Faculty members from the College of Letters & Science received four of the five Research-Service Grants and Faculty Professional Development Grants from UW-Madison this year.
Jenell Johnson, an assistant professor of communication arts, won a Research-Service Grant. Glen Close, an associate professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Jesse Lee Kercheval, the Sally Mead Hands Professor of English, and Susan Robinson, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, received Faculty Professional Development Grants.
The Research-Service Grants program was initiated to recognize the service contributions that untenured faculty members, especially women and members of minority groups, are asked to make to the university. Assistant professors and instructors who are in the first five years of tenure-track service at UW-Madison are eligible for summer salary (two-ninths of the academic year salary or equivalent) to pursue worthy research projects.
The Faculty Professional Development program is dedicated to the maintenance of academic excellence in the University of Wisconsin System “to increase the flexibility and effective use of existing faculty personnel in the University of Wisconsin System." UW System funds are provided to support retraining, renewal and faculty development.
For the full list of recipients, read the story from University Communications.