FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS - Spring 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 Spring 2005 to 35
faculty, for a total allocation of $ 55,923.85.
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 Bulgaria, Canada, England, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Iran, Korea, Russia,
Serbia Singapore, and Taiwan.
Grant recipients for Spring 2005 include:
Eric Abrams, Associate Professor of Economics, is awarded for his participation at the
Allied Social Science Association Conference sponsoring the Annual American
Economic Association Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2005
Dale Allison, Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her presentation ‘Nurse Practitioners
and Hawaiian Healers‘ Integrative Health Rural Communities’ at the Sigma Theta Tau
International Nursing Honor Society Region I Conference in Alaska, June 2005.
Robert Borofsky, Professor of Anthropology, is awarded for his presentations ‘The
Changing Fate of American Anthropology’ at the 6th Congress of Russian Ethnologists
and Anthropologists in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2005.
Eric Brewe, Assistant Professor of Physics, is awarded for his presentation ‘Student
Reactions to Vygotskian Social Constructivist Reforms in a Physics Class’ at the
American Association of Physics Teachers Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah,
August 2005.
Grace Cheng, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is awarded for her presentation
‘Understanding the Vietnamese Conception of Human Rights (Quyen con Nguoi)’ at the
3rd International Conference on Human Rights in Qom, Iran, May 2005.
Yooncheong Cho, Assistant Professor of Marketing, is awarded for his presentation on
‘Measuring E-Satisfaction of Interactive Online Communication System: Implications for
CRM’ at the European Applied Business Research Conference in Athens, Greece, June
2005.
Kenneth Cook, Professor of Linguistics, is awarded for his participation at the 9 th
International Pragmatics Conference in Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2005 and the 9 th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Seoul, Korea, July 2005.
Michael Dabney, Instructor of Biology, is awarded for his participation at the Faculty
Development Summer Institute in Charlottetown, Canada, July 2005.
Lori Daniels, Assistant Professor of Social Work/Sociology, is awarded for presenting
papers on ‘Nightmare Therapy: A Missing Peace from War Trauma,’ ‘Gestalt & Emotion
Focused Approaches to Posttrauma Therapy,’ and ‘Therapeutic Strategies for Survivor
Guilt, Denial and Memory Loss’ at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
20th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2004.
Jon Davidann, Associate Professor of History, is awarded for his participation at the
Annual American Historical Association Conference in Seattle, Washington, January
2005.
ReNel Davis, Associate Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation at the 31st
Annual Conference of the Transcultural Nursing Society in New York City, New York,
October 2005.
Eric Drabkin, Associate Professor of Economics, is awarded for his participation at the
American Economic Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January
2005.
Antonina Espiritu, Associate Professor of Economics, is awarded for presenting
papers on ‘Trends in Earned Degrees in Business and Economics’ and ‘US Productivity
Growth: Is There a Feedback Link?’ at the 2005 European Applied Business Research
Conference in Athens, Greece, June 2005.
Susan Fox-Wolfgramm, Professor of Management, is awarded for her presentation on
‘Electrifying Student Curiosity Through Cases: An Experiential, Case Research and
Teaching Technique Based on Locale’ at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the North
American Case Research Association in Sedona, Arizona, October 2004.
Valerie Franck, Assistant Professor of Biology, is awarded for her participation at the
International Ocean Research Conference in Paris, France, June 2005.
Phyllis Frus, Associate Professor of English, is awarded for presenting her paper ‘The
Bones of Their Ancestors: Bontoc Eulogy and Halving the Bones as Reflexive
Documentaries or ‘Essay-Films’ at the 2005 Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Conference in London, England, April 2005.
John Gutrich, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, is awarded for presenting
a paper ‘Functional Restoration and Trajectories of Constructed Freshwater Marshes:
A Need for Adaptive Management in Wetland Mitigation’ at the 90th Ecological Society
of America and IX International Congress of Ecology, August 2005.
Joseph Ha, Associate Professor of Marketing, is awarded for presenting his paper
‘Measuring E-Satisfaction of Interactive Online Communication System: Implication of
CRM’ at the European Applied Business Research Conference in Athens, Greece, July
2005 and his participation at The Oxford Round Table in Manchester, England, July
2005.
Thomas Kam, Assistant Professor of Accounting, is awarded for his participation at the
2005 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California,
August 2005.
Michael Kelley, Associate Professor of Psychology, is awarded for presenting a paper
on ‘Mobile Phones Within Mutual Help Groups’ at the British Association for Behavioral
& Cognitive Psychotherapy Annual Conference in Canterbury, England, July 2005.
Valerie Kido, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation at the
2004 Annual Convention of Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses in Chicago, Illinois,
September 2004.
Philip King, Professor of Psychology, is awarded for presenting a papers ‘Teaching
Dreams: Current Settings, Disciplines and Approaches’ and ‘Preserving Narrative
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Meanings in Dream Content Analysis’ at the 22nd Annual International Association for
the Study of Dreams Conference held in Berkeley, California, June 2005.
Michelle Marineau, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for presenting a paper
‘A New Paradigm: Treating Acute Infections at Home with Telemedicine’ at the
International Nursing Conference in Raffles City, Singapore, April 2005.
Gunter Meissner, Associate Professor of Finance, is awarded for presenting a paper
‘Valuing Default Swaps on Correlated LMM Processes’ at the International Association
of Science and Technology for Development Financial Engineering and Applications
Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, November 2004.
Brian Metcalf, Associate Professor of Psychology, is awarded for his participation at
the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, September
2004.
Ugur Aytun Ozturk, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, is awarded for his
presentation ‘Commitment of Electrical Power Thermal Generators in the Presence of
Wind’ at the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia,
May 2005.
Mitchell Robertson, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is awarded for presenting a
paper on ‘Integrating Ocean Science Research into a Quantitative Analysis Course’ at
the 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting held in San Diego, California,
March 2005 and his participation at the 60th American Chemical Society ‘ Northwest
Regional Meeting held in Fairbanks, Alaska, June 2005.
Lawrence Rowland, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, is awarded for
presenting a paper ‘Effect of Multiple Perspectives on Assessment of Teacher
Effectiveness: A Data Envelopment Analysis’ at the 2005 Hawaii International
Conference on Education in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2005.
Catherine Ryan, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded for her participation at the
International Council of Nurses 23rd Quadrennial Congress held in Taipei, Taiwan, May
2005.
Brett Saraniti, Associate Professor of Economics/Quantitative Methods, is awarded for
presenting a papers on ‘Cost Reductions in Bulk Testing’ and Excel, Wilt Chamberlain,
and the Hot Hand: Teaching Probability for Business and Economics’ at the Teaching &
Learning Conference and International Business & Economics Research Conference in
Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004.
Ken Schoolland, Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, is awarded
for his keynote presentations on ‘Evaluating Market Reforms in Eastern Europe’ at the
Conference on Impact of Market Reforms in Serbia & Montenegro in Belgrade, Serbia,
July 2005 and ‘Market Transition: Ethics, Economics and Education’ at the Free Market
Convention in Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2005.
Michael Seiler, Associate Professor of Finance, is awarded his presenting a paper on
‘Multinational Companies’ Real Asset Ownership and Its Impact on Diversification’ at
the 12th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference in Dublin, Ireland, June
2005.
Vicky Seiler, Assistant Professor of Communication, is awarded for presenting a paper
on ‘Multinational Companies’ Real Asset Ownership and Its Impact on Diversification’ at
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the 12th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference in Dublin, Ireland, June
2005.
Colleen Soares, Assistant Professor of English Language Programs, is awarded for
presenting a paper on ‘Peer Collaboration with English as a Second Language
Students: A Qualitative Case Study’ at the 2004 Learning Conference, June 2004.
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