Success Stories
Professor Lajiness-O’Neill received a $5,000 grant from the EMU Women in Philanthropy. This funding enabled her to launch her groundbreaking research aimed at predicting the risk of developmental disorders and psychopathology in infancy. After she and her team presented their research to the National Institute of Health (NIH), they secured a $4.5 million grant.
In 2017, Women in Philanthropy awarded $5,000 to Dr. Christina Mirtes, enabling her to launch the “Concept to Go” project. She created nearly 100 bags with educational resources to support early literacy and interdisciplinary teaching in the content areas (Art, English Language Arts, Music, Math, Physical Movement, Science, and Social Studies) Dr. Mirtes also mentored two students, Melanie Prince and Tammy McDaniel, who have since become successful in their respective fields.According to Dr.Mirtes WIP awards “ serve as a vehicle for progress and often become a springboard for further learning experiences, development, and progress within and across our EMU community—and beyond” showing that Women in Philanthropy grants are more than just financial awards.
Our efforts helped launched the BIKEMU project to promote sustainable transportation by installing bike stations throughout campus, encouraging a healthier, eco-friendly community.
Awards
2024
Nick Malendowski-Queer Talks
Hannah Blatchford and Chris Gellasch -Colorado: Gateway to Geology
Ashley Bavery - Puerto Rico: U.S. Power in Paradise
2023
Brigid Beaubien-Teaching to Sustain Democracy
Robert Peavler-Exploration of the Legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Emily Edwards-Producing a Parsons Plant list
Dyann Logwood and Sadaf Ali-The Mentoring for Success Initiative Workshop
Ann Blakeslee- Supporting Community Wellness through Writing
Jesse John-Changing the Cycle
Dr. Hitomi Oketani-Raising Children as Bilinguals and Multilinguals
Carrer Closet
Cierra Presberry-Restorative Educators Cohort
Molly Murphy-College in Prison Program Expansion
2022
EMU Library-Laptop Lending
Larisa Martinez - Natural Reader for Students with Disabilities
Alicia Jones-Enhancing Occupational Performance Through Mentoring
Audrey Farrugia-Remixing the Communication Sciences and Disorders Language Lab
Jieron Robinson-Honors College Rain Garden
Martha Baiyee and Chris Finch-Assessment Lab with the Children’s Institute
Qin Hu, Haylee Haik-A Smart Warning System Design Based on Brainwave to Maintain Attention for OnlineStudents
2021
Carly Carrasco-Wyant - Investigation of the Contextual Self
Ann Eisenberg - Cultural Enrichment for Low-Income Study
Imelda Hunt - Enjoying Heritage: A Kwanzaa Celebration!
Kimberly Pavlock - One-to-One Support for Improving Online Teaching
Ken Saldana - Offering Bangor's Farmworker
Children Nutrition Sessions About Healthy Snack Options on a Shoe-String Budget
Kristi Teasdale - Wellbeats: A Virtual Fitness Program for EMU Faculty and Staff
2020
Michael Dailey - Cultural Experiences for Low-Income Honors Students
Molly Dixon - Are Urban Snakes Eating Invasive Species? Analyzing Snake Diets with DNA Barcoding
Ann Eisenberg - Presidential Scholars Program Expansion
Matt Jones - Out of the Margins: Voices from 1279
Phil Rufe - Additive Manufacturing for Innovation Design and Production
Ken Saldanha - Teaching Migrant Farmworker Children About Healthy Snack Options on a Shoe-String Budget
Karen Saules - Psychology & Eagle Nutrition Services Partnership
Solange Simones - Global Learning at the UN CSW64/Beijing + 25
Lauren Soli - Human Centered Design Training Supporting Innovation and Creativity
Shiri Vivek - InventEMU
Dorothy Zahor - Lead (Pb) in Worms and Soil of Flint, MI
2019
Desmine Robinson - Active Minds Winter 2019
Elena Sanchez-Vizcaino - EMU Disability Awareness Symposium
Jose Vites - Gamification of Evening Chemistry Tutoring
Jamie Lawler - Integrated Preschool Mental Health Collaboration
Le'Shay Webb - Removing Roadblocks to Success with a Little MAGIC
Batoul Abdallah - Solve-A-Thon EMU
Audrey Farrugia-Bernard - Talk Totes: Preschool Communication Toolkits
Jaycob Yang - The COE's Student Organizations Unite: A Conference for Students, by Students
Amy Johnson - We're All in This Together: A Multi-disciplinary Pop Up Learning Community to Address Climate Change as a Global Human Challenge
Peter Higgins - Women of Color Feminism and Leadership (WOCFL) Symposium
2018
Allison Boone Green - Women, Leadership, and Change: Experiential Learning in Washington, D.C.
Margaret Hanes - Creating a community-building, science-based meal event
Naomi Hashimoto - Phonological Vocabulary Learning in Older Adults: Do Phonological Short Term Memory Abilities Play a Role?
Jeromy Hopgood - Creating an EMU to Broadway Projection Design Pipeline
Spencer Jennings - Helping the Community through Tax Returns - Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Kasim Korkmaz - Workshop Series for Women on Opportunities in Construction Management
You Li - Enhancing Digital Media Education at EMU
Rebecca Martusewicz - Supporting the EcoJustice and Activism Conference
Deborah Pae - The Formosa Quartet Residency at Eastern Michigan University
Ken Saldanha - Three-day summer camp for children of migrant farmworkers in Western Michigan
Leah Van Landingham - Children's Institute Sustainability Project
2017
Sara Acton - Heeding the Words of Elders: Translation for Community Action
Ethriam Brammer - Closing Racial and Gender Degree Attainment Gaps through STEM-based Living Learning Communities
Alexis Braun Marks - Collections as Data: Digitizing the Salary Records of EMU
Nancy Bryk - Creating a World-Class Exhibit
Anne Casper - Authentic Research in Intro Bio I Labs
Raul Leon - The Sisterhood Initiative: Fostering Dialogue to Create Living Learning Communities
Michael McVey - The Seventeen-Acre Classroom
Christina Mirtes - Concepts to Go!
Calvin Orr II - Discovering and Developing LEADership through Alternative Breaks
Sarah Walsh - BIKEMU: Fostering a Culture of Health and Sustainability at EMU through Bicycle Infrastructure
2016
Ruth Ann Armitage - Dating and Chemical Analysis of Textile Fragments from Seip Moud Group
Ann Blakeslee - Faculty-Peer Coaching Across the University Curriculum
Margaret Crouch - Faculty Development Seminar: Sexism and Sexual Violence Curriculum Infusion
Chiara Hensley - EMU TRUtalks and Leadership Lunch
Renee Lajiness-O'Neill, Judi Brooks, and Angela Lukomski - Interdisciplinary Statistical Training for Complex Survey Data Analysis
Harriet Lindsay - Enhancing ACS Project Seed by Partnering with McNair Scholars
Megan Moore - Estimating Age of Menarche from an Early Medieval Population from Northern France
Haley Moraniec - Swoop's Student Food Pantry
Derek Mueller - Developing and Leading a Life Skills Workshop for Native Yourth
Corrie Navis - Understanding Urban Birds: a Research and Outreach Project
Carly Slank and Mitchell DeVore - Survey of the Role of Gender in Community Attitudes Towards Language Documentation and Revitalization in the Ixhil Maya Grammar Project
2015
Anne L. Balazs - The Finishing Touch: A Resource for Job Seeking Students
Andrea Binz and Ellen Collier - 1girl
Ashley Falzetti - Woman to Woman: Algonquian Grammar in the Home
Michelle Gaines - Early College Alliance@EMU-Girls Group
Jacqueline Goodman - Unpacking the Moroccan Feminist Movement's Success
Jill Hunsberger - Faculty Ambassadors Program
Christine Lancaster-Professional Readiness Exam Preparation Pilot (PREPP)
Lynn Malinoff - Helping At-Risk Students Persist: A Conference for EMU, Local Educators, and School Districts
Kate Pittsley - Making a 'Dent" in the Textbook Problem: Library E-Books for Course Readings: A Collaboration Between Department Faculty and the EMU Library
Melissa Robinson, Molly Peabody, Jason DeCamillis, and Janet Fisher - Connecting the Dots Conference 2015
2014
Kryn Ambs - The Influence of Cockpit Automation on Pilot Decision-Making in Severe Weather Conditions
Megan Connolly - The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Mentorship Program (SMP)
DeAnna Gapp - Removing Road Blocks in High Attrition Classes
Heather Kahn - Local Tourism Initiatives as Strategies for Economic Development: Examining the Catalytic Role of Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs)
Hannah Keener and Emily Kent - EMU Women's Rowing
Taylor Kirchoff - French Medieval Bioarchaeological Research Experience for EMU Undergraduate Collaborators
Peggy Liggit - Internationally Accredited Certificate Program for Teaching in Higher Ed for EMU Faculty/Lecturers/GA’s
Jacinda Lisi - EMU STEM-athon!
Valerie Polakow and Marjorie Ziefert - Voices of Student Parents
2013
Chris Aris - Bringing Nature Into Children's Lives: Children's Institute Outdoor Classroom
Reggie Barnes - Brotherhood (Helping Others Obtain Degrees) Initiative
Elise Buggs - Keys to Degrees Student Parent Awareness Day
Kevin Dorn - Ann Arbor Learning Community at Leslie Science and Nature Center doing Annie's Big Nature Lesson
Gabriela Dumitrascu - EMU Math Summer Camp
Amy Johnson - Collaborations between Preservice and In-service Teachers to Support the Implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards
MeeAe Nam - Recording of songs of Théodore Gouvy, the great French composer of 19th Century
Kathy Orscheln and Bethany Fort - EMU's First Teaching-Learning Academy: a pilot project
Caroline Sanders - Educating Our Future-Girls Mentoring
Martin Shictman - Becoming Jewish in America: an Extended Programs Course
Sherry Jerome Wilkinson - Ballet Project
2012
Betty Brown-Chappell - Memories and Memorabilia: A Teaching Model
Elisabeth Daumer - Muriel Rukeyser Website
Robert Duke - Women in Michigan Agricultural History Exhibit at Tillers International
Suzanne Gray - Supporting Communication Across the Curriculum through the Academic Projects Center
Amanda Lefeld - Addressing the Need for Women's Healthcare
Robin Lucy - EMU Inside Out - Women's and Gender Studies and Language and Literature
Julia R. Myers - Detroit's African American Artists 1926-1986: From the Pen and Palette Club to Gallery 7 and the National Conference of Artists
Lorinda Rausch - The Travels and Teaching of Ms. Clara Janet Allison: Professor of Classics at Michigan State Normal College 1918-1940
Sarah Schrader - Social Behavior in Two Species of African Tarantula
Lois Vasquez - Go Green: A Year of Sustainability at Eastern Michigan University
Marilyn Wedenoja - Gaining a Global Worldview through Service Learning in Jamaica
2011
Lisa Andrews - Bridges to Understanding
Leslie Atzmon - Open Book catalog and Intensive Summer Workshop at EMU Parsons Center
Becky Boog - Creating a World of Active Citizens: Alternative Spring Breaks
Maria Milletti - Building a Summer Research Experience in the Chemistry Departmen
Claudia Petrescu - Engaging Communities through Student - Led Philanthropy
Anita Rich - Let's Watch: Playing with and Learning Through our Stories
Martin Shichtman - Scholarship Funding for "Representing the Holocaust" a Study Abroad Course
Rebecca Sipe - Honors Diversity Ambassadors