2021 - 2022 Awardees - Center for Faculty Excellence

Round 1 - May 2021

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Jared Beaver	Animal & Range Sciences	Equipment for Testing New Technology for Wildlife-Livestock Conflict Mitigation.
Mac Burgess	Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology	Travel to learn about field trial design and management of diseases in winter squash.
Matt Lavin	Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology	Materials to advance experience phylogenomics and stable isotope signatures of carbon and nitrogen.

COLLEGE OF ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

Cat Dale	School of Film & Photography	Travel to Wildcat/Austin Film Festival Writer’s Conference.
Todd Larkin	School of Art	Travel to complete a catalog essay for the upcoming travelling exhibition Northeast Asia and the American Northwest.
Jeannie Little	School of Music	Travel to 2021 International Trombone Festival in Columbus, Georgia.

JABS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Eric Van Steenburg

Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship

Supplies/services to conduct a nationwide survey around how individuals arrive at an attitude toward a proposed public policy.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Gilbert Kalonde	Education	Travel and supplies for to investigate, examine and provide professional development training programs for STEM teachers in inclusive instructional practices for middle and high school STEM classrooms.
Christine Lux	Health & Human Development	Travel to engage and collaborate with the MSU Child Development Center to create and implement a developmentally appropriate movement and physical activity curriculum for preschoolers.

NORM ASBJORNSON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Connie Chang	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Travel for PI and student to Harvard University to refine a technique in single-cell genomic sequencing.
Paul Gannon	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Travel to University of Otago (UO) in New Zealand to learn about indigenizing engineering education.
Stephanie Wettstein	Chemical & Biological Engineering	Student support to gather preliminary data for a National Science Foundation’s Re-entry into Active Research (NSF RARE) grant.

GALLATIN COLLEGE

Kyndra Campbell	Developmental Writing	Design Learning Communities with Developmental Writing courses.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE

Jean Dixon	Earth Sciences	Travel to conduct fieldwork in Fairbanks, AK on a the physical and geochemical stability of permafrost.
William Fassbender	English	Equipment for research into English education methods by collecting video-style documentary footage at local schools and communities in Montana.
Marvin Lansverk	English	Travel for sabbatical-year research in Britain for a book-length project on Jane Austen.
James Meyer	History & Philosophy	Travel to Kazan, Russia to conduct archival and library research on Soviet-era and post-Soviet Muslim communities in Tatarstan for a book length project on Muslim-state relations in Russia.