SIUE Emeriti Faculty Association Provides $10K in Grants to Faculty
The Emeriti Faculty Association (EFA) has provided more than $10,000 in grants to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville tenure/tenure-track faculty for projects that strengthen the academic quality of programs and that enhance the reputation of the University.
The 2021 proposals were reviewed by awards committee members David Ault, Dick Brugam, and Rich Keating and approved by the EFA board of directors.
Within the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Department of Social Work colleagues Jennifer Erwin, PhD, assistant professor; Jayme Swanke, PhD, associate professor; and Jill Schreiber, PhD, associate professor and department chair; received $3,000 for “Policy is Practice: Social Work in Action.”
In a cross-campus collaborative effort, Ellen Santos, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB); and Catherine Santanello, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the School of Pharmacy (SOP) received $1,115 for “Establishing a Chagas Disease Citizen Science Program at SIUE: Campus Visit by Dr. Sarah Hamer.”
Also in CAS, Marta Simidtchieva, PhD, professor of cello in the Department of Music received $4,050 for “Bulgarian Music and the Creative Process: A Modern Transformation of Traditions Through a World Premiere.”
From the SEHHB’s Department of Teaching and Learning, Assistant Professor Rebecca Swartz, PhD, received $1,950 for “Let’s Talk Math! Building Competency and Confidence for Leading Meaningful Math Lessons.”
For more information on the EFA grant program, visit siue.edu/emeriti.
Photo (L-R): SIUE Emeriti Faculty Association grant award winners from the Department of Social Work: Assistant Professor Jennifer Erwin, Associate Professor and Department Chair Jill Schreiber, and Associate Professor Jayme Swanke.
