During the 1998-1999 fiscal year 27 faculty members were once again awarded over $1 million for a total of 33 grants and fellowships to support their research and other projects. Faculty receiving grants represent 13 of the College's academic departments, including all the departments in the Natural Sciences Division. The grants will support 35 students over the next few years as well as travel to research sites and conferences, research supplies, publication costs, and other project expenses. Twelve of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves and six include funding for scientific equipment. About one-fifth of the faculty submitted at least one grant proposal – and half of those submitting proposals received at least one grant.

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

Grants Awarded in 1999 for Faculty Research & Projects
(arranged by sponsor)

 Faculty Member

Department

 Project Description or Title

Center for Chinese Studies

Moran, Thomas

Chinese

The literature of Return

Central Vermont Public Service

Trombulak, Stephen

Biology

Reptile and Amphibian Coverage Mapping

Department of Education-Fulbright-Hays

Adler, Eve

Classics

Russia, Classical Philosphy, and Western Civilization

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Bunt, Richard

Chemistry & Biochemistry

The Mechanism of Base Flipping in DNA Repair Enzymes

EPA (Monranr Tech)

Ryan, Peter

Geology

Water Issues and Mining - Native American Lands

Fulbright-Research/Lecturing

Cason, Jeffrey

Political Science

Visions of Integration: The Political Economy of South American Economic Unions 

Jean Monnet Fellowship

Smith, Mitchell

Political Science

Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy

NASA

 Winkler, Frank

 Physics

Probing the Synchrotron Origin of X-Rays & Measuring Proper Motions

Wolfson, Richard

Physics

Coronal Mass Ejections and Large Scale Evolution of the Solar Corona (3rd Year) 

NEH-Fellowship

Andreu, Alicia

Spanish

Spanish Facist Women Writers and the Novela Rosa, 1936-1950

Nash, William

American Literature & Civilization

 Chicago's Legacy: An African American Literacy History

NEH-Summer Seminar

Zupan, Patricia

Italian

The Marvals of Rome

NIH-AREA

Landino, Lisa

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Peroxynitrite Damage to Microtubule Proteins

NOAA (CILER)

Manley, Patricia

Geology

South Main Lake Hydrodynamics

NSF-CAREER

Huang, Timothy

Math & CX

Object Indentification in Itelligent Systems 

NSF-POWRE

Briggs, Amy

Math & CX

Geometric Algorithms for Landmark-Based Mobile Robot Navigation

NSF -ROA (UCSD)

Watson, Susan

Physics

 Ultra-Sensitive Mechanical Oscillator Study of Thin Film Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors Near the Metal-Insulator Transition

NSF-ROA (UVM)

Young, Helen

Biology

 Nectar-robbing in Impatiens capensis and I. Pallida

NSF-RUI

Dick, Matthew

Biology

Molecular Phylogeny of Gymnolaemate Bryozoans

NSF-supplement

Lloyd, Andrea

Biology

Developing a community outreach program on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska

NSF (University of Alaska)

Lloyd, Andrea

Biology

 Interaction with multiple disturbances with climate in Alaskan Boreal Forests

Research Corporation

Landino, Lisa

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Detection and Consequences of Peroxynitrite Damage to Microtubule Proteins

Smithsonian Institution

Dick, Matthew

Biology

 Molecular Phylogeny of Tropical American Cupuladriid Bryozoans

USDA Forest Service-GMNF-renewal 

Root, Thomas

Biology

Amphibian Monitoring at Lye Brook Wilderness and Comparison Sites

Trombulak, Stephen

Biology

Amphibian Monitoring at Lye Brook

USGS (Vermont Water Resources Center)

Sheldon, Sallie

Biology

 Viability of the Seedbank Under Milfoil

Vermonts Arts Council

Kramer, Katie

English

Novel in Progress 

VT-EPSCoR

Young, Helen

Biology

 Nectar-robbing in Impatiens capensis and I. Pallida 

McCauley, Michelle

Psychology

Development of Video Stimulus Materials For Assessing Decision Making 

Vermont Department of Education

Prigo, R.,
Ratciff, S.

Physics

 An Introduction to the Universive and the Physics of Motion

Yohkoh Collaboration

Wolfson, Richard

Physics

 Sun, Earth, and a Touch of Einstein