Award Recipients 2005-2006

Recipient Name of Funder(s) and Description of Project

David Bello

David Bello
Assistant Professor 
of East Asian history

Awarded both a Fulbright grant and an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship to study in China during the 2005-06 academic year and summer 2006, respectively.
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  Theresa Braunschneider
Assistant Professor 
of English

National Humanities Center Jessie Ball duPont Fellowship 2005-06 for research and to write a book Reforming the Coquette:  Consumption, Education and Female Sexuality in British Literature, 1660-1750.



James Eason

Assistant Professor 
of Physics & Engineering

Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust award for support of an additional year (Jan 2006 - Dec 2006) of his project, “The Mechanisms of Defibrillation During Acute Myocardial Ischemia.”  more Information 


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 2005-06.



Genelle Gertz-Robinson
Assistant Professor 
of English



Jessie Ball duPont Fund award to attend a three week seminar June 2005, "Space: Familiar, Compulsory, Sacred, Contested.



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 through  2006.



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.  (fall 2005 and spring 2006)



 Helen I'Anson
Professor of Biology

 

Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust award for support of her project "Metabolic Regulation of the Onset of Puberty" thru summer 2006.

 



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.



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



National Endowment for the Humanities
fellowship for her project entitled, "Voiceprints: Sound and Presence in American Poetry" for the 05-06 fiscal 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 2005-06.

 



C. Elizabeth Belmont

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

 


Virginia Law Foundation
grant for the Washington and Lee Community Legal Services Project for the 2006-2007 fiscal year.  More Information

 


Jeffrey Kosky
Assistant Professor of Religion


Jessie Ball duPont Fund
:  National Humanities Center three-week seminar June 2005, “Space Familiar, Compulsory, Sacred, Contested.”


David Marsh
Assistant Professor of Biology


A research fellowship at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara for the (fall 2006 and spring 2007)



Deborah Miranda
Assistant Professor of English


Phillips Fund award from the American Philosophical Society for her project "The Light from Carissa Plains." Miranda will use the audiotape life chronicles of her grandfather, a full-blood descendant of the Carmel Mission Indians, to create an ethnohistorical and literary work addressing both California native history and identity (summer 2006).



Rebecca R. Benefiel
Assistant Professor of Classics


Mednick Memorial Fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges for her project "Writing on the Wall: Graffiti in the Basilica of Pompeii."  She will use her award to spend several weeks conducting research in Naples and Pompeii Italy (summer 2006)


Matt Tuchler
Assoc. Professor of Chemistry
Bill Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Biology


American Chemical Society
grant for their project "The Impact of Highway Traffic on Atmospheric Chemistry and Biological Processes: A New 'Lab" Science Course for Non-Science Majors" (spring 2006 and fall 2006).


John Knox
Professor of Biology
Jim Warren
Professor of English


Associated Colleges of the South curriculum development grant to develop a new interdisciplinary course entitled “Island Biogeography and Species Conservation: Science and Literature.”

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