FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SUMMER GRANTS PROGRAM
The Summer Grants Program offers faculty the opportunity to obtain financial support for scholarly,
artistic, curricular, and instructional projects undertaken during the summer months. The grants are awarded by
the Summer Grants Subcommittee, which is comprised of elected faculty members of the Faculty Development
Committee. The Program is administered by the Director of Faculty Development. The SNC faculty who
received 2015 Summer Grant awards of $2,500.00 were:
Curricular and Instructional Improvement
Zach Pratt, Assistant Professor of Biology
Support for the project to develop protocols for biology students.
Matthew Stollak, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Support for the creation of a SPSS user guide for “BUAD 284: Statistics for Business and Economics.”
Scholarship and Creative/Artistic Endeavors
Deborah Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology
Support for the scholarly project, “Investigating potential differences in rodent biodiversity of Late Early to
Middle Eocene basin margins vs. basin center deposits and searching for ancestor-descendant pairs.”
David Bailey, Associate Professor of Biology
Support for the scholarly project, “Expression profiling of genes affected by local estrogen provision in zebra
finch brain tissue.”
Mara Brecht, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies
Support for the scholarly project, “ʽLucky’ to be Christian?”
Erik Brekke, Assistant Professor of Physics
Support for the scholarly project, “Frequency Characteristics of Light from Four-wave Mixing.”
Kelsy Burke, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Support for a book manuscript, Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet.
Ivy Cargile, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Support for the scholarly project, “Can’t Trust It: Assessing the Impact of Threat on the Trust and Political
Knowledge of Under-Represented Communities.”
Anindo Choudhury, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Support for a scholarly project, “DNA and morphology based taxonomic and phylogenetic analyses of
parasites.”
Deirdre Egan-Ryan, Associate Professor of English
Support for a book project, Hinterland Modernisms: Gender, Geography, New York and Its Others.
Anders Hendrickson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Support for the scholarly project, “Atomisticity of supercharacter lattices of cyclic groups of squarefree order.”
Blake Henson, Assistant Professor of Music
Support for a book project, The Art of Arranging.
Eric High, Assistant Professor of Music
Support for the scholarly project, “Contrabass Trombone College and University Recital Tour.”
David Hunnicutt, Associate Professor of Biology
Support for the scholarly project, “Vaccine Trails of Flavobacterium Columnare in Zebrafish.”
Rebecca McKean, Assistant Professor of Geology
Support for the scholarly project, “Expanding the known biodiversity of Cretaceous marine vertebrates from the
Tropic Shale of southern Utah.”
Christopher Meidl, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Support for the scholarly project, “Coyote Learns a Lesson.”
Tynisha Meidl, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
Support for the scholarly project, “Wisconsin Act 166 and the Wisconsin Foundations of Reading Test: Effects
of a new reading law.”
Luis Navarro-Ayala, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
Support for the scholarly project, “Othering the Contemporáneos: Frenchness, Mexicanness, and Queerness.”
Edward Risden, Professor of English
Support for the scholarly project “Shakespeare’s Maxims: A Study of Traditional Sayings in the Plays.”
Marc Schaffer, Assistant Professor of Economics
Support for the scholarly project “Exploring the Asset to Leverage Growth Relationship Across U.S. Depository
Institutions: A Look at Firm Size.”
Wayne Patterson, Professor of History
Support for the scholarly project “William Franklin Sands and the Fall of the Choson Dynasty, 1896-1904.”
The investment in the Summer Grants Program has been an excellent one. During the past thirty years,
through over 460 individual grants, the Program has provided many different faculty with opportunities for
pursuing significant scholarly, artistic, curricular, and pedagogical projects that otherwise might not have been
undertaken or completed.