Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Faculty Receive NIH Global Health Grants for New Course Development

Two $5,000 development grants were awarded to School of Architecture faculty through UVa?s NIH Fogarty International Center Framework Program in Global Health

IEN Senior Associate Tanya Denckla-Cobb and Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities Timothy Beatley were awarded a grant to establish their joint course, ?Healthy Communities, Healthy Food Systems: Global-Local Connections.? Denckla-Cobb will work on the project during summer 2007.

Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Landscape Architecture Kristina Hill was awarded a grant to develop a course on the topic of assisting cities to become more adaptable to climate change through their use of water. The course will address methods by which to provide emergency potable water for situations like the New Orleans hurricane, or slums in Kenya that don’t have enough water on a daily basis — and connect that “treatment train” of water to improvements in nearshore aquatic habitats, which often suffer the greatest impact from polluted urban stormwater runoff.