Tag: Faculty Grants

Will Amidon (Geology) has been awarded funding through the National Science Foundation’s RUI mechanism for two years of research with collaborators at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The project, titled Reconstructing Mid-Miocene-to-Recent Paleo-Erosion Rates in the Eastern Andes, Northern Argentina, will involve five undergraduate researchers in investigating whether climate oscillations can be linked…Continue Reading Will Amidon Awarded NSF Grant

Peter Nelson (Geography) has received funding through a cooperative agreement from the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support a research project titled High Cost Mortgage Lending in Rural America and the Great Recession. The goals of the project are to identify which rural communities and which rural residents are most…Continue Reading Peter Nelson Awarded USDA Funding

Frank Winkler (Physics) has received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory General Observer Program for a project that involves collaborators from the Space Telescope Science Institute, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, North Carolina State University and the RIKEN Institute in Japan. This project will involve a comprehensive study of the…Continue Reading Frank Winkler Awarded NASA Funding

Linda White (Japanese Studies) has been awarded a Research Grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program to spend her academic leave next year in Japan conducting ethnographic research in Tokyo with citizens and non-citizens, activists and others concerned about the key document for family and citizenship registration in Japan. She will be affiliated with Nihon University…Continue Reading Linda White Awarded Fulbright Scholar Research Grant

Mark Stefani (Psychology) has been awarded an R15 research grant through the National Institutes of Health’s AREA program. This grant will support collaborative work with Mark Spritzer (Biology) to investigate the role that the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) plays in impaired cognition in a rat model of schizophrenia. This grant includes funding for three undergraduate…Continue Reading Mark Stefani Awarded NIH-AREA Grant

Ian Barrow  (History) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled In the Footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi. He will travel to three areas of South Asia, each of which exemplifies on or more of the major confrontations in Gandhi’s life. What he learns about how Gandhi and…Continue Reading Ian Barrow Whiting Fellowship: South Asia

Chris Klyza  (Political Science) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Alaska: Conservation in the Final Frontier. He will travel to Alaska to experience and photograph its landscapes and to better understand the issues at stake there, especially on lands managed by the major federal land…Continue Reading Chris Klyza Whiting Fellowship: Alaska

Pete Ryan (Geology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled International Perspectives on Environmental Geochemistry. He will spend two months during his 2012-2013 academic leave at the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (Andalucian Institute of Earth Sciences) in Granada, Spain. The main purpose of his…Continue Reading Pete Ryan Whiting Fellowship: Grenada, Spain

Jeff Howarth (Geography) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Mapping Cook’s Narratives on Tahiti. He will spend one month during his 2012-2013 leave visiting Tahiti. The main objective of his project is to map information contained in the personal journals of Captain James Cook and…Continue Reading Jeff Howarth Whiting Fellowship: Tahiti