- Recent grants awarded to faculty and students for fall 2007
- Posted June 9, 2008
Newcomb Fellows Faculty Grants--Fall 2007
Research
Holly Flora Art Department
‘The Devout Belief of the Imagination’: Gender and Illustrated Manuscripts of the Meditations Vitae Christi
Michele White Communication Department
Gender, Sexuality, and Security in Internet Social Networking Settings
Alexander Burin Chemistry Department
Theoretical Investigation of DNA Absorption Spectra
David Heins Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Reproductive Biology and Host-Parasite Relationship of Stickleback Fishes
Louise Hornby Department of English
‘Photographic Modernism: The Pursuit of Objectivity’
Barbara Hayley Department of Theatre & Dance
South Africa Community Based Performance
R. Enrique Varela Department of Psychology
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Youth Two Years After Hurricane Katrina: Explanatory Variables
Travel
Vicki Mayer Department of Communication
The Affective Sell and Buy: Reality Casting Calls
Carrie Wyland Department of Psychology
Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference
Collaborative (listed by name of coordinator)
Dana Zartner Falstrom Department of Political Science
Crisis & Its Aftermath: Building Institutions to Promote Peace, Justice and Human Rights
Adeline Masquelier Department of Anthropology
Cinema in the Muslim World: A Festival
Thomas Sherry Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Building Louisiana Collaborations: Modeling Habitat and Landscape Responses by Swainson’s Warbler to Forest Management, Silviculture, and Hurricanes
Enhancing the Classroom Experience
Samuel Ramer Department of History
Two Lectures by Margarita Eskina: ‘Women and Politics and Russian Theater: Recollections over Fifty Years’ and ‘Theater and Society in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia’
Beverly Trask Department of Theatre and Dance
Haitian Dance and Drum Workshop
Tatjana Pavlovic Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Feminism, Cinema, and Post Yugoslav Space
Newcomb Fellows Student Grants -- Fall 2007
Independent Research
Gesine Veits
Kinetic Studies of Aromatic Iodination for Applications in Tumor-Targeting
Lindsay Hayden
Seeing the World Through Rose-Colored Glasses: The Southern Red Scare and its Effects on the Civil Rights Movement
Whitney Stoppel
The Creation of Functionalized Aluminum Nanoparticles
Gulnaz Saiyed
Mardi Gras Indian Beading
Donna Crump
Ozymandias: A New Orleans-South African Collaboration
Elizabeth Perego
The Politicization of the Hijab in Algeria During the War of Independence, 1954-1962
Yvon Tran
Direct Sulfidation of Olefins Using Chromium Sulfide Complexes
Conference Presentation/Attendance
Kendall Ryan
Association of Writers and Writing Programs in New York City
Sarah Henkle
American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Columbus, Ohio (paper presented and published)
Six students of S. Lusnia
Religious Studies Conference in Bourbonnais, Illinois
Amanda Burr
Southwestern Association of Naturalists in Memphis, Tennessee
Society of Women Engineers
Society of Women Engineers National Conference in Baltimore
Sarah Ray
Wealth, Inequality and the Eroding Middle Class (UNC’s Center on Work, Poverty and Opportunity)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Newcomb Neighbors/Rebuild New Orleans
Kristen Pickens and
Melody Chen
Fleur de les Consulting: Creation of a Non-Profit Consulting Group to Promote Recovery and Development of Women-owned Small Businesses in New Orleans
Lauren Sher
ReEnergize Newcomb: Transform Newcomb College Institute into the Model of Energy Efficiency and Create Opportunities for Women to Change the Rebuilding Process with Energy Conservation Techniques
Elaine Frey
Rebuilding Homes, Rejecting Gender Stereotypes: Engage Women in Rebuilding and Help Them Understand Experiences of Women Post-Katrina and Break Down Gender Stereotypes in the Field of Construction
Annabelle Pardi
M.O.R.E. for N.O.W: Mobilizing, Outreaching, Relating, Educating for New Orleans Women – a seminar series dedicated to empowering and educating New Orleans women without cultural bias through the promotion of healthy habits and neighborhood partnerships to better allow for participation as active, energized community members.
17 Student Grants on Behalf of 32 Students
6/3/08
TOTAL FELLOWS STUDENT GRANTS (22 ON BEHALF OF 32 STUDENTS)
Other grants awarded through the Newcomb College Institute:
The Gordon Summer Fellowship (student)
Recipient: Jennifer Whiddon
Project: Service Learning in Cambodia – Teaching English to orphans and street children and producing a photo documentary of the experience.
The Barbara A. Greenbaum Faculty Fellowship
Recipient: Lisa Szechter, Department of Psychology
Project: Encouraging Young Scientists: Parent-Child Interactions at an Informal Science Education Center.
Updated June 3, 2008
