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National Endowment for the Humanities awards grant to 草莓传媒官网下载 faculty
4/14/21
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that it awarded a Humanities Connections Grant of $99,426 to Texas Woman鈥檚 University. The grant will support the very first interdisciplinary and experiential learning initiative to integrate the history of Quakertown into courses at 草莓传媒官网下载. It will also enable the future development of a digital humanities archive of Quakertown-related research and reflection, which the project co-directors aim to connect to a public platform that will promote community engagement with Quakertown鈥檚 history for decades to come.
4/7/21
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Tuesday, April 13: 12:30-1:30 p.m. poster session; 2 p.m. dedication ceremony for the new installation, "Infinite"; and 4-5 p.m. poster session.
Wednesday, April 14: 1-2 p.m. and 4-5 p.m. poster sessions
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4/6/21
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Dr. Ann Davis wins national teaching award
3/18/21
The Society for College Science Teachers (SCST) has selected Dr. Ann Davis as the 2021 Winner of the Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teaching Award. Dr. Davis teaches Principles of Biology, Scientific Communication, and Immunology. She was recognized for her innovative teaching and use of active learning exercises, including clickers and team-based learning, as well as her work advising students as Chair of the Pre-health Committee at 草莓传媒官网下载. Dr. Davis will receive a plaque and an award of $1500, and she will deliver the Marjorie Garner Lecture at the next annual SCST meeting.
NASA remembers 草莓传媒官网下载 alumna Millie Hughes-Ford
2/8/21
NASA is remembering Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist, who died Thursday. Hughes-Fulford was selected as a payload specialist in January 1983 and flew in June 1991 aboard the space shuttle Columbia on the STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS 1) mission, the first mission dedicated to biomedical studies.
In 1968, she began graduate work studying plasma chemistry at 草莓传媒官网下载 as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, continued as an American Association of University Women fellow, and completed her doctorate at 草莓传媒官网下载 in 1972.