Faculty Grants 2003-2004
During the 2003-2004 fiscal year, 32 faculty members were awarded over $1.3 million from government agencies and private sponsors, for a total of 44 grants and fellowships in support of their research and other projects. In addition, faculty efforts resulted in four institutional grants to support the academic program. 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. Ten of the grants provide some support for faculty leaves and ten faculty grants included funding for scientific equipment. Approximately 27% of the undergraduate faculty submitted at least one grant proposal last year; nearly 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 |
Kavaler, Joshua |
NIH-AREA |
The Activity of dPax2 in Glial Cell Differentiation |
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Root, Thomas |
Sweetwater Trust |
The Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas | |
|
Root, Thomas |
VGN | Characterization of Tarsal Sensilla of the Scorpion Pandinuis imperator | |
|
Sheldon, Sallie |
VGN | Developing Field Techniques to Remove Invertebrate Herbivories | |
|
Ward, Jeremy |
VGN |
Research Equipment: The Identification of Mammalian Reproductive Genes |
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Ward, Jeremy |
VGN | The Identification of Mammalian Reproductive Genes | |
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Root, Thomas |
Vt. Dept. of Forest, Parks and Recreation |
Amphibian Monitoring at Mt. Mansfield | |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Byers, Jeffrey |
NSF-RUI | Transition-Metal Templated Radical Reactions |
| Byers, Jeffrey |
Pfizer, Inc. |
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship |
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Choi, Sunhee |
VGN | Mechanism of Oxidation of 8-Oxoguanine by Pt(IV) Complexes | |
| Cluss, Robert | VGN | Is the Burrelia burgdorferi Osm28 Secreted Porin a Cytotoxin? | |
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Larrabee, James |
VGN | Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Cobalt (II) Binding Studies of Escherichia coli Methionine Aminopeptidase | |
|
Sandwick, Roger |
VGN | A Stability Study of Phosphoribosamine | |
| Sandwick, Roger | VGN | The Maillard and Amadori Reactions of Ribose 5-Phosphate | |
| Economics |
Pyle, William |
Education Department—Fulbright-Hays |
The Evolution and Role of Business Associations in Post-Socialist Russia |
|
Claudon, Michael |
John M. Templeton Foundation |
Institutional Project: Support for Digital Bridges |
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| English |
Losano, Antonia |
American Philosophical Society—Franklin |
19th-Century Election Drama |
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Billings, Timothy |
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation |
Conference at Stanford University: Shakespeare in Asia -- An international conference |
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Billings, Timothy |
Folger Shakespeare Library |
Glossing Shakespeare: Reading the Plays from the Bottom of the Page | |
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Losano, Antonia |
NEH Summer Seminar |
Literature and the Visual Arts | |
| Film & Media Culture |
Mittell, Jason |
Mellon Faculty Career Initiatives |
Symposium on Film and Media Studies in the Liberal Arts |
| Geography |
Knowles, Anne |
NEH—Collaborative Research (Newberry Library) |
Conference at Newberry Library—History and Geography: Assessing the role of geographical Information in Historical Scholarship |
| Geology |
Manley, Patricia |
Lintilhac Foundation |
Augmentation of Equipment for Sediment Resuspension Research |
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Manley, Thomas |
Lintilhac Foundation | Equipment: Computer Upgrade for Bathymetric and Sidescan Processing | |
|
West, David |
Maine Geological Survey |
Bedrock Mapping in Maine | |
|
Manley, Thomas |
NOAA (LCRC) |
Final Phase of the Lagrangian Drifters Pilot Program | |
|
Munroe, Jeffrey |
NSF | High-Resolution Records of Holocene Climate Change, Drought Variability and Monsoon Behavior from the Uinta Mountains of Utah | |
|
Manley, Patricia |
US Geological Survey |
Lake Champlain Coring for Holocene Climate Record | |
|
Munroe, Jeffrey |
VT-EPSCoR |
Equipment: Acquisition of a Modern Thermogravimetric Analyzer for Use in Making Percent Loss-On-Ignition Measurements of Sediment Organic Content at Middlebury College | |
| History |
Wyatt, Donald |
Center for the Study of East Asian Civilization |
The Place, Power, and Limits of Foreknowledge in the Mental Universes of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi |
|
Jacobs, Travis |
Fulbright Scholar Program—Senior Specialist |
Teaching 20th-Century American History in Tunisia |
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| History of Art & Architecture |
Atherton, Cynthia |
Associated Kyoto Program |
Buddhist and Shinto Visual Culture in Kyoto |
|
Andres, Glenn |
J. Paul Getty Trust |
Institutional Project: Campus Preservation Planning |
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|
Broucke, Pieter |
Parnassus Foundation—Supplement |
Research in Greece: The Messene Heroon Reconstruction Project | |
| Mathematics |
Gomez, Concetta |
VGN | Investigations in p-adic Model Theory |
|
Peterson, William |
VGN | Reflection Mappings for Stochastic Flow Networks | |
| Music |
Tan, Su Lian |
Yaddo |
Artist Residency |
| Physics |
Graham, Noah |
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
KITP Scholar for 2004-2006 |
|
Wolfson, Richard |
NASA | Winding the Spring: Pre-CME Energy Storage in the Solar Corona | |
|
Winkler, Frank |
NASA—Chandra |
Measuring Neutron Star Recoil from a Supernova: A Unique Opportunity in Puppis A | |
| Winkler, Frank |
NASA-Chandra-supplement |
Outreach: Enhancing Outreach from the Middlebury College Observatory |
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Winkler, Frank |
NSF-RUI | Observational Studies of Supernova Remnants and the Interstellar Medium | |
| Physical Education |
Smith, Gail |
National Collegiate Athletic Association |
Symposium with Tufts, Bates, Trinity, Wesleyan and Middlebury: Female Coaching |
| Religion |
Lieber, Laura |
Littauer Foundation |
The Song of Songs in the Poetry of the Early Synagogue: A Literary, Exegetical, and Cultural Introduction to the Piyyutim |
|
Davis, James |
NEH | On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams | |
| Sociology-Anthropology |
Eaton, David |
NEH | Research Fellowship: Coming of age in Congo: Affiliation, narrative, and social history |
| Studio Art |
Butler, James |
Mellon Faculty Career Initiatives |
Transparent Form: Light Made Physical |
| Writing Program |
Vila, Hector |
Orton Family Foundation |
Outreach: Digital Stories Project |