2008 Summer Session Grant Program Awards Announced
Several Virginia Tech faculty members have been awarded $5,000 grants to deliver individual courses in the 2008 summer session. Grants totaled $75,000 and were awarded through the Provost Office Summer Sessions Grant Program.
Established in Fall 2006, the grant program was designed as an incentive program to help promote summer session as an integral component of a student’s learning, discovery, and engagement experience. The University Summer Session Advisory Committee received over 50 applications for the 2008 Summer Sessions.
The committee congratulates the following grant award recipients:
| Instructor | Course |
| Michael K. Badawy | Management: Leadership Practices; and Business Policy and Strategy |
| John Boyer | World Regions |
| Pierre Couture | Event Management & Technology Management |
| W. Lee Daniels | Soils |
| Amos Desjardins | Introduction to Physical Geography |
| Jim Egenrieder | Watershed Science, Education and Leadership |
| Jennifer Henderson | Women and Creativity |
| Lawrence S. Grossman | Landscapes of Food, Culture, and Environment |
| Susan A. Hagedorn | Literature and Ecology, Online |
| D. Earl Kline | Wood Enterprise Institute |
| Heike Meyer and Mariela Alfonzo |
Cities, Regions, & Firms and The Value of Urban Design |
| Nyusya Milman-Miller | Intensive Introductory Russian |
| Michelle Moseley-Christian | Survey of the History of Art (Renaissance through Modern) |
| Ray Plaza | Learning About Diversity and Social Justice in a Global Context |
| Roberta Russell/ | Operations Management |