Olivia DrakeEdward 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/
James McGuire, professor of government, professor of Latin American studies, is the author of Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America published by Cambridge University Press, 2010. Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa…
Christina Othon, assistant professor of physics, is the co-author of "Hydration Dynamics at Fluorinated Protein Surfaces," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 in 2010.
Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology, is the lead author of "I fear your envy, I rejoice in your coveting. On the ambivalent experience of being envied by others," published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(5), 842-854 in 2010.
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