CILMAR Seed Grant Program

Jianfen Chen, Yao Yang, $1450, to map out the cross-cultural challenges, needs, and supports that international students have encountered within the pandemic context.

Wanju Huang, Guang Lin, $2000, to examine the effectiveness of intercultural learning
modules in enhancing students’ ICC, and explore to what extent a service-learning group project that involved the learners to recreate the ICC modules impact students’ practice of their ICC.

Huai-Rhin Kim, $1000, to investigate how BTS influences their fans to develop their intercultural communicative competence.

Sharon Li, Franki Kung, $2000, to explore how the internalization of “positive” Asian American stereotypes lead to negative workplace implications through dehumanization.

Kelsey Patton, Siqing Wei, Seungyoon Lee, $2000, to explore the career networks of international students searching for work in the U.S. post-graduation.

Diane Wang, Gary Burniske, Wilella Burgess, $1000, to conduct intercultural assessment of an undergraduate overseas STEM research experience for U.S. students.

Siqing Wei, Li Tan, Matthew Ohland, $2000, to examine the extent to which international students boost team-based learning effectiveness in undergraduate engineering education.

Alice Wilcoxson, Scott Lawrance, $396, to initiate programmatic development and assessment of intercultural competence as a healthcare provider in the Purdue Master of Science in athletic training program.

Temitope Adeoye, Virginia Cabrera, Michael Lolkus, Daniella Castellanos Reyes, and Marquetta Strait, $2000, to evaluate the use of digital intercultural learning badges for College of Education Teaching Assistants

Casey Haney and Jennifer DeBoer, $300, to reconceptualize intercultural competency through a study of international students' development of cross-cultural skills and attitudes

Elizabeth Karcher and Paul Ebner, $2000, to create intercultural learning opportunities in an animal science curriculum

Huai-Rhin Kim, $2000, to study the impact of learning styles on intercultural learning outcomes

Christi Masters and Lata Krishnan, $2000, to compare the results of group versus individual debriefs of the Intercultural Development Inventory® 

Jill Newton, JoAnn Phillion, Rose Mbewe, Bima Sapkota, and Lili Zhou, $2000, to investigate intercultural competence development through a virtual global social justice in education course

Jacob Stensberg, $2000, to assess intercultural competence development through a music-centered intercultural curriculum

Marquetta Strait, $1010, to assess Supplemental Instruction (SI) leaders' culturally responsive practices in non-traditional learning environments

Joe Tort, Siddhant Sanjay Joshi, Kirsten Davis, Francisco Montalvo, Niall Peach, Bruno Staszkiewicz, and Akash Patil, $400, to explore engineering students' experiences and learning outcomes from participating in virtual team projects with international partners

Siqing Wei, Cristian Vargas, and Olivia (Tiantian) Li, $630, to study how international graduate students socially construct their academic paths in Engineering Education

Jonathan Ying, $720, to compare intercultural learning and competence in a face-to-face course using an evolutionary, evidence-based approach versus a virtual experiential intercultural learning course  

Jaime Bauer Malandraki and Chenell Loudermill, $700, to assess the effectiveness of a grads training program to improve intercultural competence of graduate students

Elizabeth Karcher, $2160, to create intercultural assignments that embed intercultural learning pedagogies within an animal science context

Huai-Rhin Kim and Jungsun Kim, $1750, for a Systematic and Phenomenological Investigation of Intercultural Competency among Undergraduate Students at Purdue University

Sharon Li, $850, to develop and validate a scale for perceived immigrant contribution

Megan Sapp Nelson, $1180, to introduce Full Professors to mentoring and intersectional, cross-cultural communication education 

Pamela Sari, $2000, for Intercultural Learning between Asian international and Asian American students within Asian-interest student organizations

Jieyu Shi, $1000, to enhance intercultural learning in hospitality and tourism students through internationalizing the curriculum

Nathan Swanson, $1400, to address the persistent under-representation of minoritized and first-generation students in study away programs

Phuong Tran, $500, to design a Multicultural Reader to foster intercultural competence in first year writing students

Jonathan Ying, $460, for Program evaluation of an intercultural learning intervention in a management course

Sweta Baniya, $2000, for a comparative analysis and assessment of intercultural communication of the disaster-affected digitally networked societies of Nepal and Puerto Rico

Bradley Dilger, Hadi Banat, Parva Panahi, Rebekah Sims and Phuong Tran, $4000, to link mainstream and international/L2 writing classes in order to support development of intercultural competence among all students, offering a socially just, effective model for fostering inclusion and community

Rebekah Johnson, $400, to assess the foundation of cultural competence within the School of Nursing faculty

Elizabeth Karcher, $1600, to identify best practices for promoting intercultural learning in short-term agricultural study abroad programs, specifically in the development of empathy

Colleen Kelly, $2000, to complete a three-article dissertation comprised of attempts to shed insight on the BEVI institutional signature phenomenon

Kristen Kirby, $1000, to demonstrate competencies within 80% of graduating senior students and faculty that impact patient care within the six constructs articulated by the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric by May 2022(student) and 2021 (faculty)

Tatjana Babic Williams, $1300, to integrate a more intercultural approach into the curriculum of the Italian language program in the School of Languages and Cultures

Bradley Dilger, Hadi Banat, Parva Panahi, Rebekah Sims and Phuong Tran, $2000, for pairing native and non-native English-speaker first-year writing classes to determine how writing curricula and pedagogy influence the development of undergraduate students' intercultural competence

Louis Hickman, $2000, for the investigation of the relationship between beliefs about cultural controllability and intercultural competence development through a lab-based experiment with pre- and post-testing using the Cultural Controllability Scale

Yeling Jiang, $500, to understand Asian students' behaviors in US culture based on a virtual reality simulation

Nastasha Johnson, $2000, for a three-part intercultural intervention plan for Purdue Libraries faculty and staff that combines formative assessments and development workshops with reflective assignments to increase the intercultural competence of participants

Vasundhara Kaul, $1400, to understand the ways in which transgender people (called 'third gender') in Southern India cope with violence in their lives

Lata Krishnan, $1000, to develop a new Speech, Language and Hearing study abroad opportunity with a service-learning component

Kyongson Park, $500, to examine the relationship between academic, social, and linguistic integration of international students on campus from a process-oriented perspective

Heidi Parker and Margaret Hegwood, $2000, for the intentional development of global and intercultural competence in students enrolled in GEP 200: Research and Design for the Global Engineering Grand Challenges

Ronald Smith, Myron McClure and Robert Stwalley, $1500, to provide an effective way for students to become aware of the importance of intercultural competence and stakeholder diversity and inclusion throughout the design process of the Agricultural & Biological Engineering capstone project

Hadi Banat, Parva Panahi, Rebekah Sims, & Phuong Tran, $2000, for a research study of intercultural competency development in First Year Writing courses

Xueting Dou, $500, for a conceptual framework for the development of intercultural sensitivity through community-based cultural tourism

Louis Hickman, $500, for a new theoretically based approach to intercultural learning and assessment

Horane Holgate, $2000, for the cultivation of classroom environments that facilitate academic achievement, motivation and development of intercultural attitudes, skills and knowledge using data from instructors and their students

Elizabeth Karcher, $500, for creating collaborative video blogs with students studying abroad

Vicki Kennell, $2000, for the evaluation of the intercultural training of writing tutors in comparison to a control group who received no intercultural intervention

Anne Lucietto, $500, for the comparison of IDI data, pre-study abroad, between Purdue STEM students and others found in referenced studies, in which STEM students fell into more ethnocentric levels of intercultural competence.

Monica Miller, $2000, for a project integrating and assessing self-awareness interventions in the pharmacy curriculum

Heidi Parker, $2000, for a study abroad research project which incorporates the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and the Global Competence Certificate (GCC) into the curriculum. 

Darryl Reano, $500, for GeoConnections and Place-Based Education at Heritage University: Preliminary analysis and results from an introductory environmental science course