Message to USC Faculty
From: Michael W. Quick, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Elizabeth A. Graddy, Executive Vice Provost
May 9, 2019
Please join us in congratulating our 2019 awardees of the Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant Program. This marks the inaugural year for the program which was introduced to fund teaching grants that support interdisciplinary curriculum development through team-teaching and other teaching models that utilize expertise across the disciplines, the arts, and the professions.
Each proposal was required to include faculty from more than one school or more than one division within Dornsife College. Priority was given to proposals that satisfy GE requirements or serve as requirements for more than one major. A $20,000 stipend is awarded for each selected proposal.
We were extremely pleased by the number of applications we received and the enthusiasm and creativity displayed in these proposals. Awardees were selected through a competitive application process, reviewed by a faculty committee, and their selection is a testament to the quality of their proposals. We look forward to seeing these innovative courses become available to our students and strongly encourage more faculty to consider applying next year.
- Greg Autry (Marshall School of Business), Dana Milstein (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Writing Program), and Vahe Peroomian (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Physics and Astronomy) – Terraforming Mars: A Sustainable Habitation and Development of Humanity’s Second Home
- Paula Cannon (Keck School of Medicine), Patrick Dent (Iovine and Young Academy), and Michael Crowley (Iovine and Young Academy) – Human Health and Technology
- Joshua Goldstein (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – History/East Asian Languages and Cultures) and Victoria Petryshyn (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Environmental Studies Program) – Climate Change: the Science, History, and Our Future
- Assal Habibi (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Psychology) and Beatriz Ilari (Thornton School of Music) – Music, Mind and Brain
- Carly Kenkel (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Marine Environmental Biology) and Beatrice Sanford Russell (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – English) – Data, Denial, or Doom? Talking About Climate Change
- Shieva Kleinschmidt (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Philosophy) and Michael Hall (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Mathematics) – Infinity in Mathematics and Philosophy
- Nancy Christine Lutkehaus (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Anthropology), Sarah Portnoy (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Spanish and Portuguese), and Emily Zeamer (Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences – Anthropology) – Documenting Latinx Los Angeles’ Food Cultures
- Elahe Nezami (Keck School of Medicine), Kevin Lohenry (Keck School of Medicine), Donna Elliott (Keck School of Medicine), Frances Richmond (School of Pharmacy), Luanne Rohrbach (Keck School of Medicine), and Julie Cederbaum (Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work) – Team-based Approaches to Health and Healthcare
We also want to thank the following faculty reviewers who so generously gave of their time and expertise, carefully reviewing the applications and recommending proposals for funding:
- Michael Cousineau, Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Price School of Public Policy
- Joanna Demers, Professor of Musicology, Thornton School of Music
- Richard Green, The Lusk Chair for Real Estate and Professor of Public Policy, Price School of Public Policy, Marshall School of Business
- Rebecca Lemon, Professor of English, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Akira Lippit, The T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts; Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Cinematic Arts, School of Cinematic Arts, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Juliet Musso, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Price School of Public Policy
- Alison Renteln, Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Price School of Public Policy, Gould School of Law
- Donald Scotten, Professor of the Practice of Law, Gould School of Law
- Gaurav Sukhatme, Fletcher Jones Foundation Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
- Tracy Tambascia, Professor of Clinical Education, Rossier School of Education
Cc: Wanda Austin
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