5/15/2006
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
EIGHT SRU FACULTY RECEIVE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
GRANTS TO FURTHER RESEARCH
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– Eight Slippery Rock University faculty have been
awarded President’s International Professional Development
Grants that will allow them to present papers and undertake
research at academic conferences around the world as part of their
academic work. The grants will also allow two music department
faculty, joined by the SRU Jazz Ensemble, to perform at prestigious
jazz festivals in Switzerland, France and Holland this
summer.
The grants,
recommended by SRU’s International Services Advisory
Committee and approved by university President Robert Smith, are
for $1,000 each.
“I’m
pleased to award the International Professional Development Grants
to very deserving faculty,” said Dr. Smith. “Not only
does this give our faculty the chance to travel and reap the
benefits of gaining first-hand experience in their areas of
expertise, it provides Slippery Rock University the opportunity to
spotlight the high caliber research under way on our campus. Our
faculty are truly involved in important research in addition to
their teaching assignments, and this program provides our students
another quality dimension in their academic course
work.”
* Dr. David Glover, assistant professor of music,
and Dr. Stephen Hawk, associate professor of music, will travel
with the 22-member SRU Jazz Ensemble in a July 6-15 tour taking
them to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Jazz A Vienne,
in France, and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. (Additional
details will follow.)
* Dr. Katherine Cooklin, assistant professor of
philosophy, will present at the 10th International Conference of
the International Society for the Study of European Ideas set for
July 24-29 at the University of Malta. Her work is titled
“Another Look at Dialectic of Enlightenment: Myth,
Magic, and The Culture Industry.”
* Rebecca Morrice, assistant professor of
theater, will present a workshop on antique garments and reverse
patterning as well as attend workshops at the Edinbugh Fringe
Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. She will also undertake research
on fiber, costume and theater throughout Scotland as part of her
trip.
* Dr. Frederick White, an assistant professor of
English, will present “Haida Language Research Digitization
Project” at the 41st International Conference of Salish and
Neighbouring Languages in Vancouver, British Columbia, in
August.
* Dr. Marybeth Miller, assistant professor of
physical education, will present her research titled “The
Role of Service-Learning to Promote Early Childhood Physical
Activity while Examining its Influence Upon the Vocational Call to
Teach: A Physical Education Teacher Education Design” at the
University of Jyvaskyla in Jyvaskyla, Finland, as part of the
AIESEP (International Association of Physical Education in Higher
Education) 2006 World Congress set for early July; and
* Dr. Jack Livingston, assistant professor of
geography, geology and the environment, presented his research
titled “Using GIS to Integrate the NOAA HYSPLIT Model with
Surface-based Air Quality Data” at the 2006 European
Geosciences Union general assembly in Vienna, Austria, and Dr. Mary
Vetere, assistant professor of elementary education/early
childhood, presented her research titled “Family Involvement
and Urban Schools” at the European Teacher Education Network
held in Leiden, Netherlands.
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