The Ellis School is pleased to announce that Upper School math teacher Amy Yam has been awarded the 2012-13 JEP Travel Grant. Amy will use the grant as she works on a biography tracing the life story of her mother who was also a mathematician.
The Janet Jacobs Enrichment Program (JEP) Travel Grant has been in place at Ellis since 1977 and is intended as a means of enrichment and renewal for faculty who have given ten years or more extended service to the school.
Past recipients of the JEP Travel Grant include: 2011-12 Linda Tonetti-Dugan 2010-11 Sue Richmond 2009-10 Charles Altman 2008-09 Julie Lind 2007-08 Vicky Jordan 2006-07 Pat Crosby 2005-06 Kathy Koenig 2004-05 Belle Moldovan 2003-04 Gregg Stone 2002-03 Mavis Close
The travel grant program is administered by the Head of School; recipients are selected by a committee of the Head of School, Division Directors of the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools, and the Academic Dean.
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