C. Elizabeth Belmont

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

• Virginia Law Foundation grant for the Washington and Lee Community Legal Services Project for the 2004-2005 fiscal year.  More Information

Marc Conner

Associate Professor 

of English

• Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Memorial fellowship for his project, "Virtual Joyce:  The Geography of Ulysses and the Irish Literary Studies Web Portal" for the 2004-2005 fiscal year.  More Information

Winston Davis

The Jessie Ball duPont 

Professor of Religion

• Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) German Exchange Service visiting professorship to Freie Universitat in Berlin for the 2004-2005 academic year to teach three courses, a lecture and a seminar on each of the following topics:  The Humanistic Atheism of Ludwig Feuerbach; American Religion and Society; and American Religion, Government and the First Amendment.

Theodore DeLaney

Associate Professor 

of History

• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities award for his project, "Telling Our Stories:  Western Virginia Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education" for the 2004-2005 fiscal year.

James Eason

Assistant Professor 

of Physics& Engineering

• Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust award for support of an additional year (2004-2005 fiscal year) of his project, “The Mechanisms of Defibrillation During Acute Myocardial Ischemia.”  More Information 

Marcia France

Associate Professor

of Chemistry

• Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust grant for support of an additional year (2004-2005 fiscal year) of her project, "Chiral Schiff Bases Complexes as Catalysts for Asymmetric Cyclopropanation."

Arthur Goldsmith

Jackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation subcontract grant for collaborative work on "Vulnerable Populations and Health Insurance Coverage: Assessing the Role of Occupational/Job Crowding, and the Racial-Ethnic Compositions of Firms" with the University of Michigan for the 2003-2004 fiscal year.

Sascha Goluboff

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology

• Hadassah-Brandeis Institute award for her project on "Wailing Women and Death Rites:  An Ethnography of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan" for the summer of 2004.
• The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research short term travel grant for her project on "Modern Rites of Ancient Passage: An Ethnography of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan."
• Social Science Research Council (Eurasia Program) teaching fellowship for the development of a class entitled, "Conflicts in Eurasia:  Globalization, New States, and Soviet Legacies" for October 2004 to September 2006.

William Hamilton, III 

Assistant Professor

of Biology

• National Science Foundation grant for his research on "Collaborative-RUI:  CO2-induced changes in heat-shock proteins and photosynthetic tolerance in acute heat stress" for spring of 2004 until spring of 2007.
• National Science Foundation research opportunity award for research on "Tri-trophic Interactions:  Does Grazing Influence Plant Mediated Microbial Organic Processing in Yellowstone National Park."  More Information

David Harbor

Professor of Geology

• American Institute of Indian Studies fellowship for his research on "Escarpment Retreat in South India: River Erosion of Continental Margins" in India for the 04-05 academic year.

Helen I'Anson

Professor of Biology

• Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust grant for support of an additional year (2004-2005 fiscal year) of her project, “Metabolic Regulation of the Onset of Puberty.”  More Information

Krzysztof Jasiewicz

Professor of Sociology

• International Research and Exchanges Board short term travel grant to Poland for his project, "The European Union Accession Referendum and the European Parliament Elections in Poland" for the 04-05 fiscal year.
• American Political Science Association research grant for his project, "The European Union Accession Referendum and the European Parliament Elections in Poland" for the 04-05 fiscal year.

• FIPSE-Department of Education grant for the collaborative project "The U.S. Brazil Consortium for Environmental Studies:  Student and Faculty Research for the Improvement of Environmental Decision-making at the Community Level" with Fairfield University in the U.S. and Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Brazil.

Lucas Morel

Associate Professor

of Politics

• Earhart Foundation fellowship research grant for his project, "Ralph Ellison's American Democratic Individualism" for 03-04 fiscal year. 

Mark Rush

Professor of Politics

• Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in Political Science for a two- to six-week program at Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines for the summer of 2004.  More Information

Hampden Smith, III

Professor of Journalism

• Fulbright award for teaching and lecturing at the University of Tirana, Albania's capital, for the winter and spring of 2004.
• U.S. State Department grant to run a three-day conference on "Coverage of Presidential Elections in the United States and Tanzania" in Tanzania in April 2004.
• U.S. State Department grant to present a paper on "U.S. Media and the Electoral Process" at an American Studies Conference at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in April 2004.

Erich Uffelman

Associate Professor

of Chemistry

• Associated Colleges of the South Mini-grant (funding supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation) for his Science in Art course development project for the 04-05 fiscal year.

Julie Woodzicka

Assistant Professor

of Psychology

• Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) summer research fellowship co-sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation for support of one student to assist with Professor Woodzicka's research "Why the Fake Smile? Awareness and Perceptions of Smiling as a Function of Interpersonal Power Discrepancies."  More Information
• Russell Sage Foundation award for her project, "The Measurement and Intergroup Impact of White Privilege" for the 2004-2005 fiscal year.