Professional Activities

In June, Nick Germana, History, and Heather Gilligan, Music, co-coordinated the first Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor (URCE) Summer Institute, which involved ten faculty from seven different departments in Arts and Humanities. Faculty worked together with institute facilitators to develop specific ideas about how URCE can be more fully incorporated into the curriculum of the programs in which they teach. Faculty participants were Mark Long, Bill Stroup, Karen Honeycutt, Kirsti Sandy, Allyson Mount, Lynn Richardson, Jonathan Schwartz, and Patricia Pedroza. Jenny Shanahan, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Bridgewater State University, was a guest speaker for two days of the Institute.