Fourteen Eastern Michigan University female faculty received
2008-2009 Keal Fellowship Awards to fund research projects.
Coordinated by the Women's Commission, the fellowships
are awarded once a year. They are available to all tenured
and tenure-track women faculty members who have taught
at least two terms at Eastern Michigan University. The
fellowships this year ranged from $300 to $800 and can
be used for conducting original research, publishing research
results, attending professional conferences or taking coursework
needed for professional advancement.
Awards this year amount to $5,434 and will be used by
female faculty to present their work in different areas - from
presenting a paper at a conference in Paris to analyzing
rock paintings found in a cave in Nicaragua. The committee
evaluated a total of 26 applicants.
This award is named for Josephine Nevins Keal, who graduated
from EMU (then Michigan State Normal College) in 1901.
When she died, she left $50,000 to EMU and Wayne State
University.
The fellowship winners are as follows:
Linda Adler-Kassner, professor, English language and literature.
Adler-Kassner will present two workshops at the American
Associations of Colleges and Universities Conference in
Baltimore, Md.
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Ajrouch |
Kristine Ajrouch, associate professor,
sociology, anthropology and criminology. Ajrouch will present
a paper at the 19th World Congress of the International
Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Paris, France.
Ruth Ann Armitage, associate professor, chemistry. Armitage
will work on a research project determining the age and
chemical composition of rock paintings in a newly discovered
cave in northern Nicaragua.
Suzanne Gray, assistant professor, Halle Library. Gray
will present a paper at the Educause Learning Initiatives
Conference in Orlando, Fla.
Harriet Lindsay, associate professor, chemistry. Lindsay
will present a paper, chair a session in the Organic Chemistry
Division and attend the Women Chemists Committee general
meeting as the representative from "our local section" at
the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Locke |
Jennifer Locke, assistant professor, art. Locke will work
on producing new large-scale painting and wall hangings
in relation to the installation and video work for a solo
show at the Art Haus66 Gallery in Albuquerque, N.M.
Dawn Pearcy, associate professor, marketing. Pearcy
will work on a research project to test a model of the
impact of stakeholder-driven policy on the implementation
of environmentally friendly (green) innovations, as well
as the outcome of such implementations.
Amy Sacksteder, assistant professor,
art. Sacksteder will research trends in design as derived
from nature in both the United States and Europe, which
will result in relevant artwork, residencies and exhibitions.
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Sacksteder |
Carol Schlagheck, professor, English language and literature.
Schlagheck will work on research to assess college students'
use of new media for gathering news and information.
Donna Selman,
assistant professor, sociology, anthropology and criminology.
Selman will research current law enforcement policies and
assess their impact on children whose primary caretaker(s)
have been arrested.
Brooks Harris Stevens, assistant professor, art. Stevens
will support her solo exhibition for the Sixth Street Gallery
in Vancouver, Wash.
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Yang |
Pamela Walsh, assistant professor, health sciences. Walsh
will present a paper comparing print media portrayal of
the female Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah
Palin, to the male Democratic vice-presidential candidate,
Joe Biden, at the Midwest Political Science Association
Conference in Chicago, Ill.
Guey-Meei Yang, associate professor,
art. Yang will attend the 30th annual International Society
for Technology in Education's National Educational Computing
Conference in Washington, D.C., to assist in the writing
of three research results that are being conducted in 2008-09.
Margrit Zinggeler, associate professor, world languages.
Zinggeler will present a panel discussion, "The Location
and Dislocation of Swiss Language," at the Northeast Modern
Language Association Conference in Boston, Mass.
