Natacha Poggio » Fellowships, Grants & Stipends

Design Thinking and Creativity, Faculty Fellow of the Humanities Center, University of Hartford
[Targeted towards honors students in the seminar, my lecture “Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century” connected visual arts, technology and design principles with commerce, business, engineering and creative writing]

Engaged-Learning Fellowship, Office of the Provost, University of Hartford
[Training to implement engaged-learning strategies — such as service-learning, problem-based learning, discovery-based learning— in Design Global Change]

Ideas that Matter, Sappi Fine Paper North America
[$23,350 for the Prosthetics Training Across Borders collaboration with physical therapists (to developed visual materials so they can effectively educate their amputee patients the rehabilitation protocols to regain mobility)]

City of Hartford’s “Outside the Box” public art program sponsored by the Marketing, Events, & Cultural Affairs Office and Livable Sustainable Neighborhoods Initiative [$500 to beautify utility boxes in historic Franklin Avenue neighborhood]

Educational Technology Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Hartford
[$4,800 to assist in learning educational technology and incorporating it into the curriculum to enhance teaching]

International Center Faculty Grant, University of Hartford
[$750 towards travel to Mexico to present at Design without Borders conference]
Faculty Development Fund, Office of the Provost, University of Hartford
[$1,200 towards travel to Design without Borders conference in Mexico and Stir Symposium at Ohio State University]

Ideas that Matter, Sappi Fine Paper North America
[$5,000 to print 400 sets of educational materials on gender equality in India]
The Women’s Education and Leadership Fund, University of Hartford
[$10,500 towards trip to Kenya for 3 students, in partnership with Sociology, Business, and Politics and Government female faculty]
Student Government Association, University of Hartford
[$200 towards Earth Day activities raising awareness of 350.org]

Student Government Association, University of Hartford
[$9,700 towards trip to India for Engineers Without Borders and Art students interdisciplinary team]

The Women’s Education and Leadership Fund, University of Hartford
[$10,000 towards trip to India for team of six, to implement Water for India campaign]
Student Government Association, University of Hartford
[$4,800 sponsoring implementation of Water for India campaign]

International Center Faculty Grant, University of Hartford
[$1,000 to internationalize the content of the Issues in Design course for Spring 2008]

Creativity Bootcamp, University of Hartford
[Part of a group of 22 educators who explored pedagogy initiatives in creativity and innovation. Workshop led by Steven J. Tepper, Ph.D., co-director of the Curb Center for Creativity at Vanderbilt University]
Dorothy Goodwin Summer Scholars Program, The Women’s Education and Leadership Fund, University of Hartford
[for mentoring scholarship recipient Alexandria Thatcher on her project about the importance of art being interlaced with science]
Summer Educational Stipend, Hartford Art School
[for participation in the Social Impact Game Design Workshop taught by Asi Burak (Games for Change) and Matt Parker at The School of Visual Arts in New York]
Faculty Senate Summer Stipend, University of Hartford
[for the creation of artworks exploring issues of climate change and their effects in human populations and endangered species]

Renee Samuels Faculty stipend, Hartford Art School
[for traveling to symposia and books for classes]

Fellowships, Grants & Stipends