Schillig Teaching grants awarded

Faculty members in the School of Architecture and the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Arts and Sciences are receiving 1999 Schillig Special Teaching Project grants.

Coordinated by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Schillig Projects program provides financial support to encourage new ideas for improving undergraduate teaching. Specifically, funds are provided for teaching activities and/or materials for which the usual financial resources do not exist.

Awards can be as much as $2,500, though larger amounts have been considered when a proposal is deemed to have significant merit. Normally, no more than one award is given to a project proposer within a 24-month period.

Receiving awards this year are:

• Jack Bartlett, Art, $500 for supplemental funding for Art 4003-6, "Encounters: France."

• Wanda Cheek, School of Human Sciences, $2,500 for improving undergraduate students' computer and oral presentation skills.

• Shannon Criss, School of Architecture, $2,500 for extending the site visit with video documentation.

• Jim DelPrince, Plant and Soil Sciences, $1,945 for floral design tables.

• Sue Hinton, Communication, $2,500 for purchase of equipment for costume construction lab.

• Marian Huttenstine, Communication, $2,698 for desktop publishing for beginning public relations majors.

• Chitose Little and Jay P. Kunz, Foreign Languages, $2,260 for providing access to Japanese language through technology.

• Wade Lough, Art, $2,000 for student creation of an electronic magazine.

• Peter W.K. Ma, Entomology and Plant Pathology, $2,500 for a video camera microscope system to enhance efficiency of entomological information delivery.

• Beth Miller, School of Human Sciences, $1,300 for enhancing instruction and integrating technology into the teaching of history of decorative arts in the interior design curriculum.

• John Jay Miller, School of Architecture, $1,600 for a web-based slide/lecture database.

• Joan Mylroie, Geosciences, $2,500 for computer-generated slide presentations to enhance "Introduction to World Geography."

• Bruce Panuska, Geosciences, $2,500 for equipment for student field programs.

• Thomas Schurch, Landscape Architecture, $450 for improving development and presentation in landscape architecture.

• John Welborn, Biological Sciences, $2,298 for purchase of equipment for computer lab for human anatomy course.