Mariatte Denman (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Clayton Koelb (Duke)-$2,275
Curriculum and Fundraising Development Workshop-German Departments at Duke and UNC-CH
This one-day workshop will allow faculty to accelerate integrated and interdisciplinary German Studies curriculum development on the undergraduate and graduate levels, with the aim of making better use of existing resources on each campus. It will also encourage faculty to refine already existing long-term proposals seeking external funding for enhanced cross-university collaboration prior to submitting to various funding agencies and foundations.
Johanna Hickman (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Masayo Nobe (Duke)-$2,000
Carolina Mock Trial and Duke Mock Trial
The purpose of the mock trial programs is to prepare teams for competition while improving the public speaking and analytical skills of each member. By working together, each program can bring fresh, new ideas to the other, and both programs will be better prepared to compete at tournaments.
Catherine Jones (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Odette Nemes (Duke)-$2,200
Women Learning Through New Opporunities: ESL Program for Women in the Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro Area-M.A.N.O.
There are approximately 25,000 Latinos in the Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro areas and yet those areas lack a tremendous amount of resources. Women are the primary care-givers and yet oftentimes they are at a great disadvantage with their children. One of the most effective methods for ameliorating the language barrier and lack of parental interaction and in the child's education due to confusion and misunderstanding of the public school system is to teach immigrant women English. MANO is a student run organization at UNC that provides free ESL tutoring and childcare for primarily Spanish-speaking women in the area. They are extending this program to Duke to help those women located in Durham and this grant will allow students at both campuses to collaborate closely in order to establish a new program.
Cassandra Koontz (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Hillary Lane (Duke)-$3,000
Synchronization: Exploring Culture Through the Lens of Dance Music
Duke University's Gruv Productions and UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Music Symposium have been working independently to organize music events with an emphasis on cultural awareness in an alcohol-free environment. Producing events is a complex endeavor and both organizations draw on diverse bodies of members, representing various cultural groups and possessing various skills. Combining resources for the event would benefit not only both dance music organizations, but the planning efforts have already begun to encourage collaborations between other campus groups.
Wendan Li (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Carolyn Lee (Duke)-$1,600
Southeast Conference on Chinese Language Teaching: Chinese Language and Culture in Second Language Acquistion
Chinese language teaching is an emerging field in the U.S. building on the increased emphasis on multilingualism and international education. Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have a long history of collaboration in Asian studies. However, although other parts of the nation have regional conferences and organizations of Chinese language teaching professionals, those in the southeast have not had the opportunity to get together to discuss important issues such as curriculum design. The Southeast Conference on Chinese Language teaching is therefore proposed for Chinese language educators to meet and discuss a number of issues in Chinese language training.
Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Alex Rosenberg (Duke)-$5,000
UNC-Duke Collaborative Philosophy Workshop
This proposal entails a joint campus philosophy workshop series to be convened each spring, over a weekend, alternately at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. The workshops will be organized by two philosophers, one from each campus, who share a research interest. Given the interdisciplinary interests of philosophers, the size and diversity or interests of member of the two departments, several years of collaborative programs will be provided that transcend the natural boundaries of the discipline and enrich the intellectual life of the two campuses.
Sarah Shields (UNC-Chapel Hill) and John French (Duke)-$1,500
Civil Rights and National Security
During the spring semester 2002, a group of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke faculty and students will collaborate to present three evening symposia dealing with a continuing working group to examine the interrelation between civil liberties and national security. The goal of this symposia will be to explore overlaps, tensions, and relationships between these two core obligations of any liberal democratic society.
Renee Siconolfi (Duke) and Emily Werrell (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$4,000
Collaborative Library Instruction and Support
The proposal involves the development of a web site that outlines the different resources available at Academic Affairs (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Perkins Library and its branches (Duke). Content for the site will be built and administered jointly by the two libraries and the "look and feel" of the site would be similar to that of the Robertson Scholar site.
Patricia Thompson (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Lee Sorenson (Duke)-$2,350
Treasures of Art History in the Triangle: An Introduction to Graduate Students at Duke and Carolina
This grant will be helping fund A) five instructional sessions at alternating institutions B) accompanying print guides for students and C) a joint permanent web page highlighting the art history collections of each institution. Students will benefit from learning about the unique combined resources of each institution and the program will also serve as a model for the several Triangle art and design libraries.
Jeff Whetstone (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Wendy Ewald (Duke)-$5,000
Course in Photography: The Portrait in Photography
The Department of Art at UNC-Chapel Hill will collaborate with the Center for Documentary Studies and the Department of Art and Art History at Duke to offer a course in photography in the spring of 2003. Wendy Ewald from Duke and Jeff Whetstone from UNC-Chapel Hill will teach the course, a studio art course that will examine the practical and theoretical issues of portraiture.
