Faculty Incentive Awards
Each year, faculty are invited to apply for one of the Faculty Incentive Awards.
2026-2027 Award winners
Congratulations to all recipients of the 2026-2027 Faculty Incentive Awards!
New Course and Program Development Award
Kebra Ward for her project, “Physics of the Invisible World: A New Conceptual Physics Course for General Education and Radiation Technology Students”
creative civic learning and engagement Award
Nicole Porther for her project, “Mapping Health: Using Public Health Data to Advance Health Equity at MCLA and in North Adams ”
Research Award for Tenure-track faculty
Yavuz Ceylan for his project, “Ligand-Modified Mn(II) Complexes for the Oxidation of Thymol and Carvacrol: Experimental Evaluation and DFT-Supported Mechanistic Insights”
Research Award for Tenured Faculty
Anne Goodwin for her project, “Community Food Access”
Research Award for tenured faculty
Mariana Bolivar for her project, “Becoming Cihuateteotl: Soul Retrieval as Decolonial Praxis”
Research award for tenured faculty
Mohamad Junaid for his project, “The Corporeal Humanity of Kashmiri Militant: Body/Image/Song”
sabbatical research award
Clio Stearns for her project, “Teaching Under the Influence: Teacher Perspectives on the Impact of Teacher Social Media on Classroom Design and Instruction”
Sabbatical Research award
J. Antonio Templanza for his project, “Great Idea: Literature, Science, and the Question Concerning Reality in Early Modern England”
sabbatical research award
Jenna Sciuto for her project, “Northern Spaces and the Edges of the Self”
one three-credit research apr for spring 2027
Melanie Mowinski for her project, “Wilderness Mindset: An Artistic Legacy of Becoming”