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Faculty Awards Summer Grants

2020 Summer Grants for Faculty Research & Creative Inquiry

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Carol Azab, “Towards a better understanding of binge-watching behavior- because almost everybody is doing it

Sean Beckmann, “The presence of tick-borne pathogens and the prevalence of co-infection in prairie dwelling rodents” 

Judith Burnett, “Inua Partners in Hope: Curriculum Development and Expansion of Psychosocial services in Naivasha, Kenya – Evaluation and Post-Graduate Programming

Dengke Chen, “Animation Encapsulates Art Form Progression of Ancient Chinese Art in Mo Gao Caves,China

Terence Farrell, “The Effects of an Invasive Pentastome Parasite on Snake Health

Thomas Farrell, “Scribal Responses to Dialect Features in the Reeve’s Tale”

Jesse Fox, “Spirituality and Avoiding Difficult Emotions: Working With Spiritual Bypass”

Melissa Gibbs, “Nutrient contributions of armored catfish in Volusia Blue Spring”

Juanne Greene, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Understanding Executives Propensity to Utilize Social Media as a Strategic Disclosure Tool”

Kelly Hall, “The Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence in Employee Feedback Processes”

Sidra Hamidi, “Constructing Distinctions: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear States in Global Politics” 

Matthew Imes, “Corporate Boards,Gender Diversity, and Debt Maturity”

Luca Molnar, “Complicating Victimhood Narratives: Three Women as Symbols in Obstetrics

Nicole Mottier, “TBA”

Timothy Murphy, “Business-based Information Literacy: Undergraduate Perceptions of Concepts and Practice in Library Instruction Sessions

Erin Nickell, “Show and Tell: Juror Perceptions of Audit Partner Characteristics and the Role of Visual Aids in Courtroom Testimony” 

Yohann Ripert, “Decolonizing Diplomacy: West Africa and The United States: 1960-81

Tara Schuwerk, “Making Sense of Nature: Communication and Sustainability in the Food System

Rajni Shankar-Brown, “Examining Turnover and Supporting the Wellbeing of PreK-12 Educators in High-Poverty Public Schools”

Jean Smith, “Investigating Protein Aggregation Evolution in Fungal Species”

Joseph Woodside, “Healthcare Robotics: Autonomous Learning Models for Clinical Decision-Making

Petros Xanthopoulos, “A minimum variance ensemble clustering algorithm based on modern portfolio theory

John York, “Computational Modeling of Ethylene Binding to the Copper Ion in the Ethylene Receptor Protein (ETR1)” 

Daniil Zavlunov, “Opera in Russia during the Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855): A Cultural History [Phase III]

Congratulations to all the awardees!

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Faculty Awards McEniry Awards

2020 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2020 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown, Associate Professor of Education

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Faculty Awards Fulbright Scholars

Stetson Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars

https://www.stetson.edu/today/2020/02/stetson-university-named-a-top-producer-of-fulbright-scholars/
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Faculty Awards Fulbright Scholars

Fulbright Award Sends Associate Professor to Ukraine

https://www.stetson.edu/today/2019/09/fulbright-award-sends-associate-professor-to-ukraine/
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Faculty Awards Fulbright Scholars

Law Professor Luz Nagle Receives Fulbright Award

https://www.stetson.edu/today/2019/09/law-professor-luz-nagle-receives-fulbright-award/
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Faculty Awards Fulbright Scholars

From Fulbright to Uzbekistan

https://www.stetson.edu/today/2019/07/from-fulbright-to-uzbekistan/
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Faculty Awards Summer Grants

2019 Summer Grants for Faculty Research & Creative Inquiry

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Fazal Abbas, Mathematical Modeling of Blood Flow in Human Artery thorough Bifurcation

Isabel Botero, When non-family firms use a family language as part of their brand: Exploring the family business brand effect

Teresa Carmody, Archive: A Novel-Essay

John Carrick, The Stetson Unicorn List

Su Young Choi, Gifting Food/Money as Movement Media

Rachel Core, “Tuberculosis Patients’ Experiences in Shanghai before and after Socialist Health Reform”

Roslyn Crowder, How Does the Plant-based Compound Genistein Kill Lung Cancer Cells?

Joel Davis, Shakespeare’s Muse of Fire: The life and works of Sir Philip Sidney

Michael Eskenazi, Intentional and Incidental Word Learning: The Importance of Context

Sarah Garcia, tDCS for the Treatment of Anxiety in Young Adults

Sharmaine Jackson, The Unmaking of a Gangbanger

Christopher Jimenez, Pinpointing ‘Global’ Discourse through Large-scale Computational Analysis of Global Anglophone Literature

Asal Johnson, Social Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer in Florida, 2000-2014

Lynn Kee, Shaping the iridescent green structural color of marine bacteria biofilms

Sean Kennard, CD Recording published by Delos: Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Samuel Barber and Sergei Rachmaninoff

Eric Kurlander, Shanghai as East Asian “Solution” to the Nazi “Jewish Question”

John Lychner, Achieving “Flow” in Musical Experiences— Employing the concepts and approaches of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Music Rehearsals and Performances

Karen Merritt, Recording project: Songs of Occitania

Daniel Plante, ShakeDown: A New Ultra Efficient Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Yohann Ripert, “Transatlantic Diplomacy Between Senegal and the United States: 1960-81”

Kelly Smith, Laboratories of Bureaucracy: How Bureaucrats Learn Across States

Charles Underriner, Moving

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Faculty Awards Willa Dean Lowery Grant

Willa Dean Lowery Awards 2019

We congratulate our winners of the 2019 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences:

Heather Evans Anderson

Heather Evans Anderson, Assistant Professor of the Department of Health Sciences

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Faculty Awards Hand Awards

2019 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2019 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement.

Ana Eire

Ana Eire, Ph.D., Professor of World Languages and Cultures
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

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Isabel Botero, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Family Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

The Hand Award for Distinguished Faculty Achievements are made possible through the continued generosity of trustee emeritus and alumna Dolly Hand and her husband, Homer Hand. Through their support of excellence in higher education, we are honored to recognize outstanding faculty.  The awards have been presented to faculty since 1988, with recipients whose names many in the audience will recognize as faculty who have been transformative to this institution—Michael Rickman, Karen Kaivola, and Leonard Nance to name a few. 

Faculty over the years have been presented with Hand Awards in two primary areas:  Community Impact, and also Research, Creative and Professional Activity.  This year, we recognize the professional achievements of two outstanding faculty members in the category of Research, Creative, and Professional Activity.  Both of these faculty members have significantly contributed to the knowledge of their fields, the vibrancy of Stetson University’s pedagogy and academic culture, and the world beyond this campus.

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The first 2019 Hand award honors a faculty member who joined the Stetson University almost three decades ago.  Since then, she has published multiple books that have garnered national attention in her home country, leading her to be considered, as one nominator writes, “the foremost scholar of Spanish poetry in Spain.”  Because of her established renowned reputation as a Spanish poetry critic, she is currently working on another commission preparing an introduction to the 25th anniversary edition of an anthology of poetry entitled El sindicato del crimen. For her professional commitment, and in recognition and celebration of her substantial scholarly contributions, it gives me great pleasure to present the first of two 2019 Hand Awards for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity to Professor Ana Eire.

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Historically, there have been Hand awards that recognized the stellar work of faculty who have been at Stetson for a short period of time, and then go on to do great things at Stetson.  Some examples include then-Assistant Professors Terri Witek, Stephen Robinson, and Sue Ryan, who all won the Hand recognition just a few years after they joined Stetson.  This year’s 2nd 2019 Hand award recipient is a prolific scholar with 46 publications, a frequent invited review for prestigious journals, and an internationally known expert in her field.  She has presented her research in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, and last year was awarded second place in the Adalberto Viesca Sada Family Business in Latin America’s Award.  In only her fourth year at Stetson, this faculty member is using her extensive research as the academic foundation for reviving the family business curriculum in the School of Business Administration. For her professional commitment, and in recognition and celebration of her substantial scholarly contributions, it gives me great pleasure to present the second of two 2019 Hand Awards for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity to Assistant Professor Isabel Botero.

Presented by Provost Noel Painter on May 11, 2019 at the 133rd annual Undergraduate Commencement

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Faculty Accomplishments Faculty Awards

Stetson Economics Professor Awarded Virtual Reality Grant

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Walk into Alan Green’s International Economics class this fall and students will be geeked out in goggle-like, headset contraptions, looking as if they stepped out of some sci-fi film.

But Green’s students actually will be stepping into the world of virtual reality, thanks to a grant awarded to the Stetson Chair of Economics.

Alan Green, Ph.D., chair of Stetson's Department of Economics
Alan Green, assistant professor of economics, receives VR Grant from Nearpod.

Green, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair of Stetson’s Economics Department, is one of just 50 instructors at elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools around the world to be awarded as part of the inaugural Virtual Reality Grant Program founded by Nearpod. The education technology company develops digital learning tools, virtual reality and interactive content for use in classrooms.

Green, who also is director of Africana Studies at Stetson, will have access to Nearpod VR headsets and more than 25 VR-based lesson plans. The grant also includes professional development, one-on-one support services and a Nearpod license for the university.

As a teacher and research economist, Green focuses on international development, trade and poverty, but he also conducts research on effective pedagogy. That research led him to use a Nearpod teaching app this past year.

“I can use their app and put questions in it and build in presentations, quizzes, activities, all sorts of things,” Green said. “During class I’ll be lecturing, but then I’ll mix in questions that students answer on their phones, laptops or whatever. Rather than them passively sitting there, they’re being forced to hear something and answer a question about it. So they have to think about it, process it and hopefully understand it.”

When Nearpod announced it was accepting applications for its new virtual reality grant program, Green readily saw the potential for use in his International Economics and Essentials of Economics II classes.

“Nearpod is pushing what they call virtual reality field trips,” Green said. The goggle-like VR headsets use video, audio and even interactive capabilities so that “you can take a virtual trip somewhere. My field research is in economic development, studying poor countries around the world and how they can grow. So we can take a trip to a country in sub-Saharan Africa and get a really strong visual of a village, what people live like, what their houses are like. That makes a lot stronger impression than me just giving students numbers on GDP per capita.”

Along with the benefits of virtual reality field trips, Green’s grant application also proposed that VR technology could vastly enhance online teaching.

“I’ve done some online teaching and didn’t particularly enjoy it because there’s a separation,” Green said. “You’re not interacting with students in real time. With virtual reality, we could have a class and physically be anywhere in the world, but then we all put on our headsets and we come into a virtual classroom and we can teach and learn that way.

“One of the valuable things Stetson offers is small classes and interaction with professors. Virtual reality online learning could be a lot closer to the classroom experience.”

Green said he will “get to play around with the headsets this summer and see what we can do. This fall it’s not going to be in every class, it’s not going to be full time.” But he plans to “find instances where students can take a virtual trip during class.”

More than 300 schools applied for the Nearpod grants, which were awarded to schools across the United States as well as in Nigeria, Japan and Spain.

by Rick de Yampert

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