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Tammy Berberi, Assistant Professor of French, and the French Discipline have  been awarded an $1,800 grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) in support of Entre Nous, UMM’s French student organization, to bring the Tournées Film Festival to UMM. The Festival will include five award-winning feature films from across the francophone world. The Tournées Festival is designed to help bring contemporary Francophone cinema to college or university campuses, conceived to encourage schools to begin their own self-sustaining francophone film festivals. The program is made possible by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Grand Marnier Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Franco-American Cultural Fund. |
Viktor Berberi, Lecturer, secured $300 to help fund the activities of a new Italia n Club through the National Italian American Foundation.
Students will use the money to acquire new videos for an film nights,
to fund participation in the annual International Fair, and to host a
Bocce tournament. In 2003, he was awarded $1500 by the National Italian American
Foundation to purchase materials for the new Italian program at UMM.
The grant allowed the acquisition of language-learning software and a
small collection of DVDs for the LTC, in addition to other pedagogical
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Roger Bolem an, Director of Media Services, has been awarded $7,580 through the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service to develop a video treatment for a one-hour documentary on wetland
restoration. This grant is the first phase of the video documentary
process. The film will follow a local land owner as he struggles to
restore former wetlands to their natural beauty. The goal of the
documentary is to encourage the preservation and restoration of
wetlands in the Midwest.
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Sylke Boyd, Assistant Professor of Physics, has received a Grant-In-Aid i n the amount of $18,147 for her research entitled, "Computer Modeling
of Point Defect Formation in Crystalline RDX." The research
studies the properties of defects in the energetic compound RDX and
aims at understanding their role during crystal formation. Defects
increase the sensitivity of the material for detonation, which is
undesirable. The computer model will help to find conditions for the
crystal formation or handling which minimize the defect concentration
and therefore the sensitivity.
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Donna L. Chollett,
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Area Studies
coordinator, has been awarded a 2006 Summer Research Fellowship for her
project, “Women in Agriculture: Renegotiating Gender In The Berry
Fields Of Michoacán, Mexico.” She will investigate the renegotiation of
gender roles in a rural Mexican community where economic
transformations contributed to rising unemployment.
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Mark Collier, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, has been awarded a 2006 S ummer Research Fellowship and a McKnight Summer Fellowship for his project Hume's Naturalistic Approach to Mind and Morality,
which examines the positions of the Scottish philosopher, David Hume,
by drawing on recent evidence from the cognitive and social sciences.
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James F. Cotter, Professor of Geology, received more than $70,000 from the  National Science Foundation for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program
in which eight women will be involved in field and laboratory research
to determine the origin of glacial deposits of Quaternary age in
west-central Minnesota and late Paleozoic age in western Sao Paulo
state, Brazil. The program will take place summer 2005. |
Bradley Deane, Assistant Professor of English, was awarded a Faculty Summ er Research Fellowship and a McKnight Summer Fellowship to assist his work on late Victorian popular fiction. In particular,
these grants will support research into a relatively unexplored genre
of fiction, the "lost world" story, which sheds new light on the
popular interpretation of the growth of British Empire at the end of
the nineteenth century. |
Matt Din go, Teaching Specialist, received a $1,100 grant from the Lake Region Arts Council
to bring renowned guitarist Tim Sparks to campus. Sparks hosted a
master class, workshops for middle school and high school students, and
a concert. The concert, titled Headstock, March 27, 2004. |
David Fluegel, Community Program Specialist in the Center for Small Towns, recently  received a grant for $4,000 from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
to host the "Futures Festival: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies
for Older Adults and Communities." The event helped link older adults,
their advocates and students to opportunities for productive and
meaningful activities that respond to their individual interests and
community needs. |
Pieranna Garavaso, Professor of Philosophy, was awarded a grant of $2,00 0 through the Minnesota Humanities Commission to fund the 29th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium.
The Colloquium is a year-long series that brings to UMM distinguished
speakers on a wide variety of topics. This year's colloquium is titled
"Contemporary Debates on the U.S. Constitution." Topics this year
include "What Do We Need to Know about Human Nature?", "Subordinate
Speech and Expressive Liberty: Reflections on Pornography, Hate Speech,
and the Moral Bounds of Freedom," and "Natural Law and the
Constitution."
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Becca Gercken-Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English, was awarded a 2005  President's Multicultural Faculty Research Award of approximately $7,000 for her project, "Authentic Reservations: The
Rhetorical War for Native American Identity." The project explores
ethnic authenticity in contemporary Native American literature and how
concepts of ethnic identity are affected by both public policy and
popular culture. She was also awarded a 2004 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship and McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities of $5,000 and a 2004 President's Multicultural Faculty Research Award of $6,998 to support this project. |
Troy G oodnough, Campus Sustainability Coordinator, and Nancy Carpenter, Associate Professor of Chemistry, have been awarded a $4,735 grant from the Jeffers Foundation to help develop, promote, and purchase equipment for a new sustainability festival for area fifth and sixth grade students. The pilot program is called Plan-It-Green. Plan-It-Green seeks to help educate students about sustainability with hands-on activities, all taught by members of the UMM and Morris community. These activities focus on several topics: global warming, wind energy, biomass, ocean acidification, conservation, recycle-reuse, the history of trash, biodiversity, nature writing, and renewable energy. UMM and the Morris Area School District, along with only 11 other schools and agencies, are among the first in the state of Minnesota to receive Partnership Awards from the Jeffers Foundation.
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Stephen Gross, Assistant Professor of History, received a grant of $2,000 from the  Minnesota Humanities Commission
through its "We the People" initiative. The grant will be used for
expenses in compiling oral history projects and in presenting the UMM's
upcoming "Oral History Symposium." During the event, students and
faculty will present documentation of their findings of the history of
West Central School of Agriculture (WCSA). The WCSA was an agricultural high school located on the current UMM campus from 1910-1963.
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Sonia Hidalgo-Nunez,
Assistant Professor of Spanish, has been selected  to participate in a
2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. She will
participate in the "Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" institute in New York City this summer. |
Jamey Jones, Assistant Professor of Geology, was awarded a grant from Mo ntana State University and the U.S. Geological Survey in partnership with Jones’ colleague, Colin Shaw, of Montana State University. Montana State was awarded $11,000 from the U.S.G.S. Educational Mapping Program to do geological mapping in the Glenwood Canyon area of western Colorado. Jones was given $2,400 of this grant to provide field and analytical support for determining the ages of rocks exposed in the area. UMM students Bobby Goodfellow and Megan Mekoli worked with Jones in western Colorado to map rock exposures and collect samples to be dated. The rocks they are studying are believed to be between 1.7 and 1.4 billion years old and the funded research is expected to provide new insights into how parts of the North American continent were built and modified more than one billion years ago.
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Len Ke eler, Assistant Professor of Physics, received a Grant-in-Aid award of $22,062 from the U of M Graduate School. This grant supports his
research in the classical dynamics of highly excited atoms using a
technique called recurrence spectroscopy. Using new laser diode
technology he intends to excite atomic potassium to a highly excited
Rydberg state (principal quantum-number n‰100-150) under the influence
of an external electric field. The research is fundamental, probing the
boundaries between quantum and classical descriptions of matter.
Recurrence spectroscopy allows him to interpret experimental absorption
spectra semi-classically and describe the electron motion within the
atom in terms of specific classical orbits.
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Jong-M in Kim, Assistant Professor of Statistics, was awarded a travel grant in the amount of $2,000 from the American Statistical Association. Dr. Kim will present a paper at the International Statistical Institute meeting in Sydney, Australia. |
Jessica Larson, Associate Professor of Studio Art, recieved a 2006 Grant-i n-Aid of Research scholarship for her project, Lover's Eye: New Sculptural Forms in Plaster and Fabric from the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School.
She will create a series of artworks uniting plaster reliefs and
clothing-based forms that are innovative in composition, texture and
scale, and that merge digital and traditional plate photography. The
final artwork will be a combination of plaster, fabric, and tintype
imagery that explores the dynamic between the lover and the beloved. |
Pareena  G. Lawrence,
Associate Professor of Economics, has been awarded a 2006 Summer
Research Fellowship for, “Can Quotas in Political Participating Empower
Women and Influence Economic Development at the Local Level?: A Case
Study of Northern India .” Her project will examine the effect of
gender quotas on local municipal elections on female empowerment and
political participation. |
Argie Manolis, Instructor in English and Service Learning Coordinator, was a warded a grant through the Corporation for National and Community Service.
This is the third yearly award in the amount of $95,160 (for a three
year total of $285,480). The grant has fostered the development of
partnerships between University faculty and students with the community
to promote recreational, theraputic and educational activities for
elders and children; to promote ecconomic development and enviromental
stewardship by meeting the needs of area farmers; and to promote
economic development and enviromental stewardship by meeting the needs
of area farmers; and to promote arts and cultural opportunites for all.
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Thomas McRoberts, Continuing Education, Regional Programs and Summer Session  (CERP) was awarded an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute grant of $5,000 to develop a pilot program in "UMM Lifelong Learning: Liberal Arts Courses for Seniors in WEst Central Minnesota." The grant will support program research and development for lifelong learning courses in 2007 through CERP in collaboration with regional community education programs.
Gretchen  Minton, Assistant Professor of English, was awarded a McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities for work on her project, "Critical Edition of Shakespeare's Timon of
Athens for Arden (Third Series)." The fellowships will help Minton
complete editorial work on Timon of Athens for the Arden Shakespeare
series, the premiere publisher of critical editions of Shakespeare's
plays.
She has also received a Grant-In-Aid in the amount of $9,927 to continue her work on her project for this project.
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The Office of Student Activities recently received grants from the Min nesota State Arts Board (MSAB) and Arts Midwest to co-sponsor the 2005-06 Campus Activities Council Performing Arts Series.
The $6,424 grantfrom MSAB will help bring the entire series to UMM and
the $2,500 grant from Arts Midwest will co-sponsor the Aquila Theatre
Company's production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on March 19, 2006.
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The Office of Student Activities has been awarded a $5,500 grant from t he Minnesota State Arts Board in support of UMM's Performing Arts Series - a five-event series presenting national and international music,
theatre, and dance artists - and UMM's 28th annual three-day Jazz Fest.
The Series also received a $1,290 grant from Arts Midwest for the April 2008 performance by the dynamic orchestral quartet, Quartetto Gelato whose musicians thrill their audiences with the mastery of eight
instruments — from oboe to accordion — and the wonderfully unexpected
bonus of a brilliant operatic tenor. Classical masterworks, operatic
arias, sizzling tangos — through every genre, the musicians make
audience members feel at home with their relaxed stage presence and
delightful humor.
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Sandy  Olson-Loy, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, and Henry Fulda, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Life were awarded $176,009 under the U.S. Department of Justice Grants To Combat Violent Crimes Against Women on Campuses Program. UMM was one of only 10 new programs funded in 2003.
The program provides a unique opportunity for higher education
institutions to partner with police, prosecutors, members of the
judiciary, victim advocates, health care providers and other related
groups in order to reduce violent crimes against women on campus. These
comprehensive efforts are designed to enhance victim services,
implement prevention and education programs, and develop and strengthen
security and investigation strategies in order to prevent and respond
to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, ad stalking
crimes on campuses. Fulda values this strong partnership and noted, "We
look at our efforts in connection with this grant as continued evidence
of the campus and community's commitment to meeting UMM student needs."
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Tracy O tten, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, has been awarded a 2006 Grant-in-Aid for Research scholarship from the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School for Large Scale Monoprints as a Vehicle for Exploring Temporal Transformation, which will allow her to acquire a large format intaglio press so that she can create large-scale prints for exhibition.
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Clifford Panton, Assistant Professor of Music, received a 2004 President's Mu lticultural Faculty Research Award of $7,000 for his project, "CD Recording of Violin and Piano Works by
William Grant Still." The project will help fund Panton's upcoming CD
recording of works by historic Afro-American composer William Grant
Still. He also received a Grant in Aid award of $5,852 to further fully
fund this project.
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Ted Pappenfus, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has recently received a number of grants to support his research. His 2005 American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Foundation Summer Research Fellowship
for $8,000 will facilitate collaborative research between Pappenfus and
Prof. Seth Rasmussen at North Dakota State University focusing on the
design and synthesis of novel organic materials. His 2004 Grant-In-Aid
for $17,136 supports research on the synthesis and investigation of
organic materials for use as semiconductors in thin-film transistors.
His National Science Foundation - Research Site for Educators in Chemistry (RSEC)
grant for $5,500 provides support for new research collaborations with
Twin Cities faculty members. This grant will help support research on
platinum complexes for use as environmental sensors.
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Julie Pelletier, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was awarded a President's Multicultural Faculty Research Award,
a two-year grant for $14,000. This will support summer research in New
Zealand to conduct fieldwork among the Maori with a focus on the role
of  ritual and ceremony in tribal identity. This data should be
comparable to data gathered during fieldwork with a Native American
tribe and will provide material for a book manuscript on the use of
ritual as strategy.
She was also awarded a Council on Public Engagement Grant for $6,260 to conduct, along with UMM students, ethnohistoric research on the Morris Indian Boarding School. The
research will capture stories and handed-down memories from family and
community members. Students in the Contemporary Native Americans course
next fall, as part of a service learning option, will travel to area
reservations and talk with elders and others interested in the project.
Elders will also be invited to visit UMM in the spring, to share
stories and participate in a drum ceremony of remembrance and healing.
The information gathered will become part of the history of UMM and
will also be used in the creation of a memorial display on campus.
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Lowell R asmussen, Associate Vice Chancellor for Physical Plant and Master Plan, is working on the Campus Heritage Program, funded for $180,000 by the J. Paul Getty Trust. At the heart of UMM is the West Central School of Agriculture and Experiment Station Historic District. This grant seeks to complete research on the historic buildings and grounds, create a historic preservation plan, and establish on-going educational opportunities related to the historic campus.
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John Ross, Assistant Professor of Music, was awarded  a $500 College Workshop Grant by the Minnesota Band Directors Association.
The grant helped underwrite the expense for presenting the UMM Band's
25th Annual Concert Band Festival, Conducting Symposium, and Festival
Honor Band in November 2003. This festival brought 80 high school
students from 19 different schools to UMM in the fall. The performance
featured two world premieres, a guest conducting appearance by Dr. Jack
Delaney, Director of Bands at Southern Methodist University, and solo
appearances by Thomas Riccobono, Trombone Professor at Interlochen Arts
Academy, and Dr. Hope Koehler, Professor of Voice at UMM.
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Pat rick Shorb, Instructor of History, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Japan Advisory Board (JAB) of the Social Science Research Council
for his project entitled "From Retailing the Nation to Retail Politics:
Shopkeeper Political Activism and the Invention of Tradition in
Transwar Japan, 1925-1965." Patrick will spend 11 months in Japan at
Hakuoh University in Tochigi Prefecture , working with noted economics
historian Professor Kenji Higuchi.
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Janet Schrunk Ericksen, Associate Professor of English, received a 2003 Na tional Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
($5000, with $6000 added by the University of Minnesota ) for a project
on the library context and early reception of an Old English book of
poetry. The research, focused on study of early English manuscripts,
was carried out primarily at Cambridge University and the British
Library, and the results will be part of a book-in-progress on the
poems and the material text of Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript
Junius 11.
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James G. Schryver, Assistant Professor of Art History, has been awarded a 2006 Summer Research Fellowship and a McKnight Summer Fellowship for his project, “Port St. Symeon Ware and its Distribution in the
Crusader States.” His research involves the compositional analysis of
pieces of Crusader pottery from Port St. Symeon, Syria, currently found
in the National Museum of Denmark, which will be used to address issues
in understanding life and society in different areas settled by the
crusaders.
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Ray Schultz, Assistant Professor of Theatre, was awarded a 2004 F aculty Summer Research Fellowship and McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities of $5,000 each from the Graduate School for his project, The Santaland Diaries. In this project, Schultz will produce, direct and act in The Santaland Diaries
by David Sedaris. This one-person comedy follows the trials and
tribulations of an out-of-work writer who is forced into the role of a
reluctant Macy's elf at Christmas time. Schultz also recently received
a Career Development Grant from the Lake Region Arts Council and McKnight Foundation of $1,200 to support this project.
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Ray Schultz, Assistant Professor of Theatre, has been awarded a 2006 Fall Residential Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Minnesota, located on the Twin Cities campus. He has also recieved a 2006 Grant-in-Aid of Research scholarship award from the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School.
Hewill be conducting individual research for his project, "The Love,
Valor, and Compassion of Terrence McNally: Dramatizing Gay America from
Stonewall to AIDS and Beyond," a comprehensive analysis of the works of
playwright Terrence McNally.
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Timna Wyckoff, Assistant Professor of Biology, has received a Grant-In-Ai d in the amount of $17,854 for research in bacterial antibiotic
resistance. The projec focuses on agriculture, characterizing
resistance patterns from isolated bacteria samples in milk. The study
compares resistance between conventtional and organic dairies.
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