Stories tagged with: research

April 23, 2010 |

It’s not often students can directly see the impact spending habits at home can have on communities outside of the United States. A group of Indiana University East students traveled to Costa Rica as part of their class on Fair Trade versus Free Trade and the Effects of Globalization on Central America taught by Teresa ...

March 30, 2010 |

Jean Harper, associate professor of English, was recently awarded a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony located in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Harper will reside at the artists’ colony for six weeks, beginning in August into September. While at the MacDowell Colony, Harper plans to work on her second book, Horses and Divorces, which explores the relationship ...

March 10, 2010 |

Humanities and Social Sciences professors publish works Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, associate professor of English, will have an article published by the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. The article, “Nineteenth-Century British Children’s Hymnody: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood with Chords and Verses,” focuses on her research of children’s hymnodies.  Clapp-Itnyre received a New Frontiers in the Arts and ...

October 13, 2009 |

Nursing lecturer receives IU nursing award Tonya Breymier, lecturer in nursing, has received the Karen Cobb Creative Teaching in Nursing Education Award. This award is given annually to a full-time Indiana University School of Nursing faculty member to recognize innovative and creative teaching. Recipients are recognized for the development of a creative and innovative teaching ...

October 8, 2009 |

The Indiana University East New Faculty Research Seminar Series will be held October 14 through November 4. Lectures are scheduled from 12:15-1:15 p.m. The lectures are free and open to the public. The schedule is: October 14 – Anita Morgan, assistant professor of business administration, Community Room, Whitewater Hall “A Study of the Factors That ...

September 29, 2009 |

Indiana University East awarded four scholarships for the 2009 Summer Research Scholar Program. Undergraduate students received $2,000 to conduct a research project under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Funding for the program is provided by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and is matched by funds from IU East. The competitive program ...

July 6, 2009 |

Dean Clark presents at nursing institute Karen Clark, dean of the School of Nursing, presented “The RN to BSN Educational Process: Moving Past the Perception of Jumping Through Hoops” at the Drexel University Nursing Education Institute: Educating for Change recently held in Arlington, Va on June 6. Education faculty present paper Judy Battraw, assistant professor ...

April 20, 2009 |

Business dean chairs conference session David W. Frantz, dean of the School of Business, served as chair of a session on “Critical Incidents in Business Ethics,” and as a discussant in a session on “Business Cases in Business Development” at the Society for Case Research at the International MBAA conference held in Chicago from March ...

April 20, 2009 |

Sherry Rankin, clinical assistant professor of nursing at Indiana University East, has been selected receive the 2009 Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Award. As an award recipient, Rankin joins a distinguished group of faculty selected among IU and its regional campuses. “As a National League for Nursing Certified Nurse Educator, Ms. Rankin exemplifies the ...

February 27, 2009 |

Indiana University East faculty present papers at national and international conferences throughout the year, sharing their wealth of knowledge and expertise with several colleagues and students. School of Nursing Karen Clark, dean of the School of Nursing, Paulette Humphries, lecturer in nursing, and Diana Stanforth, clinical assistant professor, recently had an article published in the ...