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Hannah Highlander

Sigma XI Outstanding Researcher Award for Hannah Highlander

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, has been awarded the 11th Annual Sigma Xi Outstanding Researcher Award, given annually by the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi, the international scientific research honorary society. She will be honored at a ceremony on May 28. College of Arts and Science dean and mathematics faculty member Herbert Medina points out that this is the second consecutive year that a UP mathematics faculty member has won the award (with Aaron Wootton winning kin 2018).

Highlander’s current scholarship lies in the area of mathematical biology. She has 22 peer reviewed scholarly articles spanning a career of 12 years, a rate which rivals those of some of the most productive mathematicians in the United States– while at the same time teaching three classes per semester. Five of these publications include undergraduate authors – almost one quarter of her published articles include collaboration with undergraduates.

Highlander’s work is tied to topics of deep importance to the UP community, including work on mathematical modeling of the Green Dot Bystander Intervention data to prevent sexual assault. Her summer 2019 undergraduate research project, Mathematical Modeling of Suicide Risk and Assessment of Preventative Measures could add considerably to the literature on risk factors of suicide among a vulnerable population. She is also a key contributor to the new Applied Mathematics program (and B.S. in Applied Mathematics major) at UP.

Please join the mathematics department in offering congratulations to Dr. Highlander. For more information contact Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, at salomone@up.edu.

 

May 7 Faculty Development Day Program Ready Now

The program for Faculty Development Day, scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, is now available through the Committee on Teaching and Scholarship. To save paper, the committee encourages faculty to download a copy of the program in advance so they can use it to orient themselves between sessions using their mobile devices. A limited number of paper copies of the program will be available on the day of the program.

  • Faculty Development Day program can be found here.

For more information contact Hannah Highlander, TAS chair, at highland@up.edu.

 

2019 Butine Faculty Development Funds Awarded

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.

Faculty Development Day, May 7: Session Proposals Welcome

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is excited to announce this year’s Faculty Development Day theme, “Compassionate listening and responding: How to transform UP into a more diverse, supportive, and inclusive campus.” The morning keynote address and several late morning sessions will be centered around this theme. The remaining sessions, most of which will occur in the afternoon, are then open to a variety of topics, which may or may not relate to the overall theme.

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is now accepting proposals from faculty who would like to organize 45-minute sessions on a topic of their choice. Please send suggestions/requests to committee chair Hannah Highlander (tas@up.edu) no later than Friday, April 12. Please include a title and abstract, along with any other preferences or special needs. The committee will make every effort to accommodate requests.

Spring Cycle Butine Proposals Due Feb. 8

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship invites all regular faculty to submit spring cycle proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications by visiting this link to the Moodle site. Submissions of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are also done through the Moodle site.

The deadline for submission through Moodle and to the applicant’s respective dean and chair (if CAS) is no later than noon on Friday, February 8, 2019. Please note that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans prior to submitting applications for consideration.

Please contact Hannah Highlander (TAS@up.edu) for further information.

Submit Faculty Development Day Proposals By Feb. 1

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship welcomes proposals to lead Faculty Development Day on May 7, 2019 around a particular theme.  Interested faculty should submit a 1-2 page proposal identifying the keynote speaker and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day.  Sessions later in the day may remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus.  If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one please send your proposal to tas@up.edu by February 1.

Contact Hannah Highlander at tas@up.edu for more information.

Faculty Nominations Welcome for Teaching Award, Scholarship Award

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is accepting faculty nominations for the 2018-2019 Teaching Award and Scholarship Award.  These awards are an opportunity for the University community to recognize and celebrate two of its own for outstanding achievements in teaching and scholarship. The committee will accept nominations until noon on Friday, January 25. Nominations should be submitted on the Committee’s Moodle site.  Submission of supporting materials by nominees will be due by noon on Friday, March 22.

Visit the Academic Senate resources pages for information regarding the nomination process, award criteria, and supporting materials that will be needed by the Committee. Contact Hannah Highlander, mathematics, at tas@up.edu for more information.

 

2018-2019 Butine Faculty Development Funds Awarded

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2018-2019 Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Hannah Highlander, mathematics. Butine award recipients are:

  • Simon Aihiokhai: “Social Justice Understood as Life Flourishing: Perspectives from African Indigenous Religions and Christianity,” $3,295
  • Janet Banks: “Development and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Dedicated Education Unit (DEU),” $4,620
  • Terry Favero: “Sabbatical Research Collaboration,” $2,918
  • Alice Gates: “University of Hawai’i Myron S. Thompson School of Social Work Visiting Scholar Position,” $1,734
  • Christina Ivler: “Obstacle Avoidance Technologies for Unmanned Aerial Systems,” $5,000
  • Jakob Kotas: “Optimal Airline De-Ice Scheduling: An Extended Framework,” $4,960
  • Martin Monto: “Western Society of Criminology, Honolulu, HI, February 7-9,” $2,000
  • Katie O’Reilly: “46th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group, Kauai, HI, February 27 to March 2, 2019,” $786
  • Tara Prestholdt: “Quantifying feedbacks between topography and ecology on rocky shore platforms of the Oregon Coast,” $4,959
  • Briana Rotter: “Longitudinal evaluation of implementing an online palliative and end of life care modules (ELNEC) in prelicensure nursing education,” $4,000
  • Kristin Sweeney: “Quantifying feedbacks, between topography, rock properties, sediment, and ecology on rocky shore platforms of the Oregon Coast,” $3,749.60
  • David Taylor: “A Comparative Study of Sexual Systems and Pollinator Syndromes in Mussaenda taihokuensis and Atlussaenda formosana (Rubiaceae),” $5,000
  • Ben Tribelhorn: “Obstacle Avoidance Technologies for Unmanned Aerial Systems,” $5,000
  • Christine Weilhoefer: “Predicting the effects of warming atmospheric temperatures on coastal wetland ecosystems at a regional scale,” $5,000
  • Kaye Wilson-Anderson: “Strategies for Collaborating with Chinese Nurse Educators in Developing and Implementing Simulation in Their Respective Schools of Nursing,” $4,000.

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

Submit Butine Proposals and Reports through Moodle

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship invites all regular faculty to submit proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications by visiting this link.  Submissions of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are now done through the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle site at this link. The deadline for submission through Moodle and to the applicant’s respective chair (if CAS) is no later than noon on Friday, October 5, 2018.  Please note that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans prior to submitting applications for consideration.

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship will host two workshops to provide more information on the application process: Tuesday, September 4, 10-11 a.m. in BC 215 and Thursday, September 6, 1-2 p.m., in BC 215.

A final reminder:  All interim or completed project reports of previously funded proposals are due to the Teaching and Scholarship Committee through Moodle, as well as the appropriate dean, no later than October 1.  Report forms can be downloaded from the Moodle site listed above.

Please contact Hannah Highlander (TAS@up.edu) for further information.