2017 Funded Projects

2017 Funding Highlights

Kevin Surprise (Environmental Studies): from the Institute for Human Geography, Inc. for "Securing planetary capitalism: The making of solar geoengineering policy" at Harvard. The project is for one year.

Nicole Gilbert-Cote (Psychology) with Jared Schwartzer and Natasha Anderson: received a grant from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for their project "The Accessible Toolbox: A Website for Teaching Statistics in Psychology to Students with Disabilities." The project is for one year.

Andrea Foulkes (Mathematics and Statistics): received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for "Statistical methods for modeling multi-omic data." The project is for two years.

Jacquelyne Luce (Gender Studies): received a grant from the DES Action USA for Embodying Transgenerational Exposure: Gender/sex/sexuality and experiences of being DES-exposed.” The project is for nine and a half months.

Kathy Aidala (Physics): received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for "RUI: Time-resolved point Kelvin probe force microscopy for non-traditional semiconductors." The project is for three years.

Kathy Binder (Psychology and Education): received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education - IES sub-award from the University of Georgia for "Examining the Processes and Outcomes of Reading Comprehension (EXPO-RC)." The project is for four years.

Rebecca Lijek (Biology): received a grant from The Epidemiology and Prevention Interdisciplinary Center for Sexually Transmitted Infections (EPIC-STI) for “Identification of Chlamydia factors that drive immunopathology.” The project is for one year.

Alexi Arango (Physics) EAGER: received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Transparent electrode device architecture for high efficiency.” The project is for 18 months.

Maria Gomez (Chemistry): received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for "RUI: Using graph theory measures to probe oxygen vacancy and proton conduction in perovskites and double perovskites." The project is for three years.

Corey Flanders (Psychology): received a grant from the Wayne F. Placek Grant from the American Psychological Association (APA) for “Young sexual minority women’s experiences of sexual violence and sexual stigma.” The project is for one year.

James Hartley (Economics): received a grant from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University for "Markets without Limits Reading Group." The project is for one semester.

Gary Gillis (Biology): received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Symposium: Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics, January 5, 2018, San Francisco, California." The project is for one year.

Institutional Grants

Henry R. Luce Foundation - $330,000 for Clare Booth Luce Escrow Account FY18. The project is for one year.

Yawkey Foundation - $10,000 to support an equestrian project to be determined. The project is for eight months.

Henry P. Kendall Foundation - $100,000 to support “MHC Sustainable: Campus Food Initiative.” The project is for 18 months.

Sherman Fairchild Foundation - $500,000 to support MHC’s MEDIAL Project for Arts and Technology. The project is for four years.