Five proposals by faculty have been awarded grants by The Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences for 2008-2009. A selection committee made up of Phi Beta Kappa members, in consultation with Steven House, dean of Elon College, received 11 proposals.
The following proposals have received funding:
· “American Studies: ‘Growing’ American Studies at Elon University” – Michael Frontani, Ashley Hairston, Charles Irons, Kirstin Ringelberg – $2,600
· “Interdisciplinary Intersections of Law, Humanities, and American Culture” – Ashley Hairston – $5,000
· “Project PERCS – Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies” – Tom Mould, Bird Stasz, Peter Felten, Lisa Peloquin, Brooke Barnett – $5,000
· “A Symposium on Words and Music with Composer Lori Laitman and Poet David Mason” – Hallie Hogan, Todd Coleman, Kevin Boyle, Kathy Lyday-Lee – $5,500
· “Cogito Elon sum: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Approach to Neuroscience at Elon University” – Eric Hall, Amy Overman, Caroline Ketcham, Robert Vick, Mat Gendle – $5,000
The Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences accepts proposals for projects that deepen the values, the intellectual community, the research, teaching and habits of thinking that are characteristic of the liberal arts and sciences. The grants are available to Elon University faculty, staff and students.
The fall deadline for the receipt of proposals is September 12, 2008.
– Information submitted by Steven House and Russell Gill