Teaching Scholar Fellowships
President Richard Davenport has awarded 10 Teaching Scholar Fellowships for summer 2009 to support faculty in their commitments to learning.
Each Fellow engages in a project and outcomes that involve teaching and scholarship, enhancing their own learning while helping students to enhance theirs. Teaching Scholar Fellowships are awarded on a competitive, university-wide basis.
Summer 2009 Teaching Scholar Fellows are:
- Cyrus Azarbod (Information Systems & Technology): "Virtual Project Management and Team Collaboration for Online Database Programming Course IT 4/540: Database Management Systems II."
- Kristen Cvancara (Speech Communication): "Implementing POGIL in a 'Softer' Science: Developing POGIL Applications in the Social Sciences."
- M. Anaam Hashmi (Marketing & International Business): "Wind Energy Development and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals in Minnesota."
- Anne-Marie Hoskinson (Biological Sciences): "Designing Inquiry-based Laboratory Experiences for Nonmajors Biology."
- In-Jae Kim (Mathematics & Statistics): "Can SAGE Replace Maple and Mathematica?"
- Namyong Lee (Mathematics & Statistics): "Design a New Interdisciplinary Course in Mathematical Biology."
- Brian Martensen (Mathematics & Statistics): "A Differential Equations Workbook and Lecture Companion."
- Marlene Tappe (Health Science): "Using Formative Assessment to Enhance Pedagogy in Health Education Teacher Education."
- Vincent Winstead (Electrical & Computer Engineering): "Interactive Simulation Development for Electrical Power Systems."
- Sun Kyeong Yu (Philosophy): "When Science Meets Philosophy."
Summer Research Grant For 2008
- Cindra Kamphoff (Human Performance), "Bargaining with Patriarchy: Former Women Coaches' Experiences and Their Decisions to Leave Collegiate Coaching."
- Fei Yuan (Geography), "Finding a Sustainable Way to Future Growth of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Using Remote Sensing and GIS."
- Heather Camp (English), "Writing Development Research: Historical and Pedagogical Contributions."
- Cecilia Pick (Modern Languages), "The Front Matters: Artistic Presentation of Maria Sibylla Merian."
- Lori Ann Lahlum (History), "Norwegian Women’s Landscape and Agriculture on the Northern Prairies and Plains: 1850-1920."
- Qun Zhang (Electrical & Computer Engineering & Technology), "Performance Analysis and Design of Raman Amplifier Assisted Optical Communication Systems."
- Emily Boyd (Sociology & Corrections), "Transforming Masculinity and Femininity on Extreme Makeover."
- Mary Regan (Nursing), "The Domino Effect: Intra-partum Nurses' Conceptions of Risk about Childbirth and the Utilization of Childbirth Technologies to Manage Labor and Birth."
- Tomasz Inglot (Political Science & Law Enforcement), "Welfare State Transformations and Adaptations in Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia)."
- Rachel Droogsma (Speech Communication), "Standpoint Analysis of Women Abuse Survivors’ Messages in the Clothesline Project."
