Butler Center to honor four fellowship winners on Thursday

Four recipients chosen as winners of the inaugural Susan Bulkeley Butler Research Fellowship will be recognized at a reception on Thursday (May 4).

Fellows will receive up to $5,000 of funding for their project, which will support either scholarship in discovery, learning, and engagement; or practice, the implementation of research findings with assessment.

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence will recognize the fellowship recipients at 2-3 p.m. in the East Faculty Lounge of Purdue Memorial Union. The reception is free and open to the entire Purdue community.

The four 2017 fellowships were awarded to the following proposals:

* Program: "Understanding Spatial Reasoning of Women in Engineering" by Mayari I. Serrano, Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, and Beth M. Holloway. Serrano, Zurn-Birkhimer, and Holloway are part of the Women in Engineering Program in the College of Engineering.

* Faculty: "Broadening Participation of 'Who' Belongs in STEM: Examining the Role of Motivated Cognition to Change Men's Perceptions of Feminine and Communal Characteristics" by Amy C. Moors. Moors is the director of social science research and evaluation in the College of Engineering. She collaborated on this piece with Jes L. Matsick, assistant professor of psychology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State University.

* Faculty: "Gender Equality Curriculum Design & Training Program at Kabul University in Afghanistan" by TJ Boisseau. Boisseau is an associate professor and director of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.

* Student/Postdoctoral: "ENGR 296: Thriving for Engineering Leadership, Inclusion, and Diversity Novel Interdisciplinary Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students in Spring 2018" by Julianna Ge. Ge is a doctoral fellow in the School of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering.

To apply for the fellowship, applicants submitted no more than two single-spaced pages including the overview of the project, a plan to gather and analyze data or plan to implement practice, a statement of funding needed to conduct the project, a timeline for completion and an explanation of how project supports the mission of the Butler Center.

For more information, contact Patrice Buzzanell, the Butler chair and director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, at buzzanel@purdue.edu. 

Writer: Kelsey Schnieders, kschnied@purdue.edu