2018 Seed Grant Awardees

Abington

  • Jacob Benfield, Yvonne Love, Les Murray — Three courses on Climate Change (GA, GS, GN)
  • Wendy A. Horwitz — Understanding Health and Illness: An Integrated Humanities and Social Science Approach

Beaver

  • Kristen Olson — Shakespeare on Page, Stage, and Screen

Behrend

  • Luciana Aronne, Alan Jircitano, Amy Carney — Chemistry in World Wars I and II
  • Arpan Yagnik, Victoria Kazmerski, Shariffah Sheikh Dawood — Understanding and Enhancing Creativity

Berks

  • Michele Ramsey, Cheryl Nicholas — Horror Films, Identity, and U.S. Citizenship
  • Cheryl L. Nicholas — LGBTQ+ Identity, Culture and The Arts

Brandywine

  • Maureen Fielding, Stephen Cimbala — The Cold War in Literature and History

Greater Allegheny

  • James A. Jaap — Literature, Art, and Culture of Western Pennsylvania

Harrisburg

  • Shobha Devi Potlakayala, Anilchandra Attaluri, Sairam Rudrabhatla, Catherine Rios — Art as a Means to Communicate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Hazleton

  • Michael Polgar, Jerry B. Pierce — The Holocuast and Human Relations

New Kensington

  • Alina R. Bodea Crisan — Health and the Media (Patterning conceptions of health through health discourse)
  • John Craig Hammond  — Slavery, the Civil War, and Cinema

York

  • Jessica Petko, Amber Seidel — Addiction: Science to Society

University Park

  • Scott Wing, College of Arts and Architecture — Designing a Sustainable House
  • Rukmalie Jayakody, College of Health and Human Development — Global health and families

Cross-college/campus collaborations

  • Meredith Defelice, Eberly College of Science; Michele Duffey, College of Health and Human Development — Fitness for Life/Molecular Basis of Disease
  • Tim McNellis, College of Agricultural Sciences; Michael Collins and Carlos Rosas, College of Arts and Architecture — Plant and Microbial Art
  • Julie Gallagher , Brandywine; David Livert, Lehigh Valley — Roots of Conflict, Pathways to Peace
  • Kristen Baxter, College of the Liberal Arts; Andrew Baxter, Eberly College of Science — Cultural Perspectives on Mathematics
  • Daniel Mallinson, Harrisburg School of Public Health; Rebecca Mallinson, College of Health and Human Development — Science and Politics of Women in Sport

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