2017-18 Professional Development Grants for Retirees Awards

A committee of retirees, appointed by Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research, reviewed and recommended 14 of the 21 application for Professional Development Grants for Retirees in February, 2017.  Allen Levine, Interim Vice President for Research, recently announced the grant recipients.  Congratulations to the following:

Frederick Asher, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, CLA, University of Minnesota-TC,
India and the World: The Visual Culture of Indian Ocean Trade to 1500.

Betty Cooke, Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD, University of Minnesota-TC,
Parent-Child Interaction Video Update: The Reflective Dialogue Parent Education Design.

Charles Fairhurst, T.W. Bennett Professor Emeritus of Mining Engineering and Rock Mechanics, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering, CSE, University of Minnesota-TC,
Video: Why Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering?

Alan Lathrop, Curator, Manuscripts Division, University Libraries, University of Minnesota-TC,
Emmanuel L. Masqueray: A French Architect in Minnesota.

Carol Miller, Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor Emeritus of American Studies and American Indian Studies, CLA, University of Minnesota-TC,
Founding Mothers of Contemporary American Indian Literature.

Alexis Pogorelskin, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of History, CLA, University of Minnesota-Duluth,
Duluth and Hollywood: The Career of Sidney Buchman.

Wayne Potratz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, CLA, University of Minnesota-TC,
Lead a Workshop and Lecture at Festival of High Temperatures: Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland.

Jonathan Ravdin, M.D., Nesbitt Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, Medical School, University of Minnesota-TC,
Enhanced Clinical Data Management for the Youth and AIDS Projects by Implementation of New Health Information Technology.

Gerald Rinehart, Vice Provost and Dean of Students, Office for Student Affairs, University of Minnesota-TC,
Review and Summary of Historical Documents Pertaining to Religious Organizations, Activities and Issues on UMN Twin Cities Campus, 1947-present.

Marjorie Savage, Professional and Administrative Staff, Outreach and Research, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota-TC,
Frances Andrews: A Social Biography of Progressivism.

Kathryn Sedo, Professor Emerita of Clinical Instruction and Senior Attorney, Law School, University of Minnesota-TC,
Attend Two American Bar Association Meetings for Low-Income Taxpayer and Pro Bono Update to Maintain Mastery as a Community Volunteer.

William Sudderth, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, School of Statistics, CLA, University of Minnesota-TC,
Present at Conference on Simplifying Strategies in Stochastic Games, Erice, Italy.

Elaine Tarone, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, CLA, University of Minnesota-TC,
Shifts of Accuracy, Complexity and Fluency in Constructed Dialogue by Adult Second Language Learners.

Kyla Wahlstrom, Research Associate, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, CEHD, University of Minnesota-TC,
School Start Time Research: Further Discovery, Dissemination and Policy Implications.

For information about retiree grants, contact the new committee chair, Richard Poppele [email protected].

Jan Hogan, Chair