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April 6, 2001
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Contact: Sarah
Maxwell
Director of Media Relations
507.646.4184
Written by Carissa Tobin '03
Carleton College Announces Faculty Development Grants
Northfield, Minn. - Carleton College Dean
Elizabeth McKinsey has announced the recipients of major faculty
development fellowship awards. Recipients will use their grants
to complete various projects and research in the coming school
year.
Bush Fellowships were awarded to four professors. Clinton Cowan,
assistant professor of geology, received a fellowship to write
several articles on the Belize Barrier Reef and to pursue research
on possible relationships between biomere extinction and sea
level change in North America. Roger Jackson, professor of religion,
will use his grant to edit a translation of the Tibetan Buddhist
classic "The Crystal Mirror of Tenet Systems." Susannah
Ottaway, assistant professor of history, will complete her book
"The 'Decline of Life': Old Age in Eighteenth Century England."
Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor
of Political Science, will complete a book about participatory
and representative democracy. Cowan and Ottaway also received
Class of '49 Fellowships, which are awarded to junior faculty
who receive a Bush Fellowship.
Ronald Rodman, assistant professor of music, received the Sit
Fellowship to write a book on music in American television. The
Sit Fellowship is made possible by a gift from the Sit Investment
Associates, Inc.
Silvia López, assistant professor of Spanish, received
the Mellon Faculty Fellowship, which is funded by a Mellon Foundation
grant. López will use her grant to write several articles
on the impact of Frankfurt school aesthetic theory on Latin American
literary criticism.
The Curriculum Development Fund also announced various awards.
Marion Cass, professor of chemistry, and Will Hollingsworth,
assistant professor of chemistry, received an award to develop
innovations in teaching molecular orbitals. Laura Goering, assistant
professor of Russian, and Anna Dotlibova, adjunct lecturer in
Russian, received a grant to revise and edit text for the Russian
101 curriculum. Deborah Gross, assistant professor of chemistry,
will use her award to learn about and teach colleagues how to
use the department's new mass spectrometry system.
Term-long targeted opportunity faculty development awards were
also announced. David MacCallum, assistant professor of philosophy,
received the Sit Fellowship to write a book titled "Entangled
Qubits: Philosophical Issues in Quantum Information Theory."
Mary Easter, professor of dance, received the Mellon Faculty
Fellowship for support in writing her memoir "How I Became
a Dancer."
Two professors received Wallin Fellowships, which are supported
by a gift from Carleton trustee Winston Wallin and his wife Maxine,
the parents of three Carleton graduates. Deanna Haunsperger,
associate professor of mathematics, will work on a biography
of mathematician Grace Chisholm Young. Cindy Blaha, professor
of physics and astronomy, will prepare a research paper on hot
spot galaxies and support new observation research with her grant.
Stephen Kennedy, associate professor of mathematics, received
the Bardwell Smith Fellowship, which was funded by a gift from
Leo Lum, a 1969 Carleton graduate. Kennedy will write about the
work and impact of mathematician Robert Lee Moore.
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