2019-2020 Recipients
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE | ||
Sandra K. Halonen | Microbiology & Immunology | Travel funds to attend and present at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. |
Jennifer Lachowiec | Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology | Funding for development of an automated imaging platform in the Plant Growth Center by purchasing equipment. |
Timothy R. McDermott | Land Resources & Environmental Sciences | Travel funds for visiting a collaborator and presenting at the 16th Symposium of Aquatic Microbiology. |
Jennifer M. Thomson | Animal & Range Sciences | Travelfunds to attend and present at the Annual Meeting of the 6th EAAP International Symposium on Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition. |
Catherine Zabinski | Land Resources & Environmental Sciences | Travel funds to visit two research labs in support of a research/writing project linking soil chemistry to plant performance. |
COLLEGE OF ARTS & ARCHITECTURE | ||
Ian van Coller | School of Film & Photography |
Travel funds to participate in The Arctic Circle Autumn Art and Science Expedition. |
Maire O'Neil Conrad | Architecture | Funding to support writing a book chapter as part of the dissemination of research. |
Nancy Cornwell | School of Film & Photography | Travel and equipment funds to support her research of the legal, cultural and social evolution of Australian free speech rights. |
Catherine Dale | School of Film & Photography | Travel funds and fees to attend a workshop with industry members that will provide critical peer feedback. |
Gesine Janzen | School of Art | Travel funds to attend a workshop to gain more in-depth knowledge of the structure of books and how artists use this form to express their ideas |
Sara Mast | School of Art | Funding for materials to complete, package and exhibit her work, Body of Water, in San Francisco in 2020. |
Sarah Stoneback | School of Music | Travel funds to present her work, Chop Balance: A Warm-Upfor a Healthy Balanced Experience on Trumpet, at the International Trumpet Guild Conference. |
JABS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP | ||
Kregg Aytes/Scott Bryant | JJCOBE | Funding for attending a workshop/webinar to become certified in administering the Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile and coaching students to maximize their entrepreneurial potential. |
Laura Black | JJCOBE | Funding for travel and tuition to participate in the Michigan State University’s Innovations in Participatory Modeling Field School |
Ed Gamble | JJCOBE | Travel funds for attending a conference that leading to a publication. |
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | ||
Christine Stanton | Education | Funding to support production costs of the pilot film, Digital Storywork to Support Little Schell Language Revitalization, as well as related travel costs. |
Tena Versland | Education | Travel funds to present recent work at a conference in London (British Educational Leadership, Management, Administration Society) and connect with collaborators. |
Wan Yuan-Kuo | Health & Human Development | Travel funds and costs for Partcipatory Research Training for Establishing Community‐Focused Food Innovation. |
NORM ASBJORNSON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING | ||
Maryam Bahramipanah | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Travel funds for a two-week visit to Distributed Electrical System Laboratory (DESL) at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne located in Lausanne, Switzerland. |
Jen Brown | Chemical & Biological Engineering | Travel funds to attend the 15th Annual Summer Session on Contemplative Learning in Higher Education in the summer of 2019. |
William Schell | Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | Travel funds to attend a professional conference in Sydney, Australiato support sabbatical research. |
Veronika Strnadova-Neely | Gianforte School of Computing | Funding for registration and travel costs to attend a Data Science Dojo bootcamp. |
COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE | ||
Zack Bean | English | Travel funds to attend the Sewanee Writer’s Conference at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. |
Brooke Bocast | Sociology & Anthropology | Travel funds to conduct one month of fieldwork in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to support a book project, “Healthy Life Trajectories”, which studies a multi-sited World Health Organization (WHO) maternal healthcare intervention. |
Ada Giusti | Modern Languages & Literatures | Travel funds to interview returned migrants in Italy for her book-length project, “Recapturing ‘Home’: Chronicles of Remigration Experiences”. |
Alex Harmon | English | Travel funds to present a paper, “Walking with Ancestors: Native Ghosts in Postcolonial America,” at the Modern Language Association’s International Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal. |
Marvin Lansverk | English | Travel funds to present a paper at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies International Congress on the Enlightenment in Edinburgh in July, and to conduct additional research on Jane Austen at the Chawton House Library. |
Hua Li | Modern Languages & Literatures | Travel funds to interview Chinese science fiction writers and academic experts in science fiction, and to travel to UC-Riverside to work with the Rivera Library’s special science fiction studies collection in support of two book chapters. |
Andrea Litt | Ecology | Funds to spend one month at the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula and develop a conceptual framework for applying a trait-based approach to understanding and predicting how invasive plants affect native wildlife. |
Mariana Olsen | Psychology | Travel funds to attend the Animal Studies Institute, a week-long program, hosted by the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. |
Ben Oosterhoff | Psychology | Funding to purchase Video-Recording Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) devices to support his research on the connection between adolescents’ civic engagement and positive development. |
Cara Palmer | Psychology | Funding to purchase Actigraph Sleep Devices (watches) to support her research on the relationship between adolescent sleep patterns and anxiety. |
Colin Shaw | Earth Sciences | Travel funds to join a field expedition to the Ikertoq shear zone in western Greenland to collect preliminary data for a proposal to the NSF Tectonics program. |
Bill Wyckoff | Earth Sciences | Funding for four weeks of field and archival work in Denver to support a new book project that explores the changing cultural landscapes of Denver’s African American community through the photography of Burnis McCloud. |
RENNE LIBRARY | ||
Sara Mannheimer | Library | Funding to implement a train-the-trainer model to promote sustainability of data science workshops in the MSU Library. |
COLLEGE OF NURSING | ||
Julie Ruff | Nursing | Travel funds for a conference and research furthering her scholarly focus on the social determinants of healthcare outcomes for American Indian children. |