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Spring 2021 Butine Awards Announced

March 10, 2021

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) is pleased to announce the Butine grant recipients for the Spring cycle according to chair Diane Sotak, Clark Library. The Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund was established to support faculty in their scholarly endeavors. The recipients are:

  • Alexa Dare, Streams Environmental Humanities Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 3-7, 2021 ($2000)
  • Andra Davis, Usability of the Primary Palliative Care Nurse Competence Assessment Tool in Undergraduate Nursing Education: A Pilot Study ($500)
  • Paige Hall, POGIL Writers’Retreat, Online, July 11-15, 2021 ($520)
  • Ryan Kenton, American Society of Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators, Online, June 29-July 1, 2021 ($260) and World Microbe Forum, Online, June 20-24, 2021 ($250)
  • Andrew Lafrenz, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Annual Conference, Online, March 10-12, 2021 ($654)
  • Kala Mayer, Towards a Resilient and Trauma-Informed Nursing School ($1000)
  • Claire McKinley Yoder, Pilot Study Evaluating the School of Nursing Curriculum Using Tools Adapted from Education, Social Work and Midwifery ($2000)
  • Bonnie Parks, American Library Association Annual Conference, Online, June 24-29, 2021 ($179)
  • Tara Prestholdt, Society for the Study of Evolution, Online, June 21-25, 2021 ($400)  
  • Isabelle Soule, Evidence review for the role of the arts in improving health and well-being ($2000)
  • David Taylor, BOTANY 2021 conference, Online, July 19-23, 2021 ($350)
  • Amber Vermeesch, American College of Sports Medicine’s 68th Annual Meeting, Online, June 1-5, 2021 ($525)

For more information, please contact Diane Sotak at tas@up.edu.

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Filed Under: 03-15-2021, Academics, Teaching & Scholarship Tagged With: Butine Awards, Diane Sotak, Teaching and Scholarship Committee

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