Faculty Grants 2005-2006
During the 2005-2006 fiscal year, faculty members were awarded over $1 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support their research and other projects; 41 faculty members received a total of 49 grants and fellowships. The grants will support travel to research sites and conferences, research supplies, publication costs and other project expenses. Twenty-three faculty members who were on leave last year were supported in part by 22 grants received in the past or earlier years and grants received this past year will support 12 faculty members on leave in 2006-2007 or future years. Three faculty grants included funding for scientific equipment. Approximately 23% of the faculty submitted at least one grant proposal last year; over 60% 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 |
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McCardell, John M. |
Robertson Foundation |
A Study of the Effects of the 21-Year Old Drinking Age |
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| Biology |
Andrews, James |
Lintilhac Foundation, Inc. |
Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas |
| Lloyd, Andrea |
USDA Forest Service |
Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest: Resilience and Vulnerability |
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| Root, Thomas |
Department Of Forests Parks Recreation |
Amphibian Monitoring on Mt Mansfield |
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| Sheldon, Sallie |
Fairfield Pond Recreation Assn., Inc. |
Biocontrol of Eurasian Water Milfoil |
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| Spatafora, Grace | NIH |
Purchase of a Bioscreen C MBR instrument |
|
|
Ward, Jeremy |
VGN |
The identification and characterization of the mammalian mutation mei4 |
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| Chemistry & Biochemistry | Byers, Jeffrey |
NSF-MRI |
Acquisition of an LC/MS system for Middlebury College |
| Cluss, Robert | VGN |
Cytopathic Effect of the Borrelia burgdorferi Exoproteins oms28 and Enolase |
|
| Sandwick, Roger | VGN |
The Maillard Reaction between Ribose 5-Phosphate and Cellular Amines and Proteins |
|
| Sandwick, Roger |
ACS—Petroleum Research Fund |
A Characterization of the Kinetics and Mechanisms of the Reaction of Ribose 5-Phosphase and Amino Acids |
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| Chinese | Moran, Thomas |
Blakemore Foundation |
Senior Scholar at Qinghua University, Beijing, China |
| Economics | Carpenter, Jeffrey |
University of Minnesota, Morris |
Truckers and Turnover: Using field experiments to understand driver decision-making |
|
Colander, David |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Study of Cointegated Vector Auto Regression |
|
| Isham, Jonathan |
Clean Air—Cool Planet |
What Works? Using Insights from Social Change Research to Accelerate the Nascent Climate Movement |
|
| Pyle, William |
Bank of Finland Institute |
Business Associations in Post -Communist Russia |
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| Pyle, William |
Social Science Research Council |
Teaching Fellowship - Legal Institutions and Post-Soviet Economic Development |
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| English |
Billings, Timothy |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
Sinological Methods for Renaissance Travel Writing |
|
Brayton, Daniel |
NEH |
Participant in "The American Maritime People" |
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| Environmental Studies |
Costanza-Robinson, Molly |
VT-EPSCoR |
Xe-enhanced Synchrotron X-ray Computer-assisted Microtomography of Model Porous Media |
| Geography |
Mayer, Tamar |
NEH |
Participant in The Silk Road: Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identity |
| Geology |
Manley, Patricia |
NSF |
SHALDRIL supplement (for SHALDRIL 2) |
|
Manley, Patricia |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Ship Rental - CHIRP SONAR |
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| Manley, Thomas |
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
Hydrodynamic Investigation of the Inland Sea of Lake Champlain—Year II |
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| Munroe, Jeffrey | NSF |
WORKSHOP: UINTAS 2006—The Uintas Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium |
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| Munroe, Jeffrey | NSF |
Supplement to Collaborative: Late-Quaternary Glacial and Paleoclimate history of the Uinta Mountains, NE Utah |
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| Munroe, Jeffrey |
USDA Forest Service |
Workshop: UINTAS 2006—The Uintas Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium |
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| History |
Barrow, Ian |
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies |
Reimagining Death: The Assassination Museum of SWRC Bandaranaike (Colombo, Sri Lanka) |
|
History of Art & Architecture |
Atherton, Cynthia |
Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative |
Cultural Crossroads and Magic Mountains: Southeast Asian Art in Context |
|
Broucke, Pieter |
American Philosophical Society |
Reconstructing the Pantheon of Agrippa: Architecture, Sculpture, and Meaning |
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| Broucke, Pieter | NEH | Reconstructing the Pantheon of Agrippa: Architecture, Sculpture, and Meaning | |
| Broucke, Pieter |
Parnassus Foundation |
MiRA - Middlebury Research in Archaeology (ongoing support) |
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| Garrison, Eliza |
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
Percy Ernst Schramm's Portraiture Idea |
|
|
Hoving, Kirsten |
Smithsonian Institution |
Joseph Cornell and Astronomy |
|
| Music |
Post, Jennifer |
Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative |
Geographic Identities and Musical Expression in Central Asia |
|
Vitercik, Greg |
NEH |
Participant in "Modernist Paris" |
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| Philosophy |
Flynn, Jeffrey |
NEH |
Participant in Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
| Spackman, John | NEH |
Participant in "Mind and Metaphysics" |
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| Physics | Graham, Noah | NSF |
Solitons and Oscillons in Quantum Field Theory |
|
Winkler, Frank |
NASA |
The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): A Deep Survey of the Nearest Face-on Spiral Galaxy |
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| Psychology | Collaer, Marcia | VGN |
Cognitive and vestibular contributors to sex differences in visuospatial ability |
| Collaer, Marcia | VT-EPSCoR |
Does stereotype threat contribute to visuospatial sex differences in line judgment? |
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| Kimble, Matthew | VGN |
Unconscious Fear Effects on Decision-Making |
|
|
McCauley, Michelle |
VGN |
Pilot testing the relation among vocabulary and memory ability on recall with the Cognitive Interview |
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| Political Science |
Connor, Walker |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
|
Kraus, Michael |
Department Of Education |
Edvard Benes, Czechoslovakia and the Great Powers, 1938-1948 |
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| Religion |
Davis, James Calvin |
NEH |
On Religious Liberty: Roger Williams and the Birth of the American Ideal |
| Russian |
Beyer, Tom |
Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative |
Russian Brooklyn |
| Sociology/Anthropology | Oxfeld, Ellen |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Food and Cultural Transformation in Rural China |
| Spanish |
Andreu-Sprigg, Alicia |
Spanish Ministry of Culture |
Corin Tellado and Spanish Narrative |
|
Gonzalez Zenteno, Gloria Estel |
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation |
The New U.S. Latino Narrative: A Migrant Story |
|
|
Martinez-Lage, Ana |
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation |
One country, four official languages: Exposing the linguistic plurality of Spain |
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| Studio Art |
Butler, James |
Pilchuck Glass School |