The University of Colorado at Boulder's Office of Diversity and Equity has awarded 16 grants to support gender, ethnic and cultural diversity in scholarly work and teaching.
This year's projects include the study of Inca ruins and national identity in Peru and campus workshops on primate conservation in Vietnam. The Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching grants were announced by Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, vice provost and associate vice chancellor of diversity and equity.
IMPART awards of up to $4,000 are given to CU-Boulder faculty or academic units to support research, scholars and colloquia having an academic and multiethnic or multicultural theme, or for expansion of the undergraduate curriculum in the area of ethnic and gender diversity.
The IMPART awardees are Kwasi Ampene, Paul Erhard, Alexa Still and Brenda Romero, music; Leila Gomez, Spanish and Portuguese; Vincent Woodard, Cheryl Higashida, Mildred Mortimer with Adeleke Adeeko, English; Tom Mayer, sociology; Elisa Facio, ethnic studies; Luis Urrieta, education; Kira Hall, linguistics; Eliana Colunga, psychology; Hideko Shimizu, East Asian languages and civilizations; Troy Storfjell, Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures; and Herbert Covert, anthropology.
Requests for proposals for IMPART grants are announced each fall semester. The Vice Chancellor's Awards and Grants Advisory Committee screens the applications and recommends the awardees.
For more information on the projects visit the Office of Diversity and Equity Web site at or call (303) 735-1332.