DELTA Grants Recipients for 2020-2021 Announced

August 25, 2020 Staff

DELTA is pleased to announce this year’s recipients for new and continuing DELTA Grants. DELTA is awarding more than $250,000 to 29 recipients representing nine academic colleges, the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, and the Global Training Initiative.

DELTA is providing continued support to one Critical Path grant recipient from the 2019-2020 DELTA Grants cycle.

We look forward to collaborating with our faculty and campus partners to tackle instructional challenges with innovative solutions that promote the use of instructional technology and course design. DELTA staff members seek new ways to apply methods of instruction and innovation through DELTA Grants to achieve our goals of enhancing student success and creating a technology-rich learning environment at NC State.

This year’s grant types include Online and Distance Education, Exploratory, Faculty Fellows, Rapid Design, Blended Learning, and Critical Path.

Recipient (s)	Grant Type	Title	College	Department
Terri Billeisen	Online and Distance Education	Using 3-D Photos to Facilitate Insect Specimen Investigation and Identification	CALS	Entomology and Plant Pathology
Larry Blanton and Colin Keenan	Exploratory	Experiential Online Teaching Space: An Instructional Framework for Utilizing Mozilla Hubs	CALS	Plant and Microbial Biology
Marissa Herchler and Adam Fahrenholz	Exploratory	Interactive web-based laboratories for feed manufacturing	CALS	Prestage Family Dept. of Poultry Science
Kimberly Ange-van Heugten	Online and Distance Education	Establishing A New Vision for a Classic NC State Online Course: Principles of Animal Nutrition	CALS	Animal Science
Kimberly Allen and Angie Smith	Exploratory	Supporting the Wellbeing of Distance Eduction Students	CALS	Agricultural and Human Sciences & Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development
Julian Treme	Faculty Fellows	Faculty Fellows Grant	CALS	Agricultural and Resource Economics
Elaine Bohorquez	Faculty Fellows	Faculty Fellows Grant	CALS	Prestage Family Dept. of Poultry Science
Sarah Kirby and Jamie Alexander	Rapid Design	YFCS 540 Course Design	CALS	Agricultural and Human Sciences
Julia McKeown	Exploratory	Emerging Technologies: From Theory to Practice and Application	Education	Teacher Education and Learning Sciences
Peter Hessling	Online and Distance Education	Converting a Qualitative Methodology Course to an online format	Education	Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development
Michelle Bartlett	Faculty Fellows	Faculty Fellows Grant	Education	Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development
Angie Smith, Barry Olson, and Justine Hollingshead	Blended Learning	Training and Development: Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management, Course Offering and Training	Education	Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development
Anna Gibson	Blended Learning	“Keys to College”: A Hub for Introduction to Humanities and Social Sciences	CHASS	English
Christine Cranford	Faculty Fellows	Faculty Fellows Grant	CHASS	English
Mary Estrada	Rapid Design	Bite-sized Linguistics	CHASS	Foreign Languages and Literatures
Kyle Bunds and Jonathan Casper	Exploratory	Educating Sport Fans and Employees about Waste Contamination Through VR and AR	CNR	Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management
Steph Jeffries	Critical Path	Learning Applications for Dendrology	CNR	Forestry and Environmental Resources
Joseph Roise	Exploratory	Creating a 4D video: 360 degrees plus time	CNR	Forestry and Environmental Resources
Vaishnavi Thakar	Rapid Design	Teaching Geospatial Data Analysis in an Distance Education Format	CNR	Population Health and Pathobiology
Katherine Saul	Critical Path	Adaptive Learning Redesign of MAE208 Engineering Dynamics	ENG	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Lina Battestilli	Faculty Fellows	Faculty Fellows Grant	ENG	Computer Science
Meg Calkins	Online and Distance Education	Introduction to Sustainable Development course	Design	Landscape Architecture
Jesse Jur and Amanda Mills	Online and Distance Education	Development of a Online Distance Education Course on Reverse Engineering of Textile Products	Textiles	Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science
Erica Kosal	Critical Path	LSFY Majors & Career Exploration Modules to Help Students Find Their Right “Fit” Early in Their College Careers	Sciences	Biological Sciences
Zodiac Webster, Keith Warren, Keith Heyward, and Zachary Lewis	Online and Distance Education	Physics Online Revise and Transform (PORT)	Sciences	Physics
Melissa Srougi	Exploratory	Beyond Reality: Student-driven Virtual Laboratory Experiences in Molecular Biotechnology	VetMed	Molecular Biomedical Sciences
Elisabeth Brown	Critical Path (Continuing)	Calculus Corequisite Companion	Sciences	Mathematics

This post was originally published in DELTA News.