Grant Recipients FY'19
Margaret Boyle (Romance Languages and Literatures) was awarded a Fulbright for her research project entitled ”Why Should a Woman Study Medicine?”: Women and Health in Early Modern Spain; a Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant for her project Multilingual Mainers: World Languages and Cultures in K-2; and a fellowship by the George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation for her project titled Women and Health in Early Modern Spain.
Phil Camill (Earth and Oceanographic Science) and his collaborators from Lehigh University, Texas A&M University, University of New Hampshire, and Purdue University were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their research project entitled Peat Expansion in Arctic Tundra - Pattern, Process, and the Implication for the Carbon Cycle (TundraPEAT).
Sara Dickey (Sociology/Anthropology) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her research project entitled Managing the Honor and Stigma of Disjunctive Identities: Nadar Uravinmurai Associations and "Cultural Improvement" in South India.
Stacy Doore (Computer Science) and her collaborators from the University of Maine were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project entitled A Remote Multimodal Learning Environment to Increase Graphical Information Access for Blind and Visually Impaired Students. Stacy is also a Co-PI on an award from Google’s Exploring Science and Research program. In addition, she was awarded a grant from the Mozilla Foundation for her project titled Responsible Computer Science Challenge: Computing Ethics Narratives.
Danielle Dube (Chemistry) and her collaborator from the University of Charlotte were awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for their research project entitled Deciphering Helicobacter pylori's glycocode: uncovering and harnessing drug targets.
Behrang Forghani (Mathematics) was awarded a conference grant from the National Science Foundation in support of his project entitled Boundaries of Random Walks and Applications.
Natasha Goldman (Art History) and Page Herrlinger (History) were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar and Institute program to support a two-week seminar at Bowdoin entitled Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.
Chris Heurlin (Government and Legal Studies/Asian Studies) was awarded a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD and a Faculty Research Fellowship from Fulbright for his project The Enduring Power of Communism in Asia: The International Political Economy of Authoritarian Consolidation.
Hadley Horch (Neuroscience/Biology) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her research project entitled RUI: Adult Compensatory Plasticity in an Invertebrate Sensory System.
Patty Jones (Biology) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled Insect Herbivore Feeding Guilds and Compartmentalized Plant Defense.
Jens Klenner (German) was awarded a grant from the German Embassy in support of the German department’s German Campus Weeks programming.
Willi Lempert (Sociology and Anthropology) received an Engaged Anthropology Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Barry Logan (Biology) and his collaborators from CalTech were awarded a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for theirr project entitled Terrestrial Ecology: Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.
Ingrid Nelson (Sociology) was awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation for her project titled After the Party: How Elite Undergraduates Learn from Racially-Charged Controversies on Campus.
Erica Nyhus (Psychology and Neuroscience) was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for her research project entitled Identifying the role of theta oscillations in the transient network dynamics involved in episodic memory.
Michael Palopoli (Biology) was awarded a grant through the NIH INBRE program for his project Evolution of gene regulation within and between species of Drosophila.
Meghan Roberts (History) was awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society in support of her research project entitled Enlightened Experts: Making Medical Authority in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic World.
Jill Smith (German) was awarded a grant from Deutschlandjahr USA to support the German department’s Germany and the Environment programming.
Kana Takematsu (Chemistry) was awarded a Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement for her research project entitled Moving Multiple Charges with Light in Derivatized Naphthalene Photoacids.