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Faculty member Enrique R. Silva, PhD, assistant professor of city planning and urban affairs, was awarded a fellowship to support his project, \u201cConnecting the Dots: Haiti and the Multiple Sites of Planning Research and Pedagogy.\u201d<\/p>\nFaculty member Enrique R. Silva, PhD, assistant professor of city planning and urban affairs, was awarded a fellowship to support his project, \u201cConnecting the Dots: Haiti and the Multiple Sites of Planning Research and Pedagogy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having been engaged in planning and reconstruction efforts in Haiti since the catastrophic 2010 earthquake, Silva used his Chadwick funds as a bridge grant for travel to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as Miami and Washington, D.C, toward a larger grant proposal for long-term research and course development on post-disaster planning in Haiti.<\/p>\n
Haley\u2019s project provides valuable feedback to course planners and instructors, about the demands and challenges faced by adult learners. Participants included the communications director for an Illinois state representative, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; the musical director for Cirque de Soleil\u2019s \u201cO\u201d show in Las Vegas, Nevada; an air traffic control officer in the United States Navy, in Norfolk, Virginia; and an IT instructor at a school of business and technology, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Project Presentation Slides<\/a><\/p>\n You can watch these video essays below:<\/p>\n![\"Rob](\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/Rob-Haley.jpg\")
Staff member Robert Haley,<\/strong> senior media producer for Distance Education, used his funds to create an \u201cOnline Student Video Series,\u201d documenting the lives of four current online students. In separate video essays for each subject, Haley portrays how distance learners manage to balance their studies and their day-to-day responsibilities.<\/p>\n