Previously Awarded Grants

FY2022 Grants

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). INBRE Supplement – Epigenetic regulation of CRF expression following neonatal pain, $83,340, 8/1/2021-4/30/2022. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory via National Institute of Health, Award No. IN21S1/Kennedy.

Brogan, Louise (PI). Molecules to Ecosystem Course ReDesign 2021, $10,000, 8/1/2021-7/31/2023. Source: University of Maine EPSCoR via National Science Foundation, Award No. 5100603001.

Greene, Michelle (PI). RII Track-2 FED: The Visual Experience Database: A large-scale point-of-view video database for vision research, $970,934, year 3 funding increment, 8/1/2021-7/31/2022. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. 1920896 amendment #1.

Ewing, Holly (PI). RII Track-2 FEC: Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and Predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms, $240,889, year 3 funding increment, 8/1/2019-7/31/2022. Source: Dartmouth College via National Science Foundation, Award No. R1299 amendment #3.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Magneto-Rotational Instability in the Sun? Global Radiation-MHD Simulations of the Near-Surface Shear Layer, $24,118, year 2 partial funding increment, 7/2/2020-7/1/2022. Source: Northwestern University via National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Award No. 60057449 BC.

Aronson, Krista (PI). Identity and Multilingualism through Picture Books: Summer Institute for K-3 at Bates College, $173,664, 10/1/2021-12/31/2022. Source: National Endowment for the Humanities. Award No: ES-281204-21.

Buck, Patti (PI). Engaging Families and Guardians in Restorative Practice Implementation at Lewiston Middle School, $7,500, 10/1/2021 – 6/30/2022.  Source: Nellie Mae Education Foundation.  Award No. Sponsorship029000

Currier, Shoni (PI). Bates Dance Festival NEAR 2021, $10,000, 10/1/2021 – 9/30/2022. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts. Award No. 21-39671.

Cote, Matthew (PI). Next Generation Harsh-Environment Materials and Wireless Sensor Techniques for Energy Sector Applications, $15,000, year 1 funding increment, 9/1/2021-8/31/2022. Source: University of Maine via U.S. Department of Energy, Award No. UMS1332.

Buck, Patricia (PI). Engaging Families and Guardians in Restorative Practice Implementation at Lewiston Middle School, $7,500, 10/1/2021 – 6/30/2022. Source: Nellie Mae Education Foundation. Award No. SPONSORSHIP029000.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival NEAR 2021, $10,000, 10/1/2021 – 9/30/2022. Sponsor: New England Foundation for the Arts. Award No. 21-39671.

Ewing, Holly A. (PI). Monitoring Gloeotrichia and Biogeochemical Cycling in Lake Auburn, $15,000, 10/1/2021 – 6/30/2022. Sponsor: Lewiston/Auburn Water District. Award No. LAWS-mod9.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival 2022, $40,000, 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2022. Sponsor: National Endowment for the Arts. Award No. 1889479-33.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). MHC SHARP – Bates Dance Festival, $7,500, 6/10/2021 – 11/30/2022. Sponsor: Maine Humanities Council. Award No. SHARP-PROJ-11.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Planning for the 2022 Bates Dance Festival, $15,000, 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2022. Sponsor: Maine Arts Commission. Award No. CT#20211223000000000055.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). BDF ARP 2021, $150,000, 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2023. Sponsor: National Endowment for the Arts. Award No. 1896006-66.

Medford, Marcelle (PI). Career Enhancement Fellowship, $15,750, 6/1/2022 – 12/31/2022. Sponsor: Institute for Citizens and Scholars.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). ArtsForward: Fist and Heel Performance. $50,000, 3/1/2022 – 10/31/2022. Source: Association of Performing Arts Professionals

FY2021 Grants

Ewing, Holly (PI). RII Track-2 FEC: Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and Predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms, $223,747, year 2 funding increment, 8/1/2019-7/31/2021. Source: Dartmouth College via National Science Foundation, Award No. R1299 amendment #1.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Support for the Bates Dance Festival, $20,000, 9/1/2020-8/31/2021. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, New England Arts Resilence Fund via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 20-37931.

Tieken, Mara (PI). Disappearing the Delta?: How school closures shape rural African-
American communities in the Arkansas Delta, $131,121, 1/1/2021-12/31/2023. Source: Spencer Foundation, Award No. 202100100.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Magneto-Rotational Instability in the Sun? Global Radiation-MHD Simulations of the Near-Surface Shear Layer, $15,611, year 1 funding increment, 7/2/2020-7/1/2021. Source: Northwestern University via National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Award No. 60057449 BC.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Atmospheric Waves in Giant Planets: Energy and Chemical Transport, $15,469, year 3 funding increment, 10/12/2018-10/11/2021. Source: University of Colorado Boulder via National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Award No. 80NSSC19K0026.

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). Reinstatement of Tcf4 function to treat Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, $71,643, 2/1/2021-1/31/2022. Source: University of Pennsylvania, Orphan Disease Center, Award No. MDBR-21-105-Pitt Hopkins.

Rocque, Michael (PI). The Nature, Trends, Correlates and Prevention of Mass Public Shootings in America, 1976-2018, $20,420, year 3 funding increment, 01/01/19-9/30/21. Source: Northeastern University via Department of Justice, Award No. 2018-75-CX-0025.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Operating Support for a Restructured Bates Dance Festival, $7,300, 7/1/2020-6/30/2021. Source: Maine Arts Commission via National Endowment for the Arts award.

Perez-Armendariz, Clarisa (PI). RAPID: A Survey to Explore Return Migrant Participation in the Violent Electoral Politics of Mexico, $48,434, 3/15/2021-2/28/2022. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. 2120735.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser, $1,740, 07/19/2020-8/31/2022. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 20-37348.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). David Dorfman Dance, $6,000, 07/08/2020-8/31/2022. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 20-37375.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Shura Baryshnikov, $3,320, 07/19/2020-8/31/2022. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 20-37347.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). The Davis Sisters, $2,360, 07/26/2020-8/31/2022. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 20-37166.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival 2021, $40,000, 01/01/2021-10/31/2021. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 1864696-33-21.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival Partnership Grant, $6,000, 07/15/2021-6/30/2022. Source: Maine Arts Commission via National Endowment for the Arts.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival Relief Grant, $4,000, 03/20/2021-06/30/2021. Source: Maine Arts Commission via National Endowment for the Arts.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, $84,000, 04/19/2021 – 04/18/2022. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Subcontract No. 1662533.

Schlax, Paula (PI). SpoVG and PlzA Regulation of Lyme Disease Spirochete Infection Processes, $25,949, 04/01/2021-03/31/2022. Source: University of Kentucky subaward, prime award through National Institute of Health, Award No. 5R01AI144126-02.

Johnson, Beverly (PI). Summer 2021 Internship Grant, $6,000, 06/01/2021-12/31/2021. Source: Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

Diaz Eaton, Carrie (PI). Institute for Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education, $605,852, 05/03/2021-09/02/2022. Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Award No. 2021-2923.

Bavis, Ryan (PI). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine 2020-2025; year 3 of 5 funding, $568,647, 05/01/2021-04/30/2022. Source: National Institute of Health via subaward from Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Award No. P20GM103423-21/BATES.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Miguel Gutierrez: This Bridge Called my Ass, $8,500, 4/1/2022-8/15/2022. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, New England States Touring program via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 21-39332.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Vanessa Anspaugh: Funerals for the Ocean, $3,000, 7/16/2021-8/1/2021. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, New England States Touring program via National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 21-39256.

Beasley, Myron (PI). Precarity, Performance and African Diasporic Art, $3,000, 6/9/2021-6/8/2022. Source: Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.

Laurita, Geneva (PI). RUI: Developing Insight and Control of Polarity in the Pyrochlore Lattice, $60,416, 6/17/2021-6/30/2022. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. 1904980.

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar (PI). Collaborative Research: RUI: Absorption and Emission Line Probes of Galactic Winds with eBOSS, $104,376, 9/01/2021-8/31/2024. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. 2107726.

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). Cellular and Molecular Analysis of the Psychiatric Risk Gene Transcription Factor 4 (TCF4), $30,594, 6/01/2021-05/31/2022. Source: National Institute of Health via Lieber Institute subaward, Award No. A814.

FY2020 Grants

Diaz Eaton, Carrie (PI). RCN-UBE Incubator: Network for an Open and Accessible Biology Education: The promise of equity and the challenge of sustainability, $74,290, 8/18/2019-7/31/2020. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. DBI-1919879.

Johnson, Beverly (PI). Back River Creek and Saltmarsh Restoration for Coastal Infrastructure Resilience, $19,000, 7/23/2019-6/30/2020. Source: Kennebec Estuary Land Trust, from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Award No. Contract_BatesCollege_BackRiver
Creek_June2019.

Greene, Michelle (PI). RII Track-2 FEC: The Visual Experience Database: A Large-Scale Point-of-View Video Database for Vision Research, $3,974,003, 8/1/2019-7/31/2023. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. OIA-1920896.

Ewing, Holly (PI). RII Track-2 FEC: Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and Predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms, $132,747, year 1 funding increment, 8/1/2019-7/31/2020. Source: Dartmouth College via National Science Foundation, Award No. R1299.

Gould, Travis (PI). INBRE Supplement – High-Resolution Imaging of Age-Induced Changes in Nuclear Architecture, $83,340, 9/1/2019-8/31/2020. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory via National Institute of Health, Award No. IN19S1/GOULD.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). BECCAL Science Definition Team Supplement, $5,000, 11/13/2019 – 2/28/2020. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Subcontract No. 1584283 Mod#3.

Aronson, Krista (PI). Supporting efforts to get books in the Diverse BookFinder’s database to children, $50,000, 6/27/2019 – 6/26/2020. Source: Brooks Family Foundation.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Operating Support for the Bates Dance Festival, $10,000, 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2020. Source: Maine Arts Commission via National Endowment for the Arts grant.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). I hunger for you (Kimberly Bartosik/daela), $8,000, 9/29/2019 – 10/12/19. Source: New England Foundation For the Arts.

Ko, Jiyoung (PI). Reassuring Ally: Revisiting the Sources of Credibility of Extended Deterrence, $18,000, 8/1/2019 – 8/31/2020. Source: Korea Foundation.

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). Tissue-specific and temporal reinstatement of Tcf4 to treat Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, $68,709, 2/1/2020-01/31/2021. Source: University of Pennsylvania, the Orphan Disease Center, Award No. MDBR-20-132-PH.

Twist, Thomas (PI). Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Program grant, $20,000, 11/1/2019 – 4/30/2021. Source: Efficiency Maine.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Atmospheric waves in Giant Planets: Energy and Chemical Transport, $15,018, 10/12/2019-10/11/2021. Source: University of Colorado-Boulder, Subaward No. 1557249.

Tieken, Mara (PI). Disappearing the Delta?: How school closures shape rural African-American communities in the Arkansas Delta, $24,000, 06/01/2020-07/31/2022. Source: The Reed Foundation, Inc via Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). To support the presentation of dance artists at the Bates Dance Festival, $40,000, 01/01/2020 – 10/31/2020. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 1857941-33-20.

Rocque, Michael (PI). The Nature, Trends, Correlates and Prevention of Mass Public Shootings in America, 1976-2018, $18,617, 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2020; year 2 funding. Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice via Northeastern University, Award No. 504628-78050.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). BECCAL Science Definition Team Supplement, $8,500, 02/07/2020 – 8/31/2020. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Subcontract No. 1584283 Mod#4.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, $168,000, 04/01/2020 – 03/31/2021. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Subcontract No. 1649861.

Schlax, Paula and Gould, Travis (Co-PIs). Using Fluorescence Nanoscopy to Study RNA Localization in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Spirochete that Causes Lyme Disease, $138,900, 05/01/2020-04/30/2021. Source: National Institute of Health, Award No. 5R21AI141935-02.

Diaz Eaton, Carrie (PI). Supporting more equitable and sustainable open education in undergraduate biology, $380,210, 04/01/2020-03/31/2021. Source: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Award No. 2020-1363.

George, David (PI). AKP Fellowship 2020, $32,295, 04/01/2020-09/30/2020. Source: Associated Kyoto Program, Inc.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). Community Colleges and Adult Health: Year 2 funding, $19,049, 01/15/2019-12/15/2020. Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via Washington State University subaward no.: 134486-G003988-1.

Castro, Jason (PI). CAREER: Data-driven Approaches for Investigating Olfactory System Heterogeneity: Year 4 funding, $97,062, 05/01/2020-04/31/2021. Source: National Science Foundation, award no.: 1553279-004.

Lewis, Lynne (PI). 20 years of River Restoration in Maine: Using Socio-economics and Benefit Transfer to Inform Decision-Making on Dam Removals, $26,402, 03/01/2020-02/28/2021. Source: U.S. Department of Interior (USGS), subaward from University of Maine,  subaward no.: UMS1252.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). Drunk Driving with Children: Putting the Brakes on a Disturbing Trend; Year 2 funding, $17,276, 07/10/2018-06/30/2021. Source: National Institute of Health via Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, subaward no.: 915-001.

Hill, April (PI). A Freshwater Sponge Holobiont: A broadly accessible emerging model system to understand evolutionary and ecological consequences of host:alga and host:microbe symbiont specialization, $300,000, 09/01/2020-03/01/2023. Source: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, award no.: 9332.

Bavis, Ryan (PI). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine 2020-2025; year 2 of 5 funding, $716,738, 05/01/2020-04/30/2021. Source: National Institute of Health, Award No. P20GM103423-20/BATES.

Ewing. Holly (PI). Gloeotricia echinulata Monitoring of Lake Auburn, 2020-2021, $25,000, 05/01/2020-05/31/2021. Source: Auburn Water District and Lewiston Water Division.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Operating Support for a Restructured Bates Dance Festival, $4,000, 05/12/2020 – 06/30/2021. Source: Maine Arts Commission through National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. FY2020-18273-C.A.R.E.S Act – Partnership.

Schlax, Paula (PI). SpoVG and PlzA Regulation of Lyme Disease Spirochete Infection Processes, $28,487, 04/01/2020-03/31/2021. Source: University of Kentucky subaward, prime award through National Institute of Health, Award No. 1R01AI144126-01A1.

Gonzalez Valencia, Carolina (PI). The Cleaning Writer, $15,000, 05/15/2020-04/30/2021. Source: LEF Foundation.

FY2019 Grants

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar (PI). Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies, $8,713, 7/1/2018 – 12/31/2019. Source: Universities Space Research Association via University of Wisconsin Agreement No. 793K236.

Schlax, Paula (PI). Post-Transcriptional Regulation in Borrelia Burgdorferi by the BpuR RNA-Binding Protein, $20,745, 6/11/2018 – 5/31/2019. Source: NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease award no. 1R21AI139956-01 via University of Kentucky Research Foundation Subaward No. 3200001882-19-007.

Boateng, Henry (PI). RUI: Fast Treecode Methods for Particle-Particle Multipolar Electrostatic Interactions, $156,236, 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2021. Source: National Science Foundation Award No. CHE-1800181.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). Drunk Driving with Children: Putting the Brakes on a Disturbing Trend, $20,608, 7/10/2018 – 6/30/2019. Source: NIH-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism award no. R21AA026031, via Pacific Institute of Research and Education project 0915.

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar (PI). Collaborative Research: RUI: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies, $104,108, 8/15/2018 – 7/31/2021. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. AST-1813299.

Barnett, Kristen (PI). Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yupiit Way, $608,853, 8/15/2018 – July 31, 2021. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. OPP-1803494.

Hill, Malcolm and April Hill (Co-PIs). Collaborative Research: RUI: Evaluating the Molecular Genetic Pathways Responsible for Stable Host:Symbiont Interactions in Sponge:Algal Associations, $129,996, 8/1/2018 – 1/31/2020. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. IOS-1848958.

Ewing, Holly (PI). Spokes: Small: Northeast: Collaborative: Building the Community to Address Data Integration of the Ecological Long Tail, $16,723, 9/15/2018 – 8/31/2020. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. IIS-1761780.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, $52,395, 9/6/2018 – 2/28/2019. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory RSA No. 1612749.

Hill, Malcolm (PI). RAPID: Effects of Hurricane Irma on Shallow-Water Marine Ecosystems: Addressing Resiliency of Sponge and Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Florida Keys, $24,831, 9/14/2018 – 1/31/2020. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. OCE-1854644.

Diaz Eaton, Carrie (PI). BIO Ideas Lab: QUBES, $105,073, 10/11/2018 – 8/31/2019. Source: College of William and Mary subaward no. 714487-712687, from National Science Foundation Award No. DUE-1446258.

Shaw, Caroline (PI). NEH Fellowship, $60,000, 7/01/2019 – 6/30/2020. Source: National Endowment for the Humanities Award no. FEL-262407.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). Community Colleges and Adult Health, $5,320, 1/15/2019 – 1/14/2020. Source: Washington State University subaward no. 134486-G003988, from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Award No. 76082.

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). Tissue-specific and temporal reinstatement of Tcf4 function to treat Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, $51,242, 2/01/2019 – 1/31/2020. Source: University of Pennsylvania, Orphan Disease Center. Award No. MDBR-19-137-PH.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Atmospheric waves in Giant Planets: Energy and Chemical Transport, $7,291, 10/12/2018 – 10/11/2021. Source: University of Colorado Boulder subaward no. 1557249, from National Aeronautics & Space Administration Award No. 80NSSC19K0026.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). BDF MOT Tourism Enterprise Grant , $10,000, 1/15/2019 – 12/31/2019. Source: State of Maine, Department of Economic & Community Development, award no. CT#20190115*2119.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Stellar Insights into Solar Magnetism, $35,075, 8/1/2016 – 12/7/2019. Source: University of Colorado at Boulder, Subaward No. 1553828, Modification No. 3, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Award No. NNX16AC92G.

Douglass, Amy (PI). Collaborative Research: Video-Recording Eyewitness Identification Lineups: Testing for Unanticipated Costs and Undiscovered Benefits, $130,722, 3/1/2019 – 2/28/2022. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. SES-1849411.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival 2019 , $40,000, 1/01/2019 – 10/31/2019. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 1847229-33-19.

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar (PI). Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies, $23,579, 7/1/2018 – 12/31/2019. Source: Universities Space Research Association via University of Wisconsin Agreement No. 793K236 Modification #1.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Dance Gathering in Lagos, Nigeria, $700, 2/12/2019 – 2/24/2019. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, from National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 19-35394.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, $52,043, 3/12/2019 – 2/28/2020. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory RSA No. 1624544.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Inside Dance: Year II of Broadening Audience Engagement at the Bates Dance Festival , $3000, 2/22/2019 – 11/30/2019. Source: Maine Humanities Council, award no. 18-19-15.

Mountcastle, Andrew (PI). Collaborative Research: Testing the consequences of wing flexibility to comprehensive flight performance in freely flying insects, $170,062, 5/1/2019 – 4/30/2022. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. IOS-1856622.

Rocque, Michael (PI). The Nature, Trends, Correlates and Prevention of Mass Public Shootings in America, 1976-2018, $24,050, 1/1/2019 – 12/31/2019. Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Insititute of Justice via Northeastern University, Award No. 504628-78050.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). The Era Footwork Crew , $5,000, 7/1/2019 – 2/1/2020. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, from National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 19-35414.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). A Canary Torsi | Yanira Castro, $6,000, 7/19/2020 – 8/8/2020. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, from National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 19-35415.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). New England Dance on Tour, $8,000, 7/26/2020 – 8/9/2020. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, from National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 19-35599.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Nora Chipaumire, $6,560, 7/26/2019 – 8/4/2019. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, from National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 19-35592.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Joanna Kotze, $4,340, 7/7/2019 – 8/3/2019. Source: New England Foundation for the Arts, from National Endowment for the Arts, award no. 19-35483.

Castro, Jason (PI). CAREER: Data-driven Approaches for Investigating Olfactory System Heterogeneity, $133,182. Continuing Grant Increment on NSF Award No. IOS-1553279.

Schlax, Paula and Gould, Travis (Co-PIs). Using Fluorescence Nanoscopy to Study RNA Localization in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Spirochete that Causes Lyme Disease, $233,739, 5/15/2019 – 4/30/2021. Source: NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease award no. 1R21AI141935-01.

Bavis, Ryan (Site Director). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine Year 1, $691,505, 5/1/2019 – 4/30/2020. NIH-NIGMS via MDI Biological Laboratory.

Laurita-Plankis, Geneva (PI). RUI: Developing Insight and Control of Polarity in the Pyrochlore Lattice, $132,989, 7/1/2019-6/30/2022. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. DMR-1904980.

FY2018 Grants

Jadud, Matthew (PI). Collaborative Research: Promoting a Growth Mindset Using Automated Feedback, $81,642, 8/1/2017 – 8/31/2019. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. DUE-1748626.

Mabaso, Bantu ’18 (Student). Babson College Social Innovation Challenge Award 2017, $3,000, 8/23/2017 – 12/31/2017. Source: Babson College.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, $46,108, 8/28/2017 – 1/31/2018. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), RSA No. 1584069.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). BECCAL Science Definition Team, $33,887, 8/31/2017 – 2/28/2019. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Subcontract No. 1584283.

Ott, Katharine (PI). Harmonic Analysis and Validated Numerics Techniques in PDE, $42,000, 9/1/2017 – 8/31/2022. Source: Simons Foundation, Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians, Award No. 526904.

Aronson, Krista (PI). Enhancing the The Diverse BookFinder, $249,760, 10/1/2017 – 9/30/2020. Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Award No. LG-95-17-0189-17.

Ambrose, William (PI) and Williams, Larissa (Co-PI). Bates Worm Contract, $3,000, 10/21/2017 – 6/30/2018. Source: Maine Department of Marine Resources, Contract No. CT#13A 2018 0110*2159.

Currier, Shoshona (PI). Bates Dance Festival 2018, $40,000, 1/1/2018 – 10/31/2018. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 1829863-33-18.

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). Epigenetic Therapy to Treat Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, $49,263, 1/1/2018 – 12/31/2018. Source: Orphan Disease Center at University of Pennsylvania, Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant Program, Award No. MDBR-18-124-PH.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, $52,395, 2/28/2018 – 8/31/2018. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), RSA No. 1597429.

Shostak, Anthony (Project Director). STEAM Power Project, $25,000, 3/22/2018 – 3/21/2019. Source: Davis Family Foundation.

Currier, Shoshona (Project Director). Inside Dance: Broadening Audience Engagement at the Bates Dance Festival, $6,000, 2/27/2018 – 8/31/2018. Source: Maine Humanities Council Grant # 17-18-05.

Castro, Jason (PI). CAREER: Data-driven Approaches for Investigating Olfactory System Heterogeneity, $129,756. Continuing Grant Increment on NSF Award No. IOS-1553279.

Currier, Shoshona (Project Director). a canary torsi, 8/1/2018 – 2/1/2019, $4,000. New England Foundation for the Arts, Expeditions Tour Planning # 18-34375.

Currier, Shoshona (Project Director). We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic, 3/1/2019 – 7/14/2019, $9,000. New England Foundation for the Arts, Expeditions Touring # 18-34389.

Eckardt, Benjamin ’19 (Fellow). Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship NIST-PML, $8,919, 5/1/2018 – 9/30/2018. U.S. Department of Commerce Award No. 70NANB18H126.

Retelle, Michael (PI). Collaborative Research: Arctic Hydrological Regime Shift in a Warming Climate, $258,349, 6/1/2018 – 5/31/2021. National Science Foundation Award No. OPP-1744433.

Bavis, Ryan (Site Director). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine Year 5, $609,903, 5/1/2018 – 4/30/2019. NIH-NIGMS via MDI Biological Laboratory.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Stellar Insights into Solar Magnetism, $33,657, 12/8/2016 – 12/7/2019. Source: University of Colorado at Boulder, Subaward No. 1553828, Modification No. 2, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Award No. NNX16AC92G.

Barnett, Kristin (PI). Tuyuryaq (Togiak, Alaska): A Model for Alaska Native Youth Learning on College Campuses, $50,000, 6/15/2018 – 5/31/2019. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. OPP-1811240.

Schlax, Paula (Project Director). 2018 HHMI Inclusive Excellence Initiative, $1,000,000, 9/1/2018 – 8/31/2023. Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Robert, Geneviève (PI). RUI: Melt Viscosities in Silica-Undersaturated Systems, $63,254. Source: National Science Foundation, continuing grant increment Amendment No. 1 on EAR-1624231.

Beasley, Myron (PI). Haitian Flags and the Quilts of Gees Bend, $7,500, 6/28/2018 – 9/1/2018. Source: The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.

FY2017 Grants

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, extension to 12/31/2016, additional $46,773. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Modification No. 1 to RSA No. 1548533, pursuant to JPL NASA Prime Contract No. NNN12AA01C.

Ambrose, William (PI). Recovery and Growth of Commercial Sized and Sub-Commercial Sized Blood Worm (Glycera dibranchiata) in Mid Coast Maine, $5,000, 7/15/2016 – 12/31/2016. Source: Maine Department of Marine Resources, Contract No. 13A-20160707*0057.

Robert, Genevieve (PI). RUI: Melt Viscosities in Silica-Undersaturated Systems, $136,265, 9/1/2016 – 8/31/2019. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. EAR-1624321.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Stellar Insights into Solar Magnetism: Exploring Fundamental Dynamo Physics across the Lower Main Sequence, $13,054, 8/1/2016 – 12/7/2016. Source: University of Colorado at Boulder, Subaward No. 1553828, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Award No. NNX16AC92G.

Ashwell, Lauren (Fellow). Projection and Desire, $75,000, 8/1/2016 – 7/31/2017. Source: American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars. Residency in the Philosophy Department at Harvard University.

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar (PI). How Compact Is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starbursts?, $107,883, 8/1/2016 – 7/31/2018. Source: Space Telescope Science Institute grant no. HST-GO-13689.009-A, under NASA contract NAS5-26555.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement at Joint Quantum Institute, $27,239, 8/1/2016 – 9/30/2016. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, award no. IP1612.

Kennedy, Andrew (PI). Investigating Therapies for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, $88,000, 8/1/2016 – 7/31/2017. Source: Pitt-Hopkins Research Foundation, grant no. 016.

Kennedy, Andrew (INBRE Investigator). Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Formation, $84,828, 9/1/2016 – 4/30/2017. Source: MDI Biological Laboratory, Amendment to Subaward No. P20GM103423-16BATES, from NIH – National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Douglass, Amy (PI). RUI: Can Brief Social Interactions Undermine System Variable Protections against False Eyewitness Identifications?, $127,858, 9/15/2016 – 8/31/2018. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. SES-1627433.

Wenzel, Thomas (PI). Collaborative Research: Moving Faculty from Experimentation with to Long-term Adoption of Engaged Student Learning in Analytical Chemistry, $632,070, 9/15/2016 – 8/31/2019. Source: National Science Foundation: DUE-1624898.

Mills, Daniel (Project Director). Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, $50,000. Source: Henry Luce Foundation.

Mills, Daniel (Project Director). Phantom Punch: Saudi.Art.Now., $100,000, 10/14/2016 – 3/30/2017. Source: King Abulaziz Center for World Culture, via Culturunners Ltd.

Aronson, Krista (PI). The Picture Book Project, $20,197, 10/1/2016 – 9/30/2017. Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries, Award No. SP-02-16-0006-16.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). Stellar Insights into Solar Magnetism, $32,697, 12/8/2016 – 12/7/2017. Source: University of Colorado at Boulder, Subaward No. 1553828, Modification No. 1, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Award No. NNX16AC92G.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). The Economic Case for Eating Disorders Prevention and Early Detection: A Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Six Intervention Strategies, $10,434, 12/1/2016 – 11/30/2017. Source: Boston Children’s Hospital, extension and amendment to prior award, subaward of grant from the National Eating Disorders Association.

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar and Jeffrey Oishi (Co-PIs). Transforming the Integration of Teaching and Research in Physics and Astronomy at Bates College, $22,495, 1/25/2017 – 1/24/2018. Source: Maine Space Grant Consortium, Award No. SG-17-23.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates. $51,892, 2/15/2017 – 7/31/2017. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, RSA No. 1568853.

Oishi, Jeffrey (PI). The Stellar MRI. $50,000, 1/1/2017 – 12/31/2017. Source: Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, Scialog Time Domain Astrophysics, Award No. 24231.

Shaw, Caroline (PI). Beyond Sticks and Stones: A Modern History of Reputation in Britain. $6,000, 6/1/2017 – 8/31/2017. Source: National Endowment for the Humanities.

Wenzel, Thomas (PI). Collaborative Research: Moving Faculty from Experimentation With to Long-term Adoption of Engaged Student Learning in Analytical Chemistry. Supplement: $25,000. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. DUE-1624898 Amendment No. 001.

Faure, Laura (Project Director). Bates Dance Festival. $40,000, 1/1/2017 – 10/31/2017. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Grant No. 17-3300-7015.

Ambrose, William (Program Director). Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement: Arctic Observatory Network. $46,056, 6/15/2017 – 8/31/2017. Source: National Science Foundation, PLR-1545644 Amendment No. 2.

Bavis, Ryan (Site Director). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine. $614,272, 5/1/2017 – 4/30/2018. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, subaward and amendment no. 1 of NIH-NIGMS Award No. P20GM103423-17.

Greene, Michelle R. (PI). Collaborative Research: RUI: Uncovering the Neural Dynamics of Scene Categorization through Electroencephalography, Machine Learning, and Neuromodulation. $304,266, 8/1/2017 – 7/31/2020. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. BCS-1736274.

FY2016 Grants

Wenzel, Thomas J. (PI). Development of E-Learning Modules for Analytical Chemistry. Supplement of $50,000 added to National Science Foundation Award No. DUE-1118600, September 1, 2011 – August 31, 2016.

Ambrose, William (PI). Lobster Growth and Ageing Project Development, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2016, $5,600. Source: University of Maine Subcontract No. UM-S972 (year 2 of 2), Maine Sea Grant Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Schlax, Paula J. (PI). mRNA Degradation in Borrelia burgdorferi, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2018, $345,750. Source: National Institutes of Health – National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Award No. 1R15GM107700-01A1.

Koven, Nancy (PI). The role of endogenous oxytocin in adult psychosocial adjustment: main effects and interactions with serotonergic and dopaminergic modulators of social cognition, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2018, $299,439. Source: National Institutes of Health – National Institute on Aging, Award No. 1R15AG050320-01.

Lexow, Gwen (Project Director). A Community-Engaged Approach to Reducing Sexual Violence at Bates College, 10/1/2015 – 9/30/2018, $300,000. Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence against Women, Project No. 2015-WA-AX-0013.

Slovenski, Sally (Executive Director, Maine Campus Compact). Community Colleges for Environmental Stewardship: a Replicable Model for Environmental Education and Behavioral Change, 12/1/2015 – 11/30/2017, $90,000. Source: Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Education Grants, Award No. 00A00052.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). Building the Economic Case for Eating Disorders Prevention and Early Detection: A Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Five Intervention Strategies, 12/1/2015 – 11/30/2016, $9,258. Source: Boston Children’s Hospital, subcontract RSTFD0000659957 (year 1 of 2), from a grant by the National Eating Disorders Association.

Faure, Laura (Director, Bates Dance Festival). Seeding the Field: Cultivating an Innovative Dance Community, 1/1/2016 – 10/31/2016, $40,000. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 16-3300-7030.

Davis United World College Scholars Program, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2016, $160,000.

Huggett, Brett (PI). Collaborative Research: Structure and Function of Whole-tree Xylem Networks in Response to Past, Present, and Future Drought, 3/1/2016 – 2/28/2019, $164,704. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. IOS-1557835.

Ambrose, William (PI). Lobster Growth and Ageing, 10/1/2014 – 9/30/2016, $10,805. Source: Amendments 2 & 3 to University of Maine Subcontract No. UM-S1000, Maine State Department of Marine Resources.

Student Scholarships, Herman Goldman Foundation, $10,000, 2016.

Scholarships for Maine Students, John T. Gorman Foundation, $10,000, 2016.

Castro, Jason (PI). CAREER: Data-driven Approaches for Investigating Olfactory System Heterogeneity, 5/1/2016 – 4/30/2021, $360,000. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. IOS-1553279.

Lundblad, Nathan (Project Director). Bates Summer Science Research Experience, 6/1/2016 – 8/31/2018, $270,000. Source: Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Summer Stipend Program.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates, 4/18/2016 – 10/14/2016, $53,269. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, RSA No. 1548533, pursuant to JPL NASA Prime Contract No. NNN12AA01C.

Bavis, Ryan (PI). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine, 5/1/2016 – 4/30/2017, $476,839. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, subaward of NIH-NIGMS Award No. 5P20GM103423-16.

Gottlieb ’17, Sophia (Fellow). NIST-SURF Boulder 2016, 5/1/2016 – 9/30/2016, $9,100.

Paseltiner ’16, Daniel (Fellow). NIST-SURF Gaithersburg 2016, 5/1/2016 – 9/30/2016, $8,565.

Ambrose, William (Program Director). Extension of Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement: Program Director, Arctic Observing Network, through 6/14/2017, additional $197,430. Source: National Science Foundation (Award No. PLR-1545644).

Sanford, Daniel (Project Director). Academic Resource Commons: Reimagining a Liberal Arts Education, 6/1/2016 – 5/31/2019, $223,536. Source: Davis Educational Foundation.

Support of Asian Studies at Bates, Tanaka Memorial Foundation, 7/1/2016-6/30-2017, $10,000.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). NIST Support of Student Travel Grants to American Physical Society/Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Meeting, 5/15/2016 – 9/30/2016, $5,000. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Award No. 60NANB16D169.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). NSF Support of Student Travel Grants to APS-DAMOP 2016, 6/1/2016 – 5/31/2017, $12,000. Source: National Science Foundation, Award No. PHY-1639078.

Seeley, William (PI). Scientific Workflows, Image Analysis, and Visual Stylometry in the Digital Analysis of Art, 6/1/2016 – 8/31/2017, $6,327. Source: Fitchburg State University, Subaward No. FSUMA16_F80-F800, from National Endowment for the Humanities Award No. HD-248360-16.

FY2015 Grants

Castro, Jason (PI). Genome Scale Analysis of Neuronal Heterogeneity, July 15, 2014 – April 30, 2015, $115,160. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Maine INBRE (NIH-NIGMS Award No. 2P20GM103423-14).

Williams, Larissa (PI). Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the Oxidative Stress Response during Development, July 15, 2014 – April 30, 2015, $122,103. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Maine INBRE (NIH-NIGMS Award No. 2P20GM103423-14).

Ambrose, William (PI) and Michael Retelle (Co-PI). Collaborative research: Exploring the role of oceanic and atmospheric forcing on Arctic marine climate from newly developed annual shell based records in coastal Norway, August 1, 2014 – July 31, 2017, $337,228. Source: National Science Foundation, Division of Polar Programs, Award No. PLR-1417636.

Ott, Katharine (PI). Topics in the Theory of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems, July 1, 2014 – May 31, 2015, $41,450. Source: National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences, Award No. DMS-1458138.

Tefft, Nathan (PI). The Dark Side of Obesity Remedies: Widespread Use of Ineffective and Dangerous Diet Pills, August 1, 2014 – July 31, 2015, $8,713. Source: Boston Children’s Hospital.

Federico, Sylvia (PI). The Learned Clerk: Neglected Sources, New Perspectives, September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2015, $4,500. Source: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Williams, Larissa (PI), Matthew Côté, Travis Gould and Nancy Kleckner (Co-PIs). MRI: Acquisition of a white light laser confocal microscope for multidisciplinary research and teaching at a liberal arts undergraduate institution, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2017, $791,480. Source: National Science Foundation, Division of Biological Infrastructure, Award No. DBI-1428210.

Ambrose, William (PI). Lobster Growth and Ageing Project Development, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015, $5,600. Source: University of Maine Subcontract No. UM-S972, Maine Sea Grant Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Davis United World College Scholars Program, 9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015, $110,000 (student scholarships).

Ambrose, William (PI). Lobster Growth and Ageing (year 2), 10/1/2014 – 9/30/2015, $12,450. Source: University of Maine Subcontract No. UM-S1000, under Maine Department of Marine Resources Contract No. 13A-20140922*1128.

New England Foundation for the Arts, multiple grants in support of Bates Dance Festival 2015 season, $24,235.

Charles Irwin Travelli Foundation, $42,500 (student scholarships).

Alice S. Ayling Scholarship Foundation, $22,500 (student scholarships).

Slovenski, Sally (Executive Director, Maine Campus Compact). Campuses for Environmental Stewardship: A Model for Interdisciplinary Service Learning, December 2014 – November 2016, $168,000. Source: Davis Educational Foundation.

Ambrose, William (PI). Estimate and Compare Bloodworm Densities at the DMR Wiscasset Conservation Area and Cod Cove (Edgecombe), 12/1/2014 – 6/30/2015, $5,000. Source: State of Maine, Department of Marine Resources, Contract No. 20141113*1775.

Faure, Laura (Director). Bates Dance Festival, 1/1/2015 – 10/31/2015, $30,000. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 15-3300-7013.

Shostak, Anthony (Project Director). Thousand Words Project Expansion, 1/1/2015 – 12/31/2015, $30,000. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Award No. 15-5100-7012.

Auer, Matthew R. (Project Director) and Crystal Williams (Co-Project Director). Creating Connections Consortium (C3), 1/1/2015 – 6/30/2018, $419,360. Source: Middlebury College, subcontract under Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant No. 41200700.

Lundblad, Nathan (PI). Microgravity dynamics of bubble-geometry Bose-Einstein condensates (year 2), 3/16/2015 – 3/31/2016, $116,692. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, RSA No. 1523556, under NASA Contract No. NNN12AA01C.

Spencer, A. Clayton (PI). Faculty Renewal in the Humanities, 3/25/2015 – 6/30/2020, $1,000,000. Source: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Grant No. 11500605.

Bavis, Ryan (PI). Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine (Year 2), 5/1/2015 – 4/30/2016, $565,205. Includes sub-projects for Co-PIs Jason Castro, Travis Gould, and Larissa Williams. Source: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Maine INBRE (NIH-NIGMS Award No. 2P20GM103423-15).

Paseltiner ’16, Daniel (Fellow), FY 2015 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship – PML-EE, 5/1/2015 – 9/30/2015. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland (Award No. 70NANB15H153).

Low, William (Project Director). Points of View Photography Exhibition, 6/1/2015 – 12/31/2015, $10,000. Source: The Davis Family Foundation.

Ambrose, William (Program Director). Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement: Program Director, Arctic Observing Network, 6/15/2015 – 6/14/2016, $189,916. Source: National Science Foundation (Award No. PLR-1545644).

Tolosky ’15, Patrick (Project Director). Q’eros Health Initiative, 6/18/2015 – 8/20/2015, $10,000. Source: Davis Projects for Peace.

Read, Kirk (Project Director). Support for Asian Studies at Bates, 7/1/2015 – 6/30/2016, $10,000. Source: Tanaka Memorial Foundation.

Sewall, Laura (Principal Investigator / Project Director). Strategic Planning and Collaboration for Monitoring Changes in Coastal Ecosystems, Gulf of Maine, 8/1/2015 – 7/31/2015, $24,952. Source: National Science Foundation (Award No. DBI-1522498).