SISTAR Grants are awarded to student-faculty partnerships in support of summer research and study. One of the SISTAR Grants is generously funded by Maryjeanne R. Burke and Daughters.
This year’s recipients are:
Jerome McElroy, professor of Business Administration and Economics and junior Wenwen Bai, for their research on The Political Economy of China’s Incursion into the Caribbean and the Pacific. 2008 Maryjeanne R. Burke and Daughters SISTAR grant.
The Collaborative Study and Research (COSTAR) Grants fund collaborative work for two faculty members over the summer.
This year’s recipients are:
Frances Hwang (English) and Leslie Wang (Sociology)
Exploring Cultural Identities
Julie Long (Library) and Mary Ann Traxler (Education)
Multicultural Children's Literature in Review
Eric De Sena, Rome Program
The Porolissum Forum Project: an archaeological excavation of a Roman and Gothic city in northwestern Romania
Krista Hoefle, Deparment of Art
My Tomorrowland is an Empty Space: On-site Digital Drawing at the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians (Philadelphia, PA)
Jeffrey Jacob, Department of Music
A compact Disc Recording of My Symphony No. 3 by the London Symphony Orchestra
Amanda Littauer, Department of History
Oral History Research Proposal: Lesbianism and Adolescence in the 1950s
Edith Miguda, Department of History
Archival research on Women and Politics in Colonial Kenya
Daniel Party, Department of Music
The Birth of Balada: The Spanish Origins of Latin America's Romantic Pop Song
Mary Porter, Department of Mathematics
Students' Understanding of Proof by Mathematical Induction
Sean Savage, Department of Political Science
The Senator from New England: John F. Kennedy
Umberto Taccheri, Department of Modern Languages
Active and Contemplative Life in Dante, from Convivio to Commendia
These grants foster the development of new courses and support proposals designed to improve teaching, to develop new areas of competence, or to enable faculty to participate more actively in the tandem course program.
Susan Alexander, Department of Sociology 2008 Wolsfeld Faculty Development Teaching Grant
Sociology, Course Development: "Contested Masculinities"
Nancy D'Antuono, Department of Modern Languages
Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces
Stacy Davis, Department of Religious Studies
Redesigning RLST 306: Biblical Theology
Nano Farabaugh, Department of Nursing 2008 Kearney Faculty Development Teaching Grant
Integrating choice theory/reality therapy into Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing course
Cindy Iavagnilio, Department of Nursing 2008 Kearney Faculty Development Teaching Grant
Integrating a new Simulation Framework into the nursing curriculum
Mary Ann Kanieski, Department of Sociology 2008 Wolsfeld Faculty Development Teaching Grant
Data Driven: Designing and Preparing Data for an Applied Sociological Statistics Class
Catherine Pittman, Department of Psychology
Spes Unica Bound: New Clinical Training Exercises
Inela Selimovića, Department of Modern Languages
MLSP 429 Revisitng Contemporary Latin American Women's Writing
Nancy Turner, Department of Education
New Course Development in the Special Education Program: Methods for Exceptional Learners
Jennifer Zachman, Department of Modern Languages
Page, Stage and Screen: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Spanish Literature and Film
The faculty grants in assessment are designed to support faculty as they work to improve the specific courses they teach, in particular as they reflect on what they hope students will gain in their courses and as they develop ways of judging how well students are achieving those outcomes.
Catherine Green, Department of Education, and Julie Storme, Department of Modern Languages
Mana Derakhshani and the Department of Modern Languages
Janet Fore, Cushwa-Leighton Library
Phyllis Kaminski, Department of Religious Studies
Jayne Kendle, Department of Nursing
Frances Kominkiewicz, Department of Social Work
Susan Latham, Department of Psychology and Communicative Disorders
Jill Vihtelic and the Department of Business Administration and Economics
Through the Center For Women’s InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) faculty, students, and staff have received support for travel, attendance at international conferences, and other opportunities that support CWIL’s and the College’s mission.
Faculty and staff who have received travel and conference grants include:
Travel:
Edith Miguda, Department of History, received two travel grants to Kenya. One was for research on women and the general election in Kenya, and the other for archival research on women and politics in Kenya.
Anita Houck, Department of Religious Studies, Napel, India for research on religious groups in Nepal and India.
Daniel Party, Department of Music, Madrid, Spain for research on Spanish popular music.
Conference:
Mana Derakhshani, Department of Modern Languages, attended the Francophone Conference in Limoges, France.
Leslie Wang, Department of Sociology, attended the Sociological Association Annual Conference in Boston.
Stephanie Steward-Bridges, Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership, attended the National Council on Race & Ethnicity conference.
Faculty/Staff/Student Group Grants:
Marc Belanger Group
Berkeley Model United Nations in San Francisco
Joy Evans Group
Women as Global Leaders Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Colleen Fitzpatrick Group
Learning to Change the Human Condition: Travels to the Southern States Communication Association in Savannah, Georgia
Phyllis Kaminski Group
Out There: Second National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs People Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses
Mary Ann Kanieski Group
Getting Ahead: An Analysis of Bridges Out of Poverty – presentation at North Central Sociological Association Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio
Fozia Qazi Group
Math and Art in Spain in Barcelona, Granada, Spain
This collaboration between CWIL and the Saint Mary’s Office of Civic and Social Engagement (OCSE) supports projects that link the College with the community in a variety of areas.
Faculty who have designed and implemented Bridging Grants with community and CWIL support include:
Kitty Green, Department of Education
Student Teaching Project
Jan Pilarski, Department of Justice Education
Diversity Dialogues
Catherine Pittman, Department of Psychology
South Bend Monologues
Nancy Turner, Department of Education
Multicultural Literature Project
Catherine Shoupe, Department of Anthropology
Research with the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomis
Linda Zoeller, Department of Nursing
Health Booth at Juneteenth Celebration
INC@SMC is a Lilly-funded grant designed to encourage Indiana college students to remain in-state for employment following graduation.
Summer 2007 Experiential Learning Grants were awarded to JoAnn Burke, Carla Johnson, and Mary Ann Kanieski.
Summer 2008 Experiential Learning Grants were awarded to Susan Vance, JoAnn Burke, and Jayne Kendle.
Networking Travel Grants or Collaborative Programming were awarded to Catherine Shoupe.
