Laurie Essig (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled “Bury Their Hearts”: The Homosexual as foreign Pollution in Russia. The grant will fund a trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg, during which Laurie will meet with colleagues, experts, and LGBT and…Continue Reading Laurie Essig awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
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Sujata Moorti awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
Sujata Moorti (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Transnational Surrogacy and Feminism. The grant will enable Sujata to travel Bengaluru, India, during her 2014-15 leave to visit surrogacy centers that draw people from a wide variety of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and…Continue Reading Sujata Moorti awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
Eilat Glikman receives grant from Research Corporation
Eilat Glikman (Physics) has received a grant from Research Corporation, a private foundation that aids basic research in the physical sciences. This research will study growing super-massive black holes (aka quasars) and the effects they have on their host galaxies. Since all galaxies are believed to grow a black hole at some point in their…Continue Reading Eilat Glikman receives grant from Research Corporation
Michael Sheridan Receives Dumbarton Oaks Grant
Michael Sheridan (Sociology-Anthropology) has received a Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant for a project titled Ethnobotany, symbolism, and property rights institutions in tropical agrarian societies. The grant will support his ongoing research on botanically similar plants that delineate property lines, mark graves, and symbolize peace throughout tropical Africa, the Caribbean and Oceania. During his 14-15 leave,…Continue Reading Michael Sheridan Receives Dumbarton Oaks Grant
Jessica Teets Awarded Public Intellectuals Program Outreach Grant
Jessica Teets (Political Science) has been awarded a grant to conduct a one year outreach program in a local elementary school with a goal of promoting awareness of China and sparking an interest in learning more about China on the part of the students and teachers at the school; the program will be designed so…Continue Reading Jessica Teets Awarded Public Intellectuals Program Outreach Grant
Frank Winkler: Funding from the Space Telescope Science Institute
Frank Winkler (Emeritus Professor, Physics) has been awarded funding from the NASA-funded Space Telescope Science Institute for a his role in a collaborative research project led by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University. This project, involving new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, is titled Discovering and Characterizing the Young Supernova Remnant Population in M101. The…Continue Reading Frank Winkler: Funding from the Space Telescope Science Institute
Clarissa Parker receives NARSAD Young Investigator Grant
Clarissa Parker (Psychology & Neuroscience) has received a 2013 NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation that wholly funds her project titled Genome-Wide Association for Conditioned Fear in the Diversity Outbred Mouse Population. The grant provides materials and supplies for two years of…Continue Reading Clarissa Parker receives NARSAD Young Investigator Grant
Eilat Glikman awarded STSI funding
Eilat Glikman (Physics) has received funding from the NASA-funded Space Telescope Science Institute to continue her ongoing research related to observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The main goal of this project, titled Testing the Merger Hypothesis for Black Hole/Galaxy Co-Evolution at z-2, is to image the host galaxies of rapidly growing black holes,…Continue Reading Eilat Glikman awarded STSI funding
James Calvin Davis earns Seminar Grant
James Calvin Davis (Religion) has been awarded a Seminar Grant from Bringing Theory to Practice, an organization working in conjunction with the Association of American Colleges & Universities, to support campus initiatives that focus on engaged learning and students’ civic development. The grant will underwrite a winter term retreat to further develop a new Middlebury initiative…Continue Reading James Calvin Davis earns Seminar Grant