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2019 Butine Faculty Development Funds Awarded

March 28, 2019

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2019 Butine Faculty Development Fund Spring cycle, according to committee chair Hannah Highlander, Mathematics.

Butine award recipients are:

  • Christina Astorga: Catholic Theological Society of America, Pittsburg, $2,000
  • Barbara Braband: Sigma Theta Tau, International Congress 2019 Calgary, Canada, $1,282.49
  • David DeLyser: 2019 Chorus America National Conference Philadelphia, $2,000
  • Carol Dempsey: College Theology Society National Conference Holy Cross College, South Bend, Indiana, $1,363
  • Caery Evangelist: Liber International Summer School, Trends in Manuscript Studies, Italy, $2,000
  • Alice Gates: National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Portland, $895
  • Eli Goldwyn: American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting University of Hawai’i, $740
  • Hannah Highlander: International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Spain, $2,000
  • Gregory Hill: Systems Mapping for Transformational Governance, $1,637
  • Samuel Holloway: Beeronomics,org, Czech Republic, $2,000
  • Sally Hood: Seventh International Conference on Immersion & Dual Language Education, Charlotte, $1,275
  • Kevin Jones: 2019 National Association for Poetry Therapy 39th Annual Conference, Baltimore, $1,935
  • Jakob Kotas: MAA MathFest, Cincinnati, $2,000
  • Bohn Lattin: Northwest Communication Association Conference Coeur’d’Alene, $730
  • Lora Looney: Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide First International Conference Center of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies University of North Carolina, $701.14
  • Kala Mayer: Sigma Theta Tau 30th International Nursing Research Congress, Calgary, Canada, $1,450.23
  • John Orr: The Seventeenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries Granada, Spain, $2,000
  • Gregory Pulver: Corrib Theatre Irish Theatre Tour 2019, $2,000
  • Anjanette Raber: Sigma Theta Tau 30th International Nursing Research Congress, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, $1,589
  • Nicole Ralston: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada and US Conference on Teaching Statistics
    State College, Pennsylvania, $2,000
  • Buck Taylor: National Organic Chemistry Symposium University of Indiana, Bloomington, $1,790
  • Amber Vermeesch: Third International Integrative Nursing Symposium, Galway, Ireland, $2,000
  • Blair Woodard: 2019 Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Arlington, Virginia, $1,944.35

For more information, contact Highlander at x7162 or tas@up.edu.

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Filed Under: 04-01-2019, Academics Tagged With: Butine Faculty Development Fund, Hannah Highlander

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