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Summary:  Fall 2009 H&S Educational Grant Initiative Awards

During the Fall proposal cycle, the Review Panel gave 23 awards, totaling over $19,000.

Event Planning

• Anthropology Department, to support the campus visit of Dr. Phillips Stevens (SUNY Buffalo); Dr. Stevens will give a public presentation on “Anthropology, the Military, and the War,” and willl meet with students in a variety of anthropology classes, in October 2009.
• Latin American Studies Program, to support the campus visit of Dr. Marjorie Agosin (Wellesley College), who will speak to students and faculty about her collection of Chilean arpilleras, on display at the Handwerker Gallery, in November 2009.
• Jewish Studies Program, to support the campus visit by Dr. Gordon Horwitz (Illinois Wesleyan who will deliver the Annual Holocaust Lecture on the topic “Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City” on October 29, 2009.
• Mathematics Department, to support the lecture by Dr. Jeff Johannes (SUNY Geneseo) who will speak to students during the Mathematics Colloquium series in November 2009.
• Cathrene Connery, assistant professor of Education, to support the campus visit of Dr. Vera John-Steiner, an authority on creativity in education; Dr. John-Steiner will interact with students, faculty, and community members in small group meetings and public sessions, during the spring 2010 semester.

Course and department-based projects and activities

• Department of Art History, to support a fall 2009 experiential learning opportunity for Art History majors and minors; students will travel with faculty to Philadelphia, where they will: learn about the city’s key architectural sites (including the Bryn Athyn Cathedral and the Beth Sholom synagogue); get a behind-the-scenes understanding of the operations of a private house museum (the Rosenbach Museum and Library); and experience collections and careers at a major public institution (the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
• Barbara Adams, associate professor of writing, to take students from her “Magazine Writing” course to New York City to meet with editors of a variety of magazines during fall break 2009.
• Elizabeth Bleicher, assistant professor of English, to take students in her “Pedagogy and Practice for the English Teacher” class to see a production of Our Town in NYC, a play that forms part of their teaching practicum in the spring semester.
• Gregg Robbins, associate professor of theatre arts, to host an on-campus residency by playwright Kenny Finkle; Mr. Finkle will work with students in Robbins’ Costume Design class, in Prof. Dann’s Directing class, and will run workshops and a playwriting festival for students, in the fall 2009 and spring 2010 semesters.
• Sofia Windstam, lecturer in biology, to support the development of special modules in her “Plants, People, and Food Production” course: a laboratory exploration of the antimicrobial properties of salsa, and two guest lectures, one on the chemistry of coffee beans, and the other on the chemistry of juice extraction, in the fall 2009 semester.

Research projects

• Ed Cluett, associate professor of biology, and Oliver Klein ’10 (Biochemistry), to support expenses associated with Oliver’s honors research project on the role of rab proteins in cholesterol trafficking, during the 2009-10 academic year.
• Thomas Harper ’10 (Theatrical Production Arts), to support the purchase of equipment for a project studying fluid power systems for the stage, during the fall 2009 semester.
• Bill Hudenko, assistant professor of psychology, to support expenses associated with his Advancing Autism Research Team’s study of the impact of vocal expressions of emotion on mothers who have children with autism, during the 2009-10 academic year.

Student Presentation/Participation at Conferences

• Juan Arroyo, assistant professor of politics, for two students to participate in the Model European Union Conference in Limerick, Ireland, January 7-9, 2010.
• Leigh Ann Vaughn, associate professor of psychology, and Barney Beins, professor of psychology, for eight students to present posters at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting in Brooklyn, in March 2010.
• Mathematics Department, for ten student to present results of original research at the Mathematics Association of America Seaway Section meeting in Oswego, NY, April 17, 2010.
• Theatre Arts Department, for students in the Rock Hard Dance group to perform at the American College Dance Festival in Erie, PA, in February 2010.
• Delia Beck ’10 (Psychology), to give a presentation entitled “Evaluation of body image dissatisfaction among college students: Validation of the body Coloring Task and the Body Image Attitudes Scale” at the American Association for Behavioral and Social Sciences meeting in Las Vegas, in February 2010.
• Christa Calkins MAT ’10 (English Education), to present her paper “ ‘Finding her unseen soul’: The Voices of Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo” at the International Conference of the Association of Third World Studies in Ghana, in November 2009.
• Katharina Carella ’10 (Math), pending acceptance of her paper, to present her paper “Sudoku, Shidoku, and…Grobner Bases? An Algebraic and Computer Systems Approach to Counting Boards.” At the Joint Meetings of the Mathematics Association of America and the American Mathematical Society in San Francisco, in January 2010.
• Nicole Casella ’11 (Math and Italian Studies), Jillian Neeley ’11 (Math and Physics), and Katharina Carella ’10 (Math and Psychology), to present papers based on original research at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics in January 2010.
• Romaine Isaacs ’10 (Physics), to present a paper co-authored with professor Matthew C. Sullivan at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Portland, Oregon, in March 2010.
• Sue Schwartz MAT ’10 (Adolescence Education), to participate in workshops at the National Conference of Teachers of English in Philadelphia, I November 2009.

In addition to these awards made during the Fall 2009 proposal cycle, the Review Panel also made an award from the contingency fund between June and September 2009.

• Benjamin Swiatek ’10 (Writing), to support expenses associated with a field trip to interview professional writers, as part of the “virtual shadowing” video project, a collaborative research project with Prof. Barbara Adams (associate professor of writing), in June and July 2009.