The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2014-2015 Butine Faculty Development Fund fall cycle, according to committee chair Lauretta Frederking, political science. This fall’s Butine award recipients are:
- Ellyn Arwood, education: Collaboration, Advancement, and Translations in Mind, Brain and Education; and Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, $1,500
- Richard Askay, philosophy: The Role of ‘The Nothing’ and the Body in a Holistic Theory of Meaning, $4,510
- Hannah Callender, mathematics: Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases on Networks, $5,000
- Rev. Jeffrey Cooper, C.S.C., theology: The World of St. Francis of Assisi, $1,500
- Tanya Crenshaw and Heather Dillon, engineering: Long Term Usage Data for LED Lighting Products, $3,414
- Alexa Dare, communication studies, Working Hard or Hardly Working? Laboring to Build Transnational Alliances, $3,000
- Valerie Francisco, sociology and social work: Families of Global Migration: How Transnational Families Care for Each Other From Afar, $3,000
- Brad Franco, history: Summer Stipend for Organizing an International Conference, $3,000
- Alice Gates, sociology and social work: Qualitative research on undocumented immigrant women’s engagement in the policy process, $3,590
- Christin Hancock, history: The World of St. Francis of Assisi, $1,500
- Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing: Applied Ethics Formation: Educating the head, heart, and hands of baccalaureate nursing students, $2,000
- Cecilia Lin, business administration: Accounting Conservatism and Debt Covenants, $3,888
- Valerie Peterson, mathematics: Summer Support to Pursue a Transition Into Math Education Research, $4,450
- Elinor Sullivan, biology: The Impact of Maternal Diet on Offspring Behavioral Regulation, $1,166
- Amber Vermeesch, nursing: Workplace Related Quality of Life: Effect of Available Recreation Facilities, $2,888
- Shazib Vijlee, engineering: Laminar, Premixed Flat Flame Burner, $5,000
For more information, contact Frederking at 8076 or tas@up.edu.