Committee for Teaching & Scholarly Development

The Committee for Teaching and Scholarly Development (CTSD) solicits and reviews proposals for a number of competitive faculty development programs administered by CAS. These include applications for summer research stipends, course development stipends, and course release awards. The Committee also reviews faculty requests for funding to employ research assistants through the Faculty Research Assistant Program (FRAP) and the summer FRAP (SFRAP) programs.

Six tenured or tenure-track members of the CAS faculty are appointed by the Dean for two-year terms, with two members representing each division; an appointment may be renewed a second term. A CAS associate dean, designated by the Dean, serves as convener (non-voting), and manages proposal submission, review, and communication regarding funding decisions.

During the term of service, committee members are not eligible to apply for awards that involve direct funding or release time to the faculty member. All committee recommendations are advisory to the dean of CAS.

Committee for Teaching and Scholarly Development Members

Name Department
Rosalynn Vasquez   ADPR 
Susan Nichter Art & Design
Sarah Tang Economics
Celeste Peterson Biology
Sheldon Joyner Math & Computer Science 
Peter Jeffreys
English
 

Teaching and Scholarly Development Award Recipients 2026-2027

Course Release Awards
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch PSLS
Vincent Mastantuno Economics
Summer Research and Creative Work Awards
Hector Linares Global Humanities
Christos Makriyannis Economics
Sandra M. Correa-Garhwal Biology
Wesley R. Barnhart Psychology
Youpei Yan Economics
Sarah Tang Economics
Hannah Hudson English
Leilane Menezes Rodrigues Communication, Journalism, and Media
Melanie Berkmen Biochemistry, Chemistry, Environment & Physics
Lauren Lynch Biochemistry, Chemistry, Environment & Physics
Jennifer Martinez Psychology
Audrey Goldstein Art and Design
Faculty Research Assistant (FRAP) Awards
Hannah Hudson
Jeremy Levine
Vincent Mastantuno
Iani Moreno
Susan Nichter
Summer Faculty Research Assistant (SFRAP) Awards
Melanie Berkmen
Sandra Correa-Garhwal
Jennifer Garfield-Abrams
Lauren Lynch
 
Jennifer Martinez
Maha Mian
Celeste Peterson
Sarah Tang