Elkins Professorship Awardees

FY 18

Award to Coppin State University to continue supporting the work of Dr. Kavita Hegde, Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, who will conduct complex ophthalmological research, create community awareness regarding common causes of vision impairment and blindness, and contribute to the ongoing research being conducted to prevent and treat such diseases. ($50,000)

Award to Towson University to support the work of Dr. Katherine Holman, Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education, who will develop a Towson University Immersion Training Classroom and Family Support Program (in partnership with the Baltimore County Infants and Toddlers Program) that will serve infants and toddlers with disabilities and function as a training program for TU students in the College of Education. ($40,000)

Award to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science to support the work of Dr. Rosemary Jagus, Professor at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, who will broaden a minority summer internship program within the Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, which she directs in collaboration with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. ($60,000)

Elkins Academic Transformation Professorship FY 18

Award to Coppin State University to support the work of Dr. Katherine Cameron who will continue working with USMO and institutional partners to scale the Maryland Open Source Textbooks initiative as part of the 2017 Textbook Costs Savings Act (passed by the Maryland General Assembly), specifically to craft a more rigorous evaluation of learning outcomes associated with Open Educational Resources (OER). (Total of $40,000 for Dr. Cameron and OER mini-grants.)