The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the Butine Faculty Development Fund Fall cycle, according to committee chair Diane Sotak, library. Butine award recipients are:
- Lauren Berger, RISE-UPPP: Research Involving the Systematic Evaluation of an Underrepresented Psychologists Pipeline Program ($5000)
- Itzel Cruz Megchun, Design competencies futures ($3700)
- Katie Danielson, Literacy Research Association Conference, Virtual, December 2-5th ($400)
- Alexa Dare, Intimate Relations: Communicating (in) the Anthropocene ($2000)
- Eli Goldwyn, Mathematical Models of the Opioid Epidemic ($3000)
- Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, International Congress of Americanists (ICA 2021), Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil, July 19-23, 2020 ($2000) and Germany Unveiled: Muslim Refugee Women Encounter Twenty Years of Headscarf Debates –a critical look at Germany’s integration system ($3000)
- Rebekah Hanson, Researching and Performing Orchestral Works by BIPOC and Women Composers ($4146)
- Kevin Jones, Poetry Power: Pilot Test of a Brief Therapeutic Poetry Writing Intervention for Youth who have Experienced Trauma ($4,845)
- Deirdre Katz, Exploring Transgenerational Prosociality with Neuroendocrine markers: Acute Reactivity of Cortisol in Nursing Mothers ($5000)
- Jakob Kotas, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Pacific Northwest Section Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 24-26, 2021 ($2000)
- Don Norton, Jazz Quartet Tour and Album Recording ($5000)
- Sarina Saturn, Exploring Transgenerational Prosociality with Neuroendocrine Markers: Acute Reactivity of Oxytocin in Nursing Mothers ($5000)
- Stephanie Sideras, Exploring the effect of mindfulness on the development of clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students ($3411)
- Buck Taylor, Pre-tenure grant opportunities in chemistry ($3000)
- Christine Weilhoefer, Nutrient limitation of primary production in rivers along an urban to rural gradient in Shiga Prefecture, Japan ($5000)
For more information, please contact Sotak at tas@up.edu.
Alexandria “Allie” Hill, international languages and cultures, the 2018 recipient of the Faculty Award for Scholarship, will share her thoughts in a talk titled “Feminist Scholarly Practice” on Friday, February 22, at 4 p.m., in Franz Hall room 231. All staff and faculty are invited and light refreshments will be provided.
UP is a relatively small NCAA Division I school, meaning that we have a proportionately large population of student-athletes: as such, most faculty and academic staff have athletes in our classes at some point. Do those students bring any particular needs or assets when it comes to thinking about mental health? In 
