Recent Faculty Grant Awards
Recent Faculty Grant Awards |
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Thomas Mitzel, Chemistry - $20,000 equipment grant from Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for Implementation of a Discovery-Based Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory.
E. Kathleen Archer, Biology - U.S. Department of Agriculture grant of $43,743 for research, Chloroplast Control over Nuclear Gene Expression.
Barbara Benedict, English - yearlong fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for travel and research on Curiosity/Curiosities: Literary Representations of Cultural Ambition; Newberry Library, one-month residency for Curiosity/Curiosities; Clark Library, one-month residency for Curiosity/Curiosities.
Daniel Blackburn, Biology; Priscilla Kehoe, Psychology; and Barbara Walden, Physics - National Science Foundation/Academic Research Infrastructure grant of $221,000 for Acquisition of a Transmission Electron Microscope for Research and Research Training in the Liberal Arts College Environment.
Joseph Bronzino and Taikang Ning, Engineering - National Science Foundation grant of $81,250 and a National Science Foundation/Research Experiences for Under-graduates supplemental grant of $6,250 for Bispectral and Paired-Pulse Analysis of the Ontogeny of Hippocampal Theta Rhythm in the Freely Moving Rat.
Dario Del Puppo, Modern Languages - Villa I Tatti Fellowship to Florence, Italy, for Poets, Scribes, and Enterprising Readers in Quattrocento, 1997-98 academic year.
Ellison Findly, Religion - Connecticut Humanities Council grant of $12,969 for public conference and publications, for The Nuns’ Circle: Global Revisioning of Women in Sacred Practice.
Cheryl Greenberg, History - W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University, one-year fellowship.
Priscilla Kehoe, Neuroscience, and Joseph Bronzino, Engineering - National Institutes of Health award of $120,000 for Hippocampal Neuroplasticity of Infant Stress.
Ronald Kiener, Religion - Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, professorship at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, spring 1998.
Robert Kirschbaum, Fine Arts - Fulbright Fellowship (in India) for Research in Relief Printing on Fabric.
Helen Lang, Philosophy, and other members of Philosophy Department, with consultants from various science and math departments - National Science Foundation/Institution-Wide Reform Initiative grant of $190,043 for The Integration of Science and Mathematics Laboratories into a Humanities Curriculum.
John Mertens, Engineering, with Engineering students - NCIIA and Lemelson Foundation, $13,232 for Automated Bell System Design Team.
Christopher Nadon, Political Science - John M. Olin Foundation fellowship for Empire: Revolution and the Common Good in Xenophon’s Education of Cyprus.
Hugh Ogden, English - Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency for poetry writing; MacDowell Institute Residency for poetry writing; Kjerassi, CA/Resident Artists Program for poetry writing.
Sarah Raskin, Psychology - James McDonnell Foundation research grant of $60,716 for Investigation of Prospective Memory in Traumatic Brain Injury.
Gary Reger, History - National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for Myhlasa in Karia: Land, Society and Elites in a Regional Context.
Milla Riggio, English - National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for Coming Home to Carnival: A Kaleidoscope of Ethnicity in Trinidad.
Barbara Sicherman, History - Residency at Bellagio, Italy for Engaging Texts: Reading, Gender, and Identity in American Culture, 1860-1917; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for Reading, Gender, and Identity in American Culture, 1860-1917; National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for academic year 1997-98 for Engaging Texts: Reading, Gender, and Identity in American Culture, 1860-1917.
James Wen, Economics - CERF/Washington Center for China Studies and Ford Foundation research grant of $19,500 for residency in China to study China’s Grain Supply and Demand Prospective; World Bank/Peking University and Center for Chinese Economic Research and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, $5,000 to teach at Peking University and collaborate with other scholars.
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