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Fall 2024 Butine Faculty Development Fund Award Recipients

November 23, 2024

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce the Fall 2024 Butine Faculty Development Fund Awards. Congratulations!


  • Kali Abel, Es Otro Cuento: Invisibility and Adaptation in Colombia’s Changing Climate, $5,000
  • SimonMary Aihiokhai, American Academy of Religion, $2,000
  • Mohammad Arbabian, 35th Annual POMS Conference, $1,960
  • Christina Astorga, College Theology Society 2025 Conference, $1,835
  • Matthew Barner, Identifying and implementing strategies for increasing student utilization of Co-Pilot tutoring, $3,000
  • Kathleen Bieryla, American Society of Biomechanics Conference, $2,000
  • Martin Cenek, Measuring Athletic Performance: The Data-science and Modeling Athletic Performance from Heart and Mobile Sensors, $2,802
  • Brandy Daniels, Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, $1,720
  • Katie Danielson, American Educational Research Association Conference, $2,000
  • Ruth Dittrich, Data analysis of incentives to reduce recycling contamination on the household level, $1,100
  • Mike Eom, The Americas Conference in Information Systems, $2,000
  • Vail Fletcher, Aesthetics of the Anthropocene: Regeneration, Repair, and Remembering, $5,000
  • Sean Gestson, Identifying and implementing strategies for increasing student utilization of Co-Pilot tutoring, $3,000
  • Anita Gooding, Association of Baccalaureate Program Directors, $1,412
  • Esther Gravis, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing’s 2025 Creating Healthy Work Environments Conference, $1,400
  • Naveen Gudigantala, The Americas Conference in Information Systems, $2,000
  • Rebekah Hanson, Advancing Suzuki Viola Pedagogy: Creating a Comprehensive Curriculum for Teacher Training in the Americas, $3,000
  • Sam Holloway, Managing MacGyvers: The Interplay of Logics and Patterns of Entrepreneurial Action in Established Organizations, $3,000
  • Deirdre Hon, Exploring the experience of faculty and administrators implementing a social and emotional learning curriculum for pre-service teachers in Monclova, Mexico, $4,310
  • Azeb Madebo, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference, $780
  • Nick McRee, American Society of Criminology, $1,000
  • Andrew Nuxoll, International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, $2,000
  • Neil Oculi, Developing Geospatial Modules for Coastal Vulnerability and Watershed Vulnerability Index for Saint Lucia to Better Understand the Impacts of Climate Change, $5,000
  • Mercedes Oliva, Creativity and Cognition, $3,000
  • Tara Prestholdt, Rates of Cerata Autotomy and Regeneration in Nudibranchs, $5,000, and International Congress for Conservation Biology, $2,000
  • Nicole Ralston, American Educational Research Association Conference, $2,000
  • Kiya Riverman, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, $1,859
  • Khondaker Salehin, IEEE International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, $2,000
  • Lizz Schallert, Humane Conditions for Human Service Workers: Merits and Challenges of Worker-Organizing in the Nonprofit Sector, $3,000
  • Rebecca Smith, American Educational Research Association Conference, $2,000
  • Joshua Swidzinski, The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley, $901
  • David Turnbloom, North American Academy of Liturgy, $588, and Catholic Theological Society of America, $500
  • Tammy VanDeGrift, Association for Computing Machinery Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, $2,000
  • Naga Vemprala, The Americas Conference in Information Systems, $2,000
  • Shaz Vijlee, ASEE National Conference, $2,000, and Publication Fees for Open Source Journal, $1,200
  • Jordyn Wolfand, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, $2,000
  • Min Yu, Production and Operations Management Society Conference, $2,000

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