Grant News

Stephanie Cox, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, received a $6,305 grant from the Canadian Embassy to design a course on Transnational Writers in Quebec (of the immigrant, Anglophone, and First Nations communities) and to support activities showcasing Canadian/Quebec Studies (such as guest speakers). Read more on recent grants.

Gao Hong Dice, Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments, received:

 – a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum. Funds of $1,000 support her attendance at a world premiere of her choir music at the 6th World Choir Games in China. 

  – a USArtists International grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Support of $3,000 funded her group Speaking In Tongues to perform at The 9th CCOM Festival in Beijing in December 2009.

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Artist Initiative Grants through the Minnesota State Arts Board were awarded to:

Linda Rossi, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, to fund a collaborative installation with Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art. The installation at Augsburg College reflects on the historical use of visual aids in the science classroom.

Gao Hong Dice, Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments, to research Chinese Hong Yao music and compose choir music for the World Expo 2010 in China.

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Carleton’s Science Education Resource Center (SERC) has received numerous grants in the first half of the 2009-2010 academic year: various subawards to provide web site support and evaluation or assessment, and a primary award in August 2009 for $254,886 to run a collaborative research project on climate and energy literacy. Read more on recent grants.

Susannah Ottaway, Associate Professor of History, has been awarded a $40,000 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2010-2011 to complete her book manuscript The British Workhouse in the Long Eighteenth Century. Read more on recent grants.

In January 2010, Gao Hong Dice, Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments, and three Carleton students received a $23,589 fellowship from the ASIANetwork’s Freeman Student-Faculty Program to travel to Japan, China, and Tibet to research and preserve temple music. Read more on recent grants.

In December 2009, Greg Smith, the Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College, won a Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The award is Smith’s second NEA fellowship, as he earned one shortly after coming to Carleton in 1998. Read more on recent grants.

In December 2009, four Carleton faculty members received Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) grants from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) to support collaborative faculty workshops.

·         Cam Davidson, Professor of Geology at Carleton, and collaborators at Luther College and in Italy, will offer a workshop that will bring together ACM faculty from a variety of science disciplines to explore the possibility of a off-campus studies program on earth and environmental science.

·         Michael Flynn, Professor of Linguistics at Carleton, and collaborators at Lawrence University, Ripon College, and Luther College, will conduct a workshop on the best design for an undergraduate linguistics major.

·         Ken Abrams, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Carleton, with a colleague at St. Olaf, will organize and host a two-day conference in 2011 to assess means of internationalizing undergraduate psychology education.

·         Mary Savina, Charles L. Denison Professor of Geology at Carleton, and collaborators at Luther, Macalester, and St. Olaf Colleges, will work together on integrating environmental sustainability into the undergraduate curriculum.

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In September 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded $10,000 to the Carleton Department of Music, chaired by Hector Valdiva, to support concert performances by the Takács Quartet in January 2010 and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in April 2010. Read more on recent grants.

Nelson Christensen (Physics) received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award of $186,504 for a three-year project that continues his work with LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory). With this grant, Nelson and international collaborators will analyze data collected by LIGO, which they hope will detect gravitational radiation signals. Events seen by LIGO produce a wealth of astrophysical information, requiring advanced techniques in data analysis, parameter estimation, and statistics that provide scientists with confidence in the quality of the data and the performance of the detectors. Through the grant, two undergraduate student researchers will work with Nelson, and high school students and teachers will also learn about LIGO’s work. Read more on recent grants.