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November 2009

Fall 2009 Whitney Travel Grant for Faculty Announced

The Independent Association of Framigham State Alumni is pleased to announce Professor Marc Cote as the fall 2009 Whitney Travel Grant Recipient.

Cote, chair of the art department, will travel to Poland during his spring 2010 sabbatical to work with the faculty of the Art Academy of Krakow where he will use traditional and experimental printmaking techniques on a series of artwork.  Cote will also travel to Germany to study at the Druckstelle Studio in Berlin.

As president of the Boston Printmakers, Cote will form an international committee to expand the organization and plan the North American Print Biennial.  Framingham State College will co-host this juried print exhibition during 2011 at the Danforth Museum of Art.

In addition, Cote will coordinate Professor Marcin Surzycka's visit to the U.S., during which Surzycka will demonstrate his experimental techniques in collograph printing to FSC student.  A student study tour to Central Europe, in which students will have the ability to work and exhibit in both Poland and Germany, is also being planned.
 
May 2009

IAFSA Announces Whitney Acadmeic Travel Grant Recipients

This spring, the Independent Association of Framingham State Alumni introduced an exciting new initiative in the form of a pilot program called the Whitney Academic Travel Grant.  We are happy to announce that six proposals were approved by the Executive Board in the total amount of $10,000 to the following:

Aline Davis of the Biology Department will travel to the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Conference in Michigan to present data to the scientific community that was collected by Framingham State students examining commercial milk for potential estrogenic compounds.

Thomas Grove of the English Department will travel to Korea to present a paper to the Society of Korean Oral Literature and to give an address at the Asiatic Research Center in Seoul on multi-culturalism in the United States.

Bernard Horn of the English Department will travel to Israel to present a paper to the Conference of the Association for Israeli Studies and to meet with scholars who are also immersed in Israeli literature and Biblical Studies.

Patricia Lynne of the English Department has written a paper on the pilot program she ran for first-year writing students that will be presented to the Council of Writing Program Administrators in Minnesota.  She is looking for peer feedback and suggestions to improve the program for next fall.

Abdul Momen of the Economics and Business Administration Department will present a paper and participate as a discussant on globalization at the World Congress of Political Science in Santiago, Chile.  The participants include distinguished professionals from large universities and organizations.

Leslie Starobin from the Communication Arts Department will travel to France and Israel to continue her field work and oral history interviews of displaced Jewish community members to complete her multi-year visual arts project entitled, The Last Address: Traces of Family and History in Memory and Montage to be exhibited at the Holocaust Museum in Houston and later published in book form.

February 2009

Alumni House, the Independent Association of Framingham State Alumni, announces the availability of the Whitney Academic Travel Grant. This two-year pilot program will provide funds to assist with faculty travel for purposes directly related to research, field work, and scholarly activities. Initially, the grant program is available to faculty members of Framingham State College with the possibility of later extension to a wider audience. Applicants may use the grant to cover planned expenses to visit off-campus locations and is intended to enhance the breadth and richness of faculty experience in order to ultimately benefit their students. As part of the grant application process, Alumni House has provided a convenient downloadable information sheet and an application form.

For more information, contact the office in Alumni House.


November 2007


The IAFSA Executive Board is pleased to announce the receipt of a $1.4 million gift from the estate of Adah Elizabeth (Betty) Whitney, a member of the class of 1935. This gift will enable the Association to continue its tradition of service, while working to increase its benevolent support for alumni and students of Framingham State College.

In keeping with the IAFSA mission of serving the financial needs of students and alumni, the Executive Board has decided to use a portion of this gift to honor the legacy of Betty Whitney. The Board will establish a grant program to provide funds to enable students, alumni, and faculty to pursue academic interests that require travel.


To find out more details about the bequest.