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Grant Recipients FY'23

Faculty awards received between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023

Thomas Baumgarte (Physics and Astronomy) was a awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project titled RUI: Studies in Numerical Relativity (NSF Award No. 2308821).

Allison Cooper (Romance Languages and Literatures/Cinema Studies) was awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge Initiative for her project titled Text and Data Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use. Allison was also awarded a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for her project titled Embodying the Video Essay: Advanced Methods in Videographic Theory and Practice Through Global Communities of Practice.

Katherine Dauge-Roth (Romance Languages and Literatures) was awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project titled Defining Blackness: Early Public Debates about Skin Color at Theophraste Renaudot's Bureau d'adresse et de rencontre (Paris 1640).

Manuel Diaz-Rios (Neuroscience/Biology) was awarded a grant from the Grass Foundation for his project titled Interactive Neurophysiology Workshop to Promote Neuroscience Research in Undergraduate Colleges in Puerto Rico.

Danielle Dube (Chemistry) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled RUI: Sugar Probes to Track Utilization, Uptake, and Processing of Monosaccharides by Bacteria (NSF Award No. 2247752).

Michael Franz (Government and Legal Studies) and his collaborators at Wesleyan University were awarded a grant from the Nastional Science Foundation for their project titled Cross-platform Election Advertising Transparency Initiative (CREATIVE) Pilot.

Laura Henry (Russian) and her colleagues in the Department of Russian were awarded a one-year Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) position through the Fulbright FLTA Program.

Eileen Johnson (Environmental Studies) and her collaborators from the towns of Arrowsic, Brunswick, and Phippsburg were each awarded Community Action Grants (respectively) from the State of Maine for under the Community Resilience Partnership initiative. With collaborators from the University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, and University of Vermont, Eileen also received funding from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration for the group's project Collaborating Towards Increased Climate Resilience and Adaptation for Mobile Home Park Communities in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Abhilasha Kumar (Psychology) and her collaborator from Indiana University were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled CompCog: Modeling Search within the Mental Lexicon.

Fe McBride (Physics and Astronomy) was awarded a grant from NASA for her project titled XXM-Newton AO-21: X-ray sources and neutrinos: Investigating the most promising IceCube neutrinos. Fe also received funding from NASA for Cycles 7 and 8 of her project titled Blazer X-rays and neutrinos: Investigating the most promising IceCube neutrino alerts.

Alison Riley Miller (Education) and her collaborator from the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled Bridging Preschool and Kindergarten Science: Exploring play-based engagement with scientific and engineering practices in early-learning environments (NSF Award No. 2201674).

Meghan Roberts (History) was awarded a fellowship from the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study for her project titled Health Wars: making and breaking medical authority in France, 1730-1820.

Collin Roesler (Earth and Oceanographic Science) and her collaborator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were awarded a grant from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration for their project titled HAB dinoflagellate migrations across carbonate system gradients in an acidified ocean.