Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grants awarded
Twelve academic units and 16 pre-tenure faculty have been selected to receive Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grants for the 2008-09 academic year from the Office of Faculty Development and the Provost’s Office.
The grants are part of the Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative, which was funded by a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mellon Mutual Mentoring (“M3”) Team Grants are one-year awards of up to $10,000 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:
• African-American Studies faculty cluster
• Chemical biology group
• College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Economics
• Department of Microbiology
• Department of Music and Dance
• Department of Sociology
• Isenberg School of Management
• School of Education
• UMass Amherst/Five College Asian Pacific American Studies
• Work-Life Network
Mellon Mutual Mentoring Micro (“M4”) Grants are one-year awards of up to $1,200 to individual pre-tenure faculty. M4 grants are intended to encourage new faculty to identify desirable areas for professional growth, and to develop the necessary mentoring relationships to make such opportunities possible. This year’s M4 recipients are:
• Brent Auerbach, Music and Dance
• Enobong Hannah Branch, Sociology
• Tanya Fernando, English
• Mila Getmansky Sherman, Finance and Operations Management
• Dayo Gore, Women’s Studies
• Haivan Hoang, English
• Fidan Kurtulus, Economics
• Young Min Moon, Art
• Melissa Mueller and Janine Solberg (shared grant), Classics and English
• Christine Rogers, Public Health
• Jonathan Skolnik, German and Scandinavian Studies
• Lianhong Sun, Chemical Engineering
• Laura Valdiviezo, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
• Stephen Watts, Political Science
• Lisa Wexler, Public Health
Applications for the 2009-10 M3 and M4 Grants will be accepted in the spring of 2009. An updated program guide and application materials will available online next semester 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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May 7, 2008.
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