Congratulations to these professors! These grants were made possible through alumni gifts to the Alumni Association via the Spark Voluntary Subscription Drive. [Grant criteria and application process.]
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Roy Anker ($700) Cannes Film Festival 2011 Anker's grant will provide lodging and meals at the Cannes Film Festival for film study. particularly of filmmaker Terrence Malick's work. |
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Marilyn Bierling ($3000) The Cuban Immigrant Experience within the Christian Reformed Church Bierling will travel to Miami and Cuba for interviews related to the history of Cuban refugees in the Christian Reformed Church. |
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Kelly Clark ($3,500) Abraham's Children: Documentary Clark's grant expenses will pay for alumnus Geert Heetebrij to do production and editing on a documentary about religious tolerance among Muslims, Christians and Jews. |
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez ($4,875) The Forgotten Women's Bible These funds will be used for travel to England to research historical writings in several libraries there along with some funds for a student researcher salary. |
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Daniel Garcia ($4,309) New Worlds New Stories: Producing the Short Film in Peru This grant provides an alumnus filmmaker's salary and two Peruvian talent salaries for production of a narrative film in Peru as part of a Calvin Interim trip. |
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Peggy Goetz ($700) Merging the Medical and Social Models of Disability: Lessons from Deaf Culture and Audiology This grant provides for travel expenses for a McGregor student researcher to participate in interviews with Prof. Goetz at Galludet University in Washington, D.C. |
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Jo Kuyvenhoven ($3,492) Tertiary Teachers, Research and Curriculum Development for More Effective School Teachers in Primary Classrooms This grant allows Kuyvenhoven to host a conference for The Association of Language and Literacy Educators–Sierra Leone on the teaching of reading in Sierra Leone. |
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Joel Navarro ($2,400) SAMBA IV: Songs from a Distant Shore Navarro's funds will be used for student salary to encode hymns and a few publishing costs for producing a prototype hymnal of Filipino hymns translated into English. |
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Dave Warners ($2,000) Reconciliation Ecology and Plaster Creek This grant supplies plant materials for a rain garden to be planted as part of a conference for churches and other community partners to learn about the Plaster Creek watershed restoration project. |
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