UISFL Faculty Grant Recipients

We are pleased to have so many fantastic MSUB faculty have been awarded a $6,000 UISFL travel grant to integrate global learning into course learning outcomes.

Learn more about UISFL Grants and Support for Faculty.

2023 UISFL Grant Recipients

Alex Shafer

Award: $6,000

Destination: NEW ZEALAND

Proposal: The primary aims of this project are to: 1. Gain a better understanding of how Health and Human Performance(HHP)/Exercise Science is taught in New Zealand, what career pathways look like, and how universities are preparing students for careers in the health/fitness industries; 2. Updating the HHP curriculum to include global studies learning outcomes. Specifically, revising KIN 415 Advanced Exercise Testing and Prescription to include a newly developed global studies unit focused on an international perspective of public health; and 3. To develop partnerships that may lead to virtual classroom visits/lectures and/or research collaborations.

Ambrin Masood

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Bahria University, PAKISTAN

Proposal: The main goals for this fellowship project are Advancing Best Practices in Behavioral Health for Asian Americans, therefore enhancing cultural competence among Mental Health Counseling and Rehabilitation students and to augment the scope of REHA 201, REHA 453 courses by introducing students to Global Studies Learning Outcomes. Dr. Masood plans to collect data about practices in Gilgit-Baltistan, a city with a rich variety of Asian culture.

Anna Talafuse

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Nuertingen-Geislingen University (HfWU), GERMANY

Proposal: The goal is to travel to Germany to meet with a faculty counterpart in the development of of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project for BMKT 337: Consumer Behavior course using an existing ethnography project students complete in the class. Dr. Talafuse will gain perspectives by visitation of global locations such as grocery stores, comparison of global restaurant chains to those familiar with from the U.S., and viewing recycling practices in visited locations.

Austin Bennett

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Prefectural University of Kumamoto, JAPAN

Proposal: The goal is to (1) enhance HONR 111/311 learning outcomes with Global Studies Learning Outcomes, (2) enrich intercultural communication module within WRIT 122, (3) develop expertise in Japanese historical/cultural understanding, and (4) build partnerships with English and philosophy faculty at Prefectural University of Kumamoto (PUK).

Daniel Charlton

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Ludwigsburg University of Education, GERMANY

Proposal: This proposal is to conduct research and modify the syllabi of EDU 105: Democracy and Education and EDU 497D: Methods, 5-12 Education. The project will further develop assessments and standards-centric work for students to explore more of an internationally-driven mindset and framework.

Jana Marcette

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Prefectural University of Kumamoto, JAPAN

Proposal: This proposal was to bring global studies themes into HONR 205: Honors Research and Inquiry and to build instructor expertise in East Asian studies, focusing on Japan. This course is both a first-year sequence course for the Honors Minor and a general-education course. The curricular objectives are to build on the research communication through comparisons of Western (US) and East Asian (Japanese) science communication.

Jennifer Scroggins

Award: $6,000

Destinations: THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, LITHUANIA

Proposal: Plans to travel to Den Haag, the Netherlands to observe war crimes trials at the ICC and to Poland and Germany to visit Holocaust memorial sites. These visits will provide the necessary context to develop a new course about Crimes Against Humanity, international law and international legal procedures and justice.

Joshua Hill

Award: $6,000

Destinations: THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, BELGIUM, LITHUANIA

Proposal: Plans to observe the respective parliament sessions and build a network of peers who have insight into Dutch, German,Belgian and other northern European political and economic structures. Dr. Hill plans to use this trip and insights gleaned to build global learning outcomes into his micro and macroeconomics courses and to restructure and update the Comparative Political Economy course's section on European political structures.

Karen Washburn (postponed to 2024)

Award: $6,000

Destinations: Ludwigsburg University of Education, GERMANY

Proposal: This proposal was to build expertise in order to create a global citizenship module/outcome for education courses associated with teaching social studies. Ms. Washburn plans to travel to Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE) to expand her knowledge of teacher educational practices in Germany for addressing global citizenship.

Robin Earles

Award: $6,000

Destination: JAPAN

Proposal: This proposal was to build global learning outcomes in the Art Department's Visual Language Drawing course. Ms. Earles plans to travel to Japan to learn how to integrate East Asian and more specifically, Japanese, drawing techniques into her coursework.

Ryan Butler

Award: $6,000

Destination: JAPAN

Proposal: Mr. Butler in Outdoor Adventure Leadership plans to visit Japan to deepen his own global perspective on outdoor recreation and build networks and increase pedagogy to improve and globalize his REC 309: People and the Environment and REC 310: Leadership in Adventure Programming courses.

2022 UISFL Grant Recipients

Heather Thompson-Bahm

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Hallym University - SOUTH KOREA

Proposal: The College of Business Management department is creating the course BGEN 494 Supply Chain Management and eliminating the Project Management course from required curriculum. The Supply Chain course will highlight global operations. The proposal is to build relations with Hallym University to incorporate global learning outcomes in this course and to build faculty expertise in East Asia.

Hope Dewell Gentry

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: EM Strasbourg, FRANCE

Proposal:  To introduce students to Global Studies Learning Outcomes at the general education level in the interest of earning a Global Studies Certificate, by re-designing PSCI 230 Introduction to International Relations to include a unit on the European Union and integration. Strasbourg is home to the European Parliament and the EM Strasbourg Summer College, offers various relevant courses, including a European Parliament Role Play course.

Jennifer Lynn

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Prefectural University of Kumamoto, JAPAN

Proposal:  To create a new course for the Department of History, History 160: Modern World History (HSTR160), which replaces “Western Civilization II.” The creation of this new course demonstrates thedepartment’s commitment to updating our curriculum to serve the needs of our students. The previous course was outdated and Euro-centric. We want to offer a course which captured global developments and diverse cultures in an historical perspective.

Jessie Perius

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: EM Strasbourg, FRANCE

Proposal:  To increase expertise and understanding of how business practices differ in other countries compared to the United States. EM Strasbourg has a prestigious and comprehensive short-term Summer College program that offers opportunities to observe and network. The take-aways and relationships built from Summer College in France will be implemented in BGEN 360 International Business

Joseph Bryan

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Prefectural University of Kumamoto, JAPAN

Proposal:  To supplement the development of a new course: HSTR 159: World History to 1500, and bolster pedagogy for an existing course: HSTR 494: The History of Punk Rock in International Context. The intention is to travel to Japan with the purpose of deepening knowledge of Japanese culture and experiencing the devastating effects of atomic warfare that directly impacted the creation of Japanese punk rock.

Rodrigo Cortopassi Goron Lobo

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: GERMANY

Proposal:  To Enhance expertise in international studies in order to adapt courses to include international studies in their scope. Augment the scope of BGEN 499:Capstone, Strategy course, by adding global studies in its international strategy crafting module. The primary objective is to acquire knowledge to develop new courses or course components related to global studies at MSUB College of Business.

2021 UISFL Grant Recipients

Jodi Lightner

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Prefectural University of Kumamoto, JAPAN

Proposal:  To incorporate Japanese design and cultural aesthetics understanding into general education course Artz106 Fundamentals of 2D design. Students taking this course will be able to identify the differences between Western and East Asian design theories and utilize Japanese design into their own creative projects.

Melanie Reaves

Award: $6,000

Partner Institution: Prefectural University of Kumamoto, JAPAN

Proposal:  To add a Global Learning Outcome to the EDU 433 - Course Revision/Professional Expertise and Partnership Expansion Project, in order to support pre-serviceteachers’ global self-awareness on articulating how their cultural identities may influence and be influenced by the cultural identities of their future students.