AWARDED GRANTS 2007 |
The Green Street Arts Center received awards for support of The GSAC Afterschool Program from Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism (CCCT) $17,007, The Bissell Foundation $12,500, Middlesex County Community Foundation, Inc. (MCCF) $1500, and $5,000 from the Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Block Grant (HUD-CDBG), and $5,000 from Liberty Bank Foundation. The National Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded $280 to support a Theatre Production for “Why I became a Puerto Rican, and The Middletown Commission on the Arts & Cultural Activities (MCA) awarded $500 to support GSAC Limelight Series. 12/2007
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Center for the Arts $10,000 to support of the 2008/2009 Breaking Ground Series. 11/2007
Patrick Dowdey, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies has received a $10,000 award from the Rubin Foundation for a two day International Conference to collect and focus research on the Derge Parkhang, a printing temple founded in 1727 and one of the most important traditional cultural institutions in Tibet. The Derge Parkhang conference will be held at Wesleyan University in the fall of 2008 during the exhibition of prints and books from the Derge Parkhang at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery at Wesleyan during the 2008 fall semester. 12/2007
Liberty Bank Foundation awarded $5,000 to the Wesleyan Public School Collaboration to support the Prospect Math/Science Program. 09/2007
Janice Naegele, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience and Behavior at Wesleyan University, was awarded a $50,000 grant for research in the "Regulation of Epileptogenesis by Striatal Enriched Phosphatase" by the American Epilepsy Society 12/2007
National Endowment for Humanities has awarded Stephen Angle, Associate Professor of Philosophy, $128,415 to host a six-week Summer Seminar at Wesleyan titled Traditions into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics. 12/2007
The James M. Johnston Trust for Education and Charitable Purposes awarded Wesleyan University a grant of $195,000 toward undergraduate financial aid under the James M. Johnston Trust Scholarship program. 12/2007
Wesleyan University received $55,000 for scholarships and admission recruiting from the Davis United World Scholars Program. This program seeks to encourage graduates of the United World Colleges to attend top liberal arts institutions in the United States. 09/2007
The United States Department of Education awarded Wesleyan $220,000, 100% of funding for the 2007-2008 Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program .
The Center for the Arts was awarded $17,007. "With the support of the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism” the CFA will be presenting the 2007-2008 Breaking Ground Series.
Wesleyan's Upward Bound Program received a grant worth $7,500 from the Liberty Bank Foundation in September. The money will be given to support general operating expenses to provide quality college preparation activities for students. 09/2007
The Center for the Arts received awards from the National Foundation for the Arts(NEFA) of $8,750 to support a Theatre Production for outside the box theatre series of "The Civilians". A $2,500 award in support of American Masterpieces program for the Summer 2007 presentation of Phialdanco, and $3,000 to the CFA's presentation of the world premiere of Ronald K.Brown/EVIDENCE's One-Shot. NEFA's - National Dance Project made a grant of $1,000.00 for the presentation of Urban Bush Women/Compagnie Jant-B''s Les Ecailles de la Memoire.
Wesleyan's Middletown Public Schools Collaborative received another grant worth $$83,997 for 2007-2008 from the Nellie Mae. 09/2007
Daniel Krizanc, Professor of Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science, and Norman Danner, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, were awarded $70,825 by National Science Foundation for their two year CPATH CB Collaborative :”Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Help revitalize Undergraduate Computing Education?” 07/2007
Michael Singer, Assistant Professor of Biology has received funds to study how and why woolly bear caterpillars use self-medication to overcome their lethal parasites. Several experiments will investigate how a caterpillar's feeding choice may enhance its resistance against parasites, directly--by killing parasites with ingested plant toxins--as well as indirectly—by ingesting a diet to bolster the immune system. Based on evolutionary theory, Singer expects the caterpillars to choose a diet that bolsters the immune system as a first response to infection, then to switch to a diet rich in plant toxins as a last resort.
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism awarded Neely Bruce, Professor of Music, $3,319 to support the project to perform the complete solo vocal music of Charles Ives for 2007-2008 season and in preparation for the Ives Vocal Marathon Festival in the fall 2008. 07/2007
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $350,000 to CTW( Connecticut College, Trinity College and Wesleyan University) Consortium, with Wesleyan serving as the lead institution. The grant will be used to fund a project entitled "CTW Collaborative Collection Development and Management." 07/2007
Assistant Professor of Physics Tsampikos Kottos will conduct research- addressing Structured Random Matrix Models for Complex Dynamics and the Theory of Energy Spreading, with a $229,989 award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. 07/2007
Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences Tim Ku received a $15,880 grant from the Connecticut Institute of Water Resources for his project "Geochemical Record of Cultural Eutrophication in Lake Beseck." 07/2007
The Center for the Arts received a $1,000 grant from the Daphne Seybold Culpepper Foundation in support of DanceMasters Weekend 2007. 06/2007
Barbara Jones, Caleb T. Winchester University Librarian, headed a consortium awarded a $350,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for "CTW Collaborative Collection Development and Management." 06//2007
Wesleyan's Etherington Scholars Program received a $2,000 grant from the Liberty Bank Foundation. 06/2007
Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and Edward Taylor, Associate Professor of Mathematics, received a $156,808 grant from the National Science Foundation-Division of Mathematical Sciences for their research,"Quasiconformal Symmetries, External Problems, and Patterson-Sullivan Theory." 06/2007
Wesleyan's Davison Art Center received a $500 grant from the Middletown Commission on the Arts to support the publication of a color catalog for an exhibition of Keiji Shinohara's prints. 05/2007
Suzanne O'Connell, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences; Daniel Teraguchi, Dean for Diversity and Academic Advancement; and Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History, African American Studies and American Studies, have been awarded $32,737 by the National Science Foundation for their project "Focus on the Environment: Recruiting Underrepresented Minority Students into the Geosciences." 05/2007
Wesleyan undergraduate Paul McLelland '09 was awarded a summer undergraduate research fellowship from NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This funding will enable McLelland to undertake research into particle and nuclear physics at the Gaithersburg, Maryland, laboratory. 05/2007
The NITLE Instructional Innovations Fund has awarded $39,465 to a coalition of colleges including Bates, Bard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Bowdoin, Reed, Macalester, Connecticut College, and lead institution Wesleyan University. The grant will be used to develop five teaching modules that will be part of "Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy in America," a web-based, multi-media teaching resource for dance studies. 05/2007
John Salzer, Professor of Astronomy, received a $462,467 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project called "Making Hay with ALFALFA: Optical Properties of an HI-Selected Galaxy." 05/2007
Stephen Devoto, Associate Professor of Biology, was awarded a $1,354,920 grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development division of the National Institutes of Health to continue his research entitled "Development of Muscle Fiber Type Identity." 04/2007
Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Science and Professor of Biology, was awarded a subcontract of $41,994 from the State of Connecticut, through the University of Connecticut Health Center, for her research entitled "Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core." 04/2007
Timothy Ku, Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Suzanne O'Connell, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, received funding from the Keck Geology Consortium for a second year. They collaborate with colleagues from the University of Florida and Amherst College, taking a team of undergraduates to study the hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry of bioluminescent bays in Vieques, Puerto Rico. 03/2007
Philip Resor, Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, received a $4,026 Farm Viability Grant from the City of Middletown. His project will produce a complete inventory and develop maps of active and inactive farms in Middletown. 03/2007
A $200,000 Creative Campus grant from the Association of Performing Artists, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation, was received by Wesleyan's Center for the Arts. Funding will enable the production of Feet to the Fire, a multifaceted, interdisciplinary project to involve the campus and community in wrestling with today's urgent concerns of global climate change, using arts as the entryway for engagement. 03/2007
Two grants of $10,000 each were awarded to Wesleyan students as part of philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis’ 100 Projects for Peace initiative. Kudakwashe Ngogodo '08 will use his grant to drill a well for safe drinking water in his hometown of Mberengwa, Zimbabwe. A team consisting of Jessica French Smith '09, Sean Corlett '07, Lorena Estrella '10 and Nelson Norsworthy '10 will renovate and furnish a community center in Nagarote, Nicaragua. 03/2007
Donald Oliver, the Daniel Ayres Professor of Biology and professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, received a renewal of a research grant supported by the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. He will receive $1.3 million over the next four years to continue his research, now in its 18th year, on "Mechanisms of Protein Localization in Escherichia coli." 03/2007
William Herbst, John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Van Vleck Observatory, received a $330,990 grant from the National Science Foundation/REU to continue the work of the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium. The Consortium includes Wesleyan; Colgate University; Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wellesley and Williams Colleges, and provides summer research opportunities for undergraduates. 03/2007
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded Ruth Striegel-Moore, Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Psychology, a $125,000 grant to continue her project "Research Teaching Day on Eating Disorders Conference."
Long Lane Farm has received a $1,980 grant from the Rockfall Foundation to establish a Sustainable Cities Educational Internship for a Middletown High School student during the summer of 2007.
Philip Resor, Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, will use a $40,000 award from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund to study Three-Dimensional Structural and Geomechanical Analysis of Syn-sedimentary Deformation.
The New England Foundation for the Arts has awarded The Center for the Arts, under the direction of Pamela Tatge, a total of $14,275 grant in support of the Breaking Ground Series 2006/07, including the Joe Goode Performance, Forces of Nature and Compagnie Tche Tche.
Lisa Dierker, Associate Professor of Psychology, received $27,810 from the National Institute for Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse in support of her research titled "Pathways to Substance Abuse and Dependence."
Wesleyan University received $45,000 for scholarships and admission recruiting from the Davis United World Scholars Program. This program seeks to encourage graduates of the United World Colleges to attend top liberal arts institutions in the United States.
Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Science and Professor of Biology, was awarded $243,450 from the National Institutes of Health for her research project "Regulation of Parietal Endoderm."
CURE/CBIA Fellowships have been awarded to Wesleyan undergraduates Mathew Donne, Daniel Robert Austin and Jenna Gopilan. Donne will conduct his research under the direction of Laura Grabel, Fisk Professor of Natural Science and Professor of Biology, while Austin and Gopilan will undertake research projects in conjunction with Janice Naegele, Professor of Biology and Neuroscience & Behavior.
The Wesleyan Public Schools Collaborative program, under the direction of Beverly Hunter Daniel, was awarded two grants. The Middlesex County Community Foundation will provide $5,000 for the ASCEND program. The City of Middletown has awarded $10,000 as part of its After School Challenge Grant for the 2006/07 Math/Science Program.
SunMicrosystems has awarded Tsampikos Kottos $28,000 for his research into the Mesocopic Kubo Formalism and Quantum Dissipation.
Suzanne O'Connell, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, with co-investigator Mary Anne Holmes of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, has received $259,593 from the National Science Foundation as part of their ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination Award. The O'Connell/Holmes project is called "Building a Community of Women Geoscience Leaders."
The Brown Foundation of Houston, Texas, has awarded Wesleyan University a $15,000 grant to be split between support of financial aid and the woman’s ice hockey program.
Elizabeth (Lily) Milroy, Dean of the Arts and Humanities, Professor of Art History, and Professor of American Studies, has received a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program grant to bring an Arabic scholar to campus to teach undergraduates.
NASA has awarded Assistant Professor of Astronomy Edward Moran a $64,766 for his research, "Distant Active Galaxies: Insights from the Local Population."
Irina Russu, Professor of Chemistry, was awarded a $241,950 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Studies, for her work "Structural Energetics of a RNA Transcription Switch."
Michael Weir, Professor of Biology and Director of the Hughes Program in the Life Sciences, received $246,678 from the National Institutes of Health for his project, "Functional dissection of an F-box protein in development."
John Kirn, Associate Professor of Biology, Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Behavior, and Director of Graduate Studies, was awarded $218,611 from the National Institutes of Health for his work, "Avian vocal experience and adult neuron replacement."
Philip Bolton, Professor of Chemistry, has received $241,950 from the National Institutes of Health is support of his research, "Structures and complexes of vertebrate telomere repeat DNAs."
The National Science Foundation has awarded $200,054 to Thomas Morgan, Foss Professor of Physics; Brian Stewart, Associate Professor of Physics; and Lutz Huwel, Professor of Physics; for the "Acquisition of a Multi-User High Power Pulsed Laser System."
Etsuko Takahashi, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures and East Asian Studies, received a grant of Japanese Language Teaching Materials.
Wesleyan University has received funding to continue the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program, under the direction of Krishna Winston, Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature and Professor of German Studies. The program focuses on increasing the number of minority students, and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue PhDs in core fields in the arts and sciences.
PIMMS, the Project to Increase Mastery of Math and Science, under the direction of Michael Zebarth, has received a grant of $217,581 from the "eesmarts" project of United Illuminating.
The James M. Johnston Trust for Education and Charitable Purposes awarded Wesleyan University a grant of $190,000 toward undergraduate financial aid under the James M. Johnston Trust Scholarship program.
Wesleyan University has received a $500,000 grant to add to the endowment of the Cornelius Vander Starr Scholarship fund, earnings of which are distributed to eligible undergraduate students.