DELTA Grants Recipients for 2020-2021 Announced
DELTA is pleased to announce this year’s recipients for new and continuing DELTA Grants. DELTA is awarding more than $250,000 to 29 recipients representing nine academic colleges.
DELTA is providing continued support to one Critical Path grant recipient from the 2019-2020 DELTA Grants cycle.
We look forward to collaborating with our faculty and campus partners to tackle instructional challenges with innovative solutions that promote the use of instructional technology and course design. DELTA staff members seek new ways to apply methods of instruction and innovation through DELTA Grants to achieve our goals of enhancing student success and creating a technology-rich learning environment at NC State.
This year’s grant types include Online and Distance Education, Exploratory, Faculty Fellows, Rapid Design, Blended Learning, and Critical Path.
| Recipient (s) | Grant Type | Title | College | Department |
| Terri Billeisen | Online and Distance Education | Using 3-D Photos to Facilitate Insect Specimen Investigation and Identification | CALS | Entomology and Plant Pathology |
| Larry Blanton and Colin Keenan | Exploratory | Experiential Online Teaching Space: An Instructional Framework for Utilizing Mozilla Hubs | CALS | Plant and Microbial Biology |
| Marissa Herchler and Adam Fahrenholz | Exploratory | Interactive web-based laboratories for feed manufacturing | CALS | Prestage Department of Poultry Science |
| Kimberly Ange-van Heugten | Online and Distance Education | Establishing A New Vision for a Classic NC State Online Course: Principles of Animal Nutrition | CALS | Animal Science |
| Kimberly Allen and Angie Smith | Exploratory | Supporting the Wellbeing of Distance Education Students | CALS | Agricultural and Human Sciences & Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development |
| Julian Treme | Faculty Fellows | Faculty Fellows Grant | CALS | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Elaine Bohórquez | Faculty Fellows | Faculty Fellows Grant | CALS | Prestage Department of Poultry Science |
| Sarah Kirby and Jamie Alexander | Rapid Design | YFCS 540 Course Design | CALS | Agricultural and Human Sciences |
| Julia McKeown | Exploratory | Emerging Technologies: From Theory to Practice and Application | Education | Teacher Education and Learning Sciences |
| Peter Hessling | Online and Distance Education | Converting a Qualitative Methodology Course to an online format | Education | Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development |
| Michelle Bartlett | Faculty Fellows | Faculty Fellows Grant | Education | Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development |
| Angie Smith, Barry Olson, and Justine Hollingshead | Blended Learning | Training and Development: Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management, Course Offering and Training | Education | Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development |
| Anna Gibson | Blended Learning | “Keys to College”: A Hub for Introduction to Humanities and Social Sciences | CHASS | English |
| Christine Cranford | Faculty Fellows | Faculty Fellows Grant | CHASS | English |
| Mary Estrada | Rapid Design | Bite-sized Linguistics | CHASS | Foreign Languages and Literatures |
| Kyle Bunds and Jonathan Casper | Exploratory | Educating Sport Fans and Employees about Waste Contamination Through VR and AR | CNR | Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management |
| Steph Jeffries | Critical Path | Learning Applications for Dendrology | CNR | Forestry and Environmental Resources |
| Joseph Roise | Exploratory | Creating a 4D video: 360 degrees plus time | CNR | Forestry and Environmental Resources |
| Vaishnavi Thakar | Rapid Design | Teaching Geospatial Data Analysis in a Distance Education Format | CNR | Forestry and Environmental Resources |
| Katherine Saul | Critical Path | Adaptive Learning Redesign of MAE208 Engineering Dynamics | ENG | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
| Lina Battestilli | Faculty Fellows | Faculty Fellows Grant | ENG | Computer Science |
| Meg Calkins | Online and Distance Education | Introduction to Sustainable Development course | Design | Landscape Architecture |
| Jesse Jur and Amanda Mills | Online and Distance Education | Development of an Online Distance Education Course on Reverse Engineering of Textile Products | Textiles | Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science |
| Erica Kosal | Critical Path | LSFY Majors & Career Exploration Modules to Help Students Find Their Right “Fit” Early in Their College Careers | Sciences | Biological Sciences |
| Zodiac Webster, Keith Warren, Keith Heyward, and Zachary Lewis | Online and Distance Education | Physics Online Revise and Transform (PORT) | Sciences | Physics |
| Melissa Srougi | Exploratory | Beyond Reality: Student-driven Virtual Laboratory Experiences in Molecular Biotechnology | VetMed | Molecular Biomedical Sciences |
| Elisabeth Brown | Critical Path (Continuing) | Calculus Corequisite Companion | Sciences | Mathematics |
