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May 6, 2002 Volume 26, Issue 36 |
Faculty members in the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Education, and Business and Industry, and the School of Architecture are receiving nearly $50,000 in 2002 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 are 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:
Earl Alley, chemistry, $2,500, increasing utilization of modern instrumentation in the organic chemistry laboratories;
Jane Britt, School of Architecture, $2,500, purchasing a digital video and image processor;
Karyn Brown and Alex Brown, communication, $2,395, using two teleprompters for teaching broadcast students skills necessary in today's marketplace: integrating technologies into the classroom;
Sylvia Byrd and Carolyn Bailey, School of Human Sciences, $2,500, integrating technology into medical nutrition therapy;
Jackie Edwards-Henry, music education, $2,500, acquiring keyboard technology for use in class piano;
Mark Fishbein, biological sciences, $2,860, establishing a high resolution stereomicroscopy facility for undergraduate courses in biological sciences;
Sheila Forrester, music education, $2,465, purchasing an IBM compatible computer work station for the music theory middi lab;
Carlen Henington, counselor education/educational psychology, $2,439, purchasing an LCD projector;
J. Sue Hinton, communication, $1,250, expanding ability to teach in areas of performance and theater management (supplies, equipment);
Jack Jordan, foreign languages, $2,457, surveying French and Francophone film;
Jay Kunz, foreign languages, $2,699, enhancing foreign language instruction with an LCD projector;
F. Leo Lynch, geosciences, $2,500, acquiring rock and mineral specimens for use in arts and sciences core curriculum and geosciences major classes;
Taylor Mack, geosciences, $2,445, improving the use of topographical mapping software in the geosciences;
Lee-Anne S. Milburn, landscape architecture, $1,300, addressing visual and kinesthetic learning styles;
Arturo Morales, foreign languages, $2,632, second language acquisition enhanced with multimedia;
Bruce C. Panuska, geosciences, $2,110, Brunton compasses for geology courses;
Jeffrey Pappas, music education, $2,443, purchasing new audio and recording equipment for the choral rehearsal room which will aid in teaching MU 3611 (third-year chorus) and MU 3711 (third-year vocal ensemble);
Allison Pearson, management, Melissa Moore, marketing, and Meghan Millea, economics, $2,500, purchasing and installing the Elmo EV-400AF document camera to be used in four required courses for all COBI majors;
John C. Rodgers III, geosciences, $2,490, exposing undergraduate students to innovative technologies that are high demand: incorporating GPS and GIS into physical geography labs;
Julianne Trautmann, School of Human Sciences, $2,500, enhancing undergraduate students' understanding of textile science through purchasing stereoscopic microscopes; and
Marianne Ulmer, communication, $2,500, facilitating the use of technology in the classroom.