Faculty Development FUND 2004-2005
Report by Mark O’Grady, FDF Committee Chair
March 2005

The Faculty Development Grant Committee reviewed 43 grant applications and awarded 29 grants ranging from $1000.00 - $3000.00, for a total of $60,400.00. Winning applications varied in range and subject matter and included such proposals as studying early childhood education in Northern Italy, an ethnographic study of Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn, research for a book on the influences of African American popular culture on modern graphic design, completion of a short film entitled “Stand Off”, to the development of a cross-disciplinary course in Production Design for Film and Video proposed by faculty in the Media Arts and interior Design Departments.

Faculty Development FUND Committee, 2004-2005
Meri Bourgard, School of Art & Design
Tom Graham, School of Art & Design
Mark O’Grady, FDF Committee Chair
Ann Randall, School of Information & Library Science
Lenny Tevlin, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Susan Thomas, Library
Ayse Yonder, School of Architecture

Faculty Development Fund RecIpients, 2004-2005
Name of Awardee (and partner) Department
Andrews, JonathanAssociate Degrees Program
Bard, PerryFoundation
Blank, SidneyGraduate Architecture
Buchwald, HowardFine Arts
Darino, EdwardComputer Graphics/Interactive Media
Del Federico, EleonoraMathematics and Science
Elledge, JimEnglish & Humanities
Gal, YechiamFoundation
Gisolfi, DianaHistory of Art and Design
Ingraham, CatherineGraduate Architecture
Joseph, MaySocial Science & Cultural Studies
Lobell, JohnUndergraduate Architecture
Macapia, PeterGraduate Architecture
Madeja, Patricia & Rozkewicz, Mary BethFine Arts - Jewelry
Marcinkowski, DavidAssociate Degrees Program
Meehan, DeborahMedia Arts
Monaco, FrancineHistory of Art & Design
Morton, MarshaFine Arts
Mozenter, CyrillaFine Arts
Pels, MarshaFine Arts
Posch, KatarinaHistory of Art & Design
Robinson, AbbyMedia Arts
Rubenstein, CharlesSchool of Information & Library Science
Suh, Keena & Meehan, DeborahInterior Design and Media Arts
Sullivan, SeanComputer Graphics/Interactive Media
Tepper, IrvinFine Arts
Washington, MicheleUndergraduate Communications Design
Weiner, VickiGrad Ctr for Planning & the Environment
Wilson, AileenArt & Design Education