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2001 ITS Innovation Fund Awards

In Spring 2001, the ITS Innovation Fund presented six awards to faculty in support of instructional uses of technology. The awards spanned the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, and are expected to have a significant effect on the targeted undergraduate and graduate courses.

The recipients of these grants were:

Professors Dudley Andrew, Charles Musser (Film Studies Program), and Michael Raine, Lecturer in Film Studies and Comparative Literature, to support a facility for "Digital Media in Film Studies Pedagogy"

Professor Charles Bailyn (Astronomy), to support a remote class for the introductory Astronomy course;

Jennifer Baszile, Assistant Professor of History, African-American Studies and American Studies and Jonathan Holloway, Assistant Professor of History & African-American Studies, to supplement their online digital resources for the introductory African American History sequence courses with a digital media resource collection.

Mitchell Prinstein, Assistant Professor Psychology, for his proposal entitled "Interactive Teaching and Interactive Science: Using the Internet to Teach Psychological Science"

Thomas Tartaron Assistant Professor Anthropology, to develop course modules involving "Geographic Information Systems for Investigating Ancient Human Landscapes"

Kirk Williams, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages & Theater Studies, to further develop a computer simulation of historical theater production for undergraduate Theater Studies courses