Tag: Faculty Grants

John Spackman to Attend NEH Summer Institute

John Spackman (Philosophy) has been awarded a grant to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute titled Investigating Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives, which will be held at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. During the institute, John’s goal is to develop more fully a Buddhist-inspired view of the relation between the…Continue Reading John Spackman to Attend NEH Summer Institute

Kareem Khalifa to Attend NEH Summer Institute

Kareem Khalifa (Philosophy) has been awarded a grant to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute titled Experimental Philosophy, which will be held at the University of Arizona.  He will be learning how to use experimental methods to explore philosophical questions concerning the nature of knowledge, understanding, and explanation….Continue Reading Kareem Khalifa to Attend NEH Summer Institute

Helen Young Awarded Fulbright Scholar Research Grant

Helen Young (Biology) has been awarded a research grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program to spend April through July in Scotland during her academic leave in 2013. She will be based at the University of Stirling where she will collaborate with a colleague on pollination projects involving raspberries, bumblebees, and citizen science. Her research is…Continue Reading Helen Young Awarded Fulbright Scholar Research Grant

Neil Waters Fellowship in Japan

Neil Waters (Professor Emeritus of History) has been awarded a fellowship from the Associated Kyoto Program to teach and conduct research in Japan during Fall 2012. He will teach a course titled The History of Pre-Modern Japan for the AKP program at Doshisha University and will work on a research project titled Recycling Morality: the Life and Afterlives…Continue Reading Neil Waters Fellowship in Japan

Matt Kimble Earns NIH AREA Award

Matt Kimble (Psychology)  has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health through NIH’s R15 AREA program. The grant provides three years of funding to support a project titled ERP and Eye Tracking Studies of Expectancy Bias in Trauma Survivors, which will engage six students over the life of the grant in…Continue Reading Matt Kimble Earns NIH AREA Award

Michael Katz: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship

Middlebury College has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support an emeritus fellowship for Michael Katz, professor emeritus of Russian and East European studies. The grant will allow Professor Katz to prepare an annotated edition of three interrelated works of fiction from the Tolstoy family, accompanied by selected excerpts from the…Continue Reading Michael Katz: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship

Major Equipment Grant for Lake Research

The National Science Foundation has awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant to Middlebury College for acquisition of an integrated system of instrumentation to be used in lake-studies research conducted by faculty and students. Under the direction of geology professors Patricia Manley and Thomas Manley, this grant will fund purchase of a multi-beam sonar system and…Continue Reading Major Equipment Grant for Lake Research

Andrea Lloyd’s Research Receives NSF Funding

Andrea Lloyd (Biology) and colleagues involved in the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research site in Alaska have received funding from the National Science Foundation for a project titled Regional Consequences of Changing Climate-Disturbance Interactions for the Resilience of Alaska’s Boreal Forest.  The project is part of the NSF-LTER program, which provides ongoing support of…Continue Reading Andrea Lloyd’s Research Receives NSF Funding