2005   National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research
      Invited (with Darren Cambridge, Mary Zamon & Deborah Sprague) to join the second cohort of researchers in a three-year collaborative reearch program on electronic portfolios
       
  2004 - 2005   College of Arts and Sciences Technology Across the Curriculum Program
      Funding (with John O'Connor and James Young) to extend the EndNote pilot programm to all entering first-year New Century College students (c. 160).
       

2004

Teaching Excellence Award
George Mason University
       

2003

College of Arts and Sciences Technology Across the Curriculum Program



Funding (with James Young) to implement a pilot project to introduce the personal bibliographical management tool, EndNote, to first-year students



 
  2001   College of Arts and Sciences Technology Across the Curriculum Program
      Funding (with James Young and Virginia Montecino)via a program-wide grant. The grant financed the development, implementation and assessment of new technology-enhanced assignments suitable for a wide range of upper-level courses, the creation of guidelines for electronic portfolios and the piloting of an electronic portfolio and presentations of learning course
       
  1999   College of Arts and Sciences Technology Across the Curriculum Program

    Grant (with James Young and Virginia Montecino) to develop online self-assessment sequences (for example, library skills and website evaluation) to allow first-year students in New Century College's integrated technology program to test and improve their technological literacy.
   

 

    Undergraduate Teaching Award
    Grant to research the texture of first-year students' access to technology and its implications for the design of technology-enriched courses
     
1997   Mary Roberts Rinehart Award
    For excellence in poetry
   

 

1995   Fellowship Award
    Department of English, George Mason University
     

 

  1989   Scholarship to National Film and Television School
      Awarded by employer, London Weekend Television
       
  1976 - 9   Major Scottish Studentship
      Scottish Education Department, Edinburgh Scotland (to finance doctoral research at University of Oxford)

 


Lesley Smith
New Century College
in the
College of Arts and Sciences
George Mason University
Last Updated: 27 April, 2005