Paul Cabe

Associate Professor of Biology

• LI-COR, Inc. Genomics Educations Matching Fund award to purchase LI-COR instruments for genomics research in the 2004-2005 fiscal year.

Marc Conner

Associate Professor of English

• Associated Colleges of the South/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation technology fellowship (2005) for his work on the Irish Studies Web Portal - a high-tech site containing an array of text, images, slides shows, audio files and interactive quizzes on the history and culture of Ireland from pre-historic to present times.

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Marcia France

Associate Professor of Chemistry

• American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant for her project, "Synthesis of Novel Nitrogen Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis" for 2005.
• Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust grant for support of an additional year (2005) of her project, "Chiral Schiff Base Complexes as Catalysts for Asymmetric Cyclopropanation."

Sascha Goluboff

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology

• Kennan Institute award to attend a workshop series entitled "Religion in Post-Soviet Societies" at the institute in Washington, D.C.  The series is sponsored by funding from the U. S. Department of State's Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and the George F. Kennan Fund.

Lisa Greer

Assistant Professor of Geology

• Keck Geology Consortium award for her project, "The Rise and Demise of a Holocene Coral Reef Complex, Dominican Republic: The Coral-Climate Connection" for the summer of 2005 and into 2006.

Kimberly Jew
Assistant Professor of Theater

• Mellon Fellowship for a one-month residency as a scholar at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. There, she will research its archive of papers and manuscripts of notable 20th-century American playwright Elmer Rice.

Helen I'Anson

Professor of Biology

• Virginia Academy of Science small project research grant for her project entitled "Regulation of Metabolic Rate and Energy Partitioning Strategies by Brain Leptin Levels in Dieted, Prepubertal Female Rats" for the 04-05 academic year.

Tyler Lorig

Ruth Parmly Professor and 

Chair of Neuroscience

• International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. grant for his research on the effects of indoor air odors on the brain and human behavior for the 04-05 academic year.

Irina Mazilu

Assistant Professor of Physics

• Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust award for her project, "A Study of Some Non-Equilibrium Driven Models and Their Contribution to the Understanding of Molecular Motors" for 2005.

Frank Settle

Professor of Chemistry

• National Science Foundation award through the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program for a collaborative project with Elizabeth Blackmer and Professor Thomas Whaley, entitled, "Nuclear Pathways - A Model for Composite Digital Collections" for October 2004 until September 2007.
• United States Institute of Peace award for his and Professor Robert Strong's "Summer Institute on Nonproliferation" to be held at Washington and Lee University in 2005. For more information, please go to http://wmd.wlu.edu.
• Ploughshares Fund grant for his and Professor Strong's work to improve and expand undergraduate instruction about non-proliferation of nuclear materials and weapons.

Robert Strong

Professor of Politics

• United States Institute of Peace award for his and Professor Frank Settle's "Summer Institute on Nonproliferation" to be held at Washington and Lee University in 2005. For more information, please go to http://wmd.wlu.edu.
• Ploughshares Fund grant for his and Professor Settle's work to improve and expand undergraduate instruction about non-proliferation of nuclear materials and weapons.

Thomas Whaley

Professor of 

Computer Science

• National Science Foundation award through the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program for a collaborative project with Elizabeth Blackmer and Professor Frank Settle, entitled, "Nuclear Pathways - A Model for Composite Digital Collections" for October 2004 until September 2007.

Lesley Wheeler

Associate Professor of English

• Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Fellowship Grant for her project "Voiceprints: Sound and Presence in American Poetry from the 1920s to the Present."
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for her project entitled, "Voiceprints: Sound and Presence in American Poetry" for the 05-06 fiscal year.