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Recent Grants Received
Faculty Grant Awards Received
Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant Program. $400. (Ann Hill/Anthropology) This grant will provide funds for Professor Ann Hill to travel to Harvard-Yenching Library for three days to conduct research for a project on the Nuosu and tribalization on China’s southwestern frontier. She will examine books in the Hollis collection on the following subjects: Leibo County history, Meigu County history, ethnographic reports from the Leibo and Xiao Liangshan frontier in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and frontier governance in the Republican era.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences (UBM). $229,801. (Michael Roberts, Biology; Jeffrey Forrester, Mathematics). “An Integrative Analysis of Human Cancer: Exploiting the Synergy of Mathematical and Molecular Biological Approaches in Studying a Complex Problem.” The project involves the linkage of a course in Biology, The Biology of Cancer, and a course in Mathematics, Mathematical Techniques in the Biological Sciences. A cohort of 6-10 students from these programs will co-enroll in the courses in the spring semester of their Junior Year. The Biology of Cancer will examine the molecular basis of cancer including the genes and signaling networks involved in malignant transformation, with a strong emphasis on the experimental approaches to cancer study. Mathematical Techniques in the Biological sciences will survey biostatistical methods with a focus on network modeling. The project mentors will meet with the student cohort throughout the semester to further underscore the course connections and begin developing research questions that exploit the genomic approaches used to understand cancer coupled with the mathematical tools used to analyze large datasets and construct mathematical models. The students will form teams of 2-4 student researchers who will return to campus for an eight-week summer research experience.
Institutional Grant Awards Received
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry – Campus Ministry Grant, $3000. Mira Hewlett, Susanna Bartlow (Religious Life, Women’s Center). This grant will fund a joint venture between the Office of Religious Life and Community Services and a professor of Women’s Studies and Director of the Women’s Center. A group of 20 first year students would have the opportunity to take “American Women, Spirituality, and Social Justice” as a first year seminar. The class would explore 19th century women’s spiritual conversion narratives, the work of novelist Alice Walker, and a variety of Buddhist and Jewish feminist theologies in the classroom. In the community, the class would learn about domestic violence through the local YWCA and the nation-wide Clothesline Project, explore women’s concerns at the General Board of Church and Society in Washington DC, and have an optional trip to Philadelphia to learn about AME womanist spirituality.
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. $6,000. Ted Merwin (Asbell Center for Jewish Life). This grant funding will support the March 2009 Alternative Spring Break trip to Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. $20,000. (Julie Vastine/ALLARM) “From Monitoring to Action: Technical Assistance to Watersheds.” The purpose of the grant is to 1) create an online toolkit with water quality monitoring resources and training materials that ALLARM has developed over the past twelve years for watershed organizations; and 2) work with watershed organizations on using their monitoring data for the protection and restoration of Pennsylvania waterways.
Sustainable Energy Fund – 2008 Solar Scholars™ Program. $15,000. (Ken Shultes, Facilities Management). These funds will enable a purchase of a 3.2 kilowatt photovoltaic solar array that will be installed on the roof of the Center for Sustainable Living. Consistent with Dickinson’s institutional commitment to sustainability, this project will further reduce the College’s use of non-renewable fossil fuels. Students and staff from Facilities Management (including the Sustainability Coordinator) will assist with the installation, monitoring, and maintenance for the project. The project will also have an academic component where the solar array will be integrated into various courses (Neil Leary, Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education will be overseeing this integration while Professors Michael Heiman and Hans Pfister have already expressed interest in integrating study of the solar array in their courses). In addition, community outreach activities will be held to educate the campus and community about the solar array. There is a $6,000 matching fund requirement associated with this program, which will be covered by Facilities Management (in addition to any further funding needed for project completion – including maintenance and repair).
The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, $10,000. (Leonard Brown Jr./Dean of Students Office). Bonner Leader Program Enrichment Grant. This funding will support the College's Bonner Leader Program by providing funding for an orientation program, first-year service trip, service exchange project, local summer service internships, a senior Bonner intern, and costs associated with travel. Through these and other activities, the College’s Bonner Leader Program will strive to grow to a minimum of 40 students per year.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts/Jumpstreet. $2,185. (Davis Tracy, WDCV). “Streaming Grant” funding to support the 14th Annual Bluegrass on the Grass Festival in summer 2009.
8/08 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) – Archives and Records Management Grant. $4,993. (Jim Gerencser/Archives and Special Collections). The College Archives and Special Collections will use this grant to process the papers of Frank Masland, central Pennsylvania industrialist, environmentalist, activist, and philanthropist. These papers were donated to Dickinson College in the mid-1990s. The goals of the project are to ensure the safe and proper archival housing of the collection, to create a comprehensive guide to the papers for use by researchers, and to make the collection guide available via the Web to encourage extensive exploration of these valuable resources. The grant monies received will provide salary for a temporary hire to process the collection during the summer of 2009. Funds will also be used to purchase necessary archival supplies for the proper housing of the collection.
7/08 Shared Services Insurance Group, Inc. $2500. Mary Arthur, Student Health Services & Health & Wellness Committee. “SSIG Healthy Students Innovation Grant”. Funds will support an American College Health Association (ACHA) – National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey in Fall 2008; marketing and advertising for NCHA survey, and incentives to increase participation in NCHA survey.
7/08 PA Association of Broadcasters. $6,000. (Davis Tracy, WDCV) “Focus on Sustainability - Public Affairs Radio Programming.” Funds will be employed to support the administrative and technical production of public affairs radio programming, with the specific focus on the topic of Sustainability, the mindful use of resources in stewardship of the environment. Dickinson students will generate programming ideas, produce, record and air these stories locally on WDCV FM 88.3, worldwide via our website www.wdcvfm.com, and via Podcast.
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