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Seven �鶹Ƶ��Abroad instructors have been selected for 2018-19 Global Innovation Fund awards. The fund supports center faculty in their professional development, their contributions to �鶹Ƶ��University’s general intellectual and academic culture abroad, and their pedagogical innovation.

The fund was announced in January 2018. This is the second round of grant recipients. All faculty members at �鶹Ƶ��Abroad centers are eligible.

“The Global Innovation Fund, by providing necessary resources to instructors, helps us attract top-quality faculty members. And it reinforces �鶹Ƶ��Abroad’s mission to consistently provide students with unique, high-quality, global learning experiences that are steeped in the academic excellence for which �鶹Ƶ��University is known,” says Petra Hejnova, �鶹Ƶ��Abroad director of curriculum and academic services.

This round’s recipients and projects are:

, instructor at �鶹Ƶ��Florence, developed a GPS-based augmented reality game for selected history of art courses at the Florence Center. Nelson repurposed the functions of an application called Action Bound to map out an interactive scavenger hunt that uses the GPS function on smartphones to link preprogrammed prompts to specific locations in the city in order to create a historical narrative in which students participate. This in turn helped students actively conceptualize key events of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

���Ի���, instructors at �鶹Ƶ��Florence, will participate in the pedagogical workshop “’Grammatica si, grammatica no.’ Modelli metodologici per portare la grammatica in classe.” [Translation: “Grammar Yes, Grammar No: Methodologies for Bringing Grammar into the Classroom.”] The workshop is sponsored by the Progetto Lingua Italiana Dante Alighieri and will give Adriani and Bea the opportunity to learn about new language teaching methodologies and how to integrate learning technologies into the classroom experience.

, instructor at �鶹Ƶ��London, presented the paper “The Compleat Architect: Joseph Moxon’s Vignola in 17thC London” at the 72nd annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Providence, Rhode Island.

, instructor at �鶹Ƶ��London, chaired a session called “Vasari on Jews, Michelangelo and Miracles” at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Toronto, Canada.

, instructor at �鶹Ƶ��Florence, will do the final edit and publication of “The Lovers’ Debates,” the first English translation of “Fragmenti di alcuni scritture” (“Amorosi contrasti”) (1617), by Isabella Andreini.

, instructor at �鶹Ƶ��Florence, attended the Paradox Fine Art European Forum Conference in Riga, Latvia. Stromberg was a steering committee member of the conference, as well as a curator and facilitator of a strand of the conference.

Project applications for the fund are reviewed for their potential to advance �鶹Ƶ��Abroad’s vision and mission, project viability and the significance of the project objectives. All �鶹Ƶ��Abroad Center faculty are eligible to apply. Recipients of Global Innovation Fund awards are selected by �鶹Ƶ��Abroad central and center staff. This year’s selection committee was Hejnova, Mauricio Paredes of �鶹Ƶ��Santiago and Caroline Tong of �鶹Ƶ��Beijing. For more information about the �鶹Ƶ��Abroad Global Innovation Fund, contact Petra Hejnova at phejnova@syr.edu.