Inaugural Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grants awarded
Ten academic units and 11 faculty members have received Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grants from the Office of Faculty Development and the Provost’s Office.
The grants, awarded for the 2007-08 academic year, are part of the Mutual Mentoring Initiative, which was funded by a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Mellon Mutual Mentoring (“M3”) Grants are one-year team awards of up to $15,000 to support faculty-driven, context-sensitive mentoring projects for early career and underrepresented faculty based at the departmental, school and college, interdisciplinary or inter-institutional levels. This year’s M3 recipients are:
• Department of Anthropology
• Department of Biology
• Department of English
• Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• Departments of Natural Resources Conservations and Microbiology (shared grant)
• Department of Political Science
• School of Nursing
• School of Public Health and Health Sciences
• College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro (“M4”) Grants are one-year awards to individuals of up to $1,200. The grants are intended to encourage new faculty to identify desirable areas for professional growth and opportunity, and to develop the necessary mentoring relationships to make such changes possible. This year’s M4 recipients are:
• Harry Bermudez, Polymer Science and Engineering
• Ana Caicedo, Biology
• Jeungok Choi, School of Nursing
• Peter Graham, Philosophy
• Aline Gubrium, Public Health
• Shona Macdonald, Art
• Asha Nadkarni and Jane Degenhardt (shared grant), English
• Lisa Scott, Psychology
• Shawn Shimpach, Communication
• Nathaniel Whitmal, Communication Disorders
The deadline for applications for the 2008-09 M3 and M4 Grants is Monday, March 31 at 5 p.m. An updated program guide and application materials will soon be available online at www.umass.edu/ofd/initiative.htm.
For more information, contact Mary Deane Sorcinelli, associate provost for Faculty Development, or Jung Yun, director of New Faculty Initiatives, at 545-1225 or faculty@acad.umass.edu.
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Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative
October 11, 2007.
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