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Small Grants Program

Description

The Center for Teaching Excellence annually requests proposals from the faculty for small grants to support their teaching efforts. The purpose of this Small Grants Program is to supply the faculty with necessary resources to support their own development as a learning-centered teacher. Especially encouraged are proposals that can demonstrate how the funding will be used to grow a larger project that will have a direct impact on student engagement in and outside of the classroom.

The grant cycle each year is as follows:

• October = Call for proposals
• November = Proposals are reviewed
• December = Award letters are distributed. Award contracts are signed.
• Dec / Jan = Grant funds are distributed
• Spring or Summer = Projects are implemented and assessed
• October = Final reports are due

Grant applications for this academic year are now closed. The call for proposals for the 2010-2011 academic year should occur in late September/early October 2010.

2009-2010 Grant Recipients and Their Projects

Year after year, we have high quality applications to our Small Grants Programs. The effort put into the applications clearly shows in some innovative, long reaching projects. This year we received outstanding applications, just like we've come to expect. This year, just like every other year, the selection committee found it difficult to choose the recipients. After much discussion and deliberation, the committee chose eight of the twenty projects. The applicants receiving funding are:

• Helena Carvahlo (PI), Crystal West, Necrisha Roach, & Wendy Calchary from Physiology and Biophysics for Physiology lab: An active learning approach
• Meghan Gough from The Wilder School for Green mapping as a decision-making tool for sustainable urban planning
• Penny Reynolds from Emergency Medicine for Promoting clinical statistics literacy of Emergency Medicine resident by technology-enhanced formative assessment strategies
• Brigitte Sicat (PI) , Christine Huynh, Sallie Mayer, & Rita Willett from Pharmacy and Internal Medicine for Development of an interprofessional education experience in a primary care teaching clinic
• Ryan Smith from History for Historic Richmond cemeteries: Going beyond the classroom
• Jeffrey South from Mass Communications for Get your mojo working: Preparing mobile journalist for today's newsrooms
• Dewey Taylor (PI) & Richard Hammack from Mathematics for Improving the mathematics graduate student teacher training workshop
• Vamsi Yadavalli from Chemical & Life Science Engineering for Teaching nanotechnology via community outreach at the Science Museum of Virginia

Congratulations to the awardees and a sincere thank you to all that applied. Your dedication to teaching was clearly reflected in each and every application.

2008-2009 Grant Recipients and Their Projects

• Innovative Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Transportation Modeling Course by Xueming Chen, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, College of Humanities and Sciences
• CoEd411.com by Bonnie Davis, School of Mass Communications, College of Humanities and Sciences
• PDA Clinical Documentation System: A Pilot Study for Radiation Sciences Programs by M. Ferrell Justice. Department of Radiation Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions
• New Approaches to Teaching Linear Algebra by Craig Larson, Department of Mathematics, College of Humanities and Sciences
• Who is Professor Green? Affordable Housing and Sustainable Building by Laura Middlebrooks, Spanish Program, School of World Studies, College of Humanities and Sciences
• Open-Source Textbook Publishing by Lon Mitchell and Richard Hammack, Department of Mathematics, College of Humanities and Sciences
• Teaching Internships for Dance Majors by Melanie Richards, Department of Dance and Choreography, School of the Arts

Final Reports were not received from the following participants:

• Development of a Simple Hands-on Course Entitled: Understanding Biological Complexity by Tarynn Witten, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity

Previous reports

View featured reports from 2007.

View some reports from 2001 - 2006. Please be aware- these projects were awarded using criteria different from this year’s awards. Please do not use the previous reports as a benchmark for this year’s awards.