Jeff Munroe (Geology) has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation through its Research in Undergraduate Institutions mechanism for a research project titled RUI: Alpine Loess, Periglacial Uplands, and Exotic Additions: Investigating Past and Present Dust Deposition in the Alpine Zone of the Uinta Mountains, Utah. At least six undergraduate students will be…Continue Reading Jeff Munroe awarded National Science Foundation Research in Undergraduate Institutions grant
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Noah Graham awarded grant from the National Science Foundation
Noah Graham (Physics) has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for work on a project titled Casimir Forces From Scattering Theory. The project will carry out calculations of Casimir forces, which arise from quantum-mechanical fluctuations at the short distance scales relevant to nanotechnology. The approach is based on developing broadly applicable…Continue Reading Noah Graham awarded grant from the National Science Foundation
Jessica Teets and Orion Lewis awarded grant from Social Science Research and Humanities Council of Canada
Jessica Teets and Orion Lewis (both Political Science) are part of a research team based at the University of Alberta that has received funding from the Social Science Research and Humanities Council of Canada for a project titled Policy Innovation and Institutional Change in China. This study uses an evolutionary approach to analyze how the…Continue Reading Jessica Teets and Orion Lewis awarded grant from Social Science Research and Humanities Council of Canada
Guntram Herb awarded grant to participate in NEH Summer Institute
Guntram Herb (Geography) was awarded a grant to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute titled On Native Grounds: Studies of Native American Histories and the Land, which was sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association and was in residence at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC for three weeks this…Continue Reading Guntram Herb awarded grant to participate in NEH Summer Institute
Jeff Howarth awarded National Science Foundation IUSE grant
Jeff Howarth (Geography) and a colleague at University of California-Santa Barbara have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s IUSE program (Improvement in Undergraduate STEM Education) for an interdisciplinary project titled Multimedia Learning Principles for Design-it Yourself Online Instruction of GIS Concepts. The theoretical goal of the project is to evaluate the generalizability of multimedia learning…Continue Reading Jeff Howarth awarded National Science Foundation IUSE grant
Amidon awarded grant from National Geographic Society
Will Amidon (Geology) has received a grant from the National Geographic Society for a project titled Finding Early Martian Landscapes in Idaho. The goal of this research is to understand the role of glacial outburst floods in forming amphitheater-headed canyons on the Snake River Plain of Idaho. This work should provide useful clues to how…Continue Reading Amidon awarded grant from National Geographic Society
Laurie Essig receives Fulbright Scholar award
Laurie Essig (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies) has received a lecturing award from the Fulbright Scholar Program in support of her 2015-2016 leave. She will be working with the Gender Studies Program at the European University at St. Petersburg. While there Laurie will co-teach a graduate seminar in gender theory and continue in her role…Continue Reading Laurie Essig receives Fulbright Scholar award
Aline Germain-Rutherford awarded grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Aline Germain-Rutherford (Linguistics) and colleagues from the University of Toronto and York University (in Canada) and University of Grenoble (France) have been awarded a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The University of Toronto is the lead institution on this collaborative project titled “LINguistic and Cultural DIversity REinvented (LINCDIRE): A…Continue Reading Aline Germain-Rutherford awarded grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Matthew Kimble awarded grant from NIMH
Matthew Kimble (Psychology) has been awarded a research 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 Neurophysiological and Behavioral Studies of Expectancy Bias in Trauma Survivors, which will use electroencephalography and eye tracking technology to better understand how…Continue Reading Matthew Kimble awarded grant from NIMH