Congratulations to the following faculty members and graduate students who have received prestigious financial support for their their creative and scholarly works. A selection of recent funding awards are listed below to inspire and inform future projects.
2023– 2024
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Rachel Silveri (School of Art & Art History) | CAA Advancing & Design Grant Award Sapphic Modernities – CAA Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions |
| Xan Burley (School of Theatre & Dance) | The Croft Residency (2023) |
| Markus Santoso (Digital Worlds Institute) | Dental Trade Alliance (DTA) Foundation Grant Award Advancing Oral Health Literacy through ‘The Mouth’, an Immersive Virtual Reality (2023-2024) |
| Dustin Adams (School of Art & Art History) | Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Windgate Fellowship (2023) |
2022– 2023
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Jill Sonke (Center for Arts in Medicine) | US National Endowment of the Arts Research Lab Award EpiArts Lab (2022-2024) |
| Jill Sonke (Center for Arts in Medicine) | Bloomberg Philanthropies One Nation One Project (2022-2024) |
| Jill Sonke (Center for Arts in Medicine) | Florida Department of State – Division of Arts & Culture Grant Award Creating Healthy Communities: Advancing Health and Health Equity through Arts and Public Health Collaborations (2022-2023) |
| Marko Suvajdzic (Digital Worlds Institute) | Algorand Foundation Center of Excellence Grant UF Blockchain Lab (2022-2025) |
| Antoine Williams (School of Art & Art History) | National Academy of Art – Abbey Mural Prize Art Commission – Mythic Futures (2022-2023) |
| Antoine Williams (School of Art & Art History) | South Arts South Arts Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant (2022-2023) |
| Antoine Williams (School of Art & Art History) | CubaNOLA Research Residency (2023) |
| Antoine Williams (School of Art & Art History) | The Joan Mitchell Foundation Joan Mitchell Center Residency (2022) |
| Antoine Williams (School of Art & Art History) | Aslan Foundation Loghaven Residency (2023) |
| Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (School of Art & Art History) | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Exhibiting Animals in the Early Modern World |
| Anthea Behm (Center for Arts in Medicine) | The New Institute Fellowship in Hamburg, Germany The Human Condition in the 21st Century (2022-2023) |
| Jennifer Dasher (School of Theatre & Dance) | The Thorn National Tour Costume Designer (2022-2023) |
| Eugene Agyei (School of Art & Art History) | New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University Robert Chapman Turner Teaching Fellowship (2023-2026) |
| Welson Tremura (School of Music) | Itamaraty Brazil Brazilian Music Institute (2023) |
| Elizabeth Ross (School of Art & Art History) Jack Stenner (School of Art & Technology) | College of the Arts Arts & AI Virtual Workstation Studio (2023-2028) |
| Markus Santoso (Digital Worlds Institute) | American Dental Education Association ADEAGies Foundation Immersive Learning with AI-enhanced Virtual Standardized Patient (VSP) to Improve Dental Students’ Communication Proficiencies and History Taking (2022-2023) |
| Xan Burley (School of Theatre & Dance) & Alex Springer (School of Theatre & Dance) | Judson Church Movement Research (2023) |
| Scott Lee (School of Music) | Bozeman Symphony Composer in Residence (2021-2024) |
| Kenneth Broadway (School of Music) | Yamaha Corporation Percussion Residency at Alabama State University (2022) |
| Paul Basler (School of Music) | Cormont Music Kendall Betts Horn Camp, New Hampshire (2023) |
| Jesus Fuenmayor (University Gallery) | Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) Artist Seminar Initiative (2022-2023) |
2021-2022
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Irene Tete (Art & Art History Visiting Assistant Professor – Ceramics) | Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT – Rudy Autio Fund for Creative Initiatives Summer Resident |
| Irene Tete (Art & Art History Visiting Assistant Professor – Ceramics) | Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (Rabun Gap, GA) Summer Resident |
| Kaira Cabañas (Art & Art History Professor – Global Modern and Contemporary Art History) | Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the National Gallery of Art (CASVA) William C. Seitz Senior Fellow |
| Kaira Cabañas (Art & Art History Professor – Global Modern and Contemporary Art History) | Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association For the publication, Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art |
| Heidi Powell (Art & Art History Associate Professor and Director of the MAAE Online Program) | Fulbright Scholars Award Chavón La Escuela de Diseño and the Centro León Museum and Cultural Center, Dominican Republic |
| Adrian Gonzalez (Art & Art History Visiting Professor – Printmaking) | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Summer Resident |
| Dionne Champion, Alana Jackson, & (Center for Arts in Medicine) Oṣubi Craig (Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship) | The Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant Award SPARC352: Racial Equity in Community-Engaged Research |
| Craig Smith (School of Art & Art History) | Lunasong Music Grant Craig Smith: Legacy |
| Maria Rogal (School of Art & Art History) | College Book Arts Association Rising Together Zine Workshop |
| Augusto Soledade (School of Theatre & Dance) | New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theatre Production Grant F/Punk Junkies |
| Heather Spooner (Center for Arts in Medicine) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Effects of Art Therapy on Symptoms of PTSD after TBI and Indicators of Neurophysiological Appearance |
| Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (School of Art & Art History) | National Trust for Historic Preservation Reenvisioning Mission San Gabriel Arcángel’s Museum: Towards a Collection-Based and Community-Centered History of Los Angeles’s Most Important Historical Site – Assessing the Historical Textiles in the Museum Collection |
| Jack Stenner (School of Art & Technology) | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant – Jetsons for Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence 18 Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit |
| Fatimah Tuggar (School of Art & Art History) | Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present Art Commission |
| Sophia Acord (Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives) | Pennsylvania State University HuMetricsHSS Initiative, with support from the Mellon Foundation Creating Robust Metrics for Humanities Research Impact (2022-2023) |
| Dionne Champion (Center for Arts in Medicine) | National Science Foundation Applying a Complex Systems Perspective to Investigate the Relationship between Choreography and Agent-Based Modeling as Tools for Scientific Sense-Making (2021-2024) |
| Cody Lee Case (School of Music) | US Department of Education, Fulbright-Hayes Musically Healing from COVID-19: Blocos Afro, Resistance, and Perseverance in Salvador, Brazil (2021-2023) |
| Marko Suvajdzic (Digital Worlds Institute) | Algorand Foundation Blockchain Innovation in Digital Arts and Sciences (2021-2023) |
| Angelos Barmpoutis (Digital Worlds Institute) | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Sub-Project from David Vaillancourt’s NIH Award Web-based Automated Imaging Differentiation of Parkinsonism |
| Xan Burley (School of Theatre & Dance) & Alex Springer (School of Theatre & Dance) | New Dance Alliance 36th Annual Performance Mix Festival Transdisciplinary performance project parts (June 2022) |
| Heidi Boisvert (School of Theatre & Dance) | Los Angeles Music Center, Digital Innovation Lab Run+Skip+Play (April 2022-July 2022) |
| Jennifer Dasher (School of Theatre & Dance) | Cortland Repertory Theatre Costume Designer – Mary Poppins (Summer 2022) |
| Eugene Agyei (School of Art & Art History) | Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Artaxis Fellowship (2022) |
| Eugene Agyei (School of Art & Art History) | National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Multicultural Fellowship (2022) |
| Eugene Agyei (School of Art & Art History) | National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Graduate Student Fellowship (2022) |
| Eugene Agyei (School of Art & Art History) | The Rollins Museum of Art Winner of Pathways 2022: The Carlos Malamud Prize and solo exhibition |
| Marko Suvajdzic (Digital Worlds Institute) | National Institute of Health (NIH) Intelligent Intesive Care Unit (12CU) : pervasive Sensing and Artifical Intelligence (2021-2026) |
| Marko Suvajdzic (Digital Worlds Institute) | Algorand Foundation Algorand: Education and Community Grant (2021-2022) |
| Markus Santoso (Digital Worlds Institute) | Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology KampusKita: Development of immersive and virtual campus inside MetaVerse world that accessible by universities’ in Indonesia (2022-2023) |
| Markus Santoso (Digital Worlds Institute) | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) – Award for Creativity Activity Immersive Learning with AI-enhanced Virtual Standardized Patient (VSP) to Improve Dental Students’ Communication Proficiencies and History Taking (2022) |
| Angelos Barmpoutis (Digital Worlds Institute) | Prostate Cancer Foundation Prostate Capsule Segmentation in Micro-Ultrasound Images using Deep Neural Networks (2022-2023) |
| Kenneth Broadway (School of Music) | Yamaha Corporation Percussion Performances at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Samford University(2021) |
2020-2021
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Heidi Boisvert (School of Theatre & Dance) | Pop Culture Collaborative Becoming America – Narrative Engine |
| Heidi Boisvert (School of Theatre & Dance) | Guild of Future Architects Embodied Intelligence – Shared Future |
| Laura Ellis (School of Music) | The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America – Ronald Barnes Memorial Fund Grant A Professional Recording of Representative Carillon Compositions of Alice Gomez. |
| Jill Sonke (Center for Arts in Medicine) | Kresge Foundation Activating the WE-Making Report: Supporting Practitioner Translation and Uptake to Advance Equitable Creative Placemaking Practices (2021-2023) |
| Marko Suvajdzic (Digital Worlds Institute) | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Subproject from Parisa Rashidi’s NIH award ADAPT: Autonomous Delirium Monitoring and Adaptive Prevention |
| Jennifer Dasher (School of Theatre & Dance) | MGM Resorts Costume Designer (2020) |
| Jennifer Dasher (School of Theatre & Dance) | MGM Resorts EDIC Consultant (2020-2022) |
| Jennifer Dasher (School of Theatre & Dance) | Cortland Repertory Theatre Costumer Designer – Legally Blonde |
| Eugene Agyei (School of Art & Art History) | Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Windgate Fellowship (2021) |
| Melissa Hyde (School of Art & Art History) | Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Visiting Fellow (2020) |
| Angelos Barmpoutis (Digital Worlds Institute) | AI-driven Movement Classification and Analysis across Clinical and Cultural Application Areas (2021) |
| Scott Lee (School of Music) | Hermitage Artist Retreat Hermitage Artist Residency (2020-2022) |
2019-2020
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Dionne Champion (Center for Arts in Medicine) | National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Using Culturally Sustaining STEM +C Learning Environments to Explore Learning & Identity (2019-2023) |
| Jennifer Dasher (School of Theatre & Dance) | Riverside Theatre Costume Designer – The 39 Steps |
2014-2015
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Maria Rogal (Art & Art History Associate Professor, Graphic Design Area Head) | Sappi Ideas That Matter Grant for Kanan Honey D4DLab in collaboration with the Fundación México-Estados Unidos para la Ciencia (FUMEC) |
2012-2013
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Anna Callouri-Holcombe (Art & Art History Professor Emeritus – Ceramics) | Fulbright Scholars Award Anadolu University in Turkey |
| Christopher James Witulski (Art & Art History PhD Candidate – Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnomusicology) | Fulbright Scholars Award Pious Performances: Musiqa Ruhiyya and Islamic Popular Music in Fez, Morocco |
2011-2012
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Zonia Zena (Art & Art History BFA – Visual Arts) | Fulbright Scholars Award Los que vienen: Diaspora Latina | The ones coming; Latino diaspora. |
2008-2009
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Christopher W. Cary (Art & Art History PhD Candidate – Musicology) | Fulbright Scholars Award Poland Contemporary Musical Landscapes of Poland: Aesthetic Orientation and Socio-cultural Context |
2006-2007
| Name | Award and Project Information |
|---|---|
| Kelly L. Le (Art & Art History) | Fulbright Scholars Award Contemporary Vietnam: A Visual Literacy (Sculpture) |
| Maria Rogal (Art & Art History Associate Professor, Graphic Design Area Head) | Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Scholar Program to Mexico The Visual Culture of Mexicanidad in Yucatán |