Past Awardees Type I
Mary Erskine Type I Grant Awardees
2010-2011
Asst. Prof. Lorena Barba
College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Funds to host world renown experts in GPU computing for dinner while attending Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute. Prof. Lorena Barba also received a Mary Erskine Type I award to support her visits with program managers and potential collaborators at funding and other government agencies in the DC area.
Asst. Prof. Kee Chan
Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation, Department of Health Sciences and Epidemiology
Funds to cover attendance at the Society of Medical Decision Making Conference in Toronto, Canada.
Asst. Prof. Stacey Doan
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
Funds to cover visit to the University of Michigan and work with Dr. Twila Tardif for a period of three weeks over the winter break. Professor Tardiff is an influential and accomplished researcher in the area of cross-cultural developmental psychology.
Asst. Prof. Simone Gill
Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation, Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training
Funds to attend the Obesity Society Conference, give a presentation on her new research, and network in this research community that is new to her.
Assoc. Prof. Sheryl Grace
College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Funds to support two collaborative efforts: 1) the hosting of Ken Visser, Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy Systems and Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Clarkson University; 2) purchase of a computer for post-doc who will reside at BU and work with her group but is funded by a colleague at Sherbrooke University.
Asst. Prof. Lucy Hutyra
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography and Environment
Funds to travel to the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Conference and the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting where the PI will present her research.
Prof. Kathleen Malley-Morrison
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
Prof. Kathleen Malley-Morrison received a Mary Erskine Type I award to fund a short-term campaign to significantly expand outreach through a blog and newsletter, and for attending the upcoming conference of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in Boston.
Asst. Prof. Donna Pincus
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
Asst. Prof. Donna Pincus received a Mary Erskine Type I award to attend the Pediatric Sleep Medicine Conference as well as host Dr. Allison Harvey an internationally recognized sleep scientist from the University of California at Berkeley who has offered to help Professor Pincus re-focus a NIMH R-34 grant.
Asst. Prof. Anne Short
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography and Environment
Asst.Prof. Anne Short received a Mary Erskine Type I award to host Colin Polsky, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research & Active Pedagogy and Associate Professor, in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. This connection will hopefully lead to fruitful mentoring and collaborations in the future.
Assoc. Prof. Karen Warkentin
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology
Travel support for speakers who will participate in the symposium on “Environmentally Cued Hatching Across Taxa” to take place a the January 2011 meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Salt Lake City UT for which the PI is a co-organizer.2009-2010
Prof. Rama Bansil
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
Prof. Rama Bansil received a Mary Erskine Type I award to support to invite Dr. Monica Olvera de la Cruz from Northwestern University to visit and give a colloquium seminar.
Prof. Emma Previato
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Emma Previato received a Mary Erskine Type I award to support her travel to Poland to go to a conference on Geometric Methods in Physics as well as to travel to Kentucky for the American Mathematical Society’s annual meeting which will focus on Inverse Problems, Riemann-Hilbert Problems, and Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
2008-2009
Assist. Prof. Linda Doerrer
- College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry
- Prof. Linda Doerrer received a Mary Erskine Type I award to support her travel to Oxford University to work with Prof. Jennifer Green on the calculation of the electronic structure of molecules, particularly those with transition metals.
Assoc. Prof. Joyce Wong
College of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Prof. Joyce Wong received a Mary Erskine Type I award to host Yvette Madrid, a specialist in global health, in order to begin work that will lead to a collaborative NIH grant application on the topic of HIV/AIDS detection. She also received a Mary Erskine Type I award to support the development of web-based platform to facilitate and enhance collaborative research projects and enable continuity in research by establishing a knowledge base accessible by current and past students and collaborators.
Catherine Caldwell-Harris
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
Prof. Catherine Caldwell-Harris received a Mary Erskine Type I award to support an undergraduate researcher who will assist in the collection of pilot data on a new study of special interests in Asperger’s disorder.
Asst. Prof. Kee Chan
Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation, Department of Health Sciences and Epidemiology
Prof. Kee Chan received a Mary Erskine Type I award to attend the Summer Institute in public health genomics.