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Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Research: Developing Biology Undergraduates’ Scientific Literacy and Identity Through Peer Review of Scientific Manuscripts,” under the IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources) program. The project is for three years.
Jacquelyne Luce and colleagues Kristin Bright at Middlebury College and Sarah Willen at the University of Connecticut have been awarded a $5,000 seed grant from the New England Humanities Consortium for their project, "Feminist Health Futures: Enacting Collaborative Pedagogies in Health Humanities." The grant will support a series of online dialogues about emerging models of collaborative undergraduate research and public scholarship in the health humanities and a workshop at Middlebury College in the late spring of 2023.
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the project 'Contested Places: Cartography, Conflict, and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe.' The project is for one year. (2020)
Received a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for their project, "Comparison of Educational Values of Irish Mothers in Ireland to Educational Values of Puerto Rican Mothers in Puerto Rico."
Received a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for their project, "Comparison of Educational Values of Irish Mothers in Ireland to Educational Values of Puerto Rican Mothers in Puerto Rico."
Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for EAGER: Collaborative Research: Towards an Extensible Internet.
Native American and Indigenous Studies Mellon Award by Five Colleges, Incorporated (FCI) and the Gathering at the Crossroads project, for a residency project with Native composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate leading to the creation of a new course and the first ever full-length Chickasaw opera, Shellshaker. The project is for one year. This funding is made possible thanks to support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
“Connecting Science and People Through Storytelling: A CS Writing Community to Develop, Preserve, and Broadcast Scientist Narratives,” Team: Aurora Pribram-Jones (Leader), Camille Avestruz, Tyler Engstrom, Jennifer Heemstra, Lydia Kisley, Roman Kogler, Kerstin Nordstrom, Will Pfalzgraff, Shahir Rizk, Rory Waterman, Christopher Whidbey, Tim Atherton.
This is a multi-institution collaborative award to record and promote personal narratives from real scientists, some focus will be on underserved populations. Much of the grant period will be devoted to developing and improving writing meant for a popular audience amongst the participants, and demystifying other aspects of popular writing such as publishing. An anthology of writing will be published at the conclusion of this project. Some writing may end up as seeds for larger individual book projects.
Kelley O'Carroll (Psychology and Education) received a $11,240 grant from George Lucas Educational Foundation through a subaward from Harvard for the project "Education for Democracy." The project is for 9 months (2020).