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RECOGNITION Mihai Grunfeld, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, informs us that his play The Dressmaker’s Secret will open in New York “Off Broadway” on February 6, 2017 and will run through March 5. The play is an adaptation of a novel and it is about Robi, a nineteen-year-old electrician who craves all things western as he searches for identity in […]

This bulletin is issued regularly during the academic year to provide information on funding opportunities available for research, fellowships, professional development and more. Please be advised that this is not a comprehensive list. For more information, to suggest inclusions or to have your publication or grant news shared in a future bulletin, contact Gary Hohenberger (gahohenberger, x7092). These […]

RECOGNITION April M. Beisaw, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was awarded a cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service (NPS) to conduct and complete archaeological identification and evaluation at three historic disposal sites within the Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. The project will support NPS’s management of cultural and natural resources at the […]

RECOGNITION Leah Isseroff Bendavid, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received an allocation on the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). Leah’s allocation supports two projects that seek to improve the materials used in two fields of solar energy technologies – photocatalytic fuel production and hybrid organic-inorganic photovoltaics. The first examines the photocatalytic potential of a novel two-dimensional […]

RECOGNITION David T. Bradley, Associate Professor of Physics, is the lead editor of Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design, a newly published compendium by Springer. This work begins with a series of essays on topics ranging from the soundscape of worship spaces to ecclesiastical design at the turn of the 21st Century. Perspective pieces from an architect, […]

Final edition for 2015-2016!   Issued by the Grants Office during the academic year, this bulletin recognizes faculty accomplishments in grants and publication and provides information on funding opportunities available for research, fellowship, professional development and more. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list. For more information, to suggest inclusions or to have your publication or grant news shared […]

RECOGNITION Dorothy Kim, Assistant Professor of English, and her collaborator Adrienne Williams Boyarin, of the University of Victoria, have been awarded a Connections Grant (25,000 CAD) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in support of the “Making Early Middle English” conference, which will convene at the University of Victoria in September […]

RECOGNITION Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy, was awarded a Summer Stipends grant by theNational Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to produce a new episode of his developing podcast series Hi-Phi Nation. Titled “Soldier Philosophers”, the episode features members of the U.S. military, in the shadow of two of the most morally complicated conflicts in […]

RECOGNITION Ronald Patkus, Associate Director of the Libraries for Special Collections and Adjunct Associate Professor of History, was awarded the Bridwell Fellowship by the Perkins School of Theology southern Methodist University. Each year the Perkins School offers six fellowships of independent study designed to encourage in-depth use of the Bridwell Library for study and research. […]

RECOGNITION Maria Hantzopoulos, Associate Professor of Education, is author of Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action, newly published by Teachers College Press (February 2016). For many students in urban public schools, the routines of standards-based instruction and frequent testing remove the possibilities for sustained inquiry and critical engagement in school and […]