The program will provide support for developing a community-based project within a new A&I seminar entitled “Seeking Shelter in a Dangerous World.”

He will explore new electrochemical approaches to catalysis and build a repertoire of skills to support his ongoing NSF-funded research with Carleton students.

This grant will support sabbatical time for Prof. Knodell to work on the analysis and publication of archaeological fieldwork and lidar-based remote sensing, focused on the history of occupation and use across about 50 small, currently uninhabited islands in the Cycladic Archipelago of Greece.

Prof. Murphy will research and write a journal article on Aristotle’s view of the role of friendship in the good human life as part of a larger project that challenges the dominant scholarly theory and offers a new appraisal of friendship within his larger ethical framework.

Prof. Hernández will visit regional farms to measure soil greenhouse gas fluxes, carbon storage, and nutrient availability for a Life Cycle Assessment of the regenerative poultry production methods of the Regenerative Ag Alliance.

Sarah Kennedy, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Humanities and Archaeology, has been awarded an Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) grant from the Julie Herzig Desnick Endowment Fund for Archaeological Field Surveys.

Alex Knodell, Associate Professor of Classics and Director of Archaeology, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF #2150873) Research for Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant, “RUI: Relationship between Area Size and Population History.”

Ryan Terrien, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded a contract with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on the NASA-funded NEID spectrometer Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) Survey program.

Cecilia Cornejo, Instructor in Cinema and Media Studies, is the recipient of two recent grants for audio art projects. A 2022 Mid-Career Project Grant from Forecast Public Art and a 2022 Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board will support her Sonic Landscapes of Southern Minnesota project.