Recent Award Recipients 2006-2007

Recipient Name of Funder(s) and Description of Project

Domnica Radulescu

Professor

Romance Languages

Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for teaching and research on "Women's Voices in Contemporary Romanian Theater" in the theater department of Bolyai University, Romania during the fall of 2007

Daniel Kramer
Assistant Professor 
of German

Awarded an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant for summer 2007 research on his project, "Widening the Boundaries of German Classicism: Winckelmann's Impact on the Austrian Stage (1755-1787)"

  Holly Pickett
Assistant Professor 
of English

Awarded a Newberry Library/British Academy Fellowship for summer 2007 study in Great Britain.

 

Deborah Miranda

Associate Professor 
of English

Awarded a University of California, Los Angeles Institute of American Cultures Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Ethnic Studies for the 2007-2008 academic year.


David Peterson 
Associate Professor of History

 

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
for 2007-2008 work on his book "Power and the Sacred in Renaissance Florence: Religion, Politics, and the Church, 1375-1460." 



Genelle Gertz-Robinson
Assistant Professor 
of English



Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship for summer 2007 research in Great Britain on "The Rhetoric of Interrogation."



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.

 



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

 


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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