During the 2007-2008 fiscal year, Middlebury College and individual faculty members were awarded over $1.7 million, a total of 40 grants and fellowships to support research and other scholarly activities of 30 faculty members. Faculty efforts also led to a prestigious grant from the Beckman Foundation that funds research awards for exceptional students in the chemical and biological sciences. In addition, Middlebury benefited once again from the Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative grant made by the Mellon Foundation to a cluster of eight liberal arts colleges including Middlebury; this past year, nine Middlebury faculty members participated in group projects that were initiated by faculty at other schools.

At least 63 faculty members (more than 20%) submitted grant proposals: altogether, more than 123 proposals. Faculty from 16 departments and programs received grants. The grants provide funding for 56 student-faculty collaborations during the next few years as well as travel to research sites and conferences around the world, research supplies, publication costs, curriculum development, and other project expenses. Six faculty grants include funding for major scientific equipment. Twenty-three of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves. Fifteen faculty members who were on leave in 2007-2008 were supported in part by grants received during this past or prior years for research at Middlebury, elsewhere the United States, and internaitonally. And grants received this past year will support 11 faculty members who willl be on leave in 2008-2009 (or future years), doing research at Middlebury and around the world.

Copies of the full report are available to Middlebury faculty and staff from the Sponsored Research Office by email.  Contact Franci Farnsworth (x5889) for more information.

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2007-2008 FOR FACULTY RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

Department

P.I.

Sponsor

Project Title/Description

Biology

Combelles, Catherine M.

National Institutes Of Health

Oxidative Stress and Oocyte Development

Sheldon, Sallie P.

Vermont-EPSCoR

Research on population genetics of aquatic plants

Spritzer, Mark D.

Vermont Genetics Network

Effects of testosterone on adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Bunt, Richard C.

National Science Foundation

Hammett Studies of P,N-Chiral Ligands

Bunt, Richard C.

American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund

Hammett Studies of P,N-Chiral Ligands

Sandwick, Roger K.

Vermont Genetics Network

The Glycation of Heme Proteins by Ribose 5-Phosphate

Chemistry & Biochemistry and Environmental Studies

Costanza-Robinson, Molly S.

American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund

Microtomographic Imaging of the Air-Water Interface in Unsaturated Porous Media

Classics

Chaplin, Jane

Loeb Classical Library Foundation

Repetition in Classical Historiography

Computer Science

Briggs, Amy J.

Scharstein, Daniel

National Science Foundation

Visual Navigation from Circular Feature Sequences

Dance

Olsen, Andrea

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation

The Place of Dance -- Workshops, Writing, and Course Development

Economics

Pyle, William H.

IREX

Rights to Land in Urban Russia

English & American Literatures

Kramer, Kathryn

Bogliasco Foundation

The Rise and Fall of the Republic of West Delph

Environmental Studies and Chemistry & Biochemistry

Costanza-Robinson, Molly S.

Cornelius King Charitable Trust

The Taste of Place in Vermont

Geology

Coish, Raymond A.

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation

The Volcanoes of Italy

Manley, Patricia

National Science Foundation

Collaborative MRI: Acquisition of Hydrodynamic Equipment and a Laser Grain Size Analyzer (for lake and river research) [with Buffalo State College]

Manley, Patricia

US Geological Survey

Chirp survey and coring in main Lake Champlain

Manley, Thomas O.

Lintilhac Foundation, Incorporated

New CTD Sensor

Manley, Thomas O.

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Year Two: Analysis of Historical Data Sets and Further Investigations

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

American Philosophical Society

Developing a Chronology for Holocene Neoglaciation in Glacier National Park, Montana

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

National Science Foundation

SGER: Developing a Chronology for Neoglaciation in Glacier National Park, Montana

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

USDA Forest Service

Glacial Geologic Map of the Uinta Mountains

West, David P.

National Science Foundation

Collaborative Research: Dynamics at the bBase of a Pseudotachylyte-bearing Fault System [with Univ of Maine]

Mathematics

Schmitt, John R.

Vermont-EPSCoR

Constructing Cost-efficient Networks for the Transportation of Consumable & Scarce Resources

Physics

Graham, Noah M.

Vermont-EPSCoR

Oscillons in Particle Physics and Cosmology

Winkler, P. Frank

National Aeron & Space Admin (Hubble Telescope)

A Study of SN Ejecta in the Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8: Cas A's Older Cousin

Winkler, P. Frank

National Aeron & Space Admin (Spitzer Telescope)

SN 1006: Millenium Supernova Remnant

Political Science

Bleich, Erik

American Philosophical Society

Making it Hard to Hate: Limiting Freedom in the Name of Cohesion

Bleich, Erik

American Political Science Association

Making it Hard to Hate: Limiting Freedom in the Name of Cohesion

Dickinson, Matthew J

American Political Science Association

Presidents and Executive Branch Political Appointments, 1933-2006: Responsive or Neutral Competence?

Dickinson, Matthew J

Truman Library Institute

The President and the White House Staff: People, Positions, and Processes 1939-2008

Horning, Nadia R.

US Dept of Educ--Fulbright Hays Faculty Research Abroad

The Politics of Biodiversity Conservation in Africa: Interests, Institutions, and Deforestation

Psychology

Arndt, Jason D.

Vermont-EPSCoR

Development and Testing of MINERVA-DP, a Model of Recognition Memory

Kimble, Matthew O.

National Institutes Of Health - AREA

Psychophysiological studies of attention in trauma survivors

Kimble, Matthew O.

Vermont Genetics Network

Perceptions of threat in civilians, military cadets, and war veterans

Religion

Gould, Rebecca Kneale

American Council of Learned Societies

Practicing for Life: Contemplative Practice and Social Change

Lieber, Laura

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

Yannai on Genesis: An Invitation to Piyyut

Lieber, Laura

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

The Litugical Poetry of Yannai on Genesis

Morrison, Elizabeth A.

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation

Religious authority family-style: The master-disciple pattern in Chinese Buddhism

Russian

Moss, Kevin

Simone de Beauvoir Institute

Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia - residency

Theatre and Dance

Faraone, Cheryl

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation

Continuing the Marriage of Science and Art