Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs Open Office Hours for Faculty in October

COME TALK TO OGSP STAFF ABOUT FACULTY GRANTS!!! The Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs is holding Drop In Office Hours at the following times in October Wednesday, October 12, 4:30-5:30 pm, Axinn Winter Garden Wednesday, October 26, 4:30-5:30 pm, McCardell Bicentennial Hall 331 (thru the front entrance, behind the stairs) At these Drop In […]…Continue Reading Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs Open Office Hours for Faculty in October

Carlos Vélez‐Blasini receives grant from Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Carlos Vélez‐Blasini (Psychology) has received a grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The grant provides support for a study of the relationship between use of social networking sites, normative beliefs about sex, and relationship quality variables in US adults in and out of stable relationships. The work will provide insights […]…Continue Reading Carlos Vélez‐Blasini receives grant from Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell receive NEH funding for workshops

Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell (both Film and Media Culture) have received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program for a project titled Scholarship in Sound and Image. The grant will support a pair of  two week workshops to be held  at […]…Continue Reading Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell receive NEH funding for workshops

NSF Equipment Grant Supports Geology Research

Will Amidon, Ray Coish, and Pete Ryan (all Geology) have received support from the National Science Foundation for the purchase of a laser to accompany the department’s existing inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) instrument. This new instrumentation will give Middlebury College the ability to analyze isotope ratios and trace element concentrations of virtually all […]…Continue Reading NSF Equipment Grant Supports Geology Research

Clarissa Parker receives grant from National Institutes of Health

Clarissa Parker (Psychology and Neuroscience) has been awarded a research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse through NIH’s R15 AREA program. The grant provides three years of funding to support a project titled Genome-Wide Association for Affective Withdrawal in Outbred Mice. The goal of this work is to use a highly recombinant mouse population […]…Continue Reading Clarissa Parker receives grant from National Institutes of Health

AJ Vasiliou receives grant from National Science Foundation

AnGayle (AJ) Vasiliou (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has received a National Science Foundation grant through the Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) mechanism for a project titled RUI: Sulfur Chemistry: Molecular Mechanisms. The proposed work seeks to answer questions regarding the reaction mechanisms for the thermal decomposition of sulfur compounds encountered in petroleum and biofuels, which is […]…Continue Reading AJ Vasiliou receives grant from National Science Foundation