February 4, 2008
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
HONORED WITH LINDBACK GRANTS
LINCOLN
UNIVERSITY, PA ~ President Ivory V. Nelson has announced that
Dr. Karen Baskerville and Mr. Jason Esters of Lincoln University
have been named recipients of the prestigious Lindback Career
Enhancement Minority Junior Faculty Grant.
“We are delighted to have our professors receive these
awards from a highly respected foundation,” President
Nelson said. “The awards serve the useful purpose of
engaging young faculty members to conduct research and to
advance knowledge across disciplines.”
A member of the faculty since
2006, Dr. Baskerville is an assistant professor in the
Department of Biology and has been awarded $15,000 to study
the imbalance activities of neurons in Alzheimer’s patients. Her research
topic is titled, “Vulnerability of Cholinergic Neurons
in Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Dr. Baskerville earned a doctorate from the University of
Tennessee.
Mr. Esters, a professor in his
second year in the Department of English and Mass Communications,
has been awarded $14,225 to conduct a research project
titled, “Examining Writing
Across the Curriculum Pedagogy and Technology Integration
at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” The
project examines the complex roles technology and digital
literacy can play in developing student writers at HBCU’s.
Mr. Esters is a doctoral candidate at Temple University.
In addition to the Distinguished
Teaching Award, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation
of Philadelphia presents the grants annually to encourage
and strengthen the academic lives and productivity of minority
junior faculty at colleges and universities. The grants
began in 1993 and complement the foundation’s Distinguished
Teaching Awards.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln
University is a premier, historically Black University that
combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based
undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs
to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological
and global society. The University is nationally
recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate
degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics);
computer and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. Lincoln
has an enrollment of 2,423 undergraduate and graduate students.
Lincoln
University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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