Faculty Grants 2002-2003
During the 2002-2003 fiscal year faculty members were once again awarded over $1 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support their research and other projects; 37 faculty members received a total of 44 grants and fellowships. In addition, faculty efforts resulted in two institutional grants to support the academic program. These faculty members represent 16 of the College's academic departments, including all the departments in the Natural Sciences Division. 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. Twenty-two of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves and eight 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 |
| Biology |
Watters, Christopher |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Instruction in Molecular Biology and Curricular Revision at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & Development of Case Studies in Nutrition and Disease |
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Parfitt, David |
Humana Foundation |
Winter Term Course in Romania |
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Root, Thomas |
Lintilhac Foundation, Inc. |
Reptile and Amphibian Inventory and Monitoring, 2002-2003 | |
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Helmreich, Dana |
NIH | Stressor Controllability and Neuroendocrine Systems | |
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Spatafora, Grace |
NIH | Regulation of Streptococcus mutans Virulence by covR/S | |
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Dick, Matthew |
NSF | Acquisition of DNA Sequencing and Genotyping Instrumentation for Research and Undergraduate Training in Biology | |
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Root, Thomas |
Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife |
The Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas | |
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Parfitt, David |
VGN | Rearing and Genetic Interactions on Mouse Social Behavior | |
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Spatafora, Grace |
VGN | Identification of a Streptoccus mutans Iron Stimulon by Microarray Analysis | |
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Watters, Christopher |
VGN | Improving High Contact/Resolution Light Microscopy (equipment) | |
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Young, Helen |
VGN | The relative roles of honeybees and bumblebees in the pollination of a native herb | |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Bunt, Richard |
NIH | Mechanisam of Base-Flipping by DNA Modifying Enzymes |
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Choi, Sunhee |
NSF-ROA | Mechanism of Nucleic Acid Oxidation and Cross-linking | |
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Larrabee, James |
VGN | Zebra Mussels as Monitors of Trace Metals in the Water Column of Lake Champlain | |
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Sontum, Steven |
VGN | Development of Force Fields for Knowledge-base prediction of protein folding | |
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Byers, Jeffrey |
VT-EPSCoR | Radical Reactions of Cyclobutadiene Iron Tricarbonyl | |
| Economics |
Carpenter, Jeffrey |
MacArthur Foundation: Fairness & Preferences Working Group |
Veloproductivity: production experiments with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the U.S. |
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Pyle, William |
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research |
The Evolution and Role of Business Associations in Post-Soviet Russia | |
| Classics |
Sfyroeras, Pavlos |
Center for Hellenic Studies |
The Feast of Poetry: Sacrifice and Performance in Aristophanic Comedy |
| Economics |
Isham, Jonathan |
VT-EPSCoR | The Transformation of Land-Based Social Capital |
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Pyle, William |
William Davidson Institute |
Role of Business Associations in Post-Soviet Russia | |
| English |
Cohen, Robert |
Guggenheim Foundation |
Fiction writing fellowship |
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Billings, Timothy |
NEH | Bilingual Critical Edition of Victor Segalen's French/Chinese Poetry: Steles (1914) | |
| Geography |
Nelson, Peter |
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College |
Age-cohort effects on metropolitan and nonmetropolitan population and income flows, 1975-2000 |
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Nelson, Peter |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
Boom! Bust! Echo! Age Cohort Effects on Nonmetropolitan Migration, 1975-2000 | |
| Geology |
Manley, Patricia |
Lintilhac Foundation, Inc. |
Research Supplement: Side-scan sonar cable |
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Manley, Patricia |
Lintilhac Foundation, Inc. |
Research Equipment: Particle Size Analyzer |
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Manley, Thomas |
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
Lagrangian Drifters Program | |
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Manley, Patricia |
NSF |
Collaborative Research: SHALDRIL, A Demonstration Drilling Cruise to the James Ross Basin |
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West, David |
NSF | The Role of Orogen Parallel Fault Systems in the Exhumation of a Convergent Orogen | |
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Ryan, Peter |
NYCO Minerals, Inc. |
X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Amphibole Contaminants in Wollastonite | |
| German |
Matthias, Bettina |
Austrian Government—Werfel Grant |
Check in to Tell a Story: The Hotel as Literary Space of Choice in Modern German Literature |
| History |
Tropp, Jacob |
American Philosophical Society—Franklin Grant |
Conserving "Native" lands: Official Environmentalism in Brisish Colonial Africa and the American Southwest |
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Barrow, Ian |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Research in India: India: 1799 |
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Wyatt, Don |
Institute for Advanced Study |
Confucius in the Chinese Post-Marxist Age | |
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Lamberti, Marjorie |
Rockefeller Archive Center |
Living in Two Cultures: Refugee Political Scholars from Nazi Germany in America | |
| History of Art & Architecture |
Broucke, Pieter |
Parnassus Foundation |
The Messene Heroon Reconstruction Project |
| Mathematics & Computer Science |
Martin, Robert |
Hewlett Packard |
Computer Architecture and IA64 Assembly Language |
| Philosophy |
Grasswick, Heidi |
NEH |
Summer Seminar Participant: Feminist Epistemologies |
| Physics |
Watson, Susan |
NSF-NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams) | Nanotube and Nanowire Based Quantum Computation |
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Graham, Noah |
VT-EPSCoR | Searching for Quantum-Stabilized Solitons and Efficient Algorithms in Quantum Computing | |
| Psychology |
Velez, Carlos |
VGN | A pilot study of the effects of alcohol on sex and sexual risk taking among college students using an internet-based survey to collect daily self-reports |
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Hofer, Barbara |
VT-EPSCoR | Stressor "How Do I Know What to Believe?" Epistemic Metacognition during Online Science Learning | |
| Political Science |
Bleich, Erik |
German Marshall Fund of the U.S. |
The Politics of Hate: Criminalizing Racial Hatred |
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Pekkanen, Saadia |
Social Science Research Council |
National Courts and the Rule of WTO Law in the U.S., Europe and Japan | |
| Sociology-Anthropology |
Sasson, Theodore |
NEH |
Summer Seminar Participant: Punishment, Politics and Culture |