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IU announces first Ameritech Fellow awards
April 11, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University announced today (April 11) that seven faculty projects have been selected for the first round of awards totaling more than $90,000 from IU's Ameritech Fellows Program.
These innovative projects apply information technology to teaching and learning through initiatives such as intelligent tutoring systems, Web textbooks and interactive computer programs, for disciplines ranging from radiology and health science education to ethnomusicology and e-commerce.
The announcement was made at an IU faculty symposium, "New Times, New Technology, New Scholarship: Evolving Faculty Rewards," and to an audience of more than 200 faculty convened via video on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses.
Faculty receiving awards are the following:
-- Stan G. Alexander, clinical assistant professor of radiology and the Robert W. Holden scholar of radiology in the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis, for his project, "A Webtextbook for the Teaching of Radiology Concepts and Interpretation to Senior Medical Students and/or Housestaff."
-- Daniel R. Brady, associate professor of oral biology in the IU School of Dentistry in Indianapolis, for "A Modular Approach to Health Science Education."
-- John Kremer, professor of psychology, and Soren Svanum, associate professor of psychology, director of Psychology Graduate Programs and director of the Clinical Rehabilitation Program, both at IUPUI, for their project, "Development of an Interactive Computer Program: Applying Psychology to Life."
-- Portia Maultsby, professor of folklore and director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at IU Bloomington, for her project, "Multicultural Multimedia on the Web: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop, the Music and Culture of Black America."
-- Ali Reza Montazemi, associate professor of decision science at IU South Bend, for "Intelligent Tutoring System in Support of Mastery Learning."
-- Howard Rosenbaum, assistant professor of library and information science at IU Bloomington, for "Teaching and Learning Electronic Commerce in a Virtual Economy."
-- Catherine A. Shea, program coordinator for special education and professor of education at IU Southeast, for "Electronic Enhancement of Supervision Project."
Critical to the Ameritech Fellows Program is the role these faculty will serve across the university as mentors for their colleagues. Fellows will contribute to the development of a teaching and learning "Knowledge Base," based on IU's award-winning Knowledge Base, which will be available to all IU faculty and the higher education community for dissemination, research and examples of best practice.
"These faculty will help perpetuate an environment for innovation across the university," said Garland C. Elmore, associate vice president for teaching and learning information technologies at IU.
IU and Ameritech announced the establishment of the five-year, $1 million program in November at an IU faculty conference, "Teaching and Learning with Information Technology." In response to a request for proposals issued in December, more than 50 proposals were submitted by faculty on IU campuses, Elmore said.
He indicated that the university anticipates supporting as many as 60 projects through the duration of the Ameritech Fellows Program. The next award cycle will begin with a call for proposals to be released next November, he said.
More information about the Ameritech Fellows Program at IU is available on the Web at http://www.indiana.edu/~ovpit/amfellow/
(Christine Fitzpatrick, 317-278-1818, cfitzpat@iupui.edu)