
Congratulations to the 2011 Travel Awardees!

ASMCUE Textbook Travel Award Winner Maire Sustacek
Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Minneapolis, Minn.
Early-Career Faculty Travel Awardees
- Jennifer Bess, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Fla.
- Tcherina Duncombe, Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth, Fla.
- Heather Miller, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.
- Samantha Parks, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
- Susan Rowland, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Faculty Enhancement Program Travel Awardees
- Greg Johansen, Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tenn.
- Barry Margulies, Towson University, Towson, Md.
- Caroline Telles, Southern University A and M College, Baton Rouge, La.
- Renee Wilkins, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss.
- Robert Wolff, South University, Columbia, Columbia, S.C.
ASMCUE/asm2012 Travel Assistance Program Travel Awardees
- Kai Hung, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Ill.
- Uchechi Ekwenye, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria, Umuahia, Abia
ASM-UNESCO Leadership Grant for International Educators
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Tatiana Ascencio, Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado, San Salvador, El Salvador
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Hamadi Boga, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
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Thomas Edison dela Cruz, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
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Zeynep Karahan, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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Gordana Mircevska, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
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Ciraj Ali Mohammed, Manipal University, Manipal, India
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Hilda Nyati, National University of Science and Technology Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
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Diana Vullo, Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento, Los Polvorines, Argentina
Travel Award Information
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ASMCUE Textbook Travel Award
The ASMCUE Textbook Travel Award is targeted to faculty members who have begun teaching undergraduate microbiology students within the past three years at an accredited U.S. college or university. Recipients may include postdoctoral scientists and/or early-career faculty members. Early-career faculty may include those persons who have taught in a related field of science but have moved to teaching microbiology. Applicants for this Award should apply for the Early-Career Travel Award Program listed below and one Award will come from this applicant pool.
Inaugural authors include Jeffrey Pommerville at Glendale Community College, Arizona, and
2008 Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Awardee; Marjorie Cowan at Miami University, Ohio; Christopher Woolverton at Kent State University, Ohio; Robert Bauman at Amarillo College, Texas; and Kathleen Talaro at Pasadena City College, California.

(Pictured from left to right: Jeffrey Pommerville, Marjorie Cowan, Christopher Woolverton, Robert Bauman, Amy Chang - ASM Education Department Director, and Kathleen Talaro)
ASMCUE Textbook Travel Award Information and Application 
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
- Early-Career Faculty Travel Award
ASM offers travel awards to increase participation by early-career undergraduate faculty, post-doctoral scientists or senior level graduate students interested in teaching careers in ASMCUE.
Early-Career Faculty Travel Award Information and Application 
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
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Faculty Enhancement Program Travel Award
Faculty who are first-time attendees of ASMCUE and who teach microbiology at 2 or 4 year institutions with a large percentage of historically excluded and underrepresented students are eligible to apply for an award to attend ASMCUE 2012, receive a one-year membership to ASM.
Faculty Enhancement Program Travel Award Information and Application 
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
- ASM-UNESCO Leadership Grant for International Educators
This program, sponsored jointly by ASM and UNESCO, has been developed to enable a select group of educators from resource-limited countries to attend the ASMCUE and a pre-conference workshop to provide leaders in education with the resources to build innovative teaching modules that engage students and lead to enduring understandings in microbiology.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2011
ASM-UNESCO Leadership Grant for International Educators Information and Application
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