Recipients of Faculty Grants

Upon their return, faculty members will submit a travel report summarizing their international experience.

Summer and Fall 2019 grant awardees:

 
Name College Destination Purpose
Becky Sideman COLSA France To attend the International Symposium on Advanced Technologies and Managment for Innovative Greenhouses and present papers discussing research results relating to low-technology greenhouse production and season extension techniques.
Sherine Elsawa COLSA Egypt To work with a colleague at the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority and present a research seminar on the tumor environment in cancer
Julie Bryce CEPS Sweden To collaborate with UNH Professor Ruth Varner to seek to work with partners at Stockholm University to set up an exchange program
Md Shadd Mahmud CEPS England To present and discuss continuous measurement of mental health at the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford
Shawna Hollen CEPS Italy/Switzerland To travel to an international conference on 2D crystals in Rome, Italy, then to learn a new research technique and build collaborations at Universität Zürich in Switzerland
Cindy Burke COLSA Costa Rica To travel to Establo Sanrafael, Costa Rica to develop relationship and determine if site is suitable for student travel enrolled in a new course being developed that focuses on Natural Horsemanship which would become an offering in the UNH Equine curriculum
Lin Zhang COLA China To conduct follow-up research for my current book project on digital entrepreneurship and the future of work/labor in China
Tu Lan COLA China To  collaborate with Lin Zhang in Communication to conduct interviews with students, teachers, and practitioners in the international education industry in Beijing
Melinda Negron-Gonzales UNHM England To present a paper at the International Kurdish Studies Conference at Middlesex University and conduct interviews with activists for a book project on human rights in Turkey
Nicole Gercke COLA Italy To research and develop a proposal for a Summer Study Abroad Program offered by the Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies in Bologna, Italy, to begin in Summer 2020
Todd Guerdat COLSA Germany To participate in the NordicRAS workshop as part of the Aquaculture Europe meeting. This is a strong group of colleagues/collaborators. I have been invited to visit their facilities for research collaboration