2005-2006 Innovation Fund Grants Awarded

President Joanne V. Creighton recently announced the recipients of Mount Holyoke’s Innovation Fund grants for 2005-2006. The Innovation Fund, made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports projects that stimulate thinking about the academic, cocurricular, and administrative goals of the Plan for Mount Holyoke 2010. “I thank the Academic Priorities Committee for their fine job of soliciting Innovation Fund proposals, selecting recipients, and then distributing the limited dollars. (We had $30,000 to distribute among proposals totaling nearly $100,000.) I hope you all will join me in congratulating the recipients. The creative and exciting work represented by these proposals will support the goals and spirit of the Plan for 2010,” Creighton said.

The Innovation Fund grant recipients are:

Thelma Belmonte-Alcantara, Anita Magovern, Johanna Roth, Katherine Tungate: Odyssey: Community Service and Spanish Immersion in the Dominican Republic

Bill Boerner: Transgendered Students and Women's Colleges: A
Conversation

Thomas Burbine, Darby Dyar, Catrina Hamilton: Planetary Science Seminar Series

Donald Cotter and Lynn Morgan: Towards Science Studies at Mount Holyoke

Simone Weil Davis: Prison Memoir Course

Rachel Fink: Bringing Bioethics to Life

Rachel Fink: Mosier Science Buddies

Matthew McKeever: Study and Internship in South Africa

Meg Murphy: Literary Journalism Magazine

Nieves Romero-Diaz: Exploring Study Abroad Programs in Madrid and Seville

Lauret Savoy: Center for the Environment Student Colloquia

Jon Western and Kavita Khory: War and Propaganda Course