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Over the past year, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ faculty from every corner of campus received grants and fellowships to support new and ongoing research projects.

• Thomas Baumgarte (physics) was awarded a renewal grant from the National Science Foundation for his project titled “RUI: Numerical Simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Gravitational Radiation.”
•  (earth and oceanographic studies) was awarded a Visiting Erskine Fellowship from the University of Canterbury in support of her sabbatical research in New Zealand.
• (economics) and her colleagues from the University of Texas were awarded a NIH RO3 grant for their project on “Secondary Analysis of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging.”
•  (biology/neuroscience) was awarded a supplement grant to support an undergraduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation for her project called “RUI: Coordinated modulation of a multilayered neuromuscular system.” Dickinson and  (chemistry) were also awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project called “Collaborative Research: RUI: Molecular mechanisms and physiological triggers underlying neuromodulator plasticity in a lobster pattern generator.”
•  and  (economics) were awarded a grant from the Institutes for Research on Poverty for their project on “The Impact of Food Stamps on Age at Onset of Adverse Health Conditions.”
•  (art history) and her coauthors won the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH) 2014 Prize in Online Publishing for an article on the 19th century London art market.
• Mark Foster (English) was awarded a Fulbright Scholar award to South Africa.
•  (government) and his collaborators from Wesleyan were awarded a grant from
  the MacArthur Foundation for their project The Wesleyan Media Project.
•  (biology) was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health AREA
  R15 program for his project on “Cellular analysis of hedgehog signaling in zebra fish tooth
  development.”
•  (earth and oceanographic studies) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project called “RUI: OCE-RIG: Decadal climate, carbon and nutrient variability: New insights from deep-sea bamboo coral records on the California margin.”
•  (physics) was awarded a renewal grant from the National Science Foundation for his project titled “RUI: Supersymmetric Gauge and String Theory.” Naculich also was awarded a grant from the Simons Foundation Fellows in the Theoretical Physics program to support his project on “Amplitudes in Gauge Theory, Gravity, and String Theory.”
• Erik Nelson (economics) and his collaborators from the World Wildlife Fund, Florida International University and the University of Washington were awarded a grant from Resources for Our Future for the project on “Assessing the Cost of the Critical Habitat Rule under the Endangered Species Act: A Retrospective Study of Regulatory Performance.“
• Manny Reyes (math) was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project called “RUI: Noncommutative polynomial algebras and the foundations of noncommutative geometry.”
•  (earth and oceanographic studies) was awarded a grant from NASA for her project on “Quantifying uncertaintites in phytoplankton absorption coefficients for accurate validation of the PACE ocean color sensor: moving towards satellite phytoplankton functional types.” Roesler and her colleagues from the University of Maine were awarded an NSF EPSCoR grant for their project titled “Maine EPSCoR: The Nexus of Coastal Social- Environmental Systems and Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture.” Finally, with her collaborators from public and private institutions in Maine, she received an award from the NSF EPSCoR Program to establish a Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) program in Maine. Collin also received a grant from NASA for her project on “Quantifying Uncertainties in Phytoplankton Absorption Coefficients for Accurate Validation of the PACE Ocean Color Sensor: Moving Towards Satellite Retrieved Phytoplankton Functional Types (PFTs).”
•  (government) was awarded the Martha Joynt Kumar Founders Award for the best paper presented by a Ph.D. holding scholar at the 2013 American Political Science Association meeting.
•  (math) was awarded a grant from the Simons Foundation for her project on “Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians: Geometry and quasi-isometry classification of some self-similar groups.”
•  and Jill Smith (German) were awarded a grant from the German Embassy to support German Weeks 2014-15.
•  (physics), with collaborators l (physics) and  (education), received a grant from the Physics Teacher Education Coalition to support the development of a more clearly defined Physics Education path and to encourage students to consider teaching careers.
•  (chemistry) and her collaborator from the University of Connecticut were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project “Collaborative Research: RUI: Organic Cation Interactions with Soil Aluminosilicates: Structure-Sorption Relationships.”
•  (mathematics) and her colleague from the University of Oxford were awarded a grant from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) to support their upcoming workshop which will build a conceptual model of the U.S. food system.
• Leah Zuo (history and Asian studies) was awarded an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project, “A New Way of Knowing in the Middle-Period China: Shen Gua (1031-1095) and the Birth of Empiricism.”

Grants for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾

• ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ received a major grant from the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation to support Maine fisheries research led by , Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies and Program Director for Environmental Studies.
• The National Institute of Health announced a five-year $18.4 M grant to the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), a coalition of Maine colleges, universities, and research institutions in which ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ has been a participant since its inception in 2001. At ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾, the INBRE grant supports a variety of biomedical research opportunities for both students and faculty each year, in addition to helping the College acquire equipment, supplies, and electronic journals to enhance research. Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ faculty members have been selected by the INBRE External Advisory Committee as individual investigators leading research projects under the new award: Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry  and Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience .
• The Wallace foundation Special Projects Fund at the New York Community Trust has awarded a grant of $10,000 in support for the Visual Arts Department.
• The College received a grant from the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust in support of the Library’s Oliver Otis Howard digitization project.
• The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art received a grant from the Luce Foundation for its Summer 2016 exhibition, This is a Portrait if I Say So: Reimagining Representation in American Art.