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 research during the past decade. Project grants support summer and […]…Continue Reading Vermont Genetics Network grants for research in the biomedical sciences to David Allen, Amanda Crocker, Michael Dash, Michael Durst, Glen Ernstrom, Clarissa Parker, and AJ Vasiliou
Tag: Faculty Research
NSF Day at the University of Maine on October 13, 2016
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Maine are hosting an NSF Day to be held on Thursday, October 13, 2016 from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm at the Cross Insurance Center, 515 Main Street in Bangor, Maine. NSF Days provide basic insight and instruction on how to compete for NSF funding for […]…Continue Reading NSF Day at the University of Maine on October 13, 2016
Will Amidon receives collaborative grant from National Science Foundation
Will Amidon (Geology) has received support from the National Science Foundation for a project titled Testing Models of Passive Margin Rejuvenation in the Eastern U.S. He and a collaborator at the State University of New York Plattsburgh received a three year grant to work on understanding mountain uplift and erosion over the last 100 million […]…Continue Reading Will Amidon receives collaborative grant from National Science Foundation
Frank Winkler receives grant from NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute for Collaborative Research
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 Curtin University in Australia and Johns Hopkins University. This project entails observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and is titled Diagnosing the super-Eddington accretion/outflow regime using the microquasar […]…Continue Reading Frank Winkler receives grant from NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute for Collaborative Research
Michael Linderman receives NIH grant for genomic literacy assessment tool
Michael Linderman (Computer Science) has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for a research project entitled Developing a Genomics Literacy Measure. This NIH Small Grant, awarded to Michael earlier this year while he was at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been transferred to Middlebury. The grant will fund the […]…Continue Reading Michael Linderman receives NIH grant for genomic literacy assessment tool
Ioana Uricaru receives major prize from Romanian National Center for Cinema
Ioana Uricaru (Film and Media Culture) has received a major prize from the Romanian National Center for Cinema’s annual production support competition. This grant provides production support for a film titled Honeymoon/Lemonade which tells the story of a Romanian single mother who is a recent immigrant to the US. Lemonade was previously developed through the […]…Continue Reading Ioana Uricaru receives major prize from Romanian National Center for Cinema
AJ Vasiliou receives ACS PRF New Investigator Award
AnGayle (AJ) Vasiliou (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has received an Undergraduate New Investigator grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for a project titled Sulfur Chemistry: Molecular Mechanisms. The proposed work seeks to answer questions regarding the reaction mechanisms for the thermal decomposition of sulfur compounds. Because raw energy sources such as coal, petroleum, […]…Continue Reading AJ Vasiliou receives ACS PRF New Investigator Award