PNC Faculty Members Earn Summer Grants

WESTVILLE – Purdue University North Central faculty members have earned grants to pursue their research projects this summer.

Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grants were awarded to:

Jeffrey Shires, of Chesterton, assistant professor of communication, who will attend the ASCA Identities and Alterities Conference in the Netherlands.

Robin Scribailo, of Porter, professor of biology, to attend the Fourth International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophtes in Australia.

Patricia Buckler, of Valparaiso, associate professor of English, who will be attending the Murder and Mayhem in the Mare Nostrum: An International Conference in Italy.

Silvia Dapia, Michigan City, professor of foreign languages and literature, for attendance of the Instituto Internacional de Literature Iberoamericana (IILI) in France.

Silvia Lorente-Murphy, of Valparaiso, professor of Spanish, to attend the Instituto Internacional de Literature Iberoamericana (IILI) in France.

Faculty members who received Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty grants were:

Sheon-Young Kang, Michigan City, assistant professor of mathematics, for work on his research project, “Nystrom Clenshaw-Curtis Quadrature for the Wiener-Hopf Integral Equation and Applications.”

Alain Togbe, LaPorte, assistant professor of mathematics, to continue his research project, “A Parametric Family of Quartic Thue Equations Related With a Lecacheux-Washington Field.”

The faculty members awarded PNC Summer Faculty Grants were:

Shirley Comer, of Griffith, assistant professor of nursing, for her research project, “Addressing the Nursing Shortage: Reclaiming Qualified Registered Nurses.”

Victoria Barclay, of New Buffalo, Mich., assistant professor of social work, for the research project, “An Evaluation of Active Learning in the Introduction to Social Work Classroom.”

Jane Rose, of LaPorte, associate professor of English, for the research project, “The American Domestic Novel Redefined: The Ideological Influences of Ideal Womanhood, Domesticity, and Feminism, 1830-1860.”

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