Past Growth Grant Projects

• Steven Graham  (SJC) to increase students’ success rate in organic chemistry by using the See-Think-Predict Pedagogy and document their progress through video taping.
• Charles Wankel  (TCB) to create a Second Life Virtual space for students in his management courses.
  
  
  

2006-2007

• Mauricio Borrero  (SJC) to attend the Summer Institute on Oral History and the Oral History Association Conference in order to integrate oral history into his undergraduate teaching and develop a graduate course in Oral History.
•  Florin Catrina  (SJC) to attend the course, WeBWorK2: An Internet-based system for generating and delivering homework, at the Joint Mathematics meeting.
• Judith Cramer  (CPS) to attend the Poynter Institute seminar to help develop a converged journalism curriculum.
• Sue Ford (PHM) to attend Adobe Flash training courses offered in the Aquent Graphics Institute to create educational games for her students. 
• Marc Gillespie (PHM) to attend the Mac OS Server Essentials Program to learn the skills necessary to configure an informatics server for use by faculty and students.
  
  
  

2005-2006

• James Bethea (EDU) to attend a Podcast Academy at Boston University and then use podcasting in an online course, Foundations of Rehabilitation; also share this technology with other faculty.
• Anne M. Dranginis (SJC) to attend the Computation Genomics course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and to develop ways to use these approaches in her course, Laboratory Techniques in Molecular Biology.
• Olgas Hilas (PHM) to attend the Cultural Competency Program for Trainers in Seattle and to build a Cultural Competency Program at St. John’s.
• Susie J. Pak (SJC) to attend a workshop on Social Network Analysis (SNA) at the University of Essex and to use this approach in a course on the history of modernization and globalization; also share her knowledge with other faculty.

2004-2005

• Smita Guha (EDU) to attend the National Educational Computing Conference and then use electronic applications to facilitate effective learning and assessment strategies.
• Steve Mentz (SJC) to attend the Technologies of Writing and Research Seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library to further his work on relating the social and intellectual changes wrought by the printing press to the changes taking place now due to the introduction of electronic information technologies.
• Stephen Miller (SJC) to attend the West Chester University Poetry Conference and learn about new methods of teaching poetic forms applicable to his creative writing and poetry courses.
• Simcha Pollack (TCB) to attend the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as part of his work on developing a teaching tool for diagnosing students' weaknesses in mathematics.

2003-2004

• Chris Bazinet (SJC) to attend a workshop on bioinformatics.
• Nancy Becker (SJC) to attend a three-day workshop on usability research and testing of library resources.
• Angela Belli (SJC) to attend a “Disability Studies and the University” conference sponsored by the Modern Language Association and Emory University.
• Rehana Patel (SJC) to participate in a 2004-2005 Project NexT Fellowship on teaching sponsored  by the Mathematical Association of America.

2002-2003

• Keith Carrington (CPS) to attend the 5th Annual WebCT User Conference.
• Denise Rompilla (SJC) to attend the annual meeting of the American Museum Association and the annual conference of the College Art Association Work with curators and historians.

2001-2002

• William Reisel (TCB) to participate in a SAP Training Course to integrate this software into the TCB curriculum.

2000-2001

• James Gregory (EDU) to attend the 17th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning.
• Veronica Henry (PHM) to participate in a distance learning course on “Aseptic Technique.”
• Alison Hyslop (SJC) to attend a Chautauqua Workshop on “Process Workshops: A New Model for the Science Classroom.”
• Judith Krauss (CPS) to attend a workshop on “An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Critical Thinking and the Art of Instruction” sponsored by the Foundation for Critical Thinking.
• Mark Terjesen (SJC) to attend the Project Kaleidoscope 2001 summer institute which focused on undergraduate research.

1999-2000

• Fr. Peter Albano (SJC) to attend the Science and Religion Course Program sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Oxford, England to develop a groundbreaking course in Religion and Science.
• Valerie Englander and Ralph Terregrosa (CBA) to attend the Fifth Annual Conference on Innovation in Instruction for Business and Related Disciples in Las Vegas, Nevada to improve the quality of instruction in their business classes.
• Marc Gillespie (PHM) will use the grant to enhance the laboratory component of the Human Anatomy and Physiology courses.
• Robert Mockler (CBA) to attend the information Resources Management Association’s International Conference in Anchorage, Alaska to develop a new graduate-level MIS/MS track.
• Emilio Squillante (PHM) to attend a program at the Pharmacy Compounding Centers of America in Houston, Texas to update the laboratory exercises on that more accurately reflect those likely to be encountered in today’s practice.
• Sherry Vellucci (University Libraries) to attend the Digital Distance Education/Continuing Education Institute at San Jose University in California to develop two fully-online courses.
• Matthew Wong (CBA) to attend the Case Teaching Workshop at the Harvard Business School to assist him in revising an advanced corporate finance course.

1998-1999

• Barrett Brenton (SJC) to use the grant to assist him in the development of an Online Anthropology Teaching Lab.
• Vickie Harvey (SJC) to participate in the annual faculty development conference sponsored by the National Communication Association, with the goal of enhancing her skills in the classroom.
• Joseph Marotta (CPS) to attend the NEMLA Conference.
• Claire O’Donoghue (CPS) to participate in the National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute for Teachers of Literature to assist her integrating critical thinking and persuasive writing in her online courses.
• Jack Raisner (CBA) to attend the Syllabus99 Annual Conference to assist him in developing web-based courses and supplements.