Faculty/Staff and Graduate Student Exhibit Award Proposal Form
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Name: Jennifer Ripley Stueckle
Title/Department: Teaching Professor/Biology
Title of proposed exhibit: A rainbow’s fantastic fins
Describe the scope, content, and purpose of the exhibit, including materials and format (max 200 words): Trout Unlimited's nationally recognized Trout in the Classroom (TIC) engages students in the program’s mission to protect and restore the nation’s water resources while fostering a respect and love for the natural world. Students hatch trout eggs and follow their development to when fingerlings are released in local waterways. Since 2019, my BIOL 101: General Biology students have worked alongside 19 public schools in North Central West Virginia. Annually, students create paintings for the non-majors biology laboratory classrooms on the downtown campus. Last winter, all five first grade classrooms at Mountainview Elementary created quilts centered around the theme of the trout life cycle. Four local women volunteered to construct the quilts. Last spring, the art museum of WVU hosted a project on screen printing where individual student drawings were assembled into a class screen that was then printed at the release. TIC is truly an interdisciplinary, community-based project. It is my aim in showcasing the quilts and screen prints to attract students’ attention to this program. I plan to apply for an Honors Faculty Fellows in the Fall 2024 for a course offering in Fall 2025 and I want to attract students from various disciplines to grow the program’s curriculum.
Example of making exhibition accessible text for Introductory panel:
The beauty and vitality of the United States' ecosystems come to life in "Trout in the Classroom," an exhibition celebrating the wonder of native species and the educational impact of experiential learning. This exhibition showcases the collaborative efforts of local schools, community volunteers, and university students in exploring the life cycle of rainbow trout through quilts, paintings, prints, and photographic documentation of the project process.
Describe your workplan and special needs for display, delivery, and installation: Four of the five quilts have sleeves for hanging. The fifth quilt could also be hung or draped. I have two screen prints already framed. They could be hung or displayed on a frame stand. The display could be readily established in a very short period of time.
List any ideas for associated programs, events or collaborations and potential dates (program might align with start or end of exhibition, or a special “holiday” related to theme): I like to showcase this work around Earth Day. I also schedule the release events around this time as well. Last year I had a release in Preston County on Earth Day and listed the event on iServe for student volunteers. This exhibit would be ideal to solicit student volunteers for events. I plan to apply for an Honors Faculty Fellows in the Fall 2024 for a course offering in Fall 2025. I am hoping to share the quilts at the Mon Co. fair to showcase TIC. This project is funded by a Women of WVU Foundation grant from 2022-2025. Females are highlighted in my work as well because females are underrepresented in fisheries.
Available dates of installation and duration (our goal is for the exhibit to be up fall 2024-spring 2025): All the materials are available now.
Please copy/paste an abbreviated resume, and 1-3 image samples/ideas for exhibit below.
JENNIFER RIPLEY STUECKLE
West Virginia University
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology
Post Office Box 6057
Morgantown, WV 26506-6057
CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone: (304) 293-8099 Fax: (304) 293-6363 E-mail: JRStueckle@mail.wvu.edu
EDUCATION
2006 Ph.D. Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Dissertation: Effects of environmental factors on the paternal brood pouch and sound production in two sympatric pipefish species from the Chincoteague Bay, Virginia
2001 M.A. Biology, Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, MA.
Thesis: Ontogenetic differences in reproductive behavior, sound production and hearing sensitivity in the Lake Malawi cichlid, Tramitichromis intermedius
1999 B.S. Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-present Teaching Professor, Program Director for the Non-Majors Introductory Biology Sequence (BIOL 101-104) and Program Director for the Biology ACCESS Early College Program
Department of Biology, West Virginia University
2017-present Teaching Associate Professor, Program Director for the Non-Majors Introductory Biology Sequence (BIOL 101-104) and Program Director for the Biology ACCESS Early College Program
Department of Biology, West Virginia University
2015-2017 Teaching Associate Professor and Program Director for the Non-Majors Introductory Biology Sequence (BIOL 101-104)
Department of Biology, West Virginia University
2009-2015 Teaching Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Non-Majors Introductory Biology Sequence (BIOL 101-104)
Department of Biology, West Virginia University
2002 Research Technician
Nearshore/offshore hydrodynamics and population ecology (NO-HYPE), Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
GRANTSMANSHIP – AWARDED GRANTS
Ripley Stueckle, J. July 2022-June 2025. Trout in the Classroom in North Central WV. WVU Enrichment Fund grant Women of WVU Leadership Council, $15,000.
Ripley Stueckle, J. March 2020-June 2021. Aquaponics and hydrophones for a 4th grade North
Elementary classroom designed and built by BIOL 101: General Biology students. WVU Teaching and Learning Commons Technology Innovation Grant, $2,000.
Ripley Stueckle, J. July 2019-June 2020. Trout in the Classroom in Monongalia County Schools. WVU Community Engagement Grant, $5,000.
Holland, L.A. and J. Ripley Stueckle. December 2013-2015. Rapid Steroid Profiling of Individual Model Fish: Relating Exposure to Disease. NIH, $407,000.
Ripley Stueckle, J. Oct 2012-Sept 2013. Novel method for steroid profiling to detect endocrine disruption in Japanese medaka and zebrafish. WVU ADVANCE, $15,000.
Ripley Stueckle, J. Nov 2011-Oct 2012. Novel method for steroid profiling to detect endocrine disruption in fish blood. WVU ADVANCE, $15,000.
Ripley Stueckle, J. and C.M. Foran. July 2007- July 2010. Relating diversity of brood pouch structure and species susceptibility to environmental factors. National Science Foundation, IOS 0722120, $222,014.
AWARDS
2022 WVU Teaching and Learning Commons Technology Innovation Grant. DIY Lightboard. 2021 WVU Teaching and Learning Commons Technology Innovation Grant. Document camera bundle to make laboratory work accessible to students with physical disabilities and off-campus ACCESS Early College Program students
2020 Digital Learning Award in partnership with the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative, Digital microscope for accessibility in Trout in the Classroom project.
2019 Jim Rye Friend of the North Garden award