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.
Michelle Nicole Boyer, Ph.D. Student, American Indian Studies GIDP
SWPCA Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
"Contemporary Literatures and Representations of Education"
Jordan Carbary, Ph. D. Student, Biomedical Engineering GIDP
SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Francisco, California
"Detection of Colorectal Cancer using NIR Quantum Dots as Contrast Agents in a Mouse Model"
Authors: Jordan L. Carbary, Jennifer Barton, Urs Utzinger
Kristin Helland, Ph. D. Candidate, Second Language Acquisition & Teaching
American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon
"'Viva Young': Applying Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to a Bilingual Television Commercial"
Luis Vila-Henninger, Ph.D. Student, Cognitive Science
Pacific Sociological Association's Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon
"Beyond Toolkit and Dual-Process: A Hybrid Model of Culture in Action"