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Spring 2025 Butine Faculty Development Fund Award Recipients

March 31, 2025

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce the Spring 2025 Butine Faculty Development Fund Awards. Congratulations!

  • Simon Aihiokhai, 15th International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, $2,000
  • Mohammad Arbabian, 4th International Conference 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing, $2,000
  • Lauren Berger, 2025 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, $1,200
  • Martin Cenek, The 2025 International Conference on the AI Revolution: Research, Ethics, and Society, $675
  • Glenna Clifton, The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting 2025, $447
  • Itzel Cruz Megchun, 23rd International conference Arquitectonics: Mind, Land and Society, $2,000
  • Alexa Dare, International Association of Media and Communication Research, $1,450
  • David De Lyser, 2025 Chorus America Conference, $1,600
  • Carol Dempsey, The Catholic Biblical Association of America International Conference, $1,898
  • Ruth Dittrich, Adaptation Futures 2025, $2,000
  • Kyle Flann, ACSM American College of Sports Medicine- Annual Meeting, $1,000
  • Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, Between Belonging and Exclusion: Integration Politics and Anti-Discrimination Politics at Intersections, $2,000
  • Lizhong Hao, 2024 Corporate Behavior and New Development of Financial Market International Conference, $2,000
  • Ashley Hass, 2025 AMS World Marketing Congress, $2,000
  • Deana Julka, Midwestern Psychological Association, $650
  • Martin Monto, Pacific Sociological Association meetings, $785
  • Susan Murray, Immunology 2025: The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, $1,945
  • Natalie Nelson-Marsh, 2025 Forum on Digital Innovation: Leveraging Innovative Digital Practices to Ensures All Students Learn and Succeed, $2,000
  • Ian Parkman, EIASM IPDMC: Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, $2,000
  • Gregory Pulver, Teaching Design, Writing and Movement workshops, $1,330
  • Sruthi Rothenfluch, American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, $400
  • Naga Vemprala, Improving Machine Learning (AI/ML) Workflows Using the “Normative-Descriptive-Prescriptive” Decision Framework, $2,000
  • Blair Woodard, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, $700
  • David Wynne, Studying Chromosomes in Meiosis Using High Resolution Live Microscopy and Gene Replacement, $2,000

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