Faculty Grants 2009-2010

During the 2009-2010 fiscal year,  Middlebury College and individual faculty members were awarded over $3.0 million for a total of 49 grants and fellowships supporting research and other scholarly activities of 38 faculty members.  In addition, Middlebury benefited once again from the Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative grants made by the Mellon Foundation to clusters of liberal arts colleges including Middlebury, with one grant to Middlebury and many Middlebury faculty members participating in grants to other colleges.

It is impossible to know exactly how many grant proposals are submitted each year by Middlebury faculty members because the College only tracks those proposals submitted through the Sponsored Research Office to sources requiring college grant administration and those submitted to support faculty academic leaves.  From the available data, it is possible to say that during the past year at least 70 faculty members submitted 120 or more grant proposals (which means that over 20 % of all faculty were involved in this type of scholarship during 2009-2010).   Sixty of those proposals were submitted through the Sponsored Research Office.

Faculty receiving grants during 2009-2010  represent 22 departments and programs.  These grants provide funding for 65 student/faculty collaborations over the next few years as well as travel to research sites and conferences, research supplies, equipment, publication costs, and other project expenses.   Seventeen of the grants provide some support for faculty leave projects  and four faculty grants include funding for scientific equipment.

In addition to research at Middlebury and at research centers elsewhere, grants received during 2009-2010 provide funding for conferences at Middlebury, curriculum development, professional development,  scientific equipment, field research in Vermont, and research projects around the United States and in 10 foreign countries.  Twenty-one faculty members on leave in 2009-2010 had funding from grants.     And 20 grants received during 2009-2010 provide funding for 16 faculty members on leave in 2009-2010 or future years, doing research at Middlebury and around the world.

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.