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Rensselaer in Brief
Grants announced
Carol Twigg, executive director of RPI’s Center for Academic Transformation, has announced that the center will present $2 million in grants from the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign to 10 universities and colleges nationwide.
The 10 institutions will each receive a $200,000 grant for course redesign projects that could produce significant increases in student numbers and create sizeable cost savings. The focus of the grant is on introductory courses with large enrollments.
The grants are part of the third and final round of a three-year, $6 million grant cycle funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. So far, 30 projects have been funded.
The purpose of the program is to encourage colleges and universities to redesign their approaches to instruction by making use of technology to attain cost savings and quality enhancements. Conference postponed
The Archer Center for Student Leadership’s Annual Leadership Conference, originally scheduled for Saturday, September 29, has been postponed by host Lockheed Martin as a result of the current world events. The new date for the conference is January 26, 2002. Hearing rescheduled
The Troy City Planning Commission’s public hearing on the Institute’s Draft Environmental Statement has been rescheduled to October 2, 2001. Opportunities
The School of Engineering, along with four other universities, recently received a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the development and testing of tools to evaluate programs for women in engineering. These tools are intended to enhance women engineering opportunities nationwide.
Barbara Ruel, director of women engineering and technology programs at Rensselaer, said that the Institute plans to evaluate tools such as the surveys developed at the University of Missouri at Columbia, the lead school in the project.
Other participants in the project are the Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M, and Pennsylvania State University.
Rensselaer will receive $82,527 over the next three years for the project, said Ruel. "Mentoring programs, special women’s events, and other activities geared toward women in engineering are effective outreach efforts, but often we cannot measure how effective. This project will give us the tools to see how well we are doing our job and how we can better reach those women and keep them on the path toward graduation," said Ruel. Professor honored
The Board of Trustees has awarded the Trustees’ Outstanding Teacher Award for 2001 to Philip Casabella ’54, professor of physics and associate chair of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy. The award, created in 1994 by the Board of Trustees, annually recognizes outstanding accomplishments in classroom instruction. The selection of the winner is based on sustained outstanding teaching that is reflected in student evaluations. The award carries a $5,000 honorarium. |
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