Faculty Grants Awarded

Ten grants for faculty research and scholarly activity totaling $66,573 were approved by the faculty grants committee (information updated Feb. 21). The recipients and their project titles are:

•Christine Flavin (Art and Design): “Vanishing Points”

•Peter Goodrich (English): “Towards a Global Middle Ages: Thai Language Study and Contrasts Between Classical Age Thai and Medieval European Literature”

•Marek Haltof (English): “The History of Polish Cinema: A Documentary Script”

•Akhtar Khan (Mathematics): “Theoretical and Numerical Stability of Inverse Problems”

•Se Li (Chemistry): “Application of Quantum Chemistry: Novel Trinuclear Metal Carbonyl CR3(CO)12”

•Alec Lindsay (Biology): “Developing Tools to Genetically Assess the Conservation Status of Common Loons (Gavia immer)”

•Russell Prather (English): “Multidisciplinary Study of the Poetry and Designs of William Blake”

•Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos (Languages): “Debating Women: Early American Educational Reformists”

•Katherine Teeter (Biology): “An Analysis of the Movement of Mitochondrial DNA Across a Species Boundary in House Mice”

•William Tireman (Physics): “Determination of Radionuclide Concentrations in Dead River Sediments”