Carl Craver, PhD, associate professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $110,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research titled “Discovering Mechanisms: Strategies from the History of Biology.” …
Gerald L. Early, PhD, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $215,175 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a 2011 summer institute for
schoolteachers titled “The Sock Hop and the Loft: Jazz, Motown, and the Transformation of American Culture, 1959-1975.” …
Bruce Fegley, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Chemical Equilibrium Calculations of Ionian Volcanic Gas Composition.” …
Andrew L. Goodman, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in pathology and immunology, has received a five-year, $642,666 career award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Corrinoid Response of the Human Gut Microbiota.” …
Jason Qian, a senior biomedical engineering major, was named an Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) Scholar by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As a UGSP Scholar, Qian will receive a $20,000 scholarship for the 2010-11 academic year and will be a paid research trainee at the NIH for Summer 2011. …
Mrinalini Watsa, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $500 grant from the International Primatological Society for research titled “Bringing Planet Earth to Sábado Científicos, or Scientific Saturdays, to the children of Boca Amigos in the Madre de Dios Department of Peru.”
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