Year |
Name |
Project Title |
Project Purpose |
2003-04 |
Stephen Bentivenga |
Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Brazilian Sand Dune Communities |
This in-depth study examines mycorrhizal fungal populations in
several sand dune communities in southern Brazil. The project will
increase our understanding of the role of mycorrhizal fungi in this
delicate ecosystem. Moreover, it will enhance the international visibility
and reputation of UW Oshkosh. |
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Fumiko Fukuta and Don Gudmundson |
Japan Travel Seminar & Collaborative MBA Program |
The project directors will lead a group of students to Japan in
May 2004 as part of two travel seminar courses, International Business
Study Tour (BUS494/694) and Understanding Japan (IS312). In addition,
the project directors will meet with Asia Pacific University (Beppu,
Oita, Japan) MBA officials to develop a collaborative MBA program. |
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Kay Gainacopulos and Andrea Gullickson |
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory Exchange |
This project will strengthen and deepen an ongoing relationship
between UW Oshkosh's Music Department and the Rimsky-Korsakov
National Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg, Russia. In addition,
the project will allow for additional exchanges between the two institutions' faculty
to significantly increase the exposure of our faculty, staff and
students to international musicians and music of another culture. |
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Eric Hiatt |
International Collaborative Global Basin Analysis Research Project |
This collaborative project between UW Oshkosh and Queen's
University (Canada) involves completing work on projects already
in progress, including analyses of samples collected from Australia
and North America that are stored at Queen's, and development
of new projects, including fieldwork in northern Quebec, Finland,
and Sweden in summer 2004. UW Oshkosh undergraduates will have the
opportunity to travel to Queen's University to learn new techniques
and use equipment not available here. Two internationally recognized
Canadian researchers will travel to UW Oshkosh to present their research. |
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Marianne Johnson and Ralph Gunderson |
Organizational Trip for Study Abroad Tour ÒEconomics of
PeruÓ |
Two UW Oshkosh faculty members and one student will visit Universidad
del Pacifico in Lima, Peru, in January 2004 to plan and organize
a study abroad tour. During this visit, areas of collaborative research
that could take place during the study abroad tour will be identified,
and arrangements will be made for possible student internships at
U.S. Government agencies in Lima. |
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Themina Kader and Erin Tapley |
Art Education: An Indian Experience |
Two UW Oshkosh faculty members will travel to India to collaborate
with three art educators from India, visit their schools, and arrange
for a follow-up visit with UW Oshkosh students. |
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Nadejda Kaltcheva |
Complementary Use of Photometric Systems- New Approach for Classification
of Stars |
This research will allow the project director to investigate theoretically
the properties of v-X photometric index in collaboration with scientists
from the Vilnius Institute of Physics and Vilnius University Observatory. |
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Alfred Kisubi and Richard Paxton |
Development and Expansion of Exchange Programs to Uganda and Kenya |
One UW Oshkosh faculty member will travel to Uganda and Kenya
with the goal of expanding contacts and program opportunities for
UW Oshkosh students and faculty, as well as strengthen bonds with
individuals within the organizations with which initial agreements
have been signed. |
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Andy Robson |
19th Century Missionaries, Politics, and Archives |
Archival research in Britain will provide information about 19th
century missionary organizations and individual missionaries in the
Pacific Islands. This research is of particular interest to Samoa
and other Pacific nations such as Fiji. UW Oshkosh is currently awaiting
the return of a signed memorandum creating an exchange program with
the National University of Samoa. |
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Jupian Leung |
Educational Practices, Classroom Processes, and Students' Perception
of Favorite Teachers |
The project director will conduct a field study with six secondary
classrooms/teachers in Hong Kong regarding educational practices
and classroom processes. An educational psychologist at a secondary
school and experienced teacher in Hong Kong will visit UW Oshkosh
as a guest lecturer in the project director's four classes
and meet with interested faculty and staff to discuss and exchange
views on educational issues of mutual interest. The project director
and the two international collaborators will conduct a cross-cultural
questionnaire study with 8th-, 10th- and 12th-graders in Hong Kong
and in Oshkosh/Appleton to investigate students' perception
of favorite teachers. |
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Melissa Stinnett |
Literacy in New Zealand |
The project director will observe literacy instruction in New
Zealand primary classrooms, which will enhance a current UW Oshkosh
graduate course, Reading 620. In addition, the project director will
establish a linkage with University of Auckland in New Zealand for
future cultural exchanges between faculty members at both institutions. |
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2002-2003 |
Gregory Adler |
Seed Predation and Directed Dispersal by Rodents in Panama |
A new experimental study to examine the role of a common forest
rodent as a seed predator and disperser in Central Panama. An undergraduate
student from Bogota, Columbia, will participate in the study for
one month and then will visit UW Oshkosh for two months. |
2002-2003 |
Ralph Beliveau and Sarah Nilsen |
Media Studies Summer Program in the U.K. |
Develop relationships with fellow scholars and academic institutions
in the U.K. who will be significant participants in the UW Oshkosh
Media Studies Program centered in London and Glascow. |
2002-2003 |
Stephen Bentivenga |
Establishment of a Brazilian Culture Collection of Mycorrhizal
Fungi |
A faculty exchange between Universidade Regional de Blumenau,
Brazil, and UW Oshkosh will develop plans and techniques for the
establishment of a Brazilian culture collection of mycorrhizal fungi,
which is a major need in the research community. |
2002-2003 |
Pete Brown |
Globalization, Transnational Advocacy Networks, and Empowerment |
Travel to Chiapas, Mexico, to study the nature and impact of transnational
advocacy networks in that area. |
2002-2003 |
Ralph Gunderson |
International Education Planning for Oshkosh and Lima, Peru |
University faculty and administrators from Lima, Peru, will visit
UW Oshkosh to identify topics of joint interest for future research
and/or curriculum development proposals. |
2002-2003 |
Kathryn Henn-Reinke |
Latino(a) Language, Culture and Learning Experience Abroad in
Mexico |
Travel to Mexico for an exploratory tour, meetings with local
school and university representatives, and the acquisition of resource
materials for a learning experience abroad. |
2002-2003 |
Jeffrey Kaplan |
Religion, Violence and Memory |
To support bringing Dr. Helene Loow from Stockholm University
to UW Oshkosh to deliver lectures to the public and university community
about terrorism. |
2002-2003 |
Alfred Kisubi and Richard Paxton |
Travel to Reconnaissance for Prospects of Teaching, Research and
Exchange Programs with Uganda Martyrs University, Iganga School District
(Uganda) and Catholic University, Nairobi, Kenya |
Because most courses at UW Oshkosh fail to include significant
content about African literature, education, arts, social and economic
problems, health care, environment, etc., exchange opportunities
with two West African universities will be explored. |
2002-2003 |
Cheryl Lapp |
Rural Health Care in Thailand |
In this faculty exchange, a UW Oshkosh nursing professor will
examine how nursing students in Thailand are prepared educationally
to meet the health priorities of rural populations. |
2002-2003 |
Daniel Lehrmann |
International Research Collaboration: Condodont Biostratigraphy
of a Potential Triassic Global Stratotype Section From Western Guizhou
Province, South China |
Two paleontologists from the Guizhou Bureau of Geology in China
will travel to UW Oshkosh for one month to interact with students
and faculty. They will bring with them conodont fossils, which will
expand our collections and permit collaborative analysis. |
2002-2003 |
Payton MacDonald |
Exchange Program with Igor Lesnik |
This exchange program will broaden the repertoire and performing
experience of UW Oshkosh students and Music Academy of Zagreb students. |
2002-2003 |
Andrew Robson |
An Academic Exchange and Research Project Connecting UW Oshkosh
and Samoa |
To establish an academic exchange agreement between UW Oshkosh
and the National University of Samoa and to undertake academic research
in Samoa. |
2002-2003 |
Todd Sandrin |
How Do Bacteria Resist the Toxic Effects of Cadmium? |
A postdoctoral research fellow at Pusan National University in
Korea will travel to UW Oshkosh for collaborative research in a study
of how bacteria deal with heavy metal toxicity. |
2002-2003 |
William Wresch |
E-Commerce Research in Trinidad |
Travel to Trinidad to interview business, academic and government
leaders to identify the underlying e-commerce strategy that that
has brought this small nation its success. |
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2001-2002 |
Gregory Adler |
Dispersal of Fungal Spores by Rodents in French Guiana |
Rodents are prime participants in many ecological interactions
in tropical forests, including the mutualistic relationship that
rodents have with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Two UW Oshkosh graduate
students and the project director will travel to northern French
Guiana to research spore dispersal by rodents. |
2001-2002 |
Kay Gainacopulos |
Artistic and Cultural Exchange Between the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory, |
To establish a faculty exchange program between the UW Oshkosh Department
of Music and members of the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory located
in St. Petersburg, Russia (highly ranked in Russia for training musicians).
The exchange will include the presentation of master classes, concerts
and lectures at the Conservatory by three UW Oshkosh music faculty members. |
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Dmitri Novgorodsky |
St. Petersburg, Russia, and the UW Oshkosh Dept. of Music |
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Andrea Gullickson |
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2001-2002 |
Ralph Gunderson |
International Study in Lima |
To support an invited faculty lecture by Dr. Gunderson to faculty
and students at Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. While there,
Dr. Gunderson will investigate subjects for a January Interim Study
Tour and also international education program opportunities for UW Oshkosh
students at Ricardo Palma University and University of Lima. Collaborative
research opportunities will be explored. |
2001-2002 |
Donald Hones/Jenna Graff |
ESL Methods Abroad Experience in Japan |
Preliminary work to develop an ESL Methods Abroad Experience in
Japan, including: exploratory tour, meetings with local school and
university representatives, and the acquisition of resource materials
that will be available to all UW Oshkosh faculty, staff and students. |
2001-2002 |
Dmitri Novgorodsky |
Kazakhstan National Conservatory |
To establish a faculty exchange program between UW Oshkosh and the Almaty
National Conservatory of Music, a prominent musical institution in
Kazakhstan. |
2001-2002 |
Kathleen Stetter |
Psychology Field Study and Home Stay in Salvador, Brazil |
To develop a cross-cultural psychology field studies course based
in Salvador, Brazil. |
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2000-2001 |
Craig Fiedler |
Establishing Collaborative Relationship . . . |
To establish a collaborative relationship between UW Oshkosh's
Special Ed Dept. and the Centre for Special Education, University
College Worcester, U.K. |
2000-2001 |
Steve Makar |
U.K. Currency Risk Management |
To establish long-term research collaboration between COBA and
the University College Dublin. |
2000-2001 |
Andrew O'Shaughnessy |
UW Oshkosh Barbados Study Tour at Codrington College |
To establish an interim session study tour program for students
to spend at Codrington College in British West Indies. |
2000-2001 |
Gregory Adler |
Ecology of Visceral Leishmaniasis in N. Colombia |
Will bring scientist from Colombia to campus for research collaboration. |
2000-2001 |
Peter Brown |
Field Study in Cultural Anthropology |
To develop a field study program in San Cristobal de las Casa,
Chiapas, Mexico. |
2000-2001 |
James Tsao/Michael Cowling |
Speaker Series on International Journalism |
Will support a second international speaker series. |
2000-2001 |
Roseanne Hoefel |
UW Oshkosh-to-UWI ArtReach |
Will develop an exchange of writers, performers, and artists with
the University of West Indies. |
2000-2001 |
Jakob Iversen |
Aalborg-Oshkosh Collaboration |
Will establish collaboration with the Information Systems group
at the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. |
2000-2001 |
Cheryl Lapp |
Aging in Taiwan |
Will establish a cross-cultural faculty exchange with Tzu-Chi
University, Taiwan. |
2000-2001 |
Daniel Lehrmann |
International Research Collaboration |
Will bring a Chinese paleontologist from the Guizhou Bureau of
Geology and Mineral Resources to UW Oshkosh for research collaboration. |
2000-2001 |
Gail Panske |
Printmaking Studio Study Tour of Scotland |
Will develop a Printmaking Studio Study Tour in Scotland. |
2000-2001 |
Ron Rindo |
American Writers in Paris |
Will develop a student study tour in Paris. |
2000-2001 |
Simon Sibelman |
Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies Course w/Travel Abroad |
Will develop an interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies course. |
2000-2001 |
Toivo Kallas |
Research Exchange w/Universities of Bochum, Germany, and Wroclav,
Poland |
Will enable student and faculty exchanges with the University
of Bochum, Germany, and the University of Wroclav, Poland, for research
collaboration. |
2000-2001 |
Anthony Koyzis |
International Linkage Project |
Will establish a formal collaboration with the University of Thessaly
in Volos, Greece. |
2000-2001 |
Stephanie Stewart |
Expanding Collaborative Learning Partnerships in India |
Will expand linkages with the Sri Ramachandra Medical College
and Research Institute, Jamia Hamdard University, and the Indira
Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, India. |
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1999-2000 |
Alfred Kisubi |
Reconnaissance Travel for Teaching, Research, Exchange |
Exploratory venture with great potential for multidisciplinary
benefit, in a geographic area where the university has had limited
involvement. |
1999-2000 |
Judith Hankes/Gerald Fast |
Secondary & Middle School MathematicsÉ |
Funding to support continued collaboration with Australian colleagues
to develop math curriculum and instructional methods for Native American
students. |
1999-2000 |
Margaret Genisio |
Collaboration Between UW Oshkosh & Univ. London |
Focuses on reading in the young child and family literacy. Includes
potential for program replication in London of the family literacy
program that proposer developed in WI correctional facilities. |
1999-2000 |
Scott Snyder |
Bringing Ukrainian Parasitology to UW Oshkosh |
Ukrainian professor to conduct training and research at UW Oshkosh; also
will travel with UW Oshkosh professor and student in WI and coastal areas
near the Gulf of Mexico to collect parasite specimens. |
1999-2000 |
Teri Shors |
Molluscum Contagiosum |
Collaborative research to insert uncharacterized MCV genes into
Vaccinia virus and to continue a project in progress. |
1999-2000 |
Toivo Kallas |
Analysis of Photosynthesis Protein in Algal Cells & In Vitro |
A faculty exchange with the Institut Biologie Physico Chimique,
Paris, France, to extend a research collaboration initiated during
a sabbatical and continued with Vander Putten support. |
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1998-1999 |
Judith Hankes/Gerald Fast |
Secondary & Middle School MathematicsÉ |
Collaboration with Australian colleagues to develop math curriculum
and instructional methods for Native American students. |
1998-1999 |
Scott Snyder |
Teaching and Researching Parasites |
Ukrainian professor to conduct training and research at UW Oshkosh; Dr.
Snyder will travel to Ukraine to view parasite collection and collect
specimens. |
1998-1999 |
Gregory Adler |
Origin and Evolutionary History of Plague |
Russian expert on plague system to collaborate on literature review
of plague and hypothesis of origin and history. |
1998-1999 |
Andrea Gullickson /Jun Wang |
Wuhan Conservatory of Music Exchange |
Establish an ongoing faculty exchange program with Wuhan Conservatory
of Music in Wujan, China. |
1998-1999 |
Teri Shors |
Molluscum Contagiosum: A Defective Poxvirus? |
German expert to speak and work in project director's lab
at UW Oshkosh on Molluscum Contagiosum, a human pathogen. |
1998-1999 |
Helen Bannan |
Creating a Joint Canadian-American Studies Minor at UW Oshkosh and U
of NB |
Four UW Oshkosh faculty members travel to University of New Brunswick
to finalize planning for joint interdisciplinary, inter-institutional
Canadian-American Studies minor. |
1998-1999 |
Fumiko Fukuta |
Business English as ESL Certificate Program |
Develop Business English as a Second Language certificate program
for UW Oshkosh international students. |
1998-1999 |
Jaya Jambunathan |
Creating Collaborative Learning Partnerships |
Establish linkages with Indira Gandhi National Open University
and Jamia Hamdard University. |
1998-1999 |
Toivo Kallas |
Membrane Protein Assembly and Function |
Research collaboration examining assembly and function of the
Rieske iron-sulfur protein of photosynthesis. |
1998-1999 |
Kim DeDee/
Lynda DeDee |
Collab. Curriculum Develop./ Eastern Europe |
Travel to Germany and Eastern Europe to lay groundwork for subsequent
collaborative study tours. |
