Posts tagged with “Kudos” (All posts)

  • Rini Y. Keagy, Rini KeagyVisiting Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, has been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant in media arts to complete post-production of Ordinal, a film about valley fever, a fungal disease that afflicts California’s Central Valley. Combining literature such as Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath and ancient Assyrian myth, the film uses documentary, fictional, and animation techniques to explore biological and environmental forces affecting humans and Earth. Screenings will take place in Northfield and the Twin Cities.

  • Cecilia Cornejo, Cecilia CornejoVisiting Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to complete pre-production on her new film. The project explores issues of displacement and belonging as experienced by the Latino community of Northfield, Minnesota. The finished work will combine elements of fiction with documentary techniques to present a nuanced vision of reality from a Latino perspective.

  • Gao Hong, Gao HongSenior Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments and Director of the Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble, has been awarded an Artist Initiative grant and an Arts Tour Minnesota grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Hong will produce and perform Storytelling in Chinese Music from the Ancient Past to Modern Times in seven greater Minnesota communities.

  • Cindy BlahaCindy Blaha, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has just received an NSF grant to work with four collaborators to institutionalize a mentoring program for female physics faculty. Operating under the auspices of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and directed by a team that also includes lead PI Beth Cunningham and co-PIs Anne Cox from Eckerd College, Barbara Whitten from Colorado College, and Idalia Ramos from the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, the “Mutual Mentoring to Combat Isolation in Physics” project will use a combination of face-to-face meetings and electronic connections to reduce the isolation of participating physicists and to support their career development. As many as 50 women physics faculty members will participate in the mutual mentoring alliances supported by this project.

  • David Tompkins, David TompkinsAssociate Professor of History, has been awarded two grants to do research in Germany and Poland for his new book project “The Construction and Reception of Friends and Enemies during the Cold War: Images of Israel, China, and Yugoslavia in the Soviet Bloc.” With a 3-month research grant from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dienst, German Academic Exchange Service) and a 13-month research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, David will investigate changes in the ways that Soviet bloc countries understood Israel, China, and Yugoslavia during the Cold War, and analyze how those changes challenged communist self-understanding.

  • Stephie Fried, Stephie FriedAssistant Professor of Economics, has received a subaward from the University of California-San Diego for the project “Rural Electrification and Internal Migration in the Developing World” funded by the London School of Economics International Growth Centre (IGC). As coPI, Professor Fried, with PI David Lagakos, will compile a village-level dataset for Ethiopian villages, aiming to provide guidance to developing-country policy makers on optimal patterns of – and governmental spending on – electrification across rural regions.

  • Helen WongHelen Wong, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded a $160,048 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project “RUI: Skeins on Surfaces.” Her project explores the extent to which the Kauffman skein algebra of a surface can serve as intermediary between quantum topology and hyperbolic geometry, and seeks to characterize knots and other topologically complex structures that can occur in DNA and proteins. As many as ten undergraduate researchers will participate in the research.

  • Matt Whited, Matt WhitedAssistant Professor of Chemistry, has received an Undergraduate Research grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. His project, “Stoichiometric and Catalytic Nitrene-Group-Transfer Reactions from Late-Metal Silylamides,” will explore versatile metal-catalyzed routes to forming carbon–nitrogen bonds that are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals and commodity chemicals. The grant will support the PI and seven Carleton students in performing this cutting-edge research. Read more about the Whited lab.

  • Matt Rand, Matt RandProfessor of Biology, and Stephan Zweifel, Chair and Professor of Biology, with support from the Minnesota Herpetological Society, are participating in the project “Assessing genetic diversity within and among three populations of Bullsnakes in Minnesota.” Stephan ZweifelWorking with students in the Molecular Biology course and with Department of Natural Resources personnel, Rand and Zweifel will analyze the DNA profile of bullsnakes, a “species of special concern” in Minnesota.

  • Adrienne Falcón,Adrienne Falcon Lecturer in Sociology and Director of Academic Civic Engagement, has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award during four months of academic year 2015-2016. This appointment enables Lecturer Falcón to participate in and research the construction of academic community and civic engagement in Ecuador while teaching and doing research at the Universidad de Cuenca. In particular, Falcón will study the implementation of a new law mandating community involvement for all institutions of higher education in Ecuador – a subject which Falcón will introduce to the wider scholarly conversation about civic engagement.

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