During the 2004-2005 fiscal year faculty members were awarded over $2 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support their research and other projects; 48 faculty members received a total of 56 grants and fellowships. In addition, faculty efforts resulted in four institutional grants to support the academic program.  The grants will support more than 49 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. Sixteen faculty members who were on leave last year were supported in part by 20 grants received in the past or earlier years and grants received this past year will support 20 faculty members on leave in 2005-2006 or future years. Eight faculty grants included funding for scientific equipment. Approximately 25% of the undergraduate faculty submitted at least one grant proposal last year; over 40% 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 2004-2005 FOR FACULTY RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

Department

Faculty Member

Funding Source

Project Description or Title

Biology

Combelles, Catherine

VT-EPSCoR

Research:  Influence of oxidative stress on bovine oocyte maturation

 

Landis, Matthew/Lloyd, Andrea

VT-EPSCoR

Research:  The demographic basis of elevation range limits in Vermont tree species:  the role of competition for light

 

Lloyd, Andrea

NSF-LTER (Univ Alaska)

Collaborative Research:  Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest:  Resilience and Vulnerability

 

Root, Thomas

Lintilhac Foundation

Research:  The VT Reptile & Amphibian Atlas and Amphibian Monitoring at Ward Marsh

 

Root, Thomas

Vt Dept of Forests, Parks, and Recreation

Research:  Monitoring Amphibians on Mt Mansfield and Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas

 

Spatafora, Grace

NIH-RO1

Research:  Cloning/Characterization of the S. mutans Iron Stimulon

 

Ward, Jeremy

Vermont Genetics Network

Research:  The identification and characterization of the meiotic mutation mei4

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Byers, Jeffrey

VT-EPSCoR

Equipment:  Solvent Purification System

 

Choi, Sunhee

NSF-RUI

Research:  Mechanism and Kinetics of Oxidation of Guanosine Derivatives by Pt/(IV)

 

Choi, Sunhee

Vermont Genetics Network

Research:  Mechanism and Kinetics of Oxidation of Guanosine Derivatives by Pt(IV) Complexes

 

Cluss, Robert

Vermont Genetics Network

Research:  Cytopathic Effect of the Borrelia burgdorferi Exoproteins Oms28 and Enolase

 

Sandwick, Roger

Vermont Genetics Network

Research:  The Maillard Reaction between Ribose 5-Phosphate and Cellular Amines

Computer Science

Scharstein, Daniel

NSF-RUI

Research:  Ground-Truth Driven Stereo Algorithm Design

Economics

Claudon, Michael

John M. Templeton Foundation

Institutional Project:   Support for Digital Bridges

 

Isham, Jonathan

BPB Foundation

Conference at Middlebury:  "What Works?" Conference

 

Isham, Jonathan

Schumann Center for Media and Democracy 

Conference at Middlebury:  "What Works?" Conference

 

Isham, Jonathan

Seventh Generation

Conference at Middlebury:  "What Works?" Conference

 

Nopo, Hugo

Educate Girls Globally and Inter-American Development Bank

Research in Peru:  Rural Girls' Primary Education and Urban Female Employment in Peru

 

Pyle, Willaim

IREX Short Term Travel

Research Travel:  Role of Business Associations in Post-Soviet Russia

 

Warin, Thierry

Harvard University - Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Research:  Fiscal Perspectives in Europe

 

Wunnava, Phani

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Participant:  Liberal Arts Conference in Economics 

English

Billings, Timothy

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation

Publication Support

 

Billings, Timothy

NEH-Summer Institute 

Summer Institute Participant:  Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England

 

Elder, John

Guggenheim Foundation

Research Fellowship:  Sugaring, Forestry, and the Destiny of Vermont

 

Parini, Jay

University of London-Institute for English Studies

Research:  A Study of the Intellectual Development of Thomas Aquinas in the Context of His Life and Medieval Philosophy

 

Skubikowski, Kathy

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Collaborative Faculty Development Program:  Model Institutes for Faculty on Social Justice Education  (with Denison, Furman, Scipps, and Vassar)

Environmental Studies

Seidl, Amy

Environmental Protection Agency

Student Research:  Demonstrating the Feasibility of a Biofuel

Film & Media Culture

Perry, Ted

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Professional Development:  Interplay Reinvented

French

Ladimer, Bethany

Whiting Foundation

Research in France:  Teaching American Students How to Reason and Write in French

 

Nunley, Charles

NEH-Summer Stipend

Summer Seminar Participant:  Robert Desnos and the Question of Wartime Dissent, 1940-1944

 

Schwartz, Paula

NEH-Summer Seminar 

Summer Seminar Participant:  Italian Fascism:  History and Interpretations

Geography

Knowles, Anne

NEH Fellowship

Research:  America's Iron Era:  Labor land Technological Change in the Iron Industry, 1800-1868

 

Mayer, Tamar

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Collaborative Faculty Development Program:  Memory and Monuments:  Ethnic Identity in China and Mongolia (with Vassar, Scripps)

 

Nelson, Peter

USDA-cooperative agreement

Research:  Migration of the Baby Boom Cohort and Its Impact on Rural America

Geology

Manley, P/Manley, T

Lintilhac Foundation

Research:  Whole Lake Side-scan Processing with Web Availability

 

Manley, Patricia

EPA (Buffalo State)

Research:  A sediment trend analysis of the Buffalo River AOC

 

Manley, Thomas

NOAA

Collaborative Research:  Detailed Hydrodynamic Investigation of the Inland Sea of Lake Champlain

 

Munroe, Jeffrey

Lintilhac Foundation

Research:  Investigating Soil Development in the Alpine Zones of the Green Mountains

 

Munroe, Jeffrey

NSF-RUI

Collaborative Research:  Late-Quaternary Glacial and Paleoclimate History of the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah

German

Murti, Kamakshi

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Research:   To Veil or not to Veil:  Turkish-/Germans, Islam, and the headscarf-debate

History

Burnham, Louisa

Dept. of Education-Fulbright-Hays- Summer Seminars Abroad

Seminar in Egypt:  Multiple Perspectives on the Middle East, the Arab and Islamic Worlds

 

Burnham, Louisa

NEH-Summer Seminar 

Summer Seminar Participant:  St. Francis of Assisi and the 13th Century (postponed to 2006)

 

Heuer, Jennifer

NEH Fellowship

Research:   "Our sons married ninety-year olds":  War and Family in the Napoleonic Empire

 

Monod, Paul

Getty Research Institute

Archival Research:  Learned Magic in the British Enlightenment

 

Morsman, Amy

Virginia Historical Society

Archival Research:  The BIg House After Slavery:  VIrginia's Plantation Elite and their Postbellum Domestic Experimant

 

Waters, Neil

Associated Kyoto Program

Teaching and Research in Japan:  Tiger by the Tail:  Tomeoka Kosuke and Japan's Young Men's Associations

History of Art & Architecture

Atherton, Cynthia

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Participant:  Promoting and Resisting Westernization:  Rethinking the Arts and Literatures of Meiji Japan, 1868-1912" 

 

Broucke, Pieter

Parnassus Foundation 

Supplement – Research in Greece:  The Messene Heroon Reconstruction Project

 

Hoving, Kirsten

NEH Fellowship

Research:   Joseph Cornell and Astronomy

 

Hoving, Kirsten

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Professional Development:  You Push the Button, I'll do the Rest:  An Art Historian's Self-Designed Course in the History and Practice of Photographic Technique

Italian

Chang, Natasha

NEH-Summer Seminar 

Summer Seminar Participant:  Italian Fascism:  History and Interpretations

 

Zupan, Patricia

NEH-Summer Seminar 

Summer Seminar Participant:  St. Francis of Assisi and the 13th Century (postponed to 2006)

Mathematics

Schumer, Peter

Associated Kyoto Program

Teaching and Research in Japan:  History and Development of the Game of Go

 

Emerson, John

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

Collaborative Research:  The College Sports Project Center for Data Collection and Analysis)

Physical Education

Smith, Gail

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Symposium:   NESCAC Coaching Symposium II for Women (with Trinity, Tufts, and Wesleyan)

Physics

Graham, Noah

Research Corporation

Research:  Quantum Z-strings and Oscillons in the Electroweak Standard Model

 

Graham, Noah

VT-EPSCoR

Research:  Oscillons in Classical and Quantum Field Theory

 

Watson, Susan

NSF-REU Supplement

Student Research:  REU Supplement for NSF-NIRT grant

 

Winkler, Frank

NSF-RUI/ROA

Research Supplement:  Support for collaborator.  

 

Wolfson, Richard

Vermont Space Grant Consortium

Research:  From Sun to Earth:  Studies in Terrestrial Climate

Political Science

Carmola, Kateri

Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.

Research:  Global Warriors:  Private Contracaators and the Ambiguities of National Strategy

 

Cason, Jeffrey

Fulbright-Lecturing/Research

Research and Teaching in Brazil:  Free Trade in the Americas?   Brazil and the United States in the FTAA Negotiations

Psychology

Arndt, Jason/McCauley, Michelle

NSF-REU 

Student Research Program:  Research in Psychology:  Discovering the Process

Religion

Gould, Rebecca Kneale

Center for Religion and American Culture

Young Scholars Program

 

Lieber, Laura

American Philosophical Society-Franklin

Research Travel:  A Poet of the Ancient Galilee:  Yannai on Genesis

 

Mourad, Suleiman

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative

Research:  Toward a Better Understanding of Islam:  The Mu'tazila School and Their Contribution to Islamic Theology

 

Schine, Robert

Dept. of Education-Fulbright-Hays- Summer Seminars Abroad

Seminar in Egypt:  Multiple Perspectives on the Middle East, the Arab and Islamic Worlds

Soc-Anthro

Sasson, Theodore

Brandeis University

Participant:  Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israeli Studies

 

Comajoan, Llorenc

Catalan Government (AGAUR:  Agencia de Gestio d'Ajuts Universitaris id de Recerca)

Research in Catalonia:  Evolution of Plurilingual Societies:  Representation, behaviors, and liguistic capitals

Spanish

Veguez, Roberto

Spanish Ministry of Culture

Research:  Santander in Vermont:  The Generation of 1927 at the Middlebury Spanish School

Studio Art

Butler, James

Pilchuck Glass School

Artist Residency