The School of Humanities and Sciences is pleased to announce the fall 2006 Ithaca Fund Awards. More than 30 applications were received from a variety of departments and programs to support educational opportunities for H&S students; approximately 80 percent of these proposals were funded in whole or part.
A total of $16,116 was distributed to support projects including:
•students from Biology, Chemistry, Math, Psychology, and Physics presenting papers and posters based on their original research at professional academic conferences;
•an Economics student team participating in the district level competition of the “Fed Challenge,” sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank, under the direction of Prof. Patrick Meister;
•Anthropology students working with Prof. Lisa Paciulli, conducting field research on handedness in primates at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse;
•a faculty/student collaboration in Biology to study the feasibility of creating a “green roof” on the CNS building (Prof. Susan Swensen and Dan Carrion ’08);
•History students conducting original archival research at the History Center in Ithaca, as part of Prof. Michael Smith’s course History of American Environmental Thought;
•master classes in courses in Theatre Arts and Writing, with arts administrator Donna Walker Kuhne (coordinated by Susan Monagan), community activist and fund-raiser Robert Egger (coordinated by Prof. Patricia Spencer), and West African dance master Biboti Oukahilo (coordinated by Prof. Jean McGregor).
A complete listing of projects funded this fall can be found at: https://www.ithaca.edu/hs/community/fundingopps/ifawardfall06/
H&S faculty and students planning activities for late spring, summer or early fall 2007 will again be invited to submit proposals in February 2007; please direct any questions about this program to Stacia Zabusky, Interim Assistant Dean of H&S, 274-3409, szabusky@ithaca.edu. More information on the H&S Ithaca Fund award application process can be found at: https://www.ithaca.edu/hs/community/fundingopps/ithacafund/.
