Grants Recipients

CTL Grant Recipients 2020-21

Provost’s Internationalization Travel Grant

*Due to the COVID Pandemic, the Provost’s Internationalization Travel Grant recipients were unable to use their funds.

Christopher Houltberg: Art and Design
Matt Maruggi: Religion
Elise Marubbio and Joaquin Munoz:  American Indian Studies

Scholarship Grants

Michael Kidd: Languages
Terrance Kwame-Ross: Education
Billie Marget: Mathematics
Marc McIntosh: Business
Jenna McNallie: Communication Studies
Emily Schilling: Biology/Environmental Studies
Mark Tranvik: Religion
Joe Underhill: Environmental Studies
Mzenga Wanyama: English

Integrated Course Design Grants

Ankita Deka/Melissa Hensley: Social Work
Jennifer Diaz/Audrey Lensmire: Education
Bibiana Koh: Social Work
Tara Mader: HPE
Joyce Miller/Deb Schumacher: Nursing
Ben Stottrup: Physics


CTL Grant Recipients 2019-20

Provost’s Internationalization Travel Grant

Kristen Chamberlain, Jenny Hanson: Communication Studies, Film, & New Media, CGEE Study Center Mexico
Jennie Diaz: Education, Mexico – Cuernavaca
Holly Levine: Physician Assistant Studies, Child Family Health International (CFHI) in Ecuador

Scholarship Grants

Deborah Schuhmacher, Joyce Miller: Nursing, International Research Collaboration:  Perceptions of Professional Nursing Care in Minnesota and Norway
Annie Heiderscheit: Music/Music Therapy, Music Therapy Methods Book
Kristina Boerger: Music, Georgian Polyphony: Study and Performance “in Situ.”
Evren Guler: Psychology, The development of problem solving and its links to autobiographical memory
Lyz Wendland: Art & Design, Traveling Sketches and Artist Workshop in Venice, Italy
Erin Sugrue: Social Work, Beyond Pedagogy: Anti-Oppressive Practice in K-12 Education
Jennifer Forsthoefel: English, The First Step to Cultivating a Culture of Writing on Campus: Locating When and Where
Darcey Engen: Theater, The Ghost Sonata Immersive Theater Production
Bibiana Koh: Social Work, Applied Buddhist Ethics in Social Work Practice
Rebekah Dupont, Nancy Rodenborg: Mathematics/STEM Programs, Social Work, Retaining Students in STEM – An Augsburg Interdisciplinary Project

Integrated Course Design Grants

Kaija Freborg: Nursing, NUR 532 Transcultural Healing Practices and Self Care
Joan Kunz: Chemistry, SCI 1XX  and MAT 106 Exploring Science and Engineering/Applied Algebra and Trigonometry
Barbara A. Lehmann, Erin Sugrue: Social Work, SWK 628 Multi Cultural Clinical Practice with Individuals
Sarah Groeneveld Kenney: English, ENL 111 / HON 111, Effective Writing / Effective Writing for Liberating Letters
Scott Kerlin, Lars Christiansen, Nancy Fischer, Emily Schilling, Liaila Tajibaeva: URB 295 Topics in Metro-Urban Studies: Applied Introduction to GIS
Jenny Hanson, Bill Green: Communication Studies/History
Maheen Zaman: HON 120 Redesign


CTL Grant Recipients 2018-19

Provost’s Internationalization Travel Grant

Caroline Maguire, Education – Cuernavaca, MEX
Sarah Degner Riveros, Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies – CGEE in Guatemala and Cuernavaca

Scholarship Grants

Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright, Biology – Efficacy of Course-linked Introductory Biology Lab Sections
Vanessa Bester, Physician Assistant Program – African American Physician Assistant Student Success
Lars Christiansen, Sociology and Sabo Center – Completion of two books: Bodies in Motion and Batteries with Flesh
Katie Clark and Kaija Freborg, Nursing – Augsburg Central Health Commons Evaluation Project
Stephan Clark, English – Short Film Editorial Support
Christina Erickson, Social Work – Spanked! America’s Complex Relationship with Corporal Punishment
Nidane Henderson-Stull, Biology – The crystallization of protein kinases: Where the Sciences, Art, and Cancer Meet
Christopher Houltberg, Art – Extensive Alterations
Dal Liddle, English – News Machines: Technology and agency in British daily journalism, 1785-1885
Joaquin Munoz, Education – Four Years Later: Waldorf Education and Transitions into New Educational Experiences
Beliza Torres Narvaez, Theater Arts – Translation: Pluma y la Tempestad (play)
Michael Wentzel, Chemistry – The development of green flow chemistry synthetic methods
John Zobitz, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science – Research in Ecological Data Science: Remote Sensing, Scientific Computing, and GIS

Integrated Course Design Grants

Amanda Case, Chemistry – CHM 115 and 116, General Chemistry I and II
Laura Boisen, Social Work – SWK 615 and 616, Diversity and Inequality
Jennifer Diaz, Education – EDU 200, Orientation to Urban Education
Bibiana Koh, Social Work – SWK 615 and 616, Diversity and Inequality
Matthew Haines, Mathematics and Statistics – MAT 245, Calculus III


CTL Grant Recipients 2017-18

Provost’s Internationalization Travel Grant

George Dierberger, Business – Hauge School of Business, Olso,  Norway and the Arctic University of Norway, Harstad, Norway
Beliza Torres Narvaez, Theater – Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (UIPR)

Scholarship Grants

Nishesh Chalise, Social Work – Food security in Cedar Riverside: A community based participatory research approach
Matthew Beckman, Biology – A model for manganese toxicity in Daphnia magna, the water flea
Nancy Steblay, Psychology – Assessing Sources and Impact of Procedural Bias in Actual Police Lineups
Lindsay Starck, English – Novel-in-Progress
Adriane Brown, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies – Gender and Race in Cosplay and DisneyBounding
Nancy Rodenborg and Rebekah Dupont, Social Work and STEM – The AugSTEM Program: Informing Institutional Collaboration and Change to Prepare Juniors and Seniors for Careers in STEM
William Green, History – The Children of Lincoln: Four Minnesotans During War and Reconstruction, 1860-1876
Joseph Towle, Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies – Sunny Places for Shady People (II) / Getting to Know Your Neighbor: Contemporary Mexican Culture
Laura Boisen, Bibiana Koh and Susan Conlin, Social Work – Evaluation of Intergroup Dialogue

Integrated Course Design Grants

Annie Heiderscheit, Music – Music Therapy undergraduate curriculum
Michael Kidd, Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies – HUM 120 Medieval Life in 12th-Century Europe
Matthew Haines, Mathematics & Statistics – MAT 246 Linear Algebra
Stephan Clark, English – ENL 329 Screenwriting II


CTL Grant Recipients 2016-17

Provost’s Internationalization Travel Grant

Joseph Towle, Language and Cross-Cultural Studies – CGEE sites in Guatemala and Mexico

Integrated Course Design Grants

Pavel Belik, Mathematics
Kristen Chamberlain, Communication Studies
Evren Guler, Psychology
Nancy Johnson, Business
Phil Quanbeck II, Religion
Maheen Zaman, History

Scholarship Grants

Stephan Clark, English – Completion of American Gulag
Darcey Engen, Theater – Professional Vocal Training
Nancy Fischer, Sociology – Dressing in Vintage: Consuming Fashion of the Past
Lori Brandt Hale, Religion – Vocation, Responsibility, and Public Life: Reading Bonhoeffer with Interfaith Students
Ann Impullitti, Biology – The Use of Endophytes to Reduce Soybean Pathogens
Bibiana Koh, Social Work – Understanding the Role of Heritage Travel in Intercountry Adoptees’ Ethnic Identity Development in Well-Being
Virginia McCarthy, Nursing – Increasing BSN Prepared Nurses Through Targeted Intervention at the AA and Bachelor’s Degree Level
Sarah Myers, Theater – The Skype Performance Project
Beliza Torres Narvaez, Theater – Resabios de Amargura or That Bitter Cabaret
Emily Schilling, Biology – Predation Structured Odonata Assemblages in Fishless, Salmonid, and Centrarchid Ponds in Maine
John Zobitz, Mathematics – Modeling Scholarship Through Mayfly Population Dynamics