Category: Grant News

Carleton’s Gould Library’s Special Collections and Archives has received a Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund an assessment of the Special Collections and Archives vault, according to Abigail Merritt, library conservator.

Anita Chikkatur, Professor of Educational Studies, has received a second year of AmeriCorps funding for a collaborative project, “Using YPAR insights to transform school policies and practices.”

Carleton College will serve as the lead institution on an NSF Conference grant (#2324524) for the Colleges of Liberal Arts Sponsored Programs (CLASP) community; Charlotte Whited, Associate Director of the Grants Office and Compliance Officer, will be the project’s Principal Investigator, leading a team of research administration professionals from a variety of PUI LACs.

Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation for her five-year project “Research in and Pathways to Analytic Number Theory.”

Claire Kelling, Assistant Professor of Statistics, has received two grants from the National Science Foundation.

MurphyKate Montee, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant from the Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (LEAPS-MPS) for her project “Cubulation and Property (T) in Random Groups.”

Julia Strand, Associate Professor of Psychology, has received a National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award for her project, “Listening effort and audiovisual speech by L1 (“native”) and LX (“nonnative”) English speakers.”

Rafe Jones, Associate Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded an inaugural American Mathematical Society-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty.

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