Will integrate the current Entrepreneurial survey Launching Student 8 MSB $8,830 course with Center for Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Support Innovation activities. UB # Proposal Amount Description/Notes Department Will adapt an existing weeklong camp into a Adapting the Cyber Discovery one-day event aimed at students in inner-city 9 Camp Model for Baltimore MSB $6,600 schools whose educational opportunities are the City Schools most limited. Funding will be used for the publication of an City-as-classroom Learning existing learning text for both students in UB’s 10 Law $3,981 Text School of Law Community Development clinic and the general public. Funding will cover costs for a conference hosted jointly by faculty at UB’s School of Law and Interdisciplinary Innovations 11 Law $4,000 University of Maryland’s Carey School of Law to in Family Dispute Resolution develop innovative approaches to family conflict resolution. National Conference on 12 Law $25,000 Conference will be held in spring 2016. Innovative Legal Scholarship The FFE had supported the initial feasibility Development of a Certificate 13 Law $14,900 study for the Family Law certificate and will in Family Law continue to fund the program’s development. Will provide law students with one-on-one writing consultations, workshops on relevant 14 Legal Writing Center Law $7,150 topics in legal writing, and other writing resources. This project will determine a set per-minute cost to adding closed captioning to existing video Closed-Captioning 15 OTS $16,000 used by UB faculty and libraries and will add Technologies closed captioning capability to the OTS Media and Classroom Support Unit. Armagh is a month-long playwriting residency in Northern Ireland. The Fund for Excellence 16 Armagh Project 2016 CAS $10,000 previously awarded funding towards this project.
8 Launching Student Entrepreneurship Support MSB $8,830 Will integrate the current Entrepreneurial survey course with Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation activities. # Proposal UB Department Amount Description/Notes 9 Adapting the Cyber Discovery Camp Model for Baltimore City Schools MSB $6,600 Will adapt an existing weeklong camp into a one-day event aimed at students in inner-city schools whose educational opportunities are the most limited. 10 City-as-classroom Learning Text Law $3,981 Funding will be used for the publication of an existing learning text for both students in UB’s School of Law Community Development clinic and the general public. 11 Interdisciplinary Innovations in Family Dispute Resolution Law $4,000 Funding will cover costs for a conference hosted jointly by faculty at UB’s School of Law and University of Maryland’s Carey School of Law to develop innovative approaches to family conflict resolution. 12 National Conference on Innovative Legal Scholarship Law $25,000 Conference will be held in spring 2016. 13 Development of a Certificate in Family Law Law $14,900 The FFE had supported the initial feasibility study for the Family Law certificate and will continue to fund the program’s development. 14 Legal Writing Center Law $7,150 Will provide law students with one-on-one writing consultations, workshops on relevant topics in legal writing, and other writing resources. 15 Closed-Captioning Technologies OTS $16,000 This project will determine a set per-minute cost to adding closed captioning to existing video used by UB faculty and libraries and will add closed captioning capability to the OTS Media and Classroom Support Unit. 16 Armagh Project 2016 CAS $10,000 Armagh is a month-long playwriting residency in Northern Ireland. The Fund for Excellence previously awarded funding towards this project.
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