Olivia DrakeSuzanna Tamminen, director of Wesleyan University Press, received a $50,000 grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for the Driftless Connecticut Series. The Driftless Connecticut Series is a publication award program established in 2010 to recognize excellent books with a Connecticut focus or written by a Connecticut author. To be eligible, the book must have a Connecticut topic or setting or an author must have been born in Connecticut or have been a legal resident of Connecticut for at least three years. The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation…
Wesleyan’s Green Street Arts Center received a $2,000 grant from the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A. and Alan S. Parker, co-trustees, to support the center’s outreach programs in Middletown. The grant was awarded on Nov. 30.
Erika Taylor, assistant professor of chemistry and environmental studies, has received a $193,809 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project called “Imaging Lignin Degradation." Taylor will collaborate with colleagues at Penn State University and the University of Tennessee. Taylor hopes to use fluorescence imaging and isotope trace experiments to develop probes for finding organisms that can break down lignin. She plans to test complex biological samples. "Think going to the forest and bringing home a bucket of dirt containing small insects and lots of microorganisms and then figuring out which ones can break down lignin. This is…
Pam Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts, received a $500 New England Foundation for the Arts grant on Nov. 22. The CFA will use the grant to support travel expenses to the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference.
Edward Taylor, associate professor of mathematics; Petra Bonfert-Taylor, associate professor of mathematics; and David Bodznick, dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, professor of biology, professor of neuroscience and behavior, received a grant worth $199,924 from the National Science Foundation for their “Collaborative Research: Analytic and Geometric Methods in Limited Angle Tomosunthesis.” The grant expires Aug. 27, 2011.
Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of biology, chair of the Environmental Studies Program and director of the College of the Environment, received a $13,000 grant from The Nature Conservancy for his research titled “Fish and Benthic Invertebrate Assemblages-Zemko Dam.” The grant expires Aug. 15, 2011.
David PesciErika Franklin Fowler, assistant professor of government, received a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The funds will be used to support The Wesleyan Media Project. More information on this grant is online at: https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/11/05/knight-foundation-supports-the-wesleyan-media-project/
Beverly Hunter-Daniel, director of the Wesleyan Public Schools Collaborative for the Upward Bound Program, received a Educational Incentive Challenge Grant worth $8,000 from the City of Middletown Youth Service Advisory Board.
Manju Hingorani, associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, received a $165,083 grant from the Connecticut Department of Health for her study titled “Role of DNA Mismatch Repair in Tobacco Smoke-Mediated Carcinogenesis.” The grant will fund a post-doc and research associate’s projects through September 2012. Also, Hingorani, received a $497,532 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her study titled “PCNA Clamp Mechanisms in DNA Replication and Repair.” The grant will fund graduate and undergraduate students’ research projects through June 2013. The project is supported by Award number R15GM094047 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Also, Hingorani…
Bill Herbst, the John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy, received a grant for $471,990 from the National Science Foundation. The grant will provide summer research stipends for students and funds for an Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium with the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium (KNAC). KNAC is a group of consisting of Wesleyan and seven other institutions (Colgate, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wellesley and Williams) that have worked together to improve research experiences for undergraduate astronomy majors. KNAC was formed 20 years ago with a seed grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation and has been supported in recent years by the…
James Greenwood, research associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, received a grant worth $494,517 from NASA. The grant will support his research titled “Water in Lunar Rocks: Petrologic and Isotopic Analyses of Phosphate Minerals in Apollo’s Samples” through June 30, 2014.
Lisa Dierker, chair and professor of psychology, received a grant worth $590,769 from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund her research on “Individual Differences in Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Sensitivity” through Aug. 31, 2012. The award is part of the Recovery and reinvestment Act of 2009. Jennifer Rose, research associate professor of psychology, is the coPI on this grant.