Will Amidon (Geology) has received an Undergraduate Research grant from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for a project titled Post-Rift Tectonism on Circum-Atlantic Margins. The goal of this research is to study the history of geologically recent mountain uplift and erosion in the northeastern U.S., where offshore sediment records suggest subtle tectonism occurred in […]…Continue Reading Will Amidon receives ACS PRF research grant
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Will Amidon receives ACS PRF research grant
Will Amidon (Geology) has received an Undergraduate Research grant from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for a project titled Post-Rift Tectonism on Circum-Atlantic Margins. The goal of this research is to study the history of geologically recent mountain uplift and erosion in the northeastern U.S., where offshore sediment records suggest subtle tectonism occurred in […]…Continue Reading Will Amidon receives ACS PRF research grant
Nick Muller receives grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
Nick Muller (Economics) has received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for two different collaborative research projects. With colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, he is working on a project titled Air, Climate and Energy (ACE) Center: Science Supporting Solutions. The goal of this research is to explore the interface between air pollution, climate change and energy […]…Continue Reading Nick Muller receives grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency
Ioana Uricaru receives Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin
Ioana Uricaru (Film and Media Culture) has been awarded one of this year’s Berlin Prizes by the American Academy in Berlin in support of Paperclip, a screenplay and film project that she will be working on during her academic leave in 2016-2017. This residential fellowship provides a stipend and housing during Fall 2016 when she […]…Continue Reading Ioana Uricaru receives Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin
Lorraine Besser awarded grant from a Templeton Foundation-funded initiative
Lorraine Besser (Philosophy) has received support from a Templeton Foundation-funded initiative called the Happiness and Well-Being Project, based at St. Louis University. She and a collaborator at the University of Virginia received a two year grant to work on an interdisciplinary project titled What is the Good Life? The Happy Life, the Perfectionist Life, or […]…Continue Reading Lorraine Besser awarded grant from a Templeton Foundation-funded initiative
Council on Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Institute applications are due June 17, 2016
Are you working on writing a grant proposal for research or academic programming? Here is a resource that may be helpful. The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is offering a Proposal Writing Institute (PWI) on August 4-8, 2016 at the Kellogg West Conference Center & Hotel, Pomona CA. Deadline: June 17, 2016. Applications reviewed on a rolling […]…Continue Reading Council on Undergraduate Research Proposal Writing Institute applications are due June 17, 2016
Pat Manley receives award from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation
Pat Manley (Geology) has been awarded a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for a project titled Reading the Rocks: A History of Modern Geology. The grant will fund travel in England and Scotland this summer to geologic locations that are key to understanding the history of modern geology and to museums and historic […]…Continue Reading Pat Manley receives award from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation