Grant Recipients

Aretha Aoki (Theater & Dance) was awarded a grant from The Kindling Foundation and a grant from The National Performance Network for her upcoming performance at the Bates Dance Festival titled Izumonookunl.

Charles Dorn (Education) was awarded a grant from the Humane Society of the United States Shin Pond Summer Retreat Program and a Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Landhaus Fellowship in support of his work titled Learning through Nature: A History of Environmental Education in America. Chuck was also awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Japan for his project titled Learning from Education - America Past and Present.

Hadley Horch (Biology/Neuroscience) was a awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled RUI: Adult Compensatory Plasticity in an Invertebrate (NSF Award No. 223089).

Eileen Sylvan Johnson (Environmental Studies) and her collaborators from the University of Maine (UMaine) were awarded a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture for their project titled Enhancing rural capacities to strengthen economic development and community resilience. In addition, Eileen and her collaborators from UMaine were awarded a Maine Sea Grant for their project titled FY2023 Sea Grant Base Supplemental and Coastal Adaptation and Resilience. Together with her collaborators at The Nature Conservancy, Eileen received a grant from the State of Maine’s Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future for their project to examine the programmatic impact of the Community Resilience Partnership in Maine.

Patricia Jones (Biology) and her collaborators from Bucknell University were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled RUI: Different strategies to optimize the trade-off between reproduction and survival in a long-lived species (NSF Award No. 2314381).

Matthew Klingle (History and Environmental Studies) was awarded a General Library Services Fellowship from the National Library Of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health for his project titled Sweet Blood: Diabetes and the Changing Nature of Modern Health.

Michèle LaVigne (Earth and Oceanographic Science) and her collaborators at Colby College were awarded a grant from the Maine Community Foundation's Broadreach Fund for Maine Coastal and Climate Action for their project titled Social and Ecological Feasibility of Oyster Reef Restoration in Maine.

Barry Logan (Biology) and Jaret Reblin (Biology/SCSC) and their collaborators from Boston University were awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s NIST program for their project titled From grasses, to trees, to forest fragments - Improving our understanding and modeling of biogenic fluxes in cities (Award 70NANB23H171).

Samuel Putnam (Psychology) and his collaborator from Colby College were awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health titled International Conference on Infant Studies: 2024-2028.

Hannah Reese (Psychology) and her colleagues at Johns Hopkins University were awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for their project titled Remote Delivery of Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Tics.

Jill Smith (German) was awarded a grant from the German Embassy for Campus Weeks 2023 programming titled Germany on Campus.

Naomi Tanabe (Mathematics) was awarded an AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty for her project titled Moments of L-Functions.

Mary Lou Zeeman (Mathematics) and her collaborators from Mt. Holyoke College, Harvard University, Washington and Lee University, Boston University, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville received an American Institute of Mathematics SQuaREs award for their project titled Flow-Kick Systems with Applications to Immunology.