Faculty Awards 2007-08
Hewlett Planning Grants for Departments and Interdisciplinary Programs
Faculty and Curriculum Development Grants
Summer Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects
McConnell Travel Fund Grants
Faculty Development Release Blocks
Gaarde-Morton Junior Faculty Award
Howard and Doris Troyer Faculty Award
Campbell McConnell Sabbatical Awards
Hewlett Fund for Student Course-Related Conference Attendance
Campbell McConnell Non-Sabbatical Faculty Research Awards
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Hewlett Planning Grants for Departments and Interdisciplinary Programs 2007-08 |
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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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History Department |
Planning a Capstone Course for History Majors |
$300 |
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Religion Department |
Rethinking and Revising the Religion Curriculum at Cornell College |
$200 |
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Faculty and Curriculum Development Grants funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the Dimensions Program 2007-08 |
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The Hewlett Endowment is a Presidential discretionary fund to which the
Office of Academic Affairs applies annually for faculty development
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Project |
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Christie-Pope, Barbara |
Introduction to Neuroscience (designing an introductory course) |
$2,000 |
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Davis, Erin |
Study-Abroad Course Development: Culture and Social Change in Japan |
$900 |
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Hunter, Mark |
Development of Edinburgh Festival Fringe class and production |
$3,000 |
| Reed, Shannon |
Development of an Off-Campus Study Course in Namibia, Africa |
$3,000 |
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Summer Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Projects Funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the Dimensions Program, Summer, 2007 |
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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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Bean, Stephen |
Menger Sponge in n-dimensional space |
$9,000 |
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Beauchamp, Kara |
Evaluating, Selecting, and Implementing Computer Based Tools to Analyze Wind Speed Data |
$4,000 |
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Black, Bob |
An Investigation of the Depredation of Artificial Turtle Nests at the Hawkeye Wildlife Area |
$9,000 |
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Cardon, Jeff |
Genetics of motility and biofilm formation |
$4,500 |
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Condon, Marty |
Study of sexual dimorphism in an undescribed species of fly from western Ecuador |
$2,494 |
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Green, Melinda |
Identifying the sociocultural, biological, and psychological predictors of eating disorder symptomatology |
$4,500 |
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Greenstein, Ben |
Investigate the evolutionary relationships within and between two fossil coral species abundant in the Devonian-age limestones in the vicinity of Mt. Vernon |
$4,500 |
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Liberko, Charles |
Synthesis of Novel Cyanine Dyes and Dyes for Organic Solar Cell Applications |
$4,500 |
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Lichty, Lyle |
Fabrication, Measurement, and Improvement of Organic Solar Cells |
$9,000 |
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Migely, Genevieve |
Research on George Berkeley's theory of mind |
$4,500 |
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Moffitt, Julie |
The physiological effects of acute moderate sleep deprivation (AMSD) |
$4,500 |
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Strong, Cindy |
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 |
Specification in the Millpore Complex: Exactly What Constitutes a Species? |
$4,500 |
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Walsh, Emily |
Deciphering the Western Gneiss Region: zircon geochronology of mafic dikes |
$4,500 |
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Wildenberg, Andy |
Development of a web-based system to be used to aid in the teaching of introductory computer programming courses taught with the Java programming language |
$4,100
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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 July/August, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah |
$1,000 |
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deLaubenfels, Tony |
Travel funding while attending the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan in July/August, 2007 |
$1,000 |
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DeVries, Steve |
Travel funding to attend the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) Conference in Louisville, KY in October, 2007 |
$1,000 |
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Mackler, Stephanie |
Travel funding to attend the annual conference of the International Association for Greek Philosophy in Samos, Greece in July, 2007 |
$1,656 |
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Teague, Craig |
Travel funding to attend the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in August, 2007 in Boston, MA |
$1,000 |
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Whale, Ellen |
Travel funding to attend the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention in Fort Worth, TX in April, 2008 |
$1,500 |
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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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Condon, Marty |
Release time to make major progress on two manuscripts reporting molecular evolution of neotropical true fruit flies (Blepharoneura) |
Release Block |
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Thomas, Aparna |
Release time to analyze data and to prepare to present research at the South Asian Studies Conference, as well as prepare a journal-length article for publication. Research is on whether women are really participating in panchayati raj politics (India) and if quotas (composition of women) of the councils make a difference in agenda setting and policy outcomes. |
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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Freeman, Glenn |
Development of a course titled "Knowledge," "Culture," and the Liberal Arts |
$1,000 |
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The Howard and Doris Troyer Faculty Award, funded by the generosity of an anonymous donor, provides support for a faculty member’s major scholarly or creative project. Howard Troyer was Dean of the College from 1957-1969. |
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Name |
Project |
AWARD |
| Migely, Genevieve | "The Repugnant Soul: Berkeley's Theory of Mind" |
$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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Bean, Stephen |
Write an in-house text for MAT 122; explore the history of the gamma function in statistics with a collaborator at William and Jefferson University, and to research analytic number theory. (half-year leave granted) |
$2,800 |
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Black, Bob |
To continue research on three long-term projects (including preparing, polishing, and submitting manuscripts, and analyzing data): 1) fire corals on San Salvador Island of the Bahamas, 2) the ornate box turtle, and 3) the migration of raptors in Eastern Iowa. (half-year leave granted) |
$8,756 |
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Chamberlain, Don |
Compose a guitar quartet based on images and impressions of Barcelona, Spain (to submit for performances and possible publication), and other scholarly projects. (half-year leave granted) |
$3,000 |
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Dragon, William |
Investigate the neural systems that support social behavior and to develop a proposal for a neuroscience program at Cornell. (half-year leave granted) |
$7,225 |
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Gruber-Miller, John |
To plan, write and develop materials for a Greek reader for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek, and to travel to Ohio and to Greece for research. (half-year leave granted) |
$3,736 |
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Molleur, Joseph |
To gain a reading knowledge of Sanskrit, the language in which the classical texts of Hinduism are written, through a self-study process. (half-year leave granted) |
$506.70 |
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Stavreva, Katy |
To continue work on a book on early modern women and their violent speech acts; to explore new research areas including all-male contemporary productions of Shakespeare in Britain and Eastern Europe; and other scholarly projects. (half-year leave granted) |
$6,885 |
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Strong, Cindy |
To continue research on the metal binding properties of the enzyme superoxide dismutase, including trips to UCLA to meet with collaborator, and to revise analytical chemistry course. (half-year leave granted) |
$7,500 |
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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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Project |
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Christie-Pope, Barbara |
Neuroscience Connections: research at Cerebrovascular Disease and Aging Laboratory at the University of Chicago |
$1,268 |
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Condon, Marty |
Statistical Genetics and Molecular Evolution: Funding for participation in the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at the University of Washington |
$1,224 |
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Hankins, Leslie |
Participation in Modernist Studies Association Annual conference in Long Beach, California |
$1,452 |
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Hejeebu, Santhi |
The Character of the English East India Company: Research at the British Library in London |
$2,000 |
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Knoop, Todd |
Modern Financial Macroeconomics: Panics, Crashes, and Crises: support for publication of economics textbook |
$1,700 |
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McCollum, Andy |
Estimating Neonatal Survivorship in Leatherback Sea Turtles: support for research trip in Costa Rica |
$1,000 |
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Reed, Shannon |
Development of an off-campus study course in Namibia, Africa |
$2,500 |
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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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No awards have been made under this category for 2007-08. |
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