Scott Carpenter, professor of French and Francophone studies, has been awarded an Enhancing Scholarly Agendas grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The grant is for continued work on his book-length study, “Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits: The Image of the Counterfeit in 19th Century France.”

Gao Hong, adjunct instructor in Chinese musical instruments, has been awarded the Jerome Foundation’s 2007 Travel and Study Grant. This grant will support her travel to China to work on Chinese temple music in Beijing and Henan.

Did you know that 120 Carleton students each receive an average of $3,442 towards their tuition from the Minnesota State Grant Program? On Thursday, April 17, five Carleton students and a staff member went to the Minnesota State Capitol to lobby in support of the Minnesota State Grant Program.

Deborah Gross, assistant professor of chemistry, was awarded a European Science Foundation (ESF) Interdisciplinary Tropospheric Research (INTROP): from the Laboratory to Global Change Exchange Visit Grant. The grant provides funds to support travel and living expenses during her 2005-2006 sabbatical at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen, Switzerland.

Gao Hong, adjunct instructor of Chinese musical instruments and performance activities coordinator for music, was awarded a Creative Connections grant (formerly Meet The Composer Fund) from Meet the Composer Inc. and her second Emerging Composer Commission from the Jerome Foundation. Hong will have two world premieres of her music and be a guest performer. “Forest Stream” for pipa with piano, violin and cello will be performed by The Bakken Trio on Sunday, April 24th, 2 p.m. at the Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South in Minneapolis. “Flying Dragon,” a pipa concerto, will be performed by the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra on July 10, 8 p.m. at Lake Harriet Bandshell in Minneapolis. It was commissioned by the Composers Commissioning program of the American Composers Forum.

Clifford Clark, professor of history and the M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies, participated in the November National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) planning session at the Landmark Center in Saint Paul to prepare an NEH grant titled “Uncle Sam Lived Here.”

Paula Arai, assistant professor of religion, received an assistance grant from the American Academy of Religion Research. Arai plans to use the grant to further her book, “Healing Buddhist Women.”

Stephen Mohring, assistant professor of art, has a piece at the Soo Visual Arts Center annual juried show in Minneapolis, a solo show at the Kleinpell Gallery in the River Falls (Wis.) public library and a two-person show in the HFA gallery at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Mohring just received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant given to individual artists to support future work. This grant will help support a large-scale installation at the Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minn., during the summer of 2005.

Carleton has received an $800,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to create the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative. This grant will also be used to help fund student summer research in mathematics and the sciences, as well as faculty development workshops and laboratory development. A cooperative relationship among Carleton, St. Olaf and Hope colleges is an innovative component of each school’s proposal. This year, HHMI funded 42 proposals out of 170 received. Since 1988, Carleton has received $4 million from HHMI.