Faculty Internal Grants Awarded 2008-2009
The following faculty received internal grant awards between August 2008 and July 2009.
Aburto Guzmán, Claudia, Associate Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
Ambrose, William, Professor of Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
The Marine Rosetta Stone: Oceanic Moorings Help Translate Clam-Growth Patterns to Ecosystem Drivers
Ambrose, Jr., William, Professor of Biology
Phillips Fellowships – Awarded October 2008
Reconstruction of Climate in the European Arctic Based on Growth and Mineralogy of the Long-Live Ocean Quahog (Arctica islandica) from Raised Beaches in Northern Norway
Ásgeirsdóttir, Áslaug, Associate Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
The Nation State in a Global World: Curriculum & GEC Development, Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop, and Quebecois Separatist Speakers on the Bates College
Austin, Rachel, Professor of Chemistry
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Purification of AlkB, an Important Metalloenzyme
Austin, Rachel, Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry – Awarded January 2009
Testing the Hypothesis that Lead Binds to Metallothionein
Austin, Rachel, Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
Collaboration Project with Research Group at University to Develop Catalysis to Convert Wood Waste into Fuel
Bartel, Anna, Lecturer in Community Partnerships;
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Baughman, John, Associate Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
The Development of Constituency Attentiveness in the Nineteenth-Century House of Representatives
Beasley, Myron, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Cultural Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Women Who Cook on the Streets: Haitian Women, the Informal System, and Underground Good Economics
Buck, Patricia, Assistant Professor of Education
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Carnegie, Charles V., Professor of Anthropology
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
The Making and Unmaking of Civil Society in Jamaica
Carnegie, Charles V., Professor of Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
The Nation State in a Global World: Curriculum & GEC Development, Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop, and Quebecois Separatist Speakers on the Bates College
Carnegie, Charles V., Professor of Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
Chapman, Dale, Assistant Professor of Music
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductor, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Chapman, Dale, Assistant Professor of Music
Whiting Teaching Fellowship – Awarded November 2008
Specters of Jazz
Childress, Lilian, Assistant Professor of Physics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Single Nuclear Spins in Diamond
Childress, Lilian, Assistant Professor of Physics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Numerical Simulation of Single Nuclear Spins in Diamond
Chirayath, Heidi, Associate Professor of Sociology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Poverty Health and Human Rights: A Cultural Comparison of Spanish and U.S. Physicians’ Views on Patient Worth
Chirayath, Heidi, Associate Professor of Sociology
Phillips Fellowships – Awarded October 2008
Physician Attitudes in Comparative Perspectives
Costlow, Jane, Professor of Russian
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Côté, Matthew, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Curriculum Innovations in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Cummiskey, David, Professor of Philosophy
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Cross-Cultural Moral Theory and Medical Ethics
Cummiskey, David, Professor of Philosophy
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Dauge-Roth, Alexandre, Assistant Professor of French
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
The Politics of Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Dauge-Roth, Alexandre, Assistant Professor of French
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Dilley, Carol, Assistant Professor of Dance
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Dance Performance and Technology
Duina, Francesco, Associate Professor of Sociology
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Student Research Apprenticeship Grants – Awarded January 2009
Institutions and the Economy
Duina, Francesco, Associate Professor of Sociology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
The Nation State in a Global World: Curriculum & GEC Development, Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop, and Quebecois Separatist Speakers on the Bates College
Eames, Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Eusden, J. Dykstra, Professor of Geology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
Paleostress Analysis of Mesozoic Fractures and Basalt Dikes, Mt. Washington Region, New Hampshire
Ewing, Holly, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Streamwater Chemistry and Nutrient Loading to Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire
Ewing, Holly, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Fatone, Gina, Assistant Professor of Music
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Imagery and Gesture in Instrumental Music: Transmission
Federico, Sylvia, Assistant Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
The Medieval in Modern Spain
Fra-Molinero, Baltasar, Associate Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
George, Jr., David, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
The Medieval in Modern Spain
Gandoff, Jessica, Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Bodies of Water: An Exhibition of Paintings
Hager, Patricia, Director of the Writing Program
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Hall, Joseph, Associate Professor of History
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Teaching and Learning with Wabanakis at Bates
Hall, Joseph, Associate Professor of History
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Henry, Joshua, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
An Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Surface Chemistry of Cadmium Selenide
Herzig, Rebecca, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Racial Science, Bodily Artifice, and the Indian Question
Hill, Leslie, Associate Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Houchins, Sue, Associate Professor of African American Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Jayawant, Pallavi, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Differences of q-binomial Coefficients
Jayawant, Pallavi, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Curriculum Innovations in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Johnson, Beverly, Associate Professor of Geology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
Long-Term Records of Nearshore Foodweb Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine
Jones, Penelope, Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Regenerations
Kahan, Todd, Associate Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Kane, Emily, Whitehouse Professor of Sociology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Kelsey, John, Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Kemper, Steven, Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology
Phillips Fellowships – Awarded October 2008
Between Home and World: Anagarika Dharmapala Abroad
Kleckner, Nancy, Associate Professor of Biology
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Molluscan Neuroscience Meeting Attendance
Kleckner, Nancy, Associate Professor of Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Localizing Glutamate Receptor Subunits in the Central Nervous System of the Pond Snails, Helisoma trivolvis and Biomphalaria glabrata
Kleckner, Nancy, Associate Professor of Biology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Research Mentor Trial and Pilot Study on Maternal and Development Effects of Arsenic Exposure in Mice
Koven, Nancy, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
The Role of the DAT1 Genotype in Executive Dysfunction in Alexithymia
Koven, Nancy, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Kuritz, Paul, Professor of Theater
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Stage and Screen Adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever
Langdon, Susan, Lecturer in Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Lewis, Lynne, Associate Professor of Economics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Lin, Hong, Professor of Physics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded January 2009
Modal Dynamics of a Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser with Optical Feedback
Lin, Hong, Professor of Physics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Sending Undergraduate Researchers to a National Conference on Laser Sciences
Lin, Hong, Professor of Physics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Curriculum Innovations in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Lindkvist, Heather, Visiting Instructor in Anthropology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Lindkvist, Heather, Visiting Instructor in Anthropology
Student Research Apprenticeship Grants – Awarded March 2008
Telling the “Lewiston Story”: A Cultural Analysis of Somali Secondary Migration to Lewiston, ME
López, Francisca, Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
MacLeod, Arlene, Associate Professor of Politics
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Place and Alternative Political Writings
Malcolmson, Cristina, Professor of English
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Race and Gender in the Early Royal Society
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret, Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics
Student Research Apprenticeship Grants – Awarded January 2008
An Investigation into the Economic Well-being of China’s Ethnic Minority Peoples
Melvin, Karen, Assistant Professor of History
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
Miura, Hiroya, Assistant Professor of Music
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Premiere of Shore for Bass Clarinet and Creation of Audiovisual Project Motion Studies
Nguyen, Trian, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Teaching Emaki: Japanese Narrative Scrolls
Nguyen, Trian, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Buddhist Approach toward Dying: A Vietnamese Perspective
Nigro, Georgia, Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Nigro, Georgia, Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Nigro, Georgia, Professor of Psychology
Student Research Apprenticeship Grants – Awarded March 2009
Playful Learning and Cortisol Levels in Preschool Population
Okrent, Mark, Professor of Philosophy
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Ortiz, Maria, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
Palin, Karen, Lecturer in Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Analysis of Understanding about Vitamin D Deficiency and Treatment within the B Street Patient Population, Lewiston, ME
Parrish, Camille, Learning Associate in Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Pérez-Armendáriz, Clarisa, Assistant Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
Pieck, Sonja, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Pieck, Sonja, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
The Nation State in a Global World: Curriculum & GEC Development, Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop, and Quebecois Separatist Speakers on the Bates College
Pieck, Sonja, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Latin America On-Campus Studies Program
Plastas, Melinda, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics and Women and Gender Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Gender and Smoking in a Transnational Context
Rand, Erica, Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Red Nails, Black Skates: Getting Pleasure
Read, Kirk, Associate Professor of French
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Birthing Bodies: Inscribing Reproduction in Early Modern France
Read, Kirk, Associate Professor of French
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
‘Considering Africa’ – Development of Interdisciplinary, Introductory, Team-Taught Course “African Perspectives on Human Rights, Justice and Renewal”
Read, Kirk, Associate Professor of French
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Writing for Social Change: Developing a General Education Concentration
Retelle, Michael, Professor of Geology
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
High Arctic Glacial and Lacustrine Sediments in Linnédalen, Svalbard: Reconstructing Glacial and Postglacial Climate
Richter, James, Professor of Politics
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
The Nation State in a Global World: Curriculum & GEC Development, Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop, and Quebecois Separatist Speakers on the Bates College
Sargent, Michael, Associate Professor of Psychology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Schlax, Paula, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Identification of Cis-Acting Elements Involved in Translational Regulation of Ribosomal Proteins in Diverse Bacteria
Skinner, Jonathan, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Sommer, Rebecca, Associate Professor of Biology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Sommer, Rebecca, Associate Professor of Biology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Research Mentor Trial and Pilot Study on Maternal and Development Effects of Arsenic Exposure in Mice
Sommer, Rebecca, Associate Professor of Biology
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Curriculum Innovations in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Stark, Susan, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Winter 2009
Philosophy and Psychology Workgroup and Visiting Scholar Series in Moral Psychology
Strippoli, Roberta, Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Research Travel to Japan
Su, Hongjun, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Women Performing for Women: A Study of Women’s Yue Opera in China since 1949
Swan Tuite, Teresa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Luther’s Tactual Itinerary of Grace
Wenzel, Thomas J., Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry
Mellon Faculty Innovation Fund – Awarded Fall 2008
Developing a Capstone Seminar: Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Role of Diverse Lived Experiences within Environmental Studies
Wollman, Eric, Professor of Physics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student-Faculty Grants – Awarded April 2009
Galactic Dark Matter Signature on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Wong, Peter, Professor of Mathematics
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Research in Sangaku
Zhosan, Dmytro, Visiting Instructor in Economics
Bates Faculty Development Fund Grants – Awarded December 2008
Differential Evolution of Norms and Conservation Laws in Two Fisheries