Mark Spritzer (Biology) has been awarded an R15 research grant through the National Institutes of Health’s AREA (Academic Research Enhancement Award) program. This grant will support work to investigate the effect of testosterone replacement on the spatial working memory of hypogonadal aged male rats. It will fund research equipment, supplies, and travel to conferences and…Continue Reading Mark Spritzer awarded NIH AREA grant
Tag: Faculty Grants
Sujata Moorti awarded residencies at Mt. Holyoke and McGill
Sujata Moorti (Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies) has been awarded residencies at two institutions in support of her 2014-15 leave and her research titled Science and Gender in New Media. During the fall she will be a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College, where she will contribute…Continue Reading Sujata Moorti awarded residencies at Mt. Holyoke and McGill
Brett Millier awarded a grant to attend NEH Summer Institute
Brett Millier (English and American Literatures) has been awarded a grant to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute titled Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece, which is sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California at Santa Cruz in collaboration with the Athens Centre in Athens, Greece where the…Continue Reading Brett Millier awarded a grant to attend NEH Summer Institute
Febe Armanios – Fellowship for Middle East research
Febe Armanios (History) has been awarded a Fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany) in support of her research this summer in Turkey, Cyprus and Lebanon. The research relates to her 2014-15 leave and to her new book project, titled Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East. The project investigates the…Continue Reading Febe Armanios – Fellowship for Middle East research
Will Amidon – Whiting Foundation fellowship
Will Amidon (Geology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Rediscovering Geochronology. The grant will enable Will to spend four months during his 2014-15 leave in Lorraine, France at the Centre de Recherches Petrographiques and Geochemiques fulfilling personal and professional goals related to doing geochronological research and…Continue Reading Will Amidon – Whiting Foundation fellowship
Elizabeth Morrison – Whiting Foundation fellowship
Elizabeth Morrison (Religion) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled In the Company of Pilgrims: The “Four Great Places” of the Life of the Buddha. The grant will enable Elizabeth to travel to northern India and Nepal to visit sites significant in the life of the Buddha…Continue Reading Elizabeth Morrison – Whiting Foundation fellowship
Timothy Billings awarded an NEH Enduring Questions grant
Timothy Billings (English & American Literatures, Comparative Literature Program) has been awarded an Enduring Questions grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the development of a new course on the topic of “What is lost (& found) in translation?” Students will explore the fundamental philosophical, sociological, and linguistic questions raised by…Continue Reading Timothy Billings awarded an NEH Enduring Questions grant
Erik Bleich awarded a Fulbright Scholar research grant
Erik Bleich (Political Science) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Program research grant and a fellowship through the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) at the Collegium de Lyon (France) in support of his 2014-15 leave project titled Restricting Racist Speech in France: How Courts Draw the Line Between Free Speech and Hate Speech. He…Continue Reading Erik Bleich awarded a Fulbright Scholar research grant
Sandra Carletti awarded a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation fellowship
Sandra Carletti (Italian) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled The United Tables of Italy: Pellegrino Artusi and the Unification of Italy in the Kitchen. The grant will enable Sandra to travel to Italy during her 2014-15 leave to do research at the Pellegrino Artusi library…Continue Reading Sandra Carletti awarded a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation fellowship