- Recent grants awarded to faculty and students for spring 2008
- Posted June 9, 2008
Newcomb Fellows Faculty Grants -- Spring 2008
Faculty Research
Mark Vail Political Science Department
Recasting Welfare Capitalism: The Political Dynamics of Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany
Thomas Sherry Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Mechanisms and Consequences of Bird Population Declines in Fragmented Tropical Rainforest
Thomas Sherry & Terry Christenson Ecology & Evolutionary Biology/Psychology
Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana Spider Communities in Fragmented and Unfragmented Forest
Faculty Travel
Adeline Masquelier Anthropology Department
Cinema in the Muslim World: A Festival
Open Collaborative
Mayer, Schippers, White Communication/Sociology/Women’s Studies
Laura Kipnis on Scandal
Clark, Dunn, Smith History/English
Transatlantic Slave Trade Event (UNESCO)
Women & Issues of Gender, Race, and Class
Susan Tucker Newcomb College Center for Research on Women
The Organization of Information in a Women’s and Gender Studies Course
Course Development in Women’s Studies
Michelle Kohler Department of English
Gender, Realism, and Regionalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
TOTAL FACULTY GRANTS (13 FACULTY)
Newcomb Fellows Student Grants -- Spring 2008
Independent Research
Gesine Veits
Kinetic Studies of Aromatic Iodination for Applications in Tumor-Targeting
Kelsey Ward
The Effects of Early Maternal Care on Anxiety and Learning Strategy
Claire Stelly
Modulation of Learning & Memory by Estrogen
Lindsay Peglar
Effects of Estrogen and Handling on Muscarinic-Agonist Stimulated Binding in the Hippocampus
Conference Attendance
Claire Stelly
The Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC (paper presented)
Linda Morton
The Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC
Society of Women Engineers
( 7 students)
Traveling Scholars
M. Page Clayton (London)
Feminist Philosophers and the Atheist Renaissance
Lisa Keskitalo (Zimbabwe)
Harare International Festival of the Arts 2008
Helen Jaksch (Saratoga Springs NY)
SITI Company Summer Theater Workshop
Jazmine Rodriguez (Washington DC.)
“One World” Internship
Elizabeth McGehee (India)
Internship with the CRAWL (Children Resolution and Women Learning) Society of Khardah
Rebecca George (Austria)
Research Internship in Science and Engineering
Tierney St. John (South Africa)
Ozymandias: National Arts Festival South Africa 2008
Stone Center for Latin American Studies ( 5 students)
Model Organization of American States conference in Washington DC
Gordon Fellowship Applicants Funded by Fellows Program
| Eileen Collins | “Survey of European Culture and Architecture” |
| Anna Whalen | “The Music Festival as a Tool for Social Progress” |
| Rachel Nelson | “Jazz in New Orleans and France” |
| Tabeen Islam | “Bangladesh Field Work” |
| Lauren Anderson | “Global Crossroads Internship in Uganda, Africa” |
| Crystal Le | “Volunteer Work in Vietnam” |
| Jordan Terry | “Project Peace” Uganda orphans |
TOTAL FELLOWS STUDENT GRANTS (22 ON BEHALF OF 32 STUDENTS)
Other grants awarded through the Newcomb College Institute:
The Gordon Summer Fellowship (student)
Recipient: Jennifer Whiddon
Project: Service Learning in Cambodia – Teaching English to orphans and street children and producing a photo documentary of the experience.
The Barbara A. Greenbaum Faculty Fellowship
Recipient: Lisa Szechter, Department of Psychology
Project: Encouraging Young Scientists: Parent-Child Interactions at an Informal Science Education Center.
Updated June 3, 2008
