AUR Adjunct Faculty Receive Professional Development Awards
Professors Pollon, Clough-Marinaro, Marchetti and Allen Receive Funding

19 November 2009 - The AUR Faculty Development Committee announced today that the University would provide support for professional development activities to four of its adjunct faculty. Through this competition AUR continues to demonstrate its appreciation of and commitment to its excellent adjunct faculty. The award winners and their projects are:

Professor David Pollon (Business Studies) received funds to attend the Ph.D. Seminar on Risk Management at the International School of Management in Paris as part of his Ph.D. studies there.

Professor Raffaele Marchetti (International Relations) will participate in the workshop Global Public Policy: Investigations at the Nexus of Globalization and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Professor Isabella Clough-Marinaro will present her paper “Life on the Run: Biopolitics and the Roma in Italy” at the international conference on Romani Mobilities in Europe at the University of Oxford.

Professor Timothy Allen (Arts and Humanities) will attend a three-week apprenticeship with the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway.

AUR full-time faculty also benefit from a program of faculty development that includes funding for conference and workshop attendance, faculty development exercises on topics related to pedagogy offered on campus through the Teaching and Learning Center, and supported sabbatical leave for scholarly, professional and creative activity.