Tough Year, Encouraging Results
By George P. Carras
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Despite difficult financial times for foundations, the 2008-09 Washington and Lee academic and fiscal years were highlighted by significant grants for high-priority undertakings: $1 million from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation toward the considerable cost of renovating the University's historic Colonnade; completion of more than $1 million in corporate and foundation fund-raising to remake the main floor of the central library; an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant of $650,000 to further strengthen our distinctive Spring Term; $200,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to increase flexibility in faculty careers; and $129,000 from Mellon, by way of the Associated Colleges of the South, for a post-doctoral fellow in environmental studies, following a $600,000 Mellon grant the previous year to expand that subject area. In addition, we experienced a sharp rise in faculty grants and fellowships, including several believed to be first-time awards for W&L faculty from prestigious national organizations.
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Lisa Alty
Professor of Chemistry
National Science Foundation grant for a liquid chromatograph electrospray ionization time of flight mass spectrometer to be used in a variety of research projects. |
Alexandra Brown
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion
Center of Theological Inquiry support for her project "A Critical Commentary on I Corinthians for the New Testament Library series." |
Theodore DeLaney
Associate Professor of History, Harry E. and Mary Jane W. Redenbaugh Term Professor
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities fellowship to pursue his research project “Public School Desegregation in Western Virginia.” |
Joel Kuehner
Assistant Professor of Physics & Engineering
Thomas 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." |
Russell Miller
Associate Professor of Law and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow
Fulbright 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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