Jeff Munroe (Geology) has been awarded a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society for a project titled Developing a Record of Holocene Environmental Change from an Idaho Ice Cave. The grant will cover field research expenses for Jeff and a Middlebury undergraduate to collect samples from the ice cave as well as the expense…Continue Reading Jeff Munroe awarded Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society
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Tom and Pat Manley awarded grant from the Lintilhac Foundation
Tom & Pat Manley (Geology) have received a grant from the Lintilhac Foundation for a project titled High-Resolution Bottom Mapping of Lake Champlain. This grant provides funding to begin a long term effort to update the 2005 bottom bathymetric map of Lake Champlain using multibeam technology which Middlebury acquired with a 2011 grant from the…Continue Reading Tom and Pat Manley awarded grant from the Lintilhac Foundation
William Poulin-Deltour awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
William Poulin-Deltour (French) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled The Debate over Same-Sex Marriage: Toward an Enhanced Understanding of Contemporary France. The grant will enable William to spend three months in Paris to study French reactions to same-sex marriage and collect ethnographic materials that he will…Continue Reading William Poulin-Deltour awarded a Whiting Foundation fellowship
David West awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
David West (Geology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Exploring Iceland’s Active Geology. The grant will support ten days of field investigation in Iceland that will enrich his teaching of structural geology, tectonics, and volcanic hazards in both introductory and upper-level geology courses. The experience will also…Continue Reading David West awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
David Stoll awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
David Stoll (Sociology/Anthropology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Six Weeks on the US/Mexican Border. The grant will fund trips to three border regions — the Sonora Desert of Southern Arizona, the Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas, and the Imperial Valley of Southern California. Throughout his travels…Continue Reading David Stoll awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
Jacob Tropp awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
Jacob Tropp (History) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Imagining the Past in the Present: Mozambique’s Complex Colonial Legacies. The grant will support a three-week trip in fall 2015 to study first-hand the complex legacies and meanings of Mozambique’s colonial past. The purpose of this…Continue Reading Jacob Tropp awarded Whiting Foundation fellowship
Febe Armanios awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant
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
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
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