Faculty Awards 2006-07
Hewlett Planning Grants for Departments and Interdisciplinary Programs
Faculty and Curriculum Development Grants
Summer Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Project
Dimensions Summer Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects
McConnell Travel Fund Grants
Faculty Development Release Blocks
Gaarde-Morton Junior Faculty Award
Ryan-Sklenicka Faculty Award
Campbell McConnell Sabbatical Awards
Hewlett Fund for Student Course-Related Conference Attendance
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Hewlett Planning Grants for Departments and Interdisciplinary Programs 2006-07 |
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The Hewlett Endowment is a Presidential discretionary fund to which the Office of Academic Affairs applies annually for faculty development support. |
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Biology Dept. |
Redesign of the Biochemistry and Molecular |
$600 |
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Computer Science Department |
The Design and Presentation of Software |
$450
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Education Department |
Discussion of curricular and departmental issues |
$750 |
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Education Department and Physical Education Department |
Review of Interdepartmental Implementation of State of Iowa Health Teaching Certification |
$900 |
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Interdisciplinary Faculty Group |
New Interdisciplinary Program in Text, Media, and Performance (TeMP) |
$1,650 |
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Women’s Studies Program |
Consideration of the benefits/challenges and feasibility of implementing curricular enhancements |
$450 |
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Faculty and Curriculum Development Grants funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the Dimensions Program 2006-07 |
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The Hewlett Endowment is a Presidential discretionary fund to which the
Office of Academic Affairs applies annually for faculty development
support. |
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Project |
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Dragon, Bill |
Interdisciplinary Teaching of BIO 141 and PSY 161 |
$1,450 |
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Greenstein, Ben |
Development of a field course in Western Australia to allow students from Cornell and the Univ. of Western Australia to compare modern and ancient sedimentary environments |
$1,325 |
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Lauroesch, Janet |
Landscape Drawing/Painting I & II |
$2,250 |
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McCollum, Andy |
Course development: Marine turtle biology and conservation |
$3,000 |
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McOmber, Chris |
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Art, Literature, and Material Culture |
$3,000 |
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Moffitt, Julia |
Increasing Interdisciplinary Competence in the Sciences: Biopsychology Curriculum Development |
$2,000 |
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Strong, Cindy |
Joint Introductory Course in Biology and Chemistry |
$3,000 |
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Walsh, Emily |
Teaching the National Parks: Geology and Contemporary Issues |
$1,600 |
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Summer Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects Funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the Dimensions Program, Summer, 2006 |
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The Hewlett Endowment is a Presidential discretionary fund to which the
Office of Academic Affairs applies annually for faculty development
support. |
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Project |
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Astley, Sue |
Neurological evaluation and neuropsychological rehabilitation of patients with cognitive, behavioral, and emotional disturbance caused by brain dysfunction |
$3,250 |
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Bean, Stephen |
History of Gamma Function |
$4,500 |
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Beauchamp, Kara |
Analyzing Wind Speed |
$4,500 |
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Black, Bob |
An Investigation of the Reproductive Biology of Ornate Box Turtles in Eastern Iowa |
$9,000 |
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Cardon, Jeff |
Isolation of bacteriophage from local environments; biofilms; molecular techniques in microbial ecology |
$4,500 |
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Christie-Pope, Barbara |
An In-Vitro Study of Neurodegeneration |
$4,500 |
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Denniston, Rhawn |
Geoarcheology: A Geomorphological Investigation of Late Pleistocene Shoreline Deposits in West-Central Protugal |
$4,500 |
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Liberko, Charles |
Synthesis of Novel Cyanine Dyes |
$4,500 |
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Lichty, Lyle |
Fabricating and Testing Organic Photovoltaic Cells |
$9,000 |
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Strong, Cindy |
Production, Purification, and Metal-Binding Studies of Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase |
$4,500 |
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Teague, Craig |
Interaction between polyoxometalates and metal oxide surfaces |
$4,500 |
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Tepper, Craig |
Millepora complanata and Millepora alcicornis: Speciation or Phenotypic Plasticity? |
$4,500 |
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Wildenberg, Andy |
Distributed cryptography |
$4,500 |
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Dimensions Summer Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects |
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The Dimensions program, funded by the generosity of Dr. Lawrence Dorr ’63, aims to educate, inform, and inspire Cornell students regarding the art, culture, and science of healthcare. |
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Cardon, Jeff |
Isolation of bacteriophage from local environments; biofilms; molecular techniques in microbial ecology |
$4,000 |
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Condon, Marty |
The evolution of highly host-specific insects |
$4,500 |
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Moffitt, Julia |
The effects of vagal nerve stimulation on cardiovascular function and ingestive behavior in rats |
$4,000 |
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Sherman, Derin |
Investigating microorganisms, such as green algae, that serve to collect solar energy |
$3,500 |
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Tepper, Craig |
The Nature-Nurture Controversy: The Role Environment Plays in the Expression of Genotype and Phenotype |
$4,000 |
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The McConnell Travel Fund, established through the generosity of Campbell McConnell ’50, recognizes that regular professional interaction and continued development for faculty members is important to the intellectual life of Cornell College. |
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Cannon, Ann |
Travel to support attendance at the Joint Statistics Meetings (JSM) in August, 2006 in Seattle, Washington |
$1,150 |
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Freeman, Glenn |
Travel expenses to attend the Associated Writing Programs conference in February, 2007 in Atlanta, GA |
$1,325 |
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Greenstein, Ben |
Travel expenses to present research in Perth, Western Australia and in Philadephia, PA |
$2,500 |
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Hankins, Leslie |
Travel funding to attend Modernist Studies Conference in Oklahoma |
$980 |
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Martin, James |
Travel expenses to attend the Joint National meetings of American Musicology Society and Society for Music Theory; attend opera performances; Tristan project; music conferences/festivals |
$2,500 |
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Mouton, Michelle |
Travel expenses to participate in Trollope & Gender conference at Exeter University, UK in July, 2006 |
$1,044 |
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Peterson, Dick |
Travel expenses to attend a Professional Development Seminar in Education for Global Citizenship in Nicaragua June-July, 2006 |
$2,000 |
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Teague, Craig |
Travel expenses to attend the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Chicago in March, 2007 |
$1,000 |
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The College has designed these blocks of release time to promote the scholarly development of its faculty. |
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Project |
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Hejeebu, Santhi |
Release time to research the “Economic Origins of British India” and to craft the findings into a single journal-length publication |
Release Block |
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Teague, Craig |
Release time to synthesize research on aspects of surface chemistry, including spectroscopy, nanoscience, colloid science, and fundamental investigation into molecule/surface bonding |
Release Block Awarded |
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The Gaarde-Morton Junior Faculty Award, funded through the generosity of Richard A. “Joe” Morton (’50) and Joy Gaarde-Morton (’80 Honorary Alumna), honors the many Cornell College faculty who have effectively inspired, advised, encouraged, and fostered a love of learning in Cornell students over the years. |
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Mackler, Stephanie |
Foundations of Liberal Arts Education |
$1,000 |
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Teague, Craig |
Developing an Interdisciplinary course grounded in Chemistry; CHE 2XX Environmental Chemistry |
$1,000 |
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The Ryan-Sklenicka Faculty Award, funded by the generosity of alumnus and trustee Richard Ryan ’67 and his wife Carol Sklenicka, provides support for a faculty member’s major scholarly or creative project. |
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Stavreva, Katy |
To complete a book-length study of female rhetorical violence in early modern England: the curses, invectives, and ecstatic prophesies publicly wielded by women between the 1590s and the 1660s, as well as the representations of these verbal assaults on the Renaissance stage |
$3,000 |
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The McConnell Sabbatical Award, funded by Campbell McConnell ’50, supports a faculty members’ major scholarly, creative, or curricular project during his/her sabbatical leave. Cornell faculty receive half-year or full-year sabbaticals which are awards in themselves of time to pursue projects. McConnell funding is not requested for all sabbatical projects. |
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Cannon, Ann |
Developing a more modern approach to teaching statistics; working with statistician at Bowdoin College to develop modern statistics lab experiences; work with statisticians at Wittenberg University to develop writing exercises; teach-team statistics courses at Colorado College (half-year leave granted) |
$5,605 |
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Denniston, Rhawn |
Research focus is applying geochemical methods to reconstruct past climates; publish results of completed projects, conduct field and laboratory work to advance newer research, reconfigure course; research work at University of New Mexico and Australian National University (full-year leave granted) |
$15,000 |
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Donham, Jean |
Develop plans for Center for Teaching and Learning programming and resources for both students and faculty; design library faculty development material as substance for Block Break Thursdays during the 07-08 academic year; visit Centers for Teaching and Learning in Connecticut and researchers in either Europe or Australia, New Zealand (half-year leave granted) |
$3,895 |
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Ganzel, Alice |
Research the impact of trait and state emotions on decision-making in adolescents, and to investigate developmental changes associated with these variables; publish findings (half-year leave granted) |
$2,880 |
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Lacy-Salazar, Carol |
Further develop on-line Spanish tutorial and work toward making Spanish placement exam available on-line; travel to Bolivia to take a Quechua review course and spend time living in a Quechua-speaking community (second half of a year-long leave granted) |
$2,500 |
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McCollum, Andy |
Research on leatherback sea turtles; obtain estimates of mortality of hatchlings’ first day at sea; work with Dr. James Spotila (Drexel University) at Playa Grande, Costa Rica (full-year leave granted) |
$13,000 |
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Mouton, Michelle |
Continued work on a book on the Victorian Parliamentary Novel; research in libraries in the U.K.; complete and circulate articles currently underway; develop new courses and reenergize existing courses; complete several technology-related projects (half-year leave granted) |
$9,150 |
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Ochoa-Shivapour, Marcela |
Research the Chile of today; study its new society, interview political leaders from today and the past; write an essay/book; incorporate findings into course; travel to Chile (half-year leave granted) |
$2,500 |
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Plaut, Tony |
Dedicated studio work to produce a new round of oil paintings; travel to a major international urban art center to study contemporary art ( Venice, Italy- Basel, Switzerland or NYC-London); nurture gallery affiliations for community art displays (half-year leave granted) |
$9,325 |
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Cotton, Greg (faculty) |
OCLC Members Council Meeting in Quebec |
$300 |
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DeLong, Steve (faculty) |
Presentation of Nine Mile Canyon Holocene River Dynamics research at North-Central Section, Geological Society of America meeting in Lawrence, Kansas April 11-13, 2007 |
$300 |
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Greenstein, Ben (faculty) |
Participation in North-Central Section, Geological Society of America meeting in Lawrence, Kansas in April, 2007 |
$300 |
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Greenstein, Ben (faculty) |
Participation in North-Central Section, Geological Society of America meeting in Lawrence, Kansas in April, 2007 |
$300 |
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Mackler, Stephanie (faculty) & 6 students in EDU 324 |
Attendance of students in EDU 324 at the 2007 Governor's Conference on LGBT Youth, February 22, 2007 at Drake University in Des Moines |
$328 |
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Strong, Cindy (faculty) and 7 students in CHE 333 |
Advanced Analytical Chemistry field trip to attend the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in March, 2007 in Chicago |
$900 |
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Teague, Craig (faculty) Valenstein, Justin (student) |
Student research presentations at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in March, 2007 in Chicago |
$600 |
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Teague, Craig (faculty) |
Presenting student leadership experiences and receiving a national award at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in March, 2007 in Chicago |
$300 |