Tag: Faculty Grants

Leticia Arroyo Abad (Economics & IPE) was awarded the Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society and the Arthur H. Cole Grant  by the Economic History Association to fund her sabbatical project The Fiscal Roots of Latin American Inequality. Leticia will spend some time in the archives in Madrid and the spring semester as a…Continue Reading Leticia Arroyo Abad awarded two grants for sabbatical research

Maggie Clinton (History) has been awarded a grant from the Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei, Taiwan in support of her 2013-14 leave. The grant provides round-trip travel and support for three months in Spring 2014 at the Center, where she plans to conduct research and complete the manuscript for her book project Revolutionary Nativism:…Continue Reading Maggie Clinton awarded grant from the Center for Chinese Studies

Middlebury College is one of the baccalaureate partner institutions participating in a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Vermont. This grant continues the Vermont Genetics Network support that has been a significant source of funding for faculty and student research in the past decade. This year, Mark Spritzer (Biology) received…Continue Reading Mark Spritzer: VGN funding

The Jack Miller Center has awarded the College a grant to help with the expenses of Constitution Day events to be held at Middlebury in September. This grant is the result of a proposal submitted by Murray Dry and Keegan Callanan (both Political Science) and will augment resources for this event available from the Department of…Continue Reading Murray Dry and Keegan Callanan awarded funding for Constitution Day events

Middlebury College was recently awarded a grant from the Enduring Questions program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which will enable development and implementation of a sophomore-level course focused on the enduring question “What is the good life and how do I live it?“.  The grant leadership team consists of Patricia Zupan (Italian),…Continue Reading NEH Enduring Questions grant for course development

Martha Woodruff (Philosophy) has been accepted to participate in the Institute for the History of Philosophy at Emory University in June 2013, to support research for her second book. The topic of the institute, Renewing the Ancient Quarrel: Plato, Hegel, and Adorno, refers to what Plato called “the quarrel between philosophy and poetry” (Republic X)….Continue Reading Martha Woodruff Summer Seminar Funding

James Larrabee (Chemistry & Biochemistry) has received a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation through NSF’s Research in Undergraduate Institutions activity. This is Jim’s fifth NSF-RUI grant in his career. This grant provides funding to enable at least six undergraduate students to participate in his research, which should lead to a better understanding…Continue Reading James Larrabee Awarded New NSF Grant

Patricia Zupan (Italian) has been selected to participate this summer in a faculty seminar at Transylvania University in Kentucky, funded by the University’s Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching. The seminar, titled Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept, will involve faculty from liberal arts colleges around the country. The award covers all costs of…Continue Reading Patricia Zupan Faculty Seminar, Transylvania University