SUPPORTING FACULTY THROUGH THE DEAN'S FUND

The LAE Dean’s Fund provides vital professional development support to LAE faculty and instructional staff. Funds may be used to support travel costs associated with presentations at professional conferences, scholarly research projects, or creative endeavors. The 15 faculty and staff below received Dean’s Funds awards for scholarly travel in the last year.

Theron Parsons, Professor of psychology, to attend the Police and Criminal Psychology Conference in Quebec City, Canada

Erin Edgington, Associate Professor of education, to present at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference in Los Angeles

Kaju Lee, Assistant Professor of piano pedagogy, to perform in concert and teach a master class at UW-Superior

Chris Schulenburg, Professor of Spanish, to present a paper at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Minneapolis

Shan Sappleton, Associate Professor of political science, to support her sabbatical research trip in West Africa

Laura Roberts, Assistant Professor of English, to present at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago

Doug Adams, Assistant Professor of education, to present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Denver

Nancy Gartner, Associate Professor of criminal justice, to serve as a panelist at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland

Hannah Korell, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, to present at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Minneapolis

Timothy Swenson, Assistant Professor of health and human performance, to accept the Adapted Physical Education Program of the Year Award at the Society of Health and Physical Education (SHAPE) conference in Seattle

Claudine Pied, Associate Professor of sociology, to present at the XIX Biennial Conference through the International Association for the Study of the Commons in Nairobi, Kenya

Laura Dev, Assistant Professor of environmental science, to present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Denver

James Riser, TREES Lab Research Scientist, to study at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research’s archive

Catherine Van Paemel, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, to study Spanish in Mexico City over the summer

Stormy Stipe, Associate Professor of English, to work and write in residence at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada