Career Development Awards are designed to help faculty increase their exposure to colleagues at other institutions who can be collaborators and role models while introducing outside scholars to faculty at Drexel. Social networks are increasingly important and funding agencies are increasingly interested in projects that demonstrate multi-investigator, interdisciplinary endeavors. Building such a team, and developing a history of working together, can be invaluable for junior faculty or mid-career faculty moving in a more collaborative direction or beginning a new research area. This program provides funding for Drexel faculty to develop networks, nationally or internationally, with colleagues whose work complements activities at Drexel. For more information please visit the Career Development Awards Overview page.

The awardees for Academic Year 2012-2013 are:

• Paul Block, Ph.D., P.E.
  Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
  "Predicting Change: Elucidating Near-Term Climate Change Information to Guide Water Resources Decisions and Foster Sustainability"
• George Ciccariello-Maher, Ph.D.
  Department of History and Politics
  "Thinking Globally: A Colloquium in Comparative Political Theory"
• Linda Kim, Ph.D.
  Department of Art and Art History
  "Polychromy: Sculpture’s True Complexion"
• Daniel Marenda, Ph.D.
  Department of Biology
  "The First International Mini-Symposium on CHARGE Syndrome"
• Alison Ventura, Ph.D.
  Department of Nutrition Sciences
  "Cognitive Deficits Induced by Iron Deficiency: A Novel Predictor of Food Neophobia in Infants and Toddlers?"
• Jichen Zhu, Ph.D.
  Department of Cinema & Television
  "Envisioning the Future of Computer Game Design"