IUP faculty members who have received awards from the statewide Faculty Professional Development Council (FPDC) Annual Grants Program in recent years include the following:
Spring 2010 Awards
| Name |
Award |
Title |
| Francis Allard |
$5,782 |
Archaeological Research and Teaching in China |
| Shundong Bi |
$2,372 |
Documenting the Middle Miocene Climatic Warming in the Continental Interior of Asia |
| Tara Johnson |
$2,372 |
Enhancement of Teaching, Research, and Service by Acquiring Analytic Skills for Interdependent (i.e., Dyadic) Data |
| Laura Knight |
$7,891 |
Development of a Clinic at IUP to Serve Families of Children Suspected of Having Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| R. Scott Moore |
$7,930 |
Remote Sensing, Ground Penetrading Radar (GPR), and Archaeology in Cyprus |
| Teresa Shellenbarger |
$6,608 |
Integrating Simulation Technology into Graduate Nursing Education |
| Thomas Simmons |
$7,982 |
Biology of Newly Discovered Water Mites Parasitic on Disease-Carrying Mosquitos |
Spring 2009 Awards
| Name |
Award |
Title |
| Robert Hinrichsen |
$6,096 |
Measurement of Oxygen Uptake in Paramecium tetraurelia: An Attempt to Correlate Metabolic Oscillations with the Ultradian Rhythms Controlling Cellular Behavior |
| Tawny Holm |
$6,000 |
Aramaic Literary Texts: A Bilingual Edition |
| Steve Loar |
$5,845 |
Classroom-to-the-Field - Creating a Model Program: Art as Environmental Remediation |
| Tim Nuttle |
$6,338 |
Long-term Impacts of White-tailed Deer Over-abundance on Birds of Deciduous Forests of Western Pennsylvania |
Judith Villa
Rosalee Stillwell
Laurel Black |
$6,090 |
The PACT Program: Developing Student Internships in English Studies |
| Therese Wacker |
$6,500 |
Professional Development through the Commissioning and World Premiere Performance of a New Piece for Piccolo and Wind Ensemble/Orchestra with Faculty Artist Therese Wacker and the IUP Wind Ensemble |
Spring 2008 Awards
| Name |
Award |
Title |
| Pearl Berman |
$6,085 |
Integrating Violence Prevention in the Psychology Curriculum |
| Stuart Chandler |
$6,500 |
Lessons of the Canary: The Autobiography of Oishi Junkyo - Geisha, Artist,
Buddhist Nun |
| Beverly Chiarulli |
$6,421 |
Reconstructing Past Environments at the Johnston Site |
| Waleed Farag |
$5,227 |
Designing and Implementing a Secure and Robust Steganographic System
that Uses MPEG Video as Cover Media |
| John Ford |
$6,361 |
Computational Redesign, Site-directed Mutagenesis, and Kinetic Study of a Cellulase
to Support Biomass Technology |
| Julia Greenawalt |
$6,000 |
Adoption of High Fidelity Simulation into Advanced Nursing Courses: Challenges
and Successes |
| Linda Jennings |
$6,160 |
Development of Artistry, Pedagogical Skills, and Knowledge of Diverse Musical
Cultures through National and International Performances |
| John Taylor |
$5,289 |
The Pattern of Faunal Replacement and Environmental Changes Across an Early
Ordovician Extinction Horizon |
Spring 2007 Awards
| Name |
Award |
Title |
| Waleed Farag |
$5,287 |
Assessing the Effectiveness of the MPEG-7 Standard in the Context of Video Content-Based Retrieval Systems |
| Julia Greenawalt |
$5,000 |
High-Fidelity Human Simulation Laboratory |
| Tawny Holm |
$5,611 |
Ritual and Gender Among Ancient Arameans: The “Nanay and Bethel” Sacred Marriage Text |
| Vida Irani |
$6,000 |
Does Mycobacterium avium Life and Death Depend on the Interplay between Mycobacterium avium ssGPL and the Host Macrophage Apoptocic Pathways? |
| Scott Moore |
$5,416 |
The Surveying and Mapping of Archaeological Material in the Southern Cyprus Coastal Zone |
| Cheryl Wilson |
$1,586 |
Selling the Silver-Fork: Writing, Reading, and Publishing Fashionable Novels |
| Keith Young |
$4,200 |
Publication of Compact Disc Solo Recording |
Spring 2006 Awards
| Name |
Award |
Title |
| Jenny Archibald |
$5,500 |
Association Between Patterns of Genetic and Morphological Divergence in a South African Plant and Polinator |
| Donald Buckwalter |
$6,000 |
Center for Russian and East European Studies - Pitt-Moscow S&S Week |
Spring 2005 Awards
| Name |
Award |
Title |
| Francis Allard |
$5,286 |
The Khanuy Valley Project on Early Nomadic Postoralism in Mongolia |
| Lynne Botelho |
$5,500 |
The Aging Body: Popular Medicine and the Elderly in England, 1500-1700 |
| Tawny Holm |
$5,470 |
Women and Images of Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| Ronald See |
$5,277 |
Development of the Non-Bonded Interaction Model of Molecular Geometry |
| John Taylor |
$4,663 |
Undescribed Triobite Faunas of Upper Cambrian Age from the Lower Half of the Conococheague Formation in Maryland and Northern Virginia |
