Faculty Receive Grants to Help Classroom Instruction
Huntley College of Agriculture faculty
The grants were awarded through the Special Project for Improving the Classroom Experience (SPICE) program.
Here are the awards by department:
Animal & Veterinary Science
- Assistant Joanne Sohn received $25,000 toward a spay and neuter clinic
- Assistant Professor Cord Brundage received $24,946 to transition animal anatomy and physiology labs from cat dissection to clay-modeling-based instruction.
Apparel Merchandising and Management
- Interim Chair and Associate Professor Muditha Senanayake received $8,189 to modernize apparel construction lab
- Assistant Professor Saemee Lyu received $24,985 for digital dye sublimation printing technology
- Assistant Professor Jiangning Che received $16,992 for a new abrasion and pilling tester for the textile laboratory; and $3,737 for video recording equipment to enhance student learning of lab testing procedures.
- Associate Professor Chitra Dabas received $7,691 to add a whiteboard and move a projection screen in classroom 45-201 and $18,187 to add a monitor screen in classroom 45-259.
Separately, the college gave Che $500 for a perspiration tester and $7,000 for a fabric drape tester. Lyu and Senanayake also received an additional $24,985 award in lottery funds for the digital dye sublimation project.
Human Nutrition & Food Science
- Assistant Gabriel Davidov-Pardo received $17,434 to purchase a bomb calorimeter for food analysis.
- Professor Bonny Burns-Whitmore received $6,355 to develop a universally accessible online research class for nutrition majors, minors, and graduate students.
- Associate Professor Olive Li received $16,720 to develop coordinated activities between 13 food science and technology courses for seniors. The seven lecture and six lab courses are connected by common concepts and principles and developing coordinated activities will improve the learning experience.
Plant Science
- Lecturer Ben Lehan was awarded $10,912 to develop an arthropod zoo.