Indiana University East fourth annual Faculty Scholarship Celebration is a day to showcase scholarly and creative achievements.

As part of the celebration, IU East faculty research and teaching presentations are available to watch at iue.edu/faculty-scholarship.

The celebration features IU East faculty who have been engaged in research, teaching exploration, or creative activity over the past year through sabbaticals, fellowships, grants and other funding opportunities.

The celebration will be available for faculty, staff and students to attend at 4 p.m. today (February 3) on IU East Facebook Live at iue.edu/facebook.

TJ Rivard, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, organizes the Faculty Scholarship Celebration.

“At the heart of research and creative activity is the passion that drives many faculty and the reason that they became college professors in the first place,” Rivard said. “The link to teaching is undeniable because often it is in the classroom where that passion was ignited in the first place, and most faculty I know hope that they can ignite a similar passion in  their students.”

Jean Harper, professor of English, serves on the committee for the Faculty Scholarship Celebration.

“As part of the FSC committee, I am always impressed by the breadth and depth of research and creative works our faculty achieve. Sharing these with our IU East campus and the broader community allows a glimpse into the range of work our faculty do,” Harper said.

By highlighting faculty research and creative activity, students are encouraged in their own areas of study.

“Research and creative activity enhance the academic experience for both faculty and students; knowing that your professor is actively at work on a research project, or a creative work, and being able to see how that happens so often inspires students to pursue their own passions and dreams,” Harper said.

Daron Olson, associate professor of European and world history, and Rosalie Aldrich, John and Corinne Graf Professor received the Distinguished Research/Creative Activity Award recognition of distinguished research and/or creative work by a full-time faculty member over a sustained period of time (10 years or more). Olson received the award in 2021 and Aldrich in 2020.

During the celebration Olson and Aldrich will provide the introduction and farewell remarks.

Twelve faculty are presenting for this year’s virtual celebration.

Faculty Scholarship Celebration Presenters are:

• Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, professor of English, “It’s a Boy’s Life: What Diaries Tell Us About Boys’ Games and Public Spaces”
• Sagara Dewasurendra, assistant professor of mathematics, “Non-homogeneous Risk Measures and Optimal Bank Leverage”
• Nathan Froebe, visiting assistant professor of music, “New Music for Flute Duo + Piano”
• Ramesh Karki, assistant professor of mathematics, “Solutions of semi-linear pseudo-differential equations”
• Carrie Longley, associate professor of fine arts, “Worm’s Eye View”
• Deborah Miller, assistant professor of psychology, “Attitudes Toward Nonbinary Gender Identity”
• Andrea Quenette, associate professor of communication studies, “Women of Flint: Analyzing news depictions of women during the Flint water crisis”
• Jessica Raposo, associate professor of music, “The Soprano-Flute Collaborations of Nellie Melba: Charting North America”
• Jaynne Rivas, assistant professor of management, “Academic Service Learning to Navigate Uncertain Times”
• Neil Sabine, professor of biology, “Perceptions and Performance of Students in a Required No-lecture Biology Course”
• Jill Schweitzer, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry, “ARF3 and Cell Polarity in Budding Yeast”
• Young Hwan You, associate professor of mathematics, “A solution to a fractional order semilinear equation using variational method”