Dille Fund for Excellence
2000-2001 Grant Recipients
The
Dille Fund for Excellence, a permanent endowment honoring former MSU
Moorhead President Roland Dille and his wife Beth, awarded $12,900 in
faculty and student grants in 2000-2001. This is the fifth set of
awards funded by the endowment that raised nearly $3.2 million in
gifts and pledges during 1994. The fund is managed by the MSUM Alumni
Foundation. Those receiving 2000-2001 awards:
Ellen
Brisch,
Assistant Professor, Biology
Awarded $2,000 to study with biology students the regulation of
microtubule assembly by MAPK activity.
Linda
Winkler,
Assistant Professor, Physics; Ananda
Shastri,
Assistant Professor, Physics; Don
Krogstad,
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Awarded $1,200 to present a public physical science demonstration show
and a series of demonstration shows for introductory science
courses.
Jennifer
Higgs,
Community Services Coordinator
Awarded $500 to fund the additional tutors in the MSU Moorhead America
Reads Program.
Dieter
Berninger,
Chair, Humanities/Multicultural Studies; Rupa
Mitra,
Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Studies, and Yoke-Sim
Gunaratne
Awarded $2,000 to sponsor a Cultural Competency
Workshop during the Cultural Diversity Awareness Week.
Jim
Bartruff,
Professor, Theatre
Awarded $1,200 to bring guest theatre artist to support the production
of his play “I Love to Tell the Story”
Alison
Wallace,
Assistant Professor, Biology
Awarded $2,300 to fund her proposal “Prairie
Planting Partnerships.”
Kimberly
Gillette,
Assistant Director, International Student Affairs
and Melissa
Torpen,
Honor’s Apprentice, International Programs
Awarded $3,000 to fund “International Classroom
Connection,” a program that brings MSU Moorhead international
students to Minnesota elementary and secondary classrooms.
Masaki
Shigeta,
International Student
Awarded $700 to publish an MSU Moorhead international student greeting
book on the Internet.
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