Current Recipients
2019-2020
Faculty |
Title |
| Brittnie Aiello Emma Duffy Comparone | Best Practices for Implementing a Correctional Program |
| Lisa Fuller Fr. Rick Piatt | Bioethics Through Improvisation: Bringing Ethical Controversies to Life |
| Michael Mascolo | What College Can Be: Cultivating Purpose, Passion, and Persistence? |
| Julia St. Goar | Improving PreService Teacher and Undergraduate Education At All Levels |
| William Wians | Materia Philosophiae: The Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy |
Past Recipients
2018-19 |
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Faculty |
Title |
| Traci Alberti | Impact of Financial Coaching on the Financial Capability and Well Being of Low-Income Households: A Randomized Program Evaluation |
| Taesoo Ahn | Ticket Bundling Promotion in Lowell Spinners |
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Ellen McWhorter Christy Pottroff |
Finding Anne Bradstreet: A Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Search for America’s First Poet |
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Ana Silva Christina Hardway Allison Seitchik Jane Parent |
Impact of Financial Coaching on the Financial Capability and Well-Being of Low Income Households: A Randomized Program Evaluation |
| Jessica Molignano | Merrimack’s Campus Kitchens Project: Delivering Student Powered Hunger Relief through Service Learning |
| Nancy Wynn | Provost Art Gallery Project |
2017-18 |
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Faculty |
Title |
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Brittnie Aiello |
Inside Out Training: Writing the Life Course – Criminological Theory, Creative Writing, and Self |
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Mark Allman Russell Olwell Isabelle Cherney |
Social Justice Month |
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Lyena Chavez Kelsey Hargrove Craig Looney Christopher Duston Anne Gatling Douglas White |
McQuade Mobile Telescope Initiative: Bringing Astronomy to the People |
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Fan Chen Mary Papazian Omer Unsal Frances Nilsson |
Morningstar & Capital IQ |
| Roselita Fragoudakis | A Video Library of Finite Element Analysis Tutorials |
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Christina Hardway Fang Zhao |
Using Mindfulness to Enhance Teaching and Learning Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis |
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Zachary Kissel Christopher Stuetzle Lyena Chavez CJ Wong Sharon Shore Taitelbaum Anne Gatling |
Starting up Computer Science Education |
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Raymond Lavoie Michael Stroud |
Visual Attention in FLOW |
| Azam Noori | Greenhouse Renovation |
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April Bowling Cynthia Carlson Katell Guellec James Howland Katherine Turcotte Michaela Keating |
Mindful McQuade |
| Nancy Wynn | Television Studio Sets |
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Debra Michals Hannah Trivilino |
“Living Out Loud” Podcast |
2016-17 |
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| Faculty | Title |
| Kevin Finn | Expanding Experiential Education in Health Sciences Through a Simulation Laboratory |
| Laura Kurdziel | Brain Vision: Neurophysiological Recordings for Teaching, Research, and Collaboration |
| Juliana Cohen | The Health Sciences Center for Research and Innovation |
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Craig Looney Christopher Duston Kevin Salemme |
Merrimack Lightboard Initiative |
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Tunde Szivak Michael Corcoran Cynthia Ferrara |
Development of an Experiential Learning Course and Research Opportunities Using Advanced Technology in the Health Sciences |
| John Gallagher | Equipment for Interdisciplinary Study of Smart and Active Materials for Academic Course and Research Development |
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Cynthia Carlson Ana Silva Bryan Bannon |
ArcGIS Site License and Training |
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Paula Bordogna Bethe McBride Julie Noone Sharon Shore Taitelbaum Sujatha Thiruvengadathan |
SMART Team Model Assessment, Travel, and Technology Request |
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Brian Provencher Kathryn Nielsen Sally Shockro Laura Pruett Laura Hsu Laura Kurdziel Daniel Herda Brittnie Aiello Jimmy Franco |
Using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to Shatter the Boundaries of the Classroom |
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Fan Chen Mary Papazian |
Morningstar Direct |
2015-16 |
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| Faculty | Title |
| Taesoo Ahn | Passion Course: Diversity and Ethics in Sport Business |
| Bryan Bannon | Passion Course: The Meaning of Work: An Introduction to Philosophy |
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John “Sean” Condon Luis Saenz de Viguera Erkiaga |
Passion Course: Study Travel Course to Cuba |
| Jim Chiavelli | Passion Course: Afghanistan: Culture and Conflict |
| Cincia Digiulio | Passion Course: Cinema and the Global Zombie |
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Courtenay Dunn-Lewis Cynthia Ferrara |
Passion Course: Development of a Freshman Year Professional Studies Seminar Course: Professions in the Health Sciences |
| Anne Flaherty | Passion Course: The Politics of Food |
| John Giordano | Passion Course: 9/11 in Words and Images |
| Jose Godinez | Passion Course: Introduction to Doing Business in Latin America |
| Christina Hardway | Passion Course: Psychology of Identity and Purpose |
| Karen Hayden | Passion Course: Rural Crime |
| George Heffernan | Passion Course: Life, Passion, Reason |
| Rob Koegel | Passion Course: Happiness |
| He Li | Passion Course: Globalization |
| Lynn McGovern | Passion Course: The Gods Must Be Crazy: Exploring Culture, Context, and Intercultural Competence |
| Ellen McWhorter | Passion Course: Inequality and Injustice in Life and Literature |
| Ralph Pass | Passion Course: Honors Astronomy |
| Laura Pruett | Passion Course: The Concept Album in Popular Music |
| Autumn Ridenour | Passion Course: Bioethics & Healthcare : Theological Approaches |
| Maria Sannella | Passion Course: Exploring Ways to Market Businesses |
| Raymond Shaw | Passion Course: A Large, Interdisciplinary Introduction to Psychology |
| Sally Shockro | Passion Course: Mystery Plays and the Transformation of Late Medieval Europe |
| Joseph Stasio | Passion Course: Great Entrepreneurs |
| Monica Cowart | Passion Course: Center for Global & Interdisciplinary Gender, Social Justice, and Cultural Studies |
2014-15 |
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Faculty |
Title |
| Jack Adams | Interdisciplinary Electromechanical Project with Significant Environmental, Cost, and Curricular Impacts -Electrical Engineering |
| Brittnie Aiello | Prison Education at Merrimack College |
| John “Sean” Condon | History Matters: Launching Online Undergraduate History Journal |
| Anthony Fernandez | Implementation of an iPad-controlled Probeware System in the General Chemistry Sequence |
| Julie Fitzmaurice | Developing a College-Wide Parent Participation Program |
| Jimmy Franco | Creating Virtual Experiential Learning Experience |
| John Gallagher | Interdisciplinary Electromechanical Project with Significant Environmental, Cost, and Curricular Impacts -Mechanical Engineering |
| Laura Hall Seelig | Dedicated Classroom Space to Allow Use of Innovative Pedagogies in Mathematics Courses |
| R. David MacLaren | Establishing a Marine Field Station and the Study of the Whale Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation in the Gulf of Maine |
| Michael Mascolo | Virtues in Praxis: Fostering Academic Motivation and Skill Development through Purposive Self-Cultivation |
| Lynn McGovern | Study Abroad in Cuba: Catching the Wave of New Opportunities |
| Raymond Shaw | Developing an Innovative, Interdisciplinary Data Science Program |
| Sally Shockro | Why Does the Past Matter? Enduring Questions Application |
| Ana Silva | Center for Financial Capability |
2013-14 |
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Faculty |
Title |
| Jack Adams | Powerful, Elegant, and Inexpensive Open System to Measure, Store and Visualize Energy Data-Electrical Engineering |
| Anne Gatling | Promoting STEM Discipline Understanding Through Service Learning |
| James Kaklamanos | Statistics in Civil Engineering (SCE): An Interdisciplinary Student Research Program |
| Janine LeBlanc-Staceski | Winter Intersession Research Experience (WIRE) |
| R. David MacLaren |
URIC: Investigating the Effects of Environmentally Realistic Herbicide and Pharmaceutical Exposure on Hormone Concentrations, Reproductive, and Aggressive Behavior in Fish |
| Fr. Rick Platt | A Public Panel Conversation with playwright John Patrick Stanley to coincide with the Department of Visual & Performing Arts’ production of his play Doubt |
| Sandra Raponi | Courses on the Philosophy of International Human Rights Law and Global Justice |
| Kathleen Sills | Curriculum Re-Design for the 21st Century: Creating an Innovative Interdisciplinary Program in the Visual & Performing Arts |
| Michael Stroud | Flipping Inquiry and Methodology through the Innovation of Apple |
| Christopher Stuetzle | Powerful, Elegant, and Inexpensive Open System to Measure, Store and Visualize Energy Data-Computer Science |
| Paul Vatalaro | The New England Shore: The Inaugural Course in the Field-Based Seminar Series |
| Marc Veletzos | Increasing the Impact of the Haiti Service Learning Initiative |
| Zi Yan | First Year Experience: Does it facilitate academic performance and acculturation among first year international college students? |
2012-13 |
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Faculty |
Title |
| Jack Adams | Quantifying Energy Savings and Environmental Impact of a High-Efficiency Pump Installation |
| Taesoo Ahn | Understanding Potential MC Athletic Donors’ Motives and Constraints |
| Brandy Benedict | Developing an Honors Calculus I and II Course Sequence |
| Franco Capaldi | An Infinitely Explorable Learning Environment |
| Jimmy Franco | Revitalizing SURP: The identification of novel DrpE1 inhibitors is an essential protein in M. Tuberculosis |
| Laura Hsu | Establishing an Undergraduate Research Program (URP) |
| R. David MacLaren | Revitalizing SURP: Morphological and Behavioral Characterization of 2 Varieties of Girardinus Metallicus |
| Ellen McWhorter | Literary New England: Creating a Travel Based Learning Experience |
| Laura Pruett | “God and Music”: A New Interdisciplinary Course |
| Luis Saenz de Viguera Erkiaga | First Social Justice Week |
| Paul Vatalaro | English Department Curricular and Co-Curricular Initiatives Project Director |
| Marc Veletzos | Haiti Service Learning Initiative |
| William Wians | HON 3301:London as text |
| Zi Yan | Promoting Wellness and Cultural Competences |
2011-12 |
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Faculty |
Title |
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Geraldine Branca Paul Vatalaro |
Building An English Program Committed to Field Experience, New Media, and Creative Expression |
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William Bowhers Jimmy Franco Warren A. Kay |
The World’s Largest Periodic Table of Elements |
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Franco Capaldi Marc Veletzos |
Attendance at the American Society of Engineering Education |
| Carol Ann Dalto | Rome- An Exploration of Student Activities While Studying Abroad |
| Kevin Finn | Comparing the Effects of the Active Science Program on Physical Activity and Academic Performance in an After-School Program and In-Class Science Classroom |
| Kerry Johnson | Organizational Meeting: Supplies and Books |
| Jon Lyon | Exploring a Merrimack-Belize Partnership: A Proposal to Develop Academic Linkages between Merrimack College and the University of Belize |
| R. David MacLaren | Development of the Merrimack College Summer Marine & Estuarine Studies Program (SMESP) |
| Michael Mascolo | Writing as a Learning Tool: Fostering Writing and Thinking Skills in the Compass “Critical Inquiry Seminar” |
| Lynn McGovern | Three ACTFL Webinars: Integrating 21st Century Skills to Engage Today’s Language Learners |
| Luis Saenz de Viguera Erkiaga | Funding for attendance at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference |
| Angela Senander | Workshop at Villanova |
| Ray Shaw | Travel to assessment workshop at Keene State |
| Michael Stroud | Student attendance and presentation of thesis at the Association for Psychological Science, APS-STP Teaching Institute |
| KC Swallow | Chemical Investigations: A New Course for Research Preparation |
| Jacob Turner | Convivencia in Spain and Morocco |
