Beloit College 2013-14 Faculty Accomplishments
Sustainability Research
16 Faculty, 11 Departments
Carol Mankiewicz, Biology
 Presented “Population Structure of Greshwater Turtles across North America: An Ecological
Research as Education Network (EREN) Collaborative Project” (with Bowne, D.; Bloch, C.; Dosch,
J.; Druckenbrod, D.; Fredericksen, T.; Gameau, D.; Genet, K.; Kish, P; Kolozsvary, M.; Kuserk, F.;
Lindquist, E.; March, J.; Muir, T.; Murray, K; Simmons, J; Urban, R.; Zimmerman, C.) at the
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN., August 2013. (poster
presentation).
Chris Fink, English
 $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly
sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed
sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Grossman, Y.; Palmer, W.;
Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).
Daniel Youd, Modern Languages and Literature
 Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce
Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social,
cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River
Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Brewer, E.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.).
David Boffa, Art and Art History
 Presented “What is Open Access Art History?” (with Scott, V.) at the 2014 Annual Meeting of
the College Art Association, February 2014.
Diep Phan, Economics
 “Princelings and Paupers: State Employment and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments
among Vietnamese Households” (with Coxhead, I.), in Asian Development Review, Vol. 30, No.
2, September 2013.
 “Long-run Costs of Piecemeal Reform: Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Vietnam”
(with Coxhead, I.), in Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4, November 2013.
 $24,595 Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Grant from ASIANetwork to support four
Beloit College students and Dr. Phan to go to the Mai Chau village in the Hoa Binh Province of
Vietnam to study community-based tourism and sustainable development, Summer 2014.
Elizabeth Brewer, International Education
 Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce
Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social,
cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River
Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).
George Lisensky, Chemistry
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$19,350 subcontract from National Science Foundation grant. As a part of the Chemistry
Collaborations, Workshops & Community of Scholars (cCWCS) program, Workshop on Materials
Science and Nanotechnology for chemistry faculty, Summer 2013.
Joy Beckman, Wright Museum of Art
 Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce
Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social,
cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River
Institute at Henan University (with Brewer, E.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).
Kathryn Johnson, Biology
 $20,000 from Kerry Inc. for the Beloit College Community Science Education Program.
Matthew Tedesco, Philosophy and Religious Studies
 $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly
sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed
sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.;
Palmer, W.; Swanson, S.; Toral, P.).
Nicolette Meister, Logan Museum of Anthropology
 Presented “Reap Benefits: Grow Community Interaction through Shared Collection Databases”
(with McGuire, S. and Rengel, M.) at the Association of Midwest Museums Annual Conference,
Madison, WI, July 2013.
Pablo Toral, Political Science
 “Wisconsin’s Spring Resources: An Overview” in Geoscience Wisconsin, Vol. 21, No. 1, 13, 2013.
 $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly
sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed
sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.;
Palmer, W.; Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.).
Paul Stanley, Physics and Astronomy
 Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce
Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social,
cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River
Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Brewer, E.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).
Susan Swanson, Geology
 “Evaluating Shallow Flow System Response to Climate Change through Analysis of Spring
Deposits in Southwestern Wisconsin, USA (with Asmerom, Y.; Muldoon, S.; and Polyak, M.) in
Hydrogeology Journal DOI 10.1007/s10040-014-1115-3, 2014.
 $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly
sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed
sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.;
Palmer, W.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).
 Languages and Literatures: $50,000 Rivers in Transition Exploratory Grant from the Luce
Foundation to support the study of pressure on water resources in China using scientific, social,
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cultural, and economic knowledge and research methods, in partnership with the Yellow River
Institute at Henan University (with Beckman, J.; Brewer, E.; Stanley, P.; Swanson, S.; Youd, D.).
$314,605 from the Drinking Water and Groundwater Program, Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources, (with Bradbury, K. and Hart, D.) to conduct an updated Springs inventory for
the State of Wisconsin, July 2014 – June 2017.
Presented “Calculating a Water Budget for Lake Belle View: A Capstone Exercise for an
Introductory Hydrogeology Course (with Muldoon, M.) at the Geological Society of America
Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 2013.
“The Role of Groundwater in the Flooding History of Clear Lake, Wisconsin” (with Dodd, J.) in
the Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology, Varga, R.
(ed.), pp. 249-254, 2013.
Warren Palmer, Economics
 $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly
sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed
sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Grossman, Y.;
Swanson, S.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).
Yaffa Grossman, Biology
 $725,000 from an anonymous Foundation to construct a three-tiered framework of increasingly
sophisticated project-based student learning pathways that will simultaneously embed
sustainability in Beloit’s curriculum, operations, and culture (with Fink, C.; Palmer, W.; Swanson,
S.; Tedesco, M.; Toral, P.).
 Presented “Beloit College Sustainability Fellows Program: A College and Community
Collaboration” (with Fang, D.’14) at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America,
Minneapolis, MN, August 2013.