PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS AWARD CYCLE 8 IN 2015-2016 FOR 2016-2017

On February 25, 2016, a committee of retirees, appointed by Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President of Research, reviewed and recommended 11 of 12 applications for Professional Development Grants for Retirees.  On March 1, Brian Herman, Vice President for Research, announced the recipients for the 2016-2017 Professional Development Grant for Retirees.  Of the awards, one was from the Morris Campus, two were from the Duluth Campus, and the others were from the Twin Cities Campus.  They represent the fields of Indian Studies, Chemistry, French, Psychology, Humanities, Apparel Design, Art, American Studies, History, and Biography.

F.R.P. (Ron) Akehurst, Emeritus Professor of French; Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Construction of a Stemma of the Manuscripts of an Important 13^th-Century Legal Text, The Conseil of Pierre de Fontaines.

Ferolyn Angell, Emeritus Lecturer in Dance; Humanities Division, University of Minnesota–Morris: Production of a Theatrical Dance Film of Family During the Nazi Reign in Germany.

Joanne B. Eicher, Emerita Regents Professor, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, College of Design, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Publication of Nigerian Textile and Dress Research.

Josie R. Johnson, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Office of Equity and Diversity, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Josie Johnson: A Life of Service.

Diane Katsiaficas, Professor of Art (retiring  May 15, 2016), College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Building on Tradition: Sharing Contemporary Papermaking and Artist Book Design in Alexandria, Egypt.

Lary May, Emeritus Professor of American Studies and History, American Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Victory’s Shadow: Global Hollywood and America’s Cultural Wars.

John D. Nichols, Emeritus Professor of American Indian Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Anihshininiimowin Oji-Cree Dictionary (Severn Headwaters) Revision.

Kathleen O’Brien, Vice President of University Services, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Women in Minnesota Local Government, 1970-2000.

James Bruce Overmier, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Keynote Address, 31^st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan, July 24-29, 2016.

Donald Poe, Emeritus Professor; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Duluth: Importance of the Thermal Environment in Chromatographic Separations.

David Schimpf, Emeritus Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Duluth: Pollutants in the Growth Rings of Red Oak.