Winter 2010-2011 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.

Winter 2010-2011 Recipients

Zachary Stephen Brooks, Ph.D. Student, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
American Association of Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chicago IL
"Is Media Literacy Passive or Active?"

Katherine Burns, Ph.D. Student, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
American Association of Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chicago, IL
"Discourse Marker Use in Past Event Narratives: The Effect of Study Abroad"
David R. Andrew and Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Department of Neuroscience, Univ. Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Hsin-I Chen, Ph.D. Student, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching GIDP
American Association of Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chicago IL
"Use of Grammatical Metaphor at Advanced Levels of College Composition: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective"

Gregory J. Heden, MS Student, Physiological Sciences GIDP
Orthopaedic Research Society’s Annual 2011 Conference, Long Beach CA
An Implantable “Sensate” Medial Condyle Surface Replacement Allows Shear and Axial Load Sensing

Jennifer Watson, Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering GIDP
SPIE Photonics West Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA
"Multi-modality optical imaging of ovarian cancer in post-menopausal mouse model"
Jennifer M. Watson, Photini Faith Rice, David Bentley, Samuel Marion, Molly Brewer, Patricia Hoyer, Jennifer K. Barton

Methajit Methawasin, Ph.D. Student, Physiological Sciences GIDP
2011 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD
"MOUSE INTACT AND SKINNED CARDIAC MYOCYTE MECHANICS: CROSSBRIDGE AND TITIN-BASED STRESS IN UNACTIVATED CELLS"
Methajit Methawasin1, Nicholas M.P. King1, Joshua Nedrud1, Charles S. Chung1, Michiel Helmes2, Henk L. Granzier1. 1University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom