Faculty Grants 2001-2002
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 faculty and staff from the Sponsored Research Office by email. Contact Franci Farnsworth (x5889) for more information.
Department/Program |
Faculty Member |
Sponsor |
Project Description or Title |
| American Literature & Civilization |
Millier, Brett |
NEH | Jean Garrigue: A Critical Biography |
| Biology |
Parfitt, David |
John D & Catharine T MacArthur Foundation & James S McDonnell Foundation Research Network on Early Experience & Brain Development |
Interaction of Early Rearing Environment and Genetic Background on the Development of Social Behaviors in C57BL/6 Mice |
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Spatafora, Grace |
NIH |
Supplement for Student Research: Characterization of S. mutans glg gene expression |
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Lloyd, Andrea |
NSF-ROA |
Collaborative Research: The effect of cultural nutrient enrichment on food web support of nekton in salt marshes [Marine Biological Laboratory] |
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Parfitt, David |
NSF-ROA |
Collaborative Research: Effects of Controllable Versus Noncontrollable Stress on the Expression of Steroid Receptor Cofactors in the Male Syrian Hamster Brain [Skidmore College] |
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Root, Thomas |
U.S. Forest Service-Green Mountain National Forest |
Supplement:Amphibian Monitoring at Lye Brook | |
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Root, Thomas |
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, & Recreation |
Supplement:Monitoring of Amphibians on Mt. Mansfield | |
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Parfitt, David |
VGN | Effect of Stress and Coping on Reproduction | |
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Sheldon, Sallie |
VGN | Differential uptake of nitrogen from the water column and prey for four carnivorous bladderworts | |
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Sheldon, Sallie |
VGN |
Equipment Supporting Lake Study |
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Spatafora, Grace |
VGN | Investigating TarC as a Putative Regulator of Streptococcus mutans Virulence | |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry | Cluss, Robert |
Merck/AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) |
Summer Research Program for Students: New Frontiers in the Molecular Sciences |
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Byers, Jeffrey |
Pfizer Inc. |
Summer Undergraduate Fellowship |
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| Cluss, Robert | Pfizer Inc. | Summer Undergraduate Fellowship | |
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Choi, Sunhee |
Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society |
Mechanism of Oxidation of DNA by Pt(IV) Complexes | |
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Bunt, Richard |
VGN | Altering the Rate of Base Flipping in DNA | |
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Choi, Sunhee |
VGN | Mechanism of Oxidation of DNA by Pt(IV) Complexes | |
| Cluss, Robert | VGN | Characterization of the Putative HMG-COA reductase of Borrelia burgdorferi | |
| Economics |
Carpenter, Jeffrey |
MacArthur Foundation |
High Stakes Bargaining with Non-Students |
| English |
Billings, Timothy |
Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France) |
A Bilingual Critical Edition of Victor Segalen's Steles (1914) |
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Billings, Timothy |
Liguria Study Center (Bogliasco, Italy) |
A Bilingual Critical Edition of Victor Segalen's Steles (1914) | |
| Geology |
Ryan, Peter |
Ecosystems Research Group, Ltd. |
Quantitative Mineralogical Analysis of Green Mountain Soils to Assess Acid Rain Buffering Potential |
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Manley, Patricia |
Lintilhac Foundation, Inc. |
Bottom Characterizations of the Main Lake—Side-scan Mosaic, Bottom Bathymetry | |
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Manley, Thomas |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
RAFOS and Shelburne Bay Program | |
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Manley, Patricia |
NSF |
Collaborative Research: The Architecture and Paleoceanography of N Atlantic Sediment Drifts—Seismic profiling, swath mapping and coring |
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Manley, Patricia |
NSF |
Supplement for Student Research: Quaternary Glacial History and Paleoenvironments of the East Antarctic Margin |
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Munroe, Jeffrey |
NSF | Collaborative Study of the Extent of Late Pleistocene Glaciation on the Eastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau (planning phase) | |
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Ryan, Peter |
NSF | Quantitative XRD-Sequential Extraction Analysis of Trace Metal Speciation in Ultramafic-Derived Soils and Waters | |
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West, David |
NSF |
Collaborative Research: The Tectonothermal Evolution of a Convergent Orogen |
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West, David |
Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society |
A Field Based Investigation of a Major Terrane Boundary: The Sennebec Pond Fault in Mid-Coastal Maine | |
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Munroe, Jeffrey |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Geologic mapping of the southern Lake Fork Mtn. Quadrangle, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah | |
| History |
Barrow, Ian |
American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies |
British Colonial Surveying in Sri Lanka, 1796-1850 |
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Davis, Darien |
U.S. Department of Education-Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program |
Music to His Ears: Brazilian Popular Music in the Time of Getulio Vargas, 1930-1954 | |
| History of Art & Architecture |
Broucke, Pieter |
Parnassus Foundation |
Visiting Scholar for History of Art & Architecture Department and College Museum of Art |
| Mathematics & Computer Science |
Briggs, Amy |
NSF | Landmark-Based Mobile Robot Navigation Using Expected Shortest Paths |
| Physics |
Watson, Susan |
NSF-ROA |
Collaborative Research: Dynamical Effects in Mesoscale Electronic Systems [Harvard University] |
| Political Science |
Layzer, Judith |
Smith Richardson Foundation |
Science, Citizen Involvement, and Collaborative Environmental Policymaking |
| Psychology |
Hofer, Barbara |
Associated Kyoto Program |
Culture and Cognition: A Psychological Exploration of Mind and Culture |
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Campbell, Susan |
Psi Chi—National Honor Society in Psychology |
Supplement to Summer Research Program for Students | |
| Religion |
Gould, Rebecca Kneale |
Louisville Institute |
Religion on the Ground: The New Environmentalism of Religious Institutions |
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Saleh, Walid |
NEH | The Apocalyptic Roots of Islamic Fundamentalism | |
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Russian |
Smorodinska, Tatiana |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Untimely Poet (Life and Oeuvre of K.K. Sluchevsky) |
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Theatre, Dance, & Film/Video |
Olsen, Andrea |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Art and the Environment: Body and Earth International Performance Project |