Recent Award Recipients
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Lisa AltyProfessor of ChemistryNational Science Foundation grant for a liquid chromatograph electrospray ionization time of flight mass spectrometer to be used in a variety of research projects.
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Alison BellAssistant Professor of Sociology and AnthropologyVirginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Memorial Fellowship for her project "Race, Class and Power: Analysis of 19th Century Archeological Sites in Virginia."
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Rebecca BenefielAssistant Professor of ClassicsArchaeological Institute of America’s Olivia James Traveling Fellowship for her project "Pompeii and Her Neighbors: Civic Identity, Social Interaction, and Ancient Graffiti."
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Christa BowdenAssistant Professor of ArtVirginia Museum of Fine Arts fellowship to make photographs for her body of work "Still Flight."
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Theresa BraunschneiderAssociate Professor of EnglishAmerican Council of Learned Societies fellowship to complete her book After Dark: Modern Nighttime in 18th Century Literature.
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Alexandra BrownJessie Ball duPont Professor of ReligionCenter of Theological Inquiry support for her project "A Critical Commentary on I Corinthians for the New Testament Library series."
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Mark CareyAssistant Professor of HistoryNational Science Foundation grant for his research project “Glacier Science and Technology in the Central Andes: The Quest to Control Natural Disasters and Climate Change.”
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Christopher ConnorsAssociate Professor of GeologyU.S. Geological Survey grant for collaborative research on Alaska's North Slope.
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Katherine CrowleyAssistant Professor of MathematicsAmerican Mathematical Society Congressional Fellow, in a program administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Theodore DeLaneyAssociate Professor of History, Harry E. and Mary Jane W. Redenbaugh Term ProfessorVirginia Foundation for the Humanities fellowship to pursue his research project “Public School Desegregation in Western Virginia.”
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Marcia FranceJohn T. Herwick M. D. Professor of ChemistryAssociated Colleges of the South Faculty Renewal grant (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) for "Research at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland): Preparation for Chiral Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis."
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Lisa GreerAssociate Professor of GeologyGrants from the Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust and the J. Edwin Treakle Foundation for her research project "Potential Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Caribbean Corals, and the Role of the Amazon River in Coral Calcification."
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David HarborProfessor of GeologyNational Science Foundation grant for a multinational study of the weathering of shale in different climates.
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Leonard JarrardRobert Lee Telford Professor of Psychology, EmeritusNational Institutes of Health grant for collaborative project “Energy Dysregulation: Behavioral and Biological Signals.”
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Scott JohnsonAssistant Professor of ClassicsThe Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship and a grant from Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library for his research project "All the World’s Knowledge: Geography and Literature in Late Antiquity."
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Elizabeth KnappAssociate Professor of GeologyNational Science Foundation grant for a multinational study of the weathering of shale in different climates.
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Joel KuehnerAssistant Professor of Physics & EngineeringThomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust grant for the project "Investigation of Nonresonant Laser-Induced Electrostrictive Gratings for Temperature Measurements in Air at Subatmospheric Pressure."
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Fred LaRiviereAssistant Professor of ChemistryThomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust grant for his project "Investigating Non-Functional Ribosomal RNA Decay and Ribosomal Assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae."
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Tyler LorigRuth Parmly Professor and Chair, NeuroscienceOlfactory-research grant from International Flavors and Fragrances Corporation.
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Timothy LubinAssociate Professor of ReligionFulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship (U.S. Department of Education) and American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) for his research project "Authority, Law and the Polity in India, 300–1700."
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Alan MarcoAssociate Professor of EconomicsInnovation, Intellectual Property and Competition Policy grant from the Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Law and Economics Center for his research project "Congestion Pricing for Patent Applications."
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Russell MillerAssociate Professor of Law and Ethan Allen Faculty FellowFulbright Scholar Senior Research Grant to complete, in Heidelberg, Germany, contributions to two books — one on global comparative law, the other on German constitutional law.
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Holly PickettAssistant Professor of EnglishNewberry Library/National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for her project "The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England."
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Mark RushRobert G. Brown Professor of Politics and LawAssociated Colleges of the South Faculty Renewal grant (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) for "Development and Expansion of Geographic Information Systems Skills for Teaching and Research."
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Frank SettleVisiting Professor of ChemistryLenfest Foundation grant for "Nuclear Energy Education for the 21st Century." National Science Foundation funding for "Nuclear Pathways: A Model for Composite Digital Collections."
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Hampden SmithProfessor of Journalism, EmeritusFulbright Senior Scholar--his fourth Fulbright assignment, following others in Russia, Bulgaria and Albania--at SS. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia.
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James WarrenS. Blount Mason, Jr. Professor of EnglishHuntington Library Short-Term Fellowship for his project "Mary Austin’s Poetry and Poetics." Texas Tech University Formby Research Fellowship for research on the works of Barry Lopez.
Award recipient lists from previous years can be found in our Annual Newsletters.
