Olivia DrakeWesleyan's Project to Increase Mastery of Mathematics and Science (PIMMS) received a nearly $1M grant from the United Illuminating Company (UI) and The Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P) to provide professional development workshops for eesmarts teachers regarding energy and energy-efficient behaviors and technologies. These new contracts provide funding for a fourth year of the program and are renewable for an additional two years. Read more on the grant here https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/02/02/pimms/.
Roy Kilgard, research assistant professor of astronomy, received a grant on Jan. 4 from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for research titled "ULX in the Most Metal Poor Galaxies." The award, worth $15,000, will be applied through Dec. 22, 2011.
The Green Street Arts Center received an award for $5,000 from Bank of America on Jan. 4. The one-year grant will fund Green Street's Afterschool Program.
The Green Street Arts Center received a $4,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation to support the center's Afterschool Program. The award will be applied Jan. 1, 2010 through June 30, 2010. In addition, The Green Street Arts Center received a $3,000 grant from Lego for the art center's mural project.
Lisa Dierker, chair and professor of psychology, and David Beveridge, the University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, received a $174,999 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support an inquiry based, supportive approach to statistical reasoning and applications. The award will be applied Jan. 1, 2010 through Dec. 31, 2012.
The Center for the Arts was awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the Breaking Ground Series. In addition, the CFA received a $11,992 grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism for the Breaking Ground Series and Dance Masters Weekend.
Wesleyan University Press received a $50,000 grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, to support publication of five books in 2010, as part of a new series. The grant includes fuding for four distinct types of poetry book, including second books and translations, and for a book in any genre by a Connecticut author. Together the books will be known as the “The Driftless Series.” Driftless books for 2010 will include: Exposition Park by Roberto Tejada, Rococo and Other Worlds by Afzal Ahmed Syed, translated by Musharraf Farooqi, Elegguas by Kamau Brathwaite, A Spicing of Birds: Poems by Emily Dickinson,…
The Green Street Arts Center received an award for $9,112 from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism on Oct. 29. The one-year grant will fund Green Street's Afterschool Program.
The Center for Community Partnerships received a grant for $170,923 from the Consortium for Liberal Arts in Prison at Bard College on Sept. 14. The award will support the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education, a two year pilot program at Cheshire Correctional Institution.
The Chemistry Department received a $125,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Mass. on Oct. 21. The funds will be used to replace, reconfigure, and add fume hoods in a teaching lab used for introductory chemistry courses.
Stephen Horst, professor of philosophy, received a grant for $17,476 from the University of Oxford on Sept. 9. Horst will use the funds for a study titled "Whose Institutions, Whose Dualism."
Pam Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts, received a grant for $2,000 from Arts Presenters. The grant, awarded on Oct. 1, is for a project titled "Sustaining Strategies."