UST awards seven Bush grants in spring of 2006
Innovative projects to improve undergraduate education continue to be supported by the UST Bush Foundation grant. Our Bush grant supports inquiry-based learning and faculty/student collaboration. We congratulate faculty who have received funding for spring and summer projects.
A Scholarship of Pedagogy grant was given to David Kelley (Geography) to travel to Chicago and present results of pedagogy he developed with a previous Bush grant. His project enriches students’ problem-solving skills using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). David will contribute some of the first GIS findings to the body of Problem-Based Learning.
Two grants were awarded in the Other Course category:
· Arkady Shemyakin (Mathematics) will develop community-oriented small-group projects in three Junior-level statistics courses. Arkady tested his work in a pilot project last summer. He aims to have students work with real data, obtain meaningful results, and explain the results to public clients.
· Ellen Kennedy (Marketing) was funded to develop a course called Coffee in Costa Rica. The course is innovative because it uses a theme-based approach to teach a course here on campus, followed by a January-term visit to Costa Rica.
Four Dissemination Grants were given to support faculty/student research:
· Amy Kritzer (Theater) to enter a stage production called Baghdad Burning in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, a theater competition. Amy and her students will produce a play based on an Iraqi woman’s account of occupied Baghdad.
· Jean Giebenhain (Psychology), was funded to take two students to a conference to give the results of their analysis of the portrayal of ADHD in a popular children’s book series called Joey Pigza.
· Robert Werner (Geography) received funding to host the second annual Midwestern Undergraduate Research Symposium, in April, here at St. Thomas. The conference gathers 60 students and faculty within a five-state area for presentations of undergraduate research in Geography.
· Kyle Zimmer (Biology) was awarded travel costs for he and three of his students, to present the results of their research on Minnesota shallow lakes. The group will present three posters and give one invited talk at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meeting.
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The next deadlines for Bush proposals is July 1, 2006.
There is a separate deadline of May 15 for Summer Research and Scholarship Grants (which are grants given to departments to foster a climate of faculty/student collaboration over the summer).
Descriptions of all UST Bush-funded programs are given
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UST’s Bush Foundation grant stems from Archibald Bush, a founder of the 3M corporation. UST graciously acknowledges their support.