Faculty Travel Reports 
Each year, the Center for International Education awards competitive grants for faculty international development activities from funds provided by the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Marco Dorfsman and Lori Hopkins, Associate Professors of Spanish - Brazil
"Professors Marco Dorfsman and Lori Hopkins organized a three-day seminar on "Equality and Imaginary Identity in Contemporary Latin American Literature"...as part of the Latin American Studies Association 28th International Congress in Rio de Janeiro in June 2009...." More >>
Martin McKinsey, Associate Professor of English - Scotland
"This past July, with the help of a CIE travel grant, I attended the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL) in Glasgow, Scotland..." More >>
Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Assistant Professor of Composition Studies - England
"With the assistance of a travel grant from the Center for International Education at UNH, I was able to attend and present my research at the 2009 Writing Development Conference at the University of London..." More >>
Wheeler Ruml, Assistant Professor of Computer Science - Ireland
"As part of the research for his senior honors thesis, rising UNH senior Kevin Rose spent the summer of 2009 on a UNH International Research Opportunities Program (IROP) grant at one of the foremost labs for discrete optimization in the world, the Cork Constraint Computation Centre in Ireland (also known as 4C). Thanks in part to a Faculty International Development Grant from the UNH Center for International Education, I was able to travel to 4C to spend the first week of Kevin's IROP with him..." More >>
Judy Sharkey, Associate Professor of Education - Colombia
"With funding from the CIE and the Center for Humanities, I traveled to Colombia this summer to begin an international collaboration with Dr. Amparo Clavijo-Olarte at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (UDFJC) in Bogotá, Colombia..." More >>
William Kempster, Associate Professor of Music - Czech Republic
"UNH choirs shine in prestigious European competition..." More >>
Dora Chen, Assistant Professor of Family Studies and
Leslie Couse, Associate Professor of Education - China
"...On this trip, we collected data in six classrooms across three preschools in Beijing and visited an international school and three other preschools in Hohhot (Inner Mongolia), all serving children from various socioeconomic backgrounds..." More >>
Nadine Bérenguier, Associate Professor of French - France
"I am very grateful to have received a CIE grant to help fund the trip that took me to France for a sabbatical during the academic year 2008/09..." More >>
Ahmad Etebari, Professor and Chair of Accounting and Finance - New Zealand
"On sabbatical leave from UNH, I spent the spring semester of 2009 at Canterbury University (UC) in Christchurch, New Zealand..." More >>
Lynette Hamlin, Associate Professor and Chair, Nursing - Mexico
"The nursing program has launched an exciting new program this semester. It is NURS 794/894: Special Topics: Cross-Cultural Nursing in Mexico..." More >>
Sarah Stitzlein, Assistant Professor of Education - Canada
"Despite a steady cold wind and a snow shower, I welcomed spring in Montreal, Canada, while attending the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Conference..." More >>