Eleven faculty, representing four schools plus the College of Arts and Sciences, comprise the newest class of Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship, a yearlong program that seeks to strengthen service-learning opportunities at UAB.
Each one in this academically diverse group of educators will develop a new service-learning course or redesign an existing one during the fellowship year and then receive a grant to help develop it:
- Amy Badham, instructor, Sparkman Center for Global Health, School of Public Health
- Cathleen Cummings, Ph.D., associate professor of art and art history, College of Arts and Sciences
- Annetta Dolowitz, instructor, Management, Information Systems & Quantitative Methods, Collat School of Business
- John Thomas Maddox, Ph.D., assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures, College of Arts and Sciences
- Gregory Myers, information systems specialist, Office of the Dean, School of Engineering
- Jared Ragland, program coordinator, Art and Art History, College of Arts and Sciences
- Samiksha Raut, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Anamaria Santiago, instructor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
- Sallie Shipman, Ed.D., instructor, Family, Community and Health Systems, School of Nursing
- Stephanie Yates, Ph.D., associate professor of accounting and finance, Collat School of Business
- Jennifer Young, assistant professor of English, College of Arts and Sciences.
The program, directed by the Office of Service Learning, is open to all faculty involved in undergraduate teaching from any department on campus.
Applications will open for the 2016-17 year in March 2016.
