Available ONLY to Faculty at VFIC Colleges and Universities
2009 Awards - Press Release
Purpose of the Mednick Fund:
The Maurice L. Mednick Memorial was created in 1967 in honor of a young Norfolk industrialist who died from accidental causes and whose family and business associates wished to perpetuate his name by establishing a memorial that would emphasize his and the donors’ strong interest in higher education.
Administration of the Mednick Memorial Fund is vested in the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges to encourage the professional development of college teachers and improve their academic competence through fellowships for research and advanced study.
A committee of VFIC business trustees and college presidents oversee the selection of research proposals for funding on an annual basis.
The committee encourages each of the colleges to submit at least one proposal and, within reason, the committee tries to provide research dollars in an equitable manner among the colleges.
Information for Applicants
(Faculty of VFIC Member Colleges ONLY)
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November 1, 2009 |
Deadline: |
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February 28, 2010 |
Notification of Awards: |
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April 15, 2010 |
Distribution of Awards: |
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July 1, 2010 |
Final Report Due: |
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May 31, 2011 |
Recipients of 2009 Awards:
| INSTITUTION |
PROFESSOR/DEPARTMENT |
TOPIC |
Bridgewater College |
Dr. Jamie Frueh
Associate Professor
Dept. of History & Political Science
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Global Discourses of HIV/AIDS Prevention: Social Marketing in Multiple Societies |
Emory & Henry College |
Dr. Scott Matthew Boltwood Associate Professor of English
|
Researches in Post-War Theater in Northern Ireland |
Hampden-Sydney College |
Dr. Claire Elizabeth Deal,
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
|
Critical Performance Pedagogy and Restorative Justice
|
Hollins University
|
Dr. Christina Antonia Salowey, Assoc.Professor of Classics
Dept. of Philosophy, Religion &
Classics
|
Grave Stelai from Demetrias-Pagasai |
Lynchburg College |
Dr. Kirt vonDaacke,
Assistant Professor
Department of History
|
Freedom Has a Face: Race, Community, and Identity in Jefferson's Albemarle, 1790-1865 |
Mary Baldwin College |
Dr. Maria Lena Hobson
Associate Professor of Art History
|
N.G. Fiumi and the Novecento Art Movement |
Marymount University |
Dr. Pamela Sue Diener
Associate Professor
Physical Therapy Department
|
Effects of Hippotherapy on Balance in Girls with Rett Syndrome |
Randolph College |
Dr. Susan T. Stevens
Professor
Department of Classics
|
A Christian Underground Burial Chamber in Ancient Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia) |
Randolph-Macon College |
Dr. Jonathan Douglas Allen
Assistant Professor of Biology |
Predator-induced Transgenerational Plasticity in an Intertidal Snail |
Roanoke College |
Dr. Rama Balasubramanian
Assistant Professor, MCSP |
Investigation of Y Branches Formed in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes |
Shenandoah University |
Dr. John Tobias Jacobs
Professor and Chair of English Department
|
Willa Cather's Letters: A Source for her American Literary and Artistic Connections |
Sweet Briar College |
Dr. John Edward Ashbrook
Assistant Professor
Department of History
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A Question of Consistency: An Analysis of Shifting EU Accession Criteria |
University of Richmond |
Dr. Jeffrey Kenneth Hass
Associate Professor
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology |
Moral Economy of War: Meanings, Practices, and State and Society at War. The Case of the Blockade of Leningrad |
Virginia Wesleyan College |
Dr. Paul M. Resslar
Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
|
The Reproductive Biology of Caladium Bicolor in Trinidad |
Washington and Lee
University
|
Dr. Alison Kay Bell
Asst. Professor of
Anthropology & Archaeology
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology |
Race, Class and Power: Analysis of 19th Century Archaeological Sites in Virginia |
Fall 2009 / 2010 Mednick RFP - Memo
Fall 2009 / 2010 Mednick Application
Fall 2009 Sample application (word doc \ internal campus use only)
Fall 2009 Sample application (pdf \ internal campus use only)
Contact: Mary-Beth Johnson, for further information |
