Hugh Blackmer
Associate Professor/ Science Librarian

• ACS Information Fluency Initiative grant to provide funds for Hugh Blackmer and Skip Williams to visit several ACS campuses about managing spatial information

Paul S. Bourdon
Professor of
Mathematics

• National Science Foundation three-year grant in 2001 for his project "Collaborative research in operator theory on holomorphic  function spaces."  More Information
  
• National Science Foundation Grant Supplement in 2002

Paul R. Cabe

Assistant Professor
of Biology

• Jeffress Memorial Trust Research Grant in 2001 for his project, "Gene flow and population structure in Virginia's flowering dogwoods (Cornus florida L)." 

William Connelly, Jr.
John K. Boardman
Professor of Politics

• Dirksen Congressional Center grant in 2002 for his project "The Roots of Legislative Strategy in American Political Thought."  More Information

Edwin D. Craun

Henry S. Fox, Jr. Professor of English

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship during 2002-2003 academic year.  He plans to spend the year researching in English university libraries, the British Library and cathedral libraries to complete his book, Fraternal Correction: The ethics of Social Criticism in Medieval English.  More Information

• National Humanities Center during the 2002-2003 academic year.  This award is also for his research to complete his book, Fraternal Correction: The ethics of Social Criticism in Medieval English. More Information
  
  
• Huntington-British Academy Fellowship for research in Great Britain.  This award is for one month support at the British Academy.  

Michael J. Evans

Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Mathematics

• National Science Foundation grant to support the 2002 Summer Symposium (the 26th Annual) in Real Analysis at Washington and Lee.  Mathematicians will attend from across the United States and around the world.  More Information

William E. Hamilton Assistant Professor of Biology

• National Science Foundation grant to support a three year project on "The introduction of new plant biology laboratories and curriculum at Washington and Lee University that integrate the biological levels of organization."  

Krzysztof Jasiewicz
Professor of Sociology

• Glenn Grant, Washington & Lee University; Short Term Travel Grant, International Research and Exchanges Board; Summer travel grant of the Central Europe/Russia Task Force, Global Partners Project of the ACM, ACS, & GLCA for his summer 2002 research project "Reluctantly European?   Ideological and Structural Sources of Euro-Skepticism in Poland."  More Information
  

James R. Kahn

Professor of Economics

• FIPSE-Department of Education grant for his project "The Environment, Economic Development and Quality of Life Nexus:  An Interdisciplinary Approach to Undergraduate Education."  The project is a collaboration between W&L, Fairfield University in the U.S. and the Universidade do Amazonas and the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense in Brazil.  

Robin LeBlanc

Associate Professor of Politics

• Fulbright Grant to conduct research in Japan in fall 2002.  The title of her research project is "Can a Good Man Do Good? Masculinity and Power in Japanese Local Politics."  This is a study of how notions of masculinity shape Japanese men's encounters with community power structures.  More Information

• Japan Foundation Fellowship Grant.  Also for her research project "Can a Good Man Do Good? Masculinity and Power in Japanese Local Politics." 

• 2002 Science & Religion Course Award from the CTNS (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences) for his course "Magic, Science, and Religion" for winter term 2003  More Information
  
• VFIC Mednick Fellowship (2002)

Domnica Radulescu
Associate Professor of Romance Languages

• J. Edwin Treakle Foundation grant to organize the Andre Malraux and Cultural Diversity Symposium in collaboration with the Malraux Association in France and the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. 2002

Michael J. Smitka
Professor of Economics

• Japan Foundation Short-Term Fellowship Award in Japanese economy for research during summer 2002

David W. Sukow Assistant Professor of Physics and Engineering

• Jeffress Memorial Trust Research Grant in 2001 to continue his project, "High-Frequency Oscillations from a Semiconductor Laser with Two Delayed Optical Feedbacks."  More Information

Kenneth Van Ness
Professor of Physics and Engineering

• New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology R&D Excellence Program grant for a five year project  on "Advanced Functional and Structural Materials from Immiscible Polymer Blends."  The project involves two other participating institutions: Rutgers University, as principal investigator, and Princeton University.   More Information

Eduardo Velasquez
Associate Professor
of Politics

• Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at Liberty Fund, Inc. from August 2002-2003.  His work will involve much travel, attending Liberty Fund colloquia throughout the USA and abroad.  His own work will focus on questions about the meaning and status of love in modern times. Some of this work will involve discussions of books, movies, and contemporary literature. The latter includes children's literature, the most salient of which is the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.   More Information

James Warren
Professor of English

• Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill Fellow of the Huntington.  He will be researching the writings of  John Burroughs, John Muir, and Mary Austin during his one month stay.  The research is for a book on American nature writing between 1865 and 1920.  The Huntington Library is located in San Marino, California.  More Information