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November 30, 2015

Fall 2015 Faculty Development Awards and University Small 1xbet best casino website Grants announced

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Faculty Development Awards and University Small 1xbet best casino website Grants, or FDAs and USRGs, are awarded each fall and spring by the Office of the Vice President for 1xbet best casino website .

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New faculty and faculty from disciplines with minimal outside support are given priority for both awards, as are trips or projects that enhance awardees' abilities to compete for extramural funding. Faculty Development Awards and University Small 1xbet best casino website Grant funding comes from recovery of sponsored 1xbet best casino website overhead.

In the fall 2015 round, 39 Faculty Development Award proposals were submitted for a total amount requested of ,326.47. University Small 1xbet best casino website Grants proposals numbered 26, for a total amount requested of 8,725.81.

Fall 2015 Faculty Development Awards and University Small 1xbet best casino website Grants awards totaled ,736.56. Congratulations to all awardees.

Faculty Development Awards

  • Andrew Casto, 1xbet best casino website Art, solo exhibition and lecture at Salvo Lanteri Gallery in Milan, Italy, ,133.52.
  • Harlan Weaver, 1xbet best casino website Women's Studies, "Shelter promises: Encounters in the ruff," European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden, ,951.
  • Sam Bell,1xbet best casino website Political Science, "Territory, power, and conflict," Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, Milan, Italy, ,212.23.
  • Julia Day, 1xbet best casino website Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design, EBC Annex 66: 3rd Expert Meeting of the Working Phase, Vienna, Austria, ,709.62.
  • Brent Chamberlain, 1xbet best casino website Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning, "Using landscape visualization to inform streetscape design," Digital Landscape Architecture 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, ,544.
  • Juan Du, 1xbet best casino website Statistics, "Spatial functional modeling of weather change impact on corn yield in Kansas," 3rd Conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics, Avignon, France, ,512
  • Jin Wang, 1xbet best casino website Economics, "Do birds of a feather flock together? Platform's quality screening and end-users' choices," International Conference of Industrial Economics and Empirical Industrial Organization Workshop, Hangzhou and Shanghai, China, ,480.
  • Weixing Song, 1xbet best casino website Statistics, "Statistical inferences with Laplace measurement errors," International Conference on the Frontier of Statistics, Beijing, China, ,458.
  • Xiaochen Zhang, A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, "Effects of self-affirmation on publics' perception of crisis," International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan, ,332.85.
  • Nancy Muturi, A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, "Motivation for Obesity Reduction among Adolescents in Low-income Communities in Three U.S. States" and "Students' Perceptions about Diversity Issues in Public Relations," International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan, ,187.70.
  • Colene Lind, 1xbet best casino website Communication Studies, "How citizens use language to signal commitments in environmental decision-making," International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan, ,185.
  • Chad Miller, 1xbet best casino website Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources, "Effects of pre-plant bulb soaks and basal root trimming on growth and development of three amaryllis (Hippeastrum) cultivars," International Society for Horticultural Science Flower Bulb and Herbaceous Perennial Symposium, Kunming, China, ,000.
  • Joseph Sanders, 1xbet best casino website English, "How historians actually work: Theorizing children's nonfiction," China-U.S. Children's Literature Symposium, Qingdao, China, ,893.99.
  • Dustin Headley, Department of Interior Architecture & Product Design, "How do we sketch with someone 1,000 miles away," "Investigating the digital/analog/cognitive collision through codified CNC mill watercolor painting," and "1xbet best casino website to practice," Architectural Science Association, Melbourne, Australia, ,000.
  • Julie Pentz, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, "Tap To Togetherness: Building family relationships through tap dance," Ghana, Africa, ,000.
  • Bradford Wiles, School of Family Studies and Human Services, "Bringing engaged, applied, developmental 1xbet best casino website on child development to Ghana, Africa, ,000.
  • David Auckly, 1xbet best casino website Mathematics, "Equivariant hyperbolic corks," Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, 7.

University Small 1xbet best casino website Grants

  • Alice Boyle, Division of Biology, "Dispersal and migratory connectivity of a declining grassland songbird," ,331.
  • Gretchen Sassenrath, 1xbet best casino website Agronomy, "Sustainable production practices for claypan soils in Southeast Kansas," ,194.
  • Jooyoun Kim, 1xbet best casino website Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design, "Breathable omniphobic nanoweb fabrication via electrospinning and plasma process," ,000.
  • Ruth Gurgel, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, "'We can't afford to be colorblind: 'Culturally relevant pedagogy in music education," ,883.
  • Briana Nelson Goff, School of Family Studies and Human Services, "A 10-year follow-up study of 50 army couples," ,500.
  • Fransesco Orsi, 1xbet best casino website Geography, "Population density and the availability of green areas: Exploring spacial patterns in the 10 largest U.S. cities," ,300.
  • Kristin Malek, 1xbet best casino website Hospitality Management, "Fair and festival food safety," ,259.40.
  • Alissandra Stoyan, 1xbet best casino website Political Science, "The effect of constituent assembly reform processes on democracy in contemporary Latin America," ,189.
  • Jason Scuilla, 1xbet best casino website Art, International Artist in Residence, two solo exhibitions, and lecture in Venice, Italy, ,750.
  • Laura Valentin-Rivera, 1xbet best casino website Modern Languages, "Understanding the writing practices of Spanish heritage learners," ,836.25
  • Maureen Gorman, 1xbet best casino website Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, "Pilot studies of iron uptake mechanisms in insects," ,147.

Many thanks to staff in the Office of 1xbet best casino website and Sponsored Programs for their work administering these vital funding programs and to members of the review panel: Joel Anderson, Office of 1xbet best casino website and Sponsored Programs; Marne Arthaud-Day, College of Business Administration; Marcellus Caldas, Office of International Programs; Adriana Gonzalez, K-State Libraries; Sarah Hancock, Office of the Vice President for 1xbet best casino website ; Dustin Headley, College of Architecture, Planning & Design; Timothy Keane, College of Architecture, Planning & Design; Michael Krysko, College of Arts & Sciences; Karen Large, College of Arts & Sciences; Mary Lou Marino, Office of 1xbet best casino website and Sponsored Programs; Emily McLaurin, College of Arts & Sciences; Mervi Pakaste, College of Arts & Sciences; Julie Pentz, College of Arts & Sciences; Dana Reinert, K-State Olathe; Gurpreet Singh, College of Engineering; and Stephen Welch, College of Agriculture.