Tower Endowment
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Elizabeth Tower, benefactor of the Tower Endowment, was an enthusiastic supporter of Canadian Studies and an avid historian of Alaska. She died in September of 2010. We are grateful for her generous contributions to the University and for her inspirational energy and enthusiasm.

 

Elizabeth Tower Endowment

In 2004, UAA announced the creation of the Elizabeth Tower Endowment for Canadian Studies. The goal of this endowment is to increase the visibility of Canadian studies at UAA and in the community and to improve opportunities for UAA students wanting to study in Canada. 

2011 Fall Funding

The Tower Endowment for Canadian Studies has completed funding for fall 2011. Faculty projects and public speaker proposal deadlines were October 31, 2011; student applications are accepted on an on-going basis through the academic year.  The following proposals have been funded:

Dr. Robert Capuozzo, College of Education: $2,000 - Support for student travel-study: Comparison of Early Childhood Development programs in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Elizabeth Hodges Snyder, Health Sciences: $1,000 - Support speaker travel and accommodations: Symposium on Canadian Indigenous Engagement and Capacity Building in Health Impact Assessment.

Dr. David Yesner, Anthropology: $1,000 - Travel support to attend and present at "Frozen Pasts," 3rd International Glacial Archeology Conference.

2011-2013 Tower Endowment Committee members:

Robert Capuozzo, Chair, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, UAA
Rhonda M. Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Health, UAA
Alice Knapp, Tower Family representative
Donna Logan, Senior Manager, McDowell Group
Karen Matthias, Former Canadian Consul, Anchorage

Please contact Robert Capuozzo, Committee Chair, for additional information.

 
 

2011-2012 Awards

Sarena Hackenmiller, major in International Studies (Canada Track), National Student Exchange at the Universite de Sherbooke in Quebec, $1,500.00
 
 
 

2010-2011 Awards

Dr. David Yesner, Anthropology, Presenting paper entitled "The Northern Cordilleran Culture in Alaska and the Yukon and its Place in the Peopling of the Americas" with Professor Norm Easton, of Yukon College, at the 2011 Society for American Archaeology Conference, $1,000.

Dr. Diane Hanson and Dr. Phyllis Fast, Anthropology, Hosting Eldon Yellowhorn of McGill University to speak at UAA's Canada Week, $1,500.  

Eldon Yellowhorn is Piikani (Piegan or Blackfeet in the United States) and is the first First Nations archeologist to receive a master's degree in archaeology; he went on to receive a doctorate in Anthropology from McGill University. He is the co-author of First Peoples in Canada, and has written many articles about heritage resources, repatriation of human remains, land management, and more traditional archeological papers.

Dr. Stephen Haycox, History/49th State Fellows Program. Hosting Speaker Terry Fenge, President of Terry Fenge Consulting, Inc. in Ottawa, as the Fall 2010 UAA Polaris Lecturer, $1,500.

Terry Fenge, President of Terry Fenge Consulting, specializes in aboriginal rights and interests, environmental affairs, and national/international public policy in the circumpolar Arctic and beyond. Dr. Fenge holds a PhD in Regional Planning and Resource Development from the University of Waterloo and is the author of six books and sixty professional articles, and was a principal in the negotiations leading to the creation of the Territory of Nunavut.

 
 
 

2009-2010 Awards

Dr. Nelta Edwards, Sociology, Northern Canada Faculty Development Institute and Study Tour, $2500.

Dr. James Muller, Political Science, "John Churchill and the Hudson Bay Company," 2009 American Political Science Associate Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, $1870.

Dr. Robert Capuozzo, Education, Hosting Speaker Dr. Thomas Thornton, Portland State University, $2,500.

Dr. Robert Capuozza, Education, Hosting Speaker John Streicker, $2,500.