FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS - Fall 2005
The Faculty Development Policies & Activities Committee, based on the
recommendation from the sub-committee on faculty development grants
(Robertson, Davis, Anderson), has approved faculty development grants for Fall
2005 to 35 faculty, for a total allocation of $50,526.52 .
The grants will go to fund a variety of professional development initiatives by
faculty at Hawai’i Pacific University and reflect the steady growth in scholarship
activities among HPU faculty. They include conference presentations throughout
the country and as far away as Australia, China, Ghana, Nigeria, South Korea,
Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Grant recipients for Fall 2005 include:
Jerome Agrusa, Professor of Travel Industry Management, is awarded for
presenting his paper titled, ‘Sustainable Tourism that Works, Using the BottomUp Approach’ and for his participation as executive officer at the 12th Asia Pacific
Tourism Association Annual Conference in Hualien, Taiwan, June 2006.
Stephen Allen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is awarded for presenting his
paper ‘Production of Microcrystalline Cellulose from Sugar-Cane Bagasse’ at the
International Chemical Congress PACIFICHEM 2005 Conference in Honolulu,
Hawaii, December 2005.
Margaret Anderson, Associate Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her
participation at the Psychiatric Nursing 20th Anniversary Conference in Seattle,
Washington, May 2005 and at the National League of Nursing Education Summit
2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, September 2005.
Robert Borofsky, Professor of Anthropology, is awarded for presenting his
paper ‘Placing Ethics at the Discipline’s Center: Bringing Past Hopes into Future
Realities’ at the American Anthropological Association 104th Annual Meeting in
Washington, D.C., November 2005.
Patricia Burrell, Associate Professor of Nursing, is awarded for presenting her
paper ‘The Dutiful Daughter: Aspects of the evolving feminine’ at the 2nd Annual
International Academic Conference of Analytical Psychology and Jungian
Studies in College Station, Texas, July 2005 and for presenting her paper
‘Forensic Nursing: A Paradigm Shift in the Essentials of Nursing Education,
Practice, Administration, and Research’ at the 17th Meeting of the International
Association of Forensic Sciences in Hong Kong, China, August 2005.
Kathleen Cassity, Assistant Professor of English, is awarded for presenting her
paper ‘When the Middle is a Chasm: Where Can We Meet?: Negotiating Across
Ideological Divides in the Composition Classroom’ at the 57th Annual Conference
on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.
Grace Cheng, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is awarded for presenting
her paper ‘Comparing Vietnam and China: Party Ideologies and Rural
Development Experiences’ at the Second International Conference on
Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability in Hanoi, Vietnam,
January 2006.
Michael Dabney, Instructor of Biology, is awarded for his participation at the 30 th
Annual Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network
in Higher Education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2005.
Jon Davidann, Associate Professor of History, is awarded for his participation at
the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 2006.
ReNel Davis, Associate Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation at
the International Council of Nursing 23rd Quadrennial congress 2005 in Taipei,
Taiwan, May 2005.
Daniel Gefroh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is awarded for presenting
his paper ‘Sufficient Conditions for Hurwitz Stability of Complex Polynomials’ at
the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and
Related Fields in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2006.
Allison Gough, Assistant Professor of History, is awarded for her participation at
the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 2006.
Russell Hart, Associate Professor of History, is awarded for his participation at
the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 2006.
Sherry Hester, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation at
the 19th Annual American Psychiatric Nurses Association Conference in
Nashville, Tennessee, November 2005.
Edward Klein, Professor of Applied Linguistics, is awarded for participating at
the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition 4th Annual
Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2005 and for his presentations
‘Motivating ESL/EFL Reading Through Presentation Projects’ and ‘Decisions and
Directions in Text Adaptation for ESL/EFL Reading’ at the 13th Korea TESOL
International Conference in Seoul, Korea, October 2005.
Teresa Lane, Assistant Professor of Spanish and TESL, is awarded for her
participation at the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages 39th
Annual Meeting and Exposition in Baltimore, Maryland, November 2005.
Linda Lierheimer, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, is awarded
for presenting her paper ‘Studying at the School of the Holy Spirit:
Autodicdactism in Seventeenth-Century French Convents’ at the Western
Society for French History 33rd Annual Conference in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, October 2005.
Ernesto Lucas, Associate Professor of Economics, is awarded for presenting his
paper ‘Quality Point Average: Measure of Teaching Performance’ at the 2005
College Teaching Methods and Style Conference in Reno, Nevada, September
2005.
Michelle Marineau, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her
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participation in the Australian Qualitative Research Organization 2005
Conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 2005.
Mercy Mott, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation in
the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses 14th Annual Convention in Las Vegas,
Nevada, October 2005.
Hanh Thi Nguyen, Visiting Assistant Professor of TESL, is awarded for her
presentations ‘Conversation Analysis and the Development of Interactional
Competence in a Second Language’ and ‘Inviting in Vietnamese’ at the
Conversation Analysis and Interactional Competence Workshop and the Current
Research and Future Directions Roundtable in Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2005.
Scott Okamoto, Assistant Professor of Social Work, is awarded for his
presentations ‘Social Contexts of Drug Offers among American Indian Youth and
Their Relationship to Drug Use: An Exploratory Study,’ ‘The Effectiveness of a
Multicultural, School Based Drug Prevention Program with American Indian
Youth,’ and ‘Who is Offering and How Often? Gender Differences in Drug Offers
among American Indian Adolescents of the Southwest’ at the Society for Social
Work and Research 10th Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, January
2006.
Patrick Perry, Associate Professor of Mathematics, is awarded for presenting
his paper on ‘Online Quizzing using WebCT’ at the Mathematical Association of
America MathFest 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 2005.
Mitchell Robertson, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is awarded for his
participation at the 2005 American Chemical Society Advanced Local Section
Leadership Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, October 2005.
Lynell Rogers, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation at
the Transcultural Nursing Society 31st Annual Conference in New York, New
York, October 2005.
Ken Schoolland, Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, is
awarded for his presentations ‘Economic Freedom and Economic Development’
and ‘Global Publication: Economics Education and Development’ at the
Individual Liberty Initiative of Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria, the Institute of Public
Policy Analysis in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Centre for Humane Education in
Accra, Ghana, January 2006.
Saundra Schwartz, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, is awarded
for her presentation on ‘The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature, and the Ancient
Novel: Rewriting the Past’ at the Society of Biblical Literature 2005 Annual
Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2005.
Michael Seiler, Associate Professor of Finance, is awarded for presenting his
paper ‘Is There a Linkage Between Buyer Characteristics and Providing Higher
Levels of Service Quality’ at 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association for Global
Business in Miami Beach, Florida, November 2005.
Vicky Seiler, Assistant Professor of Communication, is awarded for presenting
her paper ‘Is There a Linkage Between Buyer Characteristics and Providing
Higher Levels of Service Quality?’ at 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association for
Global Business in Miami Beach, Florida, November 2005.
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John Smith, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is awarded for presenting his
paper ‘The Efficacy on Online Mathematics Courses’ at the Mathematics
Association of America Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Antonio, Texas,
January 2006.
Jeanine Tweedie, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for presenting her
paper ‘Kalaupapa, Molokai: Transcultural Nursing Education Through ‘talk story’
and Service Learning’ at the International Partnership for Service-Learning &
Leadership 23rd International Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, October
2005.
William Warren, Associate Professor of Geography, is awarded for his
participation at the Hawai`i Preservation Field School at the University of Hawai`i
at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawai`i, May 2005.
Arthur Whatley, Professor of Organizational Change, is awarded for presenting
his paper ‘Critical Pedagogy and Management Education’ at the Allied
Academies Fall 2005 International Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October
2005.
Houston Wood, Associate Professor of English, is awarded for his participation
at the First Nations\First Features: A Showcase of the World Indigenous Film and
Media in New York, New York, May 2005.
Alfred Zimermann, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Information
Systems, is awarded for his participation at the 21st Annual Conference on
Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison, Wisconsin, August 2005.
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