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Faculty Research Support '06-'07

Tom Beck, Chemistry, and Philip Argyres, Physics

Elected Fellows of the Graduate School.

John Bickle and John Martin, Philosophy

Received Taft Faculty Leave Fellowships. Bickle's research focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory; Martin researched the history of logic.

Cinnamon Carlarne, Environmental Studies

Received the Harold Woods Fellowship in Environmental Law from Oxford University in Great Britain, where she is on leave until 2008 working on a project examining climate change policies in the European Union and the United States.

Wendy Eisner and Ken Hinkel, both of Environmental Studies and Geography

Received a $250,000 grant for "Connecting Indigenous Knowledge to Landscape Process Research, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska." Thomas Algeo, also of Environmental Studies and Geology, received $189,999 for "Middle and Upper Devonian black shales: Testing the productivity-anoxia feedback and land plant-weathering rate hypotheses."

Bill Heineman and Carl Seliskar, Chemistry

Awarded a $499,912 grant from the Department of Energy, titled "Spectroelectrochemical Sensor for Pertechnetate Applicable to Hanford and Other DOE Sites."

Laura Jenkins, Political Science

Received a Fulbright Scholar Award to study access and equity in higher education in India during winter 2008.

Nancy Jennings, Communication

Received a $50,000 grant, sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting/U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences, to study children's responses to educational television programming.

David Lentz, Biology

Received a $167,000 National Endowment for the Humanities research grant with colleague Cynthia Robin of Northwestern University. They are conducting a paleoethnobotanical study of an ancient Maya site in Belize. Lentz also completed his term as president of the Society of Economic Botany.

Pat Limbach, Chemistry

awarded a $436,988 grant from the National Science Foundation, titled "New Methods for the Analysis of Ribonucleic Acids."

Tom Lowell, Geology

Received a $186,443 National Science Foundation grant for a research project titled "The Laurentide Ice Sheet and Late Glacial Climate: Which is the chicken and which is the egg?"

James Mark, Chemistry

Received a Special Creativity Award and an additional $312,000 from the National Science Foundation for "Some Modern Aspects of Elastomer Science And Technology."

John McEvoy, Philosophy

Received a Taft Center Research Fellowship for the academic year 2007-2008.

Tom Polger, Philosophy

Received a Taft Summer Research grant. He was also elected to the Executive Council of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, where he serves on the advisory committee for the 100th annual meeting.

Richard Schade, German Studies

Won a year-long Taft Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct research on the works of German Nobel laureate GÃ¼nter Grass.

Rob Skipper, Philosophy

was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham, U.K. He received a Taft Summer Research Grant for 2007 for work on "R.A. Fisher's One Long Argument for Neo-Darwinism."

George Stan, Chemistry

Awarded a $259,994 grant from the American Heart Association, titled "Annealing Action of Chaperonin Proteins: Recognition of Substrate Proteins and Protein Folding Assistance."

Julian Wuerth, Philosophy

Won a German Academic Exchange Service Re-invitation Research grant and received both a Taft Summer Research Fellowship and a Taft Travel for Research grant for his project on Immanuel Kant's theory of self.