The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2012-2013 Butine Faculty Development Fund fall cycle, according to committee chair Aziz Inan, engineering. Due to a high number of proposals and an insufficient amount of funds available, the committee was unable to fund all qualified proposals. The TAS committee worked diligently to spread the available amount across the board to fully or partially fund as many proposals as possible. This fall’s Butine award recipients are:
- Barbara Braband, nursing, “Creating a Shared Future of Nursing Research, Practice, and Education Conference,” $1,300
- David De Lyser, music, “Premier Public Performance of Original, Commissioned Musical Compo sition,” $1,390
- Courtney Fletcher, communication studies, “I. Occupy Portland and II. Virtual Public Sphere and Global Citizenship,” $3,000
- Bradley Franco, history, “A Bishop and His City: Siena’s Episcopal Statutes of 1336,” $3,250
- Nicole Hanig, music, “Song Fest,” $3,250
- Sr. Angela Hoffman, chemistry, “Assay for Predicting Cancer Cell Culture Activity and Enhancing Fungal Taxol Production,” $3,000
- Lars Larson, English, “Investing in Place: North – west Literature through a Spatial Lens,” $3,000
- Jennette Lovejoy, communication studies, “Adhering to Content Analysis Standards in Communication Journalism,” $3,000
- Laura McLary, international languages & cultures, “Ludwig von Ficker’s Christian Vision of a Post-World War I Brenner,” $3,000
- Joane Moceri, nursing, “A Study of the Relationship between an International Nursing Immersion Experience in East India and the Development of Cultural Competence,” $2,000
- Deborah Munro, Heather Dillon, and Dakshina Murty, engineering, “Advancement of Finite Element Analysis & Computational Fluid Dynamics,” $5,288
- Kathleen O’Reilly, biology, “Seabirds in New Zealand,” $3,000
- John Orr, English, “Writers and Their Libraries Conference,” $1,380
- Pamela Potter, nursing, “Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) Certificate Program,” $1,200
- Anne Santiago, political science, “When the Flocks do not Follow: Modernization versus Traditional Approaches to Agriculture and Land Policy in Uganda,” $3,250
- Matthew Warshawsky, international languages & cultures, “Survival of a Hidden Minority: Crypto-Jews and Inquisitorial Prosecution in Colonial Latin America,” $3,000
- Kaye Wilson-Anderson, nursing, “Health and Perceived Needs of Rural Women of East India,” $2,000
- Blair Woodard, history, “Intimate Enemies: U.S. and Cuban Visual Diplomacy, 1945-2000,” $3,250.
For more information, contact Inan at 7429 or ainan@up.edu.