During the 2001-2002 fiscal year faculty members were once again awarded over $1 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support their research and other projects; 27 faculty members received a total of 42 grants and fellowships. In addition, faculty efforts resulted in three institutional grants to support the academic program. These faculty represent 15 of the College's academic departments, including all the departments in the Natural Sciences Division. The grants will support 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. Fifteen of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves and five 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 College staff and faculty from the Grants Office by email.
Contact Franci Farnsworth (x5889) for more information.

Grants Awarded in 2001-2002 for Faculty Research & Projects
(arranged by sponsor)

Faculty Member

Department

Project Description or Title

American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies

Barrow, Ian

History

Research in Sri Lanka: British Colonial Surveying in Sri Lanka, 1796-1850

Associated Kyoto Program

Hofer, Barbara

Psychology

Research and Teaching in Japan:Culture and Cognition: A Psychological Exploration of Mind and Culture

Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France)

Billings, Timothy

English

Fellowships: A Bilingual Critical Edition of Victor Segalen's Steles (1914)

Ecosystems Research Group, Ltd.

Ryan, Peter

Geology

Research: Quantitative Mineralogical Analysis of Green Mountain Soils to Assess Acid Rain Buffering Potential

Fulbright Scholar Program

Olsen, Andrea

Theatre, Dance, & Film/Video

Research and Teaching in New Zealand: Art and the Environment: Body and Earth International Performance Project

Smorodinska, Tatiana

Russian

Research and Teaching in Russia: Untimely Poet (Life and Oeuvre of K.K. Sluchevsky)

John D & Catharine MacArthur Foundation & James S McDonnell Foundation Research Network on Early Experience & Brain Development

Parfitt, David

Biology

Research: Interaction of Early Rearing Environment and Genetic Background on the Development of Social Behaviors in C57BL/6 Mice

Liguria Study Center (Bogliasco, Italy)

Billings, Timothy

English

Fellowships: A Bilingual Critical Edition of Victor Segalen's Steles (1914)

Lintilhac Foundation, Inc.

Manley, Patricia
Manley, Thomas

Geology

Research: Bottom Characterizations of the Main Lake - Side-scan Mosaic, Bottom Bathymetry

Louisville Institute

Gould, Rebecca Kneale

Religion

Research: Religion on the Ground: The New Environmentalism of Religious Institutions

MacArthur Foundation

Carpenter, Jeffrey

Economics

Research: High Stakes Bargaining with Non-Students

Merck/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Cluss, Robert

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Summer Research Program for Students: New Frontiers in the Molecular Sciences

National Endowment for the Humanities

Millier, Brett

American Literature & Civilization

Fellowship: Jean Garrigue: A Critical Biography

Saleh, Walid

Religion

Summer Stipend: The Apocalyptic Roots of Islamic Fundamentalism

National Institutes of Health

Spatafora, Grace

Biology

Supplement for Student Research: Characterization of S.mutans glg gene expression

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Manley, Thomas

Geology

Research: RAFOS and Shelburne Bay Program

National Science Foundation

Briggs, Amy

Math & Computer Science

Research: Landmark-Based Mobile Robot Navigation Using Expected Shortest Paths

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Collaborative Research: The Architecture and Paleoceanography of N Atlantic Sediment Drifts - Seismic profiling, swath mapping and coring

Manley, Patricia

Geology

Supplement for Student Research: Quaternary Glacial History and Paleoenvironments of the East Antarctic Margin

Munroe, Jeffrey

Geology

Planning Visit to China: Collaborative Study of the Extent of Late Pleistocene Glaciation on the Eastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

Ryan, Peter

Geology

Research: Quantitative XRD-Sequential Extraction Analysis of Trace Metal Speciation in Ultramafic-Derived Soils and Waters

West, David

Geology

Collaborative Research: The Tectonothermal Evolution of a Convergent Orogen

National Science Foundation - Bonanza Creek LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Site

Lloyd, Andrea
Fastie, Christopher

Biology

Research:Interaction of Multiple Disturbances with Climate in Alaskan Boreal Forests

National Science Foundation - ROA (Research Opportunity Award)

Sheldon, Sallie

Biology

Collaborative Research: The effect of cultural nutrient enrichment on food web support of nekton in salt marshes [Marine Biological Laboratory]

Watson, Susan

Physics

Collaborative Research: Dynamical Effects in Mesoscale Electronic Systems [Harvard University]

Parfitt, David

Biology

Collaborative Research: Effects of Controllable Versus Noncontrollable Stress on the Expression of Steroid Receptor Cofactors in the Male Syrian Hamster Brain [Skidmore College]

Parnassus Foundation

Broucke, Pieter

History of Art & Architecture

Program Support: Visiting Scholar for History of Art & Architecture Department and College Museum of Art

Pfizer Inc

Byers, Jeffrey

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Summer Undergraduate Fellowship

Cluss, Robert

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Summer Undergraduate Fellowship

Psi Chi - National Honor Society in Psychology

Campbell, Susan

Psychology

Supplement to Summer Research Program for Students:Research in Psychology

Smith Richardson Foundation

Layzer, Judith

Political Science

Research: Science, Citizen Involvement, and Collaborative Environmental Policymaking

Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society

Choi, Sunhee

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research: Mechanism of Oxidation of DNA by Pt(IV) Complexes

West, David

Geology

Research:A Field Based Investigation of a Major Terrane Boundary: The Sennebec Pond Fault in Mid-Coastal Maine

U.S. Department of Education-Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program

Davis, Darien

History

Research in Latin America: Music to His Ears: Brazilian Popular Music in the Time of Getulio Vargas, 1930-1954

U.S. Forest Service-Green Mountain National Forest

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research Supplement:Amphibian Monitoring at Lye Brook

U.S. Geological Survey

Munroe, Jeffrey

Geology

Research: Geologic mapping of the southern Lake Fork Mtn. Quadrangle, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah

Vermont Dept. of Forests, Parks, & Recreation

Root, Thomas

Biology

Research Supplement:Monitoring of Amphibians on Mt. Mansfield

Vermont Genetics Network

Bunt, Richard

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research: Altering the Rate of Base Flipping in DNA

Choi, Sunhee

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research: Mechanism of Oxidation of DNA by Pt(IV) Complexes

Cluss, Robert

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Research: Characterization of the Putative HMG-COA reductase of Borrelia burgdorferi

Parfitt, David

Biology

Research: Effect of Stress and Coping on Reproduction

Sheldon, Sallie

Biology

Research: Differential uptake of nitrogen from the water column and prey for four carnivorous bladderworts

Sheldon, Sallie

Biology

Equipment Supporting Lake Study

Spatafora, Grace

Biology

Research: Investigating TarC as a Putative Regulator of Streptococcus mutans Virulence