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February 14, 2013
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UMD Professors Receive Imagine Fund Awards

DULUTH, MN – UMD professors from a variety of disciplines are recipients of the University of Minnesota's 2013 Imagine Fund Annual Award. The fund supports research in the arts, design, and the humanities. This year, 130 awards were given throughout the U of M system.

The UMD professors and the titles of their research are as follows:

Alison Aune, professor, Department of Art and Design, Minnesota-Nordic Pattern Painting: Inspirations from Norway and Sweden

David Beard, associate professor, Department of Writing Studies, Archival Research into "The Uses of Argument"

Ann Bergeron, professor, Department of Theatre, Taiko Drumming in Japan: Connecting to My Heritage

Evan Brier, associate professor, Department of English, Media Conglomerates and the American Novel, 1980-1999

Paul Cannan, associate professor, Department of English, Shakespeare for Everyone: The Publication and Reception of Shakespeare's Works, 1790–1902

Ryan Frane, associate professor, Department of Music, Recording of Original Compositions for Jazz Trio

Rachel Inselman, associate professor, Department of Music, International Congress of Voice Teachers Convention

Njoki M. Kamau, associate professor, Department of Women's Studies, The Paradox of Water Development in Kenya

Eugene Koshinski, assistant professor, Department of Music, Preserving the Xylophone Ragtime Tradition

Dana Lindaman, assistant professor, Department of Foreign Language and Lit, Paris by Park: Les Jardins de Paris

Tracy Lipke-Perry, assistant professor, Department of Music, John Luther Adams Residency: The Light That Fills the World

Gideon Mailer, assistant professor, Department of History, The Colonial American Borderlands and Anglo-Scottish Federal Thought

Ronald Marchese, professor, Department of Humanities and Classics, Armenian Identity and Religious Culture

Steven Matthews, associate professor, Department of History, The Birth of Christmas: an Historical Inquiry

Calland Metts, instructor, Department of Music, Best Practices in Arts-integrated Learning

Kathryn Milun, associate professor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Sustainability By Design: Solar Commons

Elias Mokole, instructor, Department of Music, Jardins de Paris: Music by Marc Berthomieu, Text by Daniel Schmitt

Ryuta Nakajima, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, The Origin of Image Making: Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopods and Art Part.2

Chongwon Park, associate professor, Department of Writing Studies, Writing Instruments: Past through Present

Alexis Pogorelskin, associate professor, Department of History, Biography of Lev Borisovich Kamenev

Robert Repinski, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, Digital Imaging and Printmaking Applications

Joellyn Rock, assistant professor, Department of Art and Design, Digital Narrative Project: The Mysteries - Phase 2

Justin Rubin, professor, Department of Music, Cross-cultural communication and the interpretation of contemporary music composition techniques

Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, associate professor, Department of History, From the 1001 Arabian Nights to Safavid Iran: The Epistle of Husniya, a Slave-Girl Scholar

Eun-Kyung Suh, associate professor, Department of Art and Design, Diaspora experiences of Korean Adoptees in Textile

Tina Thielen-Gaffey, assistant professor, Department of Music, Musical Explorations in Sweden, Ireland and Texas

Kate Ufema, professor, Department of Theatre, The Turkish/American Musical Theatre Alliance

Mark Whitlock, professor, Department of Music, South American Wind Band Interactive Web Site Project

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