Recent Grants Awarded to Connecticut College
As of October, 2009
A grant for $800,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Postdoctoral Fellowships.
A grant for $582,889 from the National Science Foundation for RUI: Mechanistic Studies of the Firefly Luciferase Catalyzed Reactions.
A grant for $500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
A grant for $375,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the International Commons Integrated Foreign Language Program.
A grant for $310,000 from Davis United World College for scholarships.
A grant for $300,000 from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation for the Arts Curriculum Enhancement project.
A grant for $299,277 from the Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women for the Connecticut College's Campus Violence Prevention Project Think S.A.F.E. (Sexual Assault Free Environment).
A grant for $207,000 from the National Institutes of Health for research using the methodology recently developed in the College's laboratories for synthesis of polycyclic cycloheptanoid ring systems found in a number of biologically active natural products.
A grant for $200,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks."
A grant for $199,020 from the National Institute of Health for "Understanding and Finding New Fluorescent Proteins" project.
A grant for $174,494 from the National Science Foundation for "C-Path II: Collaborative Building a Community to Incorporate Humanitarian Free and open Source Software into Undergraduate Computing Education."
A grant for $150,000 from the Booth Ferris Foundation for Technology and Transformation: Excellence Teaching and Learning at Connecticut College in the 21st Century.
A grant for $150,000 from the Teagle Foundation for the "Data to Action" project.
A grant for $118,500 from National Science Foundation for Active Plasmonics for mid-IR Sensing project.
A grant for $100,000 from the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation for visiting guest artist programs.
A grant for $99,688 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research on "Spectroscopic Parameters of Carbon Monoxide and Methane for ASCENDS."
A grant for $93,636 from CISCO Systems for Computer Science.
A grant for $76,107 from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for the Arboretum: Fence Project.
A grant for $64,975 from Mercer Alliance to End the Homeless for Evaluation of Social and Economic Benefits of the Mercer Housing First Demonstration Project.
A grant for $60,000 for “Lunacy Administration at the Milledgeville Hospital: African Americans, Psychiatric Patients and the Movement for Civil and Human Rights" from the James Weldon Johnson Visiting Scholars Program, Emory University. A grant for $39,990 from the Russell Sage Foundation for the “Together but Without Mixing: Mexican and Puerto Rican Relations in New Urban Destinations” project.
A grant for $39,500 from the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund for the Connecticut College Children’s Program and OVCS mentor programs.
A grant for $39,000 from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for the Arboretum: Fence Project.
A grant for $35,000 from The American Educational Research Association (AREA) for organized activity participation in grades 10-12 & 2 years post high school. Department of Human Development.
A grant for $28,500 from Dr. Scholl Foundation for the Steel House Project.
A grant for $21,482 from the National Institutes of Health (awarded from supplemental funding provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for research on "Contextual versus Syndromal Assessment of Behavior Change in At-Risk Youth."
A grant for $15,000 from the Ann Richardson Fund for the Annual Fund.A grant for $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for the performance of postmodern dancer Laura Dean's "Skylight" at Connecticut College and the New London community.
A grant for $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for onStage: Kinodance project.
A grant for $6,000 from the New England Foundation for the Arts for onStage: Vanguard Jazz Orchestra project.A grant for $5,500 from the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates in conjunction with their collaborative CPATH grant titled "Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Help Revitalize Undergraduate Continuing Education?" with Trinity College and Wesleyan University.
A grant for $5,000 from the Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut for the SISTER Filmmakers Project.
A grant for $4,000 from the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), AirForce Office of Scientific Research, United States AirForce Research Laboratory to support the publication of proceedings from the "Seventh International Conference on Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy".
A grant for $3,700 from the Conservation and Research Foundation for the Connecticut College Arboretum.
A grant for $3,000 from the Community Foundation for Southeastern Connecticut for “Let’s Read” community program.
A grant for $2,500 from the James P. & Mary E. Shea Perpetual Trust for OVCS program: My Brother Filmmakers Project - My Brothers' Voices.
A grant for $2,500 from Charter Oak Federal Credit Union for onStage: Romeo and Juliet.
A grant for $2,000 from the Liberty Bank Foundation for scholarships.A grant for $2,000 from New England Foundation for the Arts for onStage.
A grant for $2,000 from Chubb & Son for the onStage 2009-2010 series.
A grant for $1,000 from the New England College Health Associates for the Women's Center and Women's Health.
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