During the 2002-2003 fiscal year faculty members were once again awarded over $1 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support their research and other projects; 37 faculty members received a total of 44 grants and fellowships.  In addition, faculty efforts resulted in two institutional grants to support the academic program.  These faculty members represent 16 of the College's academic departments, including all the departments in the Natural Sciences Division.  The grants will support  more than 35 student/faculty collaborations over the next few years as well as travel to research sites and conferences, research supplies, publication costs and other project expenses.  Twenty-two of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves and eight faculty grants include funding for scientific equipment.  More than 20% of the faculty submitted at least one grant proposal; over half of those submitting proposals received at least one grant.

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

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2002-2003 FOR FACULTY RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

(arranged by sponsor)

   

Funding Source

Faculty Member

Department

Project Description or Title

American Philosophical Society – Franklin Grant

Tropp, Jacob

History

Research:  Conserving "Native" lands:  Official Environmentalism in Brisish Colonial Africa and the American Southwest

Austrian Government-Werfel Grant

Matthias, Bettina

German

Research:  Check in to Tell a Story:  The Hotel as Literary Space of Choice in Modern German Literature

Center for Hellenic Studies

Sfyroeras, Pavlos

Classics

Fellowship:  The Feast of Poetry:  Sacrifice and Perfomance in Aristophanic Comedy

Center for Retirement Research  at Boston College

Nelson, Peter

Geography

Research:  Age-cohort effects on metropolitan and nonmetropolitan population and income flows, 1975-2000

Fulbright Scholar Program

Barrow, Ian

History

Research in India:  India:  1799

 

Watters, Christopher

Biology

Research and Lecturing:  Instruction in Molecular Biology and Curricular Revision at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & Develpment of Case Studies in Nutrition and Disease

German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

Bleich, Erik

Political Science

Research:  The Politics of Hate:  Criminalizing Racial Hatred

Guggenheim Foundation

Cohen, Robert

English

Fellowship:  Fiction writing

Hewlett Packard

Martin, Robert

Mathematics & Computer Science

Donated Equipment:  Computer Architecture and IA64 Assembly Language

Humana Foundation

Parfitt, David

Biology

Winter Term Course in Romania

Institute for Advanced Study

Wyatt, Don

History

Fellowship:  Confucius in the Chinese Post-Marxist Age

Lintilhac Foundation, Inc.

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Research Supplement:  Side-scan sonar cable

 

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Research Equipment: Particle Size Analyzer

 

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research:  Reptile and Amphibian Inventory and Monitoring, 2002-2003

MacArthur Foundation:  Fairness & Preferences Working Group

Carpenter, Jeffrey

Economics

Research:  Veloproductivity:  production experiments with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the U.S.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

Pyle, William

Economics

Research:  The Evolution and Role of Business Associations in Post-Soviet Russia

National Endowment for the Humanities

Billings, Timothy

English

Fellowship:  Bilingual Critical Edition of Victor Segalen's French/Chinese Poetry: Steles (1914)

 

Grasswick, Heidi

Philosophy

Summer Seminar Participant:  Feminist Epistemologies

 

Sasson, Theodore

Sociology-Anthropology

Summer Seminar Participant: Punishment, Politics and Culture

National Institutes of Health

Bunt, Richard

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Mechanisam of Base-Flipping by DNA Modifying Enzymes

 

Helmreich, Dana

Biology

Research: Stressor Controllability and Neuroendocrine Systems

 

Spatafora, Grace

Biology

Research:  Regulation of Streptococcus mutans Virulence by covR/S

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Manley, Thomas

Geology

Research:  Lagrangian Drifters Program

National Science Foundation

Dick, Matthew

Biology

Equipment: Acquisition of DNA Sequencing and Genotyping Instrumentation for Research and Undergraduate Training in Biology

 

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Collaborative Research:  SHALDRIL, A Demonstration Drilling Cruise to the James Ross Basin

 

West, David

Geology

Research:  The Role of Orogen Parallel Fault Systems in the Exhumation of a Convergent Orogen

National Science Foundation – NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams)

Watson, Susan

Physics

Collaborative Research and Education Program:  Nanotube and Nanowire Based Quantum Computation

National Science Foundation – ROA (Research Opportunity Award) -- University of Utah

Choi, Sunhee

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Mechanism of Nucleic Acid Oxidation and Cross-linking

NYCO Minerals, Inc.

Ryan, Peter

Geology

Research:  X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Amphibole Contaminants in Wollastonite

Parnassus Foundation

Broucke, Pieter

History of Art & Architecture

Research in Greece:  The Messene Heroon Reconstruction Project

Rockefeller Archive Center

Lamberti, Marjorie

History

Archival Research:  Living in Two Cultures:  Refugee Political Scholars from Nazi Germany in America

Social Science Research Council

Pekkanen, Saadia

Political Science

Fellowship:  National Courts and the Rule of WTO Law in the U.S., Europe and Japan

U.S. Department of Agriculature

Nelson, Peter

Geography

Research:  Boom! Bust!  Echo!  Age Cohort Effects on Nonmetropolitan Migration, 1975-2000

Vermont Dept of Fish & Wildlife

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research:  The Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas

Vermont Genetics Network (an NIH-BRIN program at University of Vermont)

Larrabee, James

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Zebra Mussels as Monitors of Trace Metals in the Water Column of Lake Champlain

 

Parfitt, David

Biology

Research:  Rearing and Genetic Interactions on Mouse Social Behavior

 

Sontum, Steven

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Development of Force Fields for Knowledge-base prediction of protein folding

 

Spatafora, Grace

Biology

Research:  Identification of a Streptoccus mutans Iron Stimulon by Microarray Analysis

 

Velez, Carlos

Psychology

Research:  A pilot study of the effects of alcohol on sex and sexual risk taking among college students using an internet-based survey to collect daily self-reports

 

Watters, Christopher

Biology

Equipment:  Improving HIgh Contact/Resolution Light Microscopy

 

Young, Helen

Biology

Research:  The relative roles of honeybees and bumblebees in the pollination of a native herb

Vermont-EPSCoR (an NSF-funded program)

Byers, Jeffrey

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Radical Reactions of Cyclobutadiene Iron Tricarbonyl

 

Graham, Noah

Physics

Research:  Searching for Quantum-Stabilized Solitons and Efficient Algorithms in Quantum Computing

 

Hofer, Barbara

Psychology

Research:  Stressor "How Do I Know What to Believe?"  Epistemic Metacognition during Online Science Learning

 

Isham, Jonathan

Economics

Research:  The Transformation of Land-Based Social Capital

William Davidson Institute

Pyle, William

Economics

Research:  Role of Business Associations in Post-Soviet Russia