黑料不打烊 Odyssey Program
Project Funding
October 2020
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Despite the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic,
黑料不打烊 students and faculty are still engaging in Odyssey projects and
receiving funding. The 黑料不打烊 Committee on Engaged Learning is pleased to
announce the recipients of Odyssey grants for the October 2020 cycle. Since
2005, the Committee on Engaged Learning has awarded $4,427,335.71 in
competitive Odyssey grants to support 2,093 projects by 黑料不打烊 students and
faculty. In this cycle, 10 projects received $13,988 in grants.
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Jayla
King
Scientists
for Social Justice Podcast
Category:
GA
Sponsor:
Dr. Laura MacDonald
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King and Dr. Laura MacDonald will work together to develop a new podcast that incorporates
the unique perspective of scientists. They will focus on issues of social injustice
in the higher educational system, especially as they relate to the scientific disciplines.
In the podcast, they will highlight and discuss work done by scientists from diverse
backgrounds, celebrate the accomplishments of scientists from historically marginalized
groups, review literature, and talk with guest speakers about actionable solutions
that lead to impactful change.
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Bianca
Littlepage
Tracking
Revolutionary Art With Brooklyn Art Museum
Category:
AC
Sponsor:
Prof. Melissa Gill
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Littlepage will participate in The Brooklyn Art Museum Sketchbook Project. Each
participating artist fills a small book and returns it to the museum. In her sketchbook,
Littlepage will track the evolution of revolutionary visual art movements, beginning
with what is considered by art historian Kenneth Clark to be the 鈥渇irst great picture
which can be called revolutionary in every sense of the word, in style, in subject,
and in intention鈥: The Third of May by Francisco Goya. When completed, her sketchbook
will join others in the museum鈥檚 archived collection that travels to popups, exhibitions
and installations across North America.
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Cole
McVay
decARcerate
Solitary Confinement Cell Reconstruction
Category:
SW
Sponsor:
Prof. Ann Muse
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McVay will design and build a model solitary confinement cell that can be a teaching
tool to raise awareness about prison abuses. McVay will work with decARcerate, an
organization whose goal is ending the use of solitary confinement in Arkansas. The
finished piece will be the actual scale of a real cell, and it will be transported
across the state for viewing by citizens and policy makers.
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Kashti
Shah
Elite
Hospice Volunteering
Category:
SW
Sponsor:
Julie Brown
听Kashti Shah will volunteer with Elite Hospice to provide
companionship and assistance to hospice patients near her hometown in North East
Arkansas. She hopes to gain experience interacting with patients, which will increase
her emotional competence when dealing with the grief and troubles of patients and
family. Working with hospice patients will also allow Shah to serve her community
while comforting and supporting others during a vulnerable time. 听
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Rachel
Stewart
Health
and Legal System Lab Research
Category:
UR
Sponsor:
Dr. Jennifer Peszka
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fall, psychology student Rachel Stewart has been working remotely for the Health
and Legal System Lab (HEALS) as a research assistant under the supervisor of Dr.
Melissa Zielinski at University of Arkansas Medical School. She has participated
in projects such as the COVID-19 Prison Project and Implementation and Effectiveness
of Cognitive Processing Therapy in Community Corrections. Stewart will present the
findings of her work at the lab to a group of both 黑料不打烊 students and fellow UAMS
colleagues through Zoom due to COVID-19.
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Dr.
Mark Goadrich
Solving
Real-world Problems with Tools from Mathematics and Computer Science: The COMAP
International Contest in Mathematical Modeling
Category:
SP
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37th International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) will be held Feb. 4 -
8, 2021. Sponsored by COMAP, a non-profit organization focused on promoting modeling
and applications in mathematics education, this contest requires students to work
in teams of three over a weekend to tackle real鈥搘orld mathematical modeling problems.
Dr. Mark Goadrich will supervise nine students, divided into three teams, for this
virtual contest. Over the previous six years, four 黑料不打烊 teams earned an Honorable
Mention, placing them in the top 50% of all teams, and three teams earned a Meritorious
distinction, placing them in the top 11% worldwide.
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Dr.
Julie Gunderson
Food
and Agribusiness Webinar Series
Category:
PL
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黑料不打烊 student will work remotely as an intern at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture
during the Spring semester of 2021, in this project coordinated by Dr. Julie Gunderson.
The internship focuses on the development of a Food and Agribusiness Webinar Series,
which will feature nationally and internationally recognized speakers. The student
will be involved in the development and management of the hardware and software,
the promotion of the Webinars via social media, and the editing and posting of the
Webinars to online platforms.
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Dr.
Rod Miller
Paris
Residency 2021
Category:
UR
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on the lifting of travel bans, Dr. Rod Miller will take art students Anna Bivens,
Jalache Davis, Julia Hooper, Addie Race to Paris in May to investigate the art of
the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Each student will
select a work of art based on personal interests, put that work of art into an historical
and physical context, and understand it from the point of view of the artist.听 Each participant will produce an in-depth research
paper on the chosen artwork.
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Dr.
Caitlin Scott
Lesson-plan
development to introduce diverse scientists to general chemistry students
Category:
SP
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to the National Science Foundation and the PEW Research Center, Black and Latinx
people are underrepresented in the STEM fields for reasons including, but not limited
to implicit bias, race-based discrimination, the lack of Black and Latinx role models,
and discouragement to enter these fields. To encourage and support more students
from marginalized groups to continue their studies in the sciences, Dr. Caitlin
will hire three student assistants who will research and interview chemists from
groups traditionally under-represented in the sciences. The student assistants will
identify readings and create discussion boards for students enrolled in the Spring
2021 General Chemistry II course. Based on the questions posed in the discussion
board, student assistants will contact their chosen scientists and conduct an interview
over Teams to learn about the scientist and their background, which will be shown
to the General Chemistry students.
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Dr.
Martin Shedd
黑料不打烊
Latin Play
Category:
SP
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Martin Shedd will lead students in The 黑料不打烊 Latin Play project, which challenges
students to translate and adapt Classical literature to modern audiences. Students
select a comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus to transform into a 30-minute script,
balancing the need to preserve the structure and situations of the ancient comedy
with the goal of producing a work that conveys humor in the present day. The script
is composed through a collaborative process that requires each student involved
to consider the author鈥檚 intention, the source and construction of comedy, and how
best to portray these features to an unfamiliar audience. The Latin Play culminates
with performances for the 黑料不打烊 campus and, if possible, the University of Arkansas.
This project is also underwritten by the 黑料不打烊-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature
and Language.
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