Paula Ioanide, assistant professor, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, to support an oral history project in which students in “Applied Research in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Studies” (CSCR 38000) will document the work and achievements of a local civil rights activist and community organizer, spring 2013
• Mike Haaf, associate professor, chemistry, and Gary Wells, associate professor and chair, art history, for students in “Chemistry and Art” (ARTH 20500) to visit the conservation laboratory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to enhance students’ understanding of the ways in which chemical principles affect the materials and forms with which artists work, April 2013
• Patricia Rodriguez, assistant professor, politics, to bring to campus a member of the Finger Lakes Zero Waste Coalition to serve as guest presenter to students enrolled in “The Politics of Development” (POLT 32700) in order to enhance learning about the relationship of global and local environmental policies and activism, April 18, 2013
• Belisa Gonzalez, assistant professor, sociology, to support the participation of students enrolled in “Practicum in Social Change II: Urban Mentorship Initiative” (SOCI 31500) at the fourth annual SUNY Cortland Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice student conference, April 14, 2013
• Angela Branneman, assistant professor, theatre arts, to support “Wings of Spring: A Site-Specific Dance Event,” an experiential collaboration of students, faculty mentors, and a guest artist, as part of the course “Producing Theatre” (THEA 35200), May 1, 2013

Research and collaborative projects

• David Gondek, assistant professor, biology, and Joshua Messinger, ’14, biochemistry, to support research of unique genetic components that enable Chlamydia muridarum to cross species boundaries, summer 2013
• Susan Swensen, professor, biology, and James Edsall, ’13, biology, to develop an integrated aquaponics system for the production of green-leafed plants and fish, spring 2013
• Susan Allen-Gil, professor, environmental studies and sciences, and environmental science majors Brian Duphily, ’13, Cameron Zerbian, ’14, Evelyn Rosekrans, ’14, Jessica Wilhelm, ’13, and Lee Ann Hill, ’13, to support research of the uptake and effects of nonylphenol on lettuce growth and viability, spring 2013
• Nancy Rader, professor, psychology, and Briana Faringer, ’14, psychology, to support senior honors research of the influence of mother-child interactions on language development, March 2013–May 2014
• Alicia Swords, associate professor, sociology; Lyndsey Lyman, ’13, culture and communication major, sociology minor; Lelia James, ’13, English major, legal studies minor; and Tiffany Pesesky, ’13, sociology; to support participation in a Poverty Initiative travel course in order to further students’ understanding of community organizing around issues of poverty

Conferences
During the 2012–13 academic year, the Educational Grant Initiative provided more than $21,000 in “Easy-Access Funds” in support of travel by 114 School of Humanities and Sciences students to the following conferences and meetings:

• Children’s Literature Association Conference, June 2012
• American Sociological Association Honors Program, August 2012
• Neuroscience 2012, October 2012
• New England Psychological Association Convention, October 2012
• 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress, November 2012
• National Association of African-American Studies & Affiliates Joint National Conference, February 2013
• 2013 Annual NoPassport Theatre Conference: Staging New Theatres, March 2013
• 2013 Southern Graphics Council International Conference, March 2013
• American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, March 2013
• Eastern Psychological Association, March 2013
• Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, March 2013
• Northeast Anthropological Association, March 2013
• Sigma Tau Delta 2013 International Conference, March 2013
• Biennial Meeting of the Chlamydia Basic Research Society, March 2013
• Students as Catalysts for Large Landscape Conservation, March 2013
• Annual United States Institute for Theatre Technology & Stage Expo, March 2013
• Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association National Conference, March 2013
• Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, April 2013
• Annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference, April 2013
• American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, April 2013
• Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, April 2013