Miami University

Hampton awards fund international initiatives

A total of $31,310 has been awarded to faculty from the Philip and Elaina Hampton Fund for Faculty International Initiatives.

Fall competition awardees, their projects and the amounts of their awards follow:

James A. Dunlevy (economics), "Conference on Institutions in Transition (Slovenia)," $1,680;

Thomas W. Kopp (teacher education) and C. Lee Harrington (sociology, gerontology and anthropology), "The Norwegian Folk High School: A Cultural Investment in Adolescent Development," $5,700;

Jonathan Levy (geology), "Groundwater Contamination in Nepal: A Regional Comparison and Assessment of Controlling Site Characteristics," $3,100;

Yihong Pan (history), "Research for a Monograph on Chinese Women in the Japanese Aggression and the War of Resistance Against Japan (1931-1945)," $2,130;

Peter N. Pedroni (French and Italian), "Translation into English of the Italian Novel, Neyla, by the African-Italian Writer Kossi Komla-Ebri (Italy)," $3,700;

Patricia Reynaud (French and Italian), "Interviews and Participatory Observations From a Pilgrimage to Bombay, India," $4,500;

Sree Subedi (sociology, gerontology and anthropology), "The Epidemology of Mental Disorder in Kathmandu, Nepal," $6,500;

Aimin Wang (educational psychology), "Validating a Measuring Instrument to Study Chinese Student Perception of Good College Teaching and Comparing to Those of Americans."

Date Published: 12/14/2000
Volume: 20   Number: 19