During the 2005-2006 fiscal year faculty members were awarded over $1 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support their research and other projects; 41 faculty members received a total of 49 grants and fellowships. The grants will support travel to research sites and conferences, research supplies, publication costs and other project expenses. Twenty-three faculty members who were on leave last year were supported in part by 22 grants received in the past or earlier years and grants received this past year will support 12 faculty members on leave in 2006-2007 or future years. Three faculty grants included funding for scientific equipment. Approximately 23% of the faculty submitted at least one grant proposal last year; over 60% of those submitting proposals received at least one grant.

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2005-2006 FOR FACULTY RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

Faculty Member

Department or Program

Funding Source

Project Description or Title

Andreu-Sprigg, Alicia

Spanish

Spanish Ministry of Culture

Corin Tellado and Spanish Narrative

Andrews, James

Lintilhac Foundation, Incorporated

Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas

Atherton, Cynthia

History of Art & Architecture

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Cultural Crossroads and Magic Mountains: Southeast Asian Art in Context

Barrow, Ian J.

History

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies

Reimagining Death: The Assassination Museum of SWRC Bandaranaike (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Beyer, Tom

Russian

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Russian Brooklyn

Billings, Timothy

English

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Sinological Methods for Renaissance Travel Writing

Brayton, Daniel G.

English & American Literatures

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

Participant in "The American Maritime People"

Broucke, Pieter B. F. J.

History of Art & Architecture

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

Reconstructing the pantheon of Agrippa: Architecture, Sculpture, and Meaning

Broucke, Pieter B. F. J.

History of Art & Architecture

American Philosophical Society

Reconstructing the Pantheon of Agrippa: Architecture, Sculpture, and Meaning

Broucke, Pieter B. F. J.

History of Art & Architecture

Parnassus Foundation

MiRA - Middlebury Research in Archaeology (ongoing support)

Butler, James P.

Program in Studio Art

Pilchuck Glass School

Byers, Jeffrey H.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

NSF-Major Research Instrumentation

Acquisition of an LC/MS system for Middlebury College

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.

Economics

University of Minnesota-Morris

Truckers and Turnover: Using field experiments to understand driver decision-making

Cluss, Robert G.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Vermont Genetics Network

Cytopathic Effect of the Borrelia burgdorferi Exoproteins oms28 and Enolase

Colander, David C.

Economics

Fulbright Scholar Program

Study of Cointegated Vector Auto Regression

Collaer, Marcia L.

Psychology

Vermont Genetics Network

Cognitive and vestibular contributors to sex differences in visuospatial ability

Collaer, Marcia L.

Psychology

VT-EPSCoR

Does stereotype threat contribute to visuospatial sex differences in line judgment?

Connor, Walker

Political Science

Fulbright Scholar Program

Critical Review of the Literature on Ethnonationalism

Costanza-Robinson, Molly S.

Prog in Environmental Studies

VT-EPSCoR

Xe-enhanced Synchrotron X-ray Computer-assisted Microtomography of Model Porous Media

Davis, James Calvin

Religion

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

On Religious Liberty: Roger Williams and the Birth of the American Ideal

Flynn, Jeffrey R.

Philosophy

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

Participant in Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Garrison, Eliza B.

History of Art & Architecture

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Percy Ernst Schramm's Portraiture Idea

Gonzalez Zenteno, Gloria Estel

Spanish

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation

The New U.S. Latino Narrative: A Migrant Story

Graham, Noah M.

Physics

National Science Foundation

Solitons and Oscillons in Quantum Field Theory

Hoving, Kirsten A.

History of Art & Architecture

Smithsonian Institution

Joseph Cornell and Astronomy

Isham, Jonathan T.

Economics

Clean Air-Cool Planet

What Works? Using Insights from Social Change Research to Accelerate the Nascent Climate Movement

Kimble, Matthew O.

Psychology

Vermont Genetics Network

Unconscious Fear Effects on Decision-Making

Kraus, Michael

Political Science

Department Of Education

Edvard Benes, Czechoslovakia and the Great Powers, 1938-1948

Lloyd, Andrea H.

Biology

USDA Forest Service

Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest: Resilience and Vulnerability

Manley, Patricia

Geology

National Science Foundation

SHALDRIL supplement (for SHALDRIL 2)

Manley, Patricia

Geology

U.S. Geological Survey

Ship Rental - CHIRP SONAR

Manley, Thomas O.

Geology

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Hydrodynamic Investigation of the Inland Sea of Lake Champlain - Year II

Martinez-Lage, Ana

Spanish

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation

One country, four official languages: Exposing the linguistic plurality of Spain

Mayer, Tamar

Geography

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

Participant in The Silk Road: Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identity

McCardell, John M.

Robertson Foundation

A Study of the Effects of the 21-Year Old Drinking Age

McCauley, Michelle

Psychology

Vermont Genetics Network

Pilot testing the relation among vocabulary and memory ability on recall with the Cognitive Interview

Moran, Thomas E.

Chinese

Blakemore Foundation

Senior Scholar at Qinghua University, Beijing, China

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

Geology

National Science Foundation

WORKSHOP: UNITAS 2006 -- The Unitas Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

Geology

National Science Foundation

Supplement to Collaborative: Late-Quaternary Glacial and Paleoclimate history of the Unita Mountains, NE Utah

Munroe, Jeffrey S.

Geology

USDA Forest Service

Workshop: UNITAS 2006 -- The Unitas Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium

Oxfeld, Ellen D.

Sociology/Anthropology

Fulbright Scholar Program

Food and Cultural Transformation in Rural China

Post, Jennifer

Music

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Geographic Identities and Musical Expression in Central Asia

Pyle, William H.

Economics

Bank of Finland Institute

Business Associations in Post -Communist Russia

Pyle, William H.

Economics

Social Science Research Council

Teaching Fellowship - Legal INstitutions and Post-Soviet Economic Development

Root, Thomas M.

Biology

Dept Of Forests Parks Recreation

Amphibian Monitoring on Mt Mansfield

Sandwick, Roger K.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Vermont Genetics Network

The Maillard Reaction between Ribose 5-Phosphate and Cellular Amines and Proteins

Sandwick, Roger K.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

ACS-Petroleum Research Fund

A Characterization of the Kinetics and Mechanisms of the Reraction of Ribose 5-Phosphase and Amino Acids

Sheldon, Sallie P.

Biology

Fairfield Pond Recreation Assn., Inc.

Biocontrol of Eurasian Water Milfoil

Spackman, John G.

Philosophy

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

Participant in "Mind and Metaphysics"

Spatafora, Grace A.

Biology

National Institutes Of Health

Purchase of a Bioscreen C MBR instrument

Vitercik, Greg

Music

Natl. Endowment For The Humanities

Participant in "Modernist Paris"

Ward, Jeremy

Biology

Vermont Genetics Network

The identification and characaterization of the mammalian mutation mei4

Winkler, P. Frank

Physics

National Aeron & Space Admin

The Chandra ACIS Survery of M33 (ChASeM33): A Deep Survey of the Nearest Face-on Spiral Galaxy