FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS - Fall 2004
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 2004 to 29 faculty,
for a total allocation of $ 34,509.54.
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 Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, Uruguay and
Vietnam.
Grant recipients for Fall 2004 include:
Jerome Agrusa, Professor of Travel Industry Management, is awarded $2,100.00 for
his presentation ‘Perceptions of International Visitors on Thailand as a Tourist
Destination and his participation as executive officer at the 11th Asia Pacific Tourism
Association Annual Conference in Goyang, Korea, July, 2005.
Stephen Berg, Associate Professor or Mathematics, is awarded $390.00 for his
presentation ‘Making Student Evaluations of Instructors a More Valid and Fair Process’
at the 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education in Honolulu, Hawaii,
January 2005.
Robert Borofsky, Professor of Anthropology, is awarded $1,600.00 for his
presentations ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ and ‘Yanomani: The Fierce Controversy
and What We Can Learn From It’ at the American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting in San Francisco, California, November, 2004.
Barbara Burke, Instructor of Mathematics, is awarded $402.00 for her presentation
‘Making Student Evaluations of Instructors a More Valid and Fair Process’ at the 2005
Hawaii International Conference on Education in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2005.
Scott Campbell, Assistant Professor of Communication, is awarded $1,264.79 for
presenting papers on ‘How Rudel: An Examination of Normative Mobile Phone Use in
Public Places’ and ‘The Social Construction of Mobile Telephony’ at the National
Communication Association Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, November 2004.
Yooncheong Cho, Assistant Professor of Marketing, is awarded $2,100.00 for his
presentation on ‘Measuring consumer Behavior: Comparison Analysis of Catalog with
Online vs. Pure Online Busines’ at the European Applied Business Research
Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2004.
Michael Dabney, Instructor of Biology, is awarded $1089.00 for his participation in the
Annual Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in
Higher Education in Montreal Quebec, Canada, November 2004.
Lori Daniels, Assistant Professor of Social Work/Sociology, is awarded $1068.00 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 Los’ at the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies 20th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2004.
ReNel Davis, Associate Professor of Nursing, is awarded $1,114.40 for her
participation at the Transcultural Nursing: Comparative Global Perspectives course at
Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan, May 2004.
Christopher Evans, Instructor of Marine Sciences, is awarded $285.15 for his
participation at the New Approaches and Techniques for Teaching Science Course at
the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, July 2004.
Carl Farrell, Associate Professor of Computer Science/CIS, is awarded $2,056.00 for
his presentation ‘Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Lessons from the Collaboration of
CIS and CS Seniors’ at the International Association for Computer Information Systems
2004 Conference in Cancun, Mexico, October 2004.
Christopher Fung, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is awarded $639.60 for his
participation in the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting in San
Francisco, California, November 2004.
Daniel Gefroh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, is awarded $440.00 for his
presentation ‘Laplace Transforms of Finite Measure as Limits of Polynomials with
Restricted Zeros’ at the Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and
Related Fields in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2005.
Janice Haley, Assistant Professor of Nursing, is awarded $960.00 for her participation
at the 26th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care in Phoenix, Arizona, March
2005.
Serena Hashimoto, Assistant Professor of Communication, is awarded $1,600.00 for
presenting a paper on ‘Ambivalence and Mourning the Founding Father’ at the
Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Annual Conference in New York, New York,
October 2004.
Ernesto Lucas, Associate Professor of Economics, is awarded $875.00 for presenting
his paper on ‘Students Evaluation of Teaching Performance’ at the 2004 Teaching
Economics Conference at Cal State Fullerton in Fullerton, California, October 2004.
Brian Metcalf, Associate Professor of Psychology, is awarded $129.00 for his
participation in the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association in
Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2004.
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Shaun Moss, Associate Professor of Marine Science, is awarded $1,600.00 for his
presentation ‘Evaluation of selectively bred Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei:
New challenges and opportunities’ at the Aquaculture America 2005 Conference,
January 2005.
Ugur Aytun Ozturk, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, is awarded
$2,100.00 for his presentation ‘Locating a median line segment in Euclidean space: an
application snapshot’ at the International Conference on Industrial Logistics,
Montevideo, Uruguay, February 2005.
Sterling Pavelic, Assistant Professor of History, is awarded $2,033.09 for his
presenting his paper on ‘Teaching Military History: The Who, What, and Why of
Teaching Military History’ at the Organization of American Historians Annual
Conference in San Francisco, California, March 2005 and his participation at the
Society for Military History Annual Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, February
2005.
Ken Schoolland, Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, is awarded
$2,100.00 for his presentations ‘The Benefits of World Migration’ at the Julian Simon
Memorial Lecture, ‘The Practical Use of Satire and Fiction in Economics Education’ at
the Economics Education in India Conference and ‘The Practical Use of Theater to
Popularize Economics Education’ at the Economics Education Through Theatrical
Production in New Delhi, India, January 2005.
Saundra Schwartz, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, is awarded
$1,336.71 for her presentation ‘East-West Classical Studies: An Approach to World
Humanities’ at the 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Core Texts and
Courses in Irving, Texas, April 2004.
Michael Seiler, Associate Professor of Finance, is awarded $1,600.00 for his
presentation ‘Realistic Portfolio Allocation Decision-Making for the Small U.S. Retail
Investor’ at 2004 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans,
Louisiana, October 2004.
Vicky Seiler, Assistant Professor of Communication, is awarded $1,600.00 for his
presentation ‘Realistic Portfolio Allocation Decision-Making for the Small U.S. Retail
Investor’ at 2004 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans,
Louisiana, October 2004.
Faith Sparr, Assistant Professor of Communication, is awarded $580.80 for her
participation in the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Chicago,
Illinois, November 2004.
Ed Van Gorder, Associate Professor of Mathematics, is awarded $390.00 for his
presentation ‘First Course in Statistical Science: Four Suggestions for Ongoing Reform’
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at the Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields in
Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2005.
Eric Vetter, Associate Professor of Marine Biology, is awarded $196.00 for speaking as
a keynote speaker at the Fisheries, Oceanography and Society Symposium Series at
the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution and New England Aquarium in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts, September 2004.
Niti Villinger, Assistant Professor of Management, is awarded $1,260.00 for her
participation in several roundtable discussions at the Faculty Development in
International Business Seminar in China, Japan and Vietnam, August 2004.
Houston Wood, Associate Professor of English, is awarded $1,600.00 for his
presentations on ‘Countering Globalization�s Globalizing Discourse’ and ‘Connecting
First-Orders Practice to Cultural Studies’ Second-Order Concepts’ at the 2004
Crossroads in Cultural Studies 5th International Conference, June 2004.
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