Grant Awardees
Grant Awardees
Compass Grants for 2014-2015
These faculty were awarded $500 in travel, technology or supplies for course development:
Fall 2014 Compass Curriculum Grants Awardees
Faculty can use these awards for travel, technology or supplies to develop the course.
Jared Benson, Letters, Arts and Sciences: History
Resistance and Revolution
Area(s) of submissions: Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Eric Billmeyer, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Geography and Environmental Studies
Environmental Geology
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability
Amount awarded: $500
Dustin Bluhm, College of Business: Management
Business, Government and Society
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability
Amount awarded: $500
Robert Block, Engineering and Applied Sciences: Assistant Dean
Engineering Probability and Statistics
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Perrin Cunningham, Heller's Center for Arts and Humanities: Director
Ancient Myth in Popular Culture: The Sci-Fi Film
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Abby Ferber, Letters, Arts and Science: Sociology
Telling Stories: Race and Civil Rights
Area(s) of submission: Navigate and Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Cerian Gibbes, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Geography and Environmental Studies
Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability and Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Lesley Ginsberg, Letters, Arts and Sciences: English
Nature's Nation: Sustainability and American Literature
Area(s) of Submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Lesley Ginsberg, Letters, Arts and Sciences: English
The Environmental Gothic: Literature, Film, Theory
Area(s) of submission: Navigate and Sustainability
Amount awarded: $500
Wendy Haggren, Letters, Arts and Science: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Digital Media and the Humanities
Area(s) of Submission: Navigate
Amount Awarded: $500
Willie Harrison, Engineering and Applied Sciences: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Probability and Statistics
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
David Havlick, Letters, Arts and Science: Geography and Environmental Studies
Qualitative Methods in Geography
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability and Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Christina Jimenez, Letters, Arts and Sciences: History
Latin American Since 1810
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability
Amount awarded: $500
Anna Kosloski, School of Public Affairs
Women and Crime
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Rebecca Laroche, Letters, Arts and Sciences: English
Shakespeare and Sustainability
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability
Amount awarded: $500
Nicholas Lee, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Sociology
Resistance and Revolution
Area(s) of submission: Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Katherine Mack, Letters, Arts and Sciences: English
Rhetoric and the Making of Colorado Springs: A Service-Learning Course
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Colin McAllister, Visual and Performing Arts: Music
Visions of Darkness: Apocalypse and Dystopia in Literature, Art and Film
Area(s) of submission: Navigate and Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Dena Samuels, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Women and Ethnics Studies
Media and Consumption: Monopolies, Myths and Misrepresentations
Area(s) of submission: Sustainability and Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Alexander Soifer, Interdepartmental Studies, Letter, Arts and Sciences
Emergence of Infinity in Arts and Sciences
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Michaela Steen, Visual and Performing Arts: Visual Resource Center
Contemporary Art
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Michaela Steen, Visual and Performing Arts: Visual Resource Center
Ancient Myth in Popular Culture: The Sci-Fi Film
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Michaela Steen, Visual and Performing Arts: Visual Resource Center
Visions of Darkness: Apocalypse and Dystopia in Literature, Art and Film
Area(s) of submission: Navigate and Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $500
Janice Thorpe, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Communication
Business and Professional Communication
Area(s) of submission: Navigate
Amount awarded: $500
Signature Navigate course development grants
Signature Navigate courses are interdisciplinary courses taught by faculty from across colleges that have at least one integrated component flag (Writing Intensive, Sustainability, or Inclusiveness). These faculty were awarded $1000 in travel, technology or supplies for course development
Signature Navigate Grant Awardees Fall 2014
Faculty can use these awards for travel, technology or supplies to develop the course.
Kathy Cathcart, School of Public Affairs: Criminal Justice
Sara Kaka, College of Education: Curriculum and Instruction
Hilary Smith, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Sociology
The Education and Reintegration of the Juvenile Offender
Area(s) of Submission: Writing Intensive Course and Inclusiveness
Amount award: $1,000 per faculty member
Andrew Ketsdever, Engineering and Applied Sciences: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dan Lykins, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Biology
Keri Mesirow Letters, Arts and Sciences: Biology
Bio-Inspired Design
Area(s) of Submission: Writing Intensive Course, Inclusiveness and Sustainability
Amount awarded: $1,000 per faculty member
Spencer Harris, College of Business, Marketing
Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Sociology
Zek Valkyrie, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Sociology
Sport, Society and Power
Area(s) of Submission: Inclusiveness and Sustainability
Amount awarded: $1,000 per faculty member
Abby Ferber, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Womens and Ethnics Studies
Emily Nusbaum, College of Education: Special Education
Kimbra Smith, Letters, Arts and Science: Anthropology
Designing the Ideal Human: Eugenics across Time Periods and Cultures
Area(s) of submissions: Inclusiveness
Amount awarded: $1,000 per faculty member
Julie Albertson, Engineering and Applied Sciences: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Kevin Tvrdy, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Robert Wonnett, School of Public Affairs
Energy, Energy Systems, and Energy Policy
Area(s) of Submissions: Writing Intensive Course and Sustainability
Amount awarded: $1,000 per faculty member
Henriikka Weir, School of Public Affairs
Sandy Wurtele, Letters, Arts and Sciences: Psychology
Trauma of Child Maltreatment: Psychological, Criminal Justice, Medical, and Public Health Perspectives
Area(s) of submissions: Writing Intensive
Amount awarded: $1,000 per faculty member