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Butine Faculty Development Fund Awards

November 23, 2016

wootton-copyThe Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2016-2017 Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Aaron Wootton, mathematics. Butine award recipients are:

  • Alfrey, Lauren: “Geek Girls: Race, Gender and Power in the Tech Industry,” $3,300
  • Barber, Halina & Amber Vermeesch: “Road Less Traveled: Stressors and Coping Strategies Unique to Undergraduate Nursing Students,” $1,776
  • Chakrabati, Saikat: “A security framework for resource constrained IoT devices,” $5,000
  • Coida, Olivia: “Mechanical Model of the Respiratory System,” $3,000
  • Eckman, Ted: “Understanding Distributions of Industrial Odors in North Portland,” $5,000
  • Eshleman, Andrew: Funds to attend the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference, $1,150
  • Gates, Alice: “Enhancing scholarship and teaching in Policy Practice,” $4,550
  • Hancock, Christin: “Unspeakable: Sex, Madness, and the Malarial Treatment of Syphilis in Middle America,” $4,060
  • Hill, Allie: “Gender and Memory of East German Every-Day Life,” $3,313
  • Hoffman, Sr. Angela: “Study of products made by bacteria isolated from soil taken from Pollentia, an ancient Roman city on Mallorca,” $3,038
  • Ilosvay, Kimberly: Reflection and Research, $3,000
  • Jones, Kevin: “Testing the Applicability of the Circle of Courage Youth Development Model for Undergraduate Social Work Education,” $3,343
  • Kotas, Jakob: “A Robust Framework for Airline Scheduling,” $3,000
  • Krautscheid, Loretta: “The effect of trans-disciplinary educational strategies on student nurse resilience and moral distress,” $2,936.50
  • McRee, Nick: Funds to attend the 12th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, $1,500
  • Meiser, Jeffrey: “The Moral Factor in War: Combat Effectiveness from Chosin to Mosul,” $3,000
  • Reyes-Giardiello, Giannina: “Researching masked-social activism in Mexico City,” $850
  • Viljee, Shazib: “Analysis of Charcoal Samples for Composition and Energy Content,” $1,809
  • Warshawsky, Matthew: “May Your Divine Inspiration Call Me in the Desert’: New Jewish Identity in the Baroque-Era Poetry of the Iberian New Christian João Pinto Delgado,” $3,000

For more information, contact Wootton at x7377 or tas@up.edu.

 

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Filed Under: 11-28-2016, Academics, Teaching & Learning Collaborative Tagged With: Aaron Wootton, Butine Awards, Teaching and Learning Collaborative

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