ICE was selected to become one of six Willson Center Research Clusters, funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research through the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The Willson Center Research Cluster program supports groups of faculty and graduate students who are organized to address large-scale humanities and arts questions in partnership with colleagues from allied departments, colleges, centers, and institutes.
The six funded research clusters for 2013-14 are:
Athens Music Project (Susan Thomas, co-director, associate professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Institute for Women’s Studies; Jean Kidula, co-director, associate professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music and African Studies Institute)
Digital Humanities Lab (Stephen Berry, co-director, Amanda and Greg Gregory Professor in the Civil War Era, department of history; Bill Kretzschmar, co-director, Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, department of English; Claudio Saunt, co-director, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History, department of history)
EcoFocus Film Initiative (Sara Beresford, Director)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) (David Z. Saltz, executive director, associate professor and head, department of theatre and film studies; Mark Callahan, artistic director, senior academic professional, Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Willson Center associate academic director for innovation in the arts)
International Modernism (Jed Rasula, director, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor, Department of English)
Neuroimaging, Movie Trailers, and Spectator Cognition (Tianming Liu, co-director; assistant professor, department of computer science; Richard Neupert, Wheatley Professor of the Arts and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Theatre and Film Studies; L. Stephen Miller, co-director, professor, department of psychology)
Press:
The Red and Black “President Morehead launches research projects spanning across disciplines”
Athens Banner-Herald “Initatives will take UGA researchers into Athens community”
UGA Today “New UGA Faculty Research Clusters to focus on humanities, arts”