Febe Armanios (History) has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend program in support of her book project, Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East. The grant provides support for full-time research and writing this summer as she completes work on this long term research…Continue Reading Febe Armanios awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Tag: Faculty Grants
Catherine Combelles awarded USDA NIFA grant
Catherine Combelles (Biology) has received a sabbatical grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support her 2015-16 academic leave. The grant will cover leave salary and expenses related to research that she will be conducting at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Toulouse, France. This grant…Continue Reading Catherine Combelles awarded USDA NIFA grant
James Calvin Davis awarded Louisville Institute Project Grant
James Calvin Davis (Religion) has been awarded a Project Grant from The Louisville Institute to finish a book-length project called Forbearance: A Theology of Faithful Disagreement. The book marshals resources from the Christian intellectual tradition to argue for the embrace of theological disagreement as an ethical good and an expression of virtue….Continue Reading James Calvin Davis awarded Louisville Institute Project Grant
Peggy Nelson awarded supplemental NSF funding
Peggy Nelson (Sociology-Anthropology) has received an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Supplement to the National Science Foundation grant awarded last summer to Peggy and a collaborator from Wellesley, titled Social and Biogenetic Factors of New Forms of Families. This additional funding creates an unusual research training experience by covering travel expenses and wages for a…Continue Reading Peggy Nelson awarded supplemental NSF funding
Frank Winkler awarded NASA funding
Frank Winkler (Emeritus Professor, Physics) has been awarded funding from the NASA-funded Space Telescope Science Institute for his role in a collaborative research project involving researchers at STScI and University of Toronto. This project entails observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and is titled To be or not to be the Progenitor: The Question about Tycho-B. The…Continue Reading Frank Winkler awarded NASA funding
John Emerson awarded funding to develop statistics materials
John Emerson (Mathematics) received a modest grant through the Yale University Provost’s Fund for support of a project titled Advances in Statistical Software Environments, on which he is working while on academic leave this year. The project grows out of an interest in changing the way statistics is taught, and it will develop educational materials…Continue Reading John Emerson awarded funding to develop statistics materials
John Schmitt granted funds to attend combinatorics workshop
John Schmitt (Mathematics) received a grant from the NSF-sponsored Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, located on the campus of the University of Minnesota, to attend a workshop this fall titled Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics. While there, he presented a poster highlighting his work with two collaborators, one from the University of Georgia and the other…Continue Reading John Schmitt granted funds to attend combinatorics workshop
John Schmitt awarded conference funding from the National Security Agency
John Schmitt (Mathematics) and colleagues from Dartmouth College, Bard College, Smith College, St. Michael’s College, SUNY Albany, Wesleyan University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have received funding from the National Security Agency for two conferences this year on discrete mathematics. The first was hosted by Middlebury at Bread Loaf during September. The main purposes of these conferences…Continue Reading John Schmitt awarded conference funding from the National Security Agency
VGN Awards for Glen Ernstrom, Clarissa Parker, and AJ Vasiliou
Vermont Genetics Network grants for Research in the Biomedical Sciences 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 an important source of funding for faculty and student…Continue Reading VGN Awards for Glen Ernstrom, Clarissa Parker, and AJ Vasiliou