During the 2003-2004  fiscal year 32 faculty members were awarded over $1.3 million from government agencies and private sponsors for a total of 44 grants and fellowships in support of their research and other projects. In addition, faculty efforts resulted in four institutional grants to support the academic program.  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. Ten of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves and ten faculty grants included funding for scientific equipment. Approximately 27% of the undergraduate faculty submitted at least one grant proposal last year; nearly half of those submitting proposals received at least one grant.

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2003-2004 FOR FACULTY RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

(arranged by sponsor)

Funding Source

Faculty Member

Department

Project Description or Title

American Philosophical Society - Franklin

Losano, Antonia

English

Research:  19th Century Election Drama

Associated Kyoto Program

Atherton, Cynthia

History of Art & Architecture

Research and Teaching in Japan:  Buddhist and Shinto Visual Culture in Kyoto

Center for the Study of East Asian Civilization

Wyatt, Donald

History

Research:  The Place, Power, and Limits of Foreknowledge in the Mental Universes of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation

Billings, Timothy

English

Conference at Stanford University:   Shakespeare in Asia -- An international conference

Education Department-Fulbright-Hays

Pyle, William

Economics

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

Folger Shakespeare Library

Billings, Timothy

English

Research:  Glossing Shakespeare:  Reading the Plays from the Bottom of the Page

Fulbright Scholar Program-Senior Specialist

Jacobs, Travis

History

Teaching 20th Century American History in Tunisia

J. Paul Getty Trust

Andres, Glenn

History of Art & Architecture

Institutional Project:  Campus Preservation Planning

John M. Templeton Foundation

Claudon, Michael

Economics

Institutional Project:   Support for Digital Bridges

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Graham, Noah

Physics

KITP Scholar for 2004-2006

Lintilhac Foundation

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Research Equipment:  Augmentation of Equipment for Sediment Resuspension

Lintilhac Foundation

Manley, Thomas

Geology

Research Equipment:  Computer Upgrade for Bathymetric and Sidescan Processing

Littauer Foundation

Lieber, Laura

Religion

Research:  The Song of Songs in the Poetry of the Early Synagogue:  A Literary, Exegetical, and Cultural Introduction to the Piyyutim

Maine Geological Survey

West, David

Geology

Research:  Bedrock Mapping in Maine

Mellon Faculty Career Initiatives

Butler, James

Studio Art

Leave Support:  Transparent Form:  Light Made Physical

Mellon Faculty Career Initiatives

Mittell, Jason

Film & Media Culture

Symposium on Film and Media Studies in the Liberal Arts

NASA

Wolfson, Richard

Physics

Research:  Winding the Spring:  Pre-CME Energy Storage in the Solar Corona

NASA-Chandra

Winkler, Frank

Physics

Research:  Measuring Neutron Star Recoil from a Supernova:  A Unique Opportunity in Puppis A

NASA-Chandra-supplement

Winkler, Frank

Physics

Outreach:  Enhancing Outreach from the Middlebury College Observatory

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Smith, Gail

Physical Education

Symposium with Tufts, Bates, Trinity, Wesleyan and Middlebury:   Female Coaching

NEH Summer Seminar

Losano, Antonia

English

Summer Seminar Participant:  Literature and the Visual Arts

NEH-Collaborative Research (Newberry Library)

Knowles, Anne

Geography

Conference at Newberry Library:  History and Geography:   Assessing the role of geographical Information in Historical Scholarship

NEH-Fellowship

Eaton, David

Sociology-Anthropology

Research:  Coming of age in Congo:  afflication, narrative, and social history

NEH-Summer Stipend

Davis, James

Religion

Research:  On Religious Liberty:  Selections fom the Works of Roger Williams

NIH-AREA

Kavaler, Joshua

Biology

Research:  The Activity of dPax2 in glial cell differentiation

NOAA (LCRC)

Manley, Thomas

Geology

Research:  Final Phase of the Lagrangian Drifters Pilot Program

NSF

Munroe, Jeffrey

Geology

Collaborative Research:   High-Resoluation Records of Holocene Climate Change, Drought Variability and Monsoon Behavior from the Unita Mountains of Utah

NSF-RUI

Byers, Jeffrey

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Transition-Metal Templated Radical Reactions

NSF-RUI

Winkler, Frank

Physics

Research:  Observational Studies of Supernova Remnants and the Interstellar Medium

Orton Family Foundation

Vila, Hector

Writing Program

Outreach:  Digital Stories Project 

Parnassus Foundation - supplement

Broucke, Pieter

History of Art & Architecture

Supplement – Research in Greece:  The Messene Heroon Reconstruction Project

Pfizer Inc

Byers, Jeffrey

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Sweetwater Trust

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research:  The Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas

US Geological Survey

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Research:  Lake Champlain Coring for Holocene Climate Record

Vermont Genetics Network

Choi, Sunhee

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Mechanism of Oxidation of 8-Oxoguanine by Pt(IV) Complexes

Vermont Genetics Network

Cluss, Robert

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Is the Burrelia burgdorferi Osm28 Secreted Porin a Cytotoxin?

Vermont Genetics Network

Gomez, Concetta

Mathematics

Research:  Investigations in p-adic Model Theory

Vermont Genetics Network

Larrabee, James

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Cobalt (II) Binding Studies of Escherichia coli Methionine Aminopeptidase

Vermont Genetics Network

Peterson, William

Mathematics

Research:  Reflection Mappings for Stochastic Flow Networks

Vermont Genetics Network

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research:  Characterization of Tarsal Sensilla of the Scorpion Pandinuis imperator

Vermont Genetics Network

Sandwick, Roger

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  A Stability Study of Phosphoribosamine

Vermont Genetics Network

Sandwick, Roger

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research:  The Maillard and Amadori Reactions of Ribose 5-Phosphate

Vermont Genetics Network

Sheldon, Sallie

Biology

Research:  Developing Field Techniques to Remove Invertebrate Herbivories

Vermont Genetics Network

Ward, Jeremy

Biology

Research Equipment:  The Identification of Mammalian Reproductive Genes

Vermont Genetics Network

Ward, Jeremy

Biology

Research:  The Identification of Mammalian Reproductive Genes

Vt. Dept. of Forest, Parks and Recreation

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research:  Ampihbian Monitoring at Mt. Mansfield

VT-EPSCoR

Munroe, Jeffrey

Geology

Research Equipment:  Acquisition of a Modern Thermogravimetric Analyzer for Use in Making Percent Loss-On-Ignition Measurements of Sediment Organic Content at Middlebury College

Yaddo

Tan, Su Lian

Music

Artist Residency