2012-13 Hewlett Grant Awards

March 27, 2012

Dear Willamette Community,

I am pleased to announce this year's Hewlett grant awards, effective fiscal year 2012-13.  My thanks to the members of the faculties of the College of Liberal Arts, Graduate School of Education, Atkinson Graduate School of Management and the College of Law for their creative and interesting proposals. 

Steve

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

Sammy Basu, Gretchen Moon, Cheryl Cramer, Mike Spalti: 
Multimodal Composition in the College Colloquium

Haiyan Cheng: 
Improving the "Introduction to MATLAB Programming" Course

Mark Conliffe, Deborah Dancik, Mary McRobinson: 
Revealing Soviet Posters: Preparing Them for Use

Marva Duerksen, Jade Aguilar, Jonneke Koomen, Frann Michel, Sally Markowitz, Melissa Buis Michaux, Rachel Kinsman Steck: 
Review & Revision of the CLA Women's & Gender Studies Curriculum through attendance at "Expanding the Circle LGBTQ Summer Institute for Higher Education: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies" 

Inga Johnson, David Craig, Haiyan Cheng, Erin McNicholas, Alison Fisher, David Altman: 
STEM Colloquium Series: Promoting Interdisciplinary Communication & Collaboration

Michaela Kleinert, David Altman, Richard Watkins: 
Development of a new course for science majors: Advanced Data Analysis and Simulation, ADAS

Juwen Zhang, Heidi Pruess Grew: 
Combining Contemporary Ceramics with Ancient Chinese Culture, Phase One

COLLEGE OF LAW

Warren Binford, Zachary Brunot, Vince Chiappetta, Phylis Myles, Susan Smith, Jeffrey Standen, Jennifer Todd, Valerie Vollmar, Mike Wise: 
Harnessing Digital Technologies in Legal Education

ATKINSON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Henry Bi, Elliot Maltz: 
Discovering the High-performing Sustainable Organizations

Polly S. Rizova: 
Putting Social Networks to Work for Managing Organizational Change in Health Care Settings

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Karen Hamlin, Steve Rhine, Jill Bryant, Neil Liss, Bob Jones: 
Connecting Academic and Clinical-Based Learning to Prepare Exemplary Teachers: Collaborative Development and Teaching of Content Area Methods Courses