Fall 2011 Recipients

The Herbert E. Carter Travel Award Program was established in honor of Dr. Herbert E. Carter, founding director of the GIDPs and is representative of his spirit and passion for interdisciplinary scholarship and research in higher education. The award provides up to $600 per year to GIDP students at The University of Arizona for domestic or international travel. Competition for these funds was very high and we    received many innovative abstracts. The applications and abstracts reviewed by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Advisory Council (GIDPAC) from stellar GIDP students make a strong statement to the significance of interdisciplinary scholarship and research at The University of Arizona.

Fall 2011 Recipients

    
Karen Barto-Sisamout, Ph.D. Candidate, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA
"Intonation of Mandarin Speakers in their English as a Foreign Language"

Katherine Brooks, Ph.D. Student, American Indian Studies GIDP
American Anthropological Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Stylistic and Symbolic Changes in Women’s Beaded Collars among Lower Colorado Yuman Societies"

Patricia D. Navarro, Ph.D. Student, Entomology & Insect Science GIDP
Entomology Society of America 59th Annual Meeting, Reno, NV
"Interaction between the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis sonorensis and the soilborne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp asparagi: effects on two different insect hosts"
Patricia D. Navarro, Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 
S. Patricia Stock , Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Katherine O'Donnell Christofferson, Ph.D. Student, Second Language Acquisition &Teaching GIDP
Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Denver, CO
"Empowering Students to Speak: Evidence from Spanish Immersion Classrooms"

Rousel A. Orosco, Ph.D. Student, Entomology & Insect Science GIDP
Entomology Society of America 59th Annual Meeting, Reno, NV
"Characterization of secondary metabolites from an Arizona native entomopathogenic bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens sonorensis, and their use in biological control"
Rousel A Orozco, Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
S. Patricia Stock, Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Rebecca Stockbridge, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics GIDP
INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC
“Reducing bias in the assessment of solution quality for stochastic programs”

Jose Aldemar Alvarez Valencia, Ph.D. Student, Second Language Acquisition & Training GIDP
Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Denver, CO
"Practical Web 2.0 Tools for the Language Classroom"

Gabriella Wolff, Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience GIDP
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC
"Comparative morphology and immunoreactivity in the hemiellipsoid body of the land hermit crab, Coenobita clypeatus reveals homology with the insect mushroom body"
*G. H. WOLFF, S. M. BROWN, N. J. STRAUSFELD;
Dept. of Neurosci., The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Steven R. Woods, Ph.D. Student, Arid Lands Resource Sciences GIDP
Tropentag Annual Meeting, Bonn, Germany
“'Development on the margin' Marginal Dryland Agriculture in Jordan: Forage Banking for Pastoralists"
Steven R. Woods1, Raed Al Tabini2, Hani Saoub3, Timothy Finan4
1 University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, United States
2 Jordan Badia Research and Development Programme, Consultant,
3 University of Jordan, Horticulture and Crop Science,
4 University of Arizona, Anthropology, United States