Winners of the Gilbert Whitaker Fund Stage I & II Grants
The Gilbert Whitaker Fund provides incentive funding for the improvement of teaching and learning by collaborative groups of faculty in and across departments and programs. There are two stages to the funding. Up to eight initial grants of $10,000 are awarded in Stage I. The most successful of these Stage I ventures are eligible for an additional $15,000 grant to continue their work.
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In Fall 2008 Stage I grants were awarded to the following faculty:
Judith G. Calhoun & Kai Zheng
Health Management & Policy, School of Public Health
Practice-Centered Curriculum Research and Development for Graduate Health Information
James M. Cooke
Family Medicine, Medical School
Development of an Interdisciplinary Management and Leadership Curriculum for Medical Residents
María Dorantes
Romance Languages & Literatures, LSA
Introducing Intercultural Competence Through Case Studies
Bonnie M. Hagerty
Nursing
Redesigning Clinical Skill Training through Technology
Douglas Northrop, Robert Bain & Kathleen Canning
History, LSA
Thinking and Teaching and Thinking in Global Dimensions: A Joint Proposal for a May Seminar
Cynthia Pachikara
School of Art & Design, Tauban College of Archeticture and Urban Planning
Sculpting Light Sculpting Space
Panos Papalambros & Richard Gonzalez
Mechanical Engineering, Design Scienc, and Psychology, College of Engineering & LSA
Interdisciplinary Design Education Strategies
David Schoem & James Crowfoot
Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA
A University-Community Social and Environmental Justice Film and Discussion Series: Diverse, Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences for Students through the Integration of Classroom Study and Community Engagement
John E. Tropman
School of Social Work
Preparing for Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector in the US : An Opportunity for Service Learning
In Fall 2008 Stage II grants were awarded to the following faculty:
Kate Barald
Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical School
Univerity of Michigan Comprehensive Ethics Training Program in Basic and Social Sciences and Engineering
The goal of this project is to create a comprehensive research responsibility and ethics (RRE) training program for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral scholars and researchers at the University of Michigan in the basic and social sciences and engineering.
Perry J. Samson
Atmospheric Oceanic and Space Sciences. College of Engineering
Developing and Implementing a Web-Based Whiteboard for Classroom Use
LectureTools (http://www.lecturetools.org/) allows students to 1) take notes synchronized to lecture slides, 2) ask questions of the instructors during class, 3) assess their own comfort level with materials, and 4) draw on the instructor’s lecture slides on either a Mac or PC and save the marked-up slide for review later.
Stage II project goals are to include 1) capability to type on slides as well as draw, 2) selection of whiteboard tool as an option in the student-response system, and 3) perform surveys of student and instructor users after implementation to assess usability and impact on learning.
Michael Witgen and Margaret Noori
American Culture, LSA
Anishinaabemowin Preservation and Proficiency
Building on the goals of the Stage I project, the Stage II project will focus on creating audio, textual, and electronic learning resources for the Second Year Anishinaabe language courses at the University of Michigan. The project faculty will also work to disseminate the material as broadly as possible to reverse the endangered status of the Anishinaabe language.