Grant News

Nancy Braker, Puzak Family Director of the Cowling Arboretum, has received a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant from the Minnesota Historical Society to fund research on the history of the Cowling Arboretum.

Matt Whited, Associate Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project, “Promoting Group-Transfer Reactions at Metal/Main-Group Bonds.”

Ross Elfline, Associate Professor of Art History, has been named an ACM Mellon Academic Leadership Fellow by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM).

Sara Cluggish, Mary Hulings Rice Director and Curator of the Perlman Teaching Museum, and MurphyKate Montee, Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor of Mathematics, have received a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support research for an exhibition that will combine a decolonized perspective on mathematics with contemporary artistic practice.

Annette Nierobisz, Professor of Sociology, has received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (APS) for work toward completing her co-authored book, American Idle: Late Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era.

Chloé Fandel, Assistant Professor of Geology, has received a grant from the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) in support of her project, titled, “Developing open-source tools to simulate reactive and non-reactive contaminant transport in karst aquifers.”

Austin Mason, Director of Digital Arts & Humanities and Lecturer in History, has been awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (HAA-290378-23) from the National Endowment for the Humanities for “The Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research,” which he will co-direct with colleagues from Grinnell College.

Sarah Kennedy, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Humanities an Archeology, has been named a co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation Senior Archaeology Grant (2050528) for the project “Social Adaptation During Periods of State Collapse.”

Claire Larson, Visiting Instructor in Music and Director of the Carleton Symphony Band, is the recipient of a Legacy Grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) for “Copper Street on College Street: Brass at Carleton.”

Amanda Hund, Visiting Assistant Research Professor in Biology, has received an National Science Foundation grant (#2243076) for “RUI: Linking Ecology, Behavior, and Immunology to Spatio-Temporal Variation in Helminth Transmission.” Initially written for Grinnell College, Prof. Hund has transferred this award to Carleton. The grant supports research that connects empirical data with mathematical models to understand and predict how behavior, immunology, and ecology within host species shapes parasite transmission. The project focuses on the transmission of a tapeworm parasite across copepods, threespine stickleback fish, and common loons. In addition to improving understanding of the transmission of a complex-life cycle parasite, a modeling toolkit will be built that can be applied to other parasites. Research is also being incorporated into the classroom through a course-based undergraduate research experience, an interdisciplinary undergraduate course focused on the connections between art and science, a high school summer science program, and will be made broadly available through published lesson plans. To share this work, the investigators have developed an art-science collaboration involving indigenous artists and a science journalism student to produce a traveling exhibition focused on this project.