Faculty Grants 2006-2007
During the 2006-2007 fiscal year, Middlebury College and individual faculty members were awarded over $2.5 million from government agencies and private sponsors to support faculty research and other projects; 38 faculty members received a total of 42 grants and fellowships. The grants will support travel to research sites and conferences, research supplies, publication costs and other project expenses. Seventeen faculty members who were on leave last year were supported in part by 26 grants received in the past or earlier years and grants received this past year will support 15 faculty members on leave in 2007-2008 or future years. Two faculty grants included funding for scientific equipment. Approximately 21% of the faculty submitted at least one grant proposal last year; over 40% of those submitting proposals through the Sponsored Research Office 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 | Combelles, Catherine | VGN |
Profiling of pro-/anti-oxidants during ovarian folliculogenesis |
| Lloyd, Andrea | NSF |
Collaborative Research: Past, Present and Future Productivity of Arctic Woody Vegetation in a Warming Climate |
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| Spritzer, Mark | VGN |
Testosterone, hippocampal neurogenesis, and spatial memory in adult male rats |
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Ward, Jeremy |
NIH |
The identification and characaterization of the mammalian mutation mei4 |
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Watters, Christopher |
NSF |
Seeing the Data ...and Beyond: Gordon Research Conference, Workshops, and Mini-Grants |
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| Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Choi, Sunhee |
NSF-ROA |
Supplement: Mechanism and Kinetics of Oxidation of Guanosine Derivatives by Pt(IV) Complexes |
| Larrabee, James | NSF |
Determination of Magnetic Exchange Coupling in Carboxylate-Bridged Binuclear CO(II) by Magnetic Circular Dichroism |
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| Sandwick, Roger | VGN |
The Maillard Reaction between Ribose 5-Phosphate and Proteins |
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| Economics |
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter; |
NSF |
Raising Money for Charity: An experimental approach |
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May, Ann Mari |
AAUW |
Working for Working Women |
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| English |
Kramer, Kathryn |
Vermont Council On The Arts |
Non-fiction book project |
| Millier, Brett |
Canadian Embassy |
Canadian Studies Course Development |
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| Environmental Studies | Costanza-Robinson, Molly | NSF |
Measurement and Microtomographic Imaging of the Air-Water Interface in Unsaturated Porous Media |
| Geography | Knowles, Anne |
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies |
Geographies of the Holocaust |
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Mayer, Tamar |
Department Of Education—Fulbright-Hays |
Reading Cultural Landscapes in Xinjiang, China: The Silk Roads Revisited |
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| Nelson, Peter |
USDA Cooperative Agreement |
Effects of Baby Boom Migration on the Size and Characteristics of Rural Populations |
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| Geology | Manley, Thomas; Manley, Patricia |
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
Analysis of Historical Data Sets and Further Investigations Within the Restricted Arm of Lake Champlain |
| History | McCardell, John |
Robertson Foundation |
Supplement: Effects of 21 year-old drinking age |
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Monod, Paul |
NEH |
King Solomon's Arts: The Occult in the British Enlightenment, 1650-1815 |
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| Monod, Paul |
The Huntington Library |
King Solomon's Arts: The Occult in the British Enlightenment 1650-1815 |
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| Morse, Kathryn |
American Antiquarian Society |
The View from Here: American Environmental History through Images |
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History of Art & Architecture |
Broucke, Pieter |
Parnassus Foundation |
The Four Pantheons |
| Hoving, Kirsten |
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation |
The Art of Place: In the Footsteps of Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams |
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| Hoving, Kirsten |
Society for Preservation of American Modernists |
Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars |
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| Italian |
Van Order, Thomas |
NEH |
Music and Meaning in the Cinema of Federico Fellini |
| Japanese |
Cavanaugh, Carole |
American Council of Learned Societies |
Develop course: "Mindfulness, Decision-Making and the Problem of Mass Destruction" |
| Mathematics | Bremser, Priscilla |
Penn/NY Campus Compact |
Mathematics of Social Justice: Course Development Workshop |
| Philosophy | Nuovo, Victor |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
Fellowship for research expenses, multiple projects |
| Psychology | Arndt, Jason | NIH |
Associations between perceptual features and information that was never perceived |
| Gurland, Suzanne |
Spencer Foundation |
Child Expectancy Effects in the Child-Teacher Relationship |
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| Hofer, Barbara | NSF |
Knowing Who and What to Believe: Epistemic Development during Adolescence |
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| Hofer, Barbara |
Associated Kyoto Program |
Teaching and research in Japan: Culture, Cognition and Beliefs |
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| Hofer, Barbara |
Fidler Research Grant |
The Electronic Tether: Parental Regulation, Self-Regulation, and the Role of Technology in College Transitions |
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| Kimble, Matthew | VGN |
Changing perceptions of threat in military cadets and war veterans |
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| Religion | Waldron, William |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
Buddhist Thought and Cognitive Science: the Relation between Language and Consciousness |
| Russian | Katz, Michael | NEH |
The Continuing Significance of Tocqueville's Democracy in America |
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Moss, Kevin |
IREX |
Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia |
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| Spanish | Swarthout, Kelley | NEH |
Brazilian Art and Literature from Baroque to Modernism |
| Studio Art |
Huddleston, John |
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation |
Healing Ground |
| Teacher Education | Miller-Lane, Jonathan |
Transylvania University |
Twenty-first century liberal education: A contested concept |