CILMAR Seed Grant Program announces 2021 award recipients

Purdue’s Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR) has named the recipients of its 2021 seed grants.

The CILMAR Seed Grant Program supports faculty, staff and graduate students who wish to engage in the assessment of intercultural learning outcomes, conduct studies of intercultural competency development and/or generate new intercultural theoretical development but lack the resources to do so. Applicants may request seed grants up to $2,000 and are encouraged to seek commitments for matching funds from their unit leadership.

The 2021 recipients are:

* Tempitope Adeoye, Virginia Cabrera, Michael Lolkus, Daniella Castellanos Reyes and Marquetta Strait, $2,000, to evaluate the use of digital intercultural learning badges for College of Education teaching assistants.

* Casey Haney and Jennifer DeBoer, $300, to reconceptualize intercultural competency through a study of international students' development of cross-cultural skills and attitudes.

* Elizabeth Karcher and Paul Ebner, $2,000, to create intercultural learning opportunities in an animal science curriculum.

* Huai-Rhin Kim and Lori Czerwionka, $2,000, to study the impact of learning styles on intercultural learning outcomes.

* Christi Masters and Lata Krishnan, $2,000, to compare the results of group versus individual debriefs of the Intercultural Development Inventory.

* Jill Newton, JoAnn Phillion, Rose Mbewe, Bima Sapkota and Lili Zhou, $2,000, to investigate intercultural competence development through a virtual global social justice in education course.

* Jacob Stensberg, $2,000, to assess intercultural competence development through a music-centered intercultural curriculum.

* Marquetta Strait, $1,010, to assess Supplemental Instruction (SI) leaders' culturally responsive practices in non-traditional learning environments.

* Joe Tort, Kirsten Davis, Francisco Montalvo, Niall Peach, Bruno Staszkiewicz, Akash Patil and Ronika Kotian, $400, to explore engineering students' experiences and learning outcomes from participating in virtual team projects with international partners.

* Siqing Wei, Cristian Vargas and Olivia (Tiantian) Li, $630, to study how international graduate students socially construct their academic paths in Engineering Education.

* Jonathan Ying, $720, to compare intercultural learning and competence in a face-to-face course using an evolutionary, evidence-based approach versus a virtual experiential intercultural learning course.